Today we’re sailing 90nm east to Rio Chagres, a tropical river meandering through pristine jungle. The weather is not in our favor and the entrance to Rio Chagres is shallow and flanked by reef on both sides. We’ve been warned not to enter unless the conditions are ideal and with daylight.

Diving in remote, cold, shark infested waters with extreme currents. Why would we do such a thing?

There’s no denying visiting the Galapagos is the experience of a lifetime. Sailors crossing the Pacific from Panama to Marquesas are faced with the decision to stop at the Galapagos on the way, bypass it or fly there as a separate trip apart from cruising. This week we’re chatting with our friend Dale to give you the perspective of someone who sailed to the Galapagos with his wife Katrina, compared with our experience of flying there.

Is it still possible to find wildlife in its purest form without humankind’s interference? We wanted to find out. So we headed to the Galapagos, the inspiration for Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. Upon arrival we learned 70% of the indigenous plant species have been killed, and many animals endangered. We began to wonder if the Galapagos would be the pristine wilderness of our imagination or if we were too late.

Sailing is our means of transportation and the boat our platform from which to explore. We are now travelers, not tourists. Witnesses to different cultures, ways of living, eating, working and playing. Attempting to understand what makes the world tick and tock but also trying to gain a deeper comprehension of ourselves and identify what will satisfy that hunger for further exploration.

We said goodbye to the Abacos and sailed south for some Eleutheran adventures! Watch now to join us as we explore the incredible natural wonders on this beautiful island.

We have been asked a certain question many, many times over the course of the past fourteen months living aboard out Seawind 1600 catamaran about the realities of boat life. Do you ever want to get off the boat?

This week we’re casting the lines from Liberty Marina and the Sail Away Catamaran fam to begin our journey south to Florida. But before departing we visited the Annapolis Maritime Museum to learn more about the history of the Chesapeake Bay and its role as the lifeblood of the ecosystem where Annapolis has developed.

This week we’re sailing our Seawind 1600 catamaran from Mt. Desert Island to Matinicus, Maine's most remote island. 22 miles from Rockland, in the outer reaches of Penobscot Bay. A remote place steeped in tradition with many of the same families living there for generations.

For the past few weeks we've been sailing Maine and this week we’re enjoying boat life at its best on Mount Desert Island in protected Northeast Harbor. The quintessential Maine experience.

We have settled into sailing life in Maine on our Seawind 1600 catamaran and learned that you must live by nature’s rules out here. The tides and wind dictate everything. We are in awe of it all.

With Hurricane Henri barreling up the east coast we decided not to take any chances, nixed our plans to explore Casco Bay, and beelined it north, sailing our Seawind 1600 catamaran first to Tenants Harbor, then to a protected mooring in Vinalhaven.

We’ve been dreaming of sailing in Maine for twenty years and it is finally becoming a reality. This week we’re sailing our #Seawind1600 catamaran from Gloucester, Massachusetts to the entrance of the Saco River in Maine. And what a sail it was, the most epic sail we’ve had to date going wing on wing downwind with the spinnaker and main!

This week we’re sailing our Seawind 1600 catamaran 40 NM from Provincetown to Gloucester through the waters of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, the summer home to 3 major whale species, Humpback, Fin and Minke. We’re keeping our eyes peeled and our fingers crossed for a whale sighting.

This week we’re leaving Newport, destination Maine coast. Our autopilot isn’t working so we’re sailing our catamaran old school the entire way. First stop Hadley Harbor at the beginning of Cape Cod. Then on to Provincetown via the Cape Cod canal, where we explore this gem of a town and have our first encounter with gray seals, a favorite snack for the famed great white shark.

This week we continue exploring Nantucket Island, off the coast of Massachusetts, then sail our Seawind 1600 catamaran 60 nautical miles back to Rhode Island for some boat work in not the greatest of conditions. We visit Bartlett’s Farm, which has been on the island for over two hundred years, and grows boat loads of fruits and vegetables for the island’s residents. We loved chatting with Keegan about his family’s business.

We left the mooring in Jamestown planning to sail our Seawind 1600 catamaran 60 nautical miles to Nantucket. Little did we know Newport wasn’t quite ready to see us go. The fog blanketed the bay so densely we could barely see in front of the boat. So we turned around and gave it a go the next day.

Learning about the culture, the environment, and connecting with people to get a pulse on a place is what really lights our fire. Food is a huge part of culture, so we’ve been diving into all things shellfish in Rhode Island. We found it’s a topic rife with controversy on the commercial and recreational level, so we dug deeper to learn what quahogging is really like today.

This week we're back in Kristin's home state, where Fabio lived for almost 15 years and where we got engaged, Newport. And we're sharing our favorite things to do in this picturesque New England town.

Our time sailing in the Bahamas is coming to an end. We will have sailed just under 500 nautical miles in 19 days. The main purpose of the trip was a cruising test, not only for the vessel but for us. To discover if we are capable of harnessing the wind to travel to uninhabited islands, navigating to unknown destinations, understanding the weather and how to handle storms, making our own water, generating power mainly from the sun and living self-sufficiently.