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You're never too old to get your ass kicked (literally) learning a new sport, and wingfoiling was it for me. I turned 53 this year and am now totally addicted to the foil. Here's a quick reel of my journey. Thanks Olivier at @covewater_paddle_surf for awesome gear. Love my @foneamerica @starboardwindsurfing @jimmylewisboards and @duotone.foilwing kit. #sailing #sailinglife #womanwingfoil #wingfoil #greenisland #frigateisland #unionisland #performancecatamarans #shorts
Learning to wingfoil; never too old to get your ass kicked.
We left the BVIs heading to Saba, St Kitts, and Nevis with a great overnight sail. We did some awesome diving and touring, and then met up with a great group of Cruisers in Nevis -- which actually included two other Balance Catamarans (Umoya and Catalyst/482). After some great time on the water, we crossed over to Antigua, which we loved last season. During our stay at Green Island, a foil mishap had some more Balance owners (Alani) stitching Frank's foot. What a great community! Subscribe! Get notifications of new YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingLitt... Updates on Social: https://www.instagram.com/svlittlebird/ https://www.facebook.com/svlittlebird Little Bird is named in honor of Cecilia Rose. If you enjoy this video, please consider making a tax deductible donation to a great cause at: https://mpssociety.org/give/ We're Tif and Frank. In a significant act of vanity, we're making YouTube video of our sailing exploits. In 2021, we sailed our Balance 526 Catamaran from Cape Saint Francis, South Africa to the island of Grenada in the Caribbean on a 30 day passage. Since then, we've been sailing up the islands exploring beautiful anchorages and meeting great people. Over the next few years, we'll be sailing through the Bahamas, San Blas, Panama, and across the Pacific. With any luck, eventually we'll sail around the world. We're from Santa Cruz, California and grew up in and around the water. This is our third catamaran (we also had a Seawind 1000 and Catana 431) and eight boat (fishing boats, monohulls... boats tend to take over sometime!). We love fishing, stand-up paddle boarding, surfing and Tif has a yoga and workout addiction. It has been fun to learn to wingfoil, perfect our snorkeling skills, and watch others kitesurf (maybe someday we'll give it a try). #svlittlebird #nevis #saintkittsandnevis #saba #balance526 #balance482 #balance442 #starlink #starlinkonboats #balancecatamarans #nexusyachts #sailing #travel #boatlife #sailinglife #catamaran
Stitches + Balance Catamaran trifecta 442, 482 & 526
Return to the Dominican Republic for a post-Christmas bash through the Mona Passage to Puerto Rico... then on to the Spanish Virgins and an end to the Thorny Path. We still had a couple rough passages getting to the U.S. Virgin Islands, which were a surprise. Then, the full tourist circuit through the BVIs, from Jost to the Bitter End. On the way, we discovered pizza boats and strange objects in the sky. Subscribe! Get notifications of new YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingLittleBird?sub_confirmation=1 Updates on Social: https://www.instagram.com/svlittlebird/ https://www.facebook.com/svlittlebird Little Bird is named in honor of Cecilia Rose. If you enjoy this video, please consider making a tax deductible donation to a great cause at: https://mpssociety.org/give/ We're Tif and Frank. In a significant act of vanity, we're making YouTube video of our sailing exploits. In 2021, we sailed our Balance 526 Catamaran from Cape Saint Francis, South Africa to the island of Grenada in the Caribbean on a 30 day passage. Since then, we've been sailing up the islands exploring beautiful anchorages and meeting great people. Over the next few years, we'll be sailing through the Bahamas, San Blas, Panama, and across the Pacific. With any luck, eventually we'll sail around the world. We're from Santa Cruz, California and grew up in and around the water. This is our third catamaran (we also had a Seawind 1000 and Catana 431) and eight boat (fishing boats, monohulls... boats tend to take over sometime!). We love fishing, stand-up paddle boarding, surfing and Tif has a yoga and workout addiction. It has been fun to learn to wingfoil, perfect our snorkeling skills, and watch others kitesurf (maybe someday we'll give it a try). #svlittlebird #USVI #BVI #thornypath #thornlesspath #SpanishVirginIslands #dominicanrepublic #balance526 #starlink #starlinkonboats #balancecatamarans #nexusyachts #sailing #travel #boatlife #sailinglife #catamaran
UFO and the Virgins
After dropping our friends off in the Exumas, we explore the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, and the Dominican Republic. The only thing is... it's all to windward. We continue our bashing between islands along the Thorny Path. Of course we're armed with Van Sant's "Thornless Path" book, but really found it to be a bit out of date. Little Bird makes quicker passages, and I'm not so sure how many resources NOAA has for their marine forecasts anymore -- it seems PredictWind and Windy (and a bit of Chris Parker newsletters) did a little better job for us. Also, most people we know will put up with the occasional motor-sail to windward to shorten a passage here and there. I guess we're not "pure" sailors! But we're having plenty of fun anyway. Subscribe! Get notifications of new YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingLittleBird?sub_confirmation=1 Updates on Social: https://www.instagram.com/svlittlebird/ https://www.facebook.com/svlittlebird Little Bird is named in honor of Cecilia Rose. If you enjoy this video, please consider making a tax deductible donation to a great cause at: https://mpssociety.org/give/ We're Tif and Frank. In a significant act of vanity, we're making YouTube video of our sailing exploits. In 2021, we sailed our Balance 526 Catamaran from Cape Saint Francis, South Africa to the island of Grenada in the Caribbean on a 30 day passage. Since