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Five Lessons We Wish We Knew Before Buying a Sailboat and Moving Aboard | ⛵ The Foster Journey
After living aboard a sailboat (Catalina 387) for 2 months, there are a few lessons we wish we knew before buying. Here are five things we wish we knew before buying a sailboat. Hopefully, you find them helpful or interesting! Cheers. 😀 Let us know y...
How Dangerous is Offshore Sailing?
We only just finished our ASA 101 sailing lessons with Windward Seaventure, but after a few days of preparing Cadence, our Catalina 387, we're off for an overnight cruise into the Gulf of Mexico. It might be foolish for us, an inexperienced sailing family...
Quantum Sail, Neptune Toast, and Prop Problems
We spent two weeks at the Boatyard preparing to take our Catalina 387 offshore and test it for further travels, but first, we needed to upgrade our sails at Quantum Sails, rename the sailboat with a proper toast to Neptune, and the new propeller had proble...
SAILING community gives back – Ep 60
A huge thank you to those who help keep our boat afloat by supporting our creative process via Patreon. You can be part of the crew for less than the price of a coffee. https://www.patreon.com/CruisingKiwis Sailing community gives back COMPETITION TIME w...
Preparing for Offshore Sailing, At The Boat Yard
This is part 2 of our series on how we prepared to sail offshore in our Catalina 387, a 40-foot sailboat. The sailboat didn't need any major overhauls, but in this episode, we get the old prop off and order a new one, get a bottom job, and try our hand at ...
SAILING with ZATARA in Fiji Ep 59
A huge thank you to those who help keep our boat afloat by supporting our creative process via Patreon. You can be part of the crew for less than the price of a coffee. https://www.patreon.com/CruisingKiwis Sailing with Sailing Zatara. We meet YouTube’...
The first 3 Seasons of The Sailing Family in 5 Minutes & future plans
http://www.TheSailingFamily.com - This video gives you a short overview what we have done during the last 3 sailing seasons (2016-2019) and what are our future plans for 2021. We hope by sharing this adventure you will find some inspiration in your life. ...
Preparing for Offshore Part 1 | ⛵ The Foster Journey
Before we head offshore in our new tiny home, a Catalina 387, we have some work to do - recommission the water tanks, new sails, new prop, bottom job, haulout, paint and wax, dinghy repairs, and a few other details. Here's part 1, of how we're preparing th...
First Time Sailing By Ourselves and Toilet Training | ⛵ The Foster Journey
In the last episode (Ep.24), we share our new tiny home with you - a Catalina 387. And now, we try to take her out sailing for the first time by ourselves...and this is our first time sailing any sailboat by ourselves. So yeah, the nerves were high! Plu...
10 Month Awesome Sailing Adventure in 12 Minutes (The Sailing Family) Ep.76
http://www.TheSailingFamily.com - Over one year ago we sold our sailboat Tavarua because we run out of money and had to go back to Austria to work again. In this video you will see the highlights of our 10 month sailing adventure in just 12 minutes and we ...
Welcome to Our New Tiny Home – A Catalina 387 | ⛵ The Foster Journey
Last week we shared the process of buying our new sailboat, a Catalina 387. Now we'd like to welcome you aboard and experience our first two days with us. It's a tiny home, but we think the Catalina 387 is perfect for our family not only to live aboard, bu...
Survey, Sea Trial, We Bought a Sailboat (Catalina 387) | ⛵ The Foster Journey
After months of shopping and over a year of planning, we finally bought a sailboat! It's a 2004 Catalina 387 from Catalina Yachts. This episode features the survey, haulout, sea trial, and closing of the sailboat! We think she'll be the perfect sailboat f...
Our Offer Is Accepted on a Morgan 45 | ⛵ The Foster Journey
The Catalina Morgan 45 is a sailboat with a heritage for strong construction, comfort at sea, and value for the price. That's why we put an offer on this Morgan 45 and the offer was accepted! Come along as we discuss the sailboat, take a walkthrough of th...![Jamaica to Panama Passage – Will it be scary?! [🎥29🇵🇦]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/RuweJFCKxfA/maxresdefault.webp)
Jamaica to Panama Passage – Will it be scary?! [🎥29🇵🇦]
We finally make the big (scary) passage to Panama. 10 years ago we nearly lost our boat off the coast of Colombia - so was it worth sailing all the way to Jamaica to avoid that route this go around? Click the video above to find out! POSTING DAILY ON SOCI...