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The Cruising Kiwis (TCK)
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We are a New Zealand, live-aboard, sailing family of five: Rob (62), Rachel (21-ish), Finn (24), Declan (22), Ivan (19) circumnavigating nomadically by sailboat learning from nature, new cultures and life experience. We hope to inspire others to explore different ways to live and educate while having a truckload of fun. Our sailing videos are almost at the fringe of the cutting edge of informative travel…— in their own words
11ports charted
911nm on the chart
30episodes
The vessel Catamaran
Logbook 30
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Boat Problems & Family Celebrations, The Boys Start New Life without us!
Trinidad Trinidad and Tobago
Boat Problems & Family Celebrations, The Boys Start New Life without us! Thank you very much for supporting our channel.
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Small Crack, Big Boat Job - An Insurance Dilemma
Trinidad Trinidad and Tobago
Small Crack, Big Boat Job - An Insurance Dilemma Welcome back to Trinidad, our catamaran and a new round of boat work. This week we're throwing ourselves into a big job to solve a small problem.
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It's Over - Escape to the Ocean
It's Over - Escape to the Ocean There's a lot going on this week on The Cruising Kiwis.
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Our Sons' Atlantic Adventure - Our Boatyard Reality
Trinidad Trinidad and Tobago
Our Sons' Atlantic Adventure - Our Boatyard Reality Welcome back to Trinidad. Last week, we watched, and learnt some of the skills involved in taking a crash damaged boat and building her back up, piece by piece.
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Fiberglass Repair | There’s a Hole in Our Boat
Trinidad Trinidad and Tobago
Fiberglass Repair | There’s a Hole in Our Boat We've been waiting for the hulls to dry out enough for the fibreglass repairs to begin. It's a little like watching paint dry.
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Repairs Start on Crash Damaged Catamaran
Trinidad Trinidad and Tobago
Repairs Starts on Crash Damaged Catamaran Our crash damaged catamaran has been hauled out of the water. Now we can get a much better look at what we are dealing with. The starboard bow took the main impact.
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Releasing Gallons of Trapped Sea Water from our Damaged Boat | Rough Sail to Trinidad to Haul Out
Trinidad Trinidad and Tobago
Releasing Gallons of Trapped Sea Water from our Crash Damaged Boat | Rough Sail to Trinidad to Haul Out After winding our way through the Windward Islands of the Caribbean, we've finally arrived in Grenada for the final schlep of…
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ROUGH seas BROKEN eggs DAMAGED boat
Bequia Grenadines, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
ROUGH seas BROKEN eggs DAMAGED boat There's no use crying over broken eggs while rough seas batter our damaged catamaran as we continue sailing south through the Caribbean Sea towards Trinidad.
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The ONLY CARIBBEAN ISLAND that still eats this!?
Bequia Grenadines, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
The ONLY CARIBBEAN ISLAND that still eats this!? We sailed our damaged catamaran to the beautiful Grenadine island of Bequia, where we're waiting for a weather to continue island hopping to Trinidad for boat work.
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Sailing Our Damaged Catamaran to Trinidad
Sailing Our Damaged Catamaran to Trinidad We're sailing our damaged catamaran south through the Caribbean, island hoping from Guadeloupe towards Trinidad, where we plan to haul out and repair the hull after our recent grounding.
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Have We Made a Huge Mistake?
Have We Made a Huge Mistake? Last week we wept as Declan and Ivan sailed off to Mexico to join a sailing cargo ship bound for the northern Atlantic and ultimately Hamburg.
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After 8 Years...It's Time to Say Goodbye
After 8 Years...It's Time to Say Goodbye And just like that...a chapter comes to a close.
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Our Family Sailing Adventure Wasn't Supposed to End Like This
Les Saintes Guadeloupe
Family Sailing Adventure Wasn't Supposed To End Like This After safely sailing our damaged catamaran south from Antigua to Guadeloupe, we make one final stop in the breathtaking archipelago of Les Saintes, home to one of the Cari…
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We CRASHED our SAILBOAT....NOW WHAT?
