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[Ep. 30] BOOBIES on Board! – Welcome to the Jungle

Curtis Jazwiecki — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:19:53 +0000

We finally get to see boobies! Kate goes Bele dancing with the girls. Curtis sails singlehanded while flying the drone. We head into the jungle to feed the monkey with new friends. Sailing, rum, sun, and fun, is there more to sailing life?

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This is the real cruising life aboard Sailing Sweet Ruca. Even though our transatlantic voyage is on hold we don’t stop having fun and continue the adventure in a beautiful new country. In this satisfying video, we test negative for da’vid and get to escape the quarantine anchorage. We met some new sailing couple friends from SV Dragonfly and SV Kuma Too. Join us as we explore the island of Grenada from the top to the bottom. As the title says, if you hang in there to the end you will get to see boobies!

Special Guests:

SV Kuma Too: Mandi & Joe

The crew from Kuma Too charters their Leopard 47 in St. Thomas USVI as they work toward their around-the-world sailing plans. Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAvgJoOMfDY8EiOJ0TpXALw

SV Dragonfly: Jen & Ryan This power couple is cruising the Caribbean with their daughter aboard their Leopard 46 catamaran. Link: http://www.addyatsea.com/about-me.html

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[Ep. 27] WE FOUND IT! :-) – Sailing with Friends in the Virgin Islands

Curtis Jazwiecki — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 15:08:54 +0000

We finally find what we have been looking for as we sail the blue waters around St. Croix in the Virgin Islands. We are sending it (life is fun) to the max!

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Our last hurrah in STX before we make the long passage south and leave our friends for hurricane season in Grenada.

To get there we sail from St. Thomas in a Sahara dust storm. With heavy winds, we sail with the genoa only and keep the mainsail in its stack pack to keep red dust from getting it dirty.

We also check out a fort and take some cool video shots of Fredriksted and the pier with the DJI Mavic Pro drone.

We spent time exploring the island by car (van life style road trip rental car off-roading) to get the view from the top.

We fully immerse ourselves in the rain forest from its highest peak of 1160 ft and in the sea 100 feet below the water scuba diving. Your standard travel vlog youtube channel type stuff.

Before we left we wanted to go for one last sail with some of the great people we met. We headed out for a sunset and evening sail to the south side of St. Croix with our friends Jake and David (Blog: https://www.texastoochile.blogspot.com Youtube : dww0013)

We had a blast, and got a little funny, ending the night sailing under the blue spreader lights and anchoring in the dark.

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[Ep. 20] Sailing FAST & Living Slow! – FUN with Spinnakers in the USVI

Curtis Jazwiecki — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 14:27:23 +0000

We make our final push sailing into St. Thomas US Virgin Islands during a squally night. We have some special visitors, but first, we catch up on some boat work, fixing some not so fun problems. We visit St. John USVI for some fun with friends and do some swimming and snorkeling. Two sailboats on the water make a race (we were racing at least)! We are challenged by an Outremer Catamaran! We celebrate our win in this video with some boat pizza!

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In this episode, we finally make it to St. Thomas after a 700 mile offshore ocean passage from the Bahamas. We are glad to see land but after so much time in the deserted islands of the Bahamas, we are smacked in the face with the full force of big brand marketing in the USVI. We have lots to do while we are here, especially some much-needed plumbing work. Don’t ask, just watch and you will see.

We also need to make some repairs after the hard sailing passage. We still make time for fun though. Kate’s mom joins us for a few days, and our friends from Jamestown Boatyard in Rhode Island, Dave and Denise, make an appearance for some spirited sailing and fun in St. John.

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