Nick, Therysa, your channel is fantastic! It is such a pleasure to watch. Not only have I learned so much about sailing from your channel but I find watching your videos to be a major stress reliever during a stressful time in my life! Thank you so much for everything!!! I look forward to your next video each and every week.
Such a wonderful thing to say- we used to watch sailing videos during the stressful times when we were living in London. Kinda crazy to think we’re now providing the same escapism for others!
Love your videos ! Unfortunately, most of the other sailing channels that I have been watching for years are getting tired and boring or have run off the tracks and are getting weird, but I still absolutely love watching the Ruby Rose sailing on and you two keep me coming back for more every time.
I love how you guys are filming even before you've opened your eyes! Complete view of sailing - no getting ready to film, just wake up and camera on. Fantastic
Another great episode guys. Before we became liveaboards we used to watch nearly every sailing channel out there. Now data is a premium we have to be frugal lol. Your channel is now one of the very few we watch, and I have to say it's become our favourite. Have a great day.
Of all the sailing channels this is the first one I’ve found that has inspired me to save the RUclips video to a hard drive for later use. Not this episode. But others. You guys are great.
Delighting to watch from the comfort of my home office. After watching mostly Volvo sailing and the record setting run by Comanche, your trip is far more civilized. Ken from Delray Beach FL
Congrats on your second safe pond crossing, and thanks for bringing us along for the ride! Great video, as always. Bummed to hear you won't be able to make it to Annapolis...you'll be missed!
Hallo chaps! Just can't explain to you how much pleasure your Vlogs bring to an old 'wannabe sailor '! So glad that you made the journey, through thick and thin! All love, and best wishes, Claire and the sofa crew, Berlin 😘 😘 ✌ 👍
Bloody great episode Captain Nick and Theresa, your episodes at sea are the best, quite inspiring ...and it’s good to see your safety at sea discipline with life jackets and tether are RYA text book, you set the bar at a high quality level and are educating the youngsters on how to do this safely who are watching intently all around the globe . Cheers from SV Breezy 🌬⛵️🌏
Cheers mate. It drives me nuts when we see sailors never wearing life jackets. I personally don’t give a monkeys nut if they drown themselves, but then the people trying to rescue them put themselves in danger. More importantly it teaches poor seamanship to people that follow them on social media. As previously pointed out, when it’s flat calm, when we are all on deck and when I am cooking in the galley, I will sometimes sit under the spray hood in the companionway while I wait for the dinner to cook. But never more than that.
What can I say,,,, another very enjoyable video. The way you share your lifestyle is different to others doing a similar thing somehow and it is very pleasant - must be that Australian input. As always stay safe.
Another great video, excellent content, makes me dream off my boring job in the office. Cannot wait for the Q&A video, I have a few questions, but will hold them back til then. Hope you all have a few drinks and settle yourselves in the Azores. Thank you both for letting us live vicariously thru your videos...
I'm so jealous, I could never grow a mustache like that! :-) Cheers, good job keeping the water on the outside. Thank you for the video and work that goes into it.
Loving the channel guys - it is inspiring us to start planning for our own adventure in retirement. Maybe one for your Q&A: Can you talk about how you deal with risk/reward with the weather, ie, if you saw a nasty weather pattern coming up but that enduring it would knock, say, 4 days off your passage, how would you make that call? What are the factors you would consider?
Great that you make bread aboard. We do, too. Have you ever noticed that when the dolphins are at your bow they sometimes turn an eye towards you and look at you?
Hi guys - really loving your videos. A couple of interrelated questions for the Q&A - what brand life vests do you guys use, are they comfortable (they look like they are!) and do you have personal locator beacons attached for your AIS? Thanks.
Great video. Questions for the Q&A. How do you get the weather data at sea without using loads of data, is special software used to stop excess internet traffic? What needs to be different with the boat to make it faster? obviously, a different boat but in what way. With all the planning that you did was anything forgotten / could have been done better. If doing the crossing again what would you do differently?
Great channel guys, I binge watched every episode! LOL The music is fantastic, I would suggest to add a small caption about the music.....I see you get quite a lot of packages as well as your favorite brew in cardboard, I would be careful keeping cardboard on your vessel as there is a good chance the cardboard contains cockroach eggs and can easily intestate you living quarters. BTW congrats on your overall 8th on the ARC crossing!! Save sailings and keep it coming! J
Fair seas, good wind, a nice boat and a beautiful woman. What did you do to deserve THAT, Nick? :-) I think Therysa's pretty lucky too. Another great episode. Thanks!
