We have an Island All to Ourselves- Sailing Uma [Step 163]
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- We had such a perfect sail on our way from Eleuthera to George Town.
Stopped along the way on a remote island and had a paradise all to ourselves while waiting for the wind to shift. We ended our 80nm sail with a cherry on the cake, as we slowly entered the anchorage with our Spinnaker.
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I am on the east coast of Florida about an hour plane ride from the Bahamas. I grew up going to our beaches here- which are lovely,- but I just can’t get over how stunning and immaculate the water quality there is. I could live there my entire life and not get over that. I have only ever seen similar water quality to that in key west, technically dry tortugas. It’s certainly a dream to make it to the Bahamas 🇧🇸 one day; just simply stunning. I can say it would make me speechless for days. On a side note, astronauts who have been in orbit aboard ISS have even alluded to the nature of the Bahamas as being perhaps the most beautiful place to gaze down upon earth; Not bora bora or Maldives, but the Bahamas! It’s a treasure of this planet, and seeing it alone should inspire us all to make the best decisions regarding our carbon footprint, from how we consume, what we consume and how we live life in general. I couldn’t imagine this ecosystem suffering anymore!
I'm so happy you guys decided to make these videos! They have seriously opened up an entirely new world for us. We didn't even think about being able to live on a boat and now we are in the process of moving onto our first sailboat and learning to sail!
Those colors of water in the beginning just Amazing
That drone shot of Uma sailing into George Town is 💯
I brag about you two on Facebook as though you're MY kids. I'm 70 and wanted to do what you're doing when I was your age. Maybe I WOULD'VE if we'd have had the technology back then, but my biggest fear was dismasting, which seems silly now.Thanks for the BEST sailing videos on RUclips. I feel as though I KNOW yuzz, as probably do many people around the world. There I go, bragging about you, AGAIN !!! ;-)
Have to say it, Kika your editing skills have grown by leaps and bounds. I go back and look at some of the early videos and there simply is no comparison to how polished they are today. Do you and Dan ever stop and think about how much personal growth your sailing has brought you?
Thanks :) and yes we sometimes go back and are still amazed when we see where we came from and how much we’ve learned and how much more we have to learn . Thanks for following. Cheers 😊
That little no name island beach stop is what Caribbean cruising is all about!
I feel like it is me, Dan and Kika sailing! Your videos put me right there with you. The drone picture of Uma with the spinnaker up and the beautiful water.....is a picture to look at every day on a wall. Thank you for my adventures sailing with you.
The water colour is so beautiful 💚
Beautiful aerial shots of Uma! Thanks Dan&Kika for another escape video.
I was so glad to see you install radar this past summer and I know many people don't feel its needed, but as i see it it's only those without that feel that way. It's great to see you're loving it.
I really only think it’s needed in places with fog. We’ve been using it in the Bahamas to learn how it works, but it’s certainly not needed in the Caribbean. You can see the storms coming and other boats at night long before they pose a threat. If your only going to be sailing in areas without fog, I can think of many other things to spend $2k on.
@@SailingUma, i always liked it on my power boat in Ontario as small fishing boats and logs are impossible to see at night. Also in rainstorms its helpful. I live in the DR now sailed from Luperon to Lauderdale last summer to sell it, and was there the same time as you, that boat had AIS which is great, however you can use radar to see any bobbing containers and to figure out if those big ships you see on AIS are actually going to cross your path. And if you get back to the DR let me know, i have a nice home with space in the mountains if you need a break.
You guys always leaving me wanting more. Thanks for the great episode. Love the random little no name island stop. 👍😃
Uma is so beautiful flying the spinnaker, just a perfect drone shot, and we enjoyed this step a lot. Safe travels.
9:15 Wow! Banging beautiful!
Hey guys that last minute with the squall line and sunset was epic! I thought I'd get tired of drone shots but just the opposite, I can't get enough of the spinaker out and that turquoise water!
