It’s not enough to replace a drone but I wanted to send something beyond the monthly membership with Patreon … ( people in the public domain reading this, become a Patreon. For less than the price of a Frappuccino you can become a part of the tribe 🤙🏼⛵️ ). I have a couple more years before I’m out there watching drone’s sacrifice themselves into the realms of Davey Jone’s locker and I can appreciate the expenses of living this lifestyle as a RUclipsr. Thanks for the fantastic episode and you know I’ll be here next week. Until then and as always, fair winds and calm anchorage’s ⚓️😎
Thank you so much Rodney! We're beyond grateful for your support! Stoked to have you in our tribe🤙🏽 We look forward to sharing an anchorage with you one day. Cheers to a future where we're both on the water!
I love it when you talk about the actual tasks of sailing, like raising another sail or taking a reef, as needed. I also greatly appreciate it when you are showing the gorgeous scenery, without any distracting (and often annoying) background music. I much prefer listening to the sounds of the wind and waves, rather than artificial music.
Thank you! We try to keep things mostly sailing related, or historical/knowledge based. Glad those aspects are enjoyable for folks! Many tell us they enjoy the music we chose and we do feel music is an integral part of story telling. But we will look to include more ‘pure’ sailing scenes (sans music) in our episodes in future. Thanks for the feedback! cheers!
Haha that was our fear! We were quick to mention that we were off a little cruising ship of a different kind. Which was socially acceptable by at least some of the locals at the dive bar haha cheers!
Backing off threading taps every turn is just a legend from history, modern taps made since the 1970's have clearance ground in so wind in and then wind out.
Wow! Your videos are full of amazing scenery, lots of adventure and good story! I love how you have more dialogue 'in the moment' and it feel like you are both really enjoying the experience of creating videos as well as the joy of the trip of a lifetime! Yes, there is a lot of Alaska that reminds me of "back home", enjoy the exploration !!
Thanks so much Colleen! Getting here is a dream. Glad you’re enjoying what we’re creating, we’re really enjoying making them! We learn a lot more about the places we visit in the process💫
I love all the interesting info you pass forward when you land somewhere. I too missed the little clip on the menu. You guys do such an awesome job in that. James looks like the real captain ♥️ The drone 😢😢😢
right on Guys ,fly at it . a spinny pole down haul to a wee block at maststep and back to cockpit will help with pole control , spinny poles add much stringy bits to the party but what a party , CHEERS
Tim! The spinny party is THE party! We rigged a down haul when we’re flying our spinnaker but not gonna lie, it’s a bit of a pain to set all the lines up! Not a quick and dirty sail change at all! Down haul all the way though, I’ve been rigging it to the bow and it’s a hassle to go forward to adjust it, will have to set up a turning block and find a longer line to bring it back aft! Thanks for coming to the party mate!
Awe thanks Zoe! Bright colors remind me of you🌻 recently found a bright pink bucket hat at the thrift so adding more to the wardrobe already haha thank you for watching, love you guys!
Allison and James, 👋hi from Calgary so happy you made it into Alaskan waters, enjoyed Ketchikan and bonus AK2 finish, congrats team Canada. Ketchikan reminded us too much of Banff to hang around so onto the float plane early headed NW for 3 weeks of mind blowing climbing. Sailing, fishing, climbing etc amazing part of the world. Enjoy watching the channel you are nice and laid back, take it as nature provides it. The BC inner coastal sailing and anchorages beautiful stuff. Sucks about drone #1 RIP, lets see if everyone together cant help out with acquiring drone #2. Sail safe but have fun too its not real adventure without a few pucker factor moments along the way.
Hey from a former Calgary-ian now living just outside of Red Deer. Cool to see someone here that is so close 👍🏼 . I’m hoping that others here will “ chip-in “ also to help with getting drone #2 !
Hi there, thanks from tuning in from the other side of the coast mountains! Ketchikan was definitely a happening place, we were happy to get back out in our solitude and sniff the fresh air haha amazing area tho, could spend months here exploring and experiencing it all. Really glad to hear you’re enjoying the channel! We’ll see you in the next one, cheers!
