Wow. I am watching this without Franny. I am sure we will have a discussion about this sort of event. I agree with you about evaluating whether or not filming is worth it during times of extreme sailing. I have seen others react the same way and put down the camera. Nicely editing and great teamwork to you both. Thank you for your honesty. Heidi
Sometimes it's worth while to have a system of recording when u can not hold yourselves... Captain Rick on sailing Sophisticated Lady has a surveillance cameras essentially. But those are able to catch things when he can not... Anyway I realize this isn't your boat at all so does not matter in this situation. But in this situation you guys did the correct thing your safety is what matters! Fare winds an following sea's ✌🏻💗😊❣️
When you cook eggs in the morning add some water to the pan after about 1 to one half minutes and cover the pan. That will cook the top half of the eggs, enjoy.
We all would have loved listening to Nick telling the charter company the next broken equipment spicing up the travel. Ikea delivers better tools than that.
Ikea 😄 the lever would be made of flimsy veneer covering pressed cardboard .. the whole device being assembled using plastic rivets and a cartoon instruction sheet.
Top tip for you from 0.19. if you stand the mug on the tag attached to the teabag string it doesn't get dragged into the mug by the boiling water. Safety first kids!
Great episode! Loving the Australian exploration! Made a step towards my eventual full time sailing this week by contacting a Caribbean sailing school to advance my education. I have a long way to go, but I know I will make it. You are so inspirational!
Whilst these things are annoying, they are bound to happen from time to time and be prepped for them. As a commercial ocean tug skipper and avid sailor with my partner i see one main issue. Nick should be lead deck and get Terysa up to a level of competent skipper. In any event like that one today it usually demands a good amount of strength using muscle groups that biologically men are around 3 times stronger in (upper back , shoulders etc). At this point nick wouldn't need to stress thinking of everything, more so just hand over the helm calmly without any annoying comments like " just dont hit anything " and the second skipper would happily nod the boat in the direction of the anchor whilst the 1st skipper humps the chain in, then lay it out, reset and during that time Teresa would have been looking to see if this location is still best for anchoring or better to move and manually let the chain out thats nicely flaked out ready.... You're a pleasure sailing craft, you both need to be skippers or deckies at any given moment so one person doesn't have to take on 2 jobs whilst ranting in a crisis with a passenger looking on. Just my take. Ps. The handle was a piece of crap but just highlights further weak points for improvement in my opinion.
Had a similar aggravation in the BVI once on a power cat. The admiral runs over a pennant which stops the starboard engine...which is the only thing that powers the windlass. Then the emergency release...won't. Ran to the stern locker for the Bruce and dropped it. Ended up the pennant was holding well enough not to panic, but still a solid 300 seconds of sequential Oh S_it moments.
@@jonathanwetherell3609Agreed! The problem is when you get locked into a series of solutions you thought would be the easy solution, but the failures keep coming. That makes it hard to back up the OODA loop and find a better path. It's Road-Runner/Coyote...the worse it gets, the more the Coyote doubles down on the chosen path. That cartoon is funny because we can see ourselves doing exactly that.
Hi guys! i have rented a boat in the Withsundays somewhere around 1990 and it was exactly the same system. My windlass broke down on the second day as we tried to leave the anchorage, the charter company sent a boat to fix it and off we went. Pretty good service really. You bring back old memories. Thank you.
Dear Nick, instead of getting Mad .. my humble opinion is you should say thanks to the universe for going thru that situation, now you can pay more attention to what will be delivered with your new toy ... enjoy your day while you can...if not think about Gone with the Wynns that are in New Zeeland trying to change their broken windows in a lockdown period ... Greetings from the island of Chiloe in the south Chile... Keep Calm and listen to Terysa
I had my honeymoon on a self-skippered 45' cat in the Whitsundays departing Airlie Beach. First night was in Nara Inlet (like a millpond) with just one other yacht for company. Second night was at Turtle Bay. The next morning the port engine wouldn't start so the hiring company told us to go to Hamilton Island Marina to get the engine repaired with a complementary 24-hour stay. I was advised that I would be met outside the marina, since I had just the one engine, and assisted in bringing the catamaran in. No worries 👍. When I got close and radioed in, the marina told me to come in through the marina entrance myself 😳 whereupon I would be guided to my allocated arm / berth. I brought the floating tennis court in, with just a starboard engine, to my berth (downwind) smooth as silk .. an absolute complete fluke. Parts for the engine had to be flown in, so turned into an all expenses paid 48-hour stay in the resort. When we finally continued on our way to Whitehaven Beach, we encountered Kerry Packer's pleasure craft (88 metre converted ice breaker) anchored off the east side of Hamilton Island. And so on .. unforgettable 10 days.
