You may not of had your ships Captain to guide you safely on your voyage, but you made it with only a great cook to support you. You are now England's own, Captain Ron. LOL! Stay groovy and stay safe.
One of my favourite (light hearted) comments “Everybody wants to be captain until there’s captain sh*t to do!” and now you know! 😂😂 But seriously….awesome job acting Captain, Carly can take more naps now knowing you’ve got the ship 👍🏼💤😂⛵️
Carly can indeed take a load off and I can pop the Captain hat on a little more often, perhaps? It was a good experience but I feel much happier when we're both aboard. How are things with you guys? Last I heard you were making a dash to get out of the EU?
@@CadohaAdventures All good with us cheers. Got lucky being able to stay in Portugal for the winter as they extended everybody due to covid backlogs and, yes, now we are attempting to high tail it across the Med without checking back into the EU until June. Currently in Gibraltar waiting for a weather window to hop (1450 miles!) across to Montenegro. It’s a bit of a worry as we can’t technically enter the EU again until June so if we have any drama it could get interesting around the whole visa issue 😬 Watch this space!! 🤞🏼🤞🏼
Cap'n Ron is a family tradition with us, we watch it every year on our summer cruise and have been doing so for 15 years, great movie and perfect to watch on your yacht.
Dom, I saw that you hung your harness tether from the stainless loop on the pedestal, and it's a sensible place - but just in case you didn't know, that tube is only intended to stop the mainsheet taking the compass off during a gybe. It's not a handhold and definitely not a harness attachment point. (An owner was swept off his boat in the '79 Fastnet because that's what he'd hooked himself onto).
Thanks for pointing that out, I only hung it there for quick access to put it on later, we have four actual clip in points that we use in the cockpit and then the life lines if we leave the cockpit, we’ve never clipped onto it, although I’ll admit that I do use it as a hand hold quite often 😳
Thanks, Andy, if I had to do it all over again I’d probably leave Dartmouth in the light and heave too in the bay to get a fair tide for the Bill, which I think would be safer overall and would be a good chance to practice heaving too with some space, but it all worked out 😁🙏
Yes agreed, going the other way is far more exciting 😁😁😁 I’ve just been watching some of your videos recently to brave some heat exchanger work on Cadoha. Ended up being a mix of three channels to figure it all out for our specific model 😁😁👌🏼 Hope you guys are doing good? 👌🏼⛵️
Nice job and good experience - you can almost read a dogs mind by his eye brows - " quit flapping your jaws - no time for high fives I have to go NOW!!!! "
Portland was the base for my first ship in the Royal Navy in 1964/5 H.M.S. Aurora. To me as a junior seaman, it was a cold wind blown desolate place where only war ships were allowed. I have not lived it England for fifty years. I got smart and now live in Australia but believe the Navy Has not the same influence that it once had there. I remember it was usually force 9/10 or flat calm and I only saw it calm two times!
@@CadohaAdventures Yep, either Royal Navy Mk2 or Mk4 Merlin. Essentially replaced Sea King some years ago. Back in the day RN aviators would occasionally fly the same flight path along the Dart at a similar altitude in the Sea Harrier. Noisy is an understatement.
I was amazed that you was a MMA fighter never had you down for that fair play son new sub here I initially thought you was a posh boy son Eton that kinda fella :)
I mean I do make every effort to pronounce my T’s, and my mother would have loved for me to of attended Eton, but she was a cleaner and my Dad built garden fences for a living, so it was a little out of our families price range. Don’t get me wrong, my parents both worked their respective jobs so hard that my brother and I wanted for nothing, and compared to the kids on the army estate we grew up on, I guess it’d be fair to say we felt like rich kids, but it was a wild and punchy housing estate and if you’re the ginger ‘rich kid’ on the estate, you better learn how to stick up for yourself. After one too many bloody noses at school, it was actually my parents who first got me into martial arts training (karate to start off with) when I was 7 or 8, as I got older I eventually transitioned into Muay Thai and I ended up living in Thailand, where I trained and fought, then after that I discovered Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which I trained and competed in for another 12 years, until my body just started to give up on me. As for the ‘MMA’ I only ever did it once, near the end of my martial arts career, and I did it for charity to raise money for a local hospice, which looked after a couple of people I knew who were taken far too young. The vast majority of my martial arts career was actually wrestling in pyjamas 😬😬😬 (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu), not quite as hardcore 😆.
