When I lived in Foug, France as a kid in ‘65-66, we lived near a canal and by our house was a few locks, they also had a tunnel and we would watch the barges, waiting for the locks and tunnels. One day a yacht came through with an American flag and we started calling to them. They thought we were French, but we told them we were Americans. They asked if we wanted to see the boat and go through a lock with them. Of course we did and we ran over and tour the boat and then went through the lock. They were from Los Angeles and had sail from there, through the Panama Canal, around Florida and up the East Coast, then across to Europe. They then were traveling the rivers and canals. That could be a great trip to make some day, you would have to take the mast down, but still it would be a great trip on the canals, through the small towns like Foug.
+billyl allen - doing a canal trip through France is definitely on the list. Not sure if the expense and trouble is dropping the mast on this boat tindi it would be worth it but it’s easy to rent a boat for a week or two.
Watching this brought back great memories from I lived in Panama 1960-64. Coming out if Miraflores Locks and seeing Ancon Hill was especially wonderful. What a great thrill it must have been to make the transit.
We transited the new Canal in Nov 2019 on the Disney Wonder . It was the time of a lifetime and something I will remember for many years. Thank you for your video and getting to see the old canal. Looking forward to your future videos.
Very nice detailed video, on what to expect to cross Panama Canal, will serve as documented “learnings / teaching” summary vid for many years on RUclips, Thanks for posting 👍
Uncle Daddy Not many know or are fans of Nordhavn yachts sadly :( May improve as links of fantastic videos like this spread across the Inet 👍. Selene Ocean Yachts and manufacturers like it are better priced about 60c to $, but do not offer a MS model yet, and do not have the build quality of a Nordhavn
Just discovered your videos and I’m hooked! What a fantastic adventure! I’m a commercial towboat Captain (barges on the Mississippi River and other inland waterways) and have always wanted to sail offshore, particularly recreationally with my family. What an amazing adventure and experience for your child to have! Thanks for sharing!
I wish you guys would come back with your RUclips's I sure would enjoy the MS sailing , I'm an old person with little money but sure do enjoy . Thank you Cassidy and all .
you not only DID THE CANAL.... you DID THE CANAL with 2 tag-A-longz!!! koooodooooz that's a bukket list moment, or should be for EVERYONE!!! I have been thru both Ditches, the Panama and Suez! US NAVY on the USS OKINAWA LPH3 when the gulf stuff started up... around the world member here!
Transiting the Panama Canal aboard your own boat is a complicated experience that you have told us not just well, but to go overboard, brilliantly. We really can see and understand what it's like because of your work, done with the flair of a natural storyteller. Fantastic to see Cassidy present and fully engaged in the process. How many children in the world will have this for a memory?
Grew up there, in the Canal Zone. Nice vid. Dad was an admeasurer towards the end of his career. Loved going out to the boats. Brought a few yachties home and man the tales they would tell, after a couple of rum and cokes.
Cool story, quite the adventure and learning experience for your subscribers and young pretty Miss Cassidy, enjoyed this a great deal, thank you for posting it!
👍👍 Very interesting. Loved seeing the operation. $2300 seemed like a lot until i saw all that was involved. Panama can be proud of their canal and the people who run it as a benefit of all the peoples of the world.
What a fascinating story. You are doing such a great job on this channel and I am learning so much from it. Everything from your outstanding story telling ability, drone and video footage and editing. You do it all. Thank you so much. Warm regards, Jim Andersen, CatBoat Adventures, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts
Just discovered your channel yesterday and have already watched a number of your videos. Fantastic job and i love your attention to detail, really insightful. The tour of your Nordhavn 40 in particular was brilliant for me. Off to watch more of your content and hoping there will be a detailed tour of your new Nordhavn 56 Motorsailer, its a beautiful looking boat - the navy hull is so classic.
It's midnight and I can't stop watching your videos. Very well done. We went thru the canal on a cruise ship and it was a great experience but being a life long boater I just wanted so bad to be on my own bottom. There were a couple of cruising boats in the lock next to us so I was able to watch the process but your video really brought it all together for me. Soon I hope to be you. lol Keep up the great work.
Bill Van Den Ouden - we are all doing well and plan to post a lot more in the near future. Both about travels through Central America and Mexico and technical information about the Nordhavn 56MS.
Cassidy's Sailing Trawler - like Bill, I was concerned. Glad to here all is well. Based on my own work/life balance, I haven’t had time to create the boating content I wanted to this summer, so I get where you are coming from.
Well done your reports and video editing in the episodes. Very good choice of music too. I really would appreciate a playlist of the music played in them, Sound hound doesn't recognize them all.
