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Part 3 We kedge the boat off a rock only to find another as we try to return home to Placentia, Belize
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Part 2 Aground! Will Kedging Save the Boat? What a thing to happen just before Guatemala and Belize closed their borders. Check out our stern kedging set-up and watch next week to see if it worked.
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We're back with the events that lead up to becoming aground on a reef. This happened immediately prior to Guatemala and Belize closing their borders and finding ourselves stuck in Belize.
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It's Lunar New Year in Mongolia and everything is in lock down to prevent the spread. We are in Belize and cannot get a new Takacat due to factory shut down in China.
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At last we are back in the water and ready to start new adventures. Here is the replay of the whole launching event.
The video quality is only 720p and the audio is at times terrible but up to 120 folks stuck it out and saw the splash at RAM Marina, a very tight exit, a motor under the famous bridg...
Join Luckyfish on this behind the scenes look at the Georgetown Cruisers Net. We meet Emily from Emily and Clark's Adventure as she coordinates this completely voluntary, highly useful community service daily, from their cruising yacht SV Temptress. Plus, we discover what a Cruiser's Net a...
MiQ discovers a human skeleton. Our reaction to this grisly discovery? Watch how we try to convince ourselves these bones cannot be human. If you are interested in learning more about the pretext to this tragic story, here is a good starter from 2013:
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Stew and Zaya announce a baby and share some wonderful news, it's a boy!. A very special delivery that happened yesterday 9 May, 2019 at 0036 GMT. MiQ and Zaya experiment with lures, tackle, boat speed and sea-bottoms to break the curse of the barracuda.
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It's a bumper episode packed with scenes starting with a visit to a U-boat hideout, we catch a remarkable fish, snorkel with a shark, find an easy way to catch bonefish and at 21:37 share what we’ve learned about sail trim on our catamaran when going upwind.
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Captain Gerry shares some delicious Asian food ideas suited to cooking in small spaces on a sailboat. We learn how to build a simple vertical planter so you can grow fresh herbs easily on board. And Gerry makes a couple of fishing gaffs, mosquito nets and some crazy simple Japanese sandals.
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Zaya v2.0 is back this week. It's boat projects, a DIY sliding hatch and a trip to marine timbers. What can we say? We promised her a sweet Bahamas cruise and gave her a pot of epoxy and some sandpaper instead. Has this put an end to the sailing bug for our wonderful niece?
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We slip our catamaran and prep her for hardstand storage in Florida, while we go on a short adventure in Mongolia and watch anxiously as Hurricane Irma plays cat and mouse with Luckyfish.
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Shopping doesn't have to be a drag especially when Zaya meets Victoria's Secret for a bikini try on session. We have some shore time in Sarasota, meet up with friends, enjoy some amazing hospitality, celebrate Independence Day, enjoy an Ashiatsu massage, clean the copper coat hulls, visit ...
This week we continue to be wowed by 17 miles of Floridas finest waterway views as we travel from Venice to Sarasota along the ICW. We head out to the Gulf for a sail and Zaya V1 shows Zaya V2 some tricks on looking older...
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This week Zaya's niece Zaya joins Luckyfish as we explore a little known gem on Florida's West Coast - Cayo Costa and the Intracoastal Waterway or ICW. We meet manatees, super-friendly bridge operators and, followers of Luckyfish videos! That was a pleasant surprise as was finding the cute...
Hard one to make this one. Zaya cried when she watched it. Our epic sailing channel fail. Entirely my fault. Sorry! guys. We've moved on now. Have the memories. Bright horizons ahead. Thanks to Richard, Claudia, James, Martin, Tony, Emily, Laramie, Geoff et al. And viewers who know the feeling ...
Did you miss Ep 40 Our Fastest Day Ever ? It's a beauty. Here's 2 mins of HIGHLIGHTS - A 1200 mile blast across the Caribbean. What's your fastest day? Full vid in Link at end ...
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This week we take a personal look at our secret to living the dream.
We look at some of the drivers that can lead us to dream, the sacrifices you might face chasing the dream and, the pay-off if you're prepared to make them.
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What makes a great girl crew for cruising and sailing?
It's an old sailors superstition that women are bad luck on a sail boat. That's not been our experience on Luckyfish and this episode shows why. Zaya and Tuya get stuck into jobs all over the boat and do it with a smile on their face...
OUR FIRST TIME For EVERYTHING !!!
This week, in Our First Time for Everything – we wind the clock back to the first time we sailed on Luckyfish – way back in Sth Africa. Zaya had completed sailing lessons but we knew so little about sailing this boat and had a steep learning curve ahead. First coas...
We are starting to think this CATS CONTAGIOUS after an influx of wonderful guests on board this season – keen to see the boat and try it on for size.
We interview James and Catherine from Nova Scotia, get their take on life aboard Luckyfish and why they have homed in on the Wharram Tiki 38 as their...
SLOW TV - Today we go a bit Brian Eno and bring you 10 minutes of pure sailing. An ambient look at Luckyfish sailing last week, in ideal conditions off the Exuma chain of islands in the Bahamas. Viewer Jim Thoreson suggested we do this for those of you who plan on getting a Wharram Tiki 38 someday.....
In June 2016 I had the great pleasure of meeting James Wharram and Hanneke Boon for the first time, at their home and design base in SW England. James needs no introduction, widely regarded as one of the fathers of the modern catamaran.
Quite simply, James has helped more sailors realise their drea...
Sir Francis Drake said Life at Sea is Better, no doubt because mindless bureaucracy was as prevalent then as it is now. With the Catana safely delivered and Luckyfish on the hardstand at Grenada, we had expected to return home to Mongolia and work. But …
As sailors, we lead a privileged life on the...
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