Great video! What an amazing contrast, cruise ships to small sailing craft in such a beautiful location. Sorry to see the drone go down, really appreciated what you could see from the drone. Thanks for sharing, see you next time.
Thanks so much Peter! Always sad to see plastic camera gear go in the ocean. Hopefully it doesn’t happen again anytime soon. See you in the next one, cheers!
Hi, you are completely on the right track with poling out the headsail. But since you asked for it here is my 2 penny's worth. If you full the genny first, then attach the windward sheet to the pole end and raise the pole resting against the forestay, you can then unfurl from the cockpit by yourself and the pole comes aft with the clew. Gybing you furl, change the pole over and unfurl on the other side. Easy. Cheers Peter.
Another great video and the shots of peacefully sailing north wing-on-wing were spectacular. Your pole setup looked good, and I would only make one suggestion. I like to rig a fore and aft guy to the end of the pole to lock it in position. That way, it stays in place where you put it and when you trim the sheet the pole end acts like a turning block so that you can ad or remove fullness to the belly of the sail. By doing that, you can also run the end of the pole farther forward and ease the sheet to let the jib extend forward of the forestay. Then you sail with the jib on the windward side by 10º-15º and the main to the windward side. This works best when you have an extendable pole so that you can project it farther out but it appears that you have a fixed length spinnaker pole so you would need to roll in the genoa some to get it to work properly.
Cheers Hayden! We were actually playing around with this concept on our way back south, had lots of down wind sailing in lighter air coming back from Alaska. It’s a bit of messing around to set it all up but it sure does work well when you’ve got consistent wind! We are also thinking that our spinnaker pole is too short… we borrowed it off a friends boat for the season and it works to fly the spinnaker but the foot looks a little messed up but more on that in an upcoming episode 😂
@@AllisonandJamesSailing my whisker pole is 12'-22' line drive adjustable. when it is fully collapsed, it is the perfect length for a standard symmetrical spinnaker. But it is really nice to be able to extend it out a long way to fully project the foot of my 142% genoa out on the leeward side on a deep reach.
I think I've said this before, you folks are awesome story tellers!!! Thanks for another top-notch episode! We are really looking forward to the next one ⛵⛵⛵
You guys are so great. We love your videos, very professional and entertaining. Always inspiring to see what the Cat 30 is capable of with good sailors like yourselves.
Improving the boat with this plastic pieces is like greek(not from Greece) for me BUT I’m still deeply impressed by you both that now speaks ”boatish” fluently!!!( swedish is my mother tongue)..❤
Hahah we once felt the same! But it’s been a total game changer when at the mast. Sometimes it’s the small things! Boastish is definitely a lingo, cheers!
This is fabulous! I don’t think I’ve seen anybody film through Alaska. I’ve never seen catch a can that was fascinating. Thank you guys so much for taking us with you. What a fun trip. Breathtaking. Look forward to the next adventure. Oh that race was really cool too. You came at just the perfect time. Sending love from LIZ in California ⛵️🤟🏻😎🥰🐬🇺🇸
Hi guys. Another great video! Just some advice on the Spinlock clutch for your main halyard: Never ever hoist your main using the winch with the clutch locked. Yes, James, I watched you doing that taking a reef out. It wears the grippy surface on the clutch and your halyard. And, with the days on end that you are sailing, it is good to shorten your halyard at the top a few centimeters every now and again in order to prevent the clutch from grabbing on the same few centimeters of your halyard. Also helps to prevent chave where the halyard runs over the disk at the top of the mast.
I spent a lot of time in Ketchikan, especially loved eating at Annabelle's and stayed in the hotel above it that used to be a brothel. It was rare for me to be there when it wasn't raining, one time I was there for four days and it rained 16 inches during that time. I had a work partner and good friend that still lives there to this day, he helped build that upper trail you took. I've been to the end of the road on both the north and south ends of the town. I first went there in 2001 and it was the jumping off place for many of my jobs in Southeast Alaska. The Arctic Bar was our favorite watering hole in town, btw. It's cool getting to see Ketch again, it doesn't look like it has changed much since I was there.
