Offshore Sailing Tips: Storms at Sea, Tame the Autopilot + Mainsail Battens - Patrick Childress #38
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- Offshore Sailing Tips - Storms at Sea ,Tame the Autopilot + Mainsail Battens - Patrick Childress Sailing Videos #38
Sailing around the World, blue water sailing through the Mozambique Channel from Bazaruto to South Africa, avoiding storms and squalls, but still sailing in rough seas and rough weather. Our Old Mainsail dies and we bend on a new main sail. We struggle with a Dangerous Anchorage and leave in a storm..in to the storm at sea that we were trying to avoid. One can never avoid storms in Africa altogether! ! Making sailing videos in good and bad weather has just become part of our sailing life on this circumnavigation. Patrick Childress shows how to adjust the autopilot sensitivity, and why he does not put a Mainsail up when sailing with the winds, and why we chose partial battens vs full battens in the mainsail. Adjusting the autopilot is a simple adjustment for most autopilots.This is more than a sailing blog...it’s a Sailboat how to channel...Sailboat DIY...showing how to handle rough weather on our yacht, how to sail in general, and Sailing in storms and sailing in heavy weather while you circumnavigate, and other offshore sailing tips.
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What sails do you most often use downwind? And do you have full battens in your Mainsail? Do you like them? Please leave your comments to these below..it really helps us!
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well gosh , I wouldn't know... All i know it's not the size of the sea , but whether it is "angry" or not.... I only sailed as kid... but dropped out cause the Captain was a big ego "blow hard" I find this everytime I climb on board........ though one guy was a "busybody" but he was cool about it though , now I understand why....looking back on it we were getting blown faaaaaar from land..going back was all uphill). I was a dumb kid.... now I am a dumb adult....
Will everyone agree with me that Patrick is the man?
He is!!! I agree…I agree…this is his wife btw! Answering old comments to Lear them off my screen!!!
Thank you for every video, every comment and every nugget you shared with us. RIP hermano!!!!!
So true!
It's nice to see Rebecca not being camera shy! She is very photogenic! Another interesting video. Safe travels
The world has lost a great person. R.I.P. Patrick Childress.
Yes. That’s for sure!
Great episode Patrick. A number of people criticize me for dropping the main when running downwind in high winds. I completely agree with your headsail only strategy. A great lesson in seamanship. Thanks
Patrick, can you imagine the forces needed to break the boom of a Swan 48? I know someone who did that because they insisted on using he main as the primary driver in strong wind and seas, then gybed. Another captain, in similar conditions ripped out the traveler when they gybed. As the life long sailor and boat guru, Bill Seifert, says, "It is easier to pull a boat than to push it." Anyone who still believes the words of the sailing instructor on that first day of sailing class "The main is the first sail up and the last sail down." has not learned how to deal with sailing beyond the bay on a pleasant day. Thanks for watching, Patrick.
I’m always full ears when listening to you guys both you and your wife are a wealth of knowledge and do a great job sharing it with us 👍👍💯
This is Rebecca, but I’m sure if Patrick was awake right now (it’s nearly midnight here), he would say the same...THANKS for your great compliment, for watching, for sharing it to your sailing friends, for giving it a thumbs up, and for commenting! It all helps to encourage RUclips to keep showing it ;)
This is the only time I can watch RUclips and tell my wife I'm studying. Great advice and tips and really well filmed. Thanks.
michael bundy 10 months later, seeing this comment again makes me smile. Hope you are still watching :) -Rebecca
Hi Rebecca, I thought I new how to sail till I followed Patrick so sad to here his passing would have loved to sail at least one ocean with him as my mentor. love from Jeff,Jane uk
It certanly feels good to come home after a weeks work and sit down in my favourite chair, and see a new episode from you. Thank you so much! / Tony
Thank you for the nice compliment!
What a wealth of REAL sailing advice. I have searched through too many RUclips pages created by green sailors who simply don't know what they don't know. As a merchant marine Captain, and more importantly as a yachtie, I am concerned that they will eventually have to learn the hard way. You two are clearly and obviously experienced world cruisers. They should all watch your channel as it may save their life some day.
