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TUPAIA

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Making sailing videos with overly-dramatic music. — in their own words

13ports charted

8,852nm on the chart

13episodes

The vessel Dufour 35 · Monohull

Logbook 13

Around Patagonia │ Part 10 - Chonos Archipelago

24 Jun 2026 · 23:25 · Filmed autumn 2025
Isla Magdalena Aysen, Chile

In autumn 2025, we sailed Tupaia through the Chonos Archipelago, a remote chain of islands in Chilean Patagonia.

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Around Patagonia │ Part 9 - Laguna San Rafael

21 Jan 2026 · 20:27 · Filmed autumn 2025
Laguna San Rafael Aysen, Chile

At the end of the austral summer of 2025, we headed south for the first time, taking a three-week detour to explore the famous Laguna San Rafael and the lesser-visited Golfo Elefantes.

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Around Patagonia │ Part 8 - Golfo de Penas & Península de Taitao

23 Oct 2025 · 22:43 · Filmed summer 2025
Bahia Kelly Aysen, Chile

Between February and March 2025, we sailed 300 nautical miles from Caleta Tortel to Puerto Chacabuco, exploring this relatively unknown part of Patagonia.

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Around Patagonia │ Part 7 - Canal Messier and the Baker area

11 Jun 2025 · 20:47 · Filmed summer 2025
Seno Iceberg Aysen, Chile

Continuing our journey along the Southern Patagonian Icefield, we departed Seno Eyre and rejoined the main route.

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Around Patagonia │ Part 6 - Sailing in the Heart of the Andes

27 Apr 2025 · 31:41 · Filmed summer 2025
Estero Peel Magallanes, Chile

By daylight on Christmas Day, we left Puerto Natales after a week spent stocking-up enough food and diesel and arranging paperwork. As usual, we sailed against the prevailing northwesterlies and current.

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Around Patagonia │ Part 5 - Última Esperanza

30 Jan 2025 · 32:07
Seno Ultima Esperanza Magallanes, Chile

Following a tedious windward sailing in the Western section of the Strait of Magellan, we continued our route North in Canal Smyth.

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Around Patagonia │ Part 4 - Tierra del Fuego to the Strait of Magellan

3 Nov 2024 · 28:57 · Filmed winter
Seno Agostini Magallanes, Chile

We explored the channels between Tierra del Fuego and the western section of the Strait of Magellan onboard our sailboat “TUPAIA”, a Dufour 35 from 1974.

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Around Patagonia │ Part 3 - Cape Horn Archipelago in Winter

3 Aug 2024 · 22:02 · Filmed winter
Isla Lennox Magallanes, Chile

We spent 28 days sailing the Wollaston-Hermite archipelago onboard “TUPAIA”, our Dufour 35 from 1974.

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Around Patagonia │ Part 2 - The Glaciers of the Beagle Channel

26 Jun 2024 · 25:12 · Filmed autumn 2024
Seno Ventisquero Magallanes, Chile

In April 2024, we explored the Beagle channel for 58 days onboard “TUPAIA”, our Dufour 35 from 1974.

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Around Patagonia │ Part 1 - Argentine section

11 Apr 2024 · 12:14 · Filmed summer
Isla Leones Chubut, Argentina

First episode of our Patagonia series - Sailing the Argentine section of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. Nico came from Brittany (France) to replace Nao who had to leave because of a family emergency.

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Across the Atlantic - Sailing from France to Argentina

13 Feb 2024 · 19:35
Mar del Plata Buenos Aires, Argentina

This year, we are heading south, to Patagonia. This video summarises the first four months of this new adventure, during which we crossed the Atlantic from north to south and east to west onboard TUPAIA - our Dufour 35 from 1974.

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Sailing around the Faroe Islands

16 Sept 2022 · 9:04 · Filmed summer 2022
Faroe Islands

Setting sails to the Faroe Islands onboard TUPAIA, our Dufour 35 from 1974.

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Around the Hebrides - Sailing Mull, Skye, and the Outer Hebrides

13 Mar 2022 · 16:00 · Filmed summer 2021
Coll Inner Hebrides, United Kingdom

Sailing Scotland’s West coast onboard our good old Dufour 35 from 1974. We left our home port of Paimpol (France) on July 2021 to explore the Inner and Outer Hebrides for about two months and a half.

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