Hi friends! Thank you so much for joining me on this adventure! If you want to help out, please subscribe to the channel and join the crew! partofthecrewpartoftheshippartofthecrewpartoftheship 🏴☠
As someone who has been in the sailing world for 50 years I have to tell you that having no drop boards for your companion way, on an ocean crossing, is quite alarming! Please please find some wood to make some while you're in F.P. If your cockpit gets swamped while in heavy seas it can, and will, sink your boat! May Neptune keep you safe, good luck on your journey ✌️&❤
Enjoyed your video, like the guy above says make getting wash boards a priority! Also make a way to hold them down so they can't slide out. The water in your boat will quickly effect form stability as it slops about.
As I get older, I have regrets about living such a regimented and relatively non-adventurous life. So I find myself intrigued by adventures of others, like yours, because I love the sea. I also love hiking so I follow Appalachian Trail thru hikers. I follow a young lady who is a vagabond traveling the world. It's wonderful to see young people living their dreams 💙⛵️🐦
I’ve got to say this is one of the most candid, engaging and relatable accounts of a Pacific crossing that I’ve seen. As a live aboard and life-long ocean sailor, there are plenty of things I could criticise about your methods but you did it. And nobody can take that achievement away from you. Give yourself a pat on the back if you haven’t already. Truly in the age old spirit of adventure that goes with such a passage.
Using a captain morgan bottle to flatten your dough is such a vibe. I love it! I want to also say that it's been really amazing to watch you both on instagram and youtube. It has been so interesting to hear your reflections and realizations while in isolation and to see the way you can adapt to so many challenges. Keep at it! I am so excited to see the moment you touch land at the other side of the world :)
WOW... Your fun to watch.. Your rawness is beautiful. Love the singing. And yes I would think that crossing the pacific is super challenging. As someone who's spiritual path leads me to spend most of my life alone, I sympathise!!! it takes some getting used too!!! Home Ec - cooking, sewing and general house wife jobs HA... I cant believe that you put that sail up in the dark, that takes guts!!! What an incredibly beautiful sunset!!! thanks for sharing!!!
@@Sailing_Songbird And I am guessing when you dont have an alarm only the wind and weather to regulate your sleeping and you're your own boss, its alot easier, OH and that magnificient sunset! Man I miss the blue waters of the ocean sometimes... Im getting my fix vicariously though you.. HA Thanks!!
Been following you since day 1 on your adventure, I was worried sick when you went off the grid. Thank heavens everything came out to well and now we can see what happened in those days. While you felt alone there was a whole community rooting for you. Thank you for sharing and inspiring us into being brave to pursue our dreams. Fortune favors the bold
Came over to visit and stayed to subscribe. You're not alone... we're right here with you. Keep singing! That sunset was golden! What a gift! Thanks to SLV for telling us about you. Happy Sails! 🌙🎵⛵🙏
I've been following your journey on IG and like the longer form here. As someone who's ridden a ship (military) around the world I appreciate how prepared you've prepared yourself and respecting your catch.
Fantastic journey, love the natural and very honest style of your discussions with yourself, it really shows us how it must be to do a journey like this alone. Thank you for sharing it all with us.
Been following your adventures on tiktok since the beginning, got real worried when you didn't post for a while until you made it to french polynesia and were able to start posting again. Looking forward to more updates on your journeys! I grew up sailing in the pacific waters around Vancouver Island, the San Juans, and up to the Queen Charlottes, and you're living a lifelong dream of mine. Some day I'll make it happen, but until then I get a lot of happy feelings seeing you doing it. Allons y, songbird!
I’m not watching these in order but I love everything you’ve shared! In particular all the fish you catch and how you feel (bad) about killing them but how grateful you are for them and the seasonings you use, made me hungry!! Oh yeah and love the classical music 🎶
What an amazing video, so interesting to hear the mental challenges you went through. It really allows for a better understanding of how great of a journey it is. For someone who gets seasickness really easily, I'm living the dream of sailing the ocean vicariously through you.
