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Hey Craig - thanks so much for the comment and support. I will definitely check out Bang Saray as if I go this path then I will live near the build once Seacat are done. I'm more of an out the way quite guy so that village sounds spot on 😊 Thanks again !

I am a bit nuts so take that as a compliment ... 😉 Being South African I also thought that would be a great option as I still have a lot of contacts there but from the research I have done the South African yards are up there in price with the rest of the first world yards. Let me know how the search goes please... always wanting to learn.

@@sailing.destiny for sure it’s a compliment, you’re going to have fun building this and one hell of story I bet. Only the crazy ones have fun 🤘😬🤘

🤣 yip it's different horses for different courses. In my humble opinion Sunreef, in terms of finishes, are unmatched in the sailing catamaran game... BUT.. they don't focus on the weight and how I understand things for every 1ft of boat it is 1 ton so my 55ft would be +- 55 tons. I was looking at a Sunreef seriously as they are beautiful but when I realised I'd be motoring often changed my search.

@@sailing.destiny we have a Sunreef 50 and it weighs 33-tons wet about 35 tons fully fully loaded. The gross tonnage is 52 or something like that.

Epic... they really are BEAUTIFUL ! Actually for the fit out / colour options I'm going for are based on the style/look of a Sunreef 60 that I spotted in Sardinia a few weeks back.

Great idea but I doubt Sunreef would have time/capacity for my build as from what I know they are flat out which is great for them. Thanks for the comment and support 🙏

Thanks Andrew and appreciate the comment and so stoked to hear the videos are helpful. Plan is document the whole journey till we splash and then disappear into the void 😁

49 years young my man. Sounds like we are mirroring our lives on the YT obsession 😊 I still personally believe that the 2nd hand market HAS to soften hard at some stage... but who knows when. I hear you about rather going now than later... I do know that I'll forever wonder if I don't go ahead with this dream so full steam ahead this side. Thanks for the comment and support 🙏

@@sailing.destiny God only knows what awaits us in the next years if we ever will be able to live on water like the youtubers. We in Europe are preparing for war with Russia, economic meltdown, inflows of millions of immigrants, upcoming pandemics with new lockdowns and WEF making everything even more fun with "owning nothing and being happy by 2030" 😅

@@bitkong9445 you've just summed up a lot of reasons as to why I am building Destiny.... to run away from it all... 😁 Klaus and his friends will have to come find me in remote South Pacific somewhere...

@@sailing.destiny well I was sailing the Caribbean January 2020 and short after I left them covid hysteria started. They were pushed away everywhere they went and had to stay almost a year on Santa Lucia. I've bought land in the mountains of South America in worst case scenario. Only thing will be if we will be able to get there without a boat when SHTF too rapidly..

Nice ! Yip the C19 thing caught us all off guard I think. We were not allowed to leave Australia for a long time which felt very constricted for sure !

Thanks Bob and thanks again for all your help and generous sharing of time and information to date. The end of the year is fast approaching so I need to make some decisions soon 😊

@@sailing.destiny Will give it a break for a while. Your got alot to digest and a lot of due dilligence to do from your trip.

Thanks for the comment as always. Will look deeper into this and if I can get it done more affordably then it really will be a no brainer 🙏

Yip I spotted that last episode on Parlay about Navionics.... crazy ! The wild west indeed it was 🤣

Hey Annie-May. Thanks so much for the comment and great to hear that you are finding the content beneficial as that's my main intent. Yip, travelling a bunch and in Bangkok now off to see 3 more, hopefully, boat yards here over the next 2 weeks. I am 50/50 with Annapolis right now... spoke to David about it last last week and he suggested I go. Are you heading there ? Thanks again Clint

@@sailing.destiny giddy Clint - sorry for taking so long to get back to you. just got back from 3 weeks in China. we are going to be there for the first couple of days

Thanks so much for the comment and recommendation... I'll reach out to Gary now. I was actually born in Walmer hospital in Port Elizabeth so as local as they come 😊

Hey Kirk - great to hear from you and hope all is 👌 Yip, I think I mention somewhere in the video that the project\model started just at the pandemic hit and then things shut down. But yes, you are spot on with what you saying about checking in with all the manufacturers and doing the proper due diligence. Thanks as always for the support and comment.

Not the whole story, but nothing a google search won’t inform people of so they can decide for themselves. Hope the overall process is going well!