@@CadohaAdventures Excellent fella and I should of known better at my age to never judge a book by its cover and I fully understand what you mean about being the ginger on the estate as my older brother by 2 years was ginger and by god he loved to fight esp fighting me :)
Brilliant Video. Thanks for posting. Great that you took al lot of time to carefully consider your passage plan and to properly secure and check the boat beforehand. Looking forward to the next episode and your safe return to your home port for the winter.
Nice to see the River Dart showcased in all its glory despite the weather! Bought and renovated my first yacht in Portland before sailing her to Noss Marina so an awesome episode for me. Cheers guys
Great to see you on the helm Dom. Good preparation makes for an easier passage. I bet it felt strange without your Captain and 1st Mate missing though? Good work
Have you tried ginger for seasickness it seems to work for a lot of people? I used to keep boxes of jaffa cakes in my first aid box that used to help no idea why I think there was a placebo effect at work I would tell the casualty that this was a cure for seasickness. The other bit of advice I would give if all else fails is to go and sit under a palm tree, never fails to work. I don't think it does any harm to pull up the big boy pants now and then the fact that you were constantly thinking of what lay ahead meant you weren't taking it lightly which is a good thing.
I’ve tried all sorts for sea sickness, truth be told I’ve been fine in worse sea states, I think half of my issue on this trip was mental and the extra stress of the situation likely made me ill, but I was in good spirits all the time, i like to think I am a functional sea sick sailor 🤣😬⛵️
I mostly competed in Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, I just fought MMA once, at the end of my career, to raise money for a local hospice which looked after a couple of friends of mine, who were taken too young. My being a martial arts competitor was a product of growing up red headed in the 80/90’s, on an army estate 🤣😬
@@Tim8mit it really was another life, and truth be told, I’m happy it’s not apparently obvious that I spent much of my adult life in combat sport, as in my face isn’t too messed up and I can still string the odd coherent sentence together 🙏🙏☺️
Carly’s desertion is clearly a cause for strict punishment. The lash seems appropriate but only if you are wearing your leather booties and fishnet stockings Dom. I would have been bricking it if I had to do a single sail😳😳👍
Ha ha, well I'm glad to hear that my nerves weren't too irrational. I feel like we've come on a long way, but still very much in our sailing infancy yet 😁⛵️
I've not been so bad with sea sickness as yet but suffer when I get back to land 😩. Didn't have you down as a fighter but good to hear more about your fighting days actually be good to do a yesteryear video how you met etc., 👍
I grew up as a ginger, civilian kid in the 80/90’s on a military base full of army kids, fighting for me was non optional 😬🤣 There’s more information about mine and Carlys past on our website if you’re interested www.cluelessyachties.com/crew-page
@@barnie8282 ha ha, many of them are my friends, but they were a wild bunch growing up, but looking back, it makes sense now. Many of their dads were vets of Northern Ireland, the Falklands, Iraq 1 etc and were actually away and at war and all that goes with that. There was lots of heavy drinking and people still didn’t really have a grasp on things like PTSD etc, so it totally makes sense that lots of the kids came into school wild and punchy, I guess I just stood out more than most as there weren’t a great deal of red headed civilian children in this school on the army base (I was the only one lol). No one has anything to apologise for, we’re all simply products of our environment and my life has been a wild ride too and taken me all over the world ☺️🙏
@@CadohaAdventures my brother was a redhead brat so knows the score lol. Depends which regiment. The tank regiment are possible the most nutty and are the biggest drinkers and fighters but army life does have effects on everyone. Not all bad though 7 years in Germany was great as a kid just gutted it was never Hong-Kong or Gibraltar as well. Moving round a lot does make you find friendships with the weirdest of people even redheads 😛. Worst part which is the most common is not being able to settle and I think this is the biggest issue among brats. All grown up now though we can find a common interest and have a civil relationship conversation over a beer or coffee regardless or anything else 👍
We just have two iPads and two iPhones all with Navionics loaded up, and of course we also have paper charts too. We don't have a made for purpose chart plotter, we may get one some day, but so far the iPads and paper charts seem to do a good enough job to get us around 😁⛵️
I work in Portland port, its not very magical at the moment. The weather is pretty cold and nasty. I do see the dolphins every day though, and occasionally a seal.
