People are amazing, I was sitting here at the navigation station on Annecam checking emails, news and having a quick look at our facebook page when I noticed a post pop up in my news feed with the heading "How to Make a Million Dollar Sailing Video". The post was from none other than Sheryl and Paul Shard. This Canadian couple are nothing short of amazing, they started making videos of their adventures almost 20 years ago, correct me if I'm wrong but 1998 is the year that they started. They have been filming the Distant Shores sailing adventure TV series ever since they started. The show has been translated into 28 different languages and is watched by millions on television stations around the world. This couple of adventurers have sailed to more exotic places than one could poke a stick at. They built their first yacht as a wedding present to each other and the rest is history.
Annie and I purchased some of their videos, mostly on the places that we planned to visit. The first contact that I had was a message from Paul, while we were crossing the Atlantic Ocean, he asked me what we thought of our Iridium Go satellite communications system, I told him that we loved it and we still do, so they purchased one and quickly took it to the next level including sending photos to their shore based team, so the rest of the world could see what they were up to.
We celebrated my 60th birthday in St Marten with Sheryl and Paul and a couple of days later we all went to the Phillipsburg Carnival and had a blast like you would not believe.
The video is the one made by Sheryl and Paul, have a look and I'm sure that you too will be amazed.
The photo is of an evening regatta here in Middle Harbour that we watched while we had sun downers on Annecam.
Life is good because we are old enough to know better but young enough to do it anyway.