Wow you rock man. I really enjoy your journey and you are full of humor and good spirits. Looking forward to see you on your adventures trip around the blue marble, our world. Hope you will have always a steady wind in your sails and 3 feed water under your keel
@@Sailing_Songbird much love man. ive sailed from grenada to st.lucia while getting a higher dive certification,so i know alittle bit. man i loved it. the waves rock you to sleep every night :) unless its stormy haha then little sleep if out on the water. can be a twisted kind of exhilaration in times like those! makes you feel alive taking a shower in the rain after having to bathe off the boat in saltwater for awhile. most people dont know that feeling and they should!
All I can say is you're amazing after seeing how tight the quarters are in the last couple of minutes I could not do this but I'm enjoying the adventure vicariously
In Toronto's early 80's our home ec class had cooking , sewing and welding . I can cook ( thank heaven's ) and sew still but would like to try some welding . Great videos Luke ! Keep up the hard work . Salud !
I live in Germany and home ec isn’t really a thing here. Some schools offer after-school activities like cooking though. But that really depends on the school and the teachers teaching there. All I ever did was a sewing class as an after-school activity (: I guess in Germany things like cooking, sewing and so on are often just considered as hobbies and in Germany your hobbies always take place outside of school (e.g. when you do a sport you just join a team that is close to your city). But I remember that in my exchange year in the US I also didn’t take home ec because my exchange student thought that it was unnecessary and funny as you don’t really learn anything. I really enjoy watching you videos and especially following you on Instagram! Your videos are very inspiring to me and they give me wanderlust (funny, because wanderlust is a German word) 😌🌞
I follow you on tiktok, Love your singing. When you were talking about your emotions at 15:00, How did you feel when you over came that particular challenge. Your description in primitive was interesting and I relate on a day to day, it blows and I'm not even doing journey's like this on my own Lol. Also if case if anyone has said anything I am super proud of you!! :D You did it !
Thanks for your question. In truth, I'm not sure I actually have overcome the challenge of managing my emotions on passage. I get really raw and my emotions swing hard. I suppose that I just allow myself to swing and to never lose sight of the fact that emotions flow as water flows. If you block water from flowing, that is when pressure builds. Allow your emotions to flow freely, good and bad, and it's difficult for the pressure to rise. Idk, just my two cents.
Do you not have companionway boards or just don't have them in? Not having a way to seal your cabin is a good way to get flooded. A big wave over the transom can fill your boat very quickly.
I do have companionway boards but I don't think I've had them in since I left the US. The cockpit on the Vancouver 27 is incredibly small for the size of the boat for this very reason. It would take a CONSIDERABLY large wave to cause me to flood due to this design. On this Pacific passage, the seas never got large enough for me to have to consider this scenario. If I ever get the idea to sail the Southern Ocean, sealing my companionway will be something to keep in mind.
First i thought, no harness, a little risky. Then loose outboard taking up half the cockpit, pretty dangerous. But a 6 square foot hole in your boat that you seal with a pilfered towel, WTF? That is a death wish. You got very lucky. Otherwise, ive really enjoyed your 2 videos, thank you.
Not quite sure what you are referring to? My companionway I think? After a full year of sailing and about 10,000 miles I've never once had a wave come into the cockpit, let alone the cabin. Even when I rode 30ft seas for 6 days in the North Pacific. I don't really consider this a risk as the Vancouver 27 was designed with a very small cockpit to limit the risk of a single wave somehow sinking the boat. I have friends that have taken rouge waves into the cabins and they have never expressed a concern with there being so much water that they could sink.
How many cameras do you use, and are they GoPro’s? I’m amazed you have such great footage considering you have to concentrate on sailing. When and how do you do the edits? Safe journeys! I’m loving these longer episodes!