Your approach to safety and the maintenance schedule you have in place along with your voyage planning, should serve as an example for all sailors regardless of the length of their wake. For me, you have provided validation to 3 issues I have been crewing on for my Morgan 43, they being Iridium Go/Predict Wind, backstay isolators and the best way to set up bilge pumps on a sailboat of this size. And I find myself taking notes during your videos. Just terrific info here. I look forward to your next video knowing it can only make me, and everyone else for that matter, a better sailor. Fair Winds, Capt Bill
This is Rebecca...I hope Patrick will see this and comment too ;) Thanks for your HUGE compliment! We appreciate that! We too are ALWAYS learning, and are also nervous for some of the newbies! But there are a lot of smart newbies out there too, with some great videography skills that are so beautiful to watch!
Share our videos when you can...helps us, and hopefully helps others too ;)
Great job! You will be greatly missed
Yes he will be
Patrick. Of all the cruisers doing videos, yours are by far the best and most informative. I spent a year cruising the Mexico Pacific coast many years ago in a 30 ft. sloop, and thought I did very well with planning, maintenance, sail management, and navigation in the days before the electronic tools were so widely available. But after seeing your videos, I now realize I was often lucky rather than skillful. I really admire how thoughtful and cautious on your adventure cruise. It's an inspiration, and a pleasure to watch.
Thank you, Tom, for the fantastic compliment. Every cruiser needs a bit of luck from time to time, including us.
Please keep up your videos. Make a lot of effort. We are with you and this is the only way we can support you. Keep us informed.
Thanks John. I will do my best to make more videos :)
Thank you Rebeka and Patrick.. a very good video production, and seamanship lessons. Congratullations.
I love how you talked about the fact that sometimes leaving port and heading into a storm is a better choice than staying anchored in a bad situation.
Hi...we are in an area of bad internet tomorrow but wanted to reply while i have a signal...this is Rebecca...yes it was a tough decision...we could have dealt with the discomfort of staying...we expected it. But seeing waves building, and starting to break on the stern...yeah...it was definitely time to leave to make sure of our safety. It was a shitty night honestly but felt much safer and smarter.
It always makes for a great Friday when you can wake up to one of the best selling channels on RUclips! Thank you Patrick and Rebecca, you’re the best
Very nice thing for you to say...thank you for watching!
I enjoy the trip planning discussions. Wind, current, bailout harbors, etc... all factors that make it a successful passage or a miserable experience. I especially appreciate learning about getting around the southern tip of Africa since I'll be making the same journey in the next decade or so. Thanks... and keep the cameras rolling!!
Thanks! Hope we share an anchorage one day! Thanks for watching!
I just bought some chain at Maggi, USA and to my surprise saw a drum labelled Brickhouse. Man, I wish I would have been prepared. I could only grab a couple of Misc things from my truck tool box to add to the drum. Its so cool to communicate and ship stuff that far. First time buying Italian chain so I was reassured if you bought it, then my research was on the mark and I would be ok with my purchase. Preston was great to deal with and very helpfull. Looking forward to yall opening up that drum.
Small world :) Thanks in advance for whatever you popped in there!
Yes...we just could not find chain in SE Asia before we left last year that was of the quality that is tough enough for our demands. Our old, old chain is SSOO at the end of its life. In this very video, you saw the anchorage just before it got dark and started to get VERY bumpy...dangerously bumpy, considering this old chain we have. That’s when we decided we would go NO further with the current chain, and would wait for a drum to be sent to Richards Bay in South Africa before anchoring anywhere again. We have been in contact with Maggi Chain USA for more than a year, and it was time to do it! I can’t tell you how much research I did, and , yes...I think you and we have made a very good decision with Maggi! (Rebecca)
@@RVLifeNOW I wish I could have done more. Its just a small token of thanks and we are thinking about you.
As with every gift, it’s the thought that counts! .... It’s so cool that you wanted to put something in it ;) Whatever it is I know we will appreciate it...that it came all the way from the USA from someone who watches and likes our channel ;) Will let you know when it arrives! Thanks again for watching, subscribing, sharing, liking, and commenting! And thanks in advance for whatever is in the drum!!!
You are inspiring, Thank you!!
Thank you so much!
What a wild ride you had getting to Richards Bay!
Yep!
Superb seamanship. Thanks for sharing your thought process and plans for a safe journey.
