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Living the Dream
19 September 2025 · 4 min · 3K views
What this video covers
A South Pacific island visit aboard the boat Bambola draws the focus of this personal cruising memoir.0:17 The anchorage held only one other blue-water cruising boat and a park ranger, making the stop effectively private.0:39 Wildlife — birds in particular — showed no fear of humans, a direct result of the island's near-total isolation from visitors.0:49 The crew included musicians, and evenings were spent playing together.2:04 Provisioning came from fishing.2:26 The narrator frames the stop as the defining experience of blue-water Pacific cruising: remote landfall, small company of strangers, self-sufficiency at sea.2:49 The closing segment promotes a library of sailing publications available at GentleSailing.com, including the Atlantic Crossing Guide, the French Canal Route to the Mediterranean (now in its 12th edition with updated charts), the Gentle Sailing Route to the Mediterranean covering the coast-hop to Gibraltar, and titles on Caribbean islands, simple navigation, Pacific crossing, and liveaboard life.3:53
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