Solo Sailing Woman * Bahamas * Staniel Cay To George Town on an Electric Sailboat
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Hi there! I have single handedly sailed my fully electric Ranger 28 sailboat from New York to George Town, Exuma, Bahamas, along with Marbles the Meowriner (my cat), to sing and play in paradise.
On this episode I take SV Electric Mermaid from Staniel Cay to George Town.
To get in touch with me go to www.linktree.com/electricmermaid
Most footage here by Glenn of SV Silent Running
Woah! Your so cool! Were so excited to start our own journey once we are done with rebuilding our 65' power catamaran.
Cute bum glad you let him film.😂
I love you and your direction in life thanks for the content wish I was there enjoying those waves
thanks for sharing your time with me, love, wish you were enjoying these waves too
I just found you channel and like you already.
Typically, I'll watch several videos before subscribing , but your natural, easygoing manner got my attention right away, plus I'm digging that boat of yours.
fair winds . . .
Appreciate the kind words 🙏🏼
I subscribed due to your courage doing it all alone.
A very underrated video. Well done with a great can-do attitude. Love the bone surgeon comment 😂.
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I enjoyed watching your video, good work👍🇨🇦
Thank you so much for watching! 🙏
Greetings from George Town (too). Love the way you're making it happen..keep up the good work. We're on Validated.
Cheers from George Town! Thanks for watching!
Great video. I love it being filmed from another boat.
We came back from cruising when the virus hit because everything was closing down. Wife was disappointed because we were getting ready to sail our new old boat to her home islands in Tonga where we met and got married and had our little boy. I will admit, I was looking forward to it more than she was but going back to Texas seemed like the right thing to do at the time.
Anyway, we decided to get her citizenship so we were going to be here for a while due to the regulations (just applied so in a 18 months we will take off again). I didn't want to live in a marina again for 5 years so I bought a house for us in the mountains. I bet we are the only house in the mountains with pictures of sailboats and the Island I've been all over the walls.
My favorite picture is one that a friend took of my boat on this exact same route about 20 miles before Georgetown) but back in 2014....my second trip to the Bahamas after making it to Panama. Yeah, I know, weird that I would make it all the way to Panama but then turn back and do it all over again before going west to the South Pacific. Anyway, I got that picture blown up really big (20x30) and hanging in the kitchen.
That picture is just more than a picture though, it is a reminder of the one thing that boat was great at: sailing in light winds. My friends were on an Island Packet and motoring the whole way, where as I was sailing along at 6 knots. I only had all my sail out maybe 1% of my cruising time, but that was one of those days. My friends were shocked when I told them I wasn't motor sailing. I think the apparent wind was 9 knots close hauled.
It's great to see ourselves outside of our body.
@@FranklinGray thanks for sharing your story. Yes this boat does not need a lot of wind to move at all. Also doesn't feel nice with too much wind, as opposed to some of my friends bigger boats.
Love you sister ❤🧜♀️🌊⛵️
@@jillie677 love you! hope to see you this summer in NY!
Awesome content ❤
thanks!
It sucks when autopilots mutiny. I Broke the engaging lever on mine while cruising south along the west coast of Mexico. Hand steered for over 500 miles while tring eveerything I could to repair it. I got out it's bag to find it's manual to hopefully find a ordering # and whala! A spare came with it in the bag! Liked your video, keep it up. The underway footage was great also.
Happy Trails, Dave S/V Tres Jolie
@@daveward2620 good for you to eventually find your spare part. I am now in my third auto pilot! I forget the name now but there's a heavy duty autotiller people rave about. I'll get that one next when the budget allows
Good job!
Thank you! Cheers!
This is wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
One suggestion - polypropylene line is inexpensive and floats. A 50 foot run will allow the dingy to be towed according to the sea state and will never foul your prop.
Fair winds!
thanks! that's a great suggestion. better yet, I shouldn't have been lazy and just pulled the dink up on deck 😄
One piece of advice I always took to heart: If you are going to single handle, you better have a really good autopilot AND a backup.
Before I left to go cruising, I installed a new below deck autopilot. I couldn't afford a spare then, so I built a drum for the steering wheel so I could do sheet to wheel if need be. I never used it besides practicing in protected waters because eventually I saved up for a spare AP...the exact same model so I could swap out a broken part in minutes and be on my way.
With you having a smaller boat with a tiller, a spare AP is much cheaper and easier to replace. You should get one or become very good at sheet to tiller.
@@FranklinGray you are right. The small auto tillers are more affordable and easier to carry a spare of. I left Annapolis with Two working but they hate that sea state! i've just recently installed a windvane and hoping to learn how to use it soon. when the budget allows I shall purchase heavy duty little auto pilot, I forget the name now
WOW! I assume sea sickness isn't an issue for you? I was getting dizzy from just watching ya rockin & rollin. Ha! Hey I enjoyed you rendition of Space Oddity! Well done. ;)
much appreciated! thankfully i've only been seasick once on my own boat, which was when the wind completely died off the New Jersey coast and I was too close to shore where the waves felt like a washing machine. I have a technique that I should share with y'all one of these days. cheers~
RockStar ⚓️
@@TurnOffYourTV thanks mate 🤙
I dragged my dinghy once and never again. I dragged it when going from Miami to Bimini. It was a light wind day so I figured, why not. I had an inflatable with inflatable bottom so it was fairly light. I took the outboard off and put it on the rail. I didn't trust the glued on rings to hold it, so I ran the painter from the stern board thru the bow ring and up to my cleat. What I didn't think about was the yanking back and forth it chafed the painter at the end of the crossing when I felt I was safe and took a nap. Woke up and it was nowhere to be seen. Ended up sailing back to Marathon to get a new dinghy and then go back to Miami to wait for a new window.