Thank you
Yet another enjoyable episode folks.....real world cruising. I enjoy the times Rebecca gets her moments on screen (vs the editing/cutting room floor)....her comments add immensely to the character of the videos. Predictwind...gotta love it! Enjoy SA, you will have tons to explore! (Rorkes Drift....for any old history/ movie buffs??) Thanks Patrick and Rebecca, Andrew
Rokes Drift, I will research that one. There is a very old movie called Trader Horne that Ted Turner Classic Movies has rights to. Looks like I will have to spring the $20 for that DVD. It has animal scenes that would not be allowed to be filmed today. Rebecca is finally coming around to working "on screen" more; certainly better spoken and prettier than I am.
Rorkes Drift.....movie Zulu. You both play equal and opposite roles in the videos, and it really works. Thanks!@@RVLifeNOW
Thanks so much (This is Rebecca). I am sorry to say, Patrick still has to twist my arm a bit! I feel like I should brush my hair and put on better clothes sometimes, but I refuse to be different just because I’m being filmed, so I struggle with it still...but how can I say no to Patrick...he is so passionate about this! The little money we get here and there from it does make us both smile though ;)
That squid looks pretty good to me! Stay well and safe you guys!
🙏 Rest In Peace 🙏
Yea..thank you for never forgetting him
Nicely done - knowing when to go and when to stay. I learnt an early lesson in sailing when we booked a flight for one day after we planned our return from a summer cruise up the coast. Yeah you know what’s coming...and so should have I. The weather was fowl, 30 gusting 35 on the nose, and a sea perfectly tuned to our boat length such that we slammed back through every wave and every mile! Needless to say that never happened again. : /
As Donald Crowhurst said in the book, The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst, "Puff boats have destinations, not ETAs." Thanks for your comment!
Another beautiful episode filming, wow exciting times sailing around the world ⛵ 🌎 I would say the best education. My best sailing voyage around the world ⛵ 🌎 alone from Hawaiian islands 🏝
Sad Ling is a great education…for sure!
Sailing that is
What a good team. I choose the wrong left too sometimes.
Thomas, thanks or watching, and your comment.
awesome video, brick house looks to be very sea kindly, with a good team aboard she sails nicely, cheers enjoying the journey,
Thanks
Great episode folks. Entertaining and educational.
Thanks for watching, Al. and your comment.
So much great useful information thanks x.
Thanks for watching…
Wow am glad you guys got too Richard's bay safely. Those storms looked gnarly. 👍😎
Great video, I watched many sailing vlogs, but yours is most educational. I don't know, whether you discuss trip planning in the same manner, when the camera is off, but I do appreciate you sharing your rationale in such detail. Although I would never dare to sail the African east coast. Be safe.
We know South African cruisers who say they don't just have stories about sailing the E. African coast, they have horror stories. But just like Cape Hatteras, it can get rough but there is not a constant storm. Watch the weather reports and the greatest majority will do fine. …...I hope that statement holds true for us!
Pity I missed you guys and we never got in touch before you left Mozambique. There is a great southern hideaway at the bottom of Inhaca island between the mainland and the island (Santa Maria). I sit there most weekends and have sat out many 40 knot southerlies there. Enjoy Richards Bay. I will be there with my boat in mid December before heading up the African coast next year . Richards Bay as a yachting repair and docking spot is far nicer than Durban for sure.
Yes...i was bummed out that we had no internet and no way to find your facebook message! If you get down to Richards Bay, please stop by and share a cocktail with us, will you? And who knows...you may see us in Maputo when we do a visa run...
As soon as you left my second home country Tanzania you get into bad winds! ;-) Thank you for informative and always interesting videos.
Yes, it is quite a different environment as soon as we reached the Mozambique boarder. Now, in S. Africa, it is getting pretty cold, along with the wind. I think tonight it is supposed to snow in Richards Bay.....at least that is what it feels like.
bravo !! très intéressant
Thanks!
Terrific video, great insight into when and where to navigate tough weather systems..... astronauts should take six months sailing in these conditions to train for the voyages of the "ultimate seas", cheers
Off port elizabeth ,sa waves got 100+feet around 3/'83...they looked like mountains..good call
Geez!!!