That's pretty neat that your friend helped develop that trail! Sounds like you got some great memories there as well! Arctic bar is a classic! We'll have to check out Annabelle's one day
@@AllisonandJamesSailing Annabelle's is a classic with a tin-stamped ceiling and the bar and bar back came around the horn to get all the way up to Alaska back when sailing was the only way to get around. The food's good too as I recall.
@dalebrabb4756 ahh yes just Google’d it, next to the Totem Bar! We didn’t make it to either. Left a rock unturned I suppose haha lots of reasons to make it back. Maybe for the R2AK! Cheers!
glad you arrived its a spectacular place Vancouvers biggest hazzard is float planes about 5000 movements a month never take your eyes off the horizon G
@@AllisonandJamesSailing I started watching your channel about 5-6 months ago. I had no idea Allison was a Newfie from St. John's! I am from there also. Thanks for taking us along this awesome trip.
We’d love to cruise Haida Gwaii but it’s not looking like we can film it. You have to apply for a film permit (they’re currently not accepting film applications and haven’t responded to our emails) and the permit costs $500/day…
I like how well your dingy fits on the foredeck. What size and make it is? I am with you and the vision to keep sailing when the wind is so perfect. I personally love sailing at night. All my favorite races are long distance with at least one night of sailing.
Our dinghy is an OceanAir 250, 2.5m. We love it, surprisingly light! We can pretty well manhandle it on and off deck without assistance but use a halyard to prevent it falling off deck again (we’ll film it one day ha!) We really enjoyed the late evening sailing in Alaska, the sunsets go on forever!!
your drone most propably went into failsafe-mode and tried to make an autonomous landing. Loss of radio signal is a typical cause for failsafe. jm2c;-)
Certainly a possibility! I never seen any warning or change of status on the remote side of things, it just started going down! Oh well, guess we’ll never know.
@@AllisonandJamesSailing never give up - otherwise you may run into the same situation again and haven't learned anything: there are very well defined causes that trigger failsafe. They vary at different vendors and firmware. The first thing is to check these conditions in order to find the reason for failsafe. For the future define failsafe not to land (at sea) but to hold altidude, to win time to recover the control.
Allison was born in St. John's NL, and lived there for the majority of her life with her mom Barb. Barb met Allison's stepdad, Dennis, when he sailed to Newfoundland out of the Great Lakes over ten years ago. Not long after Barb moved away from NL and onto Landfall, the Shannon 38, with Dennis. They've been sailing around the world together ever since.
We unhook them for the shots so that the safety lines don't obscure your view in the footage! We mostly remember to hook them back in but we don't like to rely on them either way, cheers!
I guess the cool thing about R2AK is that the winner is the least interesting part of the race. Wish we could have hung around for two weeks when the last bathtub crossed the line!
Great video as always. The race looks cool, but it’s kinda like cheating for a $$$$$$$$ custom built carbon fiber racing trimaran to compete for $10k against people in fun “spirit of the race” folks in tiny boats with pedal power.
Yeah the R2AK is a crazy race, we like the variety and it's not really about winning! But we do hope the bathtub wins next year haha We’ll see you in the next one, cheers!
It’s not enough to replace a drone but I wanted to send something beyond the monthly membership with Patreon … ( people in the public domain reading this, become a Patreon. For less than the price of a Frappuccino you can become a part of the tribe 🤙🏼⛵️ ).
I have a couple more years before I’m out there watching drone’s sacrifice themselves into the realms of Davey Jone’s locker and I can appreciate the expenses of living this lifestyle as a RUclipsr.
Thanks for the fantastic episode and you know I’ll be here next week.
Until then and as always, fair winds and calm anchorage’s ⚓️😎
Thank you so much Rodney! We're beyond grateful for your support! Stoked to have you in our tribe🤙🏽 We look forward to sharing an anchorage with you one day. Cheers to a future where we're both on the water!
@@AllisonandJamesSailing that’s an invitation I cannot refuse. One day…sigh…one day !!!
