@@carlsails58 Let it rain a short while to rinse off all the salt and dirt then start collecting to put in the tank. When near a big city, the pollution can take a long while to wash from the sky. It is best to taste the water before putting in the tank. There are bacteria and mold spores which are naturally floating in the air so these will be in the water as well. They will not necessarily make one sick but they can degrade the water as they multiply. The World Health Organization says to add 1/8th cup of 5.25 percent sodiumhypochlorite, common bleach, to 50 gallons of water and that will kill most microbes even when taking water from a stream of suspect city water source.
My dream is to one day sail the oceans around the world. Thanks for a very informative video, even if my dream is nowhere in sight it's nice to see others share their boat wisdom.
I am forever thankful I was born in America. I know what it is like to reshingle a roof in the middle of summer and deal with concrete 3,000 feet underground in a mine in Colorado but that was nothing compared to what I see in so many other places in the world.
Thanks again Tony. I have had Seifert's book since it was first published and I go back and thumb through it to refresh my memory as there is so much information between the covers.
Reload, delivering sailboats between New England and the Caribbean, I was fortunate to learn from many very experienced people. Now I get to pass on that information. Thanks for coming back to watch more videos.
damn you RUclips for not letting me find this channel sooner. you sir are a wealth of knowledge that I'll be taping into. thank you for all your effort in helping people like myself.
Be careful. We thought we would be gone for 4 years and here it is now 12 years being away from the U.S.. Now, there is no reason to go back at any time. Maybe we will see you out here....heading down to Uruguay in a year or so.
Very interested in your Valiant - would love to see you do a video about the pros & cons (if any) of the boat. As an extremely experienced person with a lot of different boats & sea miles in your background, your thoughts & advice would be invaluable! Thanks for all the Great tips & ideas!!
There have been a lot of requests for a tour. I will have to get working on that and make it the next video...in about 2.5 weeks, on a Friday is when I generally post a new one. Thanks for watching.
Thanks so much! Hope you have watched the newest one...that has lots of subtle sailing tips as we sail around the Cape of Good Hope, in South Africa! It’s #65.- Rebecca
Excellent video Captain Patrick! Very informative and interesting. I'm thinking, dangerous places to go and pirates. I do believe the good Lord is looking after you !
Thanks, John, for the positive comment. Fortunately, Tanzania is well south of Somalia so we should be safe. We personally know people, and their horror stories, who were abducted and held for ransom in the Philippines. We are not about to take chances. It was only in the past year we were running into South African cruisers who have been to Tanzania and spoke highly of the place. This is the land of "Dr. Livingston, I presume?" as most of the early British explorers based in Zanzibar, just off the African coast. We have cruising friends who have passed us up and are there now. It all looks good. I don't need to be a "Captain Phillips"! Could be an interesting video though....I will keep the GoPro in my pocket.
The best silicon grease Ive used is Dow-Corning 111..they used it on hyperbaric chambers in the commercial dive industry so therefore probably is a cheaper alternative
Check this out too...whether you have years of experience or are just starting out....this is a great, cheap way to learn more... www.nauticed.org/two-free-sailing-courses?school=where-is-brick-house-patrick-childress-sailing"
Cole, if you have a yacht club nearby, just amble down there and ask if they give sailing lessons. Many clubs will be happy to have you on board and chances are that you will find someone who will be happy to not even charge you anything. Alternately, ask if you can put a note on the notice board to the effect that you are looking for someone from who you can learn. I would recommend that you start off with learning on a dinghy as crew, progressing to skipper then going solo. That way you really will learn how to sail and be welcomed to crew when the time comes to move on to bigger things.. Anyway that's how I did it 30 years ago (and made the best friends I have)
I have an very good tip for you. I live in Queensland Australia and we have very harsh sunshine so we use a product called lanolin spray allso knowen as woolyolk. its made from sheeps wool oil and very fine dry spray. Use it on zippers,dogers,bimminis covers and window/hatch seals keeps the rubber from drying and cracking, and the inflatable dinghy helps to preserve the materials,stitching and the vynal used to make the dinghys out of. as these are expensive to replace, a little T.L..C gose a long way. See its because oil is inpermible to water why it flots. Gerard.