We CRASHED our SAILBOAT....NOW WHAT? What do you do after crashing your sailboat into rocks?
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Can We Repair our Sailboat After Crashing into Rocks?
Antigua Antigua and Barbuda
Can We Repair our Sailboat After Crashing into Rocks? Welcome back aboard, you join us this week in Antigua where we are assessing the damage to our sailboat, after accidentally crashing her into rocks at 6 knots.
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We hit ROCKS at six knots! Distracted by phone!!
Antigua Antigua and Barbuda
Captain Checked his Phone then We Crashed into Rocks What should have been a short, routine sail between two anchorages in Antigua turned into one of our most expensive mistakes.
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NEARLY KILLED OUR ENGINE! Sailing the Caribbean
Bouillante Guadeloupe
The Rookie Mistake That Nearly Cost Us an Engine Every sailor likes to think they're beyond rookie mistakes...until they make one.
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Everything Has Changed
Everything Has Changed For the first time in more than two months, our family is about to be reunited aboard our sailing catamaran Javelot.
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SAYING GOODBYE - Sailing the Caribbean
SAYING GOODBYE - Sailing the Caribbean Sooner or later, every voyage reaches it's destination, and this week is all about goodbyes.
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DRUG SEARCHED in Netherlands 'highest' kingdom
Saba Netherlands
DRUG SEARCHED in Netherlands 'highest' Kingdom This forgotten corner of the Caribbean is just five square miles making the Island of Saba one of the smallest special municipalities in the Dutch Caribbean.
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PIRATES in the Caribbean?
PIRATES in the Caribbean? Do you know who the real pirates of the Caribbean are? It's not people sailing around on boats. When we were sailing in Martinique, we bought three little copper washers.
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I Was Fine..Till I Wasn't!! Tough times Sailing the Caribbean
Saint Barts Saint Barthélemy
Till I Wasn't!! Tough times Sailing the Caribbean Welcome back aboard for another Caribbean sailing adventure.
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CREW CHANGE - A Caribbean sailing adventure
CREW CHANGE - A Caribbean sailing adventure Love your life. Take pictures of everything. Tell people you love them. Talk to random strangers. Do things you're scared to do. Take your life and make it the best story in the world.
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Our WORST EVER Day Passage! I Gear failure & Heart break
Our WORST Day Passage! I Gear failure & Heart break Three quarters of the way sailing around the world, and one of our toughest day passages happens in the Caribbean.
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Good & Bad News from 2 continents | Together, apart | Extraordinary dolphin moment!!!
Caribbean sailing life | Together, apart This week's episode takes us across oceans from the Caribbean Islands to England, as life on and off the boat unfolds in very different ways.
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SHE'S LEAVING
SHE'S LEAVING This week set sail we continue our sailing adventure, sailing north from Martinique to Dominica, but what began as a simple passage quickly became something very different and everything changed.
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The Cruising Kiwis (TCK) is live
BACK STORY In 1997, after rowing at the Atlanta Olympics, Rob rowed a tiny 7m (22 foot) plywood boat 2,500 miles from Tenerife (Canary Islands) to Barbados (Caribbean).
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A Day in The Life of Live-aboard Sailors
Music Credit: Ethan McNeal BACK STORY In 1997, after rowing at the Atlanta Olympics, Rob rowed a tiny 7m (22 foot) plywood boat 2,500 miles from Tenerife (Canary Islands) to Barbados (Caribbean).
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Into the clouds sailing the Caribbean
THE DEADLIEST VOLCANO YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF This week we continue exploring the beautiful island of Martinique, but beyond the beaches and rainforest lies a much darker history.
Ports on the chart 11
- Martinique
- Dominica
- Guadeloupe
- Sint Maarten
- SabaNetherlands
- BouillanteGuadeloupe
- AntiguaAntigua and Barbuda
- Les SaintesGuadeloupe
- PitonsSoufriere, Saint Lucia
- BequiaGrenadines, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- TrinidadTrinidad and Tobago
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