@@RVLifeNOW was on Allison Lykes freigher on a sked...fair weather is much better...keep going fair..
Excellent!
♥️The last revue for a while.
Loosing signal.
Thanks for watching while you could
Good vid ya'll.
Amazing , thanks for sharing... sailing videos are the only thing that keeps me from going stir crazy when stuck in the house.... Any " I shouldn't be alive" stories ? If you are near the sea for a length of time you will surely have a few.... they are very sobering moments...
Yeah…living through covid. See my latest videos…I definitely hold this be alive. My captain isn’t. I got to live though…
@@RVLifeNOW Got it , just recently found your channel.... I'm on your side. We will be alright , don't worry.
Thanks so much. Will try :)
@@RVLifeNOW Thank you Mrs.Childress....Thank you for sharing your amazing life with us here in RUclips land.... You know the sea is much like life.....Like the great Bruce Li said : "Be like water my friend".
Great stuff
Thanks for watching…
It would be very useful if you could make a video on downwind sailing techniques particularly is rough weather. You gave some hits here on not using the main to increase boat stability on waves but I'd like to know more. Congratulations for the very professional and useful information in your videos.
That is a good idea for a video. Throughout these videos, there are sections showing different sail combinations for off the wind sailing. One day I will grab all those clips and make a video like you suggest. Thanks for the idea.
The best steak and eggs I ever had was Calimari (marinara sauce) eggs and hashbrowns in Johnny's Cafe in Half-moon Bay CA.
Haha… well there u have it. Best provisioning on a sailboat is on land
Great video. Enjoyed every bit of it. Fair winds and stay safe.
Thanks so much for the nice compliment! We have a big challenge ahead when we go around the Cape at the end of this year..so your fair wind wishes are appreciated! -Rebecca
I am very interesting your video, great done, many thanks
Thanks for watching!
I think a high pressure system coming across the cape of good hope will produce the north easterly winds needed to push you south. My understanding of it is after a low pressure system flows north up the channel toward Madagascar it will be followed by a high pressure system that will cause the current and the wind to shift to favor sailing south.
My Mainsail does not have full battens.
I also like sailing downwind without the main when the wind picks up. It just feels right.
This is Rebecca...That is so interesting about the buoyage!
Hi. Lekker Calamari! I noticed you don't have a full-batten mainsail. Would you consider making a short video explaining the pros/cons of both, please.
Sure. One day we will
Nice Video!
Rebecca has a beautiful smile.
Rebecca is certainly the better half.
Wow! What a nostalgia trip for anyone sailing out of Richards Bay to Inhaca Island or Durban and back.
Memories brought back...
* threading through the channels (bah! Humbug!) at Inhaca at night in the days before GPS and a dodgy echo sounder (I just crew - go ask the skipper)
* Those frigging southwesters. Even heading north they are a pain...
* The anchorage at Inhaca in a (guess?) southwester. I still can't jog due to a fall crunching my
L5/S1 disc in ±1995
* Trying to get past St Lucia going south against the counter current in a mild southwester (in a race so no starting the donk). And the same going north with a northeastern. Stood still doing 4½ knots through the water for nigh on 60 hours!
* Prawns at Lucas's at Inhaca
* Not talking to a particular skipper for two years after a particularly stressed out race
* Monkeys in Richards Bay - little buggers - don't try growing veggies here unless you are willing to barricade them like in a C Max prison.
Are you still on the hard at the Zululand Yacht Club? I let my membership lapse (long story) but your video has started me wondering what their pensioner's subs are?
Enjoy your stay. The climate in the winter months is heaven on earth.
This is Rebecca...glad we could bring back the fun and stressful memories ;) Yes it’s quite a Coast!! We couldn’t believe it when we got here and saw a billboard about a race to Inhaca the next weekend...can’t believe people do that coastline for fun! How does anyone do a race and not get in horrid weather!? I guess you guys just go in any weather! Hence the nightmare memories ;)
Yes...we are at ZYC..will be here for the rest of the year I think. I don’t know what you mean by pensioners subs...so can’t answer that one, but so far the weather is indeed, heaven on earth!!!
@@RVLifeNOW
Wait till June / July. Then it's even better. Been here 36 years so I know 😉
Pensioner subs = special membership fees for old fogies...
