YARNS : Holly Martin of
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2023
- Episode 002 : Season 1 : YARNS; Conversations with Cruisers, A Sailing Podcast
James Frederick sits down with sailors he meets around the world to record their seas stories in remote anchorages and far-flung ports. All the interviews are recorded as a video podcast that is released on the Sailing Triteia RUclips Channel. They are also being made available as an audio podcast for those who prefer this format of content.
On this episode James interview’s Holly Martin of the RUclips Channel Wind Hippie Sailing. Holly was born on her parent’s circumnavigation on their Cal 25 and spent her childhood cruising in the Arctic. She went on to be the crane operator on a research vessel in Antarctica before buying her Grinde 27, SV Gecko and heading off on her own circumnavigation from Maine. Head over to Holly’s RUclips Channel to follow along with her adventures!
Holly Martin / SV Gecko Links:
RUclips: / windhippiesailing
Instagram: / boatlizard
Dave and Jaja Martin Links:
www.thesailingchannel.tv/prod...
www.amazon.com/Into-Light-Fam...
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About the Host:
James Frederick aka Sailor James is a solo circumnavigator slowly sailing around the world onboard his 1965 Alberg 30 Sloop SV Triteia. James shares his adventures weekly on his RUclips channel which has more than 100k subscribers. Aside from the vlog, James is also a writer for Yachting World, Cruising World, Good Old Boat and more. More information about Triteia and their adventures can be found at the below links.
SV Triteia Links
RUclips: / sailorjames
Instagram: / james.the.sailor.man
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The intro and outro song was sung by Sarah Satya with new lyrics to the classic tune written by James Frederick.
Sarah Satya Links:
Music: sarahsatya.bandcamp.com
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Fair Winds,
James
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My god Holly has had more amazing years and adventure than most of us will fit into our lives and she’s only 31, you rock and deserve the life your living. A grade problem solver and the brains trust at home is a bonus 🥂cheers
That hippie girl will become a legend one day! :)
I love hearing about the hallucinations and how you're mentally attuned to micro details even while asleep. Excellent conversation.
I’m a long time sailor, started before either of you were born. I want you to know I came across your channels and enjoy them very much, thank you. You both without a doubt are providing inspiration for all the future sailors that view your channels. Stay the course, fair winds and following seas.
Holly is absolutely fantastic, very understated, clever but not remotely big-headed. James is the same, and this interview/chat was a wonderful inevitability. Two very dear people luxuriating in solitude, with short enough bursts of company to not let them take others for granted, but not to become desperate for company.
When our world was populated this sparsely a long time ago it must have been a great place to be.
This was amazing seeing two people that I spend my quite boring evenings at my dining room table enthralled in each of their adventures chatting about being adventurers.. so natural and both seem so content. Inspiring to hear and watch !
LETS GOOOOO
I started watching each of you independently in 2021 and its wild to see you both on the same vessel for a chat. Excellent episode and im only 9 minutes in.
I’m enjoying this series WAY more than I thought I would. Interviews, on the whole, aren’t really my thing but when it’s more like you’re part of a conversation it’s really great! I haven’t really followed the Wind Hippie channel up to now, but guess what? She’s got a new subscriber, lol!! As usual, we’ll done, James!
Just saw Holly with that Old Sea Dog and this popped up! Subscribed to both of you guys and love what you are doing.
If I was 50 years younger I would do the same, but at 73, I can follow, vicariously living a dream.
I really enjoy your long-format films and interviews James. That you are a great sailor is self evident, but you are also a remarkably talented broadcaster and interviewer. I can only imagine the amount of work it takes to get this good. Holly was also the perfect interviewee. What a fascinating person she is!
Ditto, well done James❤
I’ll never forget her family’s documentary, “Ice Blink.” That doc was one of the first films that really inspired me to want to cruise! It’s fun seeing Holly as a kiddo too. When I first came across her channel I was like, “omg, that’s that kid from Ice Blink all grown up!”
Terrific interview. Two of my hero sailors. I got hooked into Wind Hippie Sailing when Holly said in a video, "The back stay cable broke so I just tied a rolling hitch...." What?? eh, another day at the life....
25:00 James asks if Holly couldn't just lash the helm. A ha. I've only been on fin keel boats, James has a full keel. I guess lashing (or locking) the helm would work for his boat. My early experience in funky charter boats out of Marina del Rey "Don't use the autopilot!" is a locked helm means the boat turns 15-20° with every wave. So going forward to raise the jib meant I'd turn 180° in about a minute.