12:07 bro that's not French that's Mandarin, I can clearly hear them saying "两三收到，注意瞭望" (Two-Three Roger, Pay Attention and Keep Looking out). These guys must have mistaken you for a pirate. XD
@@Sailing_Songbird Yeah now that I listened again, they sounded pretty concerned about you LOL 那你是什么计划？ What's your plan then? 两三收到，会保持安全距离，注意瞭望 23 roger, will keep safe distance, and keep an eye out
I had this rudder custom made during my refit in Seattle so I really should know this answer. I believe it is a foam core but, as it was custom built, I had Rudder Craft construct it will heavy duty use in mind.
@@Sailing_Songbird k ty. keep up the good work mate. I am a sailor too but I stayed under the water lol. I understand a lot of what you are talking about. being on a submarine can be very lonely and time consuming at times. I will be here watching every week.
@@Sailing_Songbird I'm not discounting your dream nor your bravery. But couldn't you have had at least one shipmate to in case of serious adversity? No matter, I'm hooked to your channel.😁 So I wish you the absolute best of luck possible. You're a he!! of a lot braver than I am. Then again you are clearly a professional sailor. Look forward to your next video.
Great question! My self steering windvane keeps me on course as long as the wind direction doesn't shift. If the wind direction does shift, then I can fall off course and I wake up a few miles off course. But, in a ~3000 mile passage, a few miles off course is inconsequential.
Hi friends! Thank you so much for joining me on this adventure! If you want to help out, please subscribe to the channel and join the crew! partofthecrewpartoftheshippartofthecrewpartoftheship 🏴☠
As someone who has been in the sailing world for 50 years I have to tell you that having no drop boards for your companion way, on an ocean crossing, is quite alarming! Please please find some wood to make some while you're in F.P. If your cockpit gets swamped while in heavy seas it can, and will, sink your boat! May Neptune keep you safe, good luck on your journey ✌️&❤
Enjoyed your video, like the guy above says make getting wash boards a priority! Also make a way to hold them down so they can't slide out. The water in your boat will quickly effect form stability as it slops about.
Just do a loop and thread the needle through after each stitch loop the needle through and pull it tight.
Not understanding what the washboards are for seems woefully unprepared.
As I get older, I have regrets about living such a regimented and relatively non-adventurous life. So I find myself intrigued by adventures of others, like yours, because I love the sea. I also love hiking so I follow Appalachian Trail thru hikers. I follow a young lady who is a vagabond traveling the world. It's wonderful to see young people living their dreams 💙⛵️🐦
Check out bicycle tourists. Cycling around the world.
I can't believe I forgot to mention Ed Pratt!!! He unicycled around the world, his videos are great.
that fish is a jack crevalle and it’s edible, wow that’s a very cool fish
I’ve got to say this is one of the most candid, engaging and relatable accounts of a Pacific crossing that I’ve seen. As a live aboard and life-long ocean sailor, there are plenty of things I could criticise about your methods but you did it. And nobody can take that achievement away from you. Give yourself a pat on the back if you haven’t already. Truly in the age old spirit of adventure that goes with such a passage.
I SO appreciate this sentiment. Thank you so much 🫡
Using a captain morgan bottle to flatten your dough is such a vibe. I love it!
I want to also say that it's been really amazing to watch you both on instagram and youtube. It has been so interesting to hear your reflections and realizations while in isolation and to see the way you can adapt to so many challenges. Keep at it! I am so excited to see the moment you touch land at the other side of the world :)
third time watching this video in the series. The last three videos are so good and just peak sailing core. I'm living through Luke.
WOW... Your fun to watch.. Your rawness is beautiful. Love the singing. And yes I would think that crossing the pacific is super challenging. As someone who's spiritual path leads me to spend most of my life alone, I sympathise!!! it takes some getting used too!!! Home Ec - cooking, sewing and general house wife jobs HA... I cant believe that you put that sail up in the dark, that takes guts!!! What an incredibly beautiful sunset!!! thanks for sharing!!!