Hey, a thing i started doing around the house or shop is using part of a plastic shopping bag to water tight, or just tighten up a thread or seal. Could work on that small window in a pinch. Leaky garden hose threads are a common one i use it on. Just think of any plastic bag, or candy wrapper as cheap easy to find thread tape, or seal tightener. Might be handy on boats IDK. I've used this on maybe a dozen things now. There's probably plenty of Chinese plastic out there you can just snag if you look for one.
If you mean the life lines, I would never want to do that as certainly, sooner or later they will fall in the water and tangle on the prop or rudder. I just hang the handed line on the winch or, for the reef lines, there are Velcro straps, screwed to the coach roof, which hold them in place.
Your "hand" the line top was good, but I can offer an option I think better, learned from years of handling audio cables. It is close to your tip. Basically, on the odd numbered loops, put the twist as per usual. On the EVEN numbered loops, twist it opposite & lay into hand backward. This way each loop cancels the twist of the one before. This is hard to put in words - look for musicians vids to see it! Thanks for sharing!
You need to RENAME your channel to - "The Childress Encyclopedia Of Cruising". I'm getting great insights from your videos. Thanx for sharing your experience. :)
Wahhh, om bisa bahasa indonesia yaa...video nya keren om... sy juga punya niat pengen beli Sailboat, dan berlayar keliling dunia, sy tidak punya teman di luar negri, bisakah kota berteman om...verry well greating from Agung Kris Hananto 🙏☺️☺️ indonesia
Hai Kris, Langkawi, Malaysia adalah tempat yang bagus untuk mencari kapal jelajah dunia. Kami telah melihat pemilik abu-abu tua terbang tidak pernah kembali sehingga mereka memasang perahu mereka untuk dijual. Saya berharap dapat melihat Anda di sini suatu hari nanti.
@@RVLifeNOW oh I see...that's wonderful...maybe, one day...if I have budget to consider buy about Sailboat, by the way may I know your phone number or Whatsaap, please input my inbox...thx, you call me Kris, and I happy glad to Know you, cause I wanna to improve my English...🙏🙏☺️☺️☺️
It takes only a little rain to wash away the salt and dirt then the water is worth keeping. However, depending on the location, rain is not always as clean as one might think. It would take a considerable rain to wash pollution out of the atmosphere in Los Angeles or Denver. I have caught rain water which tasted like auto emissions and was not worthy of washing clothes in. My video, "Water What's In It" could be worth a watch. It is one of the earlier vids so the editing and presentation is not the best but the information is there.
@@pavelavietor1 Beach sand is full of salt so it is very bad to use in concrete. If they took the local sand off the beach, there would, very quickly, be no more beach.
California, you have a good question. There are places it can take up to 12 hours to upload a video. The problem is, there is no getting around the slow speeds so I start late at night, when internet use diminishes, and speed increases and hope nothing screws up to cut short the upload, which does happen and it all has to start all over again. Part of the adventure of being in out of the way places.
Building material. They don’t wanna use their own beach and have no beach. There may also be something to it being fresh water sand, not salty sand which is harder to build with and have it last long term.
Sand can be quite different. Dubai and similar cities import sand from far away even as they are literally next door to a huge desert as the desert sand is unusable for skyscrapers.
in America they believe that the bigger you are the stronger you would like to see a gym guy live and work like them and keep his body without protein steroids or big mac
I watch whiney posts on Face Book about the most ridiculous things. 90 percent of the world are happy just to have enough to eat for the day. As one foreigner visiting the U.S. said, "Your poorest people on welfare live like kings." You should see the mud huts that families live in here in Africa.
Exactly, Somalia and southern Philippines are no go areas where professional pirates operate. In areas like off the coast of Vietnam, where the mentioned incident occurred, those are opportunistic fishermen who perceived a soft target.
Bj, That would be my first assumption as well. Then there is a cruising friend who has been sailing the worlds oceans since 1978 and has always used Vaseline on the rubber gaskets of his port lights and has never had a problem doing so. People put Vaseline on their bodies but don't smother themselves with 30 weight. Go figure. If one should ingest Vaseline then "it is only expected to cause a loose or soft stool." But some information says not to use Vaseline on natural rubber, from a rubber tree, but it is fine on synthetic rubber. Many O-rings are made to withstand oils. I will stay with silicone grease but won't be hesitant to switch over if the silicone runs out. Plus: Vaseline Petroleum Jelly is highly-refined, triple-purified and regarded as non-carcinogenic and non-comedogenic. ……..non-comedognic...does not cause blackheads by blocking the pores of the skin.
