Watch Sailing & Boating Adventures Around the World
Explore sailing, boating, and water sports through our curated video archive. From epic sea voyages to serene diving escapes, discover unforgettable adventures from top YouTube creators. Start your journey. Dream big. Sail far.
Showing 1-24 of 1461 results
Fiberglass Repair | There’s a Hole in Our Boat
Fiberglass Repair | There’s a Hole in Our Boat We've been waiting for the hulls to dry out enough for the fibreglass repairs to begin. It's a little like watching paint dry. But finally the wait is over and it'a time to start putting Javelot, our floating home.. We've tackled p...
Repairs Start on Crash Damaged Catamaran
Repairs Starts on Crash Damaged Catamaran Our crash damaged catamaran has been hauled out of the water. Now we can get a much better look at what we are dealing with. The starboard bow took the main impact. And despite us sealing the damage with epoxy putty to keep the worst of the water out, seawa...
Releasing Gallons of Trapped Sea Water from our Damaged Boat | Rough Sail to Trinidad to Haul Out
Releasing Gallons of Trapped Sea Water from our Crash Damaged Boat | Rough Sail to Trinidad to Haul Out After winding our way through the Windward Islands of the Caribbean, we've finally arrived in Grenada for the final schlep of our journey to Trinidad, where our crash damaged catamaran, and ...
ROUGH seas BROKEN eggs DAMAGED boat
ROUGH seas BROKEN eggs DAMAGED boat There's no use crying over broken eggs while rough seas batter our damaged catamaran as we continue sailing south through the Caribbean Sea towards Trinidad. Until now, we've been able to take our time, pausing to enjoy the islands, wildlife and most im...
Ep 187 Boats of the Rich and Famous
We travel halfway around the island of Antigua, part of the Leeward Islands/Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean, to be there in Falmouth Harbour for the start of the RORC 600 sailboat race. As it turned out, this was also ground zero for more expensive boats and yachts than we could shake a stick at. I...
The ONLY CARIBBEAN ISLAND that still eats this!?
The ONLY CARIBBEAN ISLAND that still eats this!? We sailed our damaged catamaran to the beautiful Grenadine island of Bequia, where we're waiting for a weather to continue island hopping to Trinidad for boat work. While enjoying some island time, Rob continues his passion, to eat like a local...
PLANS CHANGE. THINGS GO WRONG
PLANS CHANGE. THINGS GO WRONG Sometimes you put a hole in your boat, races don't go your way, and whole course of life changes.This isn't an episode about a disaster; it's about how a family responds when things doesn't go to plan. This week we continue our Caribbean sailing ad...
Sailing Our Damaged Catamaran to Trinidad
Sailing Our Damaged Catamaran to Trinidad We're sailing our damaged catamaran south through the Caribbean, island hoping from Guadeloupe towards Trinidad, where we plan to haul out and repair the hull after our recent grounding. With hurricane season underway, Trinidad is our destination for r...
On to Augusta. Where we encounter a fisherman and his nets.
We sail on from Porto Palo then Syracuse and Augusta We find an illegal fishing has been stretched across the bay ready to catch our anchor chain. Sail Safe Guys, Ant & Cid XX 🇬🇧 ⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️ =================================================== 👋 We’re Ant & Cid aboard SV Impavidus – ...
I Couldn’t Save the Cat!
A peaceful afternoon at anchor suddenly turned into one of the most dramatic incidents I've witnessed in years. What I first thought was a catamaran anchoring too close to SV Impavidus turned out to be something far more serious. With nobody on board, the yacht had dragged its anchor and was dr...
Have We Made a Huge Mistake?
Have We Made a Huge Mistake? Last week we wept as Declan and Ivan sailed off to Mexico to join a sailing cargo ship bound for the northern Atlantic and ultimately Hamburg. Their first contact with us when they reached the boat on Cozumel, left us wondering if we had made a huge mistake. Meanwhile R...