@Sailing Yacht Ruby Rose Need some non stick soles on them bowls! lol! Nice to come back and remember "how it was"! This French canal trip is going fairly slowly guys!! lol!
Glad to see you using a spinnaker and a Code 0. Your thoughts on the Parasailor vs. a traditional Asym cruising chute might be a great Tech Tuesday. I have always used an Asym so I would love to hear more about the Parasailor. Cheers!!
I so enjoy your videos. They continue to whet my appetite for a boat. The nature of the medium is rather one sided though. We seem to get to know you, the illusion of familiarity. I would probably try and give Terysa a hug if I ran into her, and go for a beer with Nick. All the best in your journeys.
Great video! What a crew!! 3× awesome! Thanks for sharing! I was wondering about trash and recycling! Your views and the additudes and accommodations you find along your journey conserning this subject?
Bravo Nickster. Finally shaved the "dirt" off his mug. Terysa, happy you are back in Europe but sad you left the USofA (before I got to meet yous guys. Cheers!
Do you ever do any fishing while your racing along. Seems a shame not to, but I don't know anything about sailing so, it might be a terrible idea. I am loving these videos. More more more. Oh and another thing, whats the Sky like at night????? Ive always dreamed of seeing the sky without light polution. Thank you for bringing us along with you. Take care and safe sailing. Emmet, UK Flitwick
Hey mate, yes we do fish when we are sailing, but we are not very successful. As for the sky, it is amazing and beautiful and very able to put you in your place in the universe as totally insignificant.
First, Nick, you have the best sh%t eat'n grin I've seen in a long time. It is like you know something we don't, but you know that we know you know something we don't. You do. We don't. The grin is classic. Second, please include wind symbology you guys have available to you on your weather briefs during the upcoming QA.
been sailing all my life, 10 years on commercial gascarriers and containers and 14years a sea pilot now but i havent' really seen much of all the beauty I sailed past...since I discovered sailing Delos been dreaming of packing up and heading out on a sailboat. My question is what was your "GO" moment if any? or was it a long long planning before you headed out? till then I vicariously live trough your jouney's... smooth winds!
We had so many friends that promised they would go and always found a reason not to. We made a resolve when we bought the boat. It wasn’t a fixer upper, so we knew we didn’t have that excuse for not leaving. Once we had the boat, we had no further excuses. So we planned and left 2 years later
Nick, 400nm is probably a better number to rely on for helicopter range. Even that would be right at the edge of the envelope for most operators without midair refueling. 450nm would be an absolute extreme stretch.
Sailing Yacht Ruby Rose sorry for shattering the hope bud. But hey, if you call when you’re at 450nm, you might be able to reach the 400nm mark by the time they fit and fill the extended auxiliary tanks and fly all the way out there to get you!!
Oh wow! Dude... that magnificent mustache was a shade this side of Captain Hook. I was thinking maybe we should change Teresa's name to Wendy! :) You guys seem to eat better than anyone on any channels. Food is important.
For Q&A: Do you like the combo of the code zero and the para sailor sails, I know those para sailors are pretty expensive. If you had to do it over again would you purchase both sails or go with one over the other. Do you use one more than the other? I know they have different purposes. Thanks!
That advice and the technique got changing your hallyard while at sea might deserve a follow up more detailed demo:video. Kevlar? Mouse line? Thanks and happy winds to you.
ARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! You SHAVED the STACHE! Another manly man bites the dust. (could have done without the soul patch). I am now entering my period of mourning ( a year or so)
Great series! How would you have changed the watch schedule if you just had the two of you? Still six on? Was someone always in the cockpit? Was curious if any of the weather you outran caught up. 18ft swells! Geez!
We'll chat about watch arrangements in our upcoming Q&A. As for the weather, no we outran it. We only had 25kt gusts and 3-4 metres, which we showed in this episode.