Sleeping. I was just on a passage from Japan to Canada. Catamaran: slamming, slamming, BANG! SLAMMING! I slept through it all (I actually loved it. Who but astronauts gets to sleep weightless? Granted I was only weightless for a second every two minutes or so.) Loud noises? No problem. But the slightest different noise.... One evening during the typical slams, not too loud, there was a slightly less loud bang noise. I asked the owner, "What was that?" Then his wife came up, " I think something broke." We went out and looked around. Seemed okay. Next morning the owner discovered that the outhaul had chaffed through (It was rigged too low: spliced eye in the line, and solid clew ring so they just put it low to the D-ring. Rub rub. Wasn't the only incompetent factory rigging.) I tied a bowline to the clew -- problem solved and no more chaffing). This wasn't the fist time his wife picked out a problem from the background noise.
The last two weeks I started hearing voices.... No I wasn't losing my mind. It's like in the old days with wall phones when our brains would over interpret overtones in the shower as the phone ringing. My ears were just tuning up, listening for anything that might be a problem.
Yeah, I guess hearing the phone ring in the shower is an hallucination. (I had a fun dream. The boat was bouncing, I was in one of the fore cabins. (tip always arrive early to a sailing gig.) I was dreaming that I was at anchor off the west end of Anacapa Island (there's no anchorage there) , my monohull was jumping all over the place. Then I heard one of my teachers, Captain Dan's voice say, "If you anchor there you'll get hit by waves from two direction." I started to wake up a bit and remembered we were on a multiday passage, so it couldn't be the Channel Islands..... Where else off California? Nah, it's just a dream. Then I realized, hey, we're in the South China Sea crossing to the Philippines from Vietnam! During the first month of sailing I would often have amazing land dreams, then wake up and realize, I'm on a boat under sail! Imagine the first time you got off a plane in some exotic place - how new and exciting that was. I was getting this feeling sometimes a couple times a day.
I had a terrific optical illusion. We'd just sailed out of Choshi, Japan to start the crossing. A red tanker was heading north behind us. As it past I looked at it through my binoculars and it looked like a toy boat. Huh. It took an hour to figure out that this was really odd (otherwise I'd have taken a photo) and why it looked so small. I could see water behind (above) the ship. There's no way with my eyes 2 meters above sea level I could ever see water over the deck of that >150m ship. Somehow I had, and that's why it looked like a toy. (A small bangka fishing boat could look like this but only if it were less than 50 m away and less than 1 meter high.) It took a few more weeks to figure out what had happened. when I saw another false horizon that was marine layer fog. There'd been marine layer fog behind the ship that looked enough like the water the ship was in to read as a false horizon.
I was on a four person crew with a watch schedule. Very different from soloing. During watches, I'd always listen to audiobooks (>20 in the three months.) I could start to nod off. I started switching to music the last hour of my night watches. I also started dancing on the back deck. Second best reason to get a cat: deck dancing. Keeps you alert, fit (sort of) and entertained. Tip: When deck dancing don't lift your feet because even in calm seas when you set your foot down the deck will be in a different place.
We ran over a guy's net off the Philippines. I'd wanted to move farther off the coast. Nope. Later same attitude ran over my fishing tackle -- end of fishing. (I'd already been successful tuna, mahi mahi). Every time we ate potatoes only soup or extremely low grade hot dogs I thought Filipino Fisherman Payback. Terrific interview. Terrific sailors.
What a great episode. Holly is amazing... You're doing a grand job too...
Most enjoyable! Having sailed tens of thousands of miles, I always appreciate hearing other sailor’s stories. Speaking of hearing strange voices, one time in the 70s somewhere off the coast of Central America, as I walked forward on deck, I heard music and voices! Turns out it was a far distant radio station somehow coming in through my rigging! Very strange!!! I think Holly and her family are the perfect example of what sailing is all about. ⛵️⛵️⛵️
You saw the coast? You mean the radio was loud?
@@fa7842 No, I was about 100 miles off the coast. It’s amazing how efficient rigging can be as an antenna, and apparently, if it vibrates just right…🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎵🎵
@@tomas5376 hoho, never heard about something! Yes big antenna
James, thank you for doing this and doing it so well. Typically thorough, thoughtful and thought provoking. Holly, of course, is a perfect guest, and everybody's hero, for sure. I'm a huge fan of both of you and this was epic.
My 2 favorite sailors! Love watching you both circumnavigate our world (from the comfort of my living room, as a solo land lubber). James you are a natural at interviewing people and also as a commentator. Keep up the good work both of you! Can't wait for our next adventure!
James, you are truly a natural at what you are doing! Every episode I watch I save and look forward to watching a 2nd time in the future. Thank you for all your knowledge all your willingness to put yourself out there and share everything your doing. GREAT WORK, GREAT JOB❤
Incredible story she has , thanks for the inspiration, great content, safe travels.