I love it when you talk about the actual tasks of sailing, like raising another sail or taking a reef, as needed.
I also greatly appreciate it when you are showing the gorgeous scenery, without any distracting (and often annoying) background music. I much prefer listening to the sounds of the wind and waves, rather than artificial music.
Thank you! We try to keep things mostly sailing related, or historical/knowledge based.
Glad those aspects are enjoyable for folks!
Many tell us they enjoy the music we chose and we do feel music is an integral part of story telling. But we will look to include more ‘pure’ sailing scenes (sans music) in our episodes in future. Thanks for the feedback! cheers!
The worst part of being in Ketchikan with all the cruise ship tourists, is having the locals think you're one of them. Another great video.
Haha that was our fear! We were quick to mention that we were off a little cruising ship of a different kind. Which was socially acceptable by at least some of the locals at the dive bar haha cheers!
Backing off threading taps every turn is just a legend from history, modern taps made since the 1970's have clearance ground in so wind in and then wind out.
Ah gotcha. An experienced captain taught us that but I guess times have changed, thanks for the tip! Cheers!
A & J, each video is even better than the last! We're thrilled to see what happens when you get into the ice. With love, --Sentijn
Awh, thanks so much for watching you guys! You’re the best!!!
Wow! Your videos are full of amazing scenery, lots of adventure and good story! I love how you have more dialogue 'in the moment' and it feel like you are both really enjoying the experience of creating videos as well as the joy of the trip of a lifetime! Yes, there is a lot of Alaska that reminds me of "back home", enjoy the exploration !!
Thanks so much Colleen! Getting here is a dream. Glad you’re enjoying what we’re creating, we’re really enjoying making them! We learn a lot more about the places we visit in the process💫
I love all the interesting info you pass forward when you land somewhere. I too missed the little clip on the menu. You guys do such an awesome job in that. James looks like the real captain ♥️ The drone 😢😢😢
Awe thank you. Learning about the places we visit is the reason we travel!
Really thankful to Dave for giving us his drone💫
right on Guys ,fly at it . a spinny pole down haul to a wee block at maststep and back to cockpit will help with pole control , spinny poles add much stringy bits to the party but what a party , CHEERS
from ring hanging midpoint pole
more important with a spinny as oppossed to the jib
Tim! The spinny party is THE party! We rigged a down haul when we’re flying our spinnaker but not gonna lie, it’s a bit of a pain to set all the lines up! Not a quick and dirty sail change at all! Down haul all the way though, I’ve been rigging it to the bow and it’s a hassle to go forward to adjust it, will have to set up a turning block and find a longer line to bring it back aft! Thanks for coming to the party mate!
I had no idea what Ketchikan looked like, but now I know it much better, thanks to you two.
Happy to help paint in the picture! We enjoyed our time there. Thanks so much for writing, we’ll see you in the next one!
Thanks!
Thanks so much Jeff!!! Every bit helps.
Al! Loving that teal colour on you! I wouldn’t be mad if you found more bright colours to wear 😂 (only if you want, of course!) love you guys ❤
Awe thanks Zoe! Bright colors remind me of you🌻 recently found a bright pink bucket hat at the thrift so adding more to the wardrobe already haha thank you for watching, love you guys!
Allison and James, 👋hi from Calgary so happy you made it into Alaskan waters, enjoyed Ketchikan and bonus AK2 finish, congrats team Canada. Ketchikan reminded us too much of Banff to hang around so onto the float plane early headed NW for 3 weeks of mind blowing climbing.
Sailing, fishing, climbing etc amazing part of the world.
Enjoy watching the channel you are nice and laid back, take it as nature provides it. The BC inner coastal sailing and anchorages beautiful stuff. Sucks about drone #1 RIP, lets see if everyone together cant help out with acquiring drone #2.
Sail safe but have fun too its not real adventure without a few pucker factor moments along the way.
Hey from a former Calgary-ian now living just outside of Red Deer.
Cool to see someone here that is so close 👍🏼 .