This is Rebecca...what is this that you mention about Pensioneer subs?
Pensioner subs(criptions) - reduceed club membership fees for old fogies...
Many businesses here give 10% discount if you are older than 60...
Hi Patric, Have you ever tried to use the “response setting” instead of the rudder Gain? I have always been using the response setting on the Raymarine to achieve what you do with the rudder gain. Will try your method when I’m back on the boat.
Maybe this is something new to me. Isn't this the same but different terms? So on your control head, you can go to either "response" or "gain"? How would you get to "response"? What is the difference?
Patrick Childress Sailing I’m sure Raymarine have many versions. I have the 400G course computer. On my autopilot Gain controls maximum rudder angle when executing a course change. Response controls the deadband port/SB and amount of drive activity. To access response menu I press -1/+1 button until I get to response menu. I normally use response 5 when I want active steering and 3 when on the ocean.
I just checked the manual, and there, Raymarine calls it Response Level, but on the control head it is called Rudder Gain. I redid the whole voice over for that section as I was calling it Response Rate but then it did not look right, when in the video, it showed up as Rudder Gain, on the control head. As shown in the video, push both the -1 and +1 at the same time and "Rudder Gain" comes up. Same same.
Welcome to my hometown! Well done on missing those cyclones, how hectic! Are you still in Durban harbour, we have been giving the place a wide berth since the latest rains when the sewerage pump broke 😑
Hi! This is Rebecca...Thanks! No...we are in Richards Bay...about 80-100 miles north of Durban...yes a shame for Durban! Amazing such bad weather there, and here just a little more wind but nothing shocking!
'Rebecca, if I may, the correct translation of the word "offshore" in italian language is "al largo". Anyway very interesting video, as usual.
Thanks for the correction. Google translate doesn’t always do a very good job in the translations for sure!!
Hey yall, another great video! How did you end up with Brickhouse?
Thanks...this is Rebecca... How did we get the name...or the boat? If you mean the name...there are 3 versions...probably worthy of a video ;) If you mean the boat...how did we get it...that’s in another video...I think it was the the video about “flares on a sailboat”...
@@RVLifeNOW I'll try to find it : ] I was more wondering what possessed you to buy it and start sailing? As opposed to say - buying a house 15 feet from your neighbors and working a soul crushing corporate job.
This is Rebecca a...Long story...I had the boat before I met Patrick...with my ex. The ex got the house 15 feet from the neighbor and kept the soul crushing corporate job because he enjoyed that kind of thing. I got the depreciating asset (happily), and kept working my soul crushing job. The ex and I had bought the boat when I had decided I wanted to go cruising someday soon...but when he decided, after 15 years of working towards that goal, that it wasn’t something he wanted to do...well...you know. So Patrick has a running joke that he talks about in that video...that he got lucky..got a girl with a boat etc...but that he has been fixing it ever since...which is pretty much the bottom line of it all! But I was pretty lucky to find a guy like Patrick to help me realize that dream finally. Would crushing corporate jobs are so....for the birds...I hope you are finding a way out soon...realizing that is half the battle!
no los habia visto me suscribi inmediatamente
I cant seem to translate that...but thank you for subscribing and watching!
I had not seen them I subscribed immediately
I forget which of your videos I saw it on (it wasn't this one), but what is that wad of green stuff that you use to block your hawse pipe to keep the water out of the anchor locker?...
That is a wad of modeling clay. In comfortable temperatures, it works great. When the temperatures turn very chilly, the clay hardens up a bit too much. We will be heading to far south, South America. I will have to start experimenting with other plastics that will remain more pliable in colder temperatures. Maybe different plumbers putties.
@@RVLifeNOW Thanks! Next time I go offshore, I plan on stowing my main anchor below, and lowering the end of the chain down the pipe on a messenger, and then plugging the pipe with something to try and keep the bow a little lighter (and drier).
thanks autopilot and rudder gain , very usefulcomments.can you set the autopilot angle window in which it does not respond.to a larger value, on open seas?
Nigell, if you mean the gain, so it does not hold quite a tight course and overwork the autopilot, yes, I lower the gain all the time from the default 5 to 3 and sometimes 2, when it is really rough and we are not using the Monitor self steering vane. Well offshore, we normally use the Monitor and close to shore, the autopilot. Close to shore, we don't need the Monitor to follow an unexpected wind shift and head us into shallow water.
