40 mile trip home in Catalina 22 - new owners - Knot Enough sailboat
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- Опубликовано: 25 май 2019
- Watch as we take a 40 mile trip home in a Catalina 22 sailboat we just bought. We've never sailed but we are boaters and will learn to sail, so join us for the journey and watch us as we learn and fix up the boat!
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Kudos to your in-depth detailed planning. Highly organized and well thought out. Felt like I was watching an OPORD brief before a mission!
My husband and I just, a week ago bought a 1978, 25" Hunter sailboat in St. Pete Marina too. We don't know how to sail, but seeing your first journey inspires us to kick up our motor and leave the marina... And learn!
Wow. that's great! And that's a perfect boat... big enough to have a cabin but not too intimidating. We're editing a video now from yesterday's sail... it was so great. Just stick with it and go for it!
really am enjoying your videos. thank you.
really enjoy your videos. i bought a 23ft amf sailboat. only ran it on the motor last year in lake huron michigan. Getting ready to put the sails up this year and get everything going. im not sure how all the mast rigging goes, hopefully I will figure it out. Nothing beats sailing.
Hello from the other side of the Skyway! With recent life changes I've been contemplating getting a small sailboat to simplify life and perhaps live on and I have to tell you, just like you, I have never sailed. Your videos seem to be giving me some good ideas. Keep on keeping on!
We just went down there over the weekend. Thanks!
Hey....you did it ! Great video.
We used to beach on this island near Terra Verde every weekend and party when i was a young man. Sometimes there'd be 100 boats or more.
you're right in my area Ill look for you on Tampa Bay. keep an eye out for my green 22 Catalina named Hugo
I did a similar book as well it is a binder full of manuals VHF information a word of wisdom on the VHF do not do a radio check on channel16 channel instead 68, for an automated SeaTow 28
I bought a catalina just a bit bigger and love it
Oh man, I'd bet that the manatees and dolphins thought your hull bottom looked like grandfather time's chin, lol. I know it wasn't practical but I bet if you'd scraped off the first few inches of marine growth that thing would have more than doubled it's speed.
We kept our Catalina 22 moored in our back yard and if we waited too late in the year to trailer it then it would get landlocked for the winter. When we'd finally get it out in the spring it would drag through the water like that until we got it on the trailer and up to the car wash! When we put it back in it felt like it was ready to compete for the America's cup! Good luck with it!
Once I got the bottom all cleaned up I didn't gain much in speed when motoring but I think it sails better than when it had a whole ecosystem on he bottom.
I watched this video, and it was so interesting that I ended up going out and buying a sailboat like yours. So my wife blames you for that. LOL. I am totally new to sailing and have to learn a lot starting from basics. I also have a lot of questions. Is there any way I can get in touch with you?
Sure... that's funny..... email me at adventuresinparadiseFL@gmail.com
Tell your wife we said hello.
The same kinda here
Since you didn’t have previous sailing experience prior to buying it, is there a reason you didn’t find someone to sail it back with you? Would have been a learning opportunity, plus the security of knowing someone had things in control. That and you wouldn’t have to motor a sailboat for 40 straight miles haha.
Nice boat. Congrats
I think maybe because we are out on the water so much on our power boat, so this just seemed like it would be slower. I also over-estimated my skills having watched so many how-to videos which gave me a false sense of scurity. We did motorsail several times. I don't know how much you'd learn in the channel - it's just not enough room to try the points of sail. You make a good point and I would have been safer and probably could have taken the gulf of mexico instead. Short answer: I didn't know any better.
@@AdventuresInParadise best honest answer ever lol. I did the exact same thing hahaha
I have a 1985 C-22. In my opinion it is a jib driven boat. Meaning....my boat seems to do better with just a jib rather than just a main. Perhaps that's why you're going to slow in parts. Also, at 12:05...you want to keep your main sail off the spreaders if you can. (yanking down on the vang will help to a certain degree.) If you don't already have a 150% jib, I'd invest in one.
When I try only the jib it seems to steer the boat leeward. Maybe too light of a wind when I tried? I seem to nearly double my speed with the main hoisted. Thanks for the advice I really appreciate it.
Never trust a broker or dealer, always has extra gas. The winds can be iff’ie. Run your jib and main off shore, inshore plan to motor. Good luck
I had aC22 20 years ago, it’s a learnin* experience
A sailboat and a beautiful lady. You must have done something right.
did it not have a jib? If the wind was light why didn't you use it? Could have give better speed, and saved gas!
