Ten years after Don sold her, at 0200 on July 26, 2019 - Don's 89th birthday, Iolaire was underway in heavy weather. She was sailing dead downwind in the Spanish Balearic islands along the northeast coast of Ibiza. Reports state that an inadvertent jibe caused her to head inshore, pile up on the rocks, and sink ending her 114 year old career. In th…

A Video Series with Michael Briant A 6-part video series by Michael Briant Join British bluewater sailor and TV Director, Michael Briant as he sails to exotic destinations from the Caribbean to Asia aboard his 1980 Moody 36 center cockpit sloop, Bambola. ******************************************** Available with a SailFlix.com subscription. Buy or…

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CLICK TO WATCH FREE TRAILER This video takes on the challenge of simplifying celestial navigation. Buckley gives the viewer just enough concept but sticks primarily to the procedure, like a chef explaining the steps in a recipe. Buckley demonstrates the following steps: 1. Take a Sight of the sun with your sextant. 2. Get your Geographical Position…

CLICK TO PLAY TRAILER Lin Pardey resides on a picturesque island along New Zealand's coast. Recently, New Zealand TV filmed Lin as she reminisced about her sailing career with husband, Larry. Lin and Larry Pardey are among America's (and the world's) most knowledgeable and recognized cruising sailors. During their 40 plus year career, they sailed o…

CLICK TO PLAY A film by Claire Roberge and Guy Lavoie.A human adventure meeting the indigenous people of the North. Join Claire and Guy aboard their steel-hulled sailboat, BALTHAZAR as they sail 7000 nautical miles from Gaspé, Quebec Canada to Alaska's Bering Sea via Greenland and the legendary Northwest Passage. Purchase or rent the full 81-minute…

CLICK TO PLAY A Video Series with John Rousmaniere Based on his famous book and hosted by the author, this award-winning instructional DVD series is now available as a Digital Download. As the old salt says, "rocks don't move." Though made nearly 15 years ago, Rousmaniere's milestone series teaches basic sailing techniques handed down by generation…

CLICK TO PLAY A film by Rob & Dee Dubin U.S. - Canada lakes cruising with Gary Jobson as your host. Cruise from the Great Lakes to Utah including Canada's Georgian Bay, Lake Superior's Apostle Islands, Lake Michigan's Traverse Bay, and Utah's Lake Powell. From the Sailing Quarterly Video Magazine series. Your cruise starts in the North Channel of C…

CLICK TO PLAY A film by Rob & Dee Dubin Take four U.S.-Mexico West Coast cruising adventures: San Francisco Bay, the Sea of Cortez, the Channel Islands, and Ensenada, Mexico. Hosted by America's Cup Champ and sailing commentator, Gary Jobson. From the Sailing Quarterly Video Magazine series. Your voyage begins with a cruise of San Francisco Bay fro…

CLICK TO PLAY Suliere: Cuba and the Ragged Islands https://vimeo.com/ondemand/cubaraggedislands A film by Paul Burgess In this 2.5 hour cruising guide series, Sail with Paul and Leslie Burgess aboard Suliere, their 50 foot ocean-going catamaran as they voyage to Cuba's Hemingway Marina, tour old Havana and the Cuban countryside, then sail on to the…

CLICK TO PLAY Jean-du-Sud in HD Trailer A film by Yves Gélinas NOW IN HD. 100 Minutes. Professionally scanned from a pristine 16mm print to 1920x1080 full HD. Rent / Buy at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/jeandusud Update for FREE if you previously purchased the SD version on Vimeo. TheSailingChannel is honored to offer what many consider to be the fine…

CLICK TO PLAY Boat Maintenance DIY with Gary Jobson A video by Rob Dubin with Gary Jobson. From the Sailing Quarterly Video Magazine library. Hosted by America's Cup Champion, this 76 minute how-to sailing video contains a wealth of expert information about boat maintenance for the do-it-yourselfer. Topics include: DIESEL ENGINE MAINTENANCE & TROUB…

CLICK TO PLAY Racing Tactics with Gary Jobson A video by Rob Dubin with Gary Jobson. From the Sailing Quarterly Video Magazine library. In this 59 minute how-to sailing video, America's Cup champion Gary Jobson covers the racing tactics and technical skills you and your crew need to improve the performance of your boat in both fleet and match races…