Amazing spinnaker footage in this step. As I was writing this comment and realized that I did not in fact know how to spell the word 'spinnaker', I looked it up and found this interesting tidbit on Wikipedia; "A purported etymology has the first boat to carry this sail being a Cowes yacht named Sphinx, from which "Sphinx's Acre" and eventually "Spinnaker". Knowing that little piece of nautical trivia makes me feel just a skosh saltier than I did before ;)
That’s some interesting fact there. I always wondered where that name came from. It’s a hard sail to control though. Have to keep an eye on the wind all the time.
I've friends in Cows; I never knew that bit of factual sailing yore. Good research.
🤣🤣🤣❤❤👍🏻skosh❤
Wow... I’m from Portsmouth, I used to do the ‘Round the Island Yacht Race’ with my Dad. My favourite part was sailing into Portsmouth with our Spinnaker up! Never knew that’s where it came from. Thanks... Uma has a beautiful Spinnaker....
If I was able to go sailing, I would do it exactly the way you guys do. Keep it simple , have fun and think it out. good job as usual. Summer !!
I thought I would become upset of all that drone views - no seems to be never 😍
Hello Uma Crew, Your camera work was exceptional this week, thanks for the Vlog. Love Y'all.
Love you guys! As always, thanks for bring us along.
Steve
This was a most excellent presentation. The scoring was done with a gentle touch. The montage was a joy to watch.
My favorite channel after Celia and Ran sailing. You guys are great
Dan, the drone footage you have done this season is spectacular. Each step the content gets better and better. The same can be said for your editing skills Kika - so spot on. You both make an amazing team. What a beautiful sail to and arrival to George Town. Well Done... simply Brilliant. Thanks & Cheers!!!
That little island... I think I found it just East of Norman's Cay, based on your drone shots and Google Earth. :)
Hallo Uma. Beautiful sailing photos. 👍👍 Medemblik. Holland🇱🇺🇱🇺
Just beautiful how you shared the simpleness of your sailing life. 😳 from me and 😳 from my wife!
GREAT VIDEO !! I love how when I watch your videos I can almost feel like I am with you. It gives me A fleeting glimpse of a feeling that I’m actually they’re experiencing the beautiful beach you where hanging out on all day and that sunset on the bay with the boat lights in the distance. I also appreciate the fact that you don’t use your electric motor when the wind is down. But I have a different theory. I am re-fitting a sailboat to be all electric and have no sails. See, you use the power of the wind to move where I would use the power of the sun. And when the wind is down, the sun is shining bright and the seas are calm and that would be the perfect time to motor along at 4 to 6 knots. Look forward to seeing where you go and what you do next.
When the experience is greater than eating it's got to be good.
Beautiful spinnaker sail. That was always the look of sailing to me when I was growing up and learning to sail. A full spinnaker in a light breeze. 😊
Just a wonderful episode, your drone shots are amazing. You guys are the best. Thank you for sharing your lives with us
Much love and safe journeys from your friend in very snowy Syracuse NY.
Wow you guys.... best ever!!!! its interesting to see when other boats would turn on the engine you put up the spinnaker BRAVO !!!!!!
Just finished finished binge-watching from step one! U guys rock! Keep living the dream!
I so appreciate being able to watch your videos and dream, I suggest to people that aren't really into sailing to watch you folks, people don't have any idea what they are missing, I suggest you post some of your videos on the travel channel.
Drone shot amazing !
Beautiful! And the way to not stress about your sail plan, adjust attitude and " Explore the Wisp of the Islands..." Now sail! You really show how exploring is done, thanks. Oh and thanks for mannaging the sailshirt purchase, my daughter will also have your wares!
Absolutely brilliant, my dears!
Thanks so much for sharing 😊 👍 ✌😘😘😘
Nice work.. awesome pictures.
A maybe .. at flat sea .. you can haul in the dingy very close to the stern and you may gain some speed.
It works on my boat ..
Weve done it with our old dinghy, going into the rio dulce . But we didnt feel thr need to do with coco just yet. We might just try it a a test.
I feel very relaxed .
Thanks for sharing 😎
More cam glory!! Loving the overhead drone footage. Fabulous sea/sky/cloud scenery! Thanks for sharing the beauty!