I had never sailed at this point so while we did raise the main, I just wasn't familiar enough at that point. In one of my other videos you'll see us use it. Even knowing what I know now, after just a few months, I'd be sailing the whole way back!
@@AdventuresInParadise fair enough. Good luck!
@@obidamnkenobi I was going to ask the same thing. Watching the video I kept thinking “why aren’t they sailing or at least motor sailing”. I bought a 1977 Catalina 22’ at an auction for $400 and didn’t really want it but couldn’t pass it up. Watched a few RUclips videos and Threw it on Kentucky lake for a three days and learned how to sail. Main reason was the motor was shit so we had to sail 20 miles with 4knot winds. It was a looong day but I learned how to get the most out of light winds.
BTW I had no idea I had all the rigging, ropes and sails when I took off. It has it all, just a shit 70’s 4hp Evinrude.
Congrats on your new boat! I just recently bought a1984 C-22 myself, hull number 12640. That first day bringing it home is exhausting. For the Raymarine Dragonfly, did you have to install a through-hull transducer? Or did the boat already have one? I'd be interested in a Dragonfly for my boat, but putting holes in the hull makes me nervous.
I didn't buy the dragonfly version that has the fish finder on it since it was originally for our power boat and we don't fish and that boat has a depth finder on it. I do have a separate depth transducer that I have been trying to put in the Catalina but I think the Barnacles on the bottom of the boat are preventing it from working so I may have to use the transom mount.
Andre, I ended up ordering this: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000BVFUR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
so I can mount the transducer but then easily raise it out of the water when I leave the boat out in the water, so barnacles won't attach to the transducer. I suppose it's only useful when the boat is left in the water.
not sure I'd take a just-bought boat on a serious cruise but good for yiu
This boat was purchased in the water, no trailer. Since I was also going to keep it in the water it made sense to just drive her home! But yeah not only a new boat but had never stepped foot on a sailboat before.
@@AdventuresInParadiseI bought the first sailboat I stepped on at a boat show. It was a cat 22. And my only lesson was when the sailboat shop delivered it. It was to big to be launched from the marina so we launched it across the lake. I bought several sailing books before delivery and that helped a lot. "Glenn's sailing manual" was great.
nice! I bought two new power boats at boat shows so we stopped going to those. @@samwilson2797
Boat tour and cost vid would be legit .
Added to my list, will do! Thanks!
I know this was a long time ago, but, do you remember with gained experience how far your 6 HP went on a tank of gas? Or just Miles/Gallon on an average sea....? Where I live (San Diego) it is almost all open ocean coastal cruising and the coast is often the lee shore so having enough gas is really important.
I think we burned 1/3 to 1/2 gallon per hour. You can search google for this and many people post about this. I found the engine to be only enough in calmer water. In the frequent and unpredictable summer Florida thunderstorms, it wasn't safe steering or fighting stronger wind and waves. For this reason, we stayed in the intracoastal waterway most of the time as the boat just didn't feel big enough to be comfortable in the Gulf of Mexico except on those days that were breezy but with small waves.
@@AdventuresInParadise Thank you for all your replies. I know I ask lots of questions but you are me in the future so asking you about the future is making my "present" a whole lot smarter. I found a really good shape HONDA 8 HP modern 4 stroke I will hang for trips to Catalina (very open ocean) and leave the 1965 Evinrude 2 Stroke (super light weight) 5 HP at home. It came with the boat and runs perfectly but it is small. I will try and hold off on more questions until after I research through google and read the book you suggested. Thanks many times over. PS Glad you guys made it through that long return from KW. You sounded brave but it must have been very scary.
interesting jig you made for your instruments. Where was the tranducers?
I mad an sliding aluminum thing that extended it down into the water when sailing... off the transom. I must have had that made up for this trip because it worked... can't recall. It clamped to the transom and it always worked well this way. If I trailered the boat I would have screwed it to the boat instead.
How long would it take to sail from Key West to Cuba in a 22ft sailboat? Would you attempt such a crossing?
Use google maps measurement tool and figure 3 knots speed, then say maybe 24 hours more depending on the wind. I would not do an open ocean crossing in a small sailboat but it's not impossible.
What about the bathroom and kitchen.
Is it possible to sail a small boat like this on a open ocean cruise?
Possible, yes. Safe or smart, no! But look at what Sam Holmes did... he sailed a 23' to Hawaii: ruclips.net/video/yUi0gsxVHZM/видео.html
@@AdventuresInParadise sam holmes video going to hawaiii in that 23 footer got me interested in sailing and i now own a 28 foot and hope to do the same one day
Shoulda sailed a little