I don't think I was the only one that was a bit sceptical when you changed boats but I have to say "It's looking pretty dam spiffy". Good luck guys you deserve it.
Thanks a lot Joe, I guess up close we could always see the potential so we're confident we could bring her up to scratch and we're really pleased how she responded to the work we did. A boat's never finished though and the to-do list is expanding again already!
Thanks to both of you! I'm the one who asked about the space available between the 2 boats on Instagram! I watched episode 38 like suggested by Elena, but this one is even more detailed! Enjoy!
@@SailingKittiwake just watched all vids in one go,from falmouth,great job on paint,leave you on way to balierics nearly 5hrs solid,now new boat shock,great and tough looking,,but want old dinghy backlove way showed spray hood being made more of this please as doing up my boat same age t27 thanks must sleep sometime.
Brilliant tour of your beautiful boat. Cannot wait to follow your adventures. She is a wonderful boat and you will be safe going anywhere in her and your attitude to maintenance and budgeting is one to follow. Looks like you need some baggy wrinkle on your shrouds. I have made traditional BW but I recall Ruby Rose used some pool noodles with some success. Happy days and fair winds. Andy UK
Thanks so much Andy! I've heard it takes forever to make the old school type? Picking apart bits of rope? Pool noodle sounds like a good idea. It's definitely something we need to sort as the checkstays touch the main as soon as it's set for more than a beam reach
yes a very good boat tour , covering all the interesting / important points, well impressed by your kitting out,,, and none more than the canvas work , well donr that girl ..
Oh what a difference from Kittiwake! So much space below and you have it organized so well. I hope you can get that shower working. It would seem that the rigging/sales are in pretty good shape, plus the electronics, while older, are at least useful. Plenty of time to upgrade as time And funds become available. All in all kids, you made a great purchase for future adventures. I look forward to you sharing them here!
Thanks so much Edward. We love Skua :) Yes, we made a great deal! There's time for upgrades as you say, but even the older gear on board is super useful and we couldn't have afforded to buy it now, so it's great!
@@SailingKittiwake I am impressed. Every time I comment I receive a really nice reply. Thank you very much your efforts to reach out and thank your viewers is very cool. Your channel is a community, not a one way video feed. I've decided to become a patron because of your efforts to reply to comments and of course your fantastic photography/videography.
Randy S we do our best to reply to everyone 😊 We really appreciate it when people find the time to comment, and you leave lovely comments, Randy 😊 so thank YOU! Wow that’s awesome, feeling very grateful 😊 Speak to you on Patreon 😊👋
I have to really congratulate you on this boat! If I were looking at it, I would have walked. Way too much work and potential problems. But sounds like you got a real good deal and the owner was willing to work with you. Very important. I have purchased and refit 5 cruising boats in my life to varying degrees. And cruised them many tens of thousands of miles. Sailed in company with Tatyana 37’’s in the past. It looks like you guys have overcome some pretty big issues. Now have a great boat! If you get tired of the teak decks, you will find that in some countries where boat work is cheap, you can do the dirty deed. Ha ha. Very interesting that the Volvo is Perkins based. That’s a huge plus. Never heard of that. One boat I had, had a Perkins 4-154. Was well over 10K hrs when I sold the boat. Engine surveyed out great. My next boat had a Perkins 4-236 that was pushing 20K hrs! Still going strong. That boat carried 1000L of diesel so could do a lot of motoring if necessary. So again, congrats and enjoy! You did a lot of good things there. Looks like you handled it right.
You guys are probably one of few that switch from a cat to a mono, but in your case, I think it's a great move. Very nice boat! Lot's of luck & fun with it! Happy greetingz, Wim
So are we! Every time we see her, one of us invariably says something along the lines of 'god she's beautiful' or 'I can't believe that's our boat'. I think buying a boat is a 90% heart, 10% head decision, you need to love a boat to put the work in and make the sacrifices, and Skua is definitely worth it!