Depends on the type of rubber. e.g. EPDM or Viton. The primary difference between Viton and EPDM is chemical resistance. EPDM is good in steam applications and has fair chemical resistance. It should not be used with solvents or petroleum agents.
That is brutally funny!. You should go onto the Robert Perry Fan Club site on Face Book and see how people oooh, cooo, ahhhh over these old designs. Maybe you are like me and would much prefer the lines and performance of a Swan 48, another rugged "blue water" sailboat.
@@RVLifeNOW Not a fan of any "bluewater boats" with spade rudders. Too many of them spinning around in circles in the middle of the ocean calling PAN PAN with missing rudders.
What's a "blue water sailboat"? Webb Chiles just did a circumnavigation in a Moore 24, so is a Moore 24 a so called "blue water sailboat"? Any sailboat is is "Blue Water Sailboat" in the hands of an experienced sailor, and no boat is a "Blue Water Sailboat" in the hands of a novice, find a new term
Ok. People have also taken row boats across the Atlantic ocean, but that doesn't mean it's a common thing or a good idea. "Blue water sailboat" is obviously a long-accepted, common term referencing cruising style sailboats that are designed for lengthy ocean voyages, distinguishing them from dinghies, daysailers, coastal cruisers and racing boats not designed for ocean voyages. Why don't you quit making such stupid comments and inflicting yourself on others?
comments. I have so appreciated everyones support during the last few difficult years... Thanks for watching...Hope you still are... abd thanks for your comments
@@theeye2429 you know sailing is 90% about dealing with phenomena of our spherical earth, like tides, wind and weather, navigation, and you can actually sail around the earth on various routes 😱. Just be careful if you ever think of getting on a boat by yourself.
Hi everyone! Please SUBSCRIBE if you liked this video. What tip was most valuable to you from this video?
Most helpful to me was water collection system. Is this suitable for drinking?
@@carlsails58 Let it rain a short while to rinse off all the salt and dirt then start collecting to put in the tank. When near a big city, the pollution can take a long while to wash from the sky. It is best to taste the water before putting in the tank. There are bacteria and mold spores which are naturally floating in the air so these will be in the water as well. They will not necessarily make one sick but they can degrade the water as they multiply. The World Health Organization says to add 1/8th cup of 5.25 percent sodiumhypochlorite, common bleach, to 50 gallons of water and that will kill most microbes even when taking water from a stream of suspect city water source.
@@RVLifeNOW Thank you so much.
Having a kitty skipper for emergencies.
Such knowledge!
Watched again, in memory of Patrick ♥️
Hope you’re doing okay Rebecka
That was one of his first big hits :) a Thanks for watching it again!
My dream is to one day sail the oceans around the world. Thanks for a very informative video, even if my dream is nowhere in sight it's nice to see others share their boat wisdom.
Ah thanks for watching. An oldie but a goodie. Times sailing tips!!
Very sorry about your great loss.
Thank you
Thank you! Too many people have forgotten what real work looks like. God Speed brother
I am forever thankful I was born in America. I know what it is like to reshingle a roof in the middle of summer and deal with concrete 3,000 feet underground in a mine in Colorado but that was nothing compared to what I see in so many other places in the world.
Perfect tips. Still teach us young cruisers
Thanks so very much…
I ordered both books immediately. Thank you for sharing your wealth of experience and knowledge!
what a nice man so sad to only discovered him now... sorry for your loss
Thanks.
Good tips 👍, thanks .Very important from the small windows, no leaking.
Thanks for watching!
Such a wealth of information.
Be strong, enjoy life, God bless Patrick
Thanks so much for watching…
Great tips, thanks Patrick....peace & fair winds
Thank you Kia. Hopefully I am on the right track with this video format.
Great video for those of us that aspire to go cruising soon!!
Yes!
