The #1 SAILING VIDEO You Will See Today! 700 Miles of FREEDOM [Ep. 59]

We set off on a 4 day voyage, southbound, across a rarely traveled part of the North Atlantic Ocean. We are as far away from everything, and as close true bluewater freedom on the sea as it gets! Suddenly, the radio crackles to life. Are we all alone out here? Something is approaching close by. Pirates or a new friend (ship)? Find out by watching to the end; joining us on this beautiful sailboat ride as Kate catches fish while offshore for dinner.

#sailing #freedom #fishing

0:00 Intro - Heading South
0:26 Provisioning, Goodbyes, and Roxy's Last Romp on Land For a Few Days
1:54 Leaving The Dock at Marina Villa Do Porto for a 700 Mile Sail to Tenerife in the Canary Islands
2:49 Sails Up - Lets Go Sailing!!! Kate Tells Us Her Take on the Winds.
5:50 Curtis Explains Why We Missed Our Weather Window and What We are Doing While Sailing
8:37 We are Called on the Radio by a Commercial Vessel While Passing Close
10:59 How Fast Are We Going? What Navigation Software and Charts Do We Use for Offshore Passagemaking?
15:06 It is Getting Windier. We Put A Reef in the Main Sail and Take Our Tiny Home Surfing.
18:25 Kate Goes Fishing While Sailing in Big Breeze
19:14 Autopilot Drives The Boat
20:03 Thank You To Our Patreon Crew!

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So who is this crazy sailing couple making fun videos to share? Well, we are Kate and Curtis. We both sold up and headed out to sea, with the goal of sailing around the world via Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope. We are excited to get to the fjords and channels of Patagonia and we are working hard to get there. We brought our mixed rescue dog along with us as she loves sailing and swimming too!

Our boat is a year 2000 J Boats J/46 (The previous version of the new J/45). We searched for 3 years for our perfect sailboat for sale. We debated whether to get a catamaran or a monohull. When we found the right boat, we knew it was the one. We spent 6 months re-fitting it in Rhode Island and then went for our shakedown voyage in Maine. We stopped in Annapolis for a bit to do some more refit work and offshore modifications, then we set off to the open sea. We went to the Bahamas, Miami, US Virgin Islands, BVI, Grenada, Carriacou, St. Maarten, where we enjoyed outdoor adventures, scuba diving, and have now did an Atlantic Crossing to the Azores where we had a chance to fly our DJI drone (and learned how to fly a drone from a boat) and one of our favorite past times, mountain biking. We have sailed over 10,000 bluewater miles to date. We put on miles like a Canadian trucker in a freedom convoy ;-) Honk honk!

Being from the great lakes, we already knew how to sail, but cruising was new to us, so we watched other sailing channels before we left as well. We even considered van life, a tiny home, or a motorhome / rv. Some of the channels we enjoyed were Gone with the Wynns, Sailing La Vagabonde (before they had kids:-), Project Atticus, and MJ Sailing. We didn't really set out to be influencers, but we wanted to return the good karma and pass our inspiration and knowledge along.

Enough of this, we hope you enjoy our relaxing video on #sailingsunday!

XO XO Kate, Curtis & Roxy