When you go forward to change sails in rough seas are you clipped on or do you wake your crew? Or is this unrealistic as you have to go forward so often?
Dale86, in editing the video, I purposely wanted to avoid any discussion about tethers so kept my on deck presence short and at a distance. But since you asked. In most weather, I feel perfectly comfortable working around the deck uninhibited and without being tripped up by a tether. Tethers can cause a lot of trouble and become dangerous. However, when the waves are washing over the deck and the weather is at a certain intensity, I will use the safety back up of a tether. I have spent a lot of years working construction hanging off of high scaffolding and 42 foot ladders and working on high roofs of buildings. I have done a lot of high speed snow skiing and other things that make working around the deck of a bouncing boat, at sea, seem far safer. I generally want to avoid opinionating about tethers as that is an individual choice on what one feels most comfortable doing. Long ago I spent 3 years sailing around the world by myself so I still have a carryover from that life style which keeps me in the solo sailor attitude of just going forward and doing what needs to be done, so I don't see any reason to wake Rebecca when I need to tend to the boat. I feel perfectly comfortable doing what I do. In the old days, we always had to go forward since sails were hanked on. Today, there is far less need to go forward due to roller furling. Much less exciting sailing these days but much easier and comfortable.
It has always taken me so many sentences to express what you just said in a few words. I will change it a little to say " Fall protection can cause more of a safety problem than be a solution." That is how many experienced sailors view harnesses and jack lines. Of course there is a time when the weather becomes so bad and dangerous, that the equipment is a valuable safety item. Thanks for your helpful comment.
Some people put baggywrinkle on the stays where the battens make contact.
You must be as old as I am to know what baggywrinkles are. I am sure you have seen bamboo, also used as chafe gear.
@@RVLifeNOW Baggywrinkles are what Jules and Suzie uses on Emerald Steel . They made their own boat, a Spray 38 designed by Bruce Roberts and have been sailing the world for the past 40 years. They also have their own RUclips channel Sailing Emerald Steel.
I really miss the old intro music your videos had. Great video though!
Ah…me too…
Do you have a boom-brake for broad reaches or do you use protector lines?
We do not have a boom brake. I rarely see one out here on a long range cruising sailboat. We use a preventer tied to a side deck cleat. I watched a video recently about a couple crossing the Atlantic. The wind was off the quarter and they had far too much main sail up for the conditions. When they accidentally jibed, the boom brake was so overwhelmed, the traveler was ripped out of the boat. A lone jib would have kept them moving at hull speed without the danger and damage of a jibe. A commenter on this video said that in similar, strong wind, conditions, when they jibed, the line on their boom brake broke. Certainly the boom brakes are adjustable, as the person in the video did not have enough wraps on the preventer drum for the conditions. The commenter went on to say they upsized the boom brake line. In the, off the quarter, wind conditions, they would have had a much better sail by flying a lone jib and dumping the main.
I'm lefty and many times right was left for me. My left is my right😂
Let me know what you think...should i grow my own channel "Sailing Brick House" and make it my own so as to NOT spoil this little masterpiece we created...or just add to this? -Rebecca
Off topic but what did you do to get the Juggernaut (Catalina 27) ready for circumnavigation?
There is a very long list which is in John Vigor's book, "20 Small Boats That Will Get You Anywhere". (amzn.to/2QcrgLf) Two of the most important items were to increase cockpit drainage. That Catalina had more cockpit drainage, by adding 4 drains out the vertical stern of the cockpit, than our Valiant 40 has. Increasing drainage on our V40 was one of the first things I did to this boat and is shown in the first Valiant Tour video. The second most important thing on the C-27 was changing the aft lower shrouds from deck plates to hull mounted chain plates. The side decks were not strong enough to carry the loads, in heavy weather, even though I had doubled the square area and thickness of the stainless deck plates. In the Catalina, there was also a high water, electric, emergency, bilge pump similar to what is installed on out V40. Maybe, one day, I will put the list up on our blog site. Do you have a C-27?