CLICK TO PLAY Around Santa Cruz Island A film by Marc Hersch. This 68 minute production is THE video cruising guide to southern California's Santa Cruz Island. Positioned in the middle of the Channel Islands National Park just 25 miles off the Santa Barbara coast, Santa Cruz Island is often referred to as "the Galapagos of North America". The Islan…

CLICK TO PLAY Sailvation: Charter Boat Hand-Over This 39 minute how-to video provides background on all technical aspects of a typical charter boat hand-over. The video is not designed to replace your live hand-over, but with the information it provides, you'll be better equipped to understand the hand-over process and ask more detailed questions a…

CLICK TO PLAY Sail Trim & Performance Sailing with Gary Jobson From the popular Sailing Quarterly Series, this 66 minute how-to sailing video, features America's Cup champion Gary Jobson covering all aspects of sail trim that will help you improve the performance of your boat whether you race or cruise. Gary takes you aboard a variety of sailboats …

CLICK TO PLAY Practicing Heaving to from the Pardey Offshore Sailing Series Larry Pardey talks about the importance of practicing heaving to before you set off across an ocean. Heaving to allows you to park your boat at sea in any weather so you and your crew can rest, eat, and make repairs. Practicing heaving to includes becoming familiar with set…

CLICK TO PLAY Voyage of Entr`acte: The Partnership Trailer for 103-minute cruising video. The Partnership is a story of love and friendship, discovery and improbability. Ellen and Ed Zacko met while playing in the orchestra of a Broadway musical and hatched a scheme to take a temporary brake from the hectic New York scene and explore the world toge…

CLICK TO PLAY Voyage of Entr`acte: The San Blas Islands and The Panama Canal - Trailer Trailer for 71-minute cruising video. A Film by Ellen & Ed Zacko. Join the crew of Entr'acte for a journey between two oceans. "The San Blas and Panama Canal" begins in Grenada and crosses the Caribbean Sea to the enchanting San Blas Islands. There Ellen and Ed Z…

CLICK TO PLAY Suliere - Cruising the Exhumas & Jumentos Trailer for 83-minute cruising video. Sail with Paul and Lesley aboard their 50 foot catamaran, "Suliere," as they cruise the Bahamas exploring the Exhumas and sparsely populated Jumentos cays. Available at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/exumasjumentos Streaming Rental $1.99 | Download-to-Own (mp4…

CLICK TO PLAY Don Street Antigua Race Week 1985 Preview From Don Street Antigua Race Week 1985. A one hour award-winning documentary by Charles Croft which lets you share the intense sailing action aboard Don Street's 80 year old, 44 foot, engineless yawl, "Iolaire" during Antigua Sailing Week, 1985, Iolarie's final appearance in one of the world's…

CLICK TO PLAY Don Street Sailors' Knots From Don Street Sailors' Knots. Filmed in Martinique aboard Iolaire, his 46 ft engineless wooden yawl, master sailor Don Street teaches you and your crew everything you need to know about sailors' knots and more in just 50 minutes. Don starts by covering 8 basic knots then adds more advanced knots like the ro…

CLICK TO PLAY Heaving To From Don Street's Streetwise Tips Vol.1 by Sailing Quarterly. In this clip, Legendary skipper and sailing author, Don Street shows you how to quickly "park your boat" at sea so you can rest and regroup in rough weather. In his full 56-minute how-to sailing video, Don covers: Heavy Weather Preparation and Sailing Tactics; Fo…

CLICK TO PLAY Preview of 91-minute classic sailing documentary. Beyond the West Horizon - A film by Eric and Susan Hiscock. In the late 1950's, very few "middle class" sailors had taken small sailing craft on long voyages. British Sailors, Eric and Susan Hiscock became pioneers in making long trans-oceanic passages in a small sailboat to what was t…

CLICK TO PLAY Preview of Part 1. Originally shot in 16 mm color, the film has been restored and converted to HD video. Completed in 1976, this is a two part sailing documentary by skipper and noted Hollywood cinematographer, Gene Evens (Roots, Jeremiah Johnson, Lady Sings the Blues, Batman and many more movie and television productions) and his wif…

