6] Sailing, Rock Climbing & Freediving In Spain | Sailing Kittiwake
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- Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2017
- In this episode we sail the North Coast of Spain, from Elantxobe to San Vicente De La Barquera. We did lots of day hops and explored all the lovely towns along the way.
Thanks for watching our sailing vlog; we hope you enjoyed it. In the next episode, we sail under spinnaker for over 24 hours on the North coast of Spain to go pick up our cruising chute. Subscribe to our channel for more videos!
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Great to see that somebody sailed the north of Spain. I never understood why not more people are doing this. I even thought that there were no anchorages or marinas. Now I know better!
Luv how you switch places for fish cleaning lol
Hi Elena & Ryan, what a brilliant video! Sailing, travelling, fishing, freediving & climbing - what more could we ask for! 🙂 We have a tip for you for killing fish you catch: If you get one of those squeezy yellow plastic bottles that lemon juice comes in, you can fill it with the cheapest, nastiest alcoholic spirit you can find (not your best single malt whiskey...) then, when you catch a fish, you can squirt a jet of alcohol very accurately into its gills & mouth... The fish dies instantly, in a glorious drunken stupor - which has to be a pretty good way to go! We loved this video and we are sure you guys will get a great following on RUclips! Fair winds, Chris & Rossella 👍
+Sailing Britaly thanks a lot guys! So nice of you to say ☺️ Those are some of our very favourite things 😊
We do fine with mackerel usually, but that was Elena’s first attempt at killing one. The fish just riggled as soon as she put her hand in the bucket and she got scared 🤣 Ryan’s much more efficient and he’s in charge of killing fish now 😁
Fair winds to you, Rossella and Emma 😍
Thank you, we love watching your videos! Baby Emma even watched a bit... her training has started already! If Rossella's life depended on killing a fish, she wouldn't be able to do it. (Ro has a phobia of fish - so it's a good job I'm such a terrible fisherman!) Cheers! Chris, Rossella & Emma 😊
+Sailing Britaly that really made us chuckle! Hahaha! Good night you lovely guys!
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I'm not sure with smaller fish, but I always cut the gills and bleed them out. But maybe that is just the big salmon here in Alaska.
Your music is cool!
"There is no saying no, only thank you". This might be the the most wonderful phrase to express family love. How great!
+Sailing Moneypenny aw thank you! 😊 It is actually quite literal too - we said no a couple of times but they wouldn’t take it for an answer 😂
Hi guys, love your style. Sailing as I know it. There’s a sister to your cat on sale in Tollesbury at the moment. I paused and checked her out ... and I marvel at the distance you are travelling in your lovely Kittiwake! Glad you’re true to your own principles, sailing your way. Thank you for sharing your adventures so beautifully. Roy
+Roy Clare thanks so much Roy! What a lovely comment.
What a great boat and fun couple you two are. Using climbing gear is the best way to safely climb the mast. Your life is in your hands vs someone else that could slip, fall and lose their grip on the line letting you fall to your death. ALWAYS use 2 lines as a backup in case one line fails. I know of one professional boat worker who fell to his death using one line to climb because that line failed. He left his wife and kids without a husband and father so please always be safe and arrive alive.
Cheers Mark! Yes, that’s exactly what we do 😊 We’ve replaced all of our standing rigging that way.
Luckily we’ve been rock climbing for years, so we’re very safety-conscious when it comes to climbing the mast 😊 That’s a very sad story. Poor family!
Fair winds, captain!
You have a great skill and safety lesson to share with all of your fellow boaters ie: your climbing experience and how to safely apply it to mast climbing, what's needed, how to etc (and nothing is more fun than repelling down a mast like a ninja and also being 100% in control of it all). Just always remember to use 2 lines &/0r also being tied to the mast via waist belt like a telephone pole climber. Fair winds and best of everything to you two! Ahhh if I were only younger and healthier again... enjoy your youth and health as you make great memories together :-)
Doesn't surprise me you got starred at. I have never ever seen this particular boat for sale anywhere. Total one off wonder. How lucky are you to have found this boat
Good score on the fridge!
+Fredrick Rourk hehe yeah that was very lucky!
Thanks for this episode, was beginning to get worried that your journey had come to an end and that there would be no more Kittiwake! You both remind me so much of myself and my wife when we where younger, if only we had your sense of adventure. Thanks
+James Wilson hi James, sorry to keep you waiting! Having to work freelance each week while we sail (we don’t have any passive income, house to sell, or big savings) we unfortunately cannot create more than one episode x month (it takes us 40 hours to put one together). Hopefully you can enjoy our ‘slow’ channel all the same 😊
Thanks so much for the compliments!! We wish you the very best, Elena and Ryan
Nice honest video
+al math cheers Al!