@@CadohaAdventures The two dolphins in your video, are the resident dolphins. They are believed to be mother and calf (obviously grown up calf). In the summer we get a few more following the mackerel. Great videos by the way, keep up the good work. 👍
I cannot remember how many times I have done that passage, and never seen a dolphin how lucky are you. Plenty of exhausted racing pigeons talking a breather on deck or down below. So did you brave the inner passage or clear the race out to sea?
We do seem to get very lucky with the dolphins, that I'll have to admit. No I had no intention of going any closer to the bill than I had to, so as always, I gave it a wide berth 😁⛵️
@@CadohaAdventures Get your timing right and the inner passage quite safe and saves a lot of time. Learn it on a quiet summers day under power and discover its charms for yourself. don't be tempted to sail it until you know it well.
@@davidprocter3578 the main reason I head out to sea is that I enjoy the space I have, should, say the engine die, for example, I have lots of room to figure out a solution. If there’s some other kind of problem, maybe the steering breaks, anything. The risk/ reward proposition of being a stones throw from the rocks just never appealed to me, and I’m not sure it ever will. I think because this is our home now, everything feels so much more high stakes. I know everyone has their challenges they set themselves, but for me, I’m in a boat that goes 7mph (if we’re really lucky) so what’s an extra hour or two on the journey, we’re not rushing anywhere 😬😬⛵️
@@CadohaAdventures Nothing wrong with that the inner passage is without a doubt just like being stuck between a rock and a hard place, We were so worried the first time we tried it we kept far too far out and paid the price. Go through it with one of the local fishermen on a quiet summers morning at the turn of the tide and appreciate it's beauty it is quite something.their boat not yours.
@@CadohaAdventures Ha! Excellent point. Kurt's role as Captain Ron is quite apropos in a sailing context, and one would expect him to be on top of that, assuming he is indeed a Kurt Russell fan. Watch it -- it just might be a ruse of some sort. It's some claim to be a KR fan. Not everyone can make it. You must be up rather early. It's 8:36 pm here (Western Oregon) the night before.
@@larrymiller4 yes I’m up at 5am to go to work on the other side of the country, will be back to the boat between 6-7pm to get back to editing the next video 😬 These 40yr old boats don’t like paying for themselves to be fixed up 🤣⛵️⛵️⛵️
@@larrymiller4 ha ha, well I asked him to just relax whilst I did everything for the sail, as I wanted it to feel more like a solo endeavour. I think it’s safe to say that he took his part of the mission seriously 🤣
I knew you could do this! But it is great to actually see you do this! Very good preparation! You didn't seem to miss a thing! Sorry you didn't have the wind for a nice SAIL! But at least you didn't have any problems. I take it Chris isn't a sailor. You didn't have him standing watch or helping that we saw. Did you say that professionally Carly is a graphic artist? Is there a way to see what work she did? Was Hank solemn trying to hold it in? We've never seen him like that. He was definitely holding you responsible! Check with Carly on this but I remember there being a day signal (a black cone flown vertex point down in the forward rigging triangle) that must be flown when motor sailing. It is to let everyone know that you are now forfeiting your right of way as a "less maneuverable" vessel for engine purposes. There is also a corresponding night light signal for the same condition. I suppose yours are similar since we, here in the colonies, still use your rules. ;)
Ha ha, no jelly wrestling was always a Sunday night special. I competed in so many martial arts throughout my life, perks of growing up ginger in the 80/90’s, you have no choice but to learn how to stick up for yourself 🤣
Multiple factors, yes I wanted to be at the Bill when it was light, I also wanted the tide on my side when I got there (it was spring tides) and lastly I wanted to get into port during daylight hours too. No matter which way I cut it, something had to give, and the lesser of all the evils seemed to be leaving the river Dart in the dead of night, and I won’t lie, as we past the last castle on our starboard side and felt the swell was a little rambunctious, there was a long slow ‘gulp’ before pressing on🥺😬⛵️
@@markbennett9787 yes, I went over the timings so many times trying to work it so that I could leave the dart during daylight hours, but it didn’t stack up. In hindsight, I guess we could have left in the earlier evening, sailed past the lobster pots and then hove too in the bay and waited for the correct time to tackle the bull?
