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1 MONTH OFF-GRID...Are we ready to CROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN?!⛵️ Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 415

The final countdown is HERE!  This is our last episode before we embark on our Pacific Crossing, and it's a super fun one!  We welcome our our last addition to the crew, Conor, who many of you might recognize from our COVID lockdown crew in the Bahamas, and he also joined us onboard Del...

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Real Time Update From French Polynesia!

Ahoy friends!  We've finally had a chance to rest and recover from the passage, and we wanted to check in with everyone and share this amazing paradise with you and fill you in on what we've been up to!  We hope everyone is having as wonderful of a Sunday as we are :)

All the love...

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Crossing the World’s LARGEST OCEAN…What It Takes To Be Ready: Part 1⛵️ Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 414

Hey Hey everyone! We are getting sooo excited to share the next episodes with you. Today’s video is part 1 of 2 as we document the process of preparing Delos and us for our Pacific Crossing. Stoke levels were ridiculous on board as the reality of the undertaking ahead of us began to sank in. We...

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Midweek bonus video!

Hey hey!  Here's a little Wednesday treat for ya :) After 3 years, 10,000 nautical miles, and about 150 Delos episodes uploaded, we're here to report on our review of "the dome" and answer questions submitted by YOU!  I've also included a chapter list below in case you want to skip to j...

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REUNITED! These Brothers Sailed Around The World For 10 YEARS Together! Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 413

Happy Friday everyone!  We are happily posting this episode after making landfall in Fatu Hiva after 19 days at sea :) This episode is over a decade in the making, and we are so excited to share it with you all.  Just in case some of you are newer followers and haven't watched our earli...

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Boat Work is Back! NEW WATERMAKER: Install and How It Works 🤓 Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 412

Ahoy beautiful friends!

We've been getting so many comments lately from you all about how much you enjoy the boat project videos, so we thought it would be cool to do a super in depth episode all about installing our new watermaker, plus a full run down on how they actually work which I thi...

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REAL LIFE Aboard Our Floating, Off Grid Home ⛵️ Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 411

Ahoy friends!  Our trip south continues with some GORGEOUS conditions! Even if it was a bit chilly we were absolutely loving the winter in the Sea of Cortez compared to our trip up which was mostly motoring through a windless swimming pool and sweating a lot haha.  Now we had awesome wi...

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Real Time Update from Our Pacific Crossing!

Ahoy Delos Tribe!  Can you believe that we're uploading this in the middle of the Pacific Ocean?!?! Just wanted to say hello and let everyone know how we're doing, and show you some sights and sounds from the great big blue!

Sending all the love and hugs from the open ocean <3

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Boat Work to BIG WAVES 🌊 One HELLUVA Shakedown Sail! Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 410

The feeling of splashing Delos after months of going at in the boat yard is pretty hard to beat.  The relief of having so much hard work behind us, having the sense of freedom returned, feeling like everything is ready, Delos is in amazing shape, we've got food and water and everything we ne...

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Real Time Update (We're Almost Ready to LEAVE!)

Ahoy friends!  We wanted to give you a little update because we are SO EXCITED that we are so close to departing across the Pacific!  Also we had a slight mishap with the video scheduling and accidentally released this week's episode last Friday in addition to the normal episode 😂 &n...

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Boat Work GRAND FINALE…Replacing our TRANSMISSION! Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 409

Hey friends!  Grab a taco (or some popcorn will do) and your favorite cold beverage and get ready for the final chapter of our boat yard saga!  Don't worry, soooo many things would break in the weeks that followed so if boat project videos are your thing we still have plenty more coming...

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After All That…IT DOESN’T FIT 😳 Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 408

Hola friends!

We're back this week with part 3 of of our boat yard chronicles.  This one's a bit of a mixed bag of projects, but the biggest one was definitely fixing the furler for the genoa. (A huge shoutout to Chris and Jeff who helped design and machine the parts!)  I really e...

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Patron's Only Real Time Update! (New Crew and everything breaks 🙈 )

Hey fam!  So unfortunately there isn't going to be an episode today as we've been so busy trying to do deal with all the minor catastrophes on board lately, but we wanted to just say hello and get everyone up to speed with what's going on, and also to introduce our new crew member who will b...

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Are We Crazy To Think We Can Do This??? Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 407

Ahoy Friends!

Here comes part 2 of our boat yard adventures, and we're starting to wonder if we've bitten off more than we can chew 😂 Haul outs are always a struggle, so we really shouldn't be suprised at this point that everything always takes way longer and turns out to be more difficu...

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BOAT WORK - Don't Try This At Home! 😱 Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 406

Ahoy Friends!  The moment has come that many of you have been waiting for....the BOATYARD CHRONICLES have arrived!  Today we present part 1 of our adventures (and misadventures) in Puerto Penasco as we prepare Delos for her first big ocean crossing since Brady and Blue took her across t...