I am From The Bahamas thats why Ii love watching
Perfect!
Seeing all those anchor lights was awesome! What a cool sunset too with the storms a-brewin'. Loved the video!
Beautiful video
So hooked on this channel. Brings back a lot of good memories.
Love watching a spinnaker sail :)
Great video and great photography...Uma looks amazing...what a great job you guys have done restoring her to better than new!
Thank you for letting us sail vicariously through you. We're just starting our 2nd summer sailing (ever). We have a 24' Neptune, capital yacht on a lake here in Colorado. Hoping to work up to chartering a boat and sailing the BVI for our 20th anniversary hopefully in a few years. Thanks for the artistic touches and getting the true feel of sailing through your images and videos. You two are a cute couple to boot! Happy and safe sailing!
UMA is looking good!
Beautiful...
Absolutely beautiful vistas. You guys rock!
I completely understand your description of the sunset at the end of the video. I travel a lot to the pacific islands (for work, not for fun, but...) and one place in particular is interesting, the atoll of Majuro, capital of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (a freely associated state of the United States). Many times I've seen this kind of sunset at the lagoon, have videos on drone and photos of sunsets, so I never forget about it. Thank you for sharing!
Great job
Thanks for share your movies.
Ahhh, the Chat & Chill, what a great place to hang. Don't know if it is still there but we really liked CoCo Plums further North on the main island...though that is going back about 11 years now.
Once again...an AWESOME video !!!
Your drone footage is especially beautiful in this episode! Very pretty.
Loving the videos and the editing or am I the only one to notice you two have kicked it up an couple of notches! Keep up the great work I know some of the shots are probably time consuming but it is well worth it from the viewing end of things. Fair winds from a still snowy Canadian spring.
So many great drone shots!
love your hair
So peaceful... thx for sharing.
Gorgeous drone shots with the spinnaker up. Epic!
Great episode guys, your videography, compositions and editing is superb. Sail on
thanks
An absolutely beautiful video!
Wow. What to add to all the so positive comments here. I share Tom Williams' comment. I, as a youngster... no make it my whole life, dreamed of owning a sail boat, proudly showing it's spinnaker under the wind. Exactly like Uma and you two kids. Love you soooo much.
I follow you from the start of your adventure, and I must admit, with much envy. Young, free, talented and so creative. I may describe myself as a creative person, working all my life in graphic design, and as a sideline job, house design, mostly for local house builders. Ooooh, the hours spent in educating those well intended trade guys, not to follow their competition but try new, unique, out-of-the-box designs.
I'm an old geek now, but the dream of sailing south is still there. That's why I love and envy your voyage, your concept of "Not buying a couch" ! You do not want to report that to being 66 as I am now. Oh well... But I do now live my dreams through you. I cannot thank you enough.
BTW, I follow some other channels on sailing. But none, 0, nada, come even close to your absolutely awesome videos, the quality, the camera work and angles. We feel like being right there, with you. That is rare, professionnal work. Kudos and kisses, mes amis.
Fair winds.
Love the hair
Such a shame you had to pitstop in a dreadful place. Jealous ? Who, moi ?
Beautifully presented episode :)
Omg looking at this makes me miss summer:D its beautiful and that lightwind sail is just the dream!
Uma good!
All those anchor lights looks like a city skyline
Beautiful. Thank You.
good on you sailing in those light winds - unlike the vast majority of the 200+ anchor lights most likely ;-). nice footage!
Beautiful video, guys 👍🏻
Great video you two. Keep it up!
Good stuff... ✅
Great video, I guess the Bahamas are your favorite places
I loved that little island! And my small outboard can propel my boat (when not under sail) at about the same speed as when I have a nice breeze. That kind of fits with the other sailboat (under power) going about the same speed as you while under sail. Plus I love your spinnaker! I've actually made my own (from a parachute) but have yet to fly it. Being single handed it's hard to change/drop sails. Good luck and fair winds to you!
