Playing Tourist with the Parents (EP 5 - Monday Never Sailing)
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- We get our first visitors! Cat's parents come down to spend a week bopping around the BVIs. They make sure we are safe and well-fed. Once they leave, then it's back to the grind at Nanny Cay as we make out dingy outboard cover look rad and prepare to leave the Virgins. We also spend a few nights in the USVIs where we go hunting for some dinner.
Check out our blog: www.mondaynever... or our FB page: / mondaynever to follow us on our misadventures
Stuff a pillow , a cushion, or a rolled up towel behind that door that is driving you crazy. Just wedge it in so the door can't move. Great videos! Thanks for sharing! Good Luck!
8:15 "They're not huge, but they're ours." Such a great attitude -- when you are in Paradise, few other things matter!
Hey, I think your motor cover turned out great! You should be able to find that no matter how much you had to drink!!! Great job on the video!
+Lo Kee Thanks Lo Kee! We just added a glow in the dark over-coat. Now there will really be no excuse if we lose it :)
As Wicked Salty said, your dingy motor should be ugly and sketchy looking so no one will want to steal it.
+John Lampe Exactly! Unique = unstealable. I've known this about my guitars for years :)
You guys rock. My wife and I actually binged 1 - 5. You, Delos and Vagabonde are becoming our favorites. BTW - the door hitting the wall/latch cracked us up - funny! Safe travels.
Yes, my list of favorites is just as yours.. also, check out Wicked Salty, they're adventures are just as amazing!
Thanks for sharing. Makes me dream of next spring for my relaunch. Keep them coming to help us trailer sailors get through the winter.
Mike
You two have great energy! Thanks for sharing your adventures with us. Looking forward to more vids.
Great video! We've been living aboard our boat for about 5 months and we are headed off to Cuba and the Bahamas in a couple weeks. We currently have a MY but we plan to sell it after this season and get a monohull. Nice to see others cutting the lines!
Awesome video - thanks for sharing. The night sleep issue - wow very real look at sailing. Actually all of your videos have been a very real and honest look at the process. It's really great to see.
+Joe Radman Thanks Joe! We're trying to show some of the lows with all of the immense highs
+Monday Never As for that annoying door, (If you're familiar with Bristle Blocks,), Bristle Blocks work like a heavy duty variation of Velcro. Pearson Yachts used them on some of their boats, and they worked like a champ. BTW do you have harnesses, and tethers on the boat? looking forward to your next video.
Love the door scene, could totally feel your pain! Endless noises out on the water but you certainly don'y need that one.
Great stuff guys.
Super fun watching you guys. Very good reality sailing show. Love it!
Okay. Gotta comment! I laughed so hard with your filming technique of the annoying latch on the door. Ha ha ha. I had the same problem. What a pain in the eardrums! I finally places a rag between the door and the object it was latched to so dampen the knocking sound. Gosh! What a relief!
Love your videos, we live through you guys, and we also love the BVI.
Excellent!
And I am the same way with those types of noises. The struggle is real!!
I spent several years in the vi, from experience that nicely painted motor is a goner for sure! good luck! keep the videos coming
hahaha, at 7:45, you were talking about sleep and the guy looks up with a deer in the headlights look and says with complete confidence "i feel great now". I just about died laughing.
I hope you guys got some sleep. Really enjoyed watching your first couple of vids. Keep them coming.
Great stuff! Love the post, keep them coming. I'm hooked!
Good vid. Easy fix for the door latch. Roll up a piece of paper and stuff it in the loop of the latch on the wall. It will keep the door latch from making that sound. Also, look at wind charts before you decide to drop hook. Being on the leeward side of the island may provide better protection from the wind and thus a better night. The paint job looked awesome btw!
Hey guys, great to see another young couple following a dream, living life for adventures, experiences shared etc, rather than a land locked life of stuff and commitments. You guys kind of remind me of the Aussie couple Riely and Elyana on La Vagabonde. Enjoy, projects are for sure just a part of the life of the sea. Out of curiosity can you give some details of your boat.
I look forward to changing my life from work, commitments and stuff and likewise embarking on my sail journey. Fair winds
Love the outboard cover! that latch reminds me of the wires in my mast they do the same thing drive you nuts.
Enjoying your videos! You're about two years ahead of me in your endeavors. If you find yourselves up in the Chesapeake we'll go fishing!!