Patrick, you're the gift that keeps giving. Thanks for your generosity. Kind seas and fair winds.
Richard, good to see you again. Thanks for your comment.
Keep the videos going. Enjoying them and learning something, thank you.
Jim, thanks for watching.
GReat tips. REally simple but useful tips again. Thank you. I just bought the offshore sailing book too. He owes you a commission!
Thanks again Tony. I have had Seifert's book since it was first published and I go back and thumb through it to refresh my memory as there is so much information between the covers.
Enjoyed the video.....”handing a line”...top tip. Tip 7 excellent. Wooden ships top it out!
Reload, delivering sailboats between New England and the Caribbean, I was fortunate to learn from many very experienced people. Now I get to pass on that information. Thanks for coming back to watch more videos.
Modeling clay to stop water coming down the anchor hawse, what a great idea!
Thanks
Those books and tips fantastic so important.
I hope the tips help out.
I got tired just watching those guys work. Nice video Patrick.
I know!!!
damn you RUclips for not letting me find this channel sooner.
you sir are a wealth of knowledge that I'll be taping into. thank you for all your effort in helping people like myself.
Exile, thanks for joining us.
really enjoyed this video i am a new fan planning my escape!!! peace !
Be careful. We thought we would be gone for 4 years and here it is now 12 years being away from the U.S.. Now, there is no reason to go back at any time. Maybe we will see you out here....heading down to Uruguay in a year or so.
Excellent vid Patrick.
Thank you, JW
I'm loving that boat
Thanks Brian. I love her too
Thanks Pat another great video. Best wishes from Ireland. Barry.
Ireland, brrrrr, this time of year. Barry, thanks for watching and the positive comment.
Keep the videos coming Patrick very knowledgeable information thanks my friend 🤠oceancowboy
I wish he could :)
Great stuff! So good to see more content from experienced sailors on YT ;)
Very interested in your Valiant - would love to see you do a video about the pros & cons (if any) of the boat. As an extremely experienced person with a lot of different boats & sea miles in your background, your thoughts & advice would be invaluable! Thanks for all the Great tips & ideas!!
There have been a lot of requests for a tour. I will have to get working on that and make it the next video...in about 2.5 weeks, on a Friday is when I generally post a new one. Thanks for watching.
Enjoyable video. Thanks
Thank you, jinxed.
hi Patrick
i sure enjoy watching you doing repair , i am fixing a boat myself
enjoy all you video
happy sailing Louis
Thanks so much! Glad they are helpful!
I really love the content you are creating. Really inspires me to keep working on my own boat to someday set sail on some bigger trips!
Thanks so much! Hope you have watched the newest one...that has lots of subtle sailing tips as we sail around the Cape of Good Hope, in South Africa! It’s #65.- Rebecca
Excellent video Captain Patrick! Very informative and interesting. I'm thinking, dangerous places to go and pirates. I do believe the good Lord is looking after you !
Thanks, John, for the positive comment. Fortunately, Tanzania is well south of Somalia so we should be safe. We personally know people, and their horror stories, who were abducted and held for ransom in the Philippines. We are not about to take chances. It was only in the past year we were running into South African cruisers who have been to Tanzania and spoke highly of the place. This is the land of "Dr. Livingston, I presume?" as most of the early British explorers based in Zanzibar, just off the African coast. We have cruising friends who have passed us up and are there now. It all looks good. I don't need to be a "Captain Phillips"! Could be an interesting video though....I will keep the GoPro in my pocket.
Missing you Patrick..Hold fast Rebecca
Thanks so much!
I keep dreaming and hoping and also watching and learning for when my day comes...excellent video!
Carl, keep at it, and that day will come.
Great tips, thanks.
Mr. E, Thanks for watching.
The best silicon grease Ive used is Dow-Corning 111..they used it on hyperbaric chambers in the commercial dive industry so therefore probably is a cheaper alternative
Interesting...will have to check it out!
Awesome tips from a very knowledgeable man.. Salamat Ron & Jen
Thank you Ron and Jen.
Thanks for sharing, subscribed!
Thanks for subscribing! Thisnis one of Patrick’s old sailing tips videos...hope you will watch some of the newer ones too! -Rebecca
Great video, thanks Patrick, will be using some of these tips
Kiwi, Thanks for watching.
