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Yeah, 10-11 knots speed through flat water. We were wishing for some swell to ride, but not much swell was in the water, or making it all the way to the GG bridge.

Maya Taqueria! So good: their al pastor is amazing! Honestly I think it's better than most of the places up and down the coast, baring a couple spots in Santa Barbara.

@@OurLadyDefiant can’t wait to give it a try.

Thank you! Really happy that you're liking it!

@@oldshad65 thank you!!

I should know the SB Harbor numbering by now, we've been there a bunch, but I'm not sure where we took the photo from. It was some time when we stayed sorta mid-harbor as opposed to out in the usual guest slips near the end. Really glad you enjoyed this one. I'm guessing you've seen our other videos, but if not, check them out! We have a few out. I'm trying to get our latest one out some time soon, but we've been busy re-bedding the keel and getting new rigging. We're finally back in working order, but now my wife (Ira, pronounced ee-ra) has been photographing for PacCup so she's hogging all the hard-drives!!! You'll see the new video some time soon though.

@@OurLadyDefiant our boat is in the upwind slip directly across from where that photo was taken. The Valiant with the black canvas. You walked right by it every time you went out. I probably even said hello. It’s always interesting talking to the visiting folks. We’ve been enjoying the videos, we’re always on the lookout for ones with more sailing and less posing.

@@joshmassie7614 That's awesome! We'll be back in SB in October I think, and some time after Thanksgiving (going south and then north). If we see you we'll stop by and say hello! Really glad you're enjoying them. More to come soon hopefully. We've done some more racing lately, with is fun to make into videos, but it's challenging to video while racing.

I know! It sucked, but the cove is fairly narrow and surrounded by rocks, so I wouldn't have wanted to leave in the dark on our first time exploring it. Also, there's that voice inside your head when you're warm in bed (rocking back and forth) that keeps saying, "I'm sure it'll start to calm down any minute now... the wind died hours ago!" I think if I were to go there again and the mooring balls are still out of order, I'd set an anchor such that we could tie a stern line to a mooring ball and be bow into the swell. Then we wouldn't be dependent on the ball to hold us fully, but it would at least hold us in the right orientation.

Yep, that's definitely a good idea! Also, at that moment you're likely going down wind, so you'd want a fair bit of slack in the outhaul for performance. If we were racing, that would have been done already out of the competitive spirit 😁 but because we were just cruising, we weren't being as particular about trim.

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for checking out the video!

Glad you enjoyed the video! Hope you feel better! If you’re sick, I’m sure you’ve found our other videos too. I hope they’re good sick-time entertainment. Regarding the kicker, you’re making a good point re the tendency to pull to one side if you send the line through an off-center deck organizer. We haven’t noticed any negative effects just because the line exits the kicker so close to the goose neck pivot point, but I’m sure there’s some tension/slack that occurs on one tack versus the other. Like I said, we haven’t noticed enough to make us change it. I have seen other boats run an adjustment line to each side of the cabin-top, and I bet that would alleviate that effect. In the end, I don’t think it’s cost us much… at least not as much as a bad tack or a bad decision.

That’s awesome! It’s definitely achievable, and it’s very well worth it. Let us know if you want any input on anything specific about how to make the trip.

Thanks for the input! We’ve tried both ways of doing it, and at least for double-handing we found that the time it takes to wrap the line into the jaws and then do the final trim is a pretty big loss of time out of good trim. With the line in the jaws already you don’t lose any time between pulling and the final little grind in. I’m sure we’ll keep trying both methods to test what’s faster, but that’s the thinking behind starting the tack with the new working sheet in the jaws already.

Thank you!! We’ll try to take some video of unstopping the mast, and then the violent part as well: dropping the keel. They have to really smash the crap out of it usually to get it off (which I guess is a good thing…)

@@OurLadyDefiant my guess is that you will have to cut it off. I would bet that after you remove all the keel bolts it will not even move. I saw them try to remove a keel once at Svendsen’s. Getting the bolts off was no problem but after doing that, they pounded on it with a big hammer and then ran into it with a forklift! They then got a sawsall.

@@danknox9986 lol, yes, this is what I’ve been warned about. If it comes down to sawing through the keel bolts I may think twice about full removal. We’re just trying to fix one or two leaking keel bolts, not any kind of structural issue. We want to prevent crevice corrosion from trapped water next to the keel bolt. If our goal is to protect the keel bolts long term, then cutting them is antithetical to that… but we’ll see!