I know what you mean... I don't think the little universal diesel on my last boat ever hit more than 4 Knots. It was mainly for navigating no breeze channels and marinas on the lake. 😊 I miss that old girl... But there's always the future Mrs. Sassy Saltwater which I'm now on the hunt for. 😉
@@maisis00, Good luck finding your "new" boat. And I wonder, will it be a new boat or an older (less expensive) one that needs fixing up? Oh, and my boat is a fairly small 20' (a Paceship P2-20) with a 4 hp Evenrude outboard. All out, it will get me going at 6 mph. I've hit over 7 mph (sorry haven't learned to convert to knots) while under sail, but that exceeds my theoretical max hull speed. : - ) (I use a Garmin hiking GPS while sailing to record my speed(s) and distance)
Awesome Vid !!!
Great video guys!
Thanks for sharing again guys. Great editing. Im really impressed with your sailing on and off anchor.
Nice episode...great photography
this video is realy inspiring for me because i am a sailor myself but a charteher sailor in the netherlands the weather isnt always as nice but you know that it will be keep up the vids and safe travels
Love the videos u guys are amazing on haw u are doing this wold love to see longer video thow 🙂
great! you guys did it again I'm officially jealous
Loved the footage of you flying the spinnaker! Do you have a spin pole? Great editing too, you both do an awesome job.
Thanks. We had a pole for our old symmetric chute, but don’t need it now with our new(er) asymmetric.
Who's doing most of the editing?... wow! Nice.
Give yourself an A+ for smooth, beautiful, artistic composition.
It’s all Kika on the edits. I just watch in amazement.
She certainly has an artistic eye. ...and she can only get better and better... Nice!@@SailingUma
How about having a blooper video to see the real thing about editing and getting things done again and again and again ....... !!!!!! Love your videos !!!! Keep it going
asym happiness! 😊
Hey looking good there hope you all are well. Also wanting to know if you still have your KECO refrigeration and how it is working?
Fair winds And smooth seas!!!
Brilliant camera work and editing as per usual . Starting to look like sunshine is coming for you guys ;-) Fair winds
Wait wait wait...you're Canadian?!?🤗😃❤❤❤🙏🏻😁wooo
Yes (-Dan)
Get a boom fitted lazyjack system, it halfs your stowing time, and doubles your sail life, less handling and tying, cleaner sails.
I guess you're not paying attention. They've had lazy jacks fitted for quite some time now.
At 1:30 it shows the dinghy being towed with its motor , 5 seconds later the motor is in the back railing, does one refer to that as "editing" or "continuity"?
2 different motors.
What a dream island that you found there. No chance to stay a little longer ? 😩
We were thinking about it, but the swells were pretty big and it wouldnt have been comfortable to sleep there. So we made thr call to move forward.
Ah ok. Swell can be really annoying and we can’t see it in the vid. Still, it looked the perfect dream island 😁
For my fellow electronics geeks, Go to step 148 for the radar install.
Nice.
Question...if you are heading south and the wind is from the west is that beam reach, an ideal and speedy condition, instead of close hauling or even beating? Perhaps you meant the wind was from the south west. ;)
What kind of boat are you sailing on? Is it a pearson 36? Looks kinda like a columbia 32
How pretty
As a small boat sailor, I'm curious. Why is downwind so preferred for cruising? I see very little beating on all my sailing channels. Just easier for navigation? Safer? I don't think I've heard "We'll be beating upwind to our destination" outside of a true NEED to do so. Keep up the inspiration!
Waves. We’ve spent about 2/3 of our sailing miles going to windward. They call it ‘beating’ for a reason. The hull pounding into the waves makes you feel like your whole boat is going to come apart at the seams. We still prefer it to following seas which rock the boat back and forth. We actually don’t go down wind very often. And unlike many, find it to be the point of sail we try to avoid.
@@SailingUma Thank you!
@@SailingUma fin keels are the pits for down wind, true... but if anybody is going to figure it out its you guys!!! Wing on wing and sailing the Bahamas.... nothing better!!! Also wanted to say that I really like the look Dan, since fixing your eyes and growing out some hair... looking salty and mature!
Kika...that.... fro sis ~