then, we've been sailing up the islands exploring beautiful anchorages and meeting great people. Over the next few years, we'll be sailing through the Bahamas, San Blas, Panama, and across the Pacific. With any luck, eventually we'll sail around the world. We're from Santa Cruz, California and grew up in and around the water. This is our third catamaran (we also had a Seawind 1000 and Catana 431) and eight boat (fishing boats, monohulls... boats tend to take over sometime!). We love fishing, stand-up paddle boarding, surfing and Tif has a yoga and workout addiction. It has been fun to learn to wingfoil, perfect our snorkeling skills, and watch others kitesurf (maybe someday we'll give it a try). #svlittlebird #bahamas #exumas #thornypath #thornlesspath #turksandcaicos #dominicanrepublic #balance526 #starlink #starlinkonboats #balancecatamarans #nexusyachts #sailing #travel #boatlife #sailinglife #catamaran
Thorny or Thornless? Gentlemen sometimes sail to weather
Season 2 on Little Bird starts in Florida as we make our way down through the Exumas towards Long Island. Our pup, Yogi the Waterdog hasn't been much for the water, but seems to be taking to the warmer Bahama waters. Dale and Suzie join for the trip, and we do roadtrips in Georgetown and Long Island. We also go through the boat's new Starlink installation -- a goofy temporary setup, but it worked. Subscribe! Get notifications of new YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingLittleBird?sub_confirmation=1 Updates on Social: https://www.instagram.com/svlittlebird/ https://www.facebook.com/svlittlebird Little Bird is named in honor of Cecilia Rose. If you enjoy this video, please consider making a tax deductible donation to a great cause at: https://mpssociety.org/give/ We're Tif and Frank. In a significant act of vanity, we're making YouTube video of our sailing exploits. In 2021, we sailed our Balance 526 Catamaran from Cape Saint Francis, South Africa to the island of Grenada in the Caribbean on a 30 day passage. Since then, we've been sailing up the islands exploring beautiful anchorages and meeting great people. Over the next few years, we'll be sailing through the Bahamas, San Blas, Panama, and across the Pacific. With any luck, eventually we'll sail around the world. We're from Santa Cruz, California and grew up in and around the water. This is our third catamaran (we also had a Seawind 1000 and Catana 431) and eight boat (fishing boats, monohulls... boats tend to take over sometime!). We love fishing, stand-up paddle boarding, surfing and Tif has a yoga and workout addiction. It has been fun to learn to wingfoil, perfect our snorkeling skills, and watch others kitesurf (maybe someday we'll give it a try). #svlittlebird #bahamas #exumas #balance526 #starlink #starlinkonboats #balancecatamarans #nexusyachts #sailing #travel #boatlife #sailinglife #catamaran
Season 2! The Exumas with Yogi, the Portuguese Water Dog
Finally got some time to finish the last episode of season one on Little Bird. We complete our 1600 mile sailing passage on our Balance 526 catamaran going from Egg Island on Eleuthera, through the Abacos, and up to St Augustine Florida (thankfully, all was fine for us in Hurricane Ian). Our friends Meg and Pete were still with us for the passage. After making it to Florida, it was hurricane prep, sails off, and up on-the-hard until after Halloween. We'll be back on board in November. Subscribe! Get notifications of new YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingLittleBird?sub_confirmation=1 Updates on Social: https://www.instagram.com/svlittlebird/ https://www.facebook.com/svlittlebird Little Bird is named in honor of Cecilia Rose. If you enjoy this video, please consider making a tax deductible donation to a great cause at: https://mpssociety.org/give/ We're Tif and Frank. In a significant act of vanity, we're making YouTube video of our sailing exploits. In 2021, we sailed our Balance 526 Catamaran from Cape Saint Francis, South Africa to the island of Grenada in the Caribbean on a 30 day passage. Since then, we've been sailing up the islands exploring beautiful anchorages and meeting great people. Over the next few years, we'll be sailing through the Bahamas, San Blas, Panama, and across the Pacific. With any luck, eventually we'll sail around the world. We're from Santa Cruz, California and grew up in and around the water. This is our third catamaran (we also had a Seawind 1000 and Catana 431) and eight boat (fishing boats, monohulls... boats tend to take over sometime!). We love fishing, stand-up paddle boarding, surfing and Tif has a yoga and workout addiction. It has been fun to learn to wingfoil, perfect our snorkeling skills, and watch others kitesurf (maybe someday we'll give it a try). #svlittlebird #eleuthera #bahamas #exumas #balance526 #balancecatamarans #nexusyachts #sailing #travel #boatlife #sailinglife #catamaran
Eleuthera to Florida: End of the 1600 mile voyage and Season 1 on Little Bird
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We are Frank and Tiffany from Santa Cruz, California. Over the last 20 years, we have enjoyed owning and sailing both monohulls and catamarans. Our experiences have mostly been in California and Mexico but in 2019 we decided to take our sailing adventures up a notch and purchased a new Balance 526 Catamaran. Little Bird was completed in 2021 and launched in St. Francis Bay, South Africa. We immediately set sail, making our way from Cape Town to Grenada.  Now we are exploring the Caribbean. The beauty of the people and places thus far has exceeded our expectations. Soon we will head south toward the Panama Canal and the Pacific!

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Cruisers Beach in Bahamas
The team at Nexus Yachts
Adventures in the BVIs
Beautiful anchorage with our Balance 526
Saba Island was enchanting
Boat jobs during our crossing
Launch of Little Bird
Little Bird and crew enjoying water sports
Frank and Tif in Bahamas
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