Thank you so much
@@Sailing_Songbird And I am guessing when you dont have an alarm only the wind and weather to regulate your sleeping and you're your own boss, its alot easier, OH and that magnificient sunset! Man I miss the blue waters of the ocean sometimes... Im getting my fix vicariously though you.. HA Thanks!!
Been following you since day 1 on your adventure, I was worried sick when you went off the grid. Thank heavens everything came out to well and now we can see what happened in those days. While you felt alone there was a whole community rooting for you.
Thank you for sharing and inspiring us into being brave to pursue our dreams.
Fortune favors the bold
Love what you’re doing here big dog
Such a cool video! It’s nice to be able to go back and fill in the blanks of what happened during the passage. Hope this finds you well!
Thanks for coming back to see the full picture 😊
Love your story telling and honesty of your own thoughts and feelings.
Came over to visit and stayed to subscribe. You're not alone... we're right here with you. Keep singing! That sunset was golden! What a gift! Thanks to SLV for telling us about you. Happy Sails! 🌙🎵⛵🙏
I’m am living vicariously through you, you are truly leaving a dream. Love the content safe passages!
I've been following your journey on IG and like the longer form here.
As someone who's ridden a ship (military) around the world I appreciate how prepared you've prepared yourself and respecting your catch.
I love this so much! Thank you for sharing your journey with us. Quite exciting and inspiring!
💜✨⚓️🌊
Fantastic journey, love the natural and very honest style of your discussions with yourself, it really shows us how it must be to do a journey like this alone. Thank you for sharing it all with us.
You sew better than my Ecuadorian grandma.. and she’s been doing this for 89 years. 🫡 👏
Sunsets after storms are one of the absolute best there is!🧡
Been following your adventures on tiktok since the beginning, got real worried when you didn't post for a while until you made it to french polynesia and were able to start posting again. Looking forward to more updates on your journeys! I grew up sailing in the pacific waters around Vancouver Island, the San Juans, and up to the Queen Charlottes, and you're living a lifelong dream of mine. Some day I'll make it happen, but until then I get a lot of happy feelings seeing you doing it. Allons y, songbird!
True adventurer
I’m not watching these in order but I love everything you’ve shared! In particular all the fish you catch and how you feel (bad) about killing them but how grateful you are for them and the seasonings you use, made me hungry!! Oh yeah and love the classical music 🎶
What an amazing video, so interesting to hear the mental challenges you went through. It really allows for a better understanding of how great of a journey it is. For someone who gets seasickness really easily, I'm living the dream of sailing the ocean vicariously through you.
Great tutorial on wind vanes!
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you for your videos and lots of positive energy your way!!!
Good to see you again Amigo !
Breakers charged like buffalo then swept past rolling on the milky ways band played you a show took a bow and waved so long to the morning sun!!
Fantastic story telling, Luke! Really fun to follow your adventure!
Love your content. Safe sailing. Much love from Kenya 🇰🇪
Wow you rock man. I really enjoy your journey and you are full of humor and good spirits. Looking forward to see you on your adventures trip around the blue marble, our world. Hope you will have always a steady wind in your sails and 3 feed water under your keel
I can’t sail so I live vicariously through you. Best of luck on this journey!
Everyone can sail! Some people just haven't had the practice yet.
@@Sailing_Songbird much love man. ive sailed from grenada to st.lucia while getting a higher dive certification,so i know alittle bit. man i loved it. the waves rock you to sleep every night :) unless its stormy haha then little sleep if out on the water. can be a twisted kind of exhilaration in times like those! makes you feel alive taking a shower in the rain after having to bathe off the boat in saltwater for awhile. most people dont know that feeling and they should!
You always have us to talk to when lonely or board. I enjoy watching!
Honestly, the company I feel from folks far away following my journey is the most rewarding part of making these videos!