Hey Donald - thanks as always for the comment and support. She really is a beautiful boat and I could have looked at her for hours.... if it was not 50 Deg's C 🥵🤣 Based on Mike's DNA, strong racing background, and speaking to Danie about his choices the payload and weight has always been front and center of their decision making process so I'm sure she'll fly ! Super excited for the whole team to see how she goes 🤞⛵️🚀

Hey Phil - thanks as always for the comment. I hear you about all electric and my "conditioning" alarm bells went off this side. I'm doing a deep dive into this, looking at plenty of redundancies, and even gave David the heads up. I think he's just relieved I'm not hounding him for a Fly Bridge 🤦‍♂️🤣 Super excited to see the data when the SQ46 splashes as I continue my research this side as well.... I do tend to take the alternative path. Thanks again mate 🙏

Hey Clive, thanks as always for your comment and support. From what I know, limited, the Seaquest team have been in touch with Sailing Uma and comparing notes. I cannot wait for them to splash so that I can get access to their data first hand. I am also going down the electric rabbit hole this side as part of my research. As for toilets - after just coming off a charter in Sardinia and one of the black water tanks went down ... well composting is looking VERY good. From how I understand the system that the SQ team have chosen is that the No 1's can get directly fed out and the No 2's stay in the compost which means no sewerage = no smell.

Amen Sir ... what we have here is in my, often strong opinion, is not what humans are designed to thrive in. Stuck behind desks and commutes for half your day is not good for one soul. Thanks for all the comments and support and I look forward to chatting in person

The test in Sardinia went well... although the mapping there is super simple and deep everywhere. It's the integration I'm really excited about. Got my Raspberry Pi 5 here so will unbox it soon and start nerding out 🤓

Magic... and please do. You can get me at clint@sailingdestiny.com If our time lines are similar then could be beneficial to both of us as chatting to shipyards about 2 builds rather than one can add some negotiation power 😊

Thanks so much for the comment. My "game plan" is to spend about 9 months a year on board to give myself space and time to do land things (love snowboarding and climbing mountains) so that I don't fall out of love with my biggest joy. Thanks for the comment and support and look forward to chatting about your Nahoa 55 plans

Thanks - yip an unexpected coincidence that looks promising !

Awesome to hear and that's my main intention of this channel to help others who want to go down this path...

Thanks so much for the support Donald. This information is not for everyone pallet but it's important to at least think about it .. 🙏

One does not need to look far to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Thanks for the comment and support 🙏

Thanks for the comment and support.. and it's for sure one of the times when you'd prefer not to be right 🤦‍♂️

Hey Bruce - thanks so much for the comment and that's CRAZY about the song 🤯 Yip - good thing that I got it all messed up and look forward to Destiny and Dignity sharing an anchorage one day. Thanks for sharing that... so so cool ! Side note - surprised you found the video as it does not have many views (think it's a copyright thing but still learning the TH-cam ways. 😊 )

Hey Daniel - thanks for the comment and kind words. Epic to hear you are also chatting to David and also going this path. Stoked that you found the channel and the whole intention here is to document my journey so that others can benefit from my mistakes, assuming there will be many 🤦‍♂, and have a more streamlined build when they get to that part. Have you decided on which model you are going for yet... with a Fly Bridge... of course.... 😊

​@sailing.destiny I've been waiting on the Nahoa as well to see it once it's finished. I have been looking at building it myself and Laser welding it. I just want to be able to fit a fishing boat on the back. I'd be interested in seeing the price on hot works if you are able to share

@@danielporter9193 I don't have any pricing yet but reach out to Geoff directly and I am sure he will share the pricing when he has it. As for the fishing boat on the back... I am also going to have a decent size tender so that I can get to surf/dive spots quickly but have David in my head/ear thinking about the weight of it and the impact on performance.

David told me the same thing about the added weight. I'm a Australian and I love the top end fishing. With the average adult male salt-water croc being 5.2m ill sacrifice a bit of proformance while I'm going around the tropics here.

Holy... I hear you about the crocs... they scare the shit about me. I keep telling David that I am a minimalist with clothing and most things... until it comes to all my ocean toys then I have a bit of a "habit" ... but due to the fact that I don't have a lot of "stuff" then all the ocean toys are permitted 🤣

Howzit boet. Thanks for the comment and support. Geoff sent me some updated pictures of the Mumby he is building and it's moving along nicely.... his website should be in the description of this video but let me know if you need help connecting with him... and ... don't steal my build slot 🤣

@@sailing.destiny trust me, I still need to work another 10 years before I can have my boat built🥴, maybe end of next year if I get a loan 😅

@@wanabesailer9599 I'm sure you can get it done quicker than that... but follow along my journey so that I can make the mistakes for you so you don't have to make them 🤣 Thanks again for the comment and support. Dankie 🙏

Hey Phi - appreciate your sharing your experience in such great depth... sounds like you had an awesome build experience. Good news this side is that I think I have locked in a VIP "build angel" which will help me along the way to ensure that I maintain the quality I am looking for. As for the teak deck... agree 100 % and what I "meant" to say was a teak finish deck not real teak... will look at flexideck or something equivalent when I get there. The whole focus on the build will be to KISS both in construction and ongoing maintenance. Thanks again for the comment and support ! 🙏

@@sailing.destiny re decks, the issue is heat. Flexi teak is great as a teak alternative, but heat is the issue especially if one wants to go barefoot and/or lie on the decks. Even light grey decks get hot compared to white decks. I'm enjoying the videos and discussions

Thanks Phil - appreciate the compliment. Will go down the decking rabbit hole when I get closer to fit out but I hear you about the heat (says me who wants to vinyl wrap her in Black 🤦‍♂️). Cork has also been mentioned for both internal and eternal decking which sounds interesting.