Yea, without knowing the wind speed on a Cat you are at a disadvantage and its best be careful. For those who don't know it, a Cats sail plan is determined wind speed, or 'by the numbers' to protect the rigging because they can't heel and dump the wind or take a gust the way a mono-hull can. That upright rigging has limits on what it can take and if you don't know the wind speed you don't know if you can run with full sail or need to pull in the head-sail and take a reef or two.
On our cat it was recommended to reef at 22-25kts. On one of our early trips there was just my wife and I so at 18kts I decided to reef. Was truly amazed the we actually went faster, so aside from being safer, it was indeed faster. Yo see, while not heeling that much, the cat is actually burying the leeward hull creating more drag.
I believe that’s what’s called Canadian bacon here in North America. Great episode - Terysa enjoying the charter company’s check in call and Nick, rightfully going on one of his wonderful rants about the company’s maintenance!! LOVE it! Of course Nick won’t suffer poor maintenance without a well-deserved rant. He’s the type of person who pushes for always doing better. 👍
Thanks, I am enjoying your trip through the Whitsundays. It was a part of the world I knew nothing about before I started watching RUclips. The couple at Free Range Sailing who are starting their second circumnavigation of Australia game me my first glimpse. Now you two. It is such a beautiful place
Radio skeds very common in ocean races, not so in cruises and becoming less prevalent with use of satphones. I’m a bit surprised you haven’t come across them previously. However the only place I’ve ever seen them employed by charter operators is in the Whitsundays. We’ve chartered also in NZ, Scotland, French Polynesia & New Caledonia and never had to report in at the am &/or pm sked.
the Whitsundays charter - radio scheds - best commentary ever heard. "Said charter yacht logged on - sought support for the provision of a new anchor - in essence, can you send us out another anchor, please?. A bit taken aback the charter company asked - why do you need another anchor?- the yacht is provided with one on the bow and an emergency anchor in the lazzarette. Charter yacht responds. we have already used those??? - " each time they moved they cut the anchor free. pissing ourselves laughing.
Yes the scheds certainly are interesting to listen to, especially by the cruisers. One of the blows when we were there 15 years ago, there were 70+ boats in Sid Harbour and Nara and the adjacent (forget it just now) were both full.
Re anchors, and knowing that you have chosen a Sarca Excel for RR2, you will be pleased to hear, that my 30 Kg Excel (No.6) has set immediately on the 4 nights I have used it (on my S38). In Itchenor mud last night it re-set without moving laterally on the 180 ° tide change, as shown by the near perfect semi-circular arc recorded by my GPS. Bodes well!
A broken anemometer, release handle and stiff throttles show a bit of a problem with the charter company maintenance process especially on a newish Seawind 1260. I have encountered maintenance issues on a 2012 Seawind 1160 when chartering in the Whitsundays a few years ago. It was very frustrating for a family holiday but could have been dangerous for inexperienced or short handed crews.
It looks like it was just a matter of time before that happened to somebody. Lucky it was you guys. Not that I'm glad you had troubles, but you're both experienced sailors and could handle the situation. Many people who charter cats have little to no sailing experience, so the outcome could have been very bad indeed. Fingers crossed the windlass works properly for the rest of your trip.
Thanks for that Nick and Terysa. My wife and I have been to the Whitsundays - Hamilton Island - and did the trip out to the static boat on the reef, did the diving thingy and got acquainted with a massive Grouper, went to Hill Look out and got some fantastic photos. Those were the days. Glad you could experience this too.
Definitely challenging to deal with something like that lever breaking in a high stress situation. After you get a chance to decompress its always good to look at it as a learning opportunity which you both seem to be great at doing. Problems like that always make for a good story later on, but hard to enjoy the "story" when you're living it in the moment. lol :) Years from now you'll be reminiscing about it like it was a fond memory... "Remember that time we were in the Whitsundays ...."
@@sailingrubyrose Sounds like an opportunity for the topic of a future episode.... "Remember when" ... and then re-visit some of the colorful language (and great things you've learned) along the way." ;) lol
Even though the charter company were wrong in supplying inferior safety equipment on the boat, I still feel a little sorry for the person who takes the call from Nick to tell them of this. A comedy show script writer could hardly make up the conversation that I'm sure transpired . If we could hear the phone call that would be awesome !!!! Stay Safe & Fair Winds !!
Hard when you're not really in charge :) As usual enjoy watching your content ... challenges and contentment. Hand in hand. I'm guessing your new cat will be such a relief for you both.
I look forward to your episode when you return the boat to the charter company and Nick tells them about how to do boat maintenance (I hope you filmed this?) I enjoy a good rant, always fun to hear.
