We are so excited to welcome Matt and Amy on board to our brand ambassador team. With a following of over 50k and having circumnavigated the world we cant wait to see what they get up to with an Autoterm diesel heater.
We are Matt and Amy, sailors from a young age who both had a dream of maybe one day sailing around the world, but it was just a dream. Until the shock of an unexpected redundancy for Matt triggered us to make it a reality.
Sailing around the world is such a simple statement, such an easy route to trace out on a miniature map of the world, yet the reality of doing such a thing could not have been further from our office jobs and weekend dinghy sailing.
Fast forward to the present and we have spent 8 years sailing over 50,000 miles across 5 oceans, circumnavigating the globe. Over that time we shared our adventures on YouTube and with a growing following we are able to continue sailing and exploring.
With our goal of sailing around the world achieved we set ourselves a new challenge. To sail our 37ft boat 'Florence' to the top of the world, the Arctic. We are now preparing for that voyage to the cold waters of the high latitudes, part of that preparation was to install a heater onboard Florence and for that we chose the Autoterm Air D4 forced air diesel heater.
You can follow our adventures on YouTube and social media.
www.youtube.com/c/sailingyachtflorence
www.instagram.com/sailingyachtflorence
Link to summary round the world YouTube video:
After seven years in the South African military I went back to uni and trained as a photojournalist. My first permanent journo job was at SA4x4 Magazine where I became their Bush Editor. What does a Bush Editor do? He takes the latest 4x4 and heads off into the bush really. I spent a decade at the magazine and during that time I visited over 45 countries, of which most were in Africa.
The best trip in my time at the magazine was when myself and three mates drove a new Pajero to East Africa and explored some of the parks there, we also crossed Lake Victoria and saw the mountain gorillas in Rwanda. The scariest part of that trip was rafting the Nile in Uganda. The rapids were rather large.
I then swapped sunny Cape Town for brilliant Bedfordshire in the UK and today I am the editor of Land Rover Monthly magazine. I love nothing more than visiting a remote part of our beautiful planet in a comfortable Land Rover. The biggest difference between exploring the northern and southern hemispheres is without a doubt the temperatures!
My daily driver is a 1998 Defender 110 2.8i, which has a factory-fitted BMW M52 engine. I like to keep things simple on expedition, if I can BBQ and have something cold to drink then I am happy. Having said that my 110 is pretty well kitted out for an overland expedition.
See what I have been up to on the following social media channels:
Personal Insta:
Personal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/patrick.cruywagen
Personal Insta: https://www.instagram.com/busheditor/?hl=en
Magazine Insta: https://www.instagram.com/land_rover_monthly/?hl=en
Magazine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LandRoverMonthly
Magazine website: www.lrm.co.uk
Magazine YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh72MVgPGkbPv8V1sun2B0w
Nick Vass is a marine surveyor, sailing instructor, yachting historian and journalist. Nick bought his first yacht, a Hurley 20, in 1983 at the age of just eighteen. This was followed by a Hurley 24/70 ‘Omega’ in 1986 which was kept for 22 years followed by a Poncin Harmony 34 which Nick and Natasha bought new in 2008.
Nick is a fellow of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, a member of the Society of Consulting Marine Engineers and Ship Surveyors and is an MCA approved Certifying Authority commercial code of practice Examiner. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering and a diploma in marine surveying specialising in yacht and small craft systems and engine surveys.
As most yachts motor cruisers and narrowboats have a diesel cabin heating system Nick has become used to inspecting installations. He has seen good, bad and ugly installations and can tell you what makes are found to work the most consistently and what makes tend not to start up. He is also qualified to check LPG gas installations and knows how to identify faults associated with exhaust leaks and fumes.
Nick has inspected many yachts and boats that are fitted with Planar heaters and found that every single one has worked perfectly and all owners have been very pleased with them. Nick has remarked that Planar heaters have a quality and robust feel and ancillary components such as hoses and ducting that come with the units are of high quality. By comparison Nick has found other makes to be unreliable and Chinese makes to be flimsy and supplied with shoddy parts.
After studying mechanical engineering in Plymouth he worked for various yacht builders, building and repairing sailing cruisers. Nick was a Design Technology teacher for fifteen years, most of that time he was head of department. He has been a full time marine surveyor since 2004 travelling the world inspecting yachts and boats. He is also a delivery skipper and holds the RYA Yachtmaster Offshore and Coastal Skipper instructor qualifications.
Nick sails with his wife Natasha and children Daniel and Emma along the south coast of the UK plus Brittany and Normandy.
We are Marianne and Chris - Full-time travel bloggers and YouTubers attempting to visit every Country in the World in either our camper van 'Trudy' or with a rucksack. We'll be attempting to drive around the World starting Jan 2020. Fun loving vanlifers
https://www.facebook.com/treadtheglobe/
We are Rhys and Niamh and welcome to our world of Zora.
We started our boat renovation journey nearly three ago with a dream of sailing our way around the world. While many people think sailing is all smooth seas, sunshine, sunsets, and beautiful beaches, it’s also a lot of hard work and can be incredibly challenging, we have laughed, cried and questioned a lot of our decisions within these past few years , but we wouldn’t change a thing and we hope you continue your journey along with us as we near the final few months of our boat renovation. It cannot be denied that sailing the world increases our knowledge and widens our perspective. To view new customs, different ways of living and other lifestyles is fantastic for the mind and soul. We cannot wait to travel the seas and follow the path that the wind will take us.
We are excited and we hope you are to.
www.instagram.com/sailingyachtzora/?hl=en
Hello friends! We are Sergio and Atenea, an adventurous couple passionate about discovering new paradises: forests, beaches, mountains and those snowy landscapes that we really enjoy. Lovers of history and nature, we explore and follow our dreams aboard an Iveco daily 4x4. Would you like to join us on our adventure?
https://www.instagram.com/serendipity_on_the_road/
www.youtube.com/channel/UCO4XiAKTRwnHENW_z_p5XyA
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