Wonderful - thanks so much for taking us along!
+arumrunner thanks so much 😊
Another charming, relaxing video. Thank you!
Cheers Mark!
lol Elena can dice 'em and cook 'em, but she sure is squeamish about dispatching them! (The Catch); I'm loving your Channel already, such lovely people.
Excellent Video Editing btw
Very true 😁 I get ‘scared’ when they jump 😂
Thanks a lot JustBanter!
nice to see all your video.
Great update, love your little hops along the coast. Great to have a fridge I am sure, got a love good old mum and dad.
+FrenchAM100 thanks a lot! Yes, it’s great to have such generous parents 😊❤️
Always uplifting to follow your adventures.
Thanks Brian, always uplifting to get nice comments!
Well done you two and I love the little cat 👍
Cheers Mark! She’s a cutie 😊
I love your videos guys, keep watching the Kittiwake ones - almost don't want to know why you move onto another boat!! Also love the music, editing, your attitudes, really caring and thoughtful - as exemplified in the composting loo and your lack of major baggage.
Haha! Thanks Teresa 😊 Hopefully the beginning of ep 38 shows the reasons 😊
Love your channel. Thanks for sharing
+Tomas West thanks so much Tomas!
Another great video :) Thanks for sharing your journey.
Thanks so much Richard.
Good start on your sailing channel.
+Roger K. Davis thanks a lot Roger! 😊
Wonderful video, guys. Keep up the great work!
+Geremy Chubbuck thanks so much Geremy! 😊
Great a new episode. Keep the episodes comeing
+Wayne Skorupka cheers Wayne! We do our best because we love sharing our journey with people like you, but we can’t create more than one episode x month, as we have to work while we sail. Hopefully you can enjoy our channel all the same 😊
Keep going this way, you're doing very well....
+Rob van Essen cheers Rob! 😊❤️
Think you guys are awesome 😍🤗 xx
Aw! Thanks for watching! 😊
Hi. I've spent quite a bit of time in San Vicente and we've paddle boarded where you were. You passed Comillas, which is also a great little fishing town. Good to great surfing along that coast, which is what we do. We have a touring caravan we take to camping Oyambre. Going there again next year.
Nice to see familiar places, as well as new places.
As always, great videos.
Lovely, we saw some paddleboarders there - and surfers on the seaward side, seemed like quite a cool little surfy enclave. North Spain is fantastic, and sadly very underrated amongst cruisers.
Great episode, glad you are enjoying your sailing.
Kittiwake is looking good :)
+Sailing SV Compromise thanks a lot guys! 😊
Sailing Kittiwake How nice of Simon to send you the ensign, he's a lovely guy!
He's in our Southampton Boatshow episode with his lovely partner Emma.
Oh really?! We’ll take a look. Love Simon!
hey guys do a book =) love your videos thank u and be safe please
Haha, too busy sailing about :D
Would have loved to see your Mum and Dad, and their bikes.
+Tooth Fairy 😊 they’re very private, but I managed to sneak them into a couple of shots 😉
Jealous that you guys can dry out so easily 😊 and congrats on the fridge...cold beer!
+Sailing SV Bora Bora cheers guys! Yep, we love that too aothough it won’t be much use in the med!
Sailing Kittiwake suppose not...But then at least the water's warmer then!
hi guys I'm also from the UK. It's good to see people who are not rich doing this and throwing caution to the wind! also, you have taken a route which I am very interested in The Bay of Biscay.and northern Spain This seems to be forgotten by most sailors who seem to just race south to the med or the Azores. Its great to see actual footage of this area and a proper take on the weather and the anchorages you stay in. When I get my boat I will follow your footsteps,. Can i ask what nav gear you use to plot your course?
Hi Blister. Thanks very much, it's definitely something which is achievable for a lot of people, and not just a rich person's game. There have been some incredible places around the Biscay coast, especially the islands of Brittany that were in the last video, and the lovely little villages in North Spain. We're a bit sad that we missed out on San Sebastien, which looks amazing but was a little out of the way for us. If you can, definitely call in at Ortigueira (it'll be in our next video) and has a free marina! What sort of boat are you thinking of getting? In terms of nav gear, we do carry paper charts but generally use our "chartplotter". This is a Samsung tablet (think it cost about £90) with the OpenCPN android app on it and CM93 charts. We've found this to be very accurate, even in the relatively untravelled Ortigueira. It wasn't very useful in the Golf of Morbihan though. Some people have Navionics on an ipad and like that setup. The good thing is that you can take it in at night and do the planning for the next day on it. The GPS chips in modern tablets seem to be really accurate. We might do a video about how we navigate some time soon.