Hi I Nick, Teryse. SAILS: Note you fly a Parasailor (expensive!) What would you change, if anything in Ruby Rose's sail plan? Cutter rig (inner forestay?) and/or twin jib's as opposed to Parasailer given the flexibility and ease of use with shorthanded crew? Also, what storm sails, if any, does Ruby Rose have at her disposal? Like any sensible sailor you have sailed away from 40kt winds & 18ft sea troughs, but what if you were given no options but to endure the storm?
It would be interesting to hear how exactly you are getting and or downloading the weather forecast. I mean very exactly, if possible of course. Are you using the SSB for that or an iridium phone? Or ekse? Thanks a lot.
Nick, Therysa, your channel is fantastic! It is such a pleasure to watch. Not only have I learned so much about sailing from your channel but I find watching your videos to be a major stress reliever during a stressful time in my life! Thank you so much for everything!!! I look forward to your next video each and every week.
Such a wonderful thing to say- we used to watch sailing videos during the stressful times when we were living in London. Kinda crazy to think we’re now providing the same escapism for others!
Love your videos ! Unfortunately, most of the other sailing channels that I have been watching for years are getting tired and boring or have run off the tracks and are getting weird, but I still absolutely love watching the Ruby Rose sailing on and you two keep me coming back for more every time.
@Joe Haralson thanks so much mate, means a lot to get that kind of feedback!
@@sailingrubyrose what's getting me away from all the stress is reading books... and your newly discovered videos now. Thanks!
A sailing channel with actually sailing.....brilliant! Nice passage
I love how you guys are filming even before you've opened your eyes! Complete view of sailing - no getting ready to film, just wake up and camera on. Fantastic
Ah thanks mate
Every single video it’s super awesome,many thanks again.
A pleasure my friend. Glad you’re enjoying them
Another great episode guys. Before we became liveaboards we used to watch nearly every sailing channel out there. Now data is a premium we have to be frugal lol. Your channel is now one of the very few we watch, and I have to say it's become our favourite. Have a great day.
Love
Y comment guys. Thanks very much.
Fun to watch....our boys are disappointed to see clean-shaven Captain Nick. They were big fans of Pirate Nick!
Of all the sailing channels this is the first one I’ve found that has inspired me to save the RUclips video to a hard drive for later use.
Not this episode. But others. You guys are great.
Delighting to watch from the comfort of my home office. After watching mostly Volvo sailing and the record setting run by Comanche, your trip is far more civilized. Ken from Delray Beach FL
Stay safe mate.
Theresa chillin in her socks while on her watch!!!!! Awesome!!!!!!
Haha it was chilly!
It appears to me that Nick smiles a hell of a lot more with Terysa around
We both smile a lot when we're together ☺
Bob - Nick might be an old grump from time to time, but he’s certainly no fool!
My first video with you guys. Great video. You make crossing the pond look easy.
Cheers my friend. It’s not easy, but enjoyable
Congrats on your second safe pond crossing, and thanks for bringing us along for the ride! Great video, as always. Bummed to hear you won't be able to make it to Annapolis...you'll be missed!
Really get a sense of what it feels like crossing an ocean. Well done!
That's the idea! Thankyou!
You two crack me up. Love the videos and the music, perfectly done. Thanks for taking me along!
Always a pleasure
“They love us as much as we love them I suppose...”
What an amazing and insightful observation. We can only hope that is true.
Good people on a great boat living THE LIFE. Thanks for the episode!
Thanks for commenting Harold!
Another excellent video. Great content - informative, humorous, great photography and music. Bloody great.
Cheers my friend. We are always happier when sailing
Hallo chaps!
Just can't explain to you how much pleasure your Vlogs bring to an old 'wannabe sailor '!
So glad that you made the journey, through thick and thin!
All love, and best wishes, Claire and the sofa crew, Berlin 😘 😘 ✌ 👍
Aww. Thanks so much. Enjoy your sofa
Bloody great episode Captain Nick and Theresa, your episodes at sea are the best, quite inspiring ...and it’s good to see your safety at sea discipline with life jackets and tether are RYA text book, you set the bar at a high quality level and are educating the youngsters on how to do this safely who are watching intently all around the globe . Cheers from SV Breezy 🌬⛵️🌏
Cheers mate. It drives me nuts when we see sailors never wearing life jackets. I personally don’t give a monkeys nut if they drown themselves, but then the people trying to rescue them put themselves in danger. More importantly it teaches poor seamanship to people that follow them on social media.