@@SailingKittiwake I've seen one of these yachts near my dads boat, for years. There are lots of modern, fast, slick etc boats around my dads boat.....but the boat that looks just like yours is by far the most beautiful in the area
Beautiful inside your boat! Planed on sailing the world back in the day with my brother! He passed early, so I never gave it ago! Don’t wait to sail for to long
A great tour. Regarding the Taylor heater, get yourself some spares for it like a spare burner and jets and make sure the burner is original equipment. There are knock offs which don't last long at all. My own had a burner which developed a fracture in one of the pipes feeding the jet, very hard to see so I had no idea the cabin was filling with fumes. Truth is I am lucky to be alive I think...
Great video, as usual. We are in the process of refitting our second Tayana 37 (hull #328) so we have been following your progress closely. We sail mostly in the Chesapeake Bay presently, but will be heading either up the U.S. coast or down the U. S. coast and into the Caribbean soon. I hope our paths cross sometime soon!
Amazing boat, ticks all the boxes. Excellent previous owner who made good and costly choices. I can now understand your enthusiasm when you bought her. Oh, and only now I see what a tiny girl you are :-)
Yes, he really went to town with her 10 years back or so! Fingers crossed it will all keep working 😊 Ha! I’m about 158cm tall, so not super short, but Ryan is veeery tall 😊
Hey, nice to see your boat. Maybe it has been said already, but I would only change one thing to start with. Get reef 3 from in the cockpit and reef 1 on the mast, that's safer.
You guys must rattle around in there compared to your previous boat. Quite the upgrade. Single fuel is a nice feature, most people don't think about that with a diesel stove and only comment on the smell.
Cheers James! :) Yes, it's been a huge advantage - no looking for gas for hours in the heat and it consumes way less. When we sit on opposite settees, we still can't believe how far we are from each other. Haha! And yet, in most places in the Med, we're still the smallest sailboat around.
@@SailingKittiwake That's because Tayanas tend to be way bigger inside than outside. That's like quite a few smartly thoughtout classics were in the seventies, with Tayanas on top notch position though.
Ok it’s official I’m jealous I really really like your new home it will be nice to see after a while at anchor how your feeling about it all. Congratulations 👍👍
Nice! Been waiting for this one and it was well worth the wait. A very well thought boat made for cruising the big wide blue and living aboard. Yours has a couple of nice upgrades too, including the nice diesel stove/oven.
I'm a big fan of tillers, but maybe because I started by sailing dinghies. I think they make a lot sense for small cockpits. Maybe you could make a permanent tiller that can lift up for convenience? I love the keel stepped mast and the old school "captain haddock" oil skins, "proper job" as we say in Bristol.
Haha yep, a tiller and fisherman oilies are definitely a salty look! They say if you learnt to sail before you learnt to drive a car then you prefer a tiller... we're going to do some sails with the emergency tiller and see how it is. We went on a boat with a smaller cockpit than Skua recently but because they had a tiller, lashed out the way, it felt twice the size.
Cheers John, yes with the rudder being well protected and the wind vane being an auxiliary rudder, we should have decent redundancy for the steering system.
I love it a couple of young Tubers who actually mentioned they have a log book, gee what a novel idea. I'm not making fun I'm complimenting them as seemingly true sailors who get it. They apparently understand seamanship and safety two items that will take them very far. I have the same boat only it's called a union 36 these are true ocean passage vessels. Robert Perry was an exceptional Naval architect.
We have even created our own independently published ones too 😂 That’s how much we’re into logbooks. Great boats the Unions, we thought we’d end up with one of them, but then found Skua 😊
@@SailingKittiwake The "traditional" Log Book will bring You a huge advantage should You ever land in any insurance case of whatever sort. No better showing of the "right" seamanship than having years and years of properly kept records.
She looks great you should both be so proud. I've heard the cutter rig is preferred for off shore work do you think that is true? Thanks for the wind vane info. I found that very helpful. Thank you for a wonderful boat tour full of really helpful info. Skua appears a great move for you. Fairwinds
Hi Ken, it's certainly been nice so far, having a staysail is great, especially when the wind picks up and you just want a small amount of sail area. Much nicer than winching in a big Genoa or reefing a huge main on a sloop rig
A superb video. Simply the best ‘boat tour’ I have ever seen. The quality of your videos just keeps on improving. You are really going to enjoy this boat ‘Captain Haddock, and first mate Ryan - lol.