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You may not of had your ships Captain to guide you safely on your voyage, but you made it with only a great cook to support you. You are now England's own, Captain Ron. LOL! Stay groovy and stay safe.
If you get the food right, you’re half way to winning any morale battles aboard, now if only I could have figured out how to hold said food down?! 🤣
Dolphins never get old :-)!
Magic two Guy alone on a sail boat and all goes to plan . Fair winds and have fun .
Always good when a plan comes together, and it was quite the mini adventure for both of us ⛵️😁
@@CadohaAdventures A waiting the Admirals report signed off by the Domestic sea Goddess😀
One of my favourite (light hearted) comments “Everybody wants to be captain until there’s captain sh*t to do!” and now you know! 😂😂 But seriously….awesome job acting Captain, Carly can take more naps now knowing you’ve got the ship 👍🏼💤😂⛵️
Carly can indeed take a load off and I can pop the Captain hat on a little more often, perhaps? It was a good experience but I feel much happier when we're both aboard. How are things with you guys? Last I heard you were making a dash to get out of the EU?
@@CadohaAdventures All good with us cheers. Got lucky being able to stay in Portugal for the winter as they extended everybody due to covid backlogs and, yes, now we are attempting to high tail it across the Med without checking back into the EU until June. Currently in Gibraltar waiting for a weather window to hop (1450 miles!) across to Montenegro. It’s a bit of a worry as we can’t technically enter the EU again until June so if we have any drama it could get interesting around the whole visa issue 😬 Watch this space!! 🤞🏼🤞🏼
Brilliant. This and the sailing brothers best thing on TV
Glad you enjoyed it, Geoff
so sad about Danny the dolphin. great episode.
We were mortified when we heard, as I imagine anyone who ever met him was 😢
Cap'n Ron is a family tradition with us, we watch it every year on our summer cruise and have been doing so for 15 years, great movie and perfect to watch on your yacht.
It is THE best film for life on a boat 😁⛵️
Dom, I saw that you hung your harness tether from the stainless loop on the pedestal, and it's a sensible place - but just in case you didn't know, that tube is only intended to stop the mainsheet taking the compass off during a gybe. It's not a handhold and definitely not a harness attachment point. (An owner was swept off his boat in the '79 Fastnet because that's what he'd hooked himself onto).
Thanks for pointing that out, I only hung it there for quick access to put it on later, we have four actual clip in points that we use in the cockpit and then the life lines if we leave the cockpit, we’ve never clipped onto it, although I’ll admit that I do use it as a hand hold quite often 😳
Safety hint. When brushing your teeth, it should be an up - down motion, not back -forth. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wow. What a treat getting to hear for my first time ever,,, Bon Jovi doing, Bad to the bone.