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Life of a Somewhat Successful Internet Sailor 🤩 Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 405

We're so excited to share this one with you because there are some cameos from the most amazing people ever....YOU GUYS!  It's finally time for our episode from the Annapolis Boat Show where about 300 of our Patrons were able to make it to our meet up.  We had so much fun getting meet s...

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Desktop Backgrounds From Sea of Cortez!

Ahoy fam!  We recently had a request for some fresh desktop backgrounds, so we thought it would fun to do a round up of some of our favorite drone snaps from the Sea of Cortez.  How INSANE are some of these places?!  So many amazing colors, lines, textures, and environments all mes...

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NERVOUS! Lifting our 20 TON Boat Home Out of the Water! Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 404

Ahoy lovely Delos Tribe!  We have a really fun episode for you today :) We kick things off in the engine room for some sweaty tinkering.  The generator was acting up AGAIN which seems to be an ongoing theme for our Sea of Cortez episodes 😂 And then the time has finally come to wrap u...

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Mexico’s most WILD and REMOTE Island? (We're Falling in Love Here) Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 403

Hey Hey Fam!  We're super excited to share this episode with you from one of the most beautiful and wild destinations we've ever encountered.  This little slice of paradise is called Refugio (which means refuge in English) and we can definitely see why.  It felt like we were anchor...

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Real Time Update! We're back on the water!

Hey hey fam!  Here's an update we filmed for you guys now that we're back in action and on the move!  As we mention in the video, we are going to do another Q&A all about preparing for an ocean crossing, so you can leave your questions in the comments here and we will put them all t...

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Jumping Ship for the Day! Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 402

Get ready to smile on this lovely Friday 😁

This week's episode was SO FUN to put together, and we really hope you enjoy it!  The season was winding down as we, Calico, and One Life were all about to haul out and go our seperate ways for a few months, so we decided to have one last h...

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We REALLY Needed This! Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 401

It's been a while since we posted a video like this...No disasters, no storms, no hospital, just pure cruising bliss.  We had forgotten what it was like to feel at ease, and man did we need this!  And for all you Sierra fans out there, brace yourselves for some cuteness overload in this...

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We had so much fun meeting you!

Ahoy fam!  We just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone that made it down for our meet up over the weekend, we had an absolute blast (including Sierra who was having the time of her life!) There were some familiar faces and plenty of new ones too.  And it was so cool that the owne...

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Terrified and Heartbroken…WE COULDN’T HELP THEM 🥺 Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 400

We proudly present to you our 400th episode!  Episode 1 was published May 29, 2010.  If you would have told me then that more than 12 years later we would be putting out our 400th episode and that millions of people would have shared in this adventure with us I would NEVER have believed...

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Our WHOLE LIFE Is On The Line...Is this the RIGHT CALL? Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 399

We proudly present Part 1 of one of the most intense experiences we've ever had on board.  As Hurricane Kay began to develop, we quickly realized that we needed to start making some moves- not only to try and create distance between ourselves and its projected path, but also because our insu...

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Patrons Meet N' Greet (Sat, Feb 4th) Rocky Point, Mexico

Hey all you lovely Patrons! We have some exciting news!  As you might know we're down here in Puerto Penasco (Rocky Point), Sonora, Mexico about a 4 hour drive from Phoenix.  Many boat projects are underway and we hope to be splashing Delos in about 2 weeks.

Before we put Delos ba...

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3 Boats, ONE DISASTER 😱 Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 398

Hola Hola friends!

It wouldn't be Friday without another crisis on board to share with you 😂 After Kazza made a full recovery from her scary run in with Salmonella poisoning, it finally felt like everything was right again in our floating world.  So we let our hair down, whipped up ...

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We’re BACK! Patrons only update

Hey fam! We’re back in Mexico and we’ve been busy bees trying to get Delos in ship shape for this huge season ahead of us. So we thought we’d show you around and give you a little taste of what we’ve been up to. Hope everyone has had an amazing weekend and start of 2023!

Lots of lov...

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WE NEED A HOSPITAL 🚨 NO HELP In Sight....Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 397

Ahoy Patrons, here's an episode that many of you have probably been expecting.  We got SO MUCH love and support from you all during this time, it was just unbelievable.  Thanks again to everyone for all your kind words and healing vibes.

This was a pretty scary time for us.  ...

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The Quickest Way to RUIN an Anchorage...WTF?! 🤬 Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 396

Happy New Year Fam!  We're back after our little break with another episode from our adventures in the Sea of Cortez...or should we say misadventures.  We pull up to another picture perfect anchorage surrounded by gorgeous clear water, perfect beaches, cactus dotted hillsides and mounta...

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