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It was end of April 2022 to start of June 2022.

My boat is a Grand Banks 36 Classic, built in 1974, one of the first GRP of Grand Banks. It is quite heavy and the GRP seems very strong and thick.

thank you for your encourragement :-)

thank you for your encouraging words. It certainly is a good plan for your retirement, it will keep you busy also, when not at sea though ( always something to make better / repair :-) ). Have fun with my ongoing videos. BTW, around year 2000 I had a cabin in the Yukon ... regards Dieter

The voyage to Norway was back in 2022, after I had bought the GB in France. But I will take your advice and show some more times the instruments when I make new videos from my Norwegian tours. To the context: Engines are 2 Perkins Sabre M135 from 2012, they have now ca. 1800 hrs. During my voyage to Norway I run them usually with around 1600 RPM giving mit a speed o.g. of 7 - 9 kt. The waves in western France were probably around 1.5 meters at highest. We encountered some of about 2 meters in Scotland :-( , but I do not have a video of that, I was too occupied to keep the boat on course. It is difficult to say generally, what I consider as unsafe conditions, but with my boat it would probably be waves of more than 3 meters. But crossing waves (as we had in Scotland) are very dangerous even if smaller as the boat rocks to all directions. Hope I got some of your questions answered, but you are welcome to ask more. Kind regards Dieter

Sorry for answering late, I had some health problems to solve. Thank you for your positive comment. I really liked Dublin, will go there again.

When I bought the boat, they had about 900 hrs each, the whole trip to Norway was about 200 hours on the engines.

Yes, we were very happy about this, the sea on the English Channel and the Irish sea can be rather rough.

Thanks for your comment, nice to learn that you got some new perspective. The biggest difference between Europe and US is probably the different customs and legal conditions in the various countries in Europe.

Unfortunately, I am not in the region anymore, but I will return to Ireland and get some more time there.

Tusen takk for dine gode ord, gleder meg at du liker mine videoer :-) Kanskje du finner nokre venner som også kunne bli med som abonnenter? Neste video kommer fredag ettermiddag Helsinger fra Selje, Dieter

Es freut mich, dass ich dir neue Aspekte der Gezeiten aufzeigen konnte. Danke für die Hinweise betr. RUclips. Es gibt auf YT sehr viel Videos zum Thema, aber die meisten YT-Akteure wenden sich eher an junge Leute und die sind dann auch viel aktiver auf dem Internet und in den sozialen Medien. Ruhige Reisen mit einer Motoryacht fallen da leider nicht darunter, vielleicht, weil das die meisten sich nicht leisten können oder weil es eben nicht so viel "Action" bedeutet. Ich versuche einfach, weiterhin meine Art Video zu verbessern und geduldig weiterzuarbeiten. Ich möchte mich nicht für irgendwelche Tricks oder Spielchen zu etwas verbiegen, das ich nicht selbst bin. Dafür bin ich zu alt. Ich wünsche dir weiterhin gute Unterhaltung mit meinen Videos. Gruss Dieter

Thank you very much for your positive and encouraging words, I really appreciate. Especially from such an experienced seaman like you! Not every video will also have a "theoretical" part, but when it fits to the journey I will do so. Kind regards from Norway Dieter

thank you for your positive feedback, I am glad you like this type of videos :-) There will be more in future.

Thank you for your positive feedback. It was a very nice daysjourney early this year. I hope spring will soon also reach western Norway, so that we can enjoy more of such tours.

Thank you very much for your comments. Yes, I think, stability considerations as very important. Sitting on the flybridge with waves coming in (once we had very large waves from a lifeboat of the Norwegian Lifeboat Association that rushed by) is an adventure and then it is good to know, that boat stability is secure. As my GB 36 is already 50 years of age, there are hardly any plans available about stability calculations. I hope you will follow my videos also in future and enjoy them. regards from Norway, Dieter

Went with canvass so i could retire early !! but always travel as full as I can, and with 100L reserve in clean jerry cans.. only 350L but gives me a 100-150hrs @4.5knts and if you get stuck with a bad tide and weather, you get stuck... safe watch..

Thank you for your comments. I will do more videos, one of the next will be about a turn here in Norway. Enjoy! Regards, Dieter

Danke für die Frage. Wir hatten die Geschwindigkeit etwas reduziert, wollten aber noch bei Tageslicht den Hafen von Camaret-Sur-Mer erreichen. Dies war der nächste Hafen, der uns adäquaten Schutz geben konnte. Bei ca. 7 kt Geschwindigkeit hätten 3 kt weniger gleich doppelt so lange Fahrtzeit bedeutet.

Thank you for your comments. Usually, we sailed with about 8 kt, but when the waves were higher, we had to reduce to about 7 kt. This was during out journey from France to Norway. Now in Norway, I usually take it easy with max 6 - 7 kt, often only 5 kt to enjoy the scenery.

Thank you for your good words and I am glad, that you enjoyed it. If you wait for good weather and sea conditions, it wouln't be a difficult sailing. Just be patient. If I would live near, I would do it again and hope for these wonderful creatures to join me again. BTW... it was on 1st of May 2022, when we crossed Bristol Bay, perhaps the dolphins are there around that date. Happy Easter days! Dieter

Thank you very much for these positive words. I am glad, you like my videos and can profit from them. I am trying to learn more every time, but not always I am successful and it takes many hours to get a video done. All the more I am grateful for every subscriber and hope to get to the minimum goal of 1000 as soon as possible. You can expect to get one new video about every week. Wishing you and your family happy Easter holidays Dieter

Dieter, given the fact that you like to reach 1000 subscribers asap, if it would be me, I would try to do the following: Grand Banks is likely the most popular Trawler brand out there, for good reason! 1. Is there an association? Or are there any FB groups of owners and enthusiasts? What do they talk about? Maintenance, Travel…? Maybe they like to show their baby & their big pride their Grand Banks or perhaps they like to exchange tips and tricks? That needs to be researched! That would be one way to build up subscribers if you could cater to a group like this. I‘m a retiree who loves to follow adventures of your kind another group of potential subscribers!😉 Here some RUclipsrs I have subscribed to: MAGIC CARPET, FAIR ISLE, FOLLOW THE BOAT, ESCAPE TO RURAL FRANCE, THE CHATEAU DIARIES this are some very successful RUclipsrs, always interesting to have a glance at how they do it! I would love to see your channel grow, I enjoy following your ideas, dreams and realities of retirement life.