Tayana look like nice boats. We have done about 15,000 miles on a Pearson invicta which is 38, and classic. When you say dirt cheap, what do you mean? Sorry if you mentioned how much in a video somewhere. What is the circumstances you found here under? I guess it wasn't listed online?
She wasn’t for sale yet and she had been neglected for years. The owner suddenly needed to sell fast. You can take a look at how she was when we got her in this episode: ruclips.net/video/6sy5T57UryM/видео.html We got her for under $30K.
My friend, in the tropics, in coral, you MUST have chain for the anchor. No rode!!! And keep a close eye on the Tayana 37 chainplates where they mount to the hull. Some of them have been corroding so watch them carefully.
Cheers Troya, chain is high on the priority list believe me! Thankfully our chainplates have been replaced by the previous owner. We'd like to eventually go to external chain plates :)
don't take this the wrong way but so glad you guys upgraded, i was worried about the cat getting you everywhere you wanted you go. looks amazing and not so coffin like! lol
Very nice boat, to get asign for SSb you can make a Ham license, if you learn by your own it costs only the examination tax and the book. I made it ten years agi, and I learned about 60 hours for it. The advantige of ssb is no costs anymore after getting the license.
Cheers Peter, I heard the ham licence is more complicated but I think something satellite based that could come in the liferaft with us if we had to abandon Skua is preferable.
The examination got easier, no more morse alphabet, I think it was about 200 Pages to learn, but many is easy, some technic and many usefull staff for working with ham.
Yes in the US you do not need to spend very much for an amateur license ($15) which is all you need, and I'll bet it is the same in the EU. I did it a year ago studying flash cards on HAMSTUDY.ORG site, very easy hamstudy.org/ . Get at least your General License. You can take all three exams at once and save $30. You might have been confused by the license require for professional marine operators licences which is costly. Note you must pass each license level in order, I made the mistake of jumping into General directly and had to then study for Tech. In the end I took and passed all 3 exams in one sitting. One advantage is you get a shorter call sign which is handy. Just a bunch of memorization. It's a nice toy that you apparently already own especially if you have buddy crusiers that have one too, like SV Ruby Rose. Note you can also setup inexpensive world wide email and weather mapping services if you have a Pactor box. By the way looks like you got a great boat with some nice extras like the diesel stove, steering vane and ssb radio.
My parents owned a similar boat a CT37 which is I think the same craft. There mast was laminated spruce and the interior was all teak and copper or bronze. The hull of either boat is beautiful! Are you planning on around the world eventually? I have been following some of the soloists that have sailed the globe. Enjoy your videos very much!
Hi Kerry, yes early Tayanas are officially called CT’s, including Skua, but everyone knows them as Tayanas so we use that! No idea where our adventures will lead us, whatever we think will be most fun at the time :)
@@SailingKittiwake have you guys read Joshua Slocum's, Sailing around the world alone. Read it and aim for it. You have a good craft, just gain some experience and do it. You are appealing to younger people, show them what dreams are made of. I would if I had nobody to depend on me. I just wouldn't come back to the land. The ocean is my mistress but life dragged me away from her. The urge to follow my bow sprit is growing stronger these days. Anyway if you have not read his book, you would do well if you did. My parents boat was named Sea Shaman. www.google.com/search?q=joshua+slocam&oq=joshua&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j46j69i59j46l2.5289j0j7&client=ms-android-google&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-
I didn't notice any wires off the mast anywhere on the inside, Is that wired for a lighting strike? Nothing like telling your friends down below they look really hot..
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Really one of the best “boat tour” videos out there. Clearly produced by someone who writes for a living.
Thanks so much Dexter ❤️
37 footer, not too small, not too big....Great tour of your T37.
