Sailing to Coinjock and across Albemarle Sound. SVEV 65
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- I'm headed to the inside passage through Cape Hataras on this Sceptre 36 foot sailboat and I see Coinjock on the chart! WTF? Why coinjock? Lets sail to this famous cruising destination and see what's up on our way to the Bahamas..
love your videos!!!!!!
Right on Mike love it warmer waters ahead each day buddy !!
Mike - Love the adventure!! And your decision points!!!🍻🍻
I'm glad you took notice to this. These videos are for people who want to know what its really like. Its my mission to show it as it really is out here. I've made it to Daytona beach Florida and I'm still learning so much everyday! Lots of videos still to come out. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment and watch the videos. Fair winds brother!!
Love being along the journey with you bud ❤
Great job Captain!
Another great video Cpt! Keep them coming!
Hey mike i really love your videos. Your channel is now my new favorite, and your videos give me tons of hope! I am currently working on my own boat to do the same voyage from toronto to grenada and beyond. Right now shes stored indoors at the toronto outer harboaur maina so i can work on her all day everyday throughout the winter. The goal is to get her into the water this summer (a massive refit has to finish before that).from there i will have to finalize many little projects over the next year before i depart. when winter comes i plan to stay somewhere on lake ontario as a liveaboard so i can gain as much experience with my new boat and all of her systems on board before i leave for the Caribbean with my girlfriend September 2025. Its crazy how good that feels to share that with someone who is literally living my dream.
Fair winds and following seas! We'll see you out there someday!
#1 engine
#2 rigging and mast
#3 will and funds
#4 The balls to untie those lines and leave the dock with a massive undertaking. The day you commit is the day you are free from all the baggage your thought you threw away. Now is the time to move forward and free your self. A life a sea is not what what you think it will be.. But you will have everything you really needed..
Lookong forward to watching the rest of this season. Great videography and tour of that mega yacht recently.
Best video yet.. can't wait for the next!!!
Thanks Ken!! Lots more videos coming out soon! Hello from Florida!!
Looks beautiful and exhilarating!
Aloha Cpt Mike! Another well balanced and interesting video with good ambient (not disturbing) music while keeping the natural sounds loud enough to get a feel for the environment. I watch many sailing channels on and off, but I do follow you consistently because you're authentic and learning as you go (just like I'm going to have to do). Fair winds until next episode! Cheers mate!
It's such a hard thing to get right. After 3 years of Making these videos I always feel like I just started. The next few videos I experiment a bit with my vlooging style. And I'm working on my "peice de resistance " the gulf stream crossing video. Thanks for your comments and views. Fair winds cap. Hello from Daytona Beach.
Hi, Mike. Thanks for taking me along this part of your trip. In 1988 I was sofa-surfing from Ft. Story and Chesapeake, VA to Eliz. City, NC and the shores of the Albemarle sound for most of the year.
But, I never managed to get onto the waters of the ICW, even though they were all around me.
So thanks for helping fill out some of the geography for me and what I missed there in VA and NC. It's been 35 yrs.
Good luck with warmer weather. Fair winds and all that....
Art
Thanks Art!!! Hello from Cape Canaveral Florida!!
Hey Michael. Hello from Northern Ohio. Keep up the good work. We’re watching!
Thanks Brad! I love my American friends!!
Hey Mike! Like to see you sailing like this, very inspiring!
Thanks mate!!
Hey captain Michael great video. Thanks for sharing. 🍻Cheers
Thanks Captain! you have been here from the beginning! Always watching and making comments! I hope to see you out here one day and meet in person. Thanks so much for being here!
Hi Capt.
thanks for sharing your experience- it is inspiring me !
Glory Be
MT
Go out and find that sailboat! Live free! You will not regret it..
Yoho just catching up a few episodes here. Another cool one with some sailing on the Sound!! Keep up the great work .Cheers!
Enjoy!
Great videos, Michael! I'm really enjoying following along in your journey! Stay safe!
Thanks Melissa!! So great to have watching the channel!! Thanks for commenting!
Enjoyed the last couple couple of episodes. Love that you explain stuff for armchair sailors like me, like what is the ICW, what’s it for, why not stay on the Atlantic. I think I took for granted that you’re sailing alone which means no one to share the night sail shifts with.
