Be Bothered
When I was learning to sail my dad pointed out that when bad things happen on a boat, “it’s usually not because one thing went wrong, but because a lot of things went wrong at the same time.” So the…
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S1: Episode 15 | Sailing Down the Baja
Catch this second part of our trip down the Baja Peninsula with our friend, Onno, on his Hardin 45. She’s a proper pirate ship to be sure. We had a mix of all kinds of weather and found lots of…
Read More »What Marks the Starting Line?
If you follow us on Instagram (@gntsailing), you know that our lease in San Diego ended and we’ve officially moved our home base to our house in Wisconsin. Tim was here helping get things settled, but had to return to…
Read More »S1: Episode 8 | Careful What You Wish For!
We’ve been away from YouTube for many months. “Why,” you ask? Mostly because I just could not bring myself to edit the video that is so filled with my sweet, beloved pup, Ocho. So, I let time do its thing…
Read More »YouTube Episode: Catalina or Bust! | S1:E7
In this week’s episode, we make the sailing passage from San Diego to Catalina Island, California! It’s not exactly smooth sailing. And we have a communication breakthrough!
Read More »YouTube Episode: Preppers | S1:06
This week it’s finally time to head to Catalina Island! We provision, fill up on water, and hit (not literally) the fuel dock. But the Southern California weather gods were not smiling upon us. Some major fog rolled in and…
Read More »Which way will the wind blow?
Based on the current forecast, Tim and I are planning to shove off from Harbor Island in San Diego for Catalina Harbor on Catalina Island at 1800 (ahem, 6:00pm) on Saturday. It’s about 95 nautical miles (NM) if you can…
Read More »What’s in the bag?
Check out the video where Gretchen explains how we chose what to include in our ditch bag. Here’s a list of what made it in: First aid First aid kit with wound care, breakable ice packs, pain killers, antacids, alcohol…
Read More »YouTube video | Abandon ship!
In this episode, Gretchen walks you through Felicità’s ditch bag and how we decided on what to include.
Read More »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….
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