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@@vincenthigginbotham8729 no we missed the goats, maybe we’ll have to go back sometime.

@@saschahohenberger7969 haven’t worked out an accurate figure for sustained cruise but it’s very low. Average consumption for a day out like this one is 8 - 10 litres. Most I ever burned in a day out was 18litres and that was the Jameson’s cove episode and that would have included a good bit of time at wide open throttle in the race to get home on time. This is a very economic setup.

Thank you. I believe I have this video set up as a channel trailer but it will only play as such for first time visitors to the channel as far as I understand.

Thanks for watching and appreciate the feedback. It’s a lovely area, particularly in the spring. Happy memories. The videos get better later on 😂 always learning 👍

@@MiriamKennedy thank you as always Miriam. A veritable fun arsenal 😁

Thank you Davy. I appreciate the centiment of your question. I think the algorithm finds such the broad variety of subjects I post confusing. It’ll try showing a canoe trip to a camper and a camp trip to a boater, and so I take two steps forward and one step back. But it’s okay. I don’t do enough of either of those three to run whole channel for each subject. I’m just happy to make the videos I’m inspired to make and let the sub count be what it’ll be. I absolutely love making these things. Eventually I’ll end up with a subscriber pool who can tolerate my meandering interests and totally random publishing schedule, but there’s no rush 😂 The road is long. The algorithm doesn’t hold the key to my income as this is all done for fun, but I do think it is a good teacher to anyone interested in this craft. I’m always learning here.

@@rdcork1 funny to find your comment here in this instant Robin because I’ve literally just been watching your exploits all the way from the sea bed to dinner and the promise of a salad to follow what looked like a fabulous dinner in a grand location. Thank you for the offer, I feel like this is a damn good idea and very likely to happen. Where abouts in west Cork are you roughly?

Videography in common too don’t forget 🙌👊

@@VISTATREKKER in a small town called ballydehob just past bantry. It's located in a place called roaring water bay, home to the Carberry hundred isles.

@@rdcork1 I lived there when I was small. From that time I remember beaches, radar domes getting blown up by the IRA, and the arches of the railway bridge by the playground which fascinated me. With a name like Robin you’d spot I was a blow in of course, we blew out again though, but not before my sister was born there. I came back and worked for Edmond in Rossbrin boat yard when I was 16. Had a very enjoyable summer there waiting for the leaving results. Was that Rochelle you two went to? Saw a clip somewhere saying you met in boarding school.

@@VISTATREKKER yeah it was Rochelle, and we named our son Ashton. You know it? Most bizarre U were here too!! And working at Rossbrin too! I'm only attempting to get to know the place but it has potential! Lots

Thank you Robin. Feedback is invaluable and as always will steer future videos so it’s much appreciated.

@@robinferguson8911 so far so good Robin. After a while it would be cool to build up a chain of such camping spots and then go overland for a bit longer.

@@robertjohnston3658 thank you Robert, I genuinely appreciate your feedback. Means a lot of course. Feedback after all is what steers the next video.

@@WestCorkWander oh cool, you’ve gone all in, a boat as well, what type of boat do you have. A little bigger or say a sailing boat and maybe the fish recovery net strategy mentioned in comments below may also help.

@@VISTATREKKER the lr3 for land adventures and a warrior 195 for offshore adventures. Had 5 other boats over the last 14 years but this one fits well! It was our forever boat until we saw yours. I'd love a little rib to quickly nip out to the islands . Hoping to do a little more non house renovation stuff next year. Dying to check out the west Cork proper 🤞

ahh, woops, I now remember you telling me this before, the 195 with the shelter is also not without its merits, if my wife who is always virtually perished with the cold at sea saw yours she would be pointing at it and wondering why I didn't buy one like that. The best boat of course is the one available to a person right now, but I must say my little RIB, albeit after too many years of planning, was exactly the one I wanted. That is to say exactly the combination of compromises I accept. The only one that came close was the highfield 540, not sold here, and the 'Bord a Bord' Divinis 540 all aluminium also would need to be imported. The latter has no tubes, just bare double hull unsinkable aluminium, that would last an eternity, but I was worried about resale. It's all about RIBS here. An all aluminium unpainted oxide protected boat would have been an oddity around here if I ever had to sell. Ahh, boats, sure we could talk forever, better off to just get going 😄

@@inkedgermanexplorer thank you. I always especially appreciate a comment from someone who also knows how much work goes into putting these things together.