Really enjoying the videos! Curse those who overlook maintenance. In all forms of endeavor, it’s the little things that cost a pittance that can typically ruin the day, or more…. 👍👍
That's not bacon that's sliced ham. 😋🇺🇸 That wasn't boat maintenance that was tool maintenance. Such a simple tool that is so important you would think they would make it one solid piece. You're completely right. I've see big spanner wrenches that might do a better job than that one did.
Yeah, Nick, I would have lost it too. There is no excuse, especially for a charter company, to have missed that and not made it right. On another note, I really enjoyed the excursion and the rock art with commentary. I love that stuff. Thanks for including it. I worry that those things will one day be messed up by jerks (there numbers seemingly increasing around the world). Fine video, and so glad you made it through that trying situation.
More bad design than bad maintenance, the lever was not fit for purpose. Glad you got it sorted. Guess the counter was using gypsy as measure of chain so as gypsy was slipping then it didn’t compute. Pretty knarly conditions. Bet you cannot wait to have your own boat with your own maintenance behind it. Andy UK
*Takes shirt off* ‘your job is not to hit anything’ - presumably that includes you Nick!? We had a similar windlass issue recently, let’s just say, not caused by me, with only two of us on board…. It was solved and it took a while to get the Adrenalin out of my system… I had to apologize after too. High stress is for the skipper to deal with…. Thanks both for the unvarnished parts - keep it real - it keeps us here with you both. Let me know when you bring the new boat through Singapore - dinner on us!
Let me guess, you have been using "100 Magic Miles"? Too many years ago ended in Nara inlet on our first night out from Shute Harbour, arrived late and dropped the pick. In the morning our neighbours were being served breakfast on the rear deck below the onboard helicopter landing pad - still reckon my cornflakes were better, at least I know I earned them. Later that morning after three attempts to lift the anchor and dropping most of the chain each time, realized the safety release clutch was not working and spent the rest of the trip having to lift the last few feet onto the bow roller by hand - I have empathy for your charter boat anchoring experience (just don't get me started on repairing the fridge that trip too). Still, memories that will last a lifetime.
I don't have better singular word for indigenous "art" found all around the world. "Art" just doesn't describe but 20% of it's significance. It's a bit of communication time travel back to our human ancestors. Thank you human ancestors, for creating that for us to have today.
While Nick was relaxing and strumming I saw Terysa making bacon and eggs. It brought me back to galley discussions where Nick said he did most of the cooking. I thought “aha”,”liar”. Then I saw the undercooked sunnyside up eggs and I sat back down.
I can imagine Nick on the following morning's Sched! I would be willing to bet he had a few words to say to the charter company about the quality of the tools on-board. I also imagine that if the stuff was 'Seawind' branded that it won't look anything like that on RRII!
Love your videos, they kind of drag you in and make me wish I was running up and down, doing something useful. Love lots of sailing vlogs ( delos , vagabond.........), but you kind of get the reality of the day to day. So keen to see RR2. Be curious, be kind and care for each other.
Hi Terysa & Nick, now that you have sailed and stayed aboard the 1260 for a time would you update your earlier review? Also did you consider the Lightwave 45 as a possible RR2?
Thank you for the video 📹. Wish we could get more information 😕 on the New Boat 🚢. I know ya'lls hands are tied at this point. Ok Thank you Again and until next Monday morning 🌄 Aloha and Mahalo from the Big Island 🏝of Hawaii 🏝
That breakage had more to do with piss poor design and cheap construction of the lever than it did with bad maintenance. The charter company and handle designer are equally to blame for that cluster f.
That was beautifully edited and such wonderful adventures you are having! I'm surprised you didn't have to DO something immediately about the lever that broke. That seems very nerve-racking.
Mmmmm, shoulder bacon is the best bacon! Also, put a lid on the frying pan and the top of the yolks will cook, it's basically the same as over-easy with no flipping👍
Blazer ❌ Red trousers ❌ Blue ensign ❌ Little admirals hat ❌ I know I can’t judge myself, but I think I’m pretty far from one of “those blokes”. Forget ye not, I still hold the dubious honour of being tossed out of a Royal Yacht Club. 🤣🤣🤣. Fair winds
Your anchoring adventure reminds me of an anchoring question I have. Can wind and current affect different boats differently such that some would swing into the wind with a sufficient current, while other boats would be affected in the opposite direction? I recall hearing that about a specific boat on another channel and wonder whether this is something that experienced sailors watch out for when they are anchoring.