It was great seeing you out single handed without sleep. Glad dolphins are back to enhance the experience
Glad you enjoyed it, Tom, although between you and I, I wish I’d managed to get some sleep before hand 😆
Aha spotted that pack of prawns..the investigation continues
That was Chris bringing food to the boat to ‘pay his way’. He didn’t know about our fish amnesty 😬😳
Great vid and competent story telling.😀👍⛵️
Honestly, I think Portland is a special place - touches the soul 💫
It’s certainly a unique place, and I’m so glad we saw those dolphins in the harbour, it was the icing on the cake 🙏
Nice one Dom, you had that trip sorted, pity about being a bit icky but you arrived safe and the dolphins lead you in. Andy UK
Thanks, Andy, if I had to do it all over again I’d probably leave Dartmouth in the light and heave too in the bay to get a fair tide for the Bill, which I think would be safer overall and would be a good chance to practice heaving too with some space, but it all worked out 😁🙏
Used to love rounding the bill in the other direction and getting a slingshot down to Salcombe for a long weekend.
Yes agreed, going the other way is far more exciting 😁😁😁
I’ve just been watching some of your videos recently to brave some heat exchanger work on Cadoha. Ended up being a mix of three channels to figure it all out for our specific model 😁😁👌🏼
Hope you guys are doing good? 👌🏼⛵️
There is some nice editing going on here. Tiny hints of a few frames here and there. I like it! It feels personal, and that gives strength 💪
I hope it gave a more ‘behind the scenes’ feeling for what it was like do go on this mini adventure 🙏⛵️
Great work on the solo mission, really enjoyed it and looking forward to seeing the next installment!
We can’t wait to get back out there filming all of these amazing spots again too 🙏😁
Nice job and good experience - you can almost read a dogs mind by his eye brows - " quit flapping your jaws - no time for high fives I have to go NOW!!!! "
Ha ha, you're right, and Hank especially communicates very well with his facial expressions, more often than not, the look, is one of judgement 😂
Portland was the base for my first ship in the Royal Navy in 1964/5 H.M.S. Aurora.
To me as a junior seaman, it was a cold wind blown desolate place where only war ships were allowed.
I have not lived it England for fifty years. I got smart and now live in Australia but believe the Navy Has not the same influence that it once had there. I remember it was usually force 9/10 or flat calm and I only saw it calm two times!
That's funny, I just watched Captain Ron last weekend, too 😅....for the first time 😊
Way to go brother!
Thanks, Donald 🙏😁⛵️
Love it. A Merlin flypast is always a bonus on the Dart.
Is that what it was? Either way, a very impressive bit of kit to say the least!
@@CadohaAdventures Yep, either Royal Navy Mk2 or Mk4 Merlin. Essentially replaced Sea King some years ago.
Back in the day RN aviators would occasionally fly the same flight path along the Dart at a similar altitude in the Sea Harrier. Noisy is an understatement.
Nice planning and telling of your role as a captain Dom! 👍
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video. Hope you're keeping well, Matey! ⛵️😁🙏🏻
Magnificent, well done Dom. Beautiful initial videography.
Thanks Mark, thanks for jumping in the comments and sharing your thoughts. Appreciate it 🙏😁
I was amazed that you was a MMA fighter never had you down for that fair play son new sub here I initially thought you was a posh boy son Eton that kinda fella :)
I mean I do make every effort to pronounce my T’s, and my mother would have loved for me to of attended Eton, but she was a cleaner and my Dad built garden fences for a living, so it was a little out of our families price range.
Don’t get me wrong, my parents both worked their respective jobs so hard that my brother and I wanted for nothing, and compared to the kids on the army estate we grew up on, I guess it’d be fair to say we felt like rich kids, but it was a wild and punchy housing estate and if you’re the ginger ‘rich kid’ on the estate, you better learn how to stick up for yourself.
After one too many bloody noses at school, it was actually my parents who first got me into martial arts training (karate to start off with) when I was 7 or 8, as I got older I eventually transitioned into Muay Thai and I ended up living in Thailand, where I trained and fought, then after that I discovered Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which I trained and competed in for another 12 years, until my body just started to give up on me.