Thanks for that comment. I can confirm we now do outside gybes as a rule unless we have a big enough crew who know how to do inside gybes.

@@OurLadyDefiant yep. The extra man on the bow helps a lot in inside gybes. You really did set up well. It was so unfair.

Yeah, we were blown away. It was a substantial fish!

I’ve seen guys howl and jump around an aft deck of a boat when they catch a fish, and way more excited than this…do you yawn when you catch fish?

No joke though: she's got the best fishing luck on the boat... I have no idea what it is. Some kind of special touch... who knows. It drives me crazy while I'm sitting there catching nothing!

Lol, Right!?

@@OurLadyDefiant I would at least hold my feet up. Lol. Omg.

I know... their nails look nicely trimmed at least!

Lol, very funny. Do you still have that boat, and keep it over there in Sausalito?

Thank you! Glad you liked it. We try to post a good variety of stuff, including some peaceful stuff like this.

That's a great idea! I've used a screwdriver to start a boat engine before, so I don't know why it didn't come to mind at that moment to do something similar... too long a day I suppose. Thanks for the input!👍

Thanks for the input. We’ll search for a relay to replace the existing one… hopefully a non-Lewmar part.

Stoked to hear that help. Keep at it!

Lol, will try to make the next video tilt the other way to even you out!

Thank you! I figure it's more fun if you all aren't guessing what I'm thinking, and it's also more fun to laugh at mistakes together rather than by myself 😁

Thanks! I didn't know that Rust-Oleum was less than ideal. I like your recommendation. On the next motor I buy (there will be another after this one) I'll do that. I will definitely be putting the Reversing Box/relay on the other side of the bulkhead to protect it a bit more!

It's less a J/Boats issue as opposed to a Lewmar issue. I did the instal myself, and did a good/correct job at it, and the windlass is designed to have the motor in the anchor locker. I think they used an off-the-shelf, non marinized motor, and the result is that it rusted and died quickly. the thumbnail is the original, and as you can see the outer case is rusting, the terminals, the inside, etc. They need to use a motor that's fit for that salty environment, or they need to do what I did, and apply a coating and re-engineer certain things so that the salt environment doesn't destroy the motor.

I think that's the first method I was talking about... generally called "vang sheeting". I've never quite understood the theory behind that. If you're able and willing, could you let me know what the thought process is behind that method? Is that correct that you put the traveler all the way to leward and then use the vang or the mainsheet to adjust the twist? Or is there a better way to describe what's going on with that method?

Yes anyone can race. Spinnakers can be used but don’t have to be.

We were technically in the spinnaker class for boats over 30 ft., but we decided not to hoist after a hectic start and beat to windward. We didn't have a full and experienced crew on-board, and with wind in the low to mid 20s, I didn't feel confident in our ability to be successful. Also, it's a beercan, so I tend not to want to do anything too stressful. If you want to read one of the funniest deeds of gift you've ever read, check out the RYC Beercan Deed of Gift here: www.richmondyc.org/files/Beer%20Can%20Deed%20of%20Gift.pdf

We're back up in the bay now, but thanks for mentioning it. Are you associated with a loft, or are you independent?

@@OurLadyDefiant Just an old geezer who had good experiences with the Ullman loft just outside Ventura harbor.

@@petercaras3696 We did end up going to an Ullman loft, but I think it was in further south... maybe in Newport Beach... not sure. Thanks for the tip though. We had a really good experience with the Ullman loft we went to as well. I feel like they're generally a good group wherever you find them.

Thank you! We’re hopefully putting out something unique on here. I got kinda tired of what I was seeing from other channels, so we decided to put out what we’d enjoy watching. A new asym and a new main are on our list for the coming year. She still moves along fairly well but I’d love to get a bit better shape out of the sails without as much fuss.

This is great, peter gustafsson put up an entire race a couple of years ago, entirely raw, not even comments just him and the crew shouting in swedish, been looking for that kind of content ever since :)

@@osten_petersson That's hilarious! Do you speak Swedish? We had our first beercan of the season just a couple weeks ago with 25-28 true (32-35 on the sails/across the deck), and it was a mess! I'm putting it together at my leisure, but that'll be up eventually.

Hey, thank you! We'll hope to see you around the club some time soon!