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In July 2017 we bought a 44 foot sailboat and traveled over 300 nautical miles in the open Atlantic Ocean to our home in Halifax, Nova Scotia where we now live aboard, cruise and document our adventures. Following in the footsteps of other great sailing channels, join us and our crew as we share our alternative lifestyle living aboard a sailboat full-time and plan our next step to untie the lines for Caribbean waters and beyond! Please help us out with your generous donations as none of this would be possible without YouTube and the support of viewers like yourself! Please leave us feedback, your likes, and please be sure to subscribe to the channel so you don't miss out on upcoming videos. Thanks guys!
Recent Videos
In this video, Bye Bye Bootstripe and Barrier Coat - Cruising Sailboat Refit, I sand the waterline removing one of our boot stripes then apply barrier coat to cover it up and also paint over our recent keel joint patch. Following this I wet sand the old antifoul in preparation for new, and I wax the...
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In this video, Rebedding the V-Berth HATCH - Cruising Sailboat Refit Continued, I re-bed the v-berth hatch. We have Balachandra moved into the marina work yard where I can have access to power and water and wherer there is an environmental drop-sheet underneath the boat for doing bottom work. Once in...
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In this video, Cruising Sailboat Refit BEGINS with a Keel Repair in Florida, I buy a car and make the 28 hour drive from Nova Scotia Canada down to Jacksonville Florida to start our boat refit in getting Balachandra back in the water! We receive an amazing gift from Total Boat and I repair our long overdue...
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In this video, Boat Hatch Found Open for Months! Theft or Accident?, we give you an update on what's been hapenning with all of us and Balachandra since crossing the boarder into Canada back in April/May. We get some great news from Total Boat, we share a disturbing story about one of our hatches found...
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In this video, Selling Balachandra Our Return Home and Liveaboard Cruising Plans, we talk about our border crossing into Canada and our 2 weeks self isolation quarantine on arrival. We explain why Balachandra was up for sale and talk about our future plans for Liveaboard Cruising following the 2021 hurricane...
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In this video, Hauling Out and Going Home - Last Video? Are We Done Cruising?, We haul Balachandra out of the water by travel lift at Green Cove Springs. The Travel lift is small so they ask us to back in and remove the backstay. (not so easy to do in 26 knots of wind!) There is no room for us in the...
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In this video, No One Is Aboard?! Unmanned and Adrift Sailboat in Distress, we sight a sailing vessel at the edge of the gulf stream with a continuously flogging genoa so we investigate to discover no one is at the helm. After repeated attempts to hail them from close range with shouts and horn blasts...
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In this video, Repatriation of an American Citizen Stuck in CUBA, we leave Havana Cuba for Key West Florida, taking along Tom, an American citizen who was accidentally stuck in Cuba due to an emergency at sea. With the aid of the United States Coast Guard, Homeland Security, and the American Embassy...
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In this video, Havana Cuba 101 For Liveaboard Cruisers Post Pandemic, we get caught in another north front of high winds and have to wait ot out on anchor for 5 days, then we get a lucky break of south east winds and we start moving eastward again towards Havana but end up beating into it for several...
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In this video, Sailing Cayo Largo and the Yucatan Channel, Cuba for Cruisers, We anchor off the endless powder soft beaches of Cayo Largo, deserted from the covid-19 pandemic and go ashore to explore and pitch our sun tent. We snorkel in the reef just 100' from our boat and get chased away by huge barracuda...
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In this video, Sailing Completely Alone in South Cuba, Cruising Cienfuegos & Cayo Largo, we cruise the endless expanse of the completely deserted south of Cuba from the Garden of the Queen to the city of Cienfuegos to Cayo Largo where we visit the small village and sea turtle sancuary, home to rare...
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In this video, 22 Things that FAIL After 1 Year Cruising Full Time, we go into detail on all the things on Balachandra that have failed, broken, or given up the ghost on board after a year (and a half) of cruising Full Time in the Caribbean, as well as the maintenance required to keep us going as we...
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