Expedition Tranquilo

Our latest video, second part of our NZ adventure trilogy, is just up - check it out clicking the link below!

NZ Adventure Wonderland II: Into the High Mountains Second episode of our NZ adventure trilogy, it's New Years Day and we're off to the mountain highlands of New Zealand, Mt Aspiring National Park, climbing up...

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NZ Adventure Wonderland 1: Aoraki-Mt Cook + Queenstown Rafting, Canyoning, Glaciers & Fjords With our yachting adventures over for now, we shift across to land based adventures that we'd been looking forward to do for years! That's why we've rebrande...

Our latest video, our highlights, the challenges we faced, and our learnings, is now up on Youtube!

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Sailing the World: Highlights, Challenges, Learnings Sailing the World, we look at the highlights, the challenges and our learnings over our 22,000 nautical miles, two oceans, seven seas, three hurricanes and u...

Bula! Welcome to Fiji!

Yes it is marvellous, with waters like these, serene islands, incredible wildlife and underwater caves.

Just one tiny challenge: the waters are poorly chartered or not at all! There was at least one time that we were heading straight for a reef and tacked at the last moment. Another yacht was coming into one of the island anchorages at night, and did not realise that the chart's suggested path was straight over coral, ripping a hole in their hull and having to be towed back to the main island for lengthy repairs. So no sailing at night, and back to old-school navigation relying on eyes up front!

Enjoy, Fiji is worth it! (Just ask Dave Lister).

The spectacular archipelago of Tonga, a gem in the Pacific with its beautiful small islands and beaches, with coves all to ourselves - yes that's Tranquilo, in the middle of the anchorage, not another boat in sight!

     

Take your time, relax, take it all in.

One of the main things we've learnt in all our travels it's that we enjoy slowing down and spending more time in fewer locations, way better than rushing around trying to see everything...

     

Our final sailing video is now up!

FINAL DAYS SAILING: Sydney Bound! | Tranquilo Sailing Around the World | Ep. 108 Well this is it, our final days sailing the waters of the world, as we head into Sydney! And Sydney Harbour is as busy and as wonderful as we expected, with ...

Our latest pre-screening video is now up for our Patrons, check it out!

Pre-Screening for Patrons: Our Yacht Saved by Dolphins! | Ep. 107 | Patreon Get more from Sailing Tranquilo on Patreon

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Sailing FIJI's Beautiful Dangerous Waters | Tranquilo Sailing Around the World | Ep. 103 We're sailing out to the poorly-charted waters of north-west Fiji, the Yasawa Islands group, waters strewn with coral reefs, shallows and narrow passes. But ...

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DANCING WITH WHALES (in Tonga) | Tranquilo Sailing Around the World | Ep.101 An encounter of a lifetime, swimming with whales in Tonga! And not just any whales, a mother humpback and her calf and a humpback couple! Seriously one of th...

Our 100th episode is now up, Tonga Temptations!

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Tonga Temptations | Sailing Tranquilo Around the World | Ep. 100 We always wondered why Tonga was considered one of the finest sailing destinations in the South Pacific - and now we find out why and it all makes sense: an ...

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How to Reef Sails Single-Handed | Sailing Tranquilo Around the World In our latest How To sailing video, El looks at how to reef sails single-handed, a useful skill when you're alone on night watch.One key element of reefing i...