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Are we crazy for re-painting the entire boat ourselves?! Short answer is yes, of course, but it needed to be done! In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we continue to sand the waterline and hull in order to prep Sitka for a fresh coat of top-part paint. It feels good to be getting our boat back into ti...
Hot mess in the yard. On this episode of Sailing Sitka, we begin our sailboat refit by sanding down the waterline and hull of Sitka. If that isn't hard enough, we are doing it in an extreme heat wave in the desert of Mexico!
Join us this week as we settle discover rot in our deck whilst replacing the anchor windlass switches. Take a look at how we fix the problem.
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In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we return to our boat after 4 months away and after she survived a sandstorm up to 90 knot winds. We organize and clean the exterior and interior of Sitka to get her in a more liveable shape as well as get adjusted to a major extreme heat wave. Its good to be back i...
Join us this week as we settle into this Menorcan lifestyle, and experience the full 360 of liveaboard life when Joe and I have a week off work! We do some boat maintenance, and some friends fly out from the UK to visit and teach us their best FREE DIVING.
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How we afford to sail offshore around the world. In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we do an unboxing of boat parts and products that help us achieve the dream of sailing around the world. Season 2 of Sailing Sitka coming at you next week!! Stay tuned, please subscribe, like and comment.
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Saying goodbye to our boat... In this episode of sailing sitka, we use our last day in the yard to clean up Sitka as best as we could in order to leave her stored in the yard for 3 months! We fly home to Canada to work in order to save up some cruising cash for next season... the boatyard blues are ...
Cheoylee Boat Tour! On this episode of Sailing Sitka, we have a special guest with us, the biggest coconuts and coolest cats around @sailingavocet We tour their CL 41' which is nearly identical to Sitka (CL Offshore 41') Spot the similarities and differences and let us know what you think ...
We found holes in our boat! In this episode, we start day 4 in the Guaymas boatyard by inspecting the blisters and bubbles we found on our keel. We figure out what need immediate attention and also figure out a game plan on how to address them. We start cleaning and prepping the boat as we are one d...
Join us this week as we sail from Mallorca to Menorca after re-tuning our rigging.
This ended up being a very good test as we were faced with an awful sea state and a lot of seasickness.
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Sanding the bottom of our Cheoylee Offshore 41 sailboat. In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we continue sanding below the waterline on the portside, to ready her for fresh bottom paint when we fly back to Mexico next season. We found a couple problem areas and explain what to look out for when sandin...
Getting dirty in a boatyard without water! In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we get down and dirty in some boat projects, one being sanding the bottom of our sailboat. Boat work on the hard is tough enough, to make it even worse, the boatyard currently has no water... Watch us struggle and we hope y...
Join us this week as I learn to DIY tune our rigging on our 40ft sail boat.
We noticed that our leeward lower/ intermediate shrouds were very saggy when sailing upwind in 20 knots. After doing some research I realised this was less than ideal and is something we should address sooner rather than l...
Hauling a$$ on the hard. In this weeks episode of Sailing Sitka, we are off to a rough start with day 1 in the Guaymas boatyard. This video contains boat projects that we need to get done within a span of 6 days before relocating our boat. Hot, blind and sick but still getting it done... Check it ou...
Hauling out our cheoylee offshore 41 sailboat in Mexico. The time has come! We are officially taking Sitka out of the water in Guaymas, Mexico. The process was not as smooth as we would have liked being a sailboat with 2 masts in a small slip with an exceptionally small lift... but we made it work! ...
We are back! After an extended break we finally got round to editing and uploading a new video for you guys. We set the challenge to do 1 years worth of videos, 52 episodes, and once we did that it was great to just take a step back and relieve ourselves of the pressure for a while.
We had a serie...
Haul out prep in the northerner sea of Cortez. In this weeks episode of Sailing Sitka, we arrive in Guaymas, Mexico where we start to prepare our Sailboat for her haul out date! In order to be ready, we tackle side jobs to be fully ready for Sitka to be lifted out of the water. What's that look...
75 hours at sea. In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we finish our last leg of the trip as we sailed towards Guaymas, Mexico. During this video, we show what it is like to be at sea for a small passage... what it feels like, looks like and sounds like. This officially completed our last sail of our fi...
ASMR. No talking, purely sailing. In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we do something a little difference. We lift hook in Mazatlan and hit the seas sailing north towards Guaymas... all while not talking. We thought we would give the ASMR trend a shot as the sound of the ocean can be relaxing enough. ...
Sailing with sea turtles in Mexico. Why is there so many? In this episode of sailing sitka, we continue our sail north towards Guaymas, but first stopping in Mazatlan to re-provision. It can be tough to get diesel and water in Mexico but we have our ways...
Starting our 700nm journey north. In this episode, we say our goodbyes to La Cruz, a port that has been our home for 3 long months while Sitka was under repair. Now we have lifted anchor and set sail for our 700NM journey north towards Guaymas, Mexico. There we will be hauling the boat out of the wa...
In this weeks episode of Sailing Sitka, we prepare our sailboat for a passage to Mazatlan, not before changing something that broken and getting a massive surprise... watch to find out!
Join us for this weeks episode as we step in to help when the coastguard fail to rescue a grounded charter boat from the rocks in Menorca...
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Our friends are rebuilding their Perkins Diesel engine and needed our help. In this weeks episode of Sailing Sitka we help @sailingavocet lift their engine out of their engine bay which is located under the floor boards in the middle of their vessel...much like Sitka! We do this while at anchor in M...
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