We’re Jeff and Adrienne. We both grew up sailing, but took 20 years off while married to our exes. When we got together in 2007, we remembered how much we loved sailing. So, we took a week-long sailing class in 2013, bought a Leopard 48 sailing cat, and never looked back (except for when Hurricane Irma destroyed her but we immediately purchased a new Leopard 45).
In Spring 2021, our plan is to leave our marina in St. Petersburg, FL, and begin making our way to the Bahamas, then to New England, and then south, arriving in Grenada sometime in June 2022. Maybe, in May 2023, we’ll make our way across the Atlantic Ocean and spend some time in the Mediterranean. And then go around the world. We’ll figure it out. And hopefully, you’ll join us along the way.
Thanks for watching our videos. We hope you like them.
Errrrr….its not going to happen for many years however we know of a few awesome friend’s Leopard 45’s that are up for sail now (all incredible boats). Let us know if you want more info
I caught an early Satori episode in which the Captain was wearing a blues inspired T-shirt and watched until the last episode. I loved the “oompa loompa” music intro he had. Sail on y’all.
We started watching them from the beginning too when we found out they were from St. Pete. Been great friends ever since. Hey check out their BVI video, they spent the week with us in that video. It was an epic week. Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching!
It’s actually just a tune we grabbed from Epidemic sound which is the subscription service we use for some of our music. Most of our music of course is from artists who we end up paying royalties too when we use their music in our vids.
That happened to us the first time too a few years back. Scared the crap out of us! We had both engines at almost 3000rpms and were still only making 2-3 knots. Hey we hope you guys are doing well. 🥰
Cool approach on the flight in, we will be flying to Oshkosh next week, should be super busy!!!! One mile is close?…fly with us and see two planes less than a mile at 150kts, got to keep your head on a swivel sometimes! Great to see y’all back, been missing seeing y’all’s videos…. Our next sailing trip is in November, can’t wait!!! Seeing Dolphins never gets old, such beautiful creatures and those were especially playful. Have a blessed day!
Thanks guys. We think the flight approach looked a bit sketchy and were glad we weren’t in the plane 😁. I think one mile or less gets a bit close when it takes those big ships 5 miles to stop. So when we’re out sailing we just have to keep a close eye just in case they change course towards us and we’re at a wind angle where it’s hard to adjust away from them. But of course we should still have enough time to react as opposed to flying! Hopefully that makes sense. You all going to be in Annapolis in Oct?
@@SailingWindTherapy Gotcha, seems counterintuitive but makes sense, as we are newbie’s to sailing! Not sure if we’re going to Annapolis or not, what street do we need to meet up on again😜🤪😂🤣
Yes! Our friend Glen was going to work on it in St. Pete so we took the mast down for the trip across the state. It was a great and certainly unique trip for us.
Really enjoyed watching these... as for the guy in the last lock - well, for all of the beauty of the English rivers, we have quite a few that have chosen the way of life, often in tatty boats, and are often deemed vulnerable because of addiction - although I cannot say that this is the case here, the Thames, like so many other areas, has its fair share! Anyhoo, glad you enjoyed your visit and it does look as if you were very lucky with the weather!
We’re glad you liked the videos. We certainly had an amazing time! We actually spoke with the man from the last lock. He had just bought the boat and was trying to get it home. It was pretty ambitious. We were thinking he just needed a little practice first. 😁
@@SailingWindTherapy Wow, in that case that is pretty wild - luckily, although you have substantial boating knowledge, hirers often get typically about 30mins tuition and off they go with 10ton plus craft and do exactly the same thing! where we keep our boat, damage over recent years has become ridiculous in places! We do hope you come back - absolutely love your channel and travels - especially the silky-smooth commentary!
We’re going to spend the summer up in New England, Sep and Oct in the Chesapeake, and then make our way south along the US east coast (plus a bit of Bahamas) back to St. Pete. Our parents are a little sick and we want to spend a year or two with them plus missing the grand babies a lot. Then we’ll head back out. Thanks for the concern! 🥰
@@SailingWindTherapy Glad all is well with you both! Total respect and understanding for you wanting to be closer to family. Thank you for your content. Be well (and happy 4th!)!