CLICK TO PLAY Preview of Part 2 Originally shot in 16 mm color, the film has been restored and converted to HD video. Completed in 1976, this is a two part sailing documentary by skipper and noted Hollywood cinematographer, Gene Evens (Roots, Jeremiah Johnson, Lady Sings the Blues, Batman and many more movie and television productions) and his wife…

CLICK TO PLAY Preview of 2-hour documentary. Transatlantic with Street - A film by Gavin Shaw. A classic Atlantic ocean 5,000 mile trade wind passage shot in 1986 aboard noted sailor/author Don Street's 1905 engineless 44 foot yawl, Iolaire. Documents Iolair's ninth Atlantic crossing from Ireland with eleven ocean islands along the way. First landf…

CLICK TO PLAY Filmed for Saudi Airlines in Tenerife, Canary Islands. Wonderfully choreographed and executed. The Red Epic cameras with Cooke cinema lenses make for an incredible piece. Hats off to the video and sailboat crews. Watch more free curated sailing videos at https://www.thesailingchannel.tv/free-sailing-videos/ Sailing Documentaries from …

CLICK TO PLAY J Class - St. Barths Bucket 2013. Five magnificent and gigantic J Class sloops race in the St. Barths Bucket Regatta. Beautifully photographed by Onne van der Wal and edited by Halsey Fulton with on boat, boat-to-boat, crew comments, and aerials. Brought to you by TheSailingChannel.TV. Sailing Documentaries from $2.99. Brought to you …

CLICK TO PLAY Preview for 76-minute HD voyaging video. From the southern tip of Africa, northwestward across the Atlantic to the Caribbean island of Grenada, sail aboard the 50 foot catamaran, Suliere, on her maiden voyage. Find out what it's like to sail on one of the world's longest ocean passages. Your port of departure is St. Francis in South A…

CLICK TO PLAY Preview for 53-minute HD voyaging video. In 1978, photographer and writer Gene Anthony achieved a personal quest. His sea story takes us on an inspirational odyssey to Cape Horn Island at the southern tip of the Americas. We voyage by way of Gene's lifelong fascination with all things nautical and his highly successful career as a mar…

CLICK TO PLAY Preview for 52-minute how-to sailing video. U.S. Coast Guard certified skipper, Capt. Jack Klang, combines innovative classroom models with real world sailing situations to explain the skills and techniques required for singlehanders to dock with confidence in any wind or current, trim cruising sails for power and speed, and retrieve …

CLICK TO PLAY The Sail Vicarious series brings you over eight hours of how-to and cruising information in 7 Video Download volumes or 6 DVDs. Join Spencer and Kathleen as they locate the right cruising sailboat, undertake a major multi-year refit, outfit their craft for long-range cruising, gain experience during a cruise up and down the U.S. east …

CLICK TO PLAY. This mini-documentary by Mystic Seaport tells the story of the Rosenfeld Collection, one of the largest archives of maritime photographs in the United States containing nearly one million photos, documenting the period from 1881 to the present. Images are captured in a variety of formats, from glass plate negatives to color transpare…

CLICK TO PLAY Taleisin cuts through building seas as a squall approaches. Read Lin and Larry Pardey's article, Squall Line, in the September 2012 issue of Cruising World Magazine. Then check out their videos and books at www.thesailingchannel.tv/pardey. If you are going to be at the Annapolis Sailboat Show in October 2012, please stop by our booth …

CLICK TO PLAY This is the initial trailer for the Public Television documentary produced by Amy Flannery and TheSailingChannel about Matt Rutherford and his record setting, solo non-stop sailing odyssey around the Americas on a 27-foot sailboat in support of Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating (CRAB). For more information about the documentary, vi…

CLICK TO PLAY Sail with skipper/filmmaker/explorer, Dave Perdew, on Irish Rose as novice and experienced sailors join him on different legs as they cruise from Seattle, Washington to Juneau, Alaska along the famed Inside Passage. Irish Rose is a 40 foot Bob Perry Design 1979 cutter completely refurbished for adventure sailing in the high latitudes.…

