Escape to the South Pacific Trade Winds! We take off our winter clothes, toss in a fishing line, but are still challenged by big waves and spinnaker snafu's as we sail across the Pacific Ocean to the least visitited Islands of French Polynesia!

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So who is this crazy sailing couple making fun videos to share? Well, we are Kate and Curtis. Before we were cruising sailors we were both regatta winning racing sailors. We both sold up and headed out to sea, with the goal of sailing around the world via Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope. We brought our mixed rescue dog along with us as she loves sailing and swimming too!

Our boat is a year 2000 J Boats J/46. We searched for 3 years for our perfect sailboat for sale, when we found it, we knew it was the one. She is a fast monohull performance cruising sailboat. We spent 6 months re-fitting it in Rhode Island and then went for our shakedown voyage in Maine. We stopped in Annapolis for a bit to do some more refit work and offshore modifications, then we set off to the open sea. We went to the Bahamas, Miami, US Virgin Islands, BVI, Grenada, Carriacou, St. Maarten, where we enjoyed outdoor adventures, scuba diving, and have now did an Atlantic Crossing to the Azores where we had a chance to fly our DJI drone (and learned how to fly a drone from a boat) and one of our favorite past times, mountain biking.

Now, we have two transatlantic passages under our belt, have sailed the coast of South America, rounded Cape Horn, transited the Patagonia fjords and Straight of Magellan, and are sailing across the Pacific Ocean as we work towards our goal of sailing around the world. We have sailed almost 20,000 bluewater miles to date.

We watched other sailing channels before we left as well. We even considered van life, a tiny home, or a motorhome / rv. Some of the channels we enjoyed were Gone with the Wynns, Project Atticus, Sailing La Vagabonde, and MJ Sailing. We didn't really set out to be influencers, but we wanted to return the good karma and pass our inspiration and knowledge along so we starting making YouTube sailing videos.

Come sailing virtually with us and join in on the adventure, we hope you enjoy our relaxing & satisfying video on #sailingsunday!

XO XO Kate, Curtis & Roxy the Sailing Dog