I’m hoping that others here will “ chip-in “ also to help with getting drone #2 !
Hi there, thanks from tuning in from the other side of the coast mountains! Ketchikan was definitely a happening place, we were happy to get back out in our solitude and sniff the fresh air haha amazing area tho, could spend months here exploring and experiencing it all. Really glad to hear you’re enjoying the channel! We’ll see you in the next one, cheers!
Yeah Baby!!! Another great vlog, glad you guys are having a great trip so far. Yippie Ki Ehh!
Hahah we really are! So stoked you're along for the ride💫
Thanks for the shoutout!
Thank you so much for organizing such an amazing event!!!
I love ketchikan, great video.
We do too! It was amazing to sail there. Glad you enjoyed the video, cheers!
Great video! What an amazing contrast, cruise ships to small sailing craft in such a beautiful location. Sorry to see the drone go down, really appreciated what you could see from the drone. Thanks for sharing, see you next time.
Thanks so much Peter! Always sad to see plastic camera gear go in the ocean. Hopefully it doesn’t happen again anytime soon. See you in the next one, cheers!
Wonderful video log you guys., beautifully done, thank you.
Thank you so much! We’ll see you in the next one💫
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your support David! We really appreciate it, cheers!
Hi, you are completely on the right track with poling out the headsail. But since you asked for it here is my 2 penny's worth. If you full the genny first, then attach the windward sheet to the pole end and raise the pole resting against the forestay, you can then unfurl from the cockpit by yourself and the pole comes aft with the clew. Gybing you furl, change the pole over and unfurl on the other side. Easy. Cheers Peter.
Thanks Peter! Great tip. We’ll try it out. Cheers!
Another great video and the shots of peacefully sailing north wing-on-wing were spectacular. Your pole setup looked good, and I would only make one suggestion. I like to rig a fore and aft guy to the end of the pole to lock it in position. That way, it stays in place where you put it and when you trim the sheet the pole end acts like a turning block so that you can ad or remove fullness to the belly of the sail.
By doing that, you can also run the end of the pole farther forward and ease the sheet to let the jib extend forward of the forestay. Then you sail with the jib on the windward side by 10º-15º and the main to the windward side. This works best when you have an extendable pole so that you can project it farther out but it appears that you have a fixed length spinnaker pole so you would need to roll in the genoa some to get it to work properly.
Cheers Hayden! We were actually playing around with this concept on our way back south, had lots of down wind sailing in lighter air coming back from Alaska. It’s a bit of messing around to set it all up but it sure does work well when you’ve got consistent wind!
We are also thinking that our spinnaker pole is too short… we borrowed it off a friends boat for the season and it works to fly the spinnaker but the foot looks a little messed up but more on that in an upcoming episode 😂
@@AllisonandJamesSailing my whisker pole is 12'-22' line drive adjustable. when it is fully collapsed, it is the perfect length for a standard symmetrical spinnaker. But it is really nice to be able to extend it out a long way to fully project the foot of my 142% genoa out on the leeward side on a deep reach.
What a cool place sailing is amazing
It is amazing💫
I think I've said this before, you folks are awesome story tellers!!! Thanks for another top-notch episode! We are really looking forward to the next one ⛵⛵⛵
Awh, thanks so much! Love to hear it. Glad you think so! Looking forward to sharing the rest of the szn, we’re getting to the good stuff soon💫
You guys are so great. We love your videos, very professional and entertaining. Always inspiring to see what the Cat 30 is capable of with good sailors like yourselves.
Awe, thanks so much Anne! Really happy to hear you’re enjoying them. We’re so glad to have you on the journey with us!
Improving the boat with this plastic pieces is like greek(not from Greece) for me BUT I’m still deeply impressed by you both that now speaks ”boatish” fluently!!!( swedish is my mother tongue)..❤
Hahah we once felt the same! But it’s been a total game changer when at the mast. Sometimes it’s the small things! Boastish is definitely a lingo, cheers!
Excellent video. You folks have the best personality for this kind of thing. Thank you for sharing your wonderful lives with us.