Cool stuff, nice laid back episode besides the deserved rant over the mickeymouse winch lever, which could have been very interesting in more challenging circumstances. But not so sure about how the boat handled that chop. As I was watching that section I was thinking of Ruby Rose and how she would have sliced through that water beautifully instead of bouncing along like a hobbyhorse. Oh well, time will tell no doubt, but for serious offshore sailing in what may not always be “less than 25 knots”, I’m starting to think I’d feel safer in heavy seas in a boat like Delos’s Amel Super Maramu, rather than a cat of that size. Just an armchair & long-time-ago-sailor thinking out loud. So that leads me to wonder if you ever have any doubts about your decision to ‘Go Cat’ and move away from a monohull? ... ☺️ And - did you by any chance watch Sailing Zingaro’s August 27 video showing all the creaking and groaning and movement within the boat that he observed at sea in a Lagoon 500? That was downright scary, certainly did not look like a safe boat to me, darn thing looked as though it was going to tear itself apart 😳
I am currently (31 August) sitting in Woodward Bay in the Whitsundays waiting out another blow with wind gusts to 32kts recorded at Hamilton Island, although substantially less here. We have come to the Whitsundays in our boat for several years now and it seems now that the weather these days is either very strong or less than 10kts! Climate change? Love your channel :)
WHHHAAATTTT? "It's not always fun." - Terysa 🙄 Now you've completely deflated my hopes! 😉 Well, I guess if it were easy, EVERYONE would be doing it. Although you guys make it look really easy.
Oh Nick, settle petal. You're on a dodgy self charter boat in the whitsundays. Little jewels like that manual winch handle are par for the course. We all know what's really rubbing you raw and that's the delayed Ruby Rose 2. Lol ! Totaly understand because I'd be far worse 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@sailingrubyrose is it just a fancy arm extension or can you play it, and I mean play, not strum few chords? Reason for asking is that it seems so many britts (especially London snobs) like the fancy stuff and they have no idea what to do with it. Whether it’s about sailing, skiing, instruments, cycling etc…top notch gear but butt nothing happens it’s just about having the gear. Hilarious really 🤷🏻♂️
Wow. I am watching this without Franny. I am sure we will have a discussion about this sort of event. I agree with you about evaluating whether or not filming is worth it during times of extreme sailing. I have seen others react the same way and put down the camera. Nicely editing and great teamwork to you both. Thank you for your honesty. Heidi
Sometimes it's worth while to have a system of recording when u can not hold yourselves... Captain Rick on sailing Sophisticated Lady has a surveillance cameras essentially. But those are able to catch things when he can not... Anyway I realize this isn't your boat at all so does not matter in this situation. But in this situation you guys did the correct thing your safety is what matters! Fare winds an following sea's ✌🏻💗😊❣️
Ha, how funny, I watch your channel, you guys helped me out with a lumpy idle on my 3.2!
@@harryatkinson9757 That's awesome harry, glad it helped.
You guys watch sailing channels? I watch you two also.
@@frankd2301 yep, we do. That is great! Heidi
When you cook eggs in the morning add some water to the pan after about 1 to one half minutes and cover the pan. That will cook the top half of the eggs, enjoy.
It's been a while since we've enjoyed a good Nicky rant!
Whitsundays look beautiful when the sun is shining.
The narration by Carol Breyer was a perfect touch.
That release handle looked like it was made with scraps laying around the boat yard. lol
They never thought of a welder when they had a spare self tapping screw handy.
We all would have loved listening to Nick telling the charter company the next broken equipment spicing up the travel. Ikea delivers better tools than that.
IKEA does indeed “Brässkfukt” comes in a plastic box shaped like a giraffe or something
Ikea 😄 the lever would be made of flimsy veneer covering pressed cardboard .. the whole device being assembled using plastic rivets and a cartoon instruction sheet.
It’s alway enjoyable to watch Nick express himself as a sailor 🤣😎
Top tip for you from 0.19. if you stand the mug on the tag attached to the teabag string it doesn't get dragged into the mug by the boiling water. Safety first kids!
0:25 pretty impressive that Nick can do an electric slide guitar song on an acoustic with no slide..
Thank you so much for taking us along! Always a pleasure.
Great episode! Loving the Australian exploration! Made a step towards my eventual full time sailing this week by contacting a Caribbean sailing school to advance my education. I have a long way to go, but I know I will make it. You are so inspirational!
Whilst these things are annoying, they are bound to happen from time to time and be prepped for them.
As a commercial ocean tug skipper and avid sailor with my partner i see one main issue.
Nick should be lead deck and get Terysa up to a level of competent skipper. In any event like that one today it usually demands a good amount of strength using muscle groups that biologically men are around 3 times stronger in (upper back , shoulders etc).