I have been wondering how to get started learning how to sail. Thank you Sir, Great Video too. I'll check out those 2 books. 👍🖖
Check this out too...whether you have years of experience or are just starting out....this is a great, cheap way to learn more...
www.nauticed.org/two-free-sailing-courses?school=where-is-brick-house-patrick-childress-sailing"
Cole, if you have a yacht club nearby, just amble down there and ask if they give sailing lessons. Many clubs will be happy to have you on board and chances are that you will find someone who will be happy to not even charge you anything.
Alternately, ask if you can put a note on the notice board to the effect that you are looking for someone from who you can learn.
I would recommend that you start off with learning on a dinghy as crew, progressing to skipper then going solo. That way you really will learn how to sail and be welcomed to crew when the time comes to move on to bigger things..
Anyway that's how I did it 30 years ago (and made the best friends I have)
Yes...good advice -Rebecca
Thanks for the informative video Patrick
Thanks for watching.
Great video-thanks for sharing.
Paul, thanks for the comment and for watching.
What a fantastic video; I'd never seen any of these tips. Hope to see you on the water in near future. S/V Fermata
We plan on continuing sailing for a very long time so the chances of crossing paths with your are very good. Thanks for tuning in to this channel.
Good stuff! Thanks
Thanks Greg! Patrick always enjoys doing these “sailing tips” videos. Which one did you like best? -Rebecca
Beautiful
Thanks for watching! -Rebecca
I have an very good tip for you. I live in Queensland Australia and we have very harsh sunshine so we use a product called lanolin spray allso knowen as woolyolk. its made from sheeps wool oil and very fine dry spray. Use it on zippers,dogers,bimminis
covers and window/hatch seals keeps the rubber from drying and cracking, and the inflatable dinghy helps to preserve the materials,stitching and the vynal used to make the dinghys out of. as these are expensive to replace, a little T.L..C gose a long way. See its because oil is inpermible to water why it flots.
Gerard.
Sounds great. Is the product sticky when i dries?
@@RVLifeNOW No. as far as i know, it dose not. otherwise you would not use it on zippers.
Gerard.
Thanks for another good sailing tip! -Rebecca
@@tronalpha9137 I use a lot of LanoCoat which looks like grease but dries to a sticky anti-grease feel.
@@RVLifeNOW I will look into it for you but i do not think its the same product. just one question,
is that in an spray form ?.
Gerard.
👍🏻 great
Thanks for watching!
You guys had the only informed tips for sailing! All others were fluff.
Ah Thanks Wallace…a new video came out today…hope you catch it…
Awesome!
Thank you, Blue Highway.
Great video, nice bonus on the end as well. What was the music in that section? Always good to say where you get your music if you can.
Thanks ian
The wooden boats are awesome, I've yet to see a series on local boats that are different than what we see here in the states
It will never cease to impress me what these people can do with materials from the forest, hand tools and a lot of labor.
Patrick Childress Sailing I've always wanted to circumnavigate just to photograph the local boats, especially in this area and in the Mediterranean
Good video. Would you do a series like this?
The next video after this one is called "More Sailing Tips"....which, actually, all of the videos could be called that. Thanks for watching.
Hey, a thing i started doing around the house or shop is using part of a plastic shopping bag to water tight, or just tighten up a thread or seal. Could work on that small window in a pinch. Leaky garden hose threads are a common one i use it on. Just think of any plastic bag, or candy wrapper as cheap easy to find thread tape, or seal tightener. Might be handy on boats IDK. I've used this on maybe a dozen things now. There's probably plenty of Chinese plastic out there you can just snag if you look for one.
Good tip ;)
So if you 'hand' a line is there a way to then hang it on the railing?
If you mean the life lines, I would never want to do that as certainly, sooner or later they will fall in the water and tangle on the prop or rudder. I just hang the handed line on the winch or, for the reef lines, there are Velcro straps, screwed to the coach roof, which hold them in place.
R.I.P.
Yes RIP Patrick
how can you get any thumbs down on this vid?! nice vid btw
Thanks, Emanuel.
Your "hand" the line top was good, but I can offer an option I think better, learned from years of handling audio cables. It is close to your tip.
