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Episode 25
Atlantic Crossing. Man Over Board, Killer Whales, Fish On…
After Hayley has finished editing an episode, she gets me (Dave) to watch it and check it over… I’m sure I get more pleasure than anyone watching these back after a few months but watching this was INCREDIBLE! This must be our...
Amy's family was coming to visit soon, which meant we had to say goodbye to the Lau Group and set sail across Fiji. Usually Amy and I do our passages with just the two of us, but this time, we had some hitchhikers! Alifereti and Koroi, two villagers from Fulanga needed a ride to Suva for a co...
Episode 24
Atlantic Crossing.
We depart Las Palmas on our first ocean crossing for St Lucia.
Our final crew member, Laura, arrives and I do our final briefing before we slip the lines. Las Palmas does a fantastic send off for all the yachts in the ARC, the atmosphere and the tension in the air ...
EPISODE 23
We are both so upset by all our footage from the crossing. Firstly, I (Dave) lost our vlogging camera and at £500 each they are not cheap. Then, I (Dave) fitted the muff to get rid of wind noise and it gets rid of all noise! Ouch! You can imagine that I (Dave) have been in the dog hous...
In this episode I take you all along for a single handed spinnaker sail!
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Episode 21
The fishing gods are still with us as we hook another couple of Mahi Mahi. At last we manage to fly the gennaker without any issues but I’m not sure if we were doing the right thing or if we just got lucky but I’ll take it none the less.
We stop off for a few beers in Porto Banus but a...
With our cyclone emergency shelter evaluated, we head south to Groote Eylandt stopping at Bremer Island on the way to stock up on fish.
Featuring
1:53 Keeping fish blood off your ropes
5:21 Goanna grabbing
12:22 How to make Vietnamese spring rolls
Music Credits
My One Trick Pony - Doctor Turtle (...
We spend a half day fishing inshore by Indian Key and we had almost a complete failure (we caught 1 tiny mangrove snapper). The next day we picked up the hook and in great need of fresh water and supplies sailed straight for Marathon. It was a beautiful downwind run minus one small squall and about...
The time had come to finally say goodbye to Tonga (and all the humpback whales!) and set sail to Fiji. Just one problem... We couldn't use our mainsail! We've mentioned it in prior videos, but we lost the battens overboard during a storm in Neiafu after I didn't lash them down prop...
We saved the best of Tonga's Ha'apai Group for last as we were the only humans around to witness a newborn humpback calf being helped to the surface by it's mother in order to take it's first breaths. This was an amazing instance of being in the right place at the right time, an...
We tour the Maritime Museum of San Diego which is the home of the Star of India tall Ship and B-39 Soviet Submarine. Then we leave the USA Behind and sail into Baja Mexico, Catch some fish and Fly the Spinnaker!
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Join us aboard the Bluewater 50 catamaran, “Zao”, for an offshore passage across the Atlantic! We and a crew of sailing writers and videographers move aboard this luxurious catamaran in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands and begin a 3,000-mile transatlantic crossing to the Caribbean. In...
You can live this lifestyle too! BlueWater Cruising will show you how: After finally receiving our brand new spinnaker, we experiment sailing with it on our 2-day sail from the Tuamotus to Tahiti. In this episode we also sit down and answer some of your questions and address some of your concerns,...
It's been a bit of a struggle to keep to the plan. Things keep breaking - but sometimes they can be fixed. And after being introduced to racing, I am finally brave enough to get the Spinnaker out of the bag. - One day I might even store it on the boat.
Here is the Sailing with the Foxwell Fa...
As we leave St. Barth due to upcoming storm we head to Sint Maarten (in dutch), where we anchor on the Dutch side in Great Bay. Waiting out the storm, provisioning and exploring French side of Saint-Martin. Taking off to British Virgin Islands and during 14 hours sail fly the spinnaker.
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The day starts the collision alarm goes off. Sailing back across the Bay of Biscay, but will it be kinder to me this time? A typical few days on passage as we talk about Ais, spinnakers, torn sails, food onboard, Marmite, being becalmed and getting off shore experience of long haul sailing.
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Sailing Vlog - This Jan 1st of 2017 we sailed with new friends Jason & Kim. Check out their boat, SV Mimzy at:
We managed to do a number new sailing things for the first time which seemed fitting... being the 1st of the year and all. We took o...
Can't believe we're already on episode 10! Although our mast is up, we're still rudderless, so I decided to do some club racing while Somnium is out of temporarily out of commission.
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Sailing Across the Pacific: This is the moment we have all been excited about - but it turns out we're also a little afraid of also!! In our sail around the world, this voyage is probably going to be our furthest distance covered and longest time at sea. As we prepare to sail across the Pacific...
We enjoyed our first anchorage in the Bahamas and got a little bit of rest to continue our journey towards Haiti. on the way, we had some issues with squeaky, stopped at another anchorage, and found a gorgeous free diving spot.
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A gennaker is used when sailing downwind as it's a cross between a genoa and a spinnaker (big colored sails). A gennaker is not symmetric like a spinnaker but is asymmetric like a genoa, but the gennaker is not attached to the forestay like a jib or genoa. The gennaker is rigged like a spinnake...
We’re getting sooo close!! Our final weeks in Portland getting Varuna all ready to go cruise include sailing, getting a spinnaker, checking out our temporary new home, and some boat projects… sewing, cleaning and we start provisioning! Few, that’s a lot of stuff, it’s been a busy month here on boa...
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