As for the ‘MMA’ I only ever did it once, near the end of my martial arts career, and I did it for charity to raise money for a local hospice, which looked after a couple of people I knew who were taken far too young. The vast majority of my martial arts career was actually wrestling in pyjamas 😬😬😬 (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu), not quite as hardcore 😆.
@@CadohaAdventures Excellent fella and I should of known better at my age to never judge a book by its cover and I fully understand what you mean about being the ginger on the estate as my older brother by 2 years was ginger and by god he loved to fight esp fighting me :)
Brilliant Video. Thanks for posting. Great that you took al lot of time to carefully consider your passage plan and to properly secure and check the boat beforehand. Looking forward to the next episode and your safe return to your home port for the winter.
I must have triple checked everything. The responsibility for the boat and Chris felt immense. Thankfully all went fairly smoothly 🙏😁⛵️
Brilliant episode!
Glad you enjoyed it, Kevin 😁
Nice to see the River Dart showcased in all its glory despite the weather! Bought and renovated my first yacht in Portland before sailing her to Noss Marina so an awesome episode for me. Cheers guys
It’s a beautiful place for sure, and will forever hold a spot in our hearts ♥️
Great to see you on the helm Dom. Good preparation makes for an easier passage. I bet it felt strange without your Captain and 1st Mate missing though? Good work
lol, look out for swimmers.....I have a friend who does wild swimming around that area (lives in Weymouth)
the more you prepare the better you get.
Great job!
Glad you enjoyed it 🙏⛵️
Have you tried ginger for seasickness it seems to work for a lot of people? I used to keep boxes of jaffa cakes in my first aid box that used to help no idea why I think there was a placebo effect at work I would tell the casualty that this was a cure for seasickness. The other bit of advice I would give if all else fails is to go and sit under a palm tree, never fails to work.
I don't think it does any harm to pull up the big boy pants now and then the fact that you were constantly thinking of what lay ahead meant you weren't taking it lightly which is a good thing.
I’ve tried all sorts for sea sickness, truth be told I’ve been fine in worse sea states, I think half of my issue on this trip was mental and the extra stress of the situation likely made me ill, but I was in good spirits all the time, i like to think I am a functional sea sick sailor 🤣😬⛵️
Don't think good ole Hank was too enthusiastic about going to shore
He absolutely hates the rain. Light drizzle he's ok with, but a heavy downpour and he doesn't want to so much as step foot outside 😂
@@CadohaAdventures never said Hank was dumb !!
Well done I live in Weymouth next time you are in the area would like to buy you a beer.great video as always
Dom you did mixed marshal arts fighting???? Wow
I mostly competed in Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, I just fought MMA once, at the end of my career, to raise money for a local hospice which looked after a couple of friends of mine, who were taken too young.
My being a martial arts competitor was a product of growing up red headed in the 80/90’s, on an army estate 🤣😬
@@CadohaAdventures cool, another dimension to your personality, I wouldn't have ever guessed that you did that
@@Tim8mit it really was another life, and truth be told, I’m happy it’s not apparently obvious that I spent much of my adult life in combat sport, as in my face isn’t too messed up and I can still string the odd coherent sentence together 🙏🙏☺️
Carly’s desertion is clearly a cause for strict punishment. The lash seems appropriate but only if you are wearing your leather booties and fishnet stockings Dom. I would have been bricking it if I had to do a single sail😳😳👍
Ha ha, well I'm glad to hear that my nerves weren't too irrational. I feel like we've come on a long way, but still very much in our sailing infancy yet 😁⛵️
I've not been so bad with sea sickness as yet but suffer when I get back to land 😩. Didn't have you down as a fighter but good to hear more about your fighting days actually be good to do a yesteryear video how you met etc., 👍
I grew up as a ginger, civilian kid in the 80/90’s on a military base full of army kids, fighting for me was non optional 😬🤣
There’s more information about mine and Carlys past on our website if you’re interested www.cluelessyachties.com/crew-page
@@CadohaAdventures I was a army brat so if we crossed paths I do apologise 😬🤣. Cheers for the link.
