We traded our sailing yacht for a camper to put van life to the test in New Zealand! Watch now to find out if van life can match the freedom of cruising or if it's just another carefully filtered dream.

The heart of our anchoring system was dead. In our last episode, the windlass motor failed, leaving us to haul anchor by hand. We needed a fix. Fast. Or our cruising season would be toast.

They call Auckland, New Zealand the City of Sails, and after a month here, we can see why. But beyond the skyline and the sea of masts, we’ve discovered something else: a place where boats, and people, come to be repaired, tested, and maybe even transformed.

After sailing nearly 9,000 nm over 18 months — from Panama, west across the vast Pacific Ocean — we’ve made landfall in New Zealand. For many cruisers, this is the finish line. But for us… this isn’t the end.