We sailed to Jurassic Park! Well, it certainly felt like it as we began to explore our first stop in the Azores- Flores Island. Our new friend Felipe offers to take us ALL the way around the island in his Zodiac where we find massive caves, thousands of deadly jellyfish and the Westernmost point of Europe! After, we hop in a car and venture inland where we experience mother nature doing some of her finest work! It was unreal to experience all of this the first time around, but being able to go back through to footage and be blown away all over again by the beauty of Flores put a huge smile on our face 😀 We hope you feel the same! Much love tribe- Brady, Blue & CREW!
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What a beautiful passage this has been! This episode shows our last few days at sea during our 12 day passage from Bermuda to the Azores. Senor Brady flys the drone, the crew lose track of time, and we are blown away by the beauty of sailing up to the island of Flores in the Azores! Hope you enjoy, BB and crew. (more…)
Ever wondered what a typical day on a two week open ocean passage is like? It varies depending on the boat, the crew and the ocean but there is definitely a couple common themes that weave their way into all of our long distance sails. Having the chance to disconnect from the world and reconnect with nature is a highlight, as well as spending our days exactly as we’d like whether it’s snoozing , reading, or fishing. And of course, we all love those days when conditions pick up a bit and allow Delos to shine with some badass sailing 😁 We had fun filming this episode from the first person point of view & hope you guys enjoy the switch up! Much love, B&B (more…)
LOVE IS IN THE AIR ON DELOS! For those of who you saw it coming miles away like we did, it may not be a big surprise to you that Sean and Chia officially have something special between them!! A boat acts like a pressure cooker to a relationship, it truly heats things up REAL quick! As the new couple tries to play it cool, the crew has fun secretly filming their budding relationship. We also set sail from Bermuda to The Azores in this episode, have a block break on our downwind pole, and Ruben shares how crossing an ocean has already changed the way he wants to live his life! Much love, BB and crew! (more…)
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Number 1 rule don’t fall off the boat! In this video we go through our offshore sailing safety rules we have on Delos – MOB, Fire onboard, Breach in the vessel and Ditch our list. (more…)
After 3 busy days in Bermuda we decide to move Delos to one of the most beautiful anchorages we have seen! It seriously felt like we sailed into a swimming pool! After settling into our new neighborhood we celebrate Ruben becoming a man (turning 20), head to some magical caves and becoming even closer as a family and crew! Much Love from us! BB and Crew! (more…)
After 7 days at Sea we sail into the beautiful waters of BERMUDA!!! We knew so very little about this place before arriving, but instantly fell in love with it’s cool history & friendly people! After being greeted by our “official Bermudian welcoming party”, we take advantage of land life with skateboarding, bridge jumping, and Dark N’ Stormy drinkin’. A member of the tribe invites us to explore the luxury resort where he works, and even gives us a golf cart to play with which gives us access to an epic sunset spot to test Brady’s new DRONE CATCHER! Lot’s of excitement & good vibes in this one, hope you enjoy! Much love, BB & crew! (more…)
The Bermuda Triangle in infamous for its unexpected storms and unexplained effects on boats… Delos seemed to hold up fine, but her crew start to go a bit wacky in this episode!! Ruben writes some shanties, Blue tries to communicate with sea birds, Sean & Chia think they are in a rap music video and Captain Brady wonders if the world has ended after his buddy Elon Musk doesn’t answer a sat phone call. We also experience a GNARLY lightning storm and celebrate Blue’s 30th birthday with a naked swim in our Birthday Suits in 5,000 meters of water! This episode truly shows how whacky things can get when you put five people on a boat and send them out to sea for a week. We hope you laugh as much watching it as we did filming and editing it! Much love, BB and crew! (more…)
This is a series of questions asked by our patrons about Lithium batteries, solar charging, and electrical sailboat items in general. This series of videos covers the following questions:
What are some of the heavy draw electrical items on Delos?
What can be run directly off the batteries and inverters?
What tools, meters, and connectors do we carry on Delos?
What resources do we carry for troubleshooting electrical problems?
How do we monitor our batteries on Delos?
What fridges and freezers can you run off solar and wind?
How much does Air conditioning draw, and can we run it off our solar?
Do we power our laptops with a DC to DC converter or via the inverter?
Is it possible to maintain a 48V battery bank?
Is a 24V DC system practical?
What are the benefits of a 24VDC system?
Solar arch- Why don’t we have our dinghy on davits off the solar arch?
What is the make and model of our inverter?
Could we incorporate water collection into our solar panels.
Is there a difference in the taste of desalinated water?
Have we ever had issued with the solar panels in high wind?
Are the lithium batteries physically the same size as lead batteries?
What about safety with Lithium batteries?
Are solar panels cost effective?
How have prices for solar decreased since we first installed them?
Are Lithium batteries cost effective?
What wire gauge should you use for a solar charge controller?
Pro’s and Cons for a solar arch?
Can we run our dive compressor and water maker off solar and an inverter?
How much more power do we use on Delos than a “normal” cruising boat?
Is a Hybrid Electric drive a real option for a Bluewater cruising boat?
What would it take to get rid of a diesel generator?