@@Jassonrodz hello to you in beautiful Puerto Rico, what an amazing place that would be to own a boat. Best of luck with all your research and decisions along the way if you do pursue this plan. Thanks for your feedback 👍

@@VISTATREKKER so far i think ill be starting up with a highfield classic 290 with a suzuki 20hp and go from there! Thanks for your videos!

@@Jassonrodz Highfield seem to be good from the reviews I’ve read. Enjoy life afloat. Tiller boats of that size can be really good fun once there’s enough horses bolted on to get you and crew up on the plane.

@@VISTATREKKER yeah that is what i have seen but the next one i will like to be the patrol 420 or 460

Thanks for watching and appreciate the feedback.

Thanks for the feedback. Genuinely appreciated. It has no fuel gauge but the fixed tank is 45litres and so far this trip was the most I’ve ever used in single a day at 18litres. I dip it with a wooden stick which I calibrated by filling the tank 10 litres at a time. My reserve tank is just a 20 litre plastic hand carry tank but it actually does have a float gauge, not to mention you can tell by the weight, so if I’m ever getting that tight I’ll have warning. Finally I have a 3rd 10litre can just for if I’m really losing track of myself someday😁 Also I have a syphon pipe which you see in one of the recent videos, I think the one listed as ‘speed trial’ with a bulb pump on it so that I can move fuel around safely and neatly if I ever have to do so at Sea. A gauge would certainly have prevented the issue you mentioned but equally my wooden stick could have done the same.

Very much appreciate your feedback Cronin, it’s easy to wonder sometimes if a video is way off the mark. Comments are great and do help keep things on track.

Thank you Miriam. Always appreciate your support hugely. I have a question. Which tent would fit in this boat and sleep 3 lanky kilroys, and last a very long time.

@@VISTATREKKER oooohhhhh - I would go with an MSR. Either the 4 person Elixir 4 (3.6Kg) or the Mutha Hubba NX 3 (2.29Kg)...the 4 person might be so much more comfy for 3 though! The Vangos seem very weighty as you increase in size. I've 2 MSR tents and they've lasted me 9 years plus - they aren't great in really crazy winds but who wants to be out in those conditions!! My tuppence 😉

@@MiriamKennedy brilliant thank you Miriam. At the rate the kids are growing up I think 4 person tent is the only way. I’ll have a look at these and see. Thanks for your advice 👍

@@VISTATREKKERI’d imagine the 4 person will even be a squeeze for the 3 of you. The 3 person would be a nightmare the more I think about it! 😇

@@MiriamKennedy yes, we are slightly spoiled after the roof top tent with its vast 70mm vast memory foam mattress 😩

Hi José, do you mean handling characteristics or equipment and accessories?

Yes​@@VISTATREKKER

​@@VISTATREKKER I want to buy one like yours and if you can make a video where you can put the characteristics

@@joselopezsanchez2359 hi José I will try, probably won’t get to it until autumn though. One thing I will say - Put the maximum 100hp on it. Same block size. Very economical compared to harder working smaller engines and hops up on the plane without a second thought regardless of how many passengers.

​@@VISTATREKKERcould I know how much it cost you in euros?

Think I’ve seen the lads in safe haven marine doing this and it looks like a great strategy. I guess the net opening needs to be big.

Thank you very much. Might have to take you for a spin when things quieten down and the brats are back in school.

@@VISTATREKKER I appreciate the offer but I'll be on the move to the continent soon. Keep up the good work my friend.

Well that’s only fitting for a wandering Irishman I suppose.

Thank you. Can Tig welding do aluminium?, it seems inevitable with my taste in beaches that I’ll need a good welder someday 😩

It certainly does beat your average horse box Andrew. Absolutely cracking spot. Would love to extend this operation to include a little beach camping some day. Over water overlanding. Waking up on a cove like that would make the coffee even better still.