Thanks for your advice. Actually, I already have published one or two of my videos on Grand Banks Facebook sites already and will do again :-) Wishing you happy Easter days! Dieter

@@cruisinggrandbanks36whiteh48 thank you Dieter, same to you and your crew. 🐰🙂

Yes, I am very happy with my choice of boat, I love sailing with it and never had experienced that I felt unsafe, all the while having respect of the sea.

Well, the National Transportation Plan for the next 10 years has earmarked ca. 130 billion US$ for all traffic, sea and land. And the biggest part is for streets (repair and some new construction), only a small part is to be used for the sea traffic, one project is this shipstunnel. This has now been allotet 320 million US$ for the next 6 years. BUT this does not yet mean, that such funds really get included in the actual yearly budget ...

We got into very worse sea conditions later on this journey in North Scotland. Unfortunately, I was so busy keeping the boat afloat, that I forgot to start recording on the camera :-(, but we and our boat survived. My dear partner chose to take the plane home to Norway after that day ...

Thank you very much!

Thank you very much, there will be many more videos coming 🙂

Yes, I like it very much 🛥️

Thank you for this info, it is new to me. I was always told to check when engine was warm but not running. 😊👍

Why should there be 2 tunnels? One tunnel will have enough capacity for the current ships traffic. 2 tunnels would be way too expensive. It is planned, that ships and boats can use the tunnel free of charge.

@@cruisinggrandbanks36whiteh48 Hello So the Boats would pass in a caravan, like in Egypt. You will find out that new Traffic-routes create traffic. Such routes are usually a huge benefit for economy, as you pointed out yourself. And they are most likely to create entirely new traffic. Would you be so kind to tell us about the traffic-estimations ? I have no clue how the people of Norway think about this project, my guess is that at some amount a desire for less could rise. What is the fish-breeders opinion on rising traffic ? ( As more propellers in the water mean more stress and more dirt for the fish )

Thanks for your comment and interest in this.

Danke, woher genau?

Hello I take my boat from wales to Falmouth every year I also stop at Padstow it’s a lovely place 👍 Lovely boat you have great channel thank you

Ha ha I just realised I was moored next to you on the Rodman 1120 😊

@@cruisinggrandbanks36whiteh48 vom Nordoschta vo Alberta. Ich träga mich mit em Gedanke bald emol uf em Boot z'läba. Will eis in Holland chaufa und über die französischa Kanäle is Mittelmeer. 😁

It is correct, that 3.2 billion Norwegian Kroner are allocated in the new National Transport Plan for the years 2025 - 2030. But it is also said that they want to see, what offers of potential contractors will show. 2024 said the Kystverket (national coast admin) that they calculated it would cost 4.09 billion. So there is a serious question, what happens, if the offers are more expensive than the 3.2 billion that are in the NTP. My fears are therefore still justfied.

Tusen takk for det 😃 ha moro 🛥️

Thank you very much ! 👍 I am very grateful for your comments

Thanks for your comment. I totally agree 👍

erm, just today the government announced the tunnel is prioritized and have marked money for it as well

You are right, I made a calculation error, will correct

Thank you very much for your support! I will do my best to keep this up and even learn more :-)

thank you very much for your support and good words!

Thanks, there will be more videos coming 😊 To your questions... 1. 2 Perkins of 2012, non-turbo, ca 6000 cc 2. While traveling to Norway, we cruised usually at 1600 RPM 3. Speed with this was around 8 knots 4. Total fuel consumption (both engines together) with this was about 12 - 13 liter per hour Here in Norway, I cruise with 1400 RPM, 6-7 kt, 8 Liter / h Regards Dieter

There was no special ceremony, but we did have a drink on the new name 😃 The selenoid was from the anchor winch and really rusty. The seller promissed to exchange it with a new one, but only cleaned it a bit. Home in Norway, I installed a new one.

Yes, I am very grateful for this support 💐😃 and it was a funny coincidence

There is a chain holding the anchor at the bow. But, perhaps you have noticed it :-) it was not fastened, when we crossed the English Channel. It took some days, until I noticed this. But the anchor chain itself was also blocked with a U-type lock that prevents the chain to run out of the chain box and that was always on.

Enjoy your new boat, an ideal fuel efficient motor boat awaiting your cruise to the Lofoten Islands.😊

@@timothyoshea8482 are you living on the Lofoten Islands? At least this year I plan to go south into Sognfjord 😊🛥️

No I live in Cork Ireland. A summer cruise in our sailboat to Shetland, Orkney and to Norway as far north as the Lofoten's is on the must do list.

Thank you :-) Soon you could be on this boat too ...

Ja, manchmal muss man mit grösseren Wellen rechnen, aber meist kann das ja vermieden werden, wenn man gar nicht erst rausfährt. In diesem Fall waren die Wellen zwar unerwartet, aber immer noch innerhalb der Toleranzgrenze.