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 was two years ago in May. I was teaching an instructional passage, and we were in Bermuda waiting for weather to allow us to continue north to Newport. Of course, we knew that the America’s Cup was happening. Still, the absolute mind-boggling spectacle of seeing those boats…..doing that! As we entered the outer bay near Hamilton, there, right in front of us, was Oracle, sitting in the water, getting coached up by her chase boats. Now not more than 40-50 yards away, the crew trimmed in the wing sail. The boat lurched a little, started moving….then bam! Like the Starship Enterprise in the Star Trek movies, it popped up, onto its’ foils, and was off at nearly 40 knots. Warp speed Scotty!

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