Looks like the transit went well and considering what it would of cost in fuel and time to go around the horn. Well I guess $2k isn't all that expensive. It took 8 days down to Panama, 10 days to transit and another 8 to 10 days up to SD, CA. That doesn't seem to long to travel from Florida to CA. Not counting the adventure thrown in for fun. Happy sailing.
Hi Dougal, Awesome video. First time I've seen such detail going through the canal. A lot better than reading about it. Well done! I'm sure I'll have a million questions for you when I get to do it myself one of these days. I didn't hear from you in Costa Rica. I'm sure you had a million other things on your mind. If you ever do get some free time I'd love to talk to you about your boarding. I'm sure it was scary. Glad you're doing well and looking forward to talking with you. Paul
@@CassidysSailingTrawler we are great! I was col seeing the transit through someone else's eyes. Also you missed the best part! (when the lines broke) 😂
Subscribing on my first video because you’re living the life I want to on the boat I want. Great stuff, and much practical knowledge. Thanks! 🤓 P.S. my grandfather transited in 1920 or so on the South or North Dakota. I have photos.
Could you make a tour of your 56MS? What would be really interesting are the fuel switching from one tank to another, the stuffing box, oil changing system and stuff like that. What makes this 56MS be the amazing vessel that it is.
+John Baker - we definitely will. Have been moving the boat and still learning about her systems and running her every day so it will take a little time.
You certainly don't want to make a mistake. Mechanical troubles are costly as well. From what I understand every extra day spent in the canal costs a few hundred dollars extra. It would seem the small monohull that couldn't keep up may have had to pay the extra fee.
Best canal transit video I have on you tube
That little girl will remember this time FOREVER!!! Hope it was magical! !
When I lived in Foug, France as a kid in ‘65-66, we lived near a canal and by our house was a few locks, they also had a tunnel and we would watch the barges, waiting for the locks and tunnels. One day a yacht came through with an American flag and we started calling to them. They thought we were French, but we told them we were Americans. They asked if we wanted to see the boat and go through a lock with them. Of course we did and we ran over and tour the boat and then went through the lock. They were from Los Angeles and had sail from there, through the Panama Canal, around Florida and up the East Coast, then across to Europe. They then were traveling the rivers and canals. That could be a great trip to make some day, you would have to take the mast down, but still it would be a great trip on the canals, through the small towns like Foug.
+billyl allen - doing a canal trip through France is definitely on the list. Not sure if the expense and trouble is dropping the mast on this boat tindi it would be worth it but it’s easy to rent a boat for a week or two.
My wife and I rented or chartered a small 6 person cannel boat that took us through a small section of the French channels. Magical and cheep.
👍😍Wow! Absolutely fantastic! 💝 Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your journey! 🙏Wishing you all continued safe travels. 🤗💞🤗
Panama Canal transit - ~ $2k
Adventure of a lLifetime - PRICELESS....⛵️
i think i can have a really good time on 2k)
I can now say I traversed the Panama Canal... in my armchair. Thank you for sharing that wonderful adventure with us! M
Best video of the Panama Canal transit I have seen to date. Thanks for sharing.
What a great experience for Cassidy!! She will remember this forever 😍😍😍
Watching this brought back great memories from I lived in Panama 1960-64. Coming out if Miraflores Locks and seeing Ancon Hill was especially wonderful. What a great thrill it must have been to make the transit.
Best Panama transit vlog I've enjoyed seeing and on my next new boat. Superb.
Informative, fascinating and well produced video. Great channel no nonsense just motor-sailing.
We transited the new Canal in Nov 2019 on the Disney Wonder . It was the time of a lifetime and something I will remember for many years. Thank you for your video and getting to see the old canal. Looking forward to your future videos.
Very nice detailed video, on what to expect to cross Panama Canal, will serve as documented “learnings / teaching” summary vid for many years on RUclips, Thanks for posting 👍
Great job. Thanks
Love the documentary style, keep it coming, love the technical stuff
Awww home sweet home. Grew up there. I worked at the Pedro Miguel locks. Left in 82. Lived on the Atlantic and pacific side.
I really cant believe you don't have more subscribers right now... I've been watching for awhile now and I really enjoy your videos
Uncle Daddy Not many know or are fans of Nordhavn yachts sadly :( May improve as links of fantastic videos like this spread across the Inet 👍. Selene Ocean Yachts and manufacturers like it are better priced about 60c to $, but do not offer a MS model yet, and do not have the build quality of a Nordhavn
Great storytelling! Cassidy is a very bright beautiful little girl (who knows her way around a SLR).