Awe, that’s really kind. Thanks so much!!
Grizzly bears are the bears that you have to watch out for in Ketchikan.
Yep, those big scary brown ones!
This is fabulous! I don’t think I’ve seen anybody film through Alaska. I’ve never seen catch a can that was fascinating. Thank you guys so much for taking us with you. What a fun trip. Breathtaking. Look forward to the next adventure. Oh that race was really cool too. You came at just the perfect time.
Sending love from LIZ in California ⛵️🤟🏻😎🥰🐬🇺🇸
Hi Liz, Great to hear from you! Really excited to share the rest of the season with you💫
Hi guys. Another great video! Just some advice on the Spinlock clutch for your main halyard: Never ever hoist your main using the winch with the clutch locked. Yes, James, I watched you doing that taking a reef out. It wears the grippy surface on the clutch and your halyard. And, with the days on end that you are sailing, it is good to shorten your halyard at the top a few centimeters every now and again in order to prevent the clutch from grabbing on the same few centimeters of your halyard. Also helps to prevent chave where the halyard runs over the disk at the top of the mast.
Cheers Gert! Thanks for the advise, I hadn’t really thought about the long term wear and tear!
Great stuff as always… glorious sailing indeed 😎
Thanks so much Robert! We’ll see you in the next one💫
Wonderful, great informative Vid. Keep Well & Stay Safe 👍🇬🇧
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks so much💫
Amazing, as always. Thank you.
Thank you!! So grateful to have you along on the journey. We’ll see you in the next one💫
I spent a lot of time in Ketchikan, especially loved eating at Annabelle's and stayed in the hotel above it that used to be a brothel. It was rare for me to be there when it wasn't raining, one time I was there for four days and it rained 16 inches during that time. I had a work partner and good friend that still lives there to this day, he helped build that upper trail you took. I've been to the end of the road on both the north and south ends of the town. I first went there in 2001 and it was the jumping off place for many of my jobs in Southeast Alaska. The Arctic Bar was our favorite watering hole in town, btw. It's cool getting to see Ketch again, it doesn't look like it has changed much since I was there.
That's pretty neat that your friend helped develop that trail! Sounds like you got some great memories there as well! Arctic bar is a classic! We'll have to check out Annabelle's one day
@@AllisonandJamesSailing Annabelle's is a classic with a tin-stamped ceiling and the bar and bar back came around the horn to get all the way up to Alaska back when sailing was the only way to get around. The food's good too as I recall.
@dalebrabb4756 ahh yes just Google’d it, next to the Totem Bar! We didn’t make it to either. Left a rock unturned I suppose haha lots of reasons to make it back. Maybe for the R2AK! Cheers!
Thanks for another awesome episode. I really enjoy you story telling about history of places you visit.
Love to hear you enjoy it, thanks so much!!!
You can take the girl off the “rock” but you never take the “rock” outta the girl..🙋🏼♂️🙋♀️💖👍 great video…
Precisely! Different oceans but otherwise same same haha cheers!
Congratulations on making YOUR DREAMS come true!
Awh, thank you so much! We feel very fortunate to get to be here💫
Congratulations you did it
Awe, Thanks so much!
Wow. You guys are producing SUCH great videos. Well done. Sad about your drone.
Thanks so much! Really glad you're enjoying what we're creating, cheers!
glad you arrived its a spectacular place Vancouvers biggest hazzard is float planes about 5000 movements a month never take your eyes off the horizon G
Haha wow, I’m not sure we ever want to sail into Vancouver, bloody hectic! 😅 Definitely have to be on awares!
Great video! Thanks. SV Brooklyn, PNW
Thanks for writing! We’ll see you in the next one💫
We are inspired! Thank you!
Our pleasure! Thank you for watching!
Amazing video guys!!!
Awh thanks so much Tanya! So glad you enjoyed it
ahhh your from newfoundland cool
iv been there beautiful
im originally from maine but live in new Hampshire
love the videos
p s iv been to Alaska also
Indeed, born & raised!