At this point nick wouldn't need to stress thinking of everything, more so just hand over the helm calmly without any annoying comments like " just dont hit anything " and the second skipper would happily nod the boat in the direction of the anchor whilst the 1st skipper humps the chain in, then lay it out, reset and during that time Teresa would have been looking to see if this location is still best for anchoring or better to move and manually let the chain out thats nicely flaked out ready....
You're a pleasure sailing craft, you both need to be skippers or deckies at any given moment so one person doesn't have to take on 2 jobs whilst ranting in a crisis with a passenger looking on.
Just my take.
Ps. The handle was a piece of crap but just highlights further weak points for improvement in my opinion.
Had a similar aggravation in the BVI once on a power cat.
The admiral runs over a pennant which stops the starboard engine...which is the only thing that powers the windlass. Then the emergency release...won't.
Ran to the stern locker for the Bruce and dropped it.
Ended up the pennant was holding well enough not to panic, but still a solid 300 seconds of sequential Oh S_it moments.
It shows the value of spending some non sailing time asking "What if" questions. You might just have already solved it when sh1t happens.
@@jonathanwetherell3609Agreed!
The problem is when you get locked into a series of solutions you thought would be the easy solution, but the failures keep coming. That makes it hard to back up the OODA loop and find a better path.
It's Road-Runner/Coyote...the worse it gets, the more the Coyote doubles down on the chosen path. That cartoon is funny because we can see ourselves doing exactly that.
Hi guys! i have rented a boat in the Withsundays somewhere around 1990 and it was exactly the same system. My windlass broke down on the second day as we tried to leave the anchorage, the charter company sent a boat to fix it and off we went. Pretty good service really. You bring back old memories. Thank you.
The music is very good. Thanks
Nick, have you considered that that winch handle was original Equipment. something for you to check when you take delivery of ruby rose II
Dear Nick, instead of getting Mad .. my humble opinion is you should say thanks to the universe for going thru that situation, now you can pay more attention to what will be delivered with your new toy ... enjoy your day while you can...if not think about Gone with the Wynns that are in New Zeeland trying to change their broken windows in a lockdown period ... Greetings from the island of Chiloe in the south Chile... Keep Calm and listen to Terysa
I had my honeymoon on a self-skippered 45' cat in the Whitsundays departing Airlie Beach. First night was in Nara Inlet (like a millpond) with just one other yacht for company. Second night was at Turtle Bay. The next morning the port engine wouldn't start so the hiring company told us to go to Hamilton Island Marina to get the engine repaired with a complementary 24-hour stay. I was advised that I would be met outside the marina, since I had just the one engine, and assisted in bringing the catamaran in. No worries 👍. When I got close and radioed in, the marina told me to come in through the marina entrance myself 😳 whereupon I would be guided to my allocated arm / berth. I brought the floating tennis court in, with just a starboard engine, to my berth (downwind) smooth as silk .. an absolute complete fluke. Parts for the engine had to be flown in, so turned into an all expenses paid 48-hour stay in the resort. When we finally continued on our way to Whitehaven Beach, we encountered Kerry Packer's pleasure craft (88 metre converted ice breaker) anchored off the east side of Hamilton Island. And so on .. unforgettable 10 days.
Sounds amazing mate. Good skills getting into a berth with one engine
Yea, without knowing the wind speed on a Cat you are at a disadvantage and its best be careful.
For those who don't know it, a Cats sail plan is determined wind speed, or 'by the numbers' to protect the rigging because they can't heel and dump the wind or take a gust the way a mono-hull can. That upright rigging has limits on what it can take and if you don't know the wind speed you don't know if you can run with full sail or need to pull in the head-sail and take a reef or two.
On our cat it was recommended to reef at 22-25kts. On one of our early trips there was just my wife and I so at 18kts I decided to reef. Was truly amazed the we actually went faster, so aside from being safer, it was indeed faster. Yo see, while not heeling that much, the cat is actually burying the leeward hull creating more drag.
That intro is a work of art. The music, the lighting, the bacon! it's gorgeous
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Really enjoying these episodes. Thx for creating such diverse content.
I believe that’s what’s called Canadian bacon here in North America.
Great episode - Terysa enjoying the charter company’s check in call and Nick, rightfully going on one of his wonderful rants about the company’s maintenance!! LOVE it!
Of course Nick won’t suffer poor maintenance without a well-deserved rant. He’s the type of person who pushes for always doing better. 👍
Ah thank you Alice
Ever time Nick curses I remember the good old days before he didn't. You two are great! I love it!!!