Cheers Rick, she's a great size - perfectly liveable and not hard to sail :)
I don't think I was the only one that was a bit sceptical when you changed boats but I have to say "It's looking pretty dam spiffy". Good luck guys you deserve it.
Thanks a lot Joe, I guess up close we could always see the potential so we're confident we could bring her up to scratch and we're really pleased how she responded to the work we did. A boat's never finished though and the to-do list is expanding again already!
Thanks to both of you! I'm the one who asked about the space available between the 2 boats on Instagram! I watched episode 38 like suggested by Elena, but this one is even more detailed! Enjoy!
Thanks so much Patrice, glad you enjoyed it! Love your logo :)
Beautiful T37. Your hard work has paid off handsomely. Very much looking forward to your adventures aboard Skua
Thanks a lot Warren, we're excited to share the adventures! Fair winds :)
@@SailingKittiwake just watched all vids in one go,from falmouth,great job on paint,leave you on way to balierics nearly 5hrs solid,now new boat shock,great and tough looking,,but want old dinghy backlove way showed spray hood being made more of this please as doing up my boat same age t27 thanks must sleep sometime.
Thank you for the tour of your new boat!!!! Can see there is loads of work that went into it!!! Fair winds!!!
Hehe we’re glad it shows 😊 Nice to see you comment again 😊
Its a lovely boat; And Ryan must be really enjoyng the headroom below deck
He LOOOVES IT! And I'm not worried about him developing chronic neck and back pain :) Phew! :)
... especially around the sink 😆
How tall is he? Out of interest? My boyfriend and I are currently looking at sailboats but he is 6'7 so it's harder for us than most!
Brilliant tour of your beautiful boat. Cannot wait to follow your adventures. She is a wonderful boat and you will be safe going anywhere in her and your attitude to maintenance and budgeting is one to follow. Looks like you need some baggy wrinkle on your shrouds. I have made traditional BW but I recall Ruby Rose used some pool noodles with some success. Happy days and fair winds. Andy UK
Thanks so much Andy! I've heard it takes forever to make the old school type? Picking apart bits of rope? Pool noodle sounds like a good idea. It's definitely something we need to sort as the checkstays touch the main as soon as it's set for more than a beam reach
Sailing Kittiwake yes it takes ages' tbh when I said I made some I spent hours,
and made about 50cm.... pool noodles is the way to go. Andy UK
loved all the boat work videos, great job and great boat choice!
Thank you! 😊 We do lover her 😍
Terrific boat tour, well done you two. Let the adventures begin again.
Thanks Anne! Adventure time :D
I love your boat, it seems to have plenty of head room and surprisingly roomy inside.
Thanks a lot Ron! Yes, she's got a lot of room for 37ft :)
yes a very good boat tour , covering all the interesting / important points, well impressed by your kitting out,,, and none more than the canvas work , well donr that girl ..
Haha! Thanks Roderick. It was worth the swearing 😂
@@SailingKittiwake i wish my wifey could swear like that !!
Oh what a difference from Kittiwake! So much space below and you have it organized so well. I hope you can get that shower working. It would seem that the rigging/sales are in pretty good shape, plus the electronics, while older, are at least useful. Plenty of time to upgrade as time And funds become available. All in all kids, you made a great purchase for future adventures. I look forward to you sharing them here!
Thanks so much Edward. We love Skua :) Yes, we made a great deal! There's time for upgrades as you say, but even the older gear on board is super useful and we couldn't have afforded to buy it now, so it's great!
Skua is a real beauty!
Thanks for the tour, loved it.
Cheers & fair winds
Thanks a lot Randy! Glad you enjoyed it 😊
@@SailingKittiwake I am impressed. Every time I comment I receive a really nice reply.
Thank you very much your efforts to reach out and thank your viewers is very cool.
Your channel is a community, not a one way video feed.
I've decided to become a patron because of your efforts to reply to comments and of course your fantastic photography/videography.
Randy S we do our best to reply to everyone 😊 We really appreciate it when people find the time to comment, and you leave lovely comments, Randy 😊 so thank YOU!
