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Thank you 👍🏻

Thank you so much Jim ☺️

@@sailingonadream you are doing all the work, I'm just another Happy consumer xxx Keep sailing, I certainly miss it xxx

I LEARNED to love sailing, but you only have one Mum. I LOVE mine. She gave up everything she loved to raise us as a family and now it's pay back time. I hope that I will sail again, but I LOVE my mother more. She needs me more. She gave me EVERYTHING at great cost to everything she would rather be doing. We're Fine. And I don't need to sail, when I have you and TH-cam xxx Keep posting our most handsome. I love your video's xxx

Keep being more Spectacular than ALL of Us. YOU are doing it, Ferkwits slag you off. I miss it, but with family ties. I LOVE your video's and hope that you keep posting. I enjoy them, Handsome xxx

I love your video's. I love that you are still sailing. Qw should marry and scuba 2 days per week. But we should consider marry.

I transmit the NMEA AIS data over Wi-Fi and display it in navionics on my tablet, which has built in configurable alarms. Also transmit the depth and wind so they can be displayed as well.

@@sailingonadream thanks for.that!

@@jonscott8586 I serve chesse toasties. Because I CAN.

Did I say Dartford? 😂 Dartmouth is what I meant 😂

Nice video but what happend at the last 8 minutes? I really like your videos!

Thank you ☺️ Hope all is good with you.

Had my first camping trip with Willow and it made me think of you in the’ Wild’ 😉

@lynparry4297 hardly in the wild… living in a luxury boat isn’t quite like camping 😂 Hope you had fun though. Where were you camping?

@sailingonadream swanage

Are you down the south coast?

Reason I started doing this is that for a whole week the inshore forecast was wrong, saying northerly’s when we had southerly’s. That’s what gave me the idea. We shall see 😂

Was lovely to get to spend some time with you guys again, and make some more memories 😅 and the Anchor Stone anchorage is really beautiful, one of my faves too.

I have storm sails, she is Solent rigged. Have only needed to use them on one occasion so far, as I prefer not to go sailing in those conditions. Haven’t had a freezer for almost three years and haven’t missed it once.

Not sure if it’s climate change but the issue is really just with the inshore forecast, the met office do a great job of the over land forecasts. A lot of the issue is down to topography of the coastline. The west coast UK has more coastline than the eastern seaboard of the US. There’s so many islands and coves it’s probably very difficult to forecast. However, even when miles from shore, where the wind is consistent, they somehow get it wrong. Often by up to 180 degrees. 😅

I was timing it to get the east bound Todd over the top and the charts said there would be hardly anything against me. Plus I had wind to sail and there wasn’t going to be any wind for the next few days.

@@sailingonadream ok,then I understand,sometimes we are the hostages off the weather,tide,etc,that’s why I always laugh when people say,sailing is freedom….. I never had to watch the clock in my working life untill i set sail……🙈

@guidouytterhaegen you just need to throw your plans away and go where the wind takes you 🤟🏻

Thank you Richie. Yes I do most of the time, although if the wind is light it can’t cope.

Haha it was great and so was the hangover 😂

I’ll be interested to see how things pan out over the course of the season. I agree though, it probably is a difficult area to forecast for, and the met office do a great job with forecasting weather over land, it’s that 12 miles offshore bit that seems to cause them problems. The sound issues were down to me not paying enough attention to recording speech out of the wind. A small oversight on my part 😂

May the great game commence, and review the tally in September

Hi Richie, thanks, it’s great to be out and about again. I’m having a break from big adventures this summer and traveling round from festival to festival this season. Currently at Dartford Music Festival. It’s nice to not have the pressure of having to move every day. The wind displays are via an app called NMEAremote and a little box of tricks that broadcasts my NMEA data over the boat Wi-Fi. Also get depth displayed directly in navionics and AIS displayed in navionics via an app called Boat Beacon. One of the best and simplest upgrades I have made to be honest.

