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@@gwencoleman9439 Thank you! We love her!

Thank you! High 70's here in Annapolis, today!

It was so much fun to have all sail up and engine off, once again!

She really gets going! In the winter we want to learn to use the Genneker.

@@svwhitetail I have a cruising spinnaker. I have never used that cruising spinnaker. I know how to use the cruising spinnaker, but I have been too lazy to put it up. It is work. You guys prove that age is only a vague barometer. It is what we make it. Great videos!

I've never been through it; we've always taken the Alligator River. I'm worried about overhanging branches fouling our rig.

@@svwhitetail I grew up in Virginia Beach and when in Sea Explorers, we rowed from what is now Town Point in Norfolk to Elizabeth City...I made the trip 3 years..straight down 'the ditch', and we could hear 'things' as we rowed our steady 'stroke' passing the feeder channel to Lake Drummond.

@@jerrycallender7604 What an amazing experience! I hope they still do that, today!

@@svwhitetail That was 60+ years ago...I turned 80 Friday..The trips were highlights of my youth. My brother and I had a Catalina 34 early 1990's and I couldn't get him to go further than 4-5 miles from the marina..

@@jerrycallender7604 I hope young people still have adventures like that one. They're formative experiences.

Ugh... That must have been aggravating!

I'm glad you still found a good option!

Holy smokes! I've still never seen one in the wild, in the USA.

We have used Duck Creek Marine Service in New Bern, Hurricane Boat Yard in Bayboro and McCotters Marina and Boatyard in Washington. All of these are DIY friendly and have people onsite for hire. They all have their niche. Let us know if you need more details!

@@dan6681 Thank you! Did you have a favorite?

Because inverters and power supplies don’t work for free. Changing DC to AC equals work. That’s what the inverter does. Changing AC to DC is work. That’s what the power supply does. So if you need 50 W at the dish, you might have to take 100 W out of your battery to get it. That is if you do it inefficiently with an inverter and star link modem/power supply. Maybe the guy on the boat only wants to run his inverter when he has an AC appliance to run. Maybe he’s got a microwave oven, a vacuum cleaner, a water pump, etc. So he will turn on the inverter and heat up his pasta, his coffee, etc. Maybe he’ll have the inverter on for two minutes. Anyway, if you’re running on solar, most of the time, you don’t wanna have to run your inverter for 24 hours a day just to power The stupid Starlink.

We have had excellent Wi-Fi at the marina we are currently at. So, we have temporarily suspended our Starlink service. As soon as we get things up and running again we’ll update. It seems like the worst case scenario has been that people need to limit the WAN port. So there maybe a bottle neck at that point. Though we haven’t seen speeds from Starlink where that would be an issue.

We fired up the Starlink this week to test the DC Power setup. It’s had no affect on the speed of the connection. In a number of tests we were able to download data at a rate in excess of 100mbps. So, far this seems like a great way to cut back on the devices power consumption.

You are such a stud! So smart. I hope all is well in the Carolina’s? I am down at West Palm waiting to cross. It has been blowing from the north since I left Hidden Harbor three weeks ago and there appears to be no let up. Sheesh. When I came back from Charleston it would not stop blowing from the south. I hope y’all are planning another trip to the Bahamas. If so, I hope to meet up and have you both over for dinner. 😊

Hi, Dan. We might be interested in selling the whole unit, but it is quite heavy. If you can tell me your zip code, I can have a quick look at shipping quotes before we go any further.

@@svwhitetail thanks, we ended replacing our horizon yesterday. I'm now the proud owner of a Quick HC3. Too many problems and guests taking the last month of the season

That's what I'm hoping. Maybe I'll do a side-by-side comparison, once the install is done 🙂

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Thank you, Franklin! I really enjoyed our chat over pastries in GA. After we parted company, did you have any trouble with the weather? We had many storms and it looked as though St Simons had it even worse!

@@svwhitetail Yes! I had 115 of chain out. The holding there is mud and shell. Not great. The next day we had a band come through. The breeze went from 6 mph to 60. All my electronics were off. It was a race between me and a million dollar catamaran to see who would get to the other side as the wind pushed our boats perpendicular to it. He beat me and it took till the next day to get him off the bank. The wind actually flipped his 13 foot center console inflatable. I think I dragged about 500 feet in two minutes. I did not want to hit the other shore so I started my engine and not knowing where my anchor was tried as best I could to keep the bow pointed into the wind. It worked. The rain was coming sideways and I could not see with my glasses on and taking them off just made it worse. When the storm passed I picked up my anchor and went back, but this time I put 215 ft of chain out. The next day and day after the storms brought 50 mph winds. What that wind does to my big fat condominium is violent, but 350 pounds of chain lying in the mud seemed to be the perfect amount. On my sail back to Cumberland I was supposed to have a breeze in the low teens. The breeze went as high as 30 knots on the beam. As you pointed out in the video, the weather did not match the predictions. By the way, going into St Simons I saw 29 knots and as you said, it was choppy. Not big but perfect to throw sheets of water over us. But we did it. I hope you have having a wonderful time. I also hope you tube makes a way for more people to see your videos. They are as good as anything out there…and tell Dan to smile once in a while. 😊

