Sailing the San Juan Islands
This week marks a significant milestone of 52 videos! That’s a whole year of weekly videos. It’s a yacht of work to complete a video each week and we’re proud of what we’ve done thus far. We feel we’ve grown as a channel in our filming equipment, editing skills, and storytelling. And to celebrate we’ve launched our new logo for A Yacht of Love:
And we’ve implemented two updates to our website: 1) a blog section where we will post blogs to accompany each weekly video, and 2) our shop where we have curated various bits of merchandise so people can support us off-screen and in real life.
Building a brand, refitting a sailboat, filming, editing, posting, and blogging each week is a lot of work. But we feel it is worth it to share our story. We’re choosing to live the life of our dreams and if we inspire just another single person to live their life in their own preferred way we can say we’ve made a difference. These videos and blogs show that living and working aboard can be done. And they will also be part of our legacy. We, our family and friends will be able to reflect on what we’ve accomplished and created in the years to come and always remember who we were and how we achieved what we did.
And while most of our time is spent aboard Yara doing projects or editing videos we also must sprinkle in some fun. Each year at the end of May for Memorial Day weekend we travel with friends to Bellingham, Washington from Portland, Oregon to help prepare their boat, Kehaulani, for the sailing season.
Kehaulani is a proven offshore bluewater cruiser that has sailed tens of thousands of miles over nearly 15 years leaving from Portland, across the Pacific, Indian, & Atlantic Oceans, and through the Panama Canal back up to the PNW where she completed her circumnavigation. We help with cleaning, bending on the sails (and subsequently stitching them back up when a sail snags on deck hardware), pressure washing, and any other projects the captain needs to be done. We usually have a day of boat work followed by a couple of days of sailing fun with friends.
Kehaulani is about 10 years younger than Yara and she’s been well maintained and shows well in near bristol condition. We enjoy the boat work we help with aboard Kehaulani because it’s usually simple cosmetic-type things that can be done in a day. Vastly different from the boat work aboard Yara! But one thing is for sure if it’s a boat it has work. No matter if the boat is in bristol condition or needs a refit if it floats it has projects. And over the last 52 weeks, we’ve pretty much proven that boat work doesn’t end. And for the next 52 weeks, we’ll continue that trend. It’s a yacht of work with A Yacht of Love and it's worth it.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/lxpHx79VadU