Just discovered your videos and I’m hooked! What a fantastic adventure! I’m a commercial towboat Captain (barges on the Mississippi River and other inland waterways) and have always wanted to sail offshore, particularly recreationally with my family. What an amazing adventure and experience for your child to have! Thanks for sharing!
I wish you guys would come back with your RUclips's I sure would enjoy the MS sailing , I'm an old person with little money but sure do enjoy . Thank you Cassidy and all .
+Guy Manges - we have a lot more to come innfhe near future.
Another great episode thank you guys : )
Best canal transit video on RUclips..grew up on and around boats on the east coast of Canada . Always wanted to see a good video of the Panama canal
Thanks for sharing your video 👍
you not only DID THE CANAL....
you DID THE CANAL with 2 tag-A-longz!!!
koooodooooz that's a bukket list moment,
or
should be for EVERYONE!!!
I have been thru both Ditches, the Panama and Suez!
US NAVY on the USS OKINAWA LPH3 when the gulf stuff started up...
around the world member here!
Nice choice of music, easy listening, while still watching !
That was really cool. Best Panama Canal transit video I've seen by a wide margin!
Vince Resor - thank you.
I agree, always wanted to see the canal transit.
Awesome video
Agreed! I've watched others in the past that just showed locks and no procedures. This was amazing. I felt like I was there!
Panamanians are such Dam good People Great vid
Excellent video production and the best explanation of the costs involved for transiting the canal I've seen thank you
I sit and patiently wait for you to load up new episodes, And every one of them is amazing love your family God's blessings forever be with you
Transiting the Panama Canal aboard your own boat is a complicated experience that you have told us not just well, but to go overboard, brilliantly. We really can see and understand what it's like because of your work, done with the flair of a natural storyteller. Fantastic to see Cassidy present and fully engaged in the process. How many children in the world will have this for a memory?
Bruce Benson - Thanks for the comment! Cassidy definitely enjoyed being there for the transit.
Fantastic video, so well edited and what an experience for your daughter to take.
Great video, thanks, The Panama Canal has always facinated me it't on my bucket list.
Grew up there, in the Canal Zone. Nice vid. Dad was an admeasurer towards the end of his career. Loved going out to the boats. Brought a few yachties home and man the tales they would tell, after a couple of rum and cokes.
Awesome awesome awesome video guys , thanks so much , I was riveted to the screen and listening to every word , well done 👍🏻
A GREAT ADVENTURE !!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING! =]
Beautiful video!
I walked underneath Pedro Miguel locks while working there. Ty great footage.
I love this video. You answered several questions and provided 21 minutes if great entertainment. I am subscribing!!
What an awesome experience for you all! Especially your daughter!
Cool story, quite the adventure and learning experience for your subscribers and young pretty Miss Cassidy, enjoyed this a great deal, thank you for posting it!
Thanks for this great video well done.
Great video, excellent educational experience for cassidy
Nicely done. Thanks for sharing the experience.
What an adventure! So cool!
Well done one of the best videos I have seen for a PC transit
👍👍
Very interesting. Loved seeing the operation. $2300 seemed like a lot until i saw all that was involved. Panama can be proud of their canal and the people who run it as a benefit of all the peoples of the world.
The boat handlers wear life jackets and vests that's good to see !!!!!
So cool. Thanks!
Wow what an adventure! thx for sharing
I really enjoyed this video.
Thoroughly enjoyed your passage experience... Was last a the canal a year prior to the activation of the new locks.... Great Vid! Thanks a million!
Thank you for this amazing video...I learned a lot.
Great to see another ep!!! ⛵
What an experience of a lifetime. Thankful you traveled so easily through thus part of Central America. Thank you for sharing!!!!
What a fascinating story. You are doing such a great job on this channel and I am learning so much from it. Everything from your outstanding story telling ability, drone and video footage and editing. You do it all. Thank you so much. Warm regards, Jim Andersen, CatBoat Adventures, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts
Thank you Jim!
GR8 video..cant wait to do this !!
Very cool, great description of how that works!
I’m enjoying your videos more with each one I see. 🍻
Very cool episode
Very thorough & informative. Thanks a lot for sharing.
Super nice job.
I was one of those people that paid $20 to watch the boats from the Panama Canal visitor centre!
Great episode thanks for sharing
Great info. Thanks!
Just discovered your channel yesterday and have already watched a number of your videos. Fantastic job and i love your attention to detail, really insightful. The tour of your Nordhavn 40 in particular was brilliant for me. Off to watch more of your content and hoping there will be a detailed tour of your new Nordhavn 56 Motorsailer, its a beautiful looking boat - the navy hull is so classic.