@@CinthyaFranklin I'm very sorry to hear that. As we traveled North from St Simons, the weather was pretty bad. On a couple of different days we had to stop in the middle of the day and find an anchorage because of the storms we could see approaching our location. One evening we had winds of about 40 to 45 knots, but our anchor did not budge. We were monitoring the weather keenly and it was apparent that your location was pretty much the bullseye for many of the worst storms. We were both hoping you'd been able to get out of there already. When we heard over VHF that boats were dragging in front of Frederica Yacht Club, I was thinking of you and hoping that you'd be safe. "350 pounds of chain lying in the mud seemed to be the perfect amount." - yes, that sounds like a very effective solution 🙂 The wind models around that time were all very inaccurate. Day after day we would see conditions in excess of what had been predicted. It seems to be much better, now, or maybe it's just because we are further North. Stay safe, Sir!

@@svwhitetail Mother Nature is a woman. 😬 I survived and no harm. We live and learn but in my 62 years I have never seen thunderstorms like these. I hope you will keep the videos coming. They are very good and you are a gifted speaker. I have truly enjoyed your videos. Next Saturday I will head back to Fernandina. From there I will overnight to Beaufort SC where my son will join me. From there we will overnight to Charleston and then we will back track to Beaufort where I will drop off my son. Life should be an adventure. We only get to do this once. No regrets.

Hi, Gwen. Thank you for the encouragement! Our home port is Oriental, NC, but we're actually coming to Northwest Creek Marina for one month, later this week! It's been good to travel, but a few weeks in one place will also be welcome.

@@svwhitetail You must stop by when you get here, we are in slip F 37, SV Davali. We will be around until Feb 14. We have a car here if you need to run any errands. We would love to hear about your new electronics. Ours are hanging in there but it’s only a matter of time. Safe travels.

@@gwencoleman9439 That would be amazing, thank you! We have a car, but we have to collect it from storage in Oriental. Would be delighted to tell you all about our electrics; the navigational systems and the house systems.

@@svwhitetail Maybe we could give you guys a ride to Oriental? When do you think you will be arriving? The weather has been challenging!

That would be AMAZING, thank you. Plan to arrive tomorrow, but would likely not go get the car until the next day.

Not sure about the efficiency. They are rated at 175W each. I think I have briefly seen 450W out of the three of them, lying flat at a latitude of about 29°N in May.

There are certainly things that make us anxious. When the waves start to get bigger, that is intimidating. Although we have sailed out of sight of land, all our journeys to date were concluded before dark. I think it will be a leap when/if we start making multi-day passages.

Yes; we have an autopilot. It can: 1) steer to a specific heading, even when deflected by wind & waves. 2) steer to maintain a constant angle to the wind. 3) follow a pre-programed route along a series of waypoints (eg in a GPX file) The autopilot motor is hidden below decks, meaning that the wheel appears to be haunted 👻. At the moment we are actually trouble shooting the autopilot; another device on our NMEA network is throwing it off and we can't understand how.

@@svwhitetail That sounds annoying!

Those who are not cruisers may think that an Autopilot is a bit of a luxury. However, in an age when most cruising yachts have only two people aboard, an autopilot is an important piece of safety equipment. For one thing, it massively reduces crew fatigue. For another, it enables an injured crewman to be tended by the other.

I'll be happy to mention depths! I will say that I am glad we have the shoal-draft variant of our boat, drawing less than five feet. We have often anchored in less than ten feet and some cuts were under seven feet...

Thank you so much!!! I hope to be in the Bahamas next feb !

The gadgets are great for accelerating processes and adding safe guards, but there's no substitute for our basic human senses 🙂

Regarding scope: check out the spreadsheet at 4m 45s. Accounting for the tide and for the height of the bow roller, our scope was 8:1. Our nearest neighboring vessel was 420 feet away. That little rangefinder is a handy device for ensuring we're not going to be bad neighbors with our scope 🙂

Did you notice our anchor is a SARCA Excel? Made in Melbourne, Australia 🙂 We love that anchor and have been very happy with it. We chose it after seeing the tests that SV Panope put on RUclips.

@@svwhitetail yes, great choice! We can only hope that manufacturing continues to be done in Melbourne and doesn't go overseas like most of our good products. Cheers from Newcastle Australia.

@@svwhitetail sorry, I must've missed something during the video. I thought you said you had anchored in 9 ft of water and had put out 125 ft of chain? In my book that's a bit over 13 ft of chain per 1 ft of depth. With regards to the range finder, I am looking for a good one to use with my mooring contracting business and would be interested to know what make and model you are using. Cheers from Newcastle Australia.

Thanks, Luke. The journey took 15 hours, but the prep took 12 months 😆