I always hated putting my dinghy on deck. It's hard to do in the wind blowing it all around so I found a way to make my homemade arch stronger so it could handle the dinghy. I don't like not being able to use my swim platform while sailing and fishing but I hate having a dinghy on deck even more. So glad I don't have to do that....but that is going to change.
I now have a family and a bigger boat with a cradle to hold a dinghy. I keep the dinghy on the professional arch I had made for it but I'm looking for a sailing dinghy for my son to use that will go in the cradle. The things we do for family :)
@@FranklinGray sailing dinghies are fun. I'm sure your son will love it. yep, I also lost a brand new tender going around Montauk, not knowing that a bridal could've helped, but definitely up on that is the safest. One day I'll have a nice dinghy davit too!
@sailingelectricmermaid my homemade one was made out of 2 inch aluminum poles and connectors I ordered online. Took me one day to make it and it cost $300
@@FranklinGrayoh wow! I sourced out some 2 inch aluminum pipes and they were a bit out of my range. definitely would've preferred to go with that
Thats dope i just got my first sailboat i hope to sail to the Bahamas one day
best of luck with it! it's totally doable!
Nice!
Thanks!
At least you’re sailing in warm weather my boat is stuck in the ice Nice video thanks for sharing
@@pascalblotiau oof hope things thaw out up there sooner than later and you go sailing. I was stuck in New York in some freezing temperatures for like six winters with this boat before bringing her all the way down here. Thankfully at the time I had a warm land home to go back to
I used to use rope rode instead of chain, or more accurately, a chain rope combo and pulled in by hand. I too liked the workout but mine was about 10 tons. Works great in the Bahamas and it still worked in the eastern Caribbean, but I went with all chain for central America and beyond (lots of coral heads to wrap around). The thing I found out the hard way is if you don't use your windlass, it can, and in my case did seize up. I mean, the shaft and the housing became one piece. So in the case of windlass, it's true, if you don't use it you will lose it.
Also, you are the first sailor I have ever seen to use a snubber on a rope rode. If worried about chafe, why not just use chafe protection on the rode? That is all I did.
@@FranklinGray ugh now I am worried about my windlass! I need to go test it out soon. I installed it brand new
👍 😎 Fair Winds
@@darrellpugh6186 thanks, mate
Congrats on the voyage and embracing teh lifestyle! if you ever need any help with your electrical system (drive, batteries, chargers, power electronics) drop me a line, I am happy to help any blue water sailors through issues- I have been electrifying commercial ships for about 15 years and have just finished converting my own sailboat to a serial hybrid drive. happy to support with parts data and research, sourcing and if convenient, we have a network of blue water people who help with delivery of parts in various places around the world.
@@brentperry6301 very cool! Thank you so much!
You caught my attention... I also have an all electric sloop 'lectric lady... where do you have your boat specs essentially the: PV (bifacial...?), battery storage type, aH, V, PMAC: type, V, electric monitoring: MPPT, inverter, charger, other: VE...? What is runtime...? range of sailing...? Do you get regen...?
you've just inspired me to finish editing the video that has been stuck on my iPad for a couple years now. I promise that's next!
Tesla should produce a boat
@@DavidAbreu7777 yes they should! i'd love to work on the development of a Tesla boat
What’s with the big scallops in your working jib?
around 20 minutes in I explain one of the reasons. The other is that I bought a used genoa (day two of the trip on this video) which is maybe 6 inches too tall and can never get a good stretch
I understand the reasons for the scallops in your Genoa but you lasso have scallops in your working jib and main. Try to rig a Cunningham for main and Genoa, and add halyard tension to your working jib. Both will be more efficient
sounds like you still didn't get to watch where I get into explaining. It's besides the reason I explained to you in my previous comment.
basically the clutch doesn't quite grab the new thinner because stretched halyard.@@georgebarber9024
Do you ever get lonely?
@@DavidAbreu7777 funny I get this question sometimes and solitude is one of the best perks of sailing solo. I absolutely love it. I think I felt lonely living in an empty and sad big house before but on the water I find myself talking to so many people I literally have to make a point of finding some hidden spots to anchor 😄
@ the floating trailer park?
@@DavidAbreu7777haha there are surely similarities except the scenery is breathtaking around here
@ if I had the money I’d buy a boat
@@DavidAbreu7777 mine cost $1500 initially and a lot of elbow grease. One day I'd love to have a fancier boat but I'm not gonna wait to have fun on the water. there are people giving away boats out there!
Awesome content ❤