Wow that’s awesome, feeling very grateful 😊 Speak to you on Patreon 😊👋
What a lovely boat and so much space. You will have lots of fun in her
Thanks Tracey! She does feel huge to us after 2 years + on a 26ft catamaran 😊
excellent photography at 21-48!
Thank you J S! 😊
Very i formative video of your boat , thanks
Thanks for commenting, Glyn!
Stunning boat so beautifully put together. 🚢
Thank you! 😊
It's a nice boat, and you can even still get one built new from Tayana.
That's a great blue water boat.... have fun this summer and beyond!
Cheers Daniel! We shall oblige 😁
Lovely, you all are well sorted. Good on you!
Congrats. Beautiful Skua. Your hard work has been an inspiration to those of us who sometimes get discouraged when attempting much smaller projects.
Cheers Mickey! Hard work always pays off 😊
A very good and concise tour of Skua , you truly have a most comfortable boat ,it is really beautiful, youve done a great job on it , well done
Thanks a lot Howard! It was hard work but worth it 😊😊😊
What a great boat, who knew so much storage was possible, and the wood work is awesome. Thanks for the tour. Fair winds
Thanks James! Yes, the carpenters did an amazing job back in 76!
Thank you for sharing. I think you have a beautiful boat with a lovely traditional ambience about it.
Cheers Richard! 😊
Such a nice boat! Watching your videos always makes me miss you so much!
Aaaawww ❤️😘 We miss you too!
The interior finish is beautiful. Can't wait to see more of your sailing adventures. Be safe out there!
I have to really congratulate you on this boat! If I were looking at it, I would have walked. Way too much work and potential problems. But sounds like you got a real good deal and the owner was willing to work with you. Very important. I have purchased and refit 5 cruising boats in my life to varying degrees. And cruised them many tens of thousands of miles. Sailed in company with Tatyana 37’’s in the past. It looks like you guys have overcome some pretty big issues. Now have a great boat! If you get tired of the teak decks, you will find that in some countries where boat work is cheap, you can do the dirty deed. Ha ha. Very interesting that the Volvo is Perkins based. That’s a huge plus. Never heard of that. One boat I had, had a Perkins 4-154. Was well over 10K hrs when I sold the boat. Engine surveyed out great. My next boat had a Perkins 4-236 that was pushing 20K hrs! Still going strong. That boat carried 1000L of diesel so could do a lot of motoring if necessary. So again, congrats and enjoy! You did a lot of good things there. Looks like you handled it right.
Cheers! That’s fantastic news for us 😁
Glad to see that all that hard work is paying off. A beautiful Boat!
Cheers Jim! We’re so grateful to have her.
Wow nice up grade from kitty! But I do miss the little turtle shell. Can’t wait for you to start a new adventure with skua! Be safe and stay loving!
Thanks so much! Kittiwake was cute, such a great first boat. But Skua just feels amazing.
Awesome tour. Thanks For your hospitality.
Muchas gracias for watching, Marco!
Love your boat .....so much character ...really enjoyed your video...well done both.
Thanks a lot Micky :) and thanks for commenting! Hope you enjoy seeing us sail her too.
Fantastic! Impressive, well done !
Thank you! Cheers!
Excellent Video "So much more room for activities!!"
Yessss! 😊
Thanks nice tour 👍
Cheers Al! Glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks so much for a great tour of your lovely home. Stay safe guys x
Cheers Tim!
Nice work guys!! All the way from New Jersey... see you around
Cheers! 😊 See you out there.
You guys are probably one of few that switch from a cat to a mono, but in your case, I think it's a great move. Very nice boat! Lot's of luck & fun with it!
Happy greetingz, Wim
Thanks a lot Wim! We think it was a great upgrade 😊👌
@@SailingKittiwake Totally agree!
Lovely boat
Thank you!
A gorgeous boat. Certainly is cozy. Thanks for the tour.
Cheers William 😊
Have to go back and watch all of your vedios looking foward to it
Thanks a lot Frank! The first episodes... we didn’t know what we were doing 😅 they get better towards the end of season 1/beginning of season 2 😊
Im so in love with your boat, and you guys are great!
