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YouTube Episode | Rigging the spinnaker
Check out our latest adventure on our YouTube channel, GnT Sailing — figuring out how the heck to rig our asymmetrical spinnaker. It really helps people find our content if you hit the like button and subscribe to the channel….
Read More »Breaker, breaker 1-9
Holy moly have we been on an epic bureaucratic journey trying to get our MMSI number. For you landlubbers, an MMSI, otherwise known as Maritime Mobile Service Identities, is a unique number that is assigned to our vessel. It aids…
Read More »Hello YouTube!
We’re live on YouTube. Still learning in a BIG, BIG way, but ya gotta start somewhere. That could be the theme for this whole Operation Offshore project. We’ve been thinking about doing this for awhile and at first we thought…
Read More »Anchors away
We’re slowly making our way through the systems on the boat that are necessary for the shake down trip to Catalina in August. This weekend’s project was sorting out the anchor locker and determining just what’s in there. Having only…
Read More »5 lessons from John Kretschmer on safety
Tim and I had the pleasure of passing some quarantine time taking John Kretchmer’s Safety at Sea webinar along with about 150 other souls around the globe. It’s no secret that John is one of my sailing heros, but over…
Read More »Let’s go fly a kite!
We knew Felicità came with a spinnaker when we bought her, and we knew where the spin was. But, we had yet to take the sail out of the bag and really investigate exactly what we had. Much to our…
Read More »Jiffy lube for marine diesels?
High on the ‘prep for Catalina Island’ list is servicing the engine and the generator. We check the fluids and top them off if needed before we sail. And, we’ve replaced the impeller. But, other than that, we’ve not serviced…
Read More »Documentary: Queen’s Birthday Storm
There are all kinds of sailing stories out there to consume. And, when I’m not sailing, working my day job, or working on the boat, I definitely consume my fair share. One genre of sailing story is what I’ll dub,…
Read More »Pre-Catalina Island prep
We have six weeks before we shove off. This will be our first overnight trip on Felicità. Just a few things to do: Service Yanmar and the generator diesel Fix fridge (this could be expensive!) Install jacklines on deck and…
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