As previously pointed out, when it’s flat calm, when we are all on deck and when I am cooking in the galley, I will sometimes sit under the spray hood in the companionway while I wait for the dinner to cook. But never more than that.
Sailing Yacht Ruby Rose thanks for your hasty reply , Fair winds to you and your fair lady . 🇬🇧🇦🇺🌬⛵️🌏
Continue to live the dream for those of us who cannot. God bless and stay safe!
Thank you Nick and Terysa for another great video! Homemade bread on a cross Atlantic sail? Sign me up!!
No worries mate. Signed up
I know I make the same comment constantly, but love your music choices. Great content. Such great personality and genuine joy.
Glad you're enjoying the music! Thanks!
Great video guys. Keep the sailing instructional stuff flowing. Love watching.
Cheers mate
Years ago we worked for a couple months with a bunch of Brits on the Costa Brava in Spain. Had an amazing curry every other night, miss those days.
Always great to see you guys, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching our sailing video!
Well done awsome to watch your adventure.
Cheers mate
Great video gives us a good look into a long crossing inspiring !
Cheers! That's the idea- to show you what sailing across an ocean is really like!
Awesome video guys! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
I love Nicks optimism here! '450 is my magic number, they can get to you with a helicopter'. How cheery ;-)
Happy as Larry my friend
Well, this enjoyable 16.5 minute episode sped by in a flash!
Thanks mate! glad you enjoyed it!
As alway, great stuff guys. Thanks for sharing...
Thanks for watching our sailing video!!
Yet another well shot and edited video. Really enjoy your content; informative, valuable and interesting. Fair winds...
What can I say,,,, another very enjoyable video. The way you share your lifestyle is different to others doing a similar thing somehow and it is very pleasant - must be that Australian input. As always stay safe.
You two are amazing.
Wow thanks haha
Morticia come look, Gomez is back! ...Darling, how we missed you so.
Hahaha
Hello, your channel is fantastic! It is such a pleasure to watch and thanks for the amazing tips. Keep it coming, Cheers.
Pleasure my friend. Welcome
I’m so excited! 👍👍
Woot!
Never mind. Off it went. 😊 Good to see you.
Yep, it's gone!
Great video glad you made is safely. Safe Sailing
Nice video guy's thanks for sharing!
I love your videos because your nice people. I like nice people..
Another great video, excellent content, makes me dream off my boring job in the office. Cannot wait for the Q&A video, I have a few questions, but will hold them back til then. Hope you all have a few drinks and settle yourselves in the Azores. Thank you both for letting us live vicariously thru your videos...
E mail them now my friend. We need a bit of time to prepare ;)
Great episode.
Thanks Rob and Jouke
Truly awe inspiring episode - ‘nuff said. 👍
Thanks so much!
I'm so jealous, I could never grow a mustache like that! :-) Cheers, good job keeping the water on the outside. Thank you for the video and work that goes into it.
cheers. we really do love sailing
Very nice as always. Well sailed. Cheers!
awesome video, once again! our splash date is 4 weeks away. Keep these videos coming, we are learning a lot!
Whoot whoot. Good luck
Thanks for talking to us before your first cup of coffee! Actually that is heroic .. couldn't do it .,at all
Hahah right!?
Great vid, great music...as usual!
Cheers!
Loving the channel guys - it is inspiring us to start planning for our own adventure in retirement.
Maybe one for your Q&A: Can you talk about how you deal with risk/reward with the weather, ie, if you saw a nasty weather pattern coming up but that enduring it would knock, say, 4 days off your passage, how would you make that call? What are the factors you would consider?
Great question! We'll pop it on the list ☺
I can't click on your new videos fast enough! ⛵
Thanks Molly!
Great that you make bread aboard. We do, too.
Have you ever noticed that when the dolphins are at your bow they sometimes turn an eye towards you and look at you?
Yes, we have noticed- they're wonderful creatures!
thanks for another great video.
Thanks!
Another great vid. sound track is really nice. maybe a christmas no.1
Hehe cheers mate
Lovely video, good to see you all in the rhythm and enjoying the journey, well most of it. Andy UK
Cool shoot guys and very entertaining . Freddie an his tash going strong init ,lol . All the best to yas
Hi guys - really loving your videos. A couple of interrelated questions for the Q&A - what brand life vests do you guys use, are they comfortable (they look like they are!) and do you have personal locator beacons attached for your AIS? Thanks.