So are we! Every time we see her, one of us invariably says something along the lines of 'god she's beautiful' or 'I can't believe that's our boat'. I think buying a boat is a 90% heart, 10% head decision, you need to love a boat to put the work in and make the sacrifices, and Skua is definitely worth it!
@@SailingKittiwake I've seen one of these yachts near my dads boat, for years. There are lots of modern, fast, slick etc boats around my dads boat.....but the boat that looks just like yours is by far the most beautiful in the area
Beautiful inside your boat! Planed on sailing the world back in the day with my brother! He passed early, so I never gave it ago! Don’t wait to sail for to long
Thanks so much, yes she’s a real craftsman’s boat. That’s sad about your brother, sorry to hear it.
A great tour. Regarding the Taylor heater, get yourself some spares for it like a spare burner and jets and make sure the burner is original equipment. There are knock offs which don't last long at all. My own had a burner which developed a fracture in one of the pipes feeding the jet, very hard to see so I had no idea the cabin was filling with fumes. Truth is I am lucky to be alive I think...
Thanks for the tip, although we're heading for warmer climes so it's down the priority list at the moment :)
very nice! Always so well thought out and proper! :)
You’ve got it - she’s proper ❤️
You guys have been busy! Well done!
Cheers Rick! She’s come a long way 😊 Hope all is good on Calypso II 😊
Great video, as usual. We are in the process of refitting our second Tayana 37 (hull #328) so we have been following your progress closely. We sail mostly in the Chesapeake Bay presently, but will be heading either up the U.S. coast or down the U. S. coast and into the Caribbean soon. I hope our paths cross sometime soon!
Excellent! Let us know your boat name and hopefully we can catch you somewhere 😊
Amazing boat, ticks all the boxes. Excellent previous owner who made good and costly choices. I can now understand your enthusiasm when you bought her. Oh, and only now I see what a tiny girl you are :-)
Yes, he really went to town with her 10 years back or so! Fingers crossed it will all keep working 😊
Ha! I’m about 158cm tall, so not super short, but Ryan is veeery tall 😊
Hey, nice to see your boat.
Maybe it has been said already, but I would only change one thing to start with.
Get reef 3 from in the cockpit and reef 1 on the mast, that's safer.
You guys must rattle around in there compared to your previous boat.
Quite the upgrade.
Single fuel is a nice feature, most people don't think about that with a diesel stove and only comment on the smell.
Cheers James! :) Yes, it's been a huge advantage - no looking for gas for hours in the heat and it consumes way less.
When we sit on opposite settees, we still can't believe how far we are from each other. Haha! And yet, in most places in the Med, we're still the smallest sailboat around.
@@SailingKittiwake That's because Tayanas tend to be way bigger inside than outside. That's like quite a few smartly thoughtout classics were in the seventies, with Tayanas on top notch position though.
Love the windlass
Ok it’s official I’m jealous I really really like your new home it will be nice to see after a while at anchor how your feeling about it all. Congratulations 👍👍
Thanks Chad 😊 We love her ☺️
Big step up from that tiny catamaran.
fantastic boat !! cool couple !!
Now you guys got your ship together....happy safe sailing....Cap. lv ya...
Cheers Lee 😊
What a fine boat
We still can’t believe she’s ours 😍
Thank you a nice tour of Skua.
Great refit guys
Cheers!
Nicely Done! Thanks!
Cheers Rex!
Love the tour of the new boat, great !! :) :)
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for your lovely comments :)
looking good have fun !!!!
Cheers Phillip! We’ll be happy to oblige 😊
Good tour and a great boat. You'll go far with it.
Hehe fingers crossed! 😊🤞
Wow the boat is looking brilliant well done on your hard work looking forward to your up and coming videos
Enjoy enjoy
Cheers Ian 😊
Still lurking and loving every video you make😬 Sail on beautiful Skua and crew, fw&fs⛵️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks a lot Michael 🙏 It’s always great to see you comment 😊
Great video, many thanks very interesting boat , good looking . Warm greetings from the garden island of Kauai. Sailing around the world
Cheers Rimas! Hope you enjoy the channel :)
A beautiful boat, congratulations!