Basically, on the odd numbered loops, put the twist as per usual.
On the EVEN numbered loops, twist it opposite & lay into hand backward.
This way each loop cancels the twist of the one before.
This is hard to put in words - look for musicians vids to see it!
Thanks for sharing!
WHAT IS THE MUSIC AT THE END!?! I NEED IT IN MY LIFE.
ha..no idea. Just play the video over and over again?
How about poster putty around that anchor chain? I'm pretty sure it would stop all leaks in any weather. Made by Dap--and others.
That might work out and would be interesting to try. Modeling clay works fine in the tropics but hardens too much when the weather gets cold.
You need to RENAME your channel to - "The Childress Encyclopedia Of Cruising". I'm getting great insights from your videos. Thanx for sharing your experience. :)
The Shaka Journals Joh
Ah that’s so kind!
Three strand rope has to be coiled in the first way , but braid as shown.
Thanks
Wahhh, om bisa bahasa indonesia yaa...video nya keren om... sy juga punya niat pengen beli Sailboat, dan berlayar keliling dunia, sy tidak punya teman di luar negri, bisakah kota berteman om...verry well greating from Agung Kris Hananto 🙏☺️☺️ indonesia
Hai Kris, Langkawi, Malaysia adalah tempat yang bagus untuk mencari kapal jelajah dunia. Kami telah melihat pemilik abu-abu tua terbang tidak pernah kembali sehingga mereka memasang perahu mereka untuk dijual. Saya berharap dapat melihat Anda di sini suatu hari nanti.
@@RVLifeNOW oh I see...that's wonderful...maybe, one day...if I have budget to consider buy about Sailboat, by the way may I know your phone number or Whatsaap, please input my inbox...thx, you call me Kris, and I happy glad to Know you, cause I wanna to improve my English...🙏🙏☺️☺️☺️
Gathering water from the bimini: isn't such water brackish due to the salt accumulated on tarpaulin?
It takes only a little rain to wash away the salt and dirt then the water is worth keeping. However, depending on the location, rain is not always as clean as one might think. It would take a considerable rain to wash pollution out of the atmosphere in Los Angeles or Denver. I have caught rain water which tasted like auto emissions and was not worthy of washing clothes in. My video, "Water What's In It" could be worth a watch. It is one of the earlier vids so the editing and presentation is not the best but the information is there.
Good music !!!
Yeah I liked the old theme music better too...Rebecca
Waxed toilet bowl ring works well too for hawse pipe
Tom, thanks for the tip.
👍👍👍👍👍👍
thanks!!!
Hello wy just don't use the sand on the beach, they dumped sand over a sandy beach. Nice video looking for the next saludos
@@RVLifeNOW the locals have a boat full of sand and they dumping the load on the beach. Merry Christmas saludos
@@pavelavietor1 Beach sand is full of salt so it is very bad to use in concrete. If they took the local sand off the beach, there would, very quickly, be no more beach.
@@RVLifeNOW thanks know I understand, yes they have to work hard to move all this construction products. Merry Christmas saludos
@@pavelavietor1 Saludos!
No bikini girl as clickbait and great content... I am confused, this should exist only in legends
Thank you very much for your nice, encouraging, comment.
How in the heck did you get this online !
California, you have a good question. There are places it can take up to 12 hours to upload a video. The problem is, there is no getting around the slow speeds so I start late at night, when internet use diminishes, and speed increases and hope nothing screws up to cut short the upload, which does happen and it all has to start all over again. Part of the adventure of being in out of the way places.
much like an egyptian dhow
Yes Simon. Thanks for watching this one...an old but a goody ;)
i guess there's an obvious answer but why are they sailing in tons of sand when they already have sand under their feet ?
Building material. They don’t wanna use their own beach and have no beach. There may also be something to it being fresh water sand, not salty sand which is harder to build with and have it last long term.
Sand can be quite different. Dubai and similar cities import sand from far away even as they are literally next door to a huge desert as the desert sand is unusable for skyscrapers.
7:06 actually that it contains 100 + 100 tips seems more likely to me
Ha! Thanks!
in America they believe that the bigger you are the stronger you would like to see a gym guy live and work like them and keep his body without protein steroids or big mac
Another important rule: Don't be filming on the foredeck when single handed without a PFD on.
