Sailing Across the Gulf Stream to Bahamas | Florida Keys to Bimini | ep 250
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- After working on our boat for nearly five years we are leaving the US and crossing to Bimini from the Florida Keys. It's 24 hour sail and we're hoping for good weather and easy seas for our first time crossing the Gulf Stream in our electric Sailboat.
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Love to hear someone else say to give God all of the glory. Bless you and your entire family. Way to go y’all !!!
Thank you!
I thanked God for getting us through a force 11 storm off the coast of South Africa many years ago in a 50 foot sloop. Prayer does work!
Yes it does!! 😍
When I pray, coincidences happen.... when I don't, they don't. Keep on keeping on.
Yep!
yes life preserver, and safety line
You have sailed it, you have earned it. Enjoy it.
Thank you! 😍
Wow Sailor 🥳🥳🥳
Yup, the better the finder most of the time the deeper is will work.
Just to clarify - I am an experienced sailor and grew up in a family business building ocean going yachts. Yachtsmen head for the Med in March (no later than May). The latest charters are the last week in April typically. This is the worst time for even seasoned sailors to be leaving Florida for the Caribbean. Head back and take shelter for the season. Many yachtsman will move north along the eastern seaboard for safer harbor for the season. The anchorages up the coast are safer but you will still need to weather some very strong weather. Please heed these words.
It’s all good! Most YT channels are not posting in real time. We filmed this the first of April.
Congratulations.
Thank you!
You can do more than pray after you have prayed but you can not do more than pray until you have prayed! S D Gordon
Love it!
Congratulations 👍👍
Thank you!! 😍
Fantastic. Live the dream.
Thanks for watching.
Wow… You literally gave GOD the glory… That is so great to hear, you are not afraid you will get DEPLATFORMED for Praising God! I am now praying & supporting you!
Thank you.
congrats guys now 4 the fun fun fun to begin
Yes!! 😍
Well done all. More learning going on every time you make a passage.
Thank you! Yes there is. 😍
Enjoy your time there, you’ve definitely worked hard to get there. Thank you for taking us along with you.
Thank you for watching. 😍
Cheers guys!
Thanks Trev!
Congrats, you deserve it.
Thank you!
You guys are doing great. Thanks for the videos.
Thanks! 😍
Congratulations and have a well deserved great time in the Bahamas. It all gets easier the more you sail.
Yes it does! Thanks!
Absolutely beautiful amazing congratulations to you all.
Thank you for joining our journey!
Glad it was an uneventful crossing. Nice video! 😎💕
Yes! Thank you!
Well done, wishing you a safe and enjoyable trip xxx
Thank you so much! 😍
@@Spoondrifters If you ever sail to the UK, you might one day !! Sail to Conwy in North Wales. It is beautiful, Google it. You could stay with us, it would be wonderful to meet you and have you all stay in our home and give you a spoil whilst showing you the sights xxx
We definitely plan on coming for a visit. It’s on Todd’s bucket list to see your neck of the woods.
Congrat's on making it to the Bahama's! One day maybe have a backup Depth finder. The 99 dollar specials mounted on a pole or rigged up when needed. I've even see a hand held one. Safe travels
Yes! A hand held is on our list of things to get! A friend uses theirs from their dinghy to scout routes and anchorages ahead of the big boat. It’s skinny water down here. 😅
Well done 😊😊😊😊
Thanks!
Congratulations. Great job.
Thank you!
First video here, I'll be watching, have some fun after 5yrs of sailboat labor, best of luck God bless
Thanks for joining us. 😍
I thought for sure you would need your sunpass to get under that bridge 😂
🎉congratulations 🎉first of many countries for you to explore 🤞
Thanks Dave! Yes it is. 😍
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Congratulations! I can’t wait to see all of your adventures!
Thank you!
Congratulations are in order. All your hard work just paid off. Enjoy your stay in the Bahamas. Todd may get to lose his " farmer's tan ".
That's the plan!
I just subscribed and really enjoyed your video. Also, it’s awesome that you are willing to speak openly about about your faith!! Safe travels!
Thanks for joining us! It’s a crazy world when it’s ok to talk about everything except a belief in God. 😅🥰
Longtime coming for y'all glad you finally made it to your first (Out of U.S) Destination. Y'all have fun see ya next weekend. :0)
It has been. Thanks for joining us. 😍
You All look like Real Sailors - Cheers and thanks for sharring
Thank you for watching! 😍
Well done Spoondrifters!!!!