@@barnie8282 ha ha, many of them are my friends, but they were a wild bunch growing up, but looking back, it makes sense now. Many of their dads were vets of Northern Ireland, the Falklands, Iraq 1 etc and were actually away and at war and all that goes with that. There was lots of heavy drinking and people still didn’t really have a grasp on things like PTSD etc, so it totally makes sense that lots of the kids came into school wild and punchy, I guess I just stood out more than most as there weren’t a great deal of red headed civilian children in this school on the army base (I was the only one lol).
No one has anything to apologise for, we’re all simply products of our environment and my life has been a wild ride too and taken me all over the world ☺️🙏
@@CadohaAdventures my brother was a redhead brat so knows the score lol. Depends which regiment. The tank regiment are possible the most nutty and are the biggest drinkers and fighters but army life does have effects on everyone. Not all bad though 7 years in Germany was great as a kid just gutted it was never Hong-Kong or Gibraltar as well. Moving round a lot does make you find friendships with the weirdest of people even redheads 😛. Worst part which is the most common is not being able to settle and I think this is the biggest issue among brats.
All grown up now though we can find a common interest and have a civil relationship conversation over a beer or coffee regardless or anything else 👍
Ahoy Cadoha. Where did you get hanks red and black suit from? Keep up the great work. Matt Sarah and Basil
Hey guys, I think we got that jacket from Trespass who have a range of clothes called 'Trespaws'. Give that a go? 😁👌🏻🐾🐾🐾
Hi Great series Guys. I see you use Navionics but what tablets do you Navigate on? Would you buy the same again? TIA.
We just have two iPads and two iPhones all with Navionics loaded up, and of course we also have paper charts too. We don't have a made for purpose chart plotter, we may get one some day, but so far the iPads and paper charts seem to do a good enough job to get us around 😁⛵️
I work in Portland port, its not very magical at the moment. The weather is pretty cold and nasty. I do see the dolphins every day though, and occasionally a seal.
I’m so glad to hear the dolphins are still around, is it mostly the large bottle nose species and do you see them in the marina, chasing the mullet?
@@CadohaAdventures The two dolphins in your video, are the resident dolphins. They are believed to be mother and calf (obviously grown up calf). In the summer we get a few more following the mackerel. Great videos by the way, keep up the good work. 👍
@@jamieallport7106 awesome, great to know they’re still there 🙏⛵️
Glad you enjoyed the video 😁
I cannot remember how many times I have done that passage, and never seen a dolphin how lucky are you. Plenty of exhausted racing pigeons talking a breather on deck or down below. So did you brave the inner passage or clear the race out to sea?
We do seem to get very lucky with the dolphins, that I'll have to admit. No I had no intention of going any closer to the bill than I had to, so as always, I gave it a wide berth 😁⛵️
@@CadohaAdventures Get your timing right and the inner passage quite safe and saves a lot of time. Learn it on a quiet summers day under power and discover its charms for yourself. don't be tempted to sail it until you know it well.
@@davidprocter3578 the main reason I head out to sea is that I enjoy the space I have, should, say the engine die, for example, I have lots of room to figure out a solution. If there’s some other kind of problem, maybe the steering breaks, anything. The risk/ reward proposition of being a stones throw from the rocks just never appealed to me, and I’m not sure it ever will. I think because this is our home now, everything feels so much more high stakes. I know everyone has their challenges they set themselves, but for me, I’m in a boat that goes 7mph (if we’re really lucky) so what’s an extra hour or two on the journey, we’re not rushing anywhere 😬😬⛵️
@@CadohaAdventures Nothing wrong with that the inner passage is without a doubt just like being stuck between a rock and a hard place, We were so worried the first time we tried it we kept far too far out and paid the price. Go through it with one of the local fishermen on a quiet summers morning at the turn of the tide and appreciate it's beauty it is quite something.their boat not yours.
@@davidprocter3578 now that does sound more up my street 😁🙏⛵️
I lived with you for 4 years and I never knew you were a fighter Dom?