CLICK TO PLAY Cost Control While You Cruise. What does it actually cost to cruise? How do you keep from blowing the budget you set? Join Lin and Larry Pardey as they share the financial lessons they have learned during 45 years of voyaging and from countless interviews with cruising sailors from dozens of different countries and walks of life. Base…

CLICK TO PLAY Now a Public Television Documentary, Red Dot on the Ocean: The Matt Rutherford Story airing on PTV stations across the U.S. Purchase the Download at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/reddotontheocean On April 21st, 2012, Matt Rutherford, 31, sailed into his homeport of Annapolis, Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay after completing a non-stop, 31…

CLICK TO PLAY RawFaith is a documentary about a man driven by a mission to build and sail a 100 foot handicapped accessible galleon to distant shores. Our own notions of personal priorities and obligations to others will be prompted by the experiences of the McKay family, RawFaith and its mission. Available on Vimeo on Demand https://vimeo.com/onde…

CLICK TO PLAY In this 5-part, 56 minute series, sailing writer, Contributing Editor to SAIL Magazine and charter skipper, Wally Moran tackles his first sail repair project using Sailrite's powerful yet easy to use Ultrafeed LSZ-1 sewing machine. In Part 5, Wally bends on the mainsail, reviews his repairs, and takes his boat out on the creek where h…

CLICK TO PLAY The BIG Sailboat Project is an 11-episode series (22-26 minutes each) that tracks the gritty effort of two gals as they pursue their dream of building and cruising a 43 foot steel sailboat. Located a 1000 miles from the coast in rural Alberta, Canada, the duo decide on steel as their building material, which they shape into a Bruce Ro…

CLICK TO PLAY 23 minute documentary. Voyage with Amy and Kenny aboard their 1984 Morgan 384 sloop as they explore Newfoundland's Southwest Coast. Sail past grand vistas of rock bound shores into stunning fjords. Visit remote outports frozen in time and learn the sad story of their slow decline. Meet the locals who tell of vanishing fisheries and a …

CLICK TO PLAY TheSailingChannel.TV presents Secret Caribbean, an extraordinary 1 hour, 44 minute documentary about exotic island destinations for cruising sailors hosted by famous French sailor and filmmaker, Antoine. The documentary is available in English, French, and Italian.. Sail with Antoine on his catamaran, Banana Split, from Guadeloupe’s o…

CLCIK TO PLAY TheSailingChannel.TV interview with Lin and Larry Pardey at the 2011 U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis, MD. This is the first time Lin and Larry have been on an U.S. East coast boat show tour since 2003. TheSailingChannel was delighted to a share its booth with the Pardeys at the U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis, MD. The line of friends,…

This video was inspired by the tragic story and images of Albatross chicks on Midway Island in the Pacific dying slow and agonizing deaths due to ingested plastics consumed in error by the seabirds. It was produced by Skeleton Sea, a group of surfers who have created a green art project that promotes clean oceans, respect for nature and human right…

CLICK TO PLAY TheSailingChannel.TV presents Cast Off for Mexico, the indispensable Video Guide for boaters entering and exiting Mexican waters. Available at Vimeo On Demand. Cast Off for Mexico is a must-see before you sail and while you're there. It includes everything you need to know about visiting Baja's northernmost Port of Entry, Ensenada. Pr…

CLICK TO PLAY Thesailingchannel.TV brings you Capt. Jack's Cruising Tips. In this tip, Capt. Jack demonstrates how to maintain a pocket between your mainsail and jib to balance the sails for best performance. A 58-minute video of 30 Cruising Tips by Capt. Jack is available at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/captjackcruisingtips as a Download-to-Own: $9.…

CLICK TO PLAY The Privateer Lynx heads off shore for a romp on the pacific and a sea trial with Mother Nature. TheSailingChannel.TV is proud to be named the exclusive distributor of video downloads and VOD rentals for the 51-minute HD documentary,"Tall Ships: The Privateer Lynx". This is the extraordinary story of a tall ship and the exciting lives…

CLICK TO PLAY Ice Blink is a film by Gregory Roscoe, Seaworthy Productions, Falmouth Maine. Life as a Canvas is a chapter from Ice Blink, a remarkable PBS documentary about a conventional family of five living a very unconventional life afloat. In this clip, Jaja and Dave Martin discuss why they chose a cruising lifestyle for their family over a co…