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Our First Passage

Sailing Into Cocoa Village: Anchoring Our Sailboat After Leaving The Marina! | Ep 15

So we left Cape Marina on our sailboat to start our adventure in Coco Village and hang on anchor for a bit. This will be our first stop of many on the ICW and we step into a more nomadic life. To get our sailboat to coca village there are going to be many first. …

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Inventory Check Is Our Sailboat Ready To Set Sail Ep 12

Inventory Check: Is Our Sailboat Ready To Set Sail? | Ep 12

We are getting closer to slipping this lines on this sailboat, but are we ready, can you ever be ready? We go through all the spare stuff left on our boat, some stays, somethings are defiantly not. Would love to know things we overlook from you and things we over stocked. We didn’t just purge …

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Fixing Our New To Us Dinghy, Outboard & Sailboat Davit System EP 9

Fixing Our New To Us Dinghy, Outboard & Sailboat Davit System EP 9

A month left at the dock and we finally found our Sailboat Dinghy! Finding a new to us rigid ride inflatable boat and not just breaking the bank with a new one was a daunting task. We search from west to east coast Florida finding rubbish or way out of budget. Then we stumbled across …

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EP 4 - We're Working Hard To Get This Sailboat On The Hook So We Can Start Our Journey!

EP 4 – We’re Working Hard To Get This Sailboat On The Hook So We Can Start Our Journey!

As we prepare to get our sailboat out of the marine an life fulltime on anchor, we have a few things we need. We of course have to have our headsail on, of course we still have our iron sail. The zippers in the dodger are gone, we go over how to replace them. We …

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EP 3 Mast Challenge And Crying

Ep 3: Can I Brave Going Up The Sailboat Mast? More Things Broken

Well more things are broke on our new to use sailboat. We have to get up the mast to fix our spinnaker line. We get greeted with wiring shorts with our instruments. Top top this off, the line to our sugar scoop breaks. We also have some fixes that quickly unfix themselves. Still loving the …

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EP 2 60 Knot Winds In Our Sailboat, Where Are The Leaks Coming From

EP 2 60 Knot Winds In Our Sailboat, Where Are The Leaks Coming From

After 5 days of high winds on our sailboat, the last day gust up to 60 knots, my wife is wondering what I talked her into! So we prepare the best we could, checking lines and adding spring lines, to ride out the storm. Nothing could have prepares us for the water leaks we had …

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