That Cover you Painted looks Great. You should be proud. You may want to Seal it so it last longer. You Guys are great. So glad I found you. :) Terry
Thank you for the great videos.
Love it! Can't wait for next episode. Fair winds!
Its very enjoying to watch your" up and downs" of learning about boating and the ocean! I rarely comment on videos but I just had to on yours. Nice job on catching some lobster! When it comes to cooking the tails its much better to split them in half and cook them that way. Shell side down lets them cooking their juices. Much more even cook and the outside meat doesn't get chewy! Break off one of the antennae and stick it up the pooper and pull it out to remove the waste trail after wringing the lobster. Some grat meat in the heads on the bigger ones also.
Also glad to see you guys seem to be slowing down a bit from the city life attitude and getting into the laid back island life! Every video you seem more relaxed. If you make it up to the bahamas you will really get this point.
You can get the best sleep of your life on a boat or none at all. Both are great! For me the best feeling in life is being far out to sea with no land in sight. If the ocean is alive its even better.
You guys should check out this couple. Sailing la vagabonde. You guys seem like opposites but boating and a life on the ocean brings all together. ruclips.net/channel/UCZdQjaSoLjIzFnWsDQOv4ww
Learn to fish also. The ocean provides great meals.
Good luck with the journey!
+Jonathan Kaany Hey Jonathan - thanks for the kind words! Your tip on the lobster is much appreciated too. We realized we kinda messed up on our first grilling attempt, but it was still delicious. We'll try it your way next time. We LOVE La Vaga! They and the Delos crew definitely provided a lot of inspiration for us as we were dreaming about this trip. And yes, fishing is definitely next! A pretty steep learning curve there, but I'm sure we'll get it at some point. Cheers - Cat & Will
+Monday Never - For just the tails its best to make a bowl out of tin foil to keep the juices from leaking out. Add a little butter also. You can also cut the whole lobster straight down the middle then clean out the guts and grill them that way while basting them with butter also. On a grill I put the top on to crisp up the the top side. I'm sure you can google many ways. If you want to do the tails whole steaming or boiling is the best. This is how I normally cook the tails. I like the way they taste with just butter so I rarely add seasoning. You can google many other ways to cook them.
la vaga just posted a e-book or you can buy the hard copy for $7 bucks with the lessons they've learned. No I don't work for them. lol.I wish i did something like this years ago but I can't complain as I've spent my life on boats and countless months spent fishing and diving in the bahamas.
As for the fishing I can help you out with some tips when the time comes. Right now I'm sure learning to sail is more of a concern.
Also both of you should learn to run to the boat by yourselves. Also during night sails it never hurts to keep a glow stick in your pocket in case one of you falls over board. Hopefully that never happens but hitting the man overboard on the gps and circling back to find someone holding up a glow stick in the dark is much easier than looking for a dark head bobbing around in the waves. If you post videos on rough seas without a life jacket on and a safety harness they'll eat you alive like they do Riley not wearing anything during rough seas.
Well I've rambled on enough for now.
Thanks for a great video of some good times. I also like how you are not afraid to show the problems you encounter.
Would y'all consider taking on a couple of paying, repair helping passengers for a week or two?
All the Best, and Safe Travels
Feel for you in the sleep department...videos are getting better and better. Fair winds! Cheers, Ted
Another great one about having too much fun! :)
The bit about the door latch (at 7:01) had me laughing out loud, for real. Oh, the irony!
You never showed us the unwrapping-the-mooring-ball-rode operation. When Cat showed up on deck I thought you were both going over to untangle it!
+DianaOfBurlington Hey Diana - Missed opportunity indeed! Will and I were on mooring ball untangling shifts all night. I took that clip after I had freed us and didn't think to capture the process. But rest-assured, I'm sure we will get caught on many more mooring balls in the future :)
Awesome dingy motor cover!
awesome video. . keep them coming. safe travels.
Hey,
You guys are great, living your dream, but also mine:))
"Never Monday"why did't I think of that??
Happy sailing Greetings from Sweden
big thumbs up for the dingy beautyness :)
Really cool keep us updated.
Nice video. Up here in New England waters our lobsters have claws that could break your hand. Also illegal up here to use any snaring device. I feel your pain with the door or random noises on the boat. You get use to some of them, but some have to be fixed.
Easy solution would be to close the door... #justsayin Great video, binge watched them all at once :) Keep having fun!