Very satisfying video, I had to have a beer with you guys as you reached landfall or docked. Cheers
Cheers. thats what we like interaction
Great video. Questions for the Q&A. How do you get the weather data at sea without using loads of data, is special software used to stop excess internet traffic?
What needs to be different with the boat to make it faster? obviously, a different boat but in what way.
With all the planning that you did was anything forgotten / could have been done better.
If doing the crossing again what would you do differently?
Great questions! We'll definitely answer them- thanks!
Great channel guys, I binge watched every episode! LOL The music is fantastic, I would suggest to add a small caption about the music.....I see you get quite a lot of packages as well as your favorite brew in cardboard, I would be careful keeping cardboard on your vessel as there is a good chance the cardboard contains cockroach eggs and can easily intestate you living quarters. BTW congrats on your overall 8th on the ARC crossing!! Save sailings and keep it coming! J
Fair seas, good wind, a nice boat and a beautiful woman. What did you do to deserve THAT, Nick? :-) I think Therysa's pretty lucky too. Another great episode. Thanks!
Interesting stuff as usual.Enjoyed it.Cheers!
Thanks!
@Sailing Yacht Ruby Rose Need some non stick soles on them bowls! lol! Nice to come back and remember "how it was"! This French canal trip is going fairly slowly guys!! lol!
Glad to see you using a spinnaker and a Code 0. Your thoughts on the Parasailor vs. a traditional Asym cruising chute might be a great Tech Tuesday. I have always used an Asym so I would love to hear more about the Parasailor. Cheers!!
We'll definitely talk more about this! Thanks for the questions!
The real spoiler alert at the end is that Theresa won the mustache battle. Great video thanks.
I so enjoy your videos. They continue to whet my appetite for a boat.
The nature of the medium is rather one sided though. We seem to get to know you, the illusion of familiarity. I would probably try and give Terysa a hug if I ran into her, and go for a beer with Nick. All the best in your journeys.
most excellent!!
Merci!
I love your Channel - I just thought you guys should know that; Thank you.
Thankyou for such a lovely comment!
Great video! What a crew!!
3× awesome! Thanks for sharing!
I was wondering about trash and recycling! Your views and the additudes and accommodations you find along your journey conserning this subject?
Bravo Nickster. Finally shaved the "dirt" off his mug. Terysa, happy you are back in Europe but sad you left the USofA (before I got to meet yous guys. Cheers!
Yes, we're sad to be leaving that part of the world as well.
9:24 what kind of sorcery is that!!?? Does Nick have those powers too? lol
Hahah cheers mate
:D
Well done guys good effort I hope to be heading the other way shortly :)
Best of luck! The other way is easier ☺
Awesome video and sound track!
Thanks!
It's a very dashing moustache, Nick. You look vaguely piratical, in a johnny depp kind of way
Hehe, cheers mate
Do you ever do any fishing while your racing along. Seems a shame not to, but I don't know anything about sailing so, it might be a terrible idea.
I am loving these videos.
More more more.
Oh and another thing, whats the Sky like at night?????
Ive always dreamed of seeing the sky without light polution.
Thank you for bringing us along with you.
Take care and safe sailing.
Emmet, UK Flitwick
Hey mate, yes we do fish when we are sailing, but we are not very successful.
As for the sky, it is amazing and beautiful and very able to put you in your place in the universe as totally insignificant.
Sure hope you both can make the Annapolis Boat show.
Would love to, but its looking more like our sailing plans won't allow it.
15:03 Last night at sea sundowners!! Next passage, message me and I'll raise a glass to you too. 😘
😘 can't wait for sundowners with you!
Nick, great stache....just wait til it starts going grey.....then you'll look really distinguished. LOL
First, Nick, you have the best sh%t eat'n grin I've seen in a long time. It is like you know something we don't, but you know that we know you know something we don't. You do. We don't. The grin is classic. Second, please include wind symbology you guys have available to you on your weather briefs during the upcoming QA.
Thanks mate :) Will add it to the list of sailing related topics
I like the mustache look !
