Sailing Pickle Family

Live update!

We made it to Crete! Big sail today from Rhodes and we made it by dark Woowoo 🙌 hope your all well! Have a great evening, ours will be beautiful, peaceful and quiet! 😍

Episode 169 - Finally at anchor for some skinny dipping before our lift out!

It's so good to be at anchor, even if it is in the industrial part of Crotone, Italy! Free and wild for a couple of nights before we're lifted out onto the hard in a dusty Italian boat yard to redo...

Beaus Birthday 🎈

We run our episodes a few mths behind realtime! But it was actually Beaus birthday this week in real time! And thanks to one of you lovely Patrons (huge thank you Angus ❤️) we have had some rea...

Episode 168 - First Sail of the Season After Gearbox Rebuild!

After weeks with a broken gearbox and waiting on parts we are finally all fixed and back out here sailing! It feels wonderful to have the sea breeze through our hair again and water running under P...

Episode 167 - New Gearbox on our Catamaran, but we’re SINKING!

This weeks been dramatic and frustrating!! With leaky through hulls which could sink us to gearbox and clutch rebuilds, we really have had a hard few weeks! But this episode you see us fix our gear...

We made it back to Greece!

We are extremely happy to have finally check out of Turkey (which was an absolute nightmare) and are checked back into Greece! The waters are clear and beautiful, the weathers still warm and lovely...

Another Crazy Fun Day for the Pickles!

As you all know our episodes run behind real time, but I thought as your our patrons you might like to see what we’ve actually been up to this week! So here we are on our very, very fun day out i...

Episode 166 - HOUR SPECIAL! Boatlife - 1st Sail, Engine failure and a family of Half Naked Flashers!

Hour special for you this week guys! Lots of raw honest footage of what real boat life is actually like. We do a bit of regular boat maintenance then set off on our first sail this season, until di...

Episode 165 - Crazy Fun Adventures Across Europe Back to Our Beloved Sail Boat Pickle!

We are definitely late back to Pickle this year! after Nicky's on going medical disabilities and appointments and now Bears health concerns, with similar alignments we've had a lot to deal with bef...

Episode 164 - Adventures Off Our Sailing Boat & Medical Emergencies!

Time off from sailing is always nice, but we really do miss Pickle! While we visit everyone in the UK this year we have a fun Christmas, Bear gets up to his usual hilarious shenanigans, Nicky has t...

Episode 163 - Sailing Pickle Family Hit a Snow Storm on a Road Trip passing through the Alps!

Its time to pack up our beloved yacht Pickle and leave her snug and safe in our chosen winter Marina in Italy, while we take a very cool road trip back to the UK, encountering a crazy snowstorm in ...

Episode 162 - Ship Wreck on the Beautiful Italian Coast!

After a gnarly few days at sea we are relieved to make it to our winter marina! We have lots of winter boat jobs to do, so we can prepare Pickle for the winter months, and leave her safe and well i...

Little update

Thank you Angus for the reminder! Here’s a little update regarding my crappy septic bursitis (elbow) hope you can hear it as we are doing some big windy sailing today!

Episode 161 - WARNING! Extremely noisy and Stormy Sailing Aboard Pickle Albania to Italy!

Last Sail of the Season and wow what a sail it is! Be warned this episode is a very noisy and stormy sail over a few days! We head back to Pickle at Orikum, after our very fun road trip exploring s...

Patreon Only Extra Ep 160 +

Here’s an uncut version of all our fun and silliness! Hope you guys can laugh along at all our antics and genuine behind the scenes stuff YouTube would never see 😜 The kids are hilarious and o...

Update

Just a quick note to let you know there will be a Patron Only episode out this Friday 👍 Keep your eyes peeled, and hope you enjoy! 😘

Episode 160 - Sailing Pickle family visit the 50 meter deep Blue Eye in Albania!

What an amazing country! It has it all, stunning scenery, beautiful natural wonders, protected national parks and untouched rivers, crazy well preserved Roman ruins, fantastic friendly and kind peo...

Poorly Sailor

It’s tough when you get sick living on a sailboat! Especially when your somewhere very remote and have to beat into the wind and swell for hours and hours to reach a town and find a hospital befo...

Episode 159 - Sail to Orikum and Roadtrip across Albania!

What a very cool start to our week, we sail nicely into Orikum Marina, sort out all the essential paperwork and hire ourselves a car to go off exploring across Albania. Thankfully we got some very ...

Fun on the beach!

We found our own little piece of tranquility today, after a short sail we anchored off this deserted island and had fun splashing around in the sea in these cute little beaches for the afternoon #p...

Salty Sea Dog 😍

Buddy just hops onto my bed now! Cheeky devil 😅 and it’s no mean feat either! So this is what I get at cuddle time, cute puppy faces and wet nose prints all over my sheets 🤣😍

Episode 158 - Sailing Life - Kicked Out of an Abandoned Military Base in Albania!

We have a very cool isolated anchorage off Sazan Island which is part of a National Park in Albania. We try and explore the island and some of the military abandon buildings, but are soon caught in...

Wakeboarding!

Little glimpse of Bears first attempt at wakeboarding today! It was a lot harder than we thought! But loads of fun!

Payment issues!

A patron and also Patreon has now contacted me to let me know there is some ongoing problems with taking your regular subscription payments. I have screen recorded the message Patreon have sent me,...

Episode 157 - Stern Anchor Shenanigans in Albania!

Sail, sail, sail and sail some more! We have found that the North West coast of Albania is exceptionally shallow, with some rather tricky anchorages which have unmarked fisheries everywhere and dep...

Bears 10th Birthday!

I know it’s weird as we run so far behind on YouTube but here’s a cool pic from Bears 10th birthday celebrations yesterday! So glad to share it with you guys! We had an amazing meal with freshl...

Best boat kids ever! ❤️ love these two gorgeous loonies! ❤️

Episode 156 - Sailing in Albania, fighting fishing nets and running from a storm, No shelter!

So sorry for the late one this week we've had a crazy few days!! But here we go........ Where to start for this weeks episode?!? After last weeks episode and all the drama leaving Montenegro and sa...

Episode 155 - Major Run in with the Corrupt Police as we Leave Montenegro and Sail to Albania!

After our fantastic stay in Montenegro it was slightly ruined by our last day! Come and join us this week as we have some long sails, do the checking out process in Bar, Montenegro and then experie...

Episode 154 - We find Human Remains on Beau's 14th Birthday, while Sailing in Montenegro!

It is a CRAZY week!!! We leave Budva and very dubiously sail through a tiny gap in the sand bar to reach Sveti Nikola Island and anchor in complete Paradise to celebrate Beau's 14th birthday! We ha...