Excellent interview, a great conversation and some amazing stories. Can't wait for the next episode
Excellent interview, I was hanging out every word. I sailed for decades and now I’m in Idaho and I’m sailing through the both of you. God bless you both.
You are a great person, sir! I’m glad to have found your channel.
Great interview James! Such good info and an enjoyable, chill conversation. Thanks for sharing! May fair winds be with you both!🌬⛵
two of my favourite youtube sailors together... you guys are inspirational.
Wind hippie is a rock star.
It’s really nice to hear real stories about the daily experiences of passage making and exploring. It’s hard for me to imagine how to begin and conversations like this give lots of insight. Thanks!❤
very cool a massive thank you Holly for telling us about ur life,we will be cruising in 4,5 years with my family of 4 ,i am loving the meet up with cruisers,fair winds
I appreciate what you are doing with your channel. The value goes well beyond entertainment. And getting Holly for your first yarn, great move.
Thanks for your time and effort put into these vids something to look back on one day. I have Mairi and Ian Munro's 26 foot Viking yatch they sailed from Vancouver to NZ in the early 1970's the only documentation is a few pages from a sea spray magazine. Fantastic what your doing much respect may catch you sailing past kawau island hauraki gulf.
This is such great and valuable content- hoping a really big audience get to view this. So American Holly is really a Kiwi kid at heart….explains some of her adventurous ways. As a kiwi i offer a wee apology for the weather this last summer- nor has it improved much since. Wishing you both safe and fun journeys in future and cant wait for your content from yr respective destinations
Amazing interview with Holly. Thanks so much.
Did you see I also interviewed her parents? Also an amazing interview
Awesome job James. Great interview of Holly. Love both of your channels.
Thank you for the great interview. One take away I have is about both of you exude a calmness. In light of all the problems that come up in the dynamic world of sailing, your ability to deal with problems and issues large and small is an impressive feat unto itself, and an inspiring take away for me. Thanks again.
I LOVE this conversation! SO rad hearing yall talk about feeling and being in tune with your boat. When I heard Holly say that she can wake up because she feels a squall coming, that's so gnarly. The voices are trippy. ⛵🤙
Nice, I am a mines electrician, in Western Australia, just refurbing a 38ft steel mono 😀
I LOVE THAT " SHE WENT AND FIGURED IT OUT" That's someone truly resourceful!
Wow Fantastic Interview Good Girl Holly Live your dream and stay safe! I look forward to the book! many years later you lived your life well! Many Blessing. Love the new format vlog!
Great show. Holly is a Star.
Great interview holly is such a beautiful person. James did a great job also. Sailorama the captain grew up on a boat. That’s a good Chanel also.
Great interview. I am currently looking at buying my first 20’+ SV and binge watching/ listening to your RUclips channel, as well as several others. Thanks to this video, now Holly’s.
I LOVE the concept of this podcast!
Interviewing completely random people you meet on your travels who have really cool and fascinating stories is such a neat idea!
I loved this episode and I can't wait to see future episodes!
I am currently saving up for a ship of my own and working on finding a way to crew on some ships in the meantime for experience. Cheers!
Thanks James for the insite of Holly's life very interesting to hear! Thanks again and safe travels
Yep, good interview.
I had no idea about Holly's early life, and very interesting topics of conversation.
I always liked meeting other cruisers in the Pacific.
Great show guys. I follow you both, but seeing you interact as fellow RUclipsrs and cruisers brings a whole other dimension.
Two of my sailing heroes! Great confab!
Great interview, bringing out bits I had not heard yet.
Your organizational skills shows great.
What a wonderful interview!! I’ve been traveling with both of you for years, I love watching your videos!! Thanks so much
Great interview! Thank you both for having the courage to "put yourself out there" ! My life has been brighter as a result of your videos so thank you sincerely! Wishing you fairwinds on a call sea with star lit skies and peaceful thoughts of the ones you love. God bless.
I've been following WindHippie for a little while now. I'm glad to have found her and now to have found you. You're living my middle aged dream. Just learned to sail last year and I'm planning on getting better and buying my own boat in about two years. I've subscribed to your channel and will begin watching the old episodes. Enjoy yourself!
By the way I'm near Morro Bay, CA so if anyone is passing through and needs rail meat or someone to stand watches hit me up! I'm a certified bare boat captain through the ASA.
Thank you Holly and James for such an interesting interview. I seem to have become a Utube addicft and you guys are among my favourites:-)
Awesome. 2 of my favorite sailing personalities. Keep on keeping on.
Whaooow What a lovely wave-tossed tales! 🦭⛵🤘
Watched just about all of the wind hippie videos. Knew Holly was a boss, but the back stories filling in some of the gaps was really interesting. I almost passed on this video because I thought it was some sort of a repeat. So glad I didn’t. Well done James!