Yeah the good old days. Luckily I don’t have a bleep machine in real time 🤣🤣
Thanks, I am enjoying your trip through the Whitsundays. It was a part of the world I knew nothing about before I started watching RUclips. The couple at Free Range Sailing who are starting their second circumnavigation of Australia game me my first glimpse. Now you two. It is such a beautiful place
Radio skeds very common in ocean races, not so in cruises and becoming less prevalent with use of satphones. I’m a bit surprised you haven’t come across them previously. However the only place I’ve ever seen them employed by charter operators is in the Whitsundays. We’ve chartered also in NZ, Scotland, French Polynesia & New Caledonia and never had to report in at the am &/or pm sked.
Looks like you guys care more about that boat than the owner, in regard to that lever anyway. You keep it real! Thank you!!
It’s not the owner, it was the charter company. My fault for not checking before we left the dock
the Whitsundays charter - radio scheds - best commentary ever heard.
"Said charter yacht logged on - sought support for the provision of a new anchor - in essence, can you send us out another anchor, please?.
A bit taken aback the charter company asked - why do you need another anchor?- the yacht is provided with one on the bow and an emergency anchor in the lazzarette.
Charter yacht responds. we have already used those??? - "
each time they moved they cut the anchor free. pissing ourselves laughing.
Yes the scheds certainly are interesting to listen to, especially by the cruisers. One of the blows when we were there 15 years ago, there were 70+ boats in Sid Harbour and Nara and the adjacent (forget it just now) were both full.
Priceless, thanks for the laugh.
"Sailing is really just boat maintenance in exotic places." -Nick, Ruby Rose
Lovely edit. Cheers, -EZ
Re anchors, and knowing that you have chosen a Sarca Excel for RR2, you will be pleased to hear, that my 30 Kg Excel (No.6) has set immediately on the 4 nights I have used it (on my S38). In Itchenor mud last night it re-set without moving laterally on the 180 ° tide change, as shown by the near perfect semi-circular arc recorded by my GPS. Bodes well!
Nice. Thanks for the info. Would love to be anchored on an S38 now 😭😭😭😭
A broken anemometer, release handle and stiff throttles show a bit of a problem with the charter company maintenance process especially on a newish Seawind 1260. I have encountered maintenance issues on a 2012 Seawind 1160 when chartering in the Whitsundays a few years ago. It was very frustrating for a family holiday but could have been dangerous for inexperienced or short handed crews.
Thank you so much.
I love these episodes.
So different from my area.
Glad you’re enjoying them
It looks like it was just a matter of time before that happened to somebody. Lucky it was you guys. Not that I'm glad you had troubles, but you're both experienced sailors and could handle the situation. Many people who charter cats have little to no sailing experience, so the outcome could have been very bad indeed. Fingers crossed the windlass works properly for the rest of your trip.
Thanks for that Nick and Terysa. My wife and I have been to the Whitsundays - Hamilton Island - and did the trip out to the static boat on the reef, did the diving thingy and got acquainted with a massive Grouper, went to Hill Look out and got some fantastic photos. Those were the days. Glad you could experience this too.
Definitely challenging to deal with something like that lever breaking in a high stress situation. After you get a chance to decompress its always good to look at it as a learning opportunity which you both seem to be great at doing.
Problems like that always make for a good story later on, but hard to enjoy the "story" when you're living it in the moment. lol :) Years from now you'll be reminiscing about it like it was a fond memory... "Remember that time we were in the Whitsundays ...."
Yeah, in reality the cussing was far more extreme. However we did learn
@@sailingrubyrose Sounds like an opportunity for the topic of a future episode.... "Remember when" ... and then re-visit some of the colorful language (and great things you've learned) along the way." ;) lol
Charter companies are famous for shoddy maintenance. Too fast turnaround in the spirit of making more money.
@@laurence9695 You got that right.
Even though the charter company were wrong in supplying inferior safety equipment on the boat, I still feel a little sorry for the person who takes the call from Nick to tell them of this. A comedy show script writer could hardly make up the conversation that I'm sure transpired . If we could hear the phone call that would be awesome !!!! Stay Safe & Fair Winds !!
As others have stated, time too film, time too work and be safe. Love the tour. 😎🇺🇸⚓️
Yes I am enjoying the exploration of the Whitsunday Islands, thanks for posting!
Oner of your best guys ....Chapeau!....and thank you
Another great episode. Looking forward to seeing it in person some day.
It seems to be a matter of carefull choosing the season & month. I'm inspired to make time to visit such places.
Good episode, the realities, love seeing Australia. Thank You
We were in the Whitsundays in '93. Another "paradise" on the surface of Mother Earth.