There are 2 similar books...this is the one : amzn.to/2QcrgLf
@@RVLifeNOW I have been looking at the Catalina 27s but dont own one yet. I am hoping to find one for lake sailing and then slowly upgrade it for heavier conditions with the hope of doing some limited bluewater sailing with it. After a few years of experience with that I hope to move to a larger and more robust built boat. I have "20 small boats" delivering any day now. Thanks so much for responding!
Enjoyed the book and reading through your upgrades!
Iv always wondered why the US has port on the left leaving when the rules of port to port at sea is the norm ?
The U.S. has always been a bit backwards, like driving cars on the right side of the highway.
bill hanna , look up this, IALA buoyage , there is A and B area all over the world.
@@CaptMarkSVAlcina I was in the merchant navy 35 yrs , Delivery skipper 30 odd years ,Just trying to work out the point of it ?
bill hanna , I read the other day it was about the American war of independence, it goes like this....
To stop the British ships coming up the Channel with red to port they changed it to red on std so then the British ships would run a ground.
Ahh agree about calamari...over rated.........unless with garlic, but everything tastes better with garlic or bacon.
rest easy Patrick......no more crawling into the chain locker.
Haha..you are right! He won’t have to do that again!
Hi Patrick, in relation to the comment on your last video 'grounding thru hulls' I remembered a video on drake paragon YT channel He interviewed experienced sailors and they touched on this subject, when I saw it I remembered you asking for more info, not sure if you got it but this may help. I timestamped it so you just have to press play ruclips.net/video/9iKko8PQeks/видео.html also the whole video is good, hope it helps :) ok the time stamp did not work but the part in question starts at 10,30.
Thanks Darco, for the link. What that owner is doing seems to be working for him. The other day, on a Face Book sailing site, someone posted pictures of the bottom of their fiberglass boat. There was a streak of burn mark, emanating from a thruhull , outwards in 2 directions for about a foot. "Lightening strike" is what the general assessment was for the cause of the marks. In the video link, I do like their idea of a much larger copper sheet to dissipate a charge coming from their mast. So maybe it is better to use a prop shaft strut over a thru hull for grounding, because of its larger wetted surface. In a different direction, she said something about using LanaCote monthly on their Marelon valves. LanaCote might, initially, look and feel greasy, but when it dries, it is an anti grease. I found out the hard way when I "greased" up my bow roller shaft with LanaCote. The roller would not roll and the chain just wore a deeper grove in the plastic roller as the anchor went down and as the anchor chain came up. I had to saturate the roller shaft with WD40 to get the roller to spin. Finally I was in a place I could take the roller apart and clean it up to remove the Lanacote!
@@RVLifeNOW you are welcome Patrick and thank you for all of the great info, fair winds, hope to see you out there some day.
I hope you missed cyclone idai with lots of deaths, and the storm that hit Durban leaving 60 death?
This is Rebecca...Yes...Cyclone Idai is the one we left Dar and Mtwara in a hurry to, to try to follow it down, which worked great...we had north winds for the first 800-1000 miles all the way down to Bazaruto.....where this video picks up. That cyclone hit only 100 miles NW of here, so we would have liked to have left Bazaruto sooner but had constant S winds for 9 days...we needless to say kept a very good eye on what what happening near Mayotte in case another started taking off...in which case we would have left against the south winds, to beat the cyclone! Here is that video: ruclips.net/video/ZrGMIlweQAo/видео.html
After leaving Bazaruto we just had the normal southerlies barreling up the coast one after another. Then the storm that hit Durban came a week after we arrived in Richards Bay. Funny, 80 miles north and we saw nothing out of the ordinary here. Then Cyclone Kenneth hit Mozambique again, a little further north. Hopefully that’s about the end of it. Definitely it was a calculated risk heading towards it..but we were ready to deal with the consequences...but luckily it didn’t come to that!
So long story short...yes we are fine...had a great sail...with the exception of about 2 hours just above Bazaruto, and 6 hours out of Inhaca (when we left the 2nd anchorage in this video in the storm...and even that was fine, just not sunny fairweather Sailing which is my favorite ;)
Thanks for your concern, for watching, and for sharing this video to your sailing friends!
wtf... your cooking and eating squid.. thats not food.. thats FISH BAIT to catch real food with.. yuk!! lol.. to each their own i guess... fair winds..
You don’t like calimari?