The tribe
My skin was encrusted with a thin layer of salt from an afternoon at the beach. Having only arrived in Grenada a few weeks earlier, my husband and I and our three sons, all under ten years old, had adapted to the slower pace of life.
After our trip to the beach we made a stop at the supermarket, and it was there that I met Brian Trautman and his brother Brady – a crew I felt as though I already knew – a chance encounter that would lead to a string of meetings over the following 18 months.
We’d arrived from Australia having bought a boat sight unseen, but we weren’t sailors – we didn’t even know how to move from one anchorage to the next. In the lead-up to our two-year sabbatical, our sailing education consisted largely of YouTube videos, which we watched with feverish dedication. So, when I learnt that our favourite YouTube channel, SV Delos was also in Grenada, I was giddy with excitement.
With 360,000 YouTube subscribers, 1.8 million views per month and 125,000 Instagram followers, SV Delos have made a real name for themselves, having crossed every ocean and visited 46 countries with 75,000 nautical miles under their keel. Their video footage is state of the art, filming their adventures in some of the most isolated and exotic locations on earth. But what they don’t share in their videos, and