👍from Denmark.
+YOLO. dk 👌🏻 from Portugal 😁
You smack the fish on the back of the head with a tool called a 'priest', it's like a mini truncheon. It's the humane way to dispatch a fish. Do you have a record of previous owners ? My dad had the same boat with the same name, be great to know she's still alive and you're having fun on her. I love northern Spain, Oviedo is great, and Los Picos de Europa. Thank you for the videos :)
Sweet with the fridge gift. I can't remember if you have a small generator? Are your solar panels enough to run the fridge, or just run it in shifts? You guys are doing an awesome job with the videos, and an inspiration! Thank you.
+The Butte Life thanks so much! Yeah, we were so happy with it! Our huge solar panels can keep up with everything unless it’s reallly cloudy for days, which rarely happens down here 😊 No, we don’t have a generator, our only energy comes from solar panels.
Sailing Kittiwake you could charge your batteries with the outboard if you get a regulator and some wires. Dangar marine has a video on it. Good to have in case it gets cloudy for days
Hey Allan, cheers for the tip. The outboard does charge the batteries 😊 We just don’t like to use the engine 😉 If we were desperate for energy, we’d do it. We haven’t had to do it yet as our panels work well even on rainy days.
They are living the same life I am!!..... Oh, oh no they're not, I'm at work 😭
Another Great Video! You guys are living the dream. What do you do for work? I read in one of the comments you made that you have a day job. I am trying to figure out how to run my business from the boat. I still have a year or so before its done and I can be out there as well.
+Tom Snow cheers Tom! Yep, we work as we go. We freelance for a few clients - Elena’s on a monthly retainer with a few, so she can work very flexibly, as long as she fulfills her monthly hours. She does copywriting and online marketing (her old job). Ryan does more practical boat work on other boats and he also does some design and web design projects when they land.
We’ve written a couple of in-depth blog posts on the topic - what’s it like to live on a sailboat and how to make money while travelling on sailboat where we share some advice for budget/working cruisers like us. They’re on the blog - sailingkittiwake.com - in the tips section (scroll down).
Best of luck with your business! We’re confident you’ll find a way to make it work and sail away 😊
Elena and Ryan
Hi guys another great video. Small tip for you regarding killing fish quickly and humanely. Get a small plastic dropper bottle, fill with cheap vodka. When you catch a fish, squeeze some alcohol into its gills. This quickly stops their heart. No mess!
Fair winds.
+Chris Trotter cheers for the tip Chris, usually the mackerel don’t give us any trouble but this was Elena’s first and it wriggled violently just as she approached it, and made her jump!
Oops, you pipped us to the post with this one Chris :-)
Hi Elena & Ryan, I like your way to make videos, there must not be one a week. I am interested of building in your fridge, maybe you have filmed a little bit? Also in electric consumption before and after. I own a similar boat, a Catalac 9m and it was a great challenge to build in the fridge, because of the small hull. Peter
+Peter Fehringer thanks so much for your compliments Peter!
We looked at Catalacs before buying Kittiwake, but they were a bit over our price range. Great boats!
We didn’t film the fridge installation unfortunately. We bought the smallest Waeco fridge available, which luckily fit in perfectly in an empty space we had in the galley (where the previous owner had his coolbox). What helped was that the compressor comes off from the back, so we mounted it elsewhere, in another cabinet near the waterline. It’s impossible to be precise on consumption, but it draws about 6amps for about 10minutes per hour. We hope it helps! Elena and Ryan
Maybe we see us next year in the Med. I plan to sail fron greece to southern france to get the rhone up. I you have some questions about greece tell me Peter
+Peter Fehringer that would be great! We hope to go cruise the Balearics, Sardinia, Sicily and Malta next year, but we’ve been warned about the winds in the Med - we’re happy to go wherever the wind takes us 😊 We’d love to see Greece too, one day. We’ll definitely ask if we go, thanks!
We really like your music! How do you use it without your video getting demonetized?
+Rigging Doctor hey guys! Cheers, we try to use creative commons music, from Jamendo for example. RUclips has a song checker where you can see if a track has a copyright claim and will therefore prevent monetisation. If the song doesn’t come up in the checker, it won’t stop you monetising it. Hope it helps!
Great video and great to see you back! What is the name of the second track?
+Rich Guest Hi Rich, thanks very much! We hadn’t gine anywhere, we usually release episodes once per month. Can’t remember which way round the songs are but check the vid description, maybe gOtan Sen?