Haha…
Thanks buddy. Workers in third world countries remind me of how pathetic we have become
I watch whiney posts on Face Book about the most ridiculous things. 90 percent of the world are happy just to have enough to eat for the day. As one foreigner visiting the U.S. said, "Your poorest people on welfare live like kings." You should see the mud huts that families live in here in Africa.
Sail upon a Tall Ship.
Thanks for watching!!!
well ... the number 1 tip should be ... don't sail in pirate infested waters.
Exactly, Somalia and southern Philippines are no go areas where professional pirates operate. In areas like off the coast of Vietnam, where the mentioned incident occurred, those are opportunistic fishermen who perceived a soft target.
@@RVLifeNOW correct
We westerners are so spoiled!
Yes!
Look up butyl tape.
Yea..such great stuff!
Tip #1 for Tip #1 - Never use Vaseline on rubber gaskets...Vaseline has petroleum by-products and it will degrade rubber
Bj, That would be my first assumption as well. Then there is a cruising friend who has been sailing the worlds oceans since 1978 and has always used Vaseline on the rubber gaskets of his port lights and has never had a problem doing so. People put Vaseline on their bodies but don't smother themselves with 30 weight. Go figure. If one should ingest Vaseline then "it is only expected to cause a loose or soft stool." But some information says not to use Vaseline on natural rubber, from a rubber tree, but it is fine on synthetic rubber. Many O-rings are made to withstand oils. I will stay with silicone grease but won't be hesitant to switch over if the silicone runs out. Plus: Vaseline Petroleum Jelly is highly-refined, triple-purified and regarded as non-carcinogenic and non-comedogenic. ……..non-comedognic...does not cause blackheads by blocking the pores of the skin.
Buy Dow-Corning 111...we use it on hyberbaric chamber gaskets and it definitely does not cause them to degrade prematurely
Depends on the type of rubber. e.g. EPDM or Viton.
The primary difference between Viton and EPDM is chemical resistance.
EPDM is good in steam applications and has fair chemical resistance. It should not be used with solvents or petroleum agents.
Why are bluewater boats so brutally ugly?
That is brutally funny!. You should go onto the Robert Perry Fan Club site on Face Book and see how people oooh, cooo, ahhhh over these old designs. Maybe you are like me and would much prefer the lines and performance of a Swan 48, another rugged "blue water" sailboat.
@@RVLifeNOW Not a fan of any "bluewater boats" with spade rudders. Too many of them spinning around in circles in the middle of the ocean calling PAN PAN with missing rudders.
Damage, Inc. So what do you prefer to s Bluewater sailboat to cross an ocean in? -Rebecca
depends on how old the boat is, whats it made of and where its spens most of its time.
Gerard.
What's a "blue water sailboat"? Webb Chiles just did a circumnavigation in a Moore 24, so is a Moore 24 a so called "blue water sailboat"? Any sailboat is is "Blue Water Sailboat" in the hands of an experienced sailor, and no boat is a "Blue Water Sailboat" in the hands of a novice, find a new term
Ok. People have also taken row boats across the Atlantic ocean, but that doesn't mean it's a common thing or a good idea. "Blue water sailboat" is obviously a long-accepted, common term referencing cruising style sailboats that are designed for lengthy ocean voyages, distinguishing them from dinghies, daysailers, coastal cruisers and racing boats not designed for ocean voyages. Why don't you quit making such stupid comments and inflicting yourself on others?
That is ABSOLUTELY true…it’s what Patrick always used to say…
That’s true too!
Stating the obvious
I've sailed for 50 years, but I thought it was useful
comments. I have so appreciated everyones support during the last few difficult years... Thanks for watching...Hope you still are... abd thanks for your comments
things dont go over the horizon they go into it; earth is flat and oceans cannot and do not bend
Oh, thanks a lot. I will now be forever perplexed every time I gaze at the horizon.
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@@theeye2429 you know sailing is 90% about dealing with phenomena of our spherical earth, like tides, wind and weather, navigation, and you can actually sail around the earth on various routes 😱. Just be careful if you ever think of getting on a boat by yourself.
Very helpful, Thanks!