Thank you Richard!
supper cool to see you on your way!!
Thanks for sharing our journey with us. 😍
Yayyyyy you guys made it. That water is beautifully. Now you guys can relax and enjoy the Bahamas.
It really is!
So joyful to see you making your way to the Bahamas. Blessings.
Thank you.
I went to the Bahamas with my grandfather, and my aunt tossed the lead line off the bow and shouted out the depth. It’s one of my best memories of the whole experience. you should try it along with your depth sounder to see how accurate you are Great job guys cool, calm and collected is the way to do it
That’s awesome! 😍
With practice you will be able to read the water depth buy the colors.
It’s still hard. 😝
Have a good and pleasent voyage to Bahama's.
Thank you. 😍
Glad you got to Bimini ok! It was our first Bahamas stop as well👍 Just a thought for when hour sails are down - we run a separate line out to the rail to make a triangle, which stops the boom flopping about.
Great stop! We’ll have to try that. Thanks!
🌟👏👏👏🎊🍹🎉Well done!!
Thank you!
Great videos guys. We have a dog that gets car sick. the vet said we could give her a half pill of Dramamine for motion sickness. you might try that on your cat. Are you going to post a video on what you had to get into the Bahamas.
We’ll see if that works. How soon do you give it to him? Yes we will post what it took to check in.
Mark Twain. Mark Thrice.....😅😅 That'll work.
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Is there a setting on your plotter about relative motion versus True Motion representation? There is try changing that and you might be able to switch your little boat icon to show the direction you were pointed versus the direction that you are making good course made good they call it. So in other words it would show your bow heading of the boatVersus the course over ground. I’m not familiar with your plotter but look around on it go sailing
Cool, we’ll look around and see. 👍 Thanks!
I couldn't figure out your plotter to what you described either....need to set it up as denp54z suggests thus avoiding confusion and "electronic assisted collisions". You did good relying on your brain and the lights not your instruments.
Yeah, we’ll check it out. It is very confusing at night.
Folks, I don’t mean to be an alarmist but June-November is the hurricane season in the Caribbean. All experienced sailors LEAVE the area for safer water. What are you thinking?
Our videos are 6-8 weeks behind real time.
Im sure youre probably experiencing the Bahamas, but the reefs and cuts in Florida dont really compare to the ones in the Bahamas 😆. Congratulations on the crossing.
No they don’t. LOL! 😍
I don’t know how far behind your videos are but it’s June 4 right now and tonight and tomorrow are you supposed to be severe flooding in the Bahamas hope y’all made it through make it through OK
Thanks. It’s a ton of rain but luckily we float. 😍
If you use heading up your AIS picture will look more realistic
We do use heading up.
I saw a cat !! ... so badly want to move onto boat but worried about my indoor cat
She has struggled with being sick as we started out but seems to be getting the hang of things.
So...i am neeish to sailing. I have sailed some off florida, but never to Bimini. Why would you not be able to stop in Bimini because of winds and have to keep going? Worst case pull in the back side of the islands, no?
If there’s any westerly component to the wind the entrance to Bimini is too rough to enter. Yes you could continue around the backside and wait it out. There’s no way to get to the customs office from that side. But once you get around, it’s just easier to keep going vs backtrack.
@@Spoondrifters fair enough, thank you!
At 20:03 I see a cup holder on the pole. Where can i get one?
It’s a bicycle water bottle holder. Works great!! We got it at Walmart.
I loved the part where yall put up the quarantine flag and did the jig ... just wondering, are the kids embarassed when ya do that? I laughed my butt off.
Yes, very embarrassed. 😜
Trying to hard for drama? Depth sounder loses bottom for bit, of journey. When you get reading back you think God i Intervened? 😅
You weren’t in our boat trying to decide what to do if it was broken. That wasn’t fake at all. Last time it was broken it did exactly the same thing. Several conversations were had in those long minutes over Starlink with experienced sailors who had also had the same thing happen and it was broken. So, if you don’t believe, that’s on you, not us.
@@Spoondrifters Had our depth sounder go out running the ICW. Turns out it became very confused because the water is so filthy.
Yes, we had ours get confused when following barges that were churning up muddy water.
@@Spoondrifters In my experience a depthsounder reading failure not good but normally not a definite disaster .