After 8 Years…It’s Time to Say Goodbye
After 8 Years...It's Time to Say Goodbye And just like that...a chapter comes to a close. After eight years of live aboard sailing around the world, where Declan and Ivan have grown from boys to capable, adventurous young men, they are jumping ship, bound for Mexico to join a 106 year old sail...
The Night Malta’s Fireworks Shook Our Boat!
We were expecting Malta’s fireworks to be spectacular. We weren’t expecting them to explode directly above Impavidus from morning until after 11 o’clock at night! The thunder flashes and maroons were so powerful that they shook the boat. By morning, Impavidus was covered in burnt paper, string, fir...
Our Family Sailing Adventure Wasn’t Supposed to End Like This
Family Sailing Adventure Wasn't Supposed To End Like This After safely sailing our damaged catamaran south from Antigua to Guadeloupe, we make one final stop in the breathtaking archipelago of Les Saintes, home to one of the Caribbean's most beautiful natural harbours and the best baguett...
Moving on.. She’s back!! 😁♥️😁
In this Weeks video, we take a look at the market in St Georges bay. Has it changed or is it still the same? We take a gentle sale round from St George's Bay to Manoel Island. I go to the childless to pick up some gear and the boat gets a jolly good tidy up why because Cindy is on her way back....
Can We Repair our Sailboat After Crashing into Rocks?
Can We Repair our Sailboat After Crashing into Rocks? Welcome back aboard, you join us this week in Antigua where we are assessing the damage to our sailboat, after accidentally crashing her into rocks at 6 knots. We are repairing what we can, and hoping to get our floating home seaworthy enough to...
Is Your Boat’s Shore Power Safe?
Have you ever plugged your boat into shore power and simply assumed everything was safe? After an electrical fault aboard SV Impavidus, I decided to investigate exactly how marina shore power works, what reverse polarity actually means, and whether our boats are really as well protected as we think...
Bilge Pump Repair, Prop Shaft Dripless and an Incredible Overnight Sail
Boat life is never just about sailing! Before we could head off again, we had a few important jobs to tackle. We repaired a faulty bilge pump and readjusted our dripless prop shaft seal to make sure everything was ready for another overnight passage. With the maintenance complete, we set sail and s...
We hit Rocks at six knots! Distracted by phone!!
Captain Checked his Phone then We Crashed into Rocks What should have been a short, routine sail between two anchorages in Antigua turned into one of our most expensive mistakes. A moment of distraction, the captain checking his phone, saw Javelot ran onto rocks, causing damage to both hulls and ca...
Crossing the Med Pt2
Join me for Part 2 of my solo Mediterranean crossing as I leave Lampedusa before sunrise and make the final passage to Malta. After a slight navigational detour leaving the harbour to avoid a restricted area, the day quickly turned into one of those passages we all dream about. A spectacular sunris...
NEARLY KILLED OUR ENGINE! Sailing the Caribbean
The Rookie Mistake That Nearly Cost Us an Engine Every sailor likes to think they're beyond rookie mistakes...until they make one. Join us this week, on the leeward coast of Guadeloupe, in the town of Bouillante, famous for it's natural thermal river, heated by the volcanic activity bene...
Crossing the Mediterranean Solo | North Africa to Malta – Part 1
Leaving Tunisia wasn’t as simple as slipping the lines. In this episode I set off solo from Monastir on a 98-nautical-mile crossing to the Italian island of Lampedusa. The plan sounds straightforward, but there was one problem… I had just over 13 hours to get there before darkness fell. The route ...
Ep 186 On Being Told You Have 12-18 Months To Live | Oyster 485 Talisman
We’re not the drama channel. But this time was real … and not good. I tell the story in the video, but the short version is that last summer I was diagnosed with a form of tongue/throat cancer. It’s not the rarest form, but it was caught very late in the game, after the tumor had grown to be 2.5cm ...