Hey Norman. Thanks for the detailed comment and suggestion. I'm mapping out a snowboard trip for early next year and If I do head state side I will definitely check out the boing factory - sounds super cool. Thanks for the comment and support !

Hey Clive - thanks so much for the comment. I've been in touch with the Odisea team already just trying to get over my Vietnam curse 🤦‍♂️ I will check out Odd Life's channel and by memory David does have a contact in Turkey already so will pursue that as well. 🙏

Thanks so much for sharing your experience and right now the dagger board debate is still up in the air this side. My initial, although uninformed, gut feel is exactly what you describe where you do hit something then you are stuck. My intention with Destiny is to go far off the beaten track so KISS is where it is at. Having said that Elcie, David's 62, did have daggerboards and knowing that David has the KISS methodology I am sure he will have a way. From what I know Nahoa are not going for daggerboards but this is on the list for me to talk to David about and come up with the cost benefit analysis later this year. Thanks for the comment and support and for sharing your experience 🙏

Hey Walter - if you referring to me underestimating how much time and "ripple affect" each change made... then yes... you are 100 % correct. Was eye opening to sit with David and I'm so glad that I went to see him in person so that I could fully understand the process. Yip, I am going to go with about 97 % of what Nahoa have designed with one or two small tweaks that David also feels are good ideas and worth the time/money to make the change. Thanks for the comment and support.

@@sailing.destiny Yes that's what I meant. Even for us, (experienced sailors) designing a boat is a big project. But make sure you know what you want because them designers are often lazy to make any changes, saying. cannot/difficult etc. And then the next day you see someone who did what you wanted. So be very clear in your requirements before you decide on a compromise on your wishes.

Thanks for the comment and my whole logic/thinking behind going with David is leveraging the 20+ years that Delos and Nahoa have from experience as live aboards and capitalising on that. What yacht are you planning on or building ?

@@sailing.destiny Understand, totally support that thought. We actually live aboard for over a decade ourselves, obviously know them. Boats are very personal, for instance I want a bath in my new boat, and a piano. And care less for performance, more for comfort. All personal choices. Similarly, we want a furling boom and dislike lazy jacks.

Thanks so much for the comment. Yip... going to be a magical when we she starts getting built that's for sure... got to visit a few ship yards first to find the best fit.

Yes Sir.... I keep reminding myself that KISS is the way to go. Thanks for the comment and support.

Thanks for the comment and LOVE the camel analogy 🤣 Yip - in hind sight.. I think you can even see it in my thought process when I was recording... that I realised by splitting trades through shipyards I was just looking for trouble. But really appreciate your insight to help me stay focussed on one yard. 🙏

I hear you and your points are valid.... BUT... this channel is just an outlet for me and will never be a documentary type "vlog style" that the other channels do so well. I am not running this as a business and personally value my time so as not to constantly be filming everything and rather immerse myself where I am.... so that's why one take wonders is where it's at. Thanks for watching though and sending love.

Yip it's going to be interesting if that even is an option and will start to get those numbers this week. Will report back and thanks as always for the comment and support

@@sailing.destinyhaving run supply chains across 35 countries over 43 years I can tell you that your chances of success are VERY SLIM if you elect to do different trades in different countries. You are falling back on your “boer maak’n plan” confirmation bias. You will regret it.

@@stevenschapera2888 fair point and thanks for your earlier comment as well. One yard wonder is the goal... 🤙

Thanks so much for being my first troll...... sending love ❤️

It's a wonderful beast that one... 🤦‍♂️

That is my intention or just seeing a way that I can protect myself during the build. Since this video had a lot of thoughts/questions on payment/ownership etc but I'll get to that in a later video. Off to see my first shipyard this week in Cambodia so a learn by doing experience. Thanks for the comment.

@@sailing.destiny Also when you go to the potential shipyards, do you send the the David drawings first, so they can better answer some of you questions ?

@@BennyTheNerd yes. They are what are called the stock plans that you can buy off David's site. The Nahoa 55 design work is still not complete yet so we are working off one of the 53 models to get indicative pricing. All the yards I am planning on seeing David has been dealing with the owners beforehand so there is some relationship already built up.

I would think it is best managing the brand warranties yourself directly with the brands then there is no middle man.

@@brentjs1979 spot on. Watch the video that is dropping on Monday about my first visit to a boat yard in Cambodia. All the main warranties will be between me and the manufacturer.... aka no middle men. Thanks for the comment and support.

Hey Phil - thanks as always for your comment and support. Right now I am leaning towards the dagger board option but I will need to chat to the shipyards, seeing my first one this week in Cambodia, and then David as well as to how much extra complexity and cost it may add to the build. If I had the magic wand then ... yes ... but costs/logistics etc could point me in another direction. Thanks again.

Thanks so much for the comment and support and for sharing your knowledge 🙏

I am Clint .... magic to meet you virtually 🤙