This is the best episode that I have watched on your journey. I love just watching you guys working the boat, sailing, anchoring, fishing, etc. That is not to mention the quality of the photography. Absolutely stunning! I watch cruisers and boat building on Utube and you guys are at the top of my list. I, like everyone else I'm sure, admire your choice of lifestyle and look forward to more great content.
⛵️ I am amazed by the fearless stingrays and your fearlessness. You are correct that fear is learned. Thank you for another educational video. Your children are learning about things in this world that cannot be learned in the four walls of a school. Way to go Ben & Ashley! Merry Christmas.
Spent 2 weeks waiting for an update. Checked yesterday and started to miss your family! Happy to be watching today! Glad you are safe and enjoying life :)
It seems cheep on a boat but !!! The cost of maintaining a yacht properly is far more expensive. But you do have your freedom. I know I did it for 30 years.
Happy Holidays and I hope this next year is better than the last one. I was wondering if you are any closer to building your new Nahoa 55 or are you looking farther into the future?
Ashley and Ben, You are giving Your Children the BEST Life ever ! I Love Your videos of Your adventures, stay safe and Fair winds for the new year. Greetings from Cape Town. 👍⛵
You guys are the best .Making it happen with family in tow .Enough said ! Enjoyed your content this year You stay on top of technology and it will reward you .All the best. Nothing like fish tacos .
that was sooo exciting, I found myself giggling with your daughter... ben got slapped on the butt by a stingray, that had me in stitches of laughter.. thanks for sharing that beautiful experience.. I appreciate you.. ✨🩵🌸🐠
7:57 I feeling the kayak experience is the kind of magic that happens in a nomadic lifestyle. I live it I love it I love You & the family For sharing your experience with us
It's always good to see parents that let the children explore. You are so right Ben children are taught fear unfortunately. While I would turn my children loose in the woods of Tennessee so many were scared they would get lost. There was a place I turned my kids loose to hike to where I'd be waiting for them for our picnic, when they got out I set some boundaries for them to fallow knowing they were safe and told them to watch for snakes and not to touch them and if they found the river fallow it down hill and if they came to the road fallow that down hill. the area I turned them loose in was a big triangle bordered by roads and the river. Had they got lost not fallowing the simple rules I'd set for them I just had to call my dad to bring Heather their black lab who loved playing hide and seek with them, she would have went and found them and brought them home. As parents teaching them some simple rule and turning them loose lets them gain confidence in their own abilities. You and Ashley are amazing parents and you have some very lucky children. Merry Christmas to all of you. ♥
Thank you for sharing the shrieks of laughter and trepidation enthusiastically shared by Willa and Bodhi, (did we hear Ashley screeching too??) I wish you and your enviable family the best of health and more safe adventures this holiday season. Merry Christmas to you all, from BC, Canada.
I'm so in love with French Polynesia and its waters ever since spending a month exploring it last year. Sailing Tuamotus and Marquesas and Society islands is a life goal ❤
So in awe of your lifestyle and love following all your adventures. Hope you have a fantastic festive period and I look forward to what 2025 has in store.
I was so very lucky to cruise Tahiti and Moorea 2022. I used to say Venice was my favorite place I’ve visited on earth and then I went to Moorea. Moorea is the beautiful place I’ve ever been. So envious but know you’ll be having the best time ever!
Canada here. Wow ! This is one of your best . They are all best . Sault. Ste . Marie . Wish I was with you guys . Four feet of snow last week . Yeah , I can float in nice WARM water & air and feed sharks . Merry Christmas & Happy New Year To you all . Stay Happy , safe , and healthy . GOD Bless.
Love your videos, watch them every week! Question: Is someone new doing your audio mastering? I imported the audio track for this episode into the Youlean Loudness Meter 2 and realized why my wife and myself were continually having to ride the remote volume control: There was a loudness range of 11.7 LUFs, with short term maximums of --9.9, and momentary maximums as high as -4.3. Keep in mind that youtube wants you down at their suggested maximum of -15. I can send you a png image of the Youlean diagnostics, and will leave my name and contact info at your site. Otherwise: keep up the great videos!!
A great place to spend a X mas. The kids having fun under the old sail... It typical of their age give them a large cardboard box and they have as much fun as with the contents most of the time. Though hands on with the rays and blacktips takes a lot of beating in water that clear.
I guess I don't understand the way in which a sting ray stings? Literally as you instruct your kids that they can pet the rays on the nose (and NOT the tail), your daughter's hand brushes the wings and then her hand trails towards the tail and stinger. Not to mention the way they naturally move puts their stinger tail alongside your bodies constantly. What am I missing here?
As you brought the fish aboard there appeared to be a white line in view - was that a MOB ‘last chance’ type device? If so would you care to discuss it in a future episode?
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I hope all of your family have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. thanks
The life experience that you are giving your children is simply amazing!
This is the best episode that I have watched on your journey. I love just watching you guys working the boat, sailing, anchoring, fishing, etc. That is not to mention the quality of the photography. Absolutely stunning! I watch cruisers and boat building on Utube and you guys are at the top of my list. I, like everyone else I'm sure, admire your choice of lifestyle and look forward to more great content.
