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Ep 13: The Depths of Winter on a Sailboat in Canada
Encircled by ice, we face the risk being crushed if we don't keep the water flowing around our boat. In this episode, we're awoken in the middle of the night when the ice floe breaks apart, sending ice surging into our boat, crushing up against our hull. E...
Ep 12: Winter Escape – Deep Sea Fishing in Barbados – Big Fish!!!!
With awful sudden news, we leave Northern Reach in Toronto and head to the island paradise of Barbados to spend time with family over the holidays. We go deep sea fishing with Talia's brother, James, and his father-in-law Graham on his completely rebuilt b...
Ep 10: Worst storm in over 40 years. HURRICANE force winds threaten our sailboat with disaster.
In this episode of Towards the Adventure, we're not quite done wrapping our sailboat for the winter when a 2 day storm hits us. Winds over 140kph/80mph shake our boat and have us rolling heavily while tied to the dock. Things fall over, and we're on edge a...
Ep 9: Winter Sailboat Liveaboard: We build a shrink wrap cover to keep our boat warm for the winter
In this episode of Towards the Adventure, our crew spends 20 hours putting shrink wrap on our boat, as we await a winter storm. The winds pick up earlier than expected, and we end up putting a hole in the boat's shrink-wrap. Our tiny home on the water will...
Ep 8: Building a Frame for Winter Shrink-wrap
Still working on last week's TO-DO list, as it goes: boat work never ends. Then we figure out how to build a frame to shrink-wrap your boat for the winter... We try to piece together the previous owner's frame and adjust it since we're leaving the WHOLE RI...
Ep. 6: Sailing our ketch to our new WINTER home
WE FINALLY GET ALL 4 SAILS UP on our Whitby 42 Ketch. We also manage to CRASH a drone into the lake where it sinks to the bottom with all of our HD footage. If you're curious about flying drones off boats, this is a great what 'NOT TO DO'. We continue sett...
Ep. 5: A boat with projects, NOT a project boat!?
We're not ALL-IN sort of people... we didn't quit our jobs, and drop everything to sail around the world, and we weren't prepared to take on a full-time "bring it back to life" sailboat. However, we were prepared to move and live aboard a boat while doing ...
Ep. 3: STORM SAIL CONDITIONS when we pick up our boat and bring it home!
We finally buy our boat, move aboard and sail away! We spill some champagne, and sail through some storm conditions in 30kts and 5-6 foot waves to move SV Northern Reach down one of Canada’s Great Lakes. It's amateur hour when we fill our boat with smok...
Ep. 1: Selling everything and moving aboard a sailboat!
Selling everything we own to move aboard a boat, and make the transition from typical Toronto row house dwellers, to full-time liveaboards, right before winter in Ontario, Canada. Downsizing by 75%. Follow us as we sell our stuff, we sell our first boat an...
Ep. 0: Who moves onto a boat right before winter? An introduction to us.
Welcome to our very first video! We thought it'd be nice to tell you a little bit about who we are and how we got to this point. And what a trip down memory lane it was to make this video: over the last 6 years we've been to over 20 countries on all sorts ...![116. Is This 42′ Project Sailboat Worth It? [Full Tour] Learning the Lines](https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/KTO7lvqeZyU/maxresdefault.webp)
116. Is This 42′ Project Sailboat Worth It? [Full Tour] Learning the Lines
The Whitby 42 and the Brewer 42 are both proven bluewater cruisers, but is this one a worthwhile project? You decide. Be sure to subscribe and ring that notification bell to be on the look out for our next video. You're going to want to watch it! -----...