Growing up in the Virgin Islands, I learned the sailing is always better on the windward side of the Islands, and the sleeping is always better on the leeward side
Awesome videos!!! +1 on the towel trick. It works well.
Hey guys, lovin the videos. I'll pass on suggestions for fixing the door lol. Keep up the videos your doin a good job. As someone else said. It's time for a boat tour.
you did great on the motor cover!
you could just put a piece of cloth on the ring that holds that door open, plus you could of just went on land for the night lol, btw to make it much much cooler in your boat you should get an air multiplyer instead of a fan, they are amazing
you guys are fun :)
+Sailing Uma Thanks Sailing Uma! Congrats on successfully getting your boat in the water :) Feels good, I bet. We've been following you all along on your adventure. You two are braver than we are - great job on your boat so far!!!
+Monday Never brave... maybe; Poor... definitely; but Mega rich in interesting experience and fun times HA. But now the really fun part will be to actually get outta here and do less of that brave fun-ish stuff we kept getting oursleves into. Who knows, maybe relatively soon we'll be in your area and we can share wakes and empty some good wine bottles. do I hear a whoopwhoop? :D
Personally I loved the outboard cover... It's so personal... Those lobsters on the BBQ looked so tasty...
Roley anchorage in the Caribbean or calm anchorage in cold Sweden, I know which I'd prefer.!
Fair winds
Warren
s/y Legend
You guys should try and make it to Anegada, take a nap on the hammocks at Loblolly Bay. The most beautiful place I have ever been.
Happy Thanksgiving Monday Never!
Great vid guys Just be careful towing your tender, they can easily flip over then your outboard is f**ked also slows you down.
Red Hook ah yeah Duffy's, Caribbean Saloon, Molly Malones and the Food Center market across from the boatyard that sold anything that could be stewed
great video guys,im jealous keep them coming ,paul
lol !! gotta love those latches ;)P they will literaly drive you nuts...i snapped out and cut a piece of cloth, and jammed it in there :)
"these latches....made by smart marine engineers...Im gonna lose my fuckin mind" - so funny. i shit.
Lobster tail with some nice cheese-basil ravioli in a tomato sauce👍😆.
Look up Magnetic doorstop on Amazon. That would drive me crazy too.Great videos guys Keep them coming.
Not all fun and games good to see that
hello we went to the same boat show lol. love the videos. we are looking at a catermeran mono hulls move around to much. I know cats are not as fast but hey this is going to be our home. keep the videos going!
+Thadeus Moor If we had those catamaran dollas that's what we'd be on, even if they do look like a Maytag fridge with a mast.
I understand I've been saving as much as possible. The house will buy the boat. I hope! We the people out here love to see the ups and downs what we can expect of living on a boat the good the bad and ugly. We don't just want to see all the fun. You guys are great. Please keep it up we will be out there soon.
Great video
I think I'd throw a shirt, towel or something behind the door to keep it from moving and making noise.
Hey! First comment! Nice tack. I have a similar problem with my fridge. Some of them just dump to the bilge. Never seen one pump before. What you are pointing to is the foot pump? Mine is plumbed into the sink overboard. Therefore there is always two or three inches of not-so-wholesome water in the bottom. I just about cut it the other day but talked myself out of it.
leave door latched on the hook and puit towel wedged between wall and back of door...keep hook taught
some of that masking tape on both parts of the door hardware would work, going to loose some bling, but shouldnt hear anything anymore, love the videos
Im enjoying these vids guys! keep it up Im so inspired to sail (High Five)
If you got room in the boat maybe some travel hammocks would help on those rocky nights?
+ben We've got hammocks but they'd get a gnarly momentum in the rolly anchorages.
hey, dont knock the artwork. its "you", its who you are, its what you created, its unique, and it looks good. very colorful lol, people wont have any issues seeing you on the water. also thanks for pointing out the door knocking issue, i was wondering why my door you had to push so hard to get it to latch, they did that so that it had pressure on it and wouldnt do what your door is doing now. thanks for the insightful information, and good luck with your journey. hope to meet you on the water some day
Put of a small pillow between door and wall. Any cushion will do.
Have just started watching your channel. Great video's......You would make a great Chevy Chase double (young version of course) :)
time for a boat tour i think ;)
+Brook Reimer I second this. Full boat tour. Work done so far, work pending, along with the sketchy shit and little victories in detail.