Getting kicked out is sometimes the best way to leave. 🍻
Thanks for sharing.
Merry Christmas 🎅
What an incredible episode! Just love the education you give the kids! Happy holidays guys!❤
One of your absolute best. Very moving.
What a fabulous video! Merry Christmas Ben & Ashley and kids. ❤
Love you guys be safe out there!
⛵️ I am amazed by the fearless stingrays and your fearlessness. You are correct that fear is learned.
Thank you for another educational video. Your children are learning about things in this world that cannot be learned in the four walls of a school. Way to go Ben & Ashley! Merry Christmas.
This was one of my favorite videos.
The kids are getting so big.
Merry Christmas 🎄
Live from the North Georgia Mountains ♥️
Spent 2 weeks waiting for an update. Checked yesterday and started to miss your family! Happy to be watching today! Glad you are safe and enjoying life :)
Merry Christmas Nahoa 🎄Thanks for sharing. Bodhi's monkey collection is so cute. I love monkeys.
You are helping your children to have good memories that will last a lifetime.
It seems cheep on a boat but !!! The cost of maintaining a yacht properly is far more expensive. But you do have your freedom. I know I did it for 30 years.
A delightful video, as usual! Happy holidays to your family.
Thank you for this wonderful video. A Merry Christmas to you guys from Western Canada.
Merry Christmas from Arizona.
Never disappoints!! always epic! blessings guys for an incredible year ahead on this gorgeous planet!
Happy Holidays and I hope this next year is better than the last one. I was wondering if you are any closer to building your new Nahoa 55 or are you looking farther into the future?
Nice that you made it back to Canada for a visit.
A wonderful video once again! Great family bonding and memory making! Merry Christmas!
Your travels are great to watch, thank you! Any yacht/boat owner knows that they cost way more than you make out! B.O.A.T.
Merry Christmas ! And all the Best in the New Year !
Ashley and Ben, You are giving Your Children the BEST Life ever ! I Love Your videos of Your adventures, stay safe and Fair winds for the new year. Greetings from Cape Town. 👍⛵
You guys are the best .Making it happen with family in tow .Enough said ! Enjoyed your content this year You stay on top of technology and it will reward you .All the best. Nothing like fish tacos .
Happy new year Ben, Ashly and your wonderful kids!
What a way to grow up. Well done Nahoa crew!
What an absolutely beautiful episode 😊 So much fun !!! Thank you ❤
Love your channel, wishing your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Your videos always put a big smile on my face and I'm grateful to you for that. Hope you're all having a wonderful day! ❤
that was sooo exciting, I found myself giggling with your daughter...
ben got slapped on the butt by a stingray, that had me in stitches of laughter..
thanks for sharing that beautiful experience.. I appreciate you.. ✨🩵🌸🐠
7:57 I feeling the kayak experience is the kind of magic that happens in a nomadic lifestyle.
I live it
I love it
I love You & the family
For sharing your experience with us
Ben you are the sailing poet of you tube. You always manage to get something in my eye.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all and a beautiful show.
That was absolutely amazing!!
Merry Christmas from Canada 🇨🇦
Spectacular video the stingrays are beautiful,and the sharks. Thanks for sharing.
How can you not love this family? They are amazing and the children are adorable and so well behaved too. 😍😍
Oh!!!! I absolutely love poisson cru…what great memories you are helping me re-live!!! Paradise on earth❤️❤️❤️
This is by far one of the coolest episodes/ series of moments ever captured by you guys 🥹 hope you all continue to have a blessed holiday season 💛
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas. Happy new year and happy sailing as you journey through your adventurous 2025.
Loved your speech about kids and fear. Very well said.
Love you guys! I really enjoy watching your children grow. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us. Happy Holidays & Safe journey. ❤
It's always good to see parents that let the children explore. You are so right Ben children are taught fear unfortunately. While I would turn my children loose in the woods of Tennessee so many were scared they would get lost. There was a place I turned my kids loose to hike to where I'd be waiting for them for our picnic, when they got out I set some boundaries for them to fallow knowing they were safe and told them to watch for snakes and not to touch them and if they found the river fallow it down hill and if they came to the road fallow that down hill. the area I turned them loose in was a big triangle bordered by roads and the river. Had they got lost not fallowing the simple rules I'd set for them I just had to call my dad to bring Heather their black lab who loved playing hide and seek with them, she would have went and found them and brought them home. As parents teaching them some simple rule and turning them loose lets them gain confidence in their own abilities. You and Ashley are amazing parents and you have some very lucky children. Merry Christmas to all of you. ♥
Thank you for sharing the shrieks of laughter and trepidation enthusiastically shared by Willa and Bodhi, (did we hear Ashley screeching too??)
I wish you and your enviable family the best of health and more safe adventures this holiday season.
Merry Christmas to you all, from BC, Canada.
Merry Christmas, your adventure looks wonderful, enjoy.
Godspeed and stay BLESSED.
💙🇺🇸💚👍😇
I loved the monkeys and rabbit having been laundered. The Rays and Sharks were incredible. Merry Christmas!