It was another life, I had already become a pacifist by the time I met you. 🙏
Are you kiddin' me? Chris is a Kurt Russell fan? Alas! Not many of us left.
I raised an eyebrow when he said he was a huge Kurt Russell fan and had never even heard of ‘Captain Ron’ 😳
@@CadohaAdventures Ha! Excellent point. Kurt's role as Captain Ron is quite apropos in a sailing context, and one would expect him to be on top of that, assuming he is indeed a Kurt Russell fan. Watch it -- it just might be a ruse of some sort. It's some claim to be a KR fan. Not everyone can make it.
You must be up rather early. It's 8:36 pm here (Western Oregon) the night before.
Well, early for me. KR fans are notoriously late risers, and apparently Chris is no exception.
@@larrymiller4 yes I’m up at 5am to go to work on the other side of the country, will be back to the boat between 6-7pm to get back to editing the next video 😬
These 40yr old boats don’t like paying for themselves to be fixed up 🤣⛵️⛵️⛵️
@@larrymiller4 ha ha, well I asked him to just relax whilst I did everything for the sail, as I wanted it to feel more like a solo endeavour. I think it’s safe to say that he took his part of the mission seriously 🤣
I knew you could do this! But it is great to actually see you do this! Very good preparation! You didn't seem to miss a thing! Sorry you didn't have the wind for a nice SAIL! But at least you didn't have any problems. I take it Chris isn't a sailor. You didn't have him standing watch or helping that we saw. Did you say that professionally Carly is a graphic artist? Is there a way to see what work she did? Was Hank solemn trying to hold it in? We've never seen him like that. He was definitely holding you responsible!
Check with Carly on this but I remember there being a day signal (a black cone flown vertex point down in the forward rigging triangle) that must be flown when motor sailing. It is to let everyone know that you are now forfeiting your right of way as a "less maneuverable" vessel for engine purposes. There is also a corresponding night light signal for the same condition. I suppose yours are similar since we, here in the colonies, still use your rules. ;)
Carly is missed on this episode. She adds a tremendous amount.
She certainly does ☺️👌🏼⛵️
Hi, your fuel didn’t look great, maybe some diesel bug?
Yes it was indeed 🥺
And that was after we cleaned the tanks out only a few months earlier 😢
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Thanks for the feedback, Stephen 🙏😁
My lovely girlfriend says Hank dresses better than me 😳😂
He’s a dapper lad 😬🐶
@@CadohaAdventures He’s certainly more dapper than me 🤔 Loving all the videos and the camera work is outstanding 👏👏👏
Wow didn’t realise that you used to compete. It was a bit hard to see what you did was it jelly wrestling?
Ha ha, no jelly wrestling was always a Sunday night special. I competed in so many martial arts throughout my life, perks of growing up ginger in the 80/90’s, you have no choice but to learn how to stick up for yourself 🤣
no more hank for me
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Did you opt to cross Lyme Bay at night because you wanted to arrive at the Bill in daylight ?
Multiple factors, yes I wanted to be at the Bill when it was light, I also wanted the tide on my side when I got there (it was spring tides) and lastly I wanted to get into port during daylight hours too. No matter which way I cut it, something had to give, and the lesser of all the evils seemed to be leaving the river Dart in the dead of night, and I won’t lie, as we past the last castle on our starboard side and felt the swell was a little rambunctious, there was a long slow ‘gulp’ before pressing on🥺😬⛵️
@@CadohaAdventures I fully understand your trepidation, I’ve done the trip many times and timing at the Bill, especially at springs, is crucial.
@@markbennett9787 yes, I went over the timings so many times trying to work it so that I could leave the dart during daylight hours, but it didn’t stack up. In hindsight, I guess we could have left in the earlier evening, sailed past the lobster pots and then hove too in the bay and waited for the correct time to tackle the bull?
How does one pay you guys a rum and bank dog treats Marty Australia
If someone is so inclined then there is a ‘Rum button’ on our website here: www.cluelessyachties.com ☺️♥️