I never do repeats
Great to see both able to connect.
Thanks Holly and James I really enjoyed that
I love watching Holly and all her adventures on the sea since she was born! Because I seeing this video, I watched her parents documentery which was pretty cool too! You guys are my favorite sailors for sure! Watching your videos is my favorite past time.
Holly is my favorite lady sailor. James this is a great interview. You have many hats to wear James. You two would make a great couple
Wonderful. Thank you both for this! 😊
Holly is badass and so are you James. Thanks to both of you for inspiring us newer cruisers.
Much love from the coast of Maine ❤🤙🤙
Great talk, James. Thank you both.
I love to listen conversations about sailing around the world ⛵️ 🌎
I am reading many sailing magazines and sailing books 📚 true adventures and watching on RUclips from around the world from many countries, my sailing is passion at sea 🌊 Thanks for beautiful episode filming 🎥. Greetings from one of the most beautiful romantic island Kauai 🏝 🌴 Hawaii
I watch both of you. I remember when she was sailing with her sister and had a diesel problem.
Great guys, watch both of your channels. Keep up the good work and enjoy.
Great interview and learning. Thank you.
that was a great chat you did awesome man, glad you're doing this it's a good idea for future stuff the memories/experiences of others are always appreciated !
Solid interview James! I love both of your channels. You two are total bad arses! God bless. 🙏
This is a perfect "YARN" for me ... I am only subscribed to two sailors, and Holly and James are the two. Thanks to you both!
Great conversation. Thanks both of you.
As someone commented in the interview with windhippie, they said how much they enjoyed how you make us feel as if we're part of the conversation. I agree. You truly talented James! Again, GREAT WORK❤
Lol, im watching a different conversation of yarns on the TV while commenting 🤣
Fantastic interview "STAY SAFE"
To u2 thank you so much for the insights of both your lives. Thank you, thank you.
Cheers, fair winds for u both
Thank you James and Holly. This Q+ A is much appreciated. Cheers from somewhere south of you.
That was SOOOOOO good. Holly has sure had a great life with her family on boats. And now the world is her oyster - it's just brilliant. Can't wait to see her channel. Thank you so much Sailor James 😃
great content you two good folks, thank-you.
Love this format and I can’t wait to see more of it! It feels like it was done in one take and if it wasn’t Great editing
such a show - truly living it via your simple format. - Real - and sincere
What amazing lives you two have had. Cool episode!
Holly rocks! Thanks for the convo.
I think you found your calling!! So sweet to sit in with you folks! Keep on sailing
It was a pleasure seeing Holly, thank you for the video.
Thanks for the interviews. I wish I new about this when I was younger so now I can live vicariously thru all the videos so thanks..
awesome interview. really enjoyed this!
You know, I stumbled on your channel this afternoon and your content fascinates me! So, Jim ya got a new subscriber. Holly does too. Very interesting interview. I'm not a sailor, I'm a biker but super interesting lifestyle.
Wow James, another awesome video. You are absolutely amazing as an interviewer and Holly describes her adventures so well. Thanks for the new content, yarns.
Hey James and Holly what great stories - absolute magic - be well both of you - good winds
Wow, my 2 favorite sailors together. I am so impressed with Holly and look forward to each of her episodes, and you as well James. I am currently searching for my next boat to head to the south pacific on in 2 years. You both have been a huge inspiration to me to return to a life interupted.
Have watched each of you earlier, adventurous souls you be ! great sharing thanks both of you , all the very best from a Kiwi who has sailed some same waters in my more youthful years .
Amazing interview , So good inspirational stuff guys !!!
Love both your Channels
Great interview, loved it .
I heard you mention Holly a few times , and Wow what a life she has led , very interesting . thanks for the Yarn
Make sure you check out her parents interview I did on YARNs as well
@@SailorJames I have watched all the YARNs , This is a Great Series .
Thanks for opening up about your life's adventures and journey. That to the both of you guys.
great podcast. Thank you!
This is fantastic keep up the good work James..... holy is my hero . Can't wait to join you guys travelling around the world
James
Thank you for sharing your experiences with us.. They are informational and educating as well as enjoyable.
Steve Sr.
Loved the interview ! Been following Holly since she started her journey . Found out a lot about her back ground . Will follow your channel for sure . You know the questions to ask and let the person answer them without interfering!
Nice interview. I subscribe to both of your channels and look forward to continuing to follow you both on your circumnavigations.
Nice interview, thanks James
Nice conversation. Thank you.
So nice t see my two favorite sailing channels in one episode....
Enjoyed your video with Holly!!