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Episode 29 Gibraltar Strait
Wow what a night sail! We left Rota near Cadiz, had some great strong winds and sailed through the night past Trafalgar to Gibraltar. As the sunrose over the beautiful misty mountains we reached the straight of Gibraltar. After exploring Gibraltar and La L...
Episode 27 – Naked Boat Maintenance in Faro!
After sailing to Faro on the beautiful Algarve coast, we are to stubborn to wait and enter at the completely wrong time! Against a big current and whirling washing machine waters we make it through by the skin of our teeth! That was a lesson learnt..... wh...
Episode 26 – Amazing Caves at Belixe and Huge Waves to play and nearly die in!
After dodging a big storm and skirting down the edge to avoid 40+ knots of wind, we make it to the anchorage at Belixe and anchor in a managable 30 knots. The waves in the bay were huge, great for surfers but not so good for me and the dog going for our ni...
Episode 25 Sines to Belixe and we Sail into a 40 Knot Blow!
We hang out at Sines for a little R&R, it is a little industrial port but so quiet and quaint that we enjoy watching the little ports activity and lovely yachts coming and going, before sailing off to a little anchorage called Belixe and into a rather ...
Episode 19 Accidents on Sunken Wrecks in the Beautiful Brittany Archipelago
This episode we sail to Ile de Groix from Lesconil, I have a little accident on a sunken shipwreck and hurt my poor old shin, then we sail on to La Palais on the beautiful island of Belle Ile. We sit out a very rolly anchorage, cook some very yummy food wi...
Episode 18 Dragging Anchor in high winds and Sailing through the Raz De Sein
Join us as we drag anchor in some high winds, have some fun when the seas calm down and sail on past beautiful landscapes, through the Raz De Sein to the quaint Lesconil. Music: https://www.bensound.com Follow us on Instagram for real time posts! https://...
Episode 17 Chenal Du Four to Camaret with Force 10 at Anchor
This episode we leave L'aberwrach, sail through the Chanel Du Four and spend a great couple for days in Camaret; exploring, celebrating Bears birthday, swimming with dolphins and sitting at anchor with force 10 winds. Music: https://www.bensound.com Follo...
Episode 16 Crossing the English Channel, Isles of Scilly to L’aberwrach
Join us on Pickle as we finally set off from the Isles of Scilly across the English Channel to the beautiful L'aberwrach in Brittany, France. We have good winds, calm seas, make good time and even have a very pleasant escort of dolphins for hours to keep t...
Episode 15 Boat Work in Paradise
We are working hard to get all our jobs finished in the beautiful Isles Of Scilly, so we can continue our journey onto the med, we tackle; wiring issues and finally fix our autopilot , fit solor panels, wind transducers, complete the internal flooring and ...
Episode 13 – We dont make it to Plymouth!
Join us this episode as we sail on from Fishcombe Cove at Brixham, we were aiming for Plymouth but watch our fun sails to find out why we landed at Fowey River instead, then after a bit of a recoup we sailied on again to the beautiful and quaint St. Michae...
Episode 12 – Lift In and Sailing Portland Bill and Lyme Bay in 26 kts
We finally get lifted back in after weeks of boat work, WOOOOHOOOO!!!! So excited to sail on and with little patience we sail on with the knowledge we'll be in a bit of rough weather in Lyme Bay! Portland Bill went smoothly but we soon had two sick kidos a...
Episode 11 – Drive Leg Troubles, Lift Out and Portland Adventures!
We have weeks of frustrating waiting on the hard in Portlnd Marina while our drive leg gets completely stripped down and rebuilt. Thankfully they do a great job and we refix the saildrive back onto our beloved Pickle , get relaunched and Sail on in big see...
Episode 10 – Saved by a Gunner Boat….Engine troubles again!
After just days sailing on our world cruise of discovery our sillette leg completely and utterly goes kaput and we're left fighting to get around St.Albans head. Join us we float precariously close to a live firing range and a Gunner Boat comes to the resc...
Episode 9 – Finally Leaving to Sail the World!
After everything we've been through, and everything we've achieved we are Finally setting off for our around the world adventure!!! It feels so good AND for once everything seems to go pretty smoothly. join us next week for auto pilot and water pump failu...