We got really lucky and it only took them a week. Somehow Herve convinced the victron dealer to move us up in priority because he told them we had to leave Sxm shortly. I can’t believe that worked but it did. 😊
@@SailingWindTherapy I was thinking of carrying a spare unit just in case it fails in the middle of nowhere. Pricy but they way my boat is wired, that is a very critical piece of equipment.
They have smaller units you can use as a spare for emergency too. Doesn’t do everything but enough for important b stuff. Also we could have bypassed the inverter for the water maker for example and run it directly off the generator. If a real emergency for water we could have done that (which we now know how to do quite easily) but we didn’t want to start mucking about with the inverter and then have Victron say we caused the board failure.
The Thames from Wallingford to Marlow is my home patch and we are out on our boat most weekends. Looks like you had a great time and you knew how to handle the boat.
Thanks Michael. That’s a great part of the river. We truly had an amazing time exploring your part of the world. It took a couple of locks to get a handle on the boat but we seemed to manage it well. We’re looking forward to coming back.
We flew to Antigua for our honeymoon last October and loved the entire island. We hope to get there in our own boat in a few years. Thanks for another great video!
When/If you guys get up to Maine, my wife and I would love to meet up. We are planning to start our sailing adventure in two years. We are getting excited. So much to learn. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us.
It’s our pleasure! We’re actually doing an overnight at this very moment up to Maine. We’re going to stop at Camden for a few days to celebrate Adrienne’s birthday and then we’re not sure which parts we’ll visit after that except for Bar Harbor for July 4th.
You’ve come at the perfect time. Summer has arrived! Not sure if you’ve been here before, but I’d recommend checking out Boothbay Harbor, as it’s close to Camden. If you head south, take in Ogunquit/Perkins Cove area. A beautiful walking town, with Marginal Way being a trail along the ocean, ending at the very small harbor with a bridge walk over the entrance.
We’ll let you know when we get closer to that part of Maine. Also follow us on Insta or FB in case we forget since our plans are always pretty fluid 😊. At the moment we’re 32 miles east of Portland
I can't let my wife see this video. I talked her into doing this hike over for lunch at skinny legs. It was hot, we ran out of water on the way over. When we finally got there I told her we would find a taxi. Ha Ha no such luck so we hiked back to leinster bay. I don't she will do the hike again.
Ha, we just got lucky and hitched a ride with the owner of the restaurant over there who happened to be leaving and heard us groaning about the hike back 😁
Glad you enjoyed it! Dominica is truly a one of a kind island with such incredible beauty. We’re so blessed to have had the opportunity to experience it and we’re so happy to be able to share it with everyone!
@@brienw8800 all awesome places! Did you catch our epic St Barts party episode? That was so much fun and something as cruisers we wouldn’t ordinarily experience.
Your plans sound great. I'm looking forward to seeing it. You both always have so much great information. I enjoy your channel so much. I loved Savannah when i was there. Lots of fun. The cobble stone streets from the ballast of old ships. Thats been 45 years ago. Thank you
It was like someone purposely wrapped it and tried to make the craziest knot possible! I was totally exhausting getting it released. Thank goodness for great friends and nice French guys nearby!
You did a lot of refit and work on your boat. Sounds like you really did a great job of it. How far off shore will your wifi/ cell system work? Thanks for the show. It was interesting
Thanks, we absolutely love her. So about the WiFi/cell booster… we don’t use it at all anymore. Starlink made that system completely obsolete. We still have it in case of emergency though but it’s not even plugged in.
I think our daughter ran into you on Ile Pinnel back in March. After I dropped her and a friend off I got sent away by the National Parks Guards and had to Anchor at Orient Bay. There was another Catamaran near us named wind Adventures and I thought that was the boat she ran ito. She just watched a video you made on boat guests and called me to tell me it was you. Our boat is a Leopard 48 name Gratitude (now in Grenada). So sorry I missed seeing you two. Keep up these great and fun videos!
It’s a small world when it comes to the sailing community. We actually offered the girls a ride back to your boat. We also had to move a few hours later by the way. In fact when we were moving to Orient we had to rescue a father and son whose jetski broke down and they were drifting out of the area. We towed them on their jet ski from out boat. That was kind of fun. Glad you guys made it to Grenada. We’re a half a day out from New York City and will spend this summer up in New England. Tell your daughter we said Hi!