All song credits are in the video description by the way.
Other than the wind Northern Spain coast idyllic in many ways
Yes, it was lovely! Such quiet, charming places.
what's wrong with wind?
Very little wind, mostly from the West. We were trapped there for 1 month because we didn’t want to motor.
@@SailingKittiwake Oh, OK, lack of proper wind! I should have watched entire video before comment. Thanks for your nice videos.
Thanks for watching 😊 They do get better, promise!
Good video footage, may be you should consider background sound level to ensure it doesn’t dominate storyline. Thanks for sharing.
Not criticising, just trying to be helpful. The great quality of your vlogs is that your honesty and genuineness 'shine' through your narrative. Good luck
Why isn't the Spinnaker hauled fully up to the sheeve?
How is that fridge working out for power draw? Are your batteries and handling it ok?
Hi Ken, It's working out pretty well, we have to be careful if it's really cloudy, especially now that the days are getting shorter and the nights longer, but our panels usually charge the batteries up every day unless we're both working flat out on our laptops all day too. We've also just switched over to LED lighting which is really good now that we're spending a lot of time indoors in the dark in the long evenings.
* 🖐 waves towards the lovely Kittiwakers
Hi Manfred! :) Lovely to see you back.
* 🙌 waves more frantically now
Thought you'd given up. glad you haven't.
Hi Andy, nope, as we work for our living at the same time as sailing and making videos, we're limited to one episode per month. We appreciate it's harder to follow a channel that puts out one video per month, but hope you can enjoy it.
Do you stop sailing for the winter? (Or did I misinterpret the flag section?) I'd imagine the West coast of Africa to remain warm..
+Chris Niekel Hi Chris, we’ve stopped for a couple of months in Portimao to give Kittiwake a bit of TLC and head back to Elena’s parents for a bit to miss the coldest months, we’re planning on being back on the boat in February to finish off the work, and then head eastwards.
Sorry if you have been asked before, but what are your sailing plans for 2018?
+Bruce Stewart hi Bruce, hoping to head into the Med in the spring and see how we get on there - heard mixed things about it recently but we’re super keen to explore it!
Hope you guys enjoy your time there. We spent the summer sailing in Greece last year. Loved the place and people but soooo crowded. Might see you somewhere in Galicia next year. We sail down to A Coruña late May/early June on our way south. N‘joy!
+Bruce Stewart amazing! We’d love to sail in Greece. We’re actually in Portugal (Portmão) at the moment, so we won’t be in Galicia next year. If you’re headed to the Med, we’ll see you there 😊 Hoping to head in in April/May, depending on the winds.
Je veux bien le manger mais pas le tuer lol
+Frederic Gaudin exactement 😁
Sailing Kittiwake 😜
Maybe that's the harbormaster's ongoing scam, just pocketing the money he manages to get from anchored boats.
The (not so secret) secrets to get viewers & subscribers for sailing videos 1. Thumbnails featuring girls in bikinis. 2. Regular updates. Update at least weekly if you can. Four 5-minute videos once a week will get more views than one 20-minute video once a month. If you don't have enough footage each week, then you aren't using your camera enough. :-) 3. Show, don't tell. Example: "The beach felt quite touristy." (Show us the beach. Show the work you did on the boat.)
Hi Oxnate, thanks for your tips! We don't feel comfortable with the bikini thumbnail thing, and it would probably attract a lot of trolls (which we really don't want to deal with). As we work for our living, we don't have time to create a video per week and we personally wouldn't watch a channel all of five minute videos. If we have time, we occasionally put out shorter extras. We hope our subscribers can enjoy our channel anyway. All the best, Elena and Ryan
Sailing Kittiwake I like not seeing you scrub!
The thumbnail of a dry boat did get my attention too. For bikini girls there's Rai Uno.
I find your videos interesting. The details of life on board such as harbor master trying to charge to anchor, drying out the boat for maintenance, ferries zipping past creating wakes and your experience with the older man at the parts shop all contribute to paint a picture of daily life. There are plenty of bikini sailing videos out there, your experiences and interesting enough on their own.
+Mike Galacino thanks ever so much Mike 😊
Sailing Kittiwake Quite right, enough click bait on the so called sailing videos. You don't want the videos to dictate you sailing and your life. Great just the way it is and much more useful for anyone visiting the area. IMHO?
You are catching some important details and talking about them but you are not showing . we have to listen and imagine. video doesn't work this way :) it is clear that it is time and equipment issue. thanks for your work, good luck :)
+Repla Tablet thanks for your feedback.