Looking forward to a Cuba video ;)
Engine cover looks way cool... Take the dink out of the water and you will move so much faster..
Motor cover logo looks awesome...color scheme made me dizzy! When you're done sailing you can have a future with the highway dept. 🚧🚧 Oh! And I have never been a fan of hook & loop door catches. im a rubber bumper and bungee guy ⚓
I should state for the record that we do, in fact, have solutions for the clacking of the door latch (closing the door or jamming a towel in between). This was just an observation of both the nature of perpetual motion and poorly thought out engineering.
+Monday Never You could also just use an expanding spray foam to fill both eyelets, smooth it out then put the proper sized holes through them as a more permanent solution.
Come to think of it, you could even do something as simple as wrapping the hook in tape.
+Monday Never Hahahaha, I had a good laugh at your door slowly driving you nuts. The first night I spent the night out in our boat, the wind picked up and our hank on track started clanking through the night.....drove me nuts!!!
+Monday Never haha i know your pain. The door to the head on my Benteau does that when the dam thing is shut! Drives me insane. Stuffing card board in the opening and slamming the door shut fixes it. I need to get those bumpers for kitchen cabinet doors.
+Monday Never;
Stuff a throw pillow/towel/throwable PFD between the door and the engine hatch.
I just found your videos. Please keep them coming!
+Monday Never We stuff earplugs in our latches. They expand and no more noise... NIce videos. Cheers.
good times 😎
Yall are doing great.. I love watching the excitement in you two.. Get a patron account I would be happy to donate a few bucks per episode
*.... Ep. 6 - Selling the boat*
j/k :p
+antred11 Don't, ever!
your art is good
Re the latch just wedge a cushion behind the door.
Get some FUEL tubbing of some type and wrap it on to the hook part of that door latch, the rubber should quiet that down. I have watched all your videos, i really want to learn how to sail, i would so love to do this. Cheers. I have SUBBED.
lol - "i am going to lose my f'n mind"
Fun video!! Question is the lobster snare a DIY project or did you buy them? cheers
+gerry pearce We bought them at a fishing shop in Red Hook, but they would be very easy to make with some PVC tubing and caps, heavy test line, and crimps. Finding th tubing would have been a pain for us so we just forked over the $20.
Nice viedos, seen all 6 and sub.
Make some flopper stoppers
omeomy doing it wow
We love following your journeys and we've watched you for a long time, every episode. You inspired us to sell everything we owned and move abroad our boat (with our kids and large german shepherd). We had a house in Austin and we sold it all to move aboard our boat. It was all we had, a 37' motor yacht and we used our boat to go 1300 miles so far. Texas to Key West. In a couple weeks we are off to Cuba and the Bahamas. ruclips.net/video/-QpAMvKhFzU/видео.html
We will be selling her this year after the season and transitioning to a larger monohull sailboat. Thanks for the great videos!
Did you all ever consider doing a "Survey" and or "Sea Trial" prior to purchasing the boat ??
+LIX 59 we had a survey done and also access to the survey from the previous owner (less than a year prior). Our broker was also great and took tons of pictures for us.
Just seemed after watching the video you had several items in need of repair that I thought would have been flagged by the surveyor...
Well... unfortunately, that's boats. There's always something to fix :) And for our budget we actually had to fix surprisingly little
"I'm gonna go fuckin go crazy"
-go
I am going to lose my fucking mind lol 7:37
stuff a sock between the door and the wall.
LOL 8:01 Laura Croft. :)
stick a towel inbetween the door and wall, stop the clicking!!! :)
SORRY
MondayNever it is!
where did you guys get the boat?
+Joe Kleinberg We bought the boat in the BVIs
+Monday Never
I'd love to do what you guys are doing. Did you already know how to sail?
i saw your part about the door hinge. I have an untested idea... what about a mini gas strut? As an example: www.indgassprings.com/micro-gas-spring.html
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I was going to subscribe to your videos but your language is not what we want our children to hear when we sit down and watch our videos.
+Perry McDonald Hey Perry, sorry to hear that, but we're trying to capture a bit of the reality of sailing (or life?), and frustration and the language that comes with it is part of that. Hope you understand!
+Monday Never I started watching at the beginning and by part 4 I was subbed. And it wasn't so much that you dropped that F-Bomb, but precisely how you said it, that ensured I will be watching each new episode as soon as they're up. Keep that shit salty, you guys are too much fun.