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1000 nautical miles towards Cape Verde #60
Thank you for your patience! This is the video that took me the absolute longest time to upload: 52 hours to be exact! In this video, we tackle the second leg across the Atlantic with a 7 days passage from Lanzarote to Mindelo in Cape Verde, with our friends (and some of our first Patrons!) Jules ...
How we learned how to sail #60
More videos to get your adventure started: How to go from ZERO to cruising full time: Our Beneteau Oceanis 40, pros, cons, and costs: Transitioning from my corporate life to full-time sailing: Sailing book recommendations: Build some sailing experience with 59 North Sailing: -- How we l...
Transitioning from my corporate job to sailing the World full-time / Podcasting with COVERT CASTAWAY
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How I provision for the Atlantic crossing + TIPS for shopping and storage. #59
Reusable Silicon pouches: Mesh nets for fruits and veggies: (Not sponsored, but affiliate links!) Our provisioning category list: In this video, we take you provisioning with us for our Atlantic crossing. While we planned on stopping by Cape Verde on our way to the Caribbean, we decided to do...
4-6 meters waves and near gale force winds (16 minutes of footage only)
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In 6 meters waves towards the Canary Islands. #58
When we decided to leave Tanger to sail to the Canaries, we knew that we were going to encounter conditions a bit out of our comfort zone. But we were ready, our sailboat, Polar Seal was ready, and our crew was ready as well. We knew it was going to be bad, but we didn’t know HOW bad we were going...
From Europe to Africa: Crossing the Strait of Gibraltar #57
In this video, we start in Gibraltar and end up in Tanger, Morocco, after welcoming the crew that will sail with us to the Canaries. We were not gonna take any crew on any of our passages across the Atlantic, but when friends of ours (who we met through these videos!) expressed their wish to acqui...
It’s HARD to say goodbye. #56
Atlantic crossing: 7 weeks to go. I don't get emotional often, but saying goodbye to our friends, leaving Almerimar (this odd place that we came to love so much) and seeing everyone go on their decks to wave us goodbye brought a few tears to my eyes. It had been a while that I wanted to tal...
How we get weather forecasts offshore (Iridium Go/PredictWind walk through) // Ryan’s tech corner #9
How weather forecasts are made and the different forecast models: How to get satellite connection with Iridium Go and PredictWind: How to setup Iridium Go via PredictWind: In this video, we walk you through how we receive updated weather forecasts every day, even in the middle of the Atlantic....
How do you cross the Atlantic East to West (The Atlantic route explained)
Follow Polar Seal across the Atlantic! www.ryanandsophie.com/#tracking In this video, we explain how sailboats have crossed the Atlantic for hundreds of years! We go through Trade Winds (in particular the equatorial trade winds), how they form, why they are stronger in the winter and how they blow....
Atlantic crossing preparations: Autopilot, through-hulls and canvas #55 (1/2)
We’re back!!! And ready to cross the Atlantic (woohooo!) In this episode, you follow our boat preparation day by day. We start by installing a new autopilot (our new Raymarine Evolution autopilot), haul out Polar Seal to replace some through-hulls and have new canvas made. ---------------------...
A real-time update before crossing the Atlantic (we are back!)
We are currently in Cape Verde and a few days away from crossing the Atlantic! Follow our first ocean crossing live at: www.ryanandsophie.com/#tracking We will be back with new videos next Tuesday at 4:30PM CET (unless you are a Patron, in which case we're already back!) See you very soon...
900 nautical miles in 6 days: stories of our Mediterranean crossing #54
Crossing the Mediterranean on a sailboat from Malta to Spain: 900 nautical miles in 6 days! Video of how we dealt with my burn at sea: We started our crossing from Malta, where we had been spending a couple of weeks prior to departure. The weather conditions were absolutely perfect for an East t...
Captain Meltdown in Malta (on the up-and-downs of boat life) #53
In this week’s video, we go to Malta!! And the welcome that we get blows our minds, our ears and our hearts. Although we were going to stay in Grand Harbour, a very nice subscriber let us use his mooring buoy all throughout our stay in the capital of Malta! We also just happened to arrive during...
Summertime sailing in Sicily: the Aeolian Islands, the Strait of Messina and Siracusa. #52
What to expect when you come sail with us? In this week’s video, we welcome our first guests onboard, including a fun pair of sisters followed by my little brother and his boyfriend. We have been inviting our friends and family to come visit us onboard ever since we left Stockholm last year. But ...
I guess we can “fish” now? 🇮🇹 #51
There is a reason why fishing is called fishing, and not “catching”! For the longest time, Ryan and I thought about how we should get into fishing. But none of us knows how to fish, and also, blood makes me faint between, which makes me a terrible candidate for cleaning a fish. So between our mu...
7 days of sailing vlogs along Sardinia. #50
Buongiorno! This week, we finally reach Italy from Corsica under sail, and make landfall in beautiful Sardinia. Our time in Sardinia is short but sweet. It starts by a Mistral getting us stuck onboard for a few days before we are finally able to leave Polar Seal and dinghy to shore. Unfortunatel...
Sailing Corsica: Napoleon, the Heat Wave, and French administration chaos #49
We chose to sail to Corsica, because under no circumstances were we going to miss this part of France. I had never been to Corsica, and hadn’t stepped foot in my home country in over a year. Besides, Ryan was going to teach a one week course in Paris at the end go June, and flying out of Ajaccio (...
Sailboat tech: How does a marine autopilot work? (with the Raymarine evolution ) //RTC #7
Sailboat tech: How does a marine autopilot work? (Featuring the Raymarine evolution & EV1 sensor) // Ryan’s tech corner #7 In this new episode of Ryan’s tech corner, we explore autopilots. What exactly is a marine autopilot and how does it work? What is the difference between a wind vane a...
Reconnecting with night watches between Menorca and Corsica #48
After seeing the absolute disaster left behind hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas, Ryan and I decided to give all the proceeds from this video to Lend a Hand Bahamas. This may not be much in the grand scheme of things, and we aren’t the most influential people out there, but we believe that every b...
2nd degree burn at sea: how we dealt with it and what we learned from it. #47
First off, thank you all for the messages of support that we have received since we got back from our sail! Last week, Ryan and I were crossing the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Almerimar. On the 6th day of our passage, I got injured (not the nice kind of injury) while making coffee. This ...
Sailing equipment HITS & MISS: what we bought, used, and loved or hated.
Sailing equipment hits & miss: what we bought, used loved and loved a lot less /Ryan's tech corner #6 This video was voted by our Patrons as the next Ryan's tech Corner they wanted to see! Down below are links towards the products we loved (some are affiliate links!) Electric equ...