In this episode we make it to the entrance of the Panama Canal, sailing past crocodiles and container ships along the way, and then I get to work replacing one of Tally Ho's hybrid motors.
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2026-02-14 16:27:15 +0000 UTC View Post
The Panama Canal was an incredible experience - chaotic, exciting, and challenging!
We had a great crew on board, an excellent local canal advisor, and now - for the first time since 1968 - T...
2026-02-09 22:10:25 +0000 UTC View Post
We are scheduled to transit the Panama Canal on Sunday 8th Feb, in two days. You can watch us go through on the Panama Canal Live Webcams - link below. We will be going through the Miraflores Locks...
2026-02-06 21:52:53 +0000 UTC View Post
With our new belt installed, we get going - headed South with a good crew.
Between fixing things, we do occasionally have time to reflect on how lucky we really are.
2026-01-25 21:41:09 +0000 UTC View Post
If you saw our last video you will know that we currently have an issue with one of the electric motors in our hybrid system - which means we can't charge our main battery bank.
However, we ...
2026-01-21 17:40:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we show you how we actually physically operate Tally Ho’s Gaff Rig - from tensioning the Bobstay to hoisting the gaff topsail. We explain the jib traveller, the difference between...
2026-01-17 16:38:19 +0000 UTC View Post
...after hearing a worrying grinding sound coming from the engine room, I investigated and found that one of the electric motors in our hybrid system has failed - the pulley-wheel won't turn freely...
2026-01-14 20:32:40 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a while since I posted any updates, because It's been such an eventful week!
Here, Patrick and Marit are sweating the peak halyard at the beginning of a journey that did not go as p...
2026-01-13 19:12:52 +0000 UTC View Post
We saw these beautiful Blue-footed Boobies and Frigatebirds on Isla Isabel, back in Mexico. I still have a lot of amazing footage from this part of the trip, so I'm going to be putting together a v...
2026-01-06 20:53:58 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video, we transit from Mexico through Nicaragua, where we spend an unusual Christmas. We cross the notorious Papagayo winds, we have to work on the engine in the middle of the night, and we...
2026-01-03 16:32:50 +0000 UTC View Post
In Nicaragua (where we just arrived) and in Mexico, Christmas Eve (Nochebuena in Spanish) is more important than Christmas day itself.
The bureaucracy in this part of the world can sometimes...
2025-12-24 20:31:04 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video, I lay out what’s really going on aboard Tally Ho - it’s not all beautiful anchorages and cocktails on deck…
After a voyage from Acapulco to Huatulco, we talk about our ro...
2025-12-21 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Since Marine Traffic doesn't seem to be picking up our AIS at the moment (probably something to do with the shoreside infrastructure), here is our live location - we just left Mexico yesterday afte...
2025-12-21 13:27:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I want to shine the spotlight on a British boatbuilding business that means a lot to me; Butler & Co was my first real boatbuilding employment after my apprenticeship, and Ashley Butler a...
2025-12-20 17:16:08 +0000 UTC View Post
We actually had a great weather-window right after my last post, having waited for a few days in the anchorage. We experienced almost a flat calm the whole way across - we are so bored of motoring,...
2025-12-19 20:24:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Playa La India - Part of Huatulco National Park, on the Southern Pacific Mexican Coast. We've made a lot of progress to the South in the last couple of weeks and should be approaching the Mexico/Gu...
2025-12-17 18:54:45 +0000 UTC View Post
EPISODE 235
In this bonus video, Nic and Joe take over the camera and document their experience of visiting us on board Tally Ho - taking us behind the scenes of the regular videos and pickin...
2025-12-13 15:20:11 +0000 UTC View Post...a far cry from the Pacific North-West!
2025-12-11 20:14:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we take a detour from our journey to spend a couple of weeks exploring part of the amazing Sea of Cortez - “The World’s Aquarium”, as Jacques Cousteau called it.
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2025-12-06 16:09:45 +0000 UTC View Post
We've been doing a lot more of these recently - obviously this drill was in favourable conditions, but even then it was shocking how quickly one can lose sight of a big white buoy. I've also been u...
2025-12-04 20:50:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Many of you will be familiar with the Underfall Yard in Bristol - a small but active boatyard that is a really important part of our historic waterfront. I started my apprenticeship here in 2010, h...
2025-12-02 17:32:14 +0000 UTC View Post
The Baggywrinkles in the last post are of course for reducing chafe on the mainsail - they are made from "small stuff" (short bits of old rope) tied onto a longer line that is then wrapped around t...
2025-12-01 20:27:35 +0000 UTC View Post
We've had another friend visit us in the Sea of Cortez - it's the wonderful Nic, of Argonaut II fame!
Nic and Joe have been making "Baggywrinkles". Do you know what these bizarre-looking thi...
2025-11-29 19:17:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Marit's friend and bandmate Mae also joined us for the Sea of Cortez leg of our trip, so we've been enjoying a lot of amazing live fiddle-music on deck!
...unfortunately I haven't been pract...
2025-11-27 19:52:51 +0000 UTC View Post