What about showing us how to repair a halyard? :-) Nice crossing.
been sailing all my life, 10 years on commercial gascarriers and containers and 14years a sea pilot now but i havent' really seen much of all the beauty I sailed past...since I discovered sailing Delos been dreaming of packing up and heading out on a sailboat. My question is what was your "GO" moment if any? or was it a long long planning before you headed out? till then I vicariously live trough your jouney's... smooth winds!
We had so many friends that promised they would go and always found a reason not to. We made a resolve when we bought the boat. It wasn’t a fixer upper, so we knew we didn’t have that excuse for not leaving. Once we had the boat, we had no further excuses. So we planned and left 2 years later
Nice Video thanks
Awwww, I would have loved to have seen some fid vid! I bought some and am making eyelets for dock ropes from double.
Sorry mate. Didn’t film that bit...
Technical Tuesday episode? 👍
Nick, 400nm is probably a better number to rely on for helicopter range. Even that would be right at the edge of the envelope for most operators without midair refueling. 450nm would be an absolute extreme stretch.
Bahahaha. Why would you tell me that ? :)
I’ve always told my crew 450
Sailing Yacht Ruby Rose sorry for shattering the hope bud. But hey, if you call when you’re at 450nm, you might be able to reach the 400nm mark by the time they fit and fill the extended auxiliary tanks and fly all the way out there to get you!!
Oh wow! Dude... that magnificent mustache was a shade this side of Captain Hook. I was thinking maybe we should change Teresa's name to Wendy! :)
You guys seem to eat better than anyone on any channels. Food is important.
Well, we're massive foodies, and having good food keeps morale up onboard! So it's win win :)
Wow, you people are rich and elite!
For Q&A: Do you like the combo of the code zero and the para sailor sails, I know those para sailors are pretty expensive. If you had to do it over again would you purchase both sails or go with one over the other. Do you use one more than the other? I know they have different purposes. Thanks!
We'll definitely answer that question in the Q&A- thanks Jason!
That advice and the technique got changing your hallyard while at sea might deserve a follow up more detailed demo:video. Kevlar? Mouse line? Thanks and happy winds to you.
We will get one of those done
Folger,s coffee,,,, cheap american coffee kind of like american beer! Oh well it will give you a buzz.
ARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! You SHAVED the STACHE! Another manly man bites the dust. (could have done without the soul patch). I am now entering my period of mourning ( a year or so)
I can see from your pic that you're the proud owner of a rather magnificent moutstache, so I understand the devastation! Sorry mate, it had to go :)
Good one!
Thanks!
How often do you download weather a day? Morning coffee with sunrise and dolphins, doesn't get better than that.
Those mornings on the water are my favourite time of day. We downloaded weather once per day
Hello did you do an episode that showed your prep etc for Atlantic crossing..just wondering.
thanks
Fu*k yeah!
Great series! How would you have changed the watch schedule if you just had the two of you? Still six on? Was someone always in the cockpit? Was curious if any of the weather you outran caught up. 18ft swells! Geez!
We'll chat about watch arrangements in our upcoming Q&A. As for the weather, no we outran it. We only had 25kt gusts and 3-4 metres, which we showed in this episode.
Errol flynn in the movie captain blood. Apparently Nick made it safely to shore even if his mustache didn’t, RIP.
Cheers mate.
Hi I Nick, Teryse. SAILS: Note you fly a Parasailor (expensive!) What would you change, if anything in Ruby Rose's sail plan?
Cutter rig (inner forestay?) and/or twin jib's as opposed to Parasailer given the flexibility and ease of use with shorthanded crew? Also, what storm sails, if any, does Ruby Rose have at her disposal? Like any sensible sailor you have sailed away from 40kt winds & 18ft sea troughs, but what if you were given no options but to endure the storm?
Great question- we'll answer all that in our Q&A because it's quite a big subject and a lot of people has asked us about sail plans ☺
It would be interesting to hear how exactly you are getting and or downloading the weather forecast. I mean very exactly, if possible of course. Are you using the SSB for that or an iridium phone? Or ekse? Thanks a lot.
We’ll answer these questions on our Q&A on sailing across the Atlantic coming out in a few weeks
Fantastic. That was my question.
Same question we had. Is that the Perfect Wind app? How are you connected out in the middle of the Atlantic. Can’t wait for the q&a