Sailing vlog 2019 YouTube Videos
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ATLANTIC CROSSING DAY-1: Feeling the pressure of the last day before departure #95
Aaaand that's it. Tomorrow, we are leaving on a 3500 nautical miles sailing journey that will take us from Bonaire (South of the Caribbean) to the Azores, in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. The truth is... we'll never be 100% ready. But this is the bes...
ATLANTIC CROSSING DAY-5 : We overhaul Polar Seal to receive crew for a month #91
After three months of solid preparations ahead of our coming crossing, everything was under control until obviously... it wasn't anymore. Our new crew Anett arrives in Bonaire in a few hours, and we have a lot of work to do to prepare Polar Seal to have...
CROSSING OCEANS
Welcome to our channel! My name is Sophie, I am French, and I sail the World together with my partner Ryan, who's American. We met on Tinder in Stockholm, Sweden in 2015, where we lived at the time. Were we sailors? No. In fact, we had never stepped foot o...
ALTERING COURSE: How we are escaping hurricane season in 2021 (and beyond!)
One year: ZERO sailing. That is one of the consequences of the pandemic on our lives. But that's about to change drastically, as we are getting ready to tackle some of our biggest passages to date, which will take us to...?! A HUGE thank you to Takacat a...
🔴 Where (and when) we are going next!
Because we can't wait to share it with you ;)
COOKING UP (for) A STORM: How and why I meal prep for ocean crossings #88
This was supposed to be a video about cooking on the boat, but really... it is a video about wrestling with cabinets and lockers. Wanna cook some Carbs & comfort bombs? Here is the link to the recipes! Lasagna: https://ryanandsophie.com/my-frenchif...
Installing a WASHING MACHINE in our 40ft sailboat #87
How many times did I not dream of not having to walk kilometer after kilometer, the 20kg IKEA bags sawing into my shoulders only to end paying a fortune and wait hours for clean laundry? So when it became apparent that we were going to spend quite some t...
SAILING LIFE: Why is it so hard to say goodbye? #86
I want to believe that I will eventually get used to it, but I really don’t. Time after time after time, saying goodbye is still hard. Ryan actually cried after watching the first cut of this video :) I try to hang on the fact that it is only hard becau...
SAILBOAT MAINTENANCE: Service a marine diesel engine with me & Philippa (Yanmar 1000 hours service)
00:00 Intro 02:28 Draining the coolant fluid 05:33 Changing the impeller 07:49 Changing the engine & gearbox oil 12:44 Changing the fuel filters 18:16 Changing the coolant (attempt #2) 19:16 Disposing of oil and filters -- I had always promised mysel...
Explaining our lifestyle to sailing noobs (living space, costs, mail, healthcare, cons, etc…)
5 years ago, when Ryan and I were absolute sailing noobs, this is the video that I would have wanted to watch :) How is it REALLY like to live on a sailboat? How do you eat? Sleep? Shower? Poop? (Seriously, the boat shower was a mystery to me). More seri...
WATCH THIS before moving on your sailboat! All the things I wish I knew 3 years ago 🤦🏻♀️ #83
All the things I wish I knew - 00:00 Do you know what the hardest part of living onboard is? - 1:54 Working out on a boat - 3:05 What I wish we had done faster - 4:15 One thing that will not change - 6:27 What to bring onboard - 8:53 Choosing a sailboat ...
🔴 Brainstorm hurricane season 2021 with us (and a chat, of course!)
Been a while since we've had a chat and we figured... well, it's really been too long! Join us on our mooring buoy in Bonaire and let's brainstorm hurricane season 2021 together
The hidden costs of sailing a brand new BAVARIA C57 + boat tour
00:01: Introduction 02:30: Meet James, Philipa, and Aequus 03:29: Master suite (V-berth) 04:28: Why the choice of a the Bavaria C57 05:41: The galley 06:32: How did you equip Aequus? 11:16: What would you do differently? 11:42: How much did it cost? Mo...
Well, that’s TYPICAL boat life, isn’t it?🤷🏻♀️ #80
Intro: 00:00 Buying ex-rental diving equipment: 2:41 Fixing a leak in our dinghy: 5:08 Diving under our sailboat: 8:09 Life without a dinghy: 11:35 2 years update on our DIY watermaker: 15:24 Dinghy repairs day 2: 16:17 -- Curious about our dinghy? Ch...