Welcome to Sailing Black Pearl, a Vlog about our crazy lives! We are starting this channel to share our experiences as professional adventurers, scuba divers, backpackers, boaters, and life hackers. We have a lot of catching up to do, but here is what is on our agenda: Backpacking - A Simple How To Backpacking - Our Survival Guide Backpacking in Mexico Backpacking in Guatemala Semana Santa in Antigua - Purple Robes for Days Hiking an Active Volcano - Acatenango Utilla - A Backpacker's Paradise Backpacking in Nicaragua A Side Note on Passports Backpacking as a Couple The Truth About Hostels How To Live Abroad - How They Do It How Much Does It Cost To Travel? Scuba Diving - How to Get Started Don't Be One of 'those' Divers What Is Cave Diving, Really? Zero to Hero and Diving Dive Instructor - Good, Bad, and Ugly Which Dive Certification Should I Get? Working in a Scuba Shop - 'Volunteering' Flipping Boats - Is There Money In It? Flipping Boats - Lessons Learned and How To Recover Flipping a 36' 1976 Trojan How to Fix a Soft Fiberglass Deck - The Easy Way Flipping Boats - When to Pass Skydiving For My First Time... ALONE! Tandem Skydiving Cave Diving Caving Canyoneering Jet Skiing Our Seadoo Sparks, an Honest Review - 3 Years Later How To Fix a Seadoo Spark Hull Storing a Seadoo Spark Outside We also have some other big announcements coming up, so stay tuned! Comment below if you have any specific requests, questions, or want to tell us which topic to cover next. Thank you for stopping by :) Sand, Sun, and Rum. Amanda and John

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"It paid off" Congratulations to Pewaukee's own, Red Tornehl and Grayson Bruss on their race win at the X Boat Inland Championship. Commentary by Molly Burns. Find the regatta media here, updated throughout the event: bit.ly/2018XInlandMedia

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Toni and I will be at the 2025 Annapolis Fall Sailboat Show on Thursday and Friday, October 9-10. If you see us, say Hi. 2025 has been a year of change for our Seawind 1260, “Moments in Time”. After sailing her as delivered for a season, we had a list of improvements that we wanted to get check off the list. This is one of the last ones. We originally swore we would never close in the cockpit as that was one of our favorite features. We spend more time relaxing in the cockpit than our saloon. But certain beautiful anchorages along Chesapeake’s eastern shore are forbidden certain times of the year due to vicious swarms of bugs. Screening in the cockpit now opens these anchorages back up. The visibility looking out from the cockpit is excellent so we can still enjoy our views but the visibility from the outside looking in is muted, providing some privacy. We can the screens up while sailing, or remove them for storage. We also had blackouts made for the saloon windows in the same pattern as the “Screens Saloon Shade Clip On” 1260 option which only blocked 40 percent of the sunshine. 40 percent is not enough when at a marina or trying to run the air conditioner on hot sunny days. The saloon glass can get so hot you can barely touch it and would radiate the heat. These new shades block 95 percent of the heat, allows light in, provides privacy, and the beige color really knocks down the inside temperatures. Downside is that they must be removed while underway. And since they had the sewing machine and material out, we had some winch covers made as well. Another checkmark closer to releasing the lines. Subscribe and share in the adventure! Become part of the conversation by liking https://www.facebook.com/SV.MomentsInTime/ Feel free to comment and let us know your thoughts.

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Steve and Angela host me back east to check out the aircraft and farm. Great visit with Great people ☝🏼

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The Thistle is a great boat, should it be your next one design racing sail boat?

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Chris Lewis on on the weather conditions the supermaxi is experiencing in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is going filmed on December 27 2023

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