Hard when you're not really in charge :) As usual enjoy watching your content ... challenges and contentment. Hand in hand. I'm guessing your new cat will be such a relief for you both.
Glad to see that the marital bed appears to have survived the windless episode.
I look forward to your episode when you return the boat to the charter company and Nick tells them about how to do boat maintenance (I hope you filmed this?) I enjoy a good rant, always fun to hear.
Enjoying the adventure. Cheers.
Good work team- fond memories of WI and Nara 👏🏻👏🏻
Nice to see a pro at work nick cheers 🍻
Cheers mate
Really enjoying the videos! Curse those who overlook maintenance. In all forms of endeavor, it’s the little things that cost a pittance that can typically ruin the day, or more…. 👍👍
That's not bacon that's sliced ham. 😋🇺🇸
That wasn't boat maintenance that was tool maintenance. Such a simple tool that is so important you would think they would make it one solid piece. You're completely right. I've see big spanner wrenches that might do a better job than that one did.
Ahh memories of being up there just a couple months ago chartering an 1160.before we in NSW got locked down again😢
Yeah, Nick, I would have lost it too. There is no excuse, especially for a charter company, to have missed that and not made it right. On another note, I really enjoyed the excursion and the rock art with commentary. I love that stuff. Thanks for including it. I worry that those things will one day be messed up by jerks (there numbers seemingly increasing around the world). Fine video, and so glad you made it through that trying situation.
More bad design than bad maintenance, the lever was not fit for purpose. Glad you got it sorted. Guess the counter was using gypsy as measure of chain so as gypsy was slipping then it didn’t compute. Pretty knarly conditions. Bet you cannot wait to have your own boat with your own maintenance behind it. Andy UK
*Takes shirt off* ‘your job is not to hit anything’ - presumably that includes you Nick!? We had a similar windlass issue recently, let’s just say, not caused by me, with only two of us on board…. It was solved and it took a while to get the Adrenalin out of my system… I had to apologize after too. High stress is for the skipper to deal with…. Thanks both for the unvarnished parts - keep it real - it keeps us here with you both. Let me know when you bring the new boat through Singapore - dinner on us!
I'd be escorted out of the charter company's offices by police...
Possibly kicked out of the country.
You had me at bacon. mmmmmmm. Awesome episode guys. Enjoy the beer Nick, you deserve it. Fair winds and following seas Ruby Rose.
Let me guess, you have been using "100 Magic Miles"? Too many years ago ended in Nara inlet on our first night out from Shute Harbour, arrived late and dropped the pick. In the morning our neighbours were being served breakfast on the rear deck below the onboard helicopter landing pad - still reckon my cornflakes were better, at least I know I earned them. Later that morning after three attempts to lift the anchor and dropping most of the chain each time, realized the safety release clutch was not working and spent the rest of the trip having to lift the last few feet onto the bow roller by hand - I have empathy for your charter boat anchoring experience (just don't get me started on repairing the fridge that trip too). Still, memories that will last a lifetime.
Another great watch again 👍🏴
Thanks guys:))
Everytime something breaks...dam I should have check that last year...oh well ....
I don't have better singular word for indigenous "art" found all around the world. "Art" just doesn't describe but 20% of it's significance. It's a bit of communication time travel back to our human ancestors. Thank you human ancestors, for creating that for us to have today.
That windlass "handle" really did look weak. Should have been solid stainless with a backup winch. I learn something every time I watch.
Yeah, check carefully if you’re picking up a charter
While Nick was relaxing and strumming I saw Terysa making bacon and eggs. It brought me back to galley discussions where Nick said he did most of the cooking. I thought “aha”,”liar”. Then I saw the undercooked sunnyside up eggs and I sat back down.
Enjoying each episode. Felt your frustration when that windlass level broke!
I can imagine Nick on the following morning's Sched! I would be willing to bet he had a few words to say to the charter company about the quality of the tools on-board. I also imagine that if the stuff was 'Seawind' branded that it won't look anything like that on RRII!
Love your videos, they kind of drag you in and make me wish I was running up and down, doing something useful. Love lots of sailing vlogs ( delos , vagabond.........), but you kind of get the reality of the day to day. So keen to see RR2. Be curious, be kind and care for each other.
Glad to see you are normal people. I would have been furious if a charter company puts my family at risk.
Hi Terysa & Nick, now that you have sailed and stayed aboard the 1260 for a time would you update your earlier review? Also did you consider the Lightwave 45 as a possible RR2?
You can see how the company don't want you sailing in a fresh breeze if that's the way they maintain their equipment!! :-o
You feel better Nick, that thing won’t be on the new RR2 ❤️
Thank you for the video 📹.