Very pleased with it Gary, thank you, would love to know if it would float the drone but unfortunately there’s only one way to really find out 😅

I will put this on the todo list 👍

Hi Miriam, thank you for sticking with me on this slightly divergent track of interest, even though the destination might be the same. I’m thinking of a little standby motor for ‘just in case’. It’s always a compromise, weight, space etc, but those west coast cliffs practically have ‘second engine’ written across their scarred faces. To the good old days 🙌

@@VISTATREKKERthe scenario of an engine failing had never occurred to me! A spare tube and some small tools feel like light work now! 😊

@@MiriamKennedy redundancy for redundancy, backup for backups, when stuff breaks and you already planned for it there’s a little bit of glee that is worth the strain. Same when camping on a frozen peak I’m sure.

@@VISTATREKKER the spare superser is never too deeply packed in the backpack! 🤩

@@MiriamKennedy 😂💪🙌 winter ready

Lovely feedback to get Teresa, thank you 🙏

Thank you Denis. The guide poles I have are called floatem poles because the roller is buoyant and rises as the trailer descends in. The are immensely handy. Not just current but trying to launch into a tail wind running up the slip with waves breaking along the trailer as in the January Dawn trip in this series. To be honest I don’t understand how anyone does without them. Disadvantage is cost. These ones are beautifully welded and tough as you like but they are well over 200 sterling plus postage if I recall. I wasn’t going to bother until I put a scrape in the keel and that was that. The disadvantage is just that the lower elbow is sticking out wider than the wheel and also aft of it so it’s swinging wide as you turn which is worrisome on narrow roads particularly with high walkways either side that might catch it. In the end I’ve gotten used to treating the trailer as being that bit wider because it’s just essential to me to have them if I’m to launch and recover single handedly.

@@VISTATREKKERthanks for the advice. I self launch/recover and have been mostly fine but I did struggle more recently recovering at Doolin pier. It was my first time using Doolin and conditions were tricky. No damage except my ego, lessons learned: guide poles needed. 😂

Nothing like trailer work to deliver a good old ego dent. Probably the fact that my trailer does not really have rollers makes the trailer a less welcoming route for the bow, however I am now as hooked as a 6 year old still using stabiliser wheels on the bike😂. Today I recovered from the same slip at low water meaning I had to go off the side of the slip to avoid the step at the end of it and so I went in by the sand beside the slipway and then winched it up onto the trailer. Same deal with current and wind ripping across the trailer and only one set of feet willing to get wet (even on Father’s Day) so the guide poles were a gift yet again.

@@VISTATREKKER Ahh what a lovely way to spend Fathers day though! Yes, I've made the decision to go for the poles. I just pulled all my internal anodes and despite regular flushing they were quite dirty with all the hard water here.

@@denisryan4984 oh dear. Hard water here too…. Never thought of that.

The Highfield 540 was the one I really wanted with the deeper V and stronger transom for 115hp, but there’s no dealer here in Ireland so I’ve ended up happy with this one as 100is enough and the hull is that little lighter, but I do love the highfield. It took me a while to find a good wheel knob but it’s essential in my mind. Some knobs arrived from Amazon the size of a peanut. I’ll attach the link for mine below. It’s class, works, looks and fits well. www.ebay.ie/itm/282778835940?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=5282-175127-2357-0&ssspo=Yy3Bl3p2Qea&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=Ihkxbo8YQNu&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Thank you 🙏 much appreciated

Not too far at all, in fact that Launch and recovery is at Rush sailing club as you probably know. Lovely place to live with coastal walks and a beach facing where you’d want for any wind on the compass. Thank you as always for your support and feedback. It sure was a lot of craic, (once the engine started😅)

Marc thank you for the feedback, always appreciate it. Yukon is the mother load of wild places whose scent and footprints I track and only occasionally snare through a relatively populated and regulated Atlantic island. The stories you could tell I’m sure after years out there….by the way, what a Sir name for an outdoorsman Mr Oleshak, just fills me with the image of intrigue around the bend of a mountain trail or a lazy turn in a river.

Hey Marc, what a great comment to receive. Thank you. It means a lot of course. It was a special trip and one I was determined to do justice to with this video. These things take time to create and I do so happily, but comments like this sure do motivate the next one. Happy trails Marc, best of luck finding the adventures, people and places that bring these things to life.

You’re very welcome, glad you enjoyed it and thank you for the feedback.

Thank you sincerely. Each comment and every piece of feedback steers the next edit, so I appreciate it. Thats how I learn this craft.