@@sailingonadream many thanks just installed the PredictWind hub thingy so should work with your aps. All the NMEA is broadcasting. Festivals sounds like a good run. Safe watch

Thanks 👍 great to be out there again 😁

Yes it’s 110% and she sails really well. When I balance the sails properly she will stay on a heading without the autopilot on as long as the seas aren’t too big which is really handy. I have a cruising chute as well for light winds, but it’s such a faff to get up I don’t use it often.

@@sailingonadream thanks for that confirmation. I was interested because you have put some good miles on the heady and coped well in a variety of conditions. As a primarily solo sailor, I have been thinking this might a perfect size for me as I am getting on a bit. Initial trials indicate this is likely but I await a decent 12-20 kt day to put it to test. Enjoy your new seasons sailing. I’ll be watching with interest. Best.

No, just dirty. I wouldn’t recommend buying a light coloured one, after a few years it won’t look good any more. I have died it black now.

Awesome! Do say hi to Helen in the marina office for me 😁 What’s your plan, blast all the way in one go with crew, or have a little solo adventure on the way up, or something inbetween?

If you have calm conditions, visiting the puffins on Skomer is a must, they will be arriving to breed right now. If it’s not calm don’t cut through the sounds off St David, stick to deep water and avoid the overfalls, I went through there year before last in F8/9 and it was punishing, there’s a video if it, the dark side of boat life I think. Don’t forget cardigan bay is a firing range, so check for no go areas. Ynys Llanddwyn is a beautiful anchorage, highly recommended. From there you have the choice of the straits transit or round the outside of Anglesey. The straits require impeccable timing to transit the swellies, but it’s great fun and good navigation practice. Worth it for the experience.

Thank you so much 😀 That means a lot to me. The videos will be starting again very soon, now that winter is coming to a close, the boat is almost ready to go back in the water and start the new sailing season and a new adventure!

Wow, thank you Hugh! Slightly gentler season this year, Scillies, Channel Islands and Brittany. Have to get ready for crossing the Atlantic next year 😁

@@sailingonadream at the moment it’s my plan to go to Brittany and Normandy. Scillies if the weather is right. Heading off in June. Then maybe the Atlantic the following year.

Well I may see you out there then 😁

Actually, I wouldn’t recommend any of the cruising guides, they have proved to be a waste of money. Any information in them can be found easily online or in the almanac. However, if you are sailing in western Scotland, I would say the Antares charts are a must have! They have allowed me to go to places that are marked as unsurveyed or obstructed on the normal charts with confidence. They open up a world of possibilities for anchorages in remote and stunningly beautiful places that you won’t find in the cruising guides.

@@sailingonadream that’s a good bit of info and saves wasting money as you say, thanks How are things going with you now? I hope you are nice and safe

Thats gopro for you. The steel was all purchased locally and the fixings were all off ebay, but you can also buy them all on amazon and various other places... th-cam.com/video/7fgB09KTshE/w-d-xo.html&lc=Ugyp2UK9YNg74pwOa5J4AaABAg

Thank you Richard 👍🏻

Was really cool sailing in company, I’ve done loads solo with nobody else around which is awesome, but sailing solo in company is an another level better. Both boats are so well matched as well.

Brian? 😂 Only had to show papers in Holland, none of the other countries have a damn. Although I did have an advantage with no AIS broadcast, so they couldn’t come find me on anchor. The VAT papers give your boat 18 months in the EU. But they did say just leave the EU and rip it up to get a new one when you go back.

@@sailingonadream Sorry Ian, dont know where Brian came from!

@RichieKeane gave me a good chuckle mate 😁

lol well spotted 😁

No wind turbine, too noisy, I like my peace 😂

Thanks Richie!

Haha, the barbershop story is my favorite anecdote from the whole trip :)

Fingers crossed you are then, make it happen. You wont regret it :)

Thanks Ian, yes getting close to the end of that journey and the start of a new one 😉😂