Offshore passage making to bring our SAILING CATAMARAN home to Florida from the BVI | Ep 14 

We plan to make a video about that in the next few weeks so stay tuned! Hoping our experience is helpful for others! Thanks for watching!!

Love!!! Never thought the day would finally come to bring our catamaran home! It was a great day for sure!!

@@SailingParadiseFalls Happy Tears are the best tears. So glad you are sharing your adventures

Good to know! If we decide to do the Great Loop after our circumnavigation, we will def have to visit!

Great tip!

Thank you so much! Your positive words mean so much to us!

Thanks! we are on a bi-weekly schedule right now, but as soon as we get our upgrades completed and set out to clear waters, we will be moving to weekly publishing. Thanks for following along!

Thanks for the message! It was certainly baptism by fire! We are so excited to continue this amazing journey. Thanks for following along!

Thanks! I’m glad you appreciate my humor! It’s been fun!

Thank you!! We have an additional 500 miles since then as we went from Jax to Ft. Lauderdale and now in the Bahamas. Thank you for your comments!!

Thanks so much! It was such an incredible moment! Tears of joy after the stress of the past 3 weeks - well, hard work after 6 years! Thanks for watching!

Thanks so much for the advice! Excited to have you following our journey!

Thanks so much!

YES!!! I’m so looking forward to getting back out there! Thanks for your comment & watching!

Ha! If our issues are solved by never having bananas on a boat consider them banned! Will look it up! Thanks for the advice & watching!

Awww, thank! I needed to hear that! Boat projects have been especially depressing this week. Thanks so much for watching!

We are always learning! Living in a first world country, we have always bought ripe bananas and we always kept apples away from bananas due to them over ripening. There were no ripe bananas in the grocery in the BVI, so we bought the green ones. We never knew that they were so hard before they ripened up. Thanks for following our journey and the great tip!

Living the Dream! Thanks for following along!

Thanks so much! Thanks for watching!

Thanks so much! Thanks for watching!

Thank you! Thanks for watching!

Awww, thanks!

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We would have LOVED too but unfortunately, I (Shannon) was still working for the next 2 months and we had two kids graduating high school 2 weeks after closing. We will definitely return!!

Congrats on the upcoming purchase!! Our video next Sunday will be a wrap up of our experience with the purchase. We are going to be answering some questions that have been posed to us in the comments. If you have any specific questions, let us know. Thanks for following our journey!

@@SailingParadiseFalls I’ll keep my eye out for it. You gave me hope after sailing it back after the 50 hour training.

That makes my day! You’ll do great!

Thanks for the excitement!!!

@@SailingParadiseFalls well im your #2 fan!

Who's number 1? :) was great seeing ya'll yesterday on video!

@SailingParadiseFalls Your #1 fan is "ya mom & them."

Thanks for the tip! Rob’s specialty is bananas foster! His is even better than Brennans in New Orleans!

Good advice! I’ll see how I could rig that up for our queen size wall to wall bed.

Yes, the boat can handle a lot of stress. The issue was that with the wind direction, wind speed and waves coming from 2 directions. When the boat rolled to one side, there was not enough wind to keep the sail taut and it would flog then slam when the boat came back over and the wind filled it. This was happening over and over. We had minimal supplies onboard for and we did not want to chance a piece of the rigging breaking or chafing though lines. So we decided to err on the side of caution. It's going to be a learning process! Thanks for following our journey!!

Hi! Thanks for watching! Great questions! We plan on making a video about this soon. Yes, so far so good with the budget! Will see how long that lasts!😊

Outfitting her currently then leave the dock for our circumnavigation!

Yeah, It was the provision in the BVI. We think the weevils were in the packaging when we bought it as the other ones did not have them. We have a couple of Go Pros. a 5, 8 and 9. The 8 an 9 are a huge improvement from the 5. I vaguely remember the conversation but can't recall the actual discussion. Good to hear from you!

Thanks for the tip! None of us had just never seen bananas that took over 2 weeks to ripen! Thanks for watching!

Glad you enjoyed it. We were so excited to get her home! Thanks for following our journey!

I don’t think anyone would buy our merch. If we get more requests, I may give it a go.

No, the discharge is gravity induced. There are 3 tanks, 2 on Starboard and one on port. all of them are just under the main deck. The electric toilets macerate and pump the waste up to the top of the tanks. There is a valve under the tank that leads to a large thru-hull. When the tanks are full, you open the thru-hull and then open the valve and the tank empties. When sailing offshore, most let it wide open the entire time. Bill was able to dislodge a bit of stuff and we left it open until we were 3 miles from shore. With the waves rocking the boat, it shifted what ever was holding the waste in and emptied. Alternatively, we have deck fittings for pump out and use that while cocked or moored. The saga with the heads is only beginning though! More to come on that subject in future episodes. Thanks for the message and for following our journey!

@@SailingParadiseFalls .. Are there air vents on the tanks ? might be blocked causing a vacume in the tank not allowing the fluid to flow out.. I skippered luxury liveaboard dive boats in the EgyptsSinai Red Sea back in the mid 90s so i feel your pain. All the very best ....

@@SailingParadiseFalls By thru-hull you mean seacock?

Good to know! Never had issues to ripen faster as usually bananas seem to turn brown on the way home from the grocery store! Thanks for watching!

No, they were banana's. We finally were able to eat on on day 14 after purchasing them. Nothing like we have ever seen in Florida! Thanks for watching!

It's called fresh bananas. Not the shit we get in the US sitting on container ships for weeks, then back of store.

Yes it would! Thanks for watching!