people often ask us what we do all day when we're just sailing around well the fight is actually sailing the boat and spending quite a bit of time fixing things we make our living producing award-winning television programs about traveling to amazing destinations by boat we've been filming the distant shores sailing adventure TV series since 1998 the show has been translated into 28 languages and is seen by millions on television stations around the world I wanted to see the world I longed for the romance of travel now we live on a sailboat and travel the ocean join us as we sail to distant shores so here's a peek into how we make our sailing television video series and what it costs to produce sometimes to tell a story we just need a few shots when we sailed to the British Channel Island we experienced tides nearly 40 feet high in order to show just what such big tides meant we waited for good weather and set up a camera showing the tidal gate at the marina this single shot took over 8 hours all our battery packs and camera chips plus we had to stay with the camera for the duration luckily the shot was worth it sometimes the time lapse shot helps understand the subject in this case the humble conk as we shoot underwater in the Virgin Islands speeding up the shot shows how they move around eating algae off the grass on the bottom unfortunately it was an expensive shoot our six thousand dollar underwater camera and professional housing developed a leak it ended up meaning nearly 2,000 dollars in repair bills many people ask if we have a film crew travel with us to get the shots we need for the television show the answer is no we film the whole thing ourselves but in this case Cheryl climbed aboard a friend's boat to get these great shots of distant shores - sailing up the Seine River in France we got some shots of their classic yacht as well crossing the French canals that year was a 10-week shoot making five half-hour television shows Cheryl lugged our big camera and tripod all over the place to get shots showing the historic lock system I should have got a shot of her out in the field getting this shot back in 2005 we had an opportunity to sail to Syria in the Middle East we spent a few days in Aleppo met some great local and got right into the culture oh the effort the goal was I would walk down the street and people wouldn't say ah where are you from Canada England Liverpool Arsenal no but it doesn't work they still say that then oh they will make sure you are to it now they know I'm returned with all this complicated complicated thank you for that like yes yes this is very like Lorenzo forever yeah sometimes you have to seize the day and I'm glad we took the chance when we could in the Caribbean we solved an 11 part series videos on anchoring in this one on deep Anchorage's like Reed I've down set the camera up on the bottom and it 50 feet down then go back to the surface to catch my breath Jarrell backs up oh holy anchor and I watch how it performs with short scope the camera is running the whole time until I bring it back up the anchoring series took a few weeks to film and another week to edit but it was worth it to document this for sailors sometimes we get to a place that's just so gorgeous we need to try unique ways to capture the image in this case putting our camera up on a pole hmm the second time it works I also take one of our little GoPros up to grab high angle shots but sometimes we leave the camera up the masts for a while to help compress time for TV I've installed a permanent mounting bracket in a few places around the boat on average we spend 10 days shooting to come up with one 24 minute television show over the 10 days we shoot more than 6 hours of footage and that needs to be edited down to the 24 finished minutes a typical 24 minutes show will have over 200 cuts in the timeline there is nearly 8 hours needed just to complete the final audio mix for one show have we made a million dollar sailing video series well we've been filming distant chores since the year 2000 and it's been our full-time jobs and sin we've spent over a hundred thousand dollars on camera here and editing systems in that time we invested more than a week's time in the studio scripting editing and finishing each of the hundred and thirty-six episodes we've made and plenty more time dealing with the business of televisions preparing scripts for the language versions and more in the end if we've done our job well it looks like we just sail around enjoying this beautiful planet hopefully you've enjoyed our programs over the years it always helps us when we receive feedback from viewers back in the day when we were just on television around the world before social media we met fans who had been affected by the show now with social media and YouTube we can get more feedback and it helps us know if we're on the right track we want to help people get out cruising and exploring distant shores around the world so please give us a thumbs up or add a comment below and if you know someone who'd like to check out distant shores please share this video are you interested in the cruising lifestyle are you planning to sail away on a cruising adventure or researching cruising areas and destinations Sisson chores is a television series about the cruising life with lots of tips for sailors planning to sail away this is Oswego New York we are entering the Erie Canal system and this will take us all the way from Lake Ontario to the Hudson River which gets us to New York City plus destination information to help you make your cruising plan and on the bottom we've been filming distant shores for nearly 15 years and know the fun and challenges of the cruising life we've made distant chores with you in mind we include plenty of cruising tips in this travel series as well as lifestyle segments and hints for sailors heading to exotic destinations encouragement for you and your crew to get out cruising destinations include the Intracoastal Waterway the Bahamas Caribbean the Mediterranean Scandinavia transatlantic passage making the French canals and more you