You’re very welcome, my pleasure. I love putting these together. The process itself provokes and condenses my own thoughts on places, times and events. Very much appreciate your feedback and that the end result resonates with a fellow Discovery roamer. Enjoy wales and especially the headspace.

Thank you Paul as always for your support, watched it this morning after the couple of days since the edit and see mistakes I missed before, but perfection is the enemy of progress in this and as you say the interest and the faces are exactly the point. They were perfect. I have a little dream where the roof tent is set up by water and the RIB is bobbing nearby making promises about the morning as she lies to her huge array of anchors. Marshmallows of course to complete the scene 🙌

@@VISTATREKKER I think you're mentally penning the script for your next adventure 🚙🏕🔥... I hope so!!! And as for the errors, as Bruce Lee (I think) once said, "Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them." - Me? I make so many I rarely if ever spot them in others!!!

@@SirMossalot_Paul well said Paul. Couldn’t agree more. No point focusing on those of others because your own are the easier fix.

Thank you for watching Dermot. Not your natural subject, well speed is I suppose. I might turn you into a sailor yet 😅

Thanks Denis, appreciate your feedback, propellers seem to be a real science with too many variables to be able to afford to try them all, yet to get it right that’s what you would need to do for each new hull. All I changed was reducing pitch from 21 to 19, but then there’s diameter in fractions and number of blades, which is surely right for me at 3, but still if she’s not burning too much and we can have the craic I reckon we’re good. My hull and boat are not really optimised for too much speed either.

🤣 yes, yes it was all in the interests of science of course, though I think my speed test sample may need to be expanded to provide me with a more robust data set, after all I made no account of the breeze or trim. Naturally such research may involve further coffee brakes on any passing islands I may find.

Hey thank you so much, genuinely appreciate your feedback. Thats what steers the next one 👍👍

Darragh great to hear from you and thank you for the feedback. I think and I hope they will.

Hi Carol, genuinely appreciate the feedback. Glad you enjoyed it and thank you.

You’re very welcome Richard, glad you enjoyed it and as always I appreciate your feedback very much.

Not sure about weight but the limit is 100hp unlike the high field 540 which is 115. If you look at the transom area in the high field it’s more substantial but the hull weighs more. This is only 400kg. The welds on my hull are a thing of beauty. I can lie under the trailer and look at those welds and it relaxes my mind into a transcendental state they are so gorgeous. (As aluminium welding goes that is) The welding on the deck housings is of a lower standard. Where they are ground off to finish the welds you can see this work beneath the paint as the sun shines on it but it’s not immediately apparent in passing. It’s relatively complex metal work though and I guess moulded fibreglass will always be more polished. Ironically though the utilitarian look is all part of the appeal to me though. I’m glad this thing looks like it’s here to do a job. The high field has a deeper V which I would have preferred but the hull welding often looks shoddy and lumpy. It may just be that the deeper v is harder to form in plate metal. In any case this hull was the only aluminium hull available here. The finish of the workshop who assembles the final package is also a consideration of course. You might wish to view their work before you decide. Aluminium is a great material. Light. Tough. Durable. 100% recyclable. The last bit was specifically important to me.

Holidays should not be once a year. They should be stolen from every spare chance we can find. Life’s too short to wish away waiting for a far off time when there’s also chances to see things after work or wherever else you find your chance. Glad you enjoyed it and I think also understood it.

I know, had a little fury fume for myself when I saw the stupid brand new bollards across it now. So utterly stupid. Bugs me completely. Have a look at EP12 on here and Fermoyle strand. I’ve the legalities and by-laws covered in that one.

I agree. The west coast offers a lot more options in this kind of venture. Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for your feedback. Much appreciated.

Thank you Brian, comments and support like this always steer and drive on the next one. Much appreciated.

Hey great to hear from you and thank you especially for your comment. Genuinely appreciated. I just found your e-bike stuff and I look forward to following along there. Funnily enough I’ve been commuting to work on an e bike for a year now (3000km😎) and I’ve been wondering about its potential to go further. Range, charging and the logistics of that is interesting. Sometimes a vehicle is a hindrance in the hunt for a wild camp.

Thank you kindly Sir, a bit longer than usual but seems to have worked anyway.