Cheers Tusk!
Lovely boat. You did a great job!
Thank you!
Nice! Been waiting for this one and it was well worth the wait. A very well thought boat made for cruising the big wide blue and living aboard. Yours has a couple of nice upgrades too, including the nice diesel stove/oven.
Thanks Kevin, yep we've been really lucky finding one that had been so well equipped.
Lovely boat for long travels!!! Keep on going guys!, great blog.
Thank you! We hope you’ll come along for the ride 😊
That's a lovely boat. Congratulations. Looks as though she can crack on under sail as well. Bon voyage!
Thank you for sharing your home with us. Love the work you have done so far. Cannot wait to see what's next.
Well thanks for watching!
Fabulous well done
Thanks Brian 😊
Nice tour, lot of room for a sailboat.
Awesome tour! Beautiful boat
Love you boat, really beautiful
Thanks Marc! We still stare at her in awe from the dinghy 😁
I really enjoyed your video, shes such a beauty. We just bought our first sailboat.
Nice! What did you get?
@@SailingKittiwake we go a beautiful 30ft s2 c9.2
I'm a big fan of tillers, but maybe because I started by sailing dinghies. I think they make a lot sense for small cockpits. Maybe you could make a permanent tiller that can lift up for convenience? I love the keel stepped mast and the old school "captain haddock" oil skins, "proper job" as we say in Bristol.
Haha yep, a tiller and fisherman oilies are definitely a salty look! They say if you learnt to sail before you learnt to drive a car then you prefer a tiller... we're going to do some sails with the emergency tiller and see how it is. We went on a boat with a smaller cockpit than Skua recently but because they had a tiller, lashed out the way, it felt twice the size.
Grazie! Grandi!
That was wor th watching, thanks.
Interesting point re the backup tiller point on rear deck [stern], which utilises windvane rudder.
Correction to above. Deck point for inbuilt /main rudder, plus windvane rudder point on windvane unit itself, so 2 steering backups.
Cheers John, yes with the rudder being well protected and the wind vane being an auxiliary rudder, we should have decent redundancy for the steering system.
I love it a couple of young Tubers who actually mentioned they have a log book, gee what a novel idea. I'm not making fun I'm complimenting them as seemingly true sailors who get it. They apparently understand seamanship and safety two items that will take them very far. I have the same boat only it's called a union 36 these are true ocean passage vessels. Robert Perry was an exceptional Naval architect.
We have even created our own independently published ones too 😂 That’s how much we’re into logbooks.
Great boats the Unions, we thought we’d end up with one of them, but then found Skua 😊
@@SailingKittiwake The "traditional" Log Book will bring You a huge advantage should You ever land in any insurance case of whatever sort.
No better showing of the "right" seamanship than having years and years of properly kept records.
gotta love those boat tours! Nice one guys! Pretty boat, happy life!
Cheers Manuel 😊
Ready to see the world.
Hehe 😁
Good job!
Hey, I liked that kiss! Thank you for the tour. Enjoyed.
Thanks for watching 😊
She looks great you should both be so proud. I've heard the cutter rig is preferred for off shore work do you think that is true? Thanks for the wind vane info. I found that very helpful. Thank you for a wonderful boat tour full of really helpful info. Skua appears a great move for you. Fairwinds
Hi Ken, it's certainly been nice so far, having a staysail is great, especially when the wind picks up and you just want a small amount of sail area. Much nicer than winching in a big Genoa or reefing a huge main on a sloop rig
Yay boat tour awesome
😊 hope you enjoy! 🤗
A superb video. Simply the best ‘boat tour’ I have ever seen. The quality of your videos just keeps on improving. You are really going to enjoy this boat ‘Captain Haddock, and first mate Ryan - lol.
Wow thanks Nick! ☺️ We hope you’ll enjoy following along our adventures.