How big is our fridge and freezer compared to a house?
How much does our entire arch and solar panel setup weigh?
Brady definitely earns some Captain points in this episode! The furler on the Genoa gives out in the dead of the night, right in the middle of a rainy squall which is gusting up to 46 knots!! The squall damages our wind sensor and we have to sail old school through the night by looking at the flags. After getting everything back in working order, we get a little weather lesson from Sean and the crew explores what they miss most while at sea! It can be hard to capture intense sailing moments on Delos at times when it’s all hands on deck, but it was awesome to have Ruben aboard to help capture this experience in detail. We hope you guys feel like you were right there with us! Much love, BB and crew!
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A compete, high level view of the electrical system on a modern cruising sailboat. I put together a gigantic diagram and talk in detail about each component of the system, and how everything interacts to supply the electrical demand on a modern cruising sailboat. Topics covered in this video:
1) A project recap of the installation of our LIFePO4 Lithium Batteries, inverter, battery monitoring system, and switching to electric induction cooking on a sailboat.
2) A complete walk through of the electrical system of a modern cruising boat. Starting at the power sources (wind, solar, hydro, generator, and dock) Brian explains each part of the system and how everything works together.
3) We discuss the role of charge controllers and how important of a role they play.
4) How much power can we generated with wind and solar?
5) Just how noisy are wind generators?
6) 1 Year review of our Induction Stove and Electric oven and how it’s worked out.
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Squall after squall roll over Delos as we head off the coast of Florida, but despite the windless holes they leave us in- we’re still able to travel 5 knots over ground thanks to the Gulf Stream!! The crew adjusts to life at sea, Ruben struggles with his seasickness, we have to act fast to drop the Gennekar from a sneaky squall, and things start to HEAT UP between Sean and Chia! Often our episodes cover a span of a few days or even a few weeks, but this episode reflects about 24 hours of life of Delos at sea! We hope the good energy on board at this time emulates through the screen, so enjoy Tribe! Much love, BB and crew! (more…)
What’s in our DITCH KIT!? In this video we go through upgrading our offshore Ditch Kit. Everything we would want to bring with us in a worse case scenario – Delos sinks and we would need to survive on the open ocean in our life raft. Better to be safe than sorry. Let us know what’s in your ditch kit!
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This weeks SLOW TV is truly something special for the Tribe! We hit record on the @gopros just before casting the line to begin our ATLANTIC CROSSING! The first hour or so shows Delos slipping through the Canals of Pompano Beach, just chomping at the bit to make it to the open ocean! We managed to keep this Slow TV recording for almost 7 HOURS and capture a massive squall rolling off the coast and over Delos. We have a lot of fun making these and hope you enjoy putting them on in the background of your work day, chill day, or family time. Much love tribe! (more…)
Sailing across the Indian Ocean way back in 2015 we listened to a podcast about Tom’s Shoes.This is one of our favorite indulgences on passage, and it’s a great way to pass the time while we lounge around half asleep to the gentle rocking motion of Delos.One eye on the horizon and an ear tuned into whatever happens to be playing in the background.
The on watch crew has control of the entertainment, and in this case we were on a marathon session of “How I Built This” by Guy Raz.The podcast featuring Tom’s Shoes popped up and the story of creating a profitable business that could still have a positive impact on the world rung true with us.Then and there we decided that we would try and use whatever social media influence we had to not only promote our project and way of living, but to also try and help those less fortunate than ourselves.
Based on these ideals, when we wrote our articles of incorporation for “The Delos Project” we decided to do a few things.First off, we decided to use the money from our Buy us a Beer fund (some, but not all! Ha Ha.) to actually pass on the love and buy other people beers.You have no idea how much fun it is to buy random strangers in a bar a round of beers.They look confused at first, probably wondering “What do you have to profit from buying me a drink?What do you want in return?”
Eventually they smile and thank you, to which we reply “Don’t thank us, it’s a gift given to us by someone on the other side of the world.All we ask is you enjoy the drink, and if possible do the same for someone else down the road.”It’s a concept of paying it forward, and of course this often results in many more rounds and great conversation during which we do our best to explain our lifestyle, and how we support it by sailing around the world and making YouTube videos.
Even more important than buying random strangers drinks, we decided to set aside a percentage of any financial gain from The Delos Project and put the money towards ideals that focus on the areas of humanity and the environment.In fact, here is a snippet from a document entitled “The Articles of Chagos” which we wrote in the middle of the Indian Ocean in the remote, uninhabited archipelago of Chagos.
Articles of Chagos
Drafted on August 13th, 2015
Karin Syren, Josje Leyten, Brian Trautman, Brady Trautman
Mission statement:
Delos is about inspiring people, about encouraging people to live in the now.We hope by doing this others will take a few moments to relax from the typical rushed pace of life and consider just what a special planet we live on.Just a small step back from the typical consumer lifestyle will have positive impact and healthy side effects on the planet and humanity in general.It can be as small as giving someone a much needed break from the dreary work day, or as large as actually inspiring someone to do what’s necessary to live their dreams.We intend to do this by giving people a glimpse via social media into an alternative lifestyle of sailing and traveling around the world.