I'm so in love with French Polynesia and its waters ever since spending a month exploring it last year. Sailing Tuamotus and Marquesas and Society islands is a life goal ❤
Wow the rays are awesome!! Great vid guys!
So in awe of your lifestyle and love following all your adventures. Hope you have a fantastic festive period and I look forward to what 2025 has in store.
Great vid folks! Your choice is ours as well, it works for us.
I was so very lucky to cruise Tahiti and Moorea 2022. I used to say Venice was my favorite place I’ve visited on earth and then I went to Moorea. Moorea is the beautiful place I’ve ever been. So envious but know you’ll be having the best time ever!
incredible episode you guys!!!!
Canada here. Wow ! This is one of your best . They are all best . Sault. Ste . Marie . Wish I was with you guys . Four feet of snow last week . Yeah , I can float in nice WARM water & air and feed sharks . Merry Christmas & Happy New Year To you all . Stay Happy , safe , and healthy . GOD Bless.
Moorea is Heaven on Earth! 💙🤍
Swimming with the stingrays & feeling them, is an experience & texture like no other. So much fun you guys have ❣️
Merry Christmas Nahoa.
Omg swimming with the rays is soo cool. Gosh I'm so ready to buy a boat and learn this life!!
Very cool episode. Loved the stingrays. Looks like you could use a top for the tender :)
Happy Christmas to you all. A beautiful family making memories to treasure. Look forward to seeing more in 2025.
Hi, what happened with your plans to build the aluminium catamaran?
Completely awesome adventure for your family! Thanks for sharing with us.
Love your videos, watch them every week! Question: Is someone new doing your audio mastering? I imported the audio track for this episode into the Youlean Loudness Meter 2 and realized why my wife and myself were continually having to ride the remote volume control: There was a loudness range of 11.7 LUFs, with short term maximums of --9.9, and momentary maximums as high as -4.3. Keep in mind that youtube wants you down at their suggested maximum of -15. I can send you a png image of the Youlean diagnostics, and will leave my name and contact info at your site. Otherwise: keep up the great videos!!
I did the same thing in Grand Caymen. Love those critters!!
Merry Christmas to you and your family
Wow! That was mind-blowing❤
Amazing pictures of you and the fish. Thank you.
The Tahitian people are beautiful.
They love riding the surf behind the boats that’s for sure.
Thanks for sharing ⚓️
Loved that folks.... Happy Chrimbo :)
❤🎉? How reliable are track backs if you haven’t used them in a season or two? What about shifting sands in low depth waters?
I missed not seeing you, just heard you went to Canada, welcome back,,, Merry Christmas
A great place to spend a X mas. The kids having fun under the old sail... It typical of their age give them a large cardboard box and they have as much fun as with the contents most of the time.
Though hands on with the rays and blacktips takes a lot of beating in water that clear.
Australia more expensive then all, trust me, im a aussie!
Thanks for a gr8 escape. Safe travels.
That scene with the kids and the manta rays was epoch. So cool.
Gotta track me down a $0 a night 55' catamaran.
My 23 definitely keeps costing $ even after I bought it.
I love your family and the kids are so cute and happy holidays. You guys have a good life safety sailing.
Best wishes and Happy Holidays from Germany
its great to see kids getting an education of the wonders of this world in real life happy Christmas guy's
Now that’s way too cool , bucket list for sure 😎🇦🇺😎
Amazing episode!
I just loved all the rays, they seem so sweet❤❤❤
Beautiful to watch. A1 father!!!
What is the status of your potential aluminum boat??
Beautiful episode.
12:19
"Go Closer to the reef"
I feel that,
No, I don't want to go closer to the reef.
I agree..
Sunset, near reef....eek
Happy wife, happy life is all we men need to remember if the dingy needs water bailed out of it, or car needs fixing.
Merry Christmas and very happy New Year ❤
Lots of fun with the rays and sharks with Bodie and Willow. Y'all have a Merry Christmas! 🎁 🎄🎁. Santa uses AIS?
How much was it to purchase the boat?
LOL if you don't consider the cost of purchase and maintaining of the boat
8 bucks for a pint at the Nanaimo Yacht club plus tip. Remember the island ?? I live 50 yards from it. So much paradise.
Great video as always! Quick question, is your yamaha 30 a 2 cycle or 4 cycle engine?
I had parents like the 2 of you. We had fun adventures all our youthful lives
Those expensive yachts are not going to Carpe Dium, capture the day.
I guess I don't understand the way in which a sting ray stings? Literally as you instruct your kids that they can pet the rays on the nose (and NOT the tail), your daughter's hand brushes the wings and then her hand trails towards the tail and stinger. Not to mention the way they naturally move puts their stinger tail alongside your bodies constantly. What am I missing here?
Downing anchors till two hours before sunset prevents from collisions with resident’s fishing boats😊
Merry Christmas crew🎉
As you brought the fish aboard there appeared to be a white line in view - was that a MOB ‘last chance’ type device? If so would you care to discuss it in a future episode?
Moorea is a very special place. I've been there twice and loved it each time. I would live there if I was able too.
Happy Holidays☀️🎁