Wish we could get more information 😕 on the New Boat 🚢. I know ya'lls hands are tied at this point. Ok Thank you Again and until next Monday morning 🌄 Aloha and Mahalo from the Big Island 🏝of Hawaii 🏝
A nice ending with a big cheers…
That breakage had more to do with piss poor design and cheap construction of the lever than it did with bad maintenance. The charter company and handle designer are equally to blame for that cluster f.
That was beautifully edited and such wonderful adventures you are having! I'm surprised you didn't have to DO something immediately about the lever that broke. That seems very nerve-racking.
Well deserved beer ! 👍
Mmmmm, shoulder bacon is the best bacon! Also, put a lid on the frying pan and the top of the yolks will cook, it's basically the same as over-easy with no flipping👍
he's looking more and more like one of those blokes you see in the "Royal" yacht clubs!
Blazer ❌
Red trousers ❌
Blue ensign ❌
Little admirals hat ❌
I know I can’t judge myself, but I think I’m pretty far from one of “those blokes”.
Forget ye not, I still hold the dubious honour of being tossed out of a Royal Yacht Club. 🤣🤣🤣.
Fair winds
Cheers!
Your anchoring adventure reminds me of an anchoring question I have. Can wind and current affect different boats differently such that some would swing into the wind with a sufficient current, while other boats would be affected in the opposite direction? I recall hearing that about a specific boat on another channel and wonder whether this is something that experienced sailors watch out for when they are anchoring.
Cheers Ahhhhhhh 👍
That lever was designed to fail or is a design failure.
I think I like angry Nick - it's the energy that keeps you safe on your long voyages!
So, my guess is that you will have a different handle on RR2.
Cool stuff, nice laid back episode besides the deserved rant over the mickeymouse winch lever, which could have been very interesting in more challenging circumstances. But not so sure about how the boat handled that chop. As I was watching that section I was thinking of Ruby Rose and how she would have sliced through that water beautifully instead of bouncing along like a hobbyhorse. Oh well, time will tell no doubt, but for serious offshore sailing in what may not always be “less than 25 knots”, I’m starting to think I’d feel safer in heavy seas in a boat like Delos’s Amel Super Maramu, rather than a cat of that size. Just an armchair & long-time-ago-sailor thinking out loud.
So that leads me to wonder if you ever have any doubts about your decision to ‘Go Cat’ and move away from a monohull? ... ☺️
And - did you by any chance watch Sailing Zingaro’s August 27 video showing all the creaking and groaning and movement within the boat that he observed at sea in a Lagoon 500? That was downright scary, certainly did not look like a safe boat to me, darn thing looked as though it was going to tear itself apart 😳
I am currently (31 August) sitting in Woodward Bay in the Whitsundays waiting out another blow with wind gusts to 32kts recorded at Hamilton Island, although substantially less here. We have come to the Whitsundays in our boat for several years now and it seems now that the weather these days is either very strong or less than 10kts! Climate change? Love your channel :)
Cheers
Great
1:01 think you meant pitch :)
This will be good
Hope you enjoy it
Another great episode. Hope you eventually get to sail soon.
What is a manual drop?
Hate it when things break!
Hm - 😊 your remarks about the anchor lever is very ok - but what's about your shoes wearing in the trails?😲
We had to go out and buy some
Did you contact the boat hire company?
I would have at least tried a double reef, on either sail.
Safe travels!
WHHHAAATTTT? "It's not always fun." - Terysa 🙄
Now you've completely deflated my hopes! 😉 Well, I guess if it were easy, EVERYONE would be doing it. Although you guys make it look really easy.
Oh Nick, settle petal. You're on a dodgy self charter boat in the whitsundays. Little jewels like that manual winch handle are par for the course. We all know what's really rubbing you raw and that's the delayed Ruby Rose 2. Lol ! Totaly understand because I'd be far worse 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You guys should get race car seats for ruby
Haha, good idea
Paul Lapper, really? Composite shells without any covering moulded for your body?
Awesome
Thanks
Good stuff. Thank you.
PS; Drink more beer Nick. Lol 🍻
When I go on a rant, which seems to be often lately, I like to think that I'm, passionately expressing my view. Lol
...that the composite body Martin you told me about?
Yep. Martin DX1AE
@@sailingrubyrose Sweet. I'm in.
@@sailingrubyrose is it just a fancy arm extension or can you play it, and I mean play, not strum few chords? Reason for asking is that it seems so many britts (especially London snobs) like the fancy stuff and they have no idea what to do with it. Whether it’s about sailing, skiing, instruments, cycling etc…top notch gear but butt nothing happens it’s just about having the gear. Hilarious really 🤷🏻♂️