Haha! 😂
Have fun, just from your tour,learning more than other vids, 😃
Thanks a lot 😊🙏
You've got a great boat, i'm excited to see where you take her!
Thanks a lot, we're excited to show you :)
Beautiful boat!
Tayana look like nice boats. We have done about 15,000 miles on a Pearson invicta which is 38, and classic. When you say dirt cheap, what do you mean? Sorry if you mentioned how much in a video somewhere. What is the circumstances you found here under? I guess it wasn't listed online?
She wasn’t for sale yet and she had been neglected for years. The owner suddenly needed to sell fast.
You can take a look at how she was when we got her in this episode: ruclips.net/video/6sy5T57UryM/видео.html
We got her for under $30K.
My friend, in the tropics, in coral, you MUST have chain for the anchor. No rode!!! And keep a close eye on the Tayana 37 chainplates where they mount to the hull. Some of them have been corroding so watch them carefully.
Cheers Troya, chain is high on the priority list believe me! Thankfully our chainplates have been replaced by the previous owner. We'd like to eventually go to external chain plates :)
Well done video. Thank's for sharing your earned experience. God Bless.
don't take this the wrong way but so glad you guys upgraded, i was worried about the cat getting you everywhere you wanted you go. looks amazing and not so coffin like! lol
Haha! Thanks Erin. Poor Kittiwake ❤️
We do feel we made the right choice though 😊
Nice. Great tour!
Very nice boat, to get asign for SSb you can make a Ham license, if you learn by your own it costs only the examination tax and the book. I made it ten years agi, and I learned about 60 hours for it. The advantige of ssb is no costs anymore after getting the license.
Cheers Peter, I heard the ham licence is more complicated but I think something satellite based that could come in the liferaft with us if we had to abandon Skua is preferable.
The examination got easier, no more morse alphabet, I think it was about 200 Pages to learn, but many is easy, some technic and many usefull staff for working with ham.
Yes in the US you do not need to spend very much for an amateur license ($15) which is all you need, and I'll bet it is the same in the EU. I did it a year ago studying flash cards on HAMSTUDY.ORG site, very easy hamstudy.org/ . Get at least your General License. You can take all three exams at once and save $30. You might have been confused by the license require for professional marine operators licences which is costly. Note you must pass each license level in order, I made the mistake of jumping into General directly and had to then study for Tech. In the end I took and passed all 3 exams in one sitting. One advantage is you get a shorter call sign which is handy. Just a bunch of memorization. It's a nice toy that you apparently already own especially if you have buddy crusiers that have one too, like SV Ruby Rose. Note you can also setup inexpensive world wide email and weather mapping services if you have a Pactor box. By the way looks like you got a great boat with some nice extras like the diesel stove, steering vane and ssb radio.
Hi guys. We saw Kittiwake recently when we were near the Bristol Channel. At least it was a small cat called Kittiwake!
Hey, Kittiwake is actually somewhere in Italy at the moment 😊
My parents owned a similar boat a CT37 which is I think the same craft. There mast was laminated spruce and the interior was all teak and copper or bronze. The hull of either boat is beautiful! Are you planning on around the world eventually? I have been following some of the soloists that have sailed the globe. Enjoy your videos very much!
Hi Kerry, yes early Tayanas are officially called CT’s, including Skua, but everyone knows them as Tayanas so we use that! No idea where our adventures will lead us, whatever we think will be most fun at the time :)
@@SailingKittiwake have you guys read Joshua Slocum's, Sailing around the world alone. Read it and aim for it. You have a good craft, just gain some experience and do it.
You are appealing to younger people, show them what dreams are made of. I would if I had nobody to depend on me. I just wouldn't come back to the land. The ocean is my mistress but life dragged me away from her.
The urge to follow my bow sprit is growing stronger these days.
Anyway if you have not read his book, you would do well if you did. My parents boat was named Sea Shaman.
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I didn't notice any wires off the mast anywhere on the inside, Is that wired for a lighting strike? Nothing like telling your friends down below they look really hot..