Our Favorite Sailing Video (Cruising vs Racing) - Copa Mitsubishi - Circuito Ilhabela [Ep. 82]

Can you race a cruising sailboat set up to sail around the world? Would you race your tiny home? Most people would say NO! Find out as we mount all the on board cameras and go racing in big breeze and fast currents, doublehanded on a 46 foot racer/cruiser in full world cruising dress!

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When there are two sailboats on the water, the race is on. You guys know we are racing sailors and our J Boat has regatta pedigree, we aren't just living on a boat, so if there is a sailboat race around, odds are we will find it.

After sailing over 3500 miles across the Atlantic ocean for the second time in a year, we had to hunker down and do a bit of boat work. Once we completed our DIY boat restoration projects, we could finally go sailing again!!!

We headed to Yacht Club Ilhabela for the 2022 Mitsubishi Cup regatta (Copa Mitsubishi - Circuito Ilhabela de Vela), where we would be racing our cruising sailboat in the Doublehanded class along with some high tech racing boats. Before racing ourselves, we decided to get our DJI Mavic drone out to capture some aerial regatta footage of these spectacular carbon fiber racing machines. However, this week it's our turn to lighten the boat, hoist the sails, and cross the finish line!

About Us

Kate and Curtis both learn how to sail when they were young. Kate was a junior sailor in Opti's and 420's while Curtis went cruising in the Great Lakes with his family. We met while sailing in a Melges 24 regatta and have been sailing together ever since. The first time we went cruising together as a couple was on a friends borrowed J Boats J 105 in the North Channel of Lake Huron and Canada (part of the Great Loop). Those few weeks, and watching other channels like Gone With the Wynns, Sailing Uma, Project Atticus, Delos, Nahoa, and Sailing La Vagabonde, convinced us that the sailing life was for us.

We bought our boat, a J Boats J/46, in 2019 after spending years searching for the perfect bluewater sailboat to sail around the world. We were intersted in a catamaran and monohulls, but loved the performance cruising design of the J(it is faster than most cruising catamarans). We spent six months refitting her in Rhode Island, before selling our house and cars, quitting our jobs, and leaving land life for good to become digital nomads, with the goal of sailing around the world via Cape Horn.

We have since navigated over 12,000 miles together, through storms, big waves, pandemics, and lockdowns. We sailed to Maine, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, Grenada, Sint Maarten, the Azores, Canary Islands, and Brazil, on our way south to Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile to sail around Cape Horn and into the Patagonia fjords.

We never intended to become influencers or start a new YouTube sailing channel, but now it is what we do. We love sharing our experience and adventures with you. We have learned to fly the drone and edit videos, trying to produce relaxing and listenable videos for you to sail away and watch at home while having coffee on Sunday mornings.