+Brian Boland - thank you for the kind words. We are having fun with this channel and will have a lot more new content from the N56 soon.
Well done!
It's midnight and I can't stop watching your videos. Very well done. We went thru the canal on a cruise ship and it was a great experience but being a life long boater I just wanted so bad to be on my own bottom. There were a couple of cruising boats in the lock next to us so I was able to watch the process but your video really brought it all together for me. Soon I hope to be you. lol Keep up the great work.
Fantastic episode and footage!
Great job maneuvering and editing!
Ten days waiting around plus a small chunk of money, but I guess it beats the distance and rough water going around the cape. Really good video!
Another nicely done and well edited video. Looking forward to many more!
Thanks for the great reminder of our transit in 2012. Except we started 12 hours later and ended up in the Balboa Yacht Club around midnight.
Great content. Great video.
Great episode!!
Love seeing Cassidy with a camera in hand - Start um young and they'll become excellent photographers who love to shoot.
Lawrence D - she’s got a lot of interest and a decent eye already. It’s fun to see what comes out of the camera that Cassidy uses.
Loved your video you made it look easy! Enjoy and be safe!
you had to pay them $2000 and then feed them too love it lol . great video as always
Great video.
Boy, the Cannel really nickels and dimes you!
Next episode please! Lol... Hope all is well.
marshall baires - we are working on a few things to post right now!! Hopefully in the next couple of days we will be back to posting.
Nice !
Nice trip!
Just found your channel .. love the content .. keep up the awesome videos ... subscribed :)
Wow, not something one would want to do a lot. Good video, if I ever have to do it, it will seem a little less stranger now.
I really enjoy your videos I haven't seen a new one lately is everything okay hope all is well with you and your family
Bill Van Den Ouden - we are all doing well and plan to post a lot more in the near future. Both about travels through Central America and Mexico and technical information about the Nordhavn 56MS.
Cassidy's Sailing Trawler - like Bill, I was concerned. Glad to here all is well. Based on my own work/life balance, I haven’t had time to create the boating content I wanted to this summer, so I get where you are coming from.
Loved it Thankyou
Well done your reports and video editing in the episodes. Very good choice of music too. I really would appreciate a playlist of the music played in them, Sound hound doesn't recognize them all.
Great editing! For such a small and growing Channel!
Too bad this was the video after the day you bought it. I'll have to try & figure out order glad you numbered them.👍
Seems like here's a lot of room in there for more boats.
AWESOME!!!!
Looks like the transit went well and considering what it would of cost in fuel and time to go around the horn. Well I guess $2k isn't all that expensive. It took 8 days down to Panama, 10 days to transit and another 8 to 10 days up to SD, CA. That doesn't seem to long to travel from Florida to CA. Not counting the adventure thrown in for fun. Happy sailing.
hope you the best
Hi Dougal,
Awesome video. First time I've seen such detail going through the canal. A lot better than reading about it. Well done! I'm sure I'll have a million questions for you when I get to do it myself one of these days. I didn't hear from you in Costa Rica. I'm sure you had a million other things on your mind. If you ever do get some free time I'd love to talk to you about your boarding. I'm sure it was scary. Glad you're doing well and looking forward to talking with you.
Paul
+Paul V - we are now in Mexico and have free roaming on AT&T so happy to talk sometime soon!
I would love that. Just let me know whenever you have some time.
Fantastic Vid mate
Hello we were the catamaran in the video. Sv BellaLuna
Awesome! Where are you guys now?
@@CassidysSailingTrawler we are great! I was col seeing the transit through someone else's eyes. Also you missed the best part! (when the lines broke) 😂
Subscribing on my first video because you’re living the life I want to on the boat I want. Great stuff, and much practical knowledge. Thanks! 🤓 P.S. my grandfather transited in 1920 or so on the South or North Dakota. I have photos.
Welcome Pacific ocean!
Could you make a tour of your 56MS? What would be really interesting are the fuel switching from one tank to another, the stuffing box, oil changing system and stuff like that. What makes this 56MS be the amazing vessel that it is.
+John Baker - we definitely will. Have been moving the boat and still learning about her systems and running her every day so it will take a little time.
You certainly don't want to make a mistake. Mechanical troubles are costly as well. From what I understand every extra day spent in the canal costs a few hundred dollars extra. It would seem the small monohull that couldn't keep up may have had to pay the extra fee.
RUclips needs a WOW button! :)