Watching from aboard in Kemah, Texas. Great content. The best!
Thanks for watching!
The dingy motor on deck, reminds me of ME! Love the authenticity!
I wish I had somewhere else to put it but I don’t have that much real estate on board 😂
All I can say is you're amazing after seeing how tight the quarters are in the last couple of minutes I could not do this but I'm enjoying the adventure vicariously
what an inspiration man.. so lucky to found this channel.. wish you great adventures, and wish for myself to get into new ones soon :)
Great episode. You got this. This passage will live on for this lifetime. Highest Blessings
Never go on deck without your harness , split sec its Dave Jones locker for you mate.
In Toronto's early 80's our home ec class had cooking , sewing and welding . I can cook ( thank heaven's ) and sew still but would like to try some welding .
Great videos Luke ! Keep up the hard work . Salud !
I like your episodes of cooking and baking
I live in Germany and home ec isn’t really a thing here. Some schools offer after-school activities like cooking though. But that really depends on the school and the teachers teaching there. All I ever did was a sewing class as an after-school activity (:
I guess in Germany things like cooking, sewing and so on are often just considered as hobbies and in Germany your hobbies always take place outside of school (e.g. when you do a sport you just join a team that is close to your city).
But I remember that in my exchange year in the US I also didn’t take home ec because my exchange student thought that it was unnecessary and funny as you don’t really learn anything.
I really enjoy watching you videos and especially following you on Instagram! Your videos are very inspiring to me and they give me wanderlust (funny, because wanderlust is a German word) 😌🌞
I love my followers from Germany! It would make my Oma very happy :)
Such a great video! Nice to follow your travels and seeing not just the pretty but also the ugly when sailing the seas alone.
My Navy- sailor friend encourages you to wear a safety harness on deck. A must for a solo sailor
I enjoyed this episode, safe travels friend !
Love this! ❤
We called it Home-ec or "Finishing School".
Love the music too 😇
I follow you on tiktok, Love your singing. When you were talking about your emotions at 15:00, How did you feel when you over came that particular challenge. Your description in primitive was interesting and I relate on a day to day, it blows and I'm not even doing journey's like this on my own Lol. Also if case if anyone has said anything I am super proud of you!! :D You did it !
Thanks for your question. In truth, I'm not sure I actually have overcome the challenge of managing my emotions on passage. I get really raw and my emotions swing hard. I suppose that I just allow myself to swing and to never lose sight of the fact that emotions flow as water flows. If you block water from flowing, that is when pressure builds. Allow your emotions to flow freely, good and bad, and it's difficult for the pressure to rise. Idk, just my two cents.
@@Sailing_Songbird That isn't two cents. That's a thousand bucks right there. Ty For sharing your journey with us :) You're an inspiration!
French, coupons, Tupee , culdisack, oh ya French fries duh!!
Put out board below deck too
Jack Sparrow says hello!
Do you not have companionway boards or just don't have them in? Not having a way to seal your cabin is a good way to get flooded. A big wave over the transom can fill your boat very quickly.
I do have companionway boards but I don't think I've had them in since I left the US. The cockpit on the Vancouver 27 is incredibly small for the size of the boat for this very reason. It would take a CONSIDERABLY large wave to cause me to flood due to this design. On this Pacific passage, the seas never got large enough for me to have to consider this scenario. If I ever get the idea to sail the Southern Ocean, sealing my companionway will be something to keep in mind.
Seeing you clean the solar panels made me wonder if you ever fear falling off the boat 🥵?
Fear isn't the right word. There is always a constant vigilance though...
i know the bacon day hit different!
It genuinely did 😭
First i thought, no harness, a little risky. Then loose outboard taking up half the cockpit, pretty dangerous. But a 6 square foot hole in your boat that you seal with a pilfered towel, WTF? That is a death wish. You got very lucky. Otherwise, ive really enjoyed your 2 videos, thank you.