So what do we want to accomplish with this?
First and foremost the purpose is to establish a sustainable lifestyle focused business that allows freedom, flexibility, and enough income to live comfortably.We will then use this sustainable business to accomplish our mission.
I will spare you the legal mumbo jumbo we mostly copied from Legal Zoom to create an LLC in the US, however I think this excerpt from further on in the document is very poignant:
“…20% will be set aside for charities, donations, causes, and the future growth of the Delos Mission.Of this half will go to charitable causes outside of Delos, the other half will be used for Delos charity and future growth of our project…”
So, from the onset of our project we built in a way to make sure we incorporated the concept of giving back and paying it forward.We have been able to support many environmental and humanitarian efforts because of this, which brings me to what I actually wanted to talk about which is the completion of a very successful project we helped with in conjunction with Andy and Joanna from SV Bamba Maru, entitled “Sailing for a Smile”.Their project focused on humanitarian and rebuilding efforts for those affected by the devastating hurricanes that recently struck the Caribbean.They loaded their catamaran with relief supplies and personally delivered them to those affected by the natural disasters.
The CALLS center in Dominica after the storm.
Recently they had focused their efforts on Dominica, a Caribbean island that was decimated by the ferocious hurricanes, and even more specifically for efforts to help schools and kids that had slipped through the cracks of the other larger relief programs.For this project instead of simply giving a percentage of our proceeds we decided to try and use Social Media as a multiplier for that money.We asked the Delos Tribe to match our money, promising that we would match any contributions made to this project 100% for the first $1,000.In other words, if we got $1,000 in donations from the Delos Tribe we would kick in another $1,000 and double the efforts then donate 100% of that money.Well, the Delos Tribe absolutely blew us out of the water!We got hundreds of individual donations ranging in size from $1.00 to $500.00.Using social media we turned $1,000 into over $15,000 dollars!If you’re interested here is the YouTube video that kicked off the project.
You might be wondering why not create custom, one-off shirts for such projects? Certainly people are more likely to donate when they get something tangible in return. We did in fact look into this but after a few calculations decided that given the cost of making and distributing custom shirts, especially if they are printed on demand, it’s very likely that most of the money would go to the printing and distribution of the shirts rather than to support the effort itself. For example on our own Delos shirts we sell in our shop our profit margin is about 20% before fulfillment. To raise the same money we did with direct donations we would have needed to sell $75,000 worth of shirts!
Andy and Joanna at the St. John’s Primary School in Dominica.
SV Bamba Maru was anchored in Dominica identifying specific schools that still had significant damage and were not receiving help from other organizations.Our plan was to bypass some of the bureaucratic losses that unfortunately occur in some larger charity organizations and donate the money directly to the schools themselves.This meant tracking down the school principals, discussing what work they required, and finallygetting the wire transfer information so we could wire the money directly to the school bank accounts.
Mahaut Preschool getting a new roof.
We decided to make many small donations, both so that we could ensure the money was being used properly, but also because we learned if money wired into a school account exceeded a certain amount it must be transferred to the Dominica school general fund.At which point we would lose the ability to determine where and what the money was actually used for.This also gave us the ability to donate directly to pre-schools and adolescent organizations that were outside of the government funded system, but still vital to the entire ecosystem.
The new kitchen in the CALLS center after repairs and new equipment.
No more rain in the MAHAUT preschool!
It took about 6 months, but using this method we were able to do major work on a number of buildings.This work ranged from full roof replacements to structural repairs to window replacements.In some cases we purchased kitchen equipment to get school cafeterias back in operation.Who wants to learn on an empty stomach? Not this guy! The Delos Tribe even stepped up personally to deliver school supplies and sports equipment purchased in the US and delivered it by sailboat.
I would like to express my thanks to everyone that made this project successful by donating. You know who you are!And especially to Andy and Joanna from SV Bamba Maru for doing the grunt work on the ground.It wouldn’t have been possible otherwise!
Please check out the video below that Andy and Joanna put together that sums up the project!
Delos Tribe Courtney handing out school supplies in Dominica.
Delos Tribe Courtney handing out sports equipment in Dominica.
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After a month at the dock we are ready to do a BIG provision run and check the last items off the to-do list. When then cast the lines and head off into the Atlantic Ocean, next stop Bermuda!
BIG THANKS to JIM for letting us take over his house and dock!!
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In this BONUS video we show step by step how to service our Mustang inflatable pfd life-vests.
We also go through how to add and install a personal locating AIS Man OverBoard device for extra safety.
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Much Love ~ The Delos Crew
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Song: Ramukanji (Remix)
Artist: Onetox
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Song: Sunrise
Artist: Arbour
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Song: Hadouken
Artist: Lupus Nocte
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After 10 years and 70,000 nautical miles of sailing it’s time for the next chapter… Brian and Karin fly off to sweden to begin the journey of becoming parents while Brady and Blue make plans to Sail Delos across the North Atlantic. We have mixed emotions about the challenges ahead of us and introduce you to our NEW crew, including our DELOS SCHOLARSHIP WINNER! Of course, there are still a ton of things on the to-do list! (more…)
