Hello! Wow we've been gone a while! We took a break as we were crossing the Atlantic so back to sharing more regularly again. We're still working through our content from our Summer in the Mediterranean, and in this video, we have some friends and family v...
We need more repairs on our sailboat. Things just keep breaking and it’s the worst timing when you are preparing to for a 1100nm passage against the trades!
Natalie flys to Madrid to visit family and James gets on with boat works.
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Well, it’s more sailing to weather this week as we tack our way into Shark Bay to arrive in the protected waters of Monkey Mia where we forage for our dinner in the shallows.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:05 Sailing to Weather to Monkey Mia
01:36 Usin...
This the season of good byes or rather see you laters, au revoir, hasta la vista. Sailors are hopping on the Tradewinds West. To the Caribbean or South America. I meet a friend I had met three year ago in Cape Verde. We catch up and I get more things done...
We love a good challenge, but totally UNDERESTIMATED what we signed up for when we purchased this run-down Airstream trailer with the vision to convert it into our DREAM tiny home on wheels! 🚌 With a recent eviction notice, we had just 60 days to make t...
We set off on a 4 day voyage, southbound, across a rarely traveled part of the North Atlantic Ocean. We are as far away from everything, and as close true bluewater freedom on the sea as it gets! Suddenly, the radio crackles to life. Are we all alone out h...
In this episode I spend a few days alone on the boat during a cold snap. I take you along for many of our daily routines while living on the boat during winter.
We find ourselves 2 days away from The Big Left Turn: leaving the Pacific Northwest to sail down the coast of the United States in our first offshore passage. And nothing (nothing) goes to plan.
Welcome to this weeks video! There’s a lot happening this week…. We leave Bocas del Toro and start heading towards Linton Bay with a small pit stop at Zapatillas Island.
What starts off as a beautiful sail soon turns vicious when in the middle of the...
Join us as we sit out a 40 knot blow and then claw our way south into the prevailing southerly winds.
Our boat and home for more than 5 years is for sale!
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I see sailboats leaving Mindelo Bay everyday to cross the mighty Atlantic Ocean. And I'm trying to sail on myself. But me and my boat Galopin are still getting some things done. But we have time to explore a house perched on the cliffs above the ocean whic...
An Honest update on life. All things Marley, Life plans, Sailing and the future...https://www.sailingnandji.com
In this episode, things are a little different. We have had many questions about what is happening with our pet dog Marley. Talking about him, ...
See for yourself why this little known place is so amazing. We sail to this tiny island in the North Atlantic. It is off the beaten path and relatively unknown to the outside world and tourist travel.
What we found here was so incredible we didn't want ...
The leak saga continues! We finally limp our way over to the haul out and put via on the hard, in the hopes that we can easily fix the leak and be back in the water the next day.
In this weeks episode we ANNOUNCE a new channel name! Bye bye Barefoot Sail and Dive. We will now be known as Barefoot Travels!!
Let us know what you think about this name change! New website is a work in progress. Check out the new home page! There will ...
Ever wondered what a real day in the life aboard a live aboard sailboat is like? We give you a look at what happens aboard Zephyr, the fun and the work that happens on a daily basis.
We get down with more cleaning, provisioning for our passage to Linton B...
Off season BLISS. Sailing, Surfing and Exploring the far out corners of the Mentawai Islands. This is the Dream https://www.sailingnandji.com
In this episode, we are deep in the Mentawai islands living out our dreams. Because of the state of the world the...
"Quite a bit about remote cruising is actually inconvenient. Inconvenience is romantic." 😂
We've broken up the scenes in this week's episode into chapters.
00:00 Introduction
01:17 Sailing through Mangrove Passage
03:32 Town chores
05:31 How to make G...
Before we can start working on projects around our #sailboat. We need to remove the previous owner's items. It may not look like a lot but every cabinet is full of boat parts, expired safety equipment, and cleaning supplies. We spend the day learning more...
It was the day before my birthday and I had forgotten. In January, just after all the holidays festivities, you’re not really in the mood for a birthday party. But the party came to me. So I live to live another birthday. Then the realities of being a li...
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This Grand Banks motor yacht is truly different than the run of the mill motor yachts you see every day. This one is a classic, high end trawler ...
Our life on a tiny sailboat home.
We get stuck at anchor for three weeks during a lockdown in Greece, and this is what it was really like! Like and subscribe if you enjoyed :)
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We've spent months putting together EVERYTHING we've learn...
We show you some things on the boat that most never get to see as we have some fun getting our sailboat offshore ready again.
Join us for some DIY action as we give our sailing yacht a makeover inside and out.
We re-install our sails, inspect our carbon ...
This video shows you a not-so-typical day in the boat life, and it is also a good representation of all the weird things that can happen when living aboard.
Come join us for 15 minutes of anxiety! In this episode we have to move our boat without an engine (including docking it), and we get our first haul out and put Via on the hard. Whew!
We are DEEP in the Mentawai Islands on the search for more FROTH!! https://www.sailingnandji.com
In this episode, we continue our exploration deep into the Southern Mentawai Islands. With our crew member Max from the Youtube channel Max & Occy onboar...
It's been 2 months since we've visited any form of town or civilisation, how are we coping and what treats has Pascale got in our 40L Engel Fridge? Plus we have the biggest announcement to ever drop on Free Range Sailing...
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In this week's Vlog, we return to the boat for the first time since officially owning it. Take a #tour with us as we discover what the previous owners left behind and see our #BeneteauOceanis for the second time ever. We even find a surprise under one of t...
Back aboard Galopin. Back to the reality of living aboard a sailboat full time. First things are, problems to resolve. There is always something. But as wel I see friends like Peter and the gang as well as lovely Wendy. And I bring back a machete for my bo...
Pretty much any boat owners worst nightmare: we find a salt water leak in the boat that requires immediate attention, and fixing it does *not* go to plan. At all.
I hate standard bottom paint! In this video I removed the bottom paint on our 1991 Corsair F27 Trimaran and used two methods. I strictly sanded the main hull, and I used a chemical stripper on the amas. What did I think was the better method? Well, it's c...
Huge snowfall and epic adventures in Canada as we swap tropical islands for freezing winter conditions. We travel to Vancouver Island, Vancouver and Squamish where we have our first white Christmas in 20 years.
The snow just keeps coming and pretty soon ...
Inspecting the rudder with help from @livingwiththemaias, solving the wiggly rudder mystery! But, want to drop the rudder and Joel does NOT...
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We return to our boat after leaving her in humid Panama for rainy season and are faced with lot's of dirt and a variety of mold in every shade of the rainbow both on deck and down below. We start by scrubbing the deck and cockpit clean and then turn to the...
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