Not quite sure what you are referring to? My companionway I think? After a full year of sailing and about 10,000 miles I've never once had a wave come into the cockpit, let alone the cabin. Even when I rode 30ft seas for 6 days in the North Pacific. I don't really consider this a risk as the Vancouver 27 was designed with a very small cockpit to limit the risk of a single wave somehow sinking the boat. I have friends that have taken rouge waves into the cabins and they have never expressed a concern with there being so much water that they could sink.
How many cameras do you use, and are they GoPro’s? I’m amazed you have such great footage considering you have to concentrate on sailing. When and how do you do the edits? Safe journeys! I’m loving these longer episodes!
I only have my iPhone and a GoPro 9. Some day I'll have the $$ to have the boat covered in GoPros to get all different kinds of angles!
How do you control the boat while sleeping?
Pretty barritone, man.
12:07 bro that's not French that's Mandarin,
I can clearly hear them saying "两三收到，注意瞭望" (Two-Three Roger, Pay Attention and Keep Looking out).
These guys must have mistaken you for a pirate. XD
Wait are you serious??? My mind is BLOWN that I didn't recognize the mandarin!! They were right to worry 😎
@@Sailing_Songbird Yeah now that I listened again, they sounded pretty concerned about you LOL
那你是什么计划？ What's your plan then?
两三收到，会保持安全距离，注意瞭望 23 roger, will keep safe distance, and keep an eye out
@@ShibalotonSeattle Well I'm glad that they were keeping an eye out 😊
Well, he DOES look like Captain Jack ;)
Why is the outboard motor in the middle of the way?😳
Play harmonica for the dolphins 🐬
Dude do something with the outboard before its swept over the deck….no hatch boards? 😂
what material is your rudder made from?
I had this rudder custom made during my refit in Seattle so I really should know this answer. I believe it is a foam core but, as it was custom built, I had Rudder Craft construct it will heavy duty use in mind.
@@Sailing_Songbird k ty. keep up the good work mate. I am a sailor too but I stayed under the water lol. I understand a lot of what you are talking about. being on a submarine can be very lonely and time consuming at times. I will be here watching every week.
Id brought a Nintendo switch or a old school ipod with me
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How on Gods green and blue earth, are you doing this by yourself???
I mean, nothing has really been too unmanageable doing it all solo 😅
@@Sailing_Songbird Praying for you that, that stays the same until you reach your goal.😊
You understand german? :D
On the cover of your advertisement, why do you picture yourself forming an 'O' with your mouth?
I just grabbed that facial expression from 8:45. It pretty much sums up the facial expression I made when my sail ripped a week later.
@@Sailing_Songbird yeah, we're not interested.
Is it really wise to do this by yourself? I realize that your very young but that seems pretty dangerous.
Take risks to do what is meaningful to you. For me, my dream is to sail around the world. Westward I will continue!
@@Sailing_Songbird I'm not discounting your dream nor your bravery. But couldn't you have had at least one shipmate to in case of serious adversity? No matter, I'm hooked to your channel.😁 So I wish you the absolute best of luck possible. You're a he!! of a lot braver than I am. Then again you are clearly a professional sailor. Look forward to your next video.
Double headsails! Learn french... practice discipline, you have to put in the miles to be a good sailor!!!
Junk fish? Dude
It was delicious!
It was a Jack Crevalle and is considered a junk fish.
That fake rolling in the bed at night was ridiculous man… please just don’t…
I promise it was not fake, I was running wing on wing through the night. Which causes the boat to roll quite a bit.
How do you control the boat while sleeping?
Great question! My self steering windvane keeps me on course as long as the wind direction doesn't shift. If the wind direction does shift, then I can fall off course and I wake up a few miles off course. But, in a ~3000 mile passage, a few miles off course is inconsequential.
@Sailing_Songbird this is so cool I don't know how you are doing this solo though!