Cool, I’ve also been to Maine💫
Love to hear you’re enjoying the videos, cheers!
false creek in Vancouver is a great anchorage
We've heard! Guess we'll have to sail South one day. The NWP wouldn't take kindly to our Catalina 30 hahah
I love that beaver tail bikini at 15:39. It even looks like it comes with a zipper pouch for storing the goods. Perfect for Valentine's Day.
Hahah isn’t it a stunner?! Perfect suit to rock in the Summers up here. Pairs perfect with Xtra Tuffs lol cheers!
The "not maintained" refers to snow and ice clearing
Ahhh, gotcha! Thanks for clarifying! haha
@@AllisonandJamesSailing I started watching your channel about 5-6 months ago. I had no idea Allison was a Newfie from St. John's! I am from there also. Thanks for taking us along this awesome trip.
On your way home i hope you can see Haida gwia
We’d love to cruise Haida Gwaii but it’s not looking like we can film it. You have to apply for a film permit (they’re currently not accepting film applications and haven’t responded to our emails) and the permit costs $500/day…
What? No delicious food footage on-board? No crazy recipe in this episode? I am shocked! Shocked I tell you ! ;-)
Hahah admittedly Ketchikan had a great burger joint and even better options for fish and chips!
I like how well your dingy fits on the foredeck. What size and make it is?
I am with you and the vision to keep sailing when the wind is so perfect. I personally love sailing at night.
All my favorite races are long distance with at least one night of sailing.
Our dinghy is an OceanAir 250, 2.5m. We love it, surprisingly light! We can pretty well manhandle it on and off deck without assistance but use a halyard to prevent it falling off deck again (we’ll film it one day ha!)
We really enjoyed the late evening sailing in Alaska, the sunsets go on forever!!
your drone most propably went into failsafe-mode and tried to make an autonomous landing. Loss of radio signal is a typical cause for failsafe. jm2c;-)
Certainly a possibility! I never seen any warning or change of status on the remote side of things, it just started going down! Oh well, guess we’ll never know.
@@AllisonandJamesSailing never give up - otherwise you may run into the same situation again and haven't learned anything: there are very well defined causes that trigger failsafe. They vary at different vendors and firmware. The first thing is to check these conditions in order to find the reason for failsafe. For the future define failsafe not to land (at sea) but to hold altidude, to win time to recover the control.
What’s the connection between you guys, St Johns NL, and the Shannon 38 I met in Trinity Bay.??
Ed, Carbonear, NL.
Allison was born in St. John's NL, and lived there for the majority of her life with her mom Barb. Barb met Allison's stepdad, Dennis, when he sailed to Newfoundland out of the Great Lakes over ten years ago. Not long after Barb moved away from NL and onto Landfall, the Shannon 38, with Dennis. They've been sailing around the world together ever since.
@ Well thanks for the explanation.
Best wishes to you everyone.
Landfall is in Chile now making its way to Antarctica this szn, Cheers Ed!
I have noticed you keep your safety lines going threw the stations unhooked. Why?
We unhook them for the shots so that the safety lines don't obscure your view in the footage! We mostly remember to hook them back in but we don't like to rely on them either way, cheers!
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Cheers!
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Cheers!
Sad about the trimaran involved now if anybody plans to win this only a boats like this will race will turn into a trimaran race more than likely
I guess the cool thing about R2AK is that the winner is the least interesting part of the race. Wish we could have hung around for two weeks when the last bathtub crossed the line!
The winners of the previous two editions of the race were actually monohulls.
you talk and look like Sandra Bullock
Hahah that’s not the first time I’ve been told that. What a compliment!
OMG your right
if you get to the city drop me a line I will treat you to lunch
Awh, thank you so much! That's really kind
Great video as always. The race looks cool, but it’s kinda like cheating for a $$$$$$$$ custom built carbon fiber racing trimaran to compete for $10k against people in fun “spirit of the race” folks in tiny boats with pedal power.
Yeah the R2AK is a crazy race, we like the variety and it's not really about winning! But we do hope the bathtub wins next year haha We’ll see you in the next one, cheers!