Thanks brother lots more interesting episodes coming!! Hello from cape Canaveral!
@@sailingEV888 awesome man! The way I figure, between these sailing videos and a couple of Beach Boys songs, I’ll know the lingo and be able to sail a boat before I even set foot on one.
love these videos
Thanks Cap. I'm working on "peice de resistance" my video of all videos. I'm come so far hanging by a thread and a penny we will push on this old girl and limp forward. Cheers mate.
@@sailingEV888 if you are ever passing by or staying the summer in the chesapeake bay let us know.
Capt Mike - great job ! enjoying your videos
Thanks Mate!!
So happy that you're making this journey my dude! Cheers!
Thanks Jason! Hello from Daytona Beach!! We are so close to the Bahamas!!
Keep up the great work!!!
Thanks Stephen! Hello from Daytona Beach!!
Great video Mike! Nice watching your progress.
Thanks Jason! I have some very close friends with the last name Hunter! you guys are all very special people. Fair winds brother.
Hey there Captain Mike! This is the first time commenting on any video on TH-cam. You are following a similar path that I took except that I made the decision to go around Hatteras. That got me in big trouble. 74 knots of wind and my foresail unfurled!! I lived in the outbanks at the time and new the area, but the weather did not forecast what we ran into. Good decision to avoid that area on your part. I lived in St John years ago and was going back with my own boat this time until my situation changed. Had to sell her, but I am feeling that itch to get back out there! I’m enjoying your story! Safe travels!
Thanks mate! Its never too late!! You can always do what Im doing and sail only in good weather and take no risks... kinda.. hope to see you in the comments in future videos..
Im lake sailing now until the kiddos are older, but I will be back out there at some point hopefully. Until then, I’m land locked in Nashville. Could be worse, we are all healthy!!
Mike I enjoyed and like how honest you are Rich
I strive to show what its really like out here. Thanks Rich.
How’s things going if your still in Daytona go to aunt catfish on the river
How doing are you staying safe
@@richpeck746 I'm good. I'm in Fort Peirce Florida doing final provisioning and boat work. Should be in Miami in the next few days for the next phase of the trip! Crossing over!!
Keep them coming mike ! Stay safe bro !
Thanks for taking the time to watch! means everything to me! Cheers mate from Florida.
Ran this route northbound and we really had a time with the sound (took us 3 hrs to pass it motoring) thanks for the southbound view. BTW the Coinjox prime rib is great
Really enjoying the journey
Thanks mate!! Stay tuned for season 6 this december!!
Hey Mike, came across your down south videos a few days ago, I remember watching your videos on Lake Ontario and Frenchman's Bay. I sailed to Frenchman's Bay from Toronto at least once a season. Moved to Nova Scotia 6 years ago and now sail out of the Northumberland Strait. Really enjoying being part of your adventure and looking forward to future videos.
Thanks George! I got a good friend lenny who lives out there. I've never made it out that way bit I here it's something special! Thanks for taking the time to comment and watch the video. Fair winds captain.
Great video, nice to see the ICW!
Thanks a lot! Marcus! hello from Florida! Lots more videos coming out soon! Thanks for watching!!!
Thanks for taking the time to do these videos. I like the casual, no BS format. I've been up and down the ICW dozens of times over the years and it's always nice to see it through someone else's eyes. I remember on one cold trip I didn't get even a hint of warmth until I actually got into Florida waters. Here's hoping you find warmer weather before then.
I'm in Florida and it's been chilly for sure. Maybe one of these days it will seem like summer.. for now I'm just happy and blessed to be here.. I dropped a go pro in the water yesterday and spent the who day scuba diving try to find it. I did find it was just happy to be warm and underwater!!! Life is good 👍. Thanks for commenting!
Enjoyed the video
Hi Mike, love the video. Reminded me of when I did that section in 2019. We also got into Coinjock in the dark with no lights relying on the GPS. Look forward to your next video to Belhaven.
Thanks Allen!! Coinjock is defiantly one of those places you hear about from people doing the ICW. Thought it would be cool to highlight that. Fair winds Captain! Hello from Florida!
@@sailingEV888 So happy to hear that you made it to Daytona beach. Where do you figure your cross over to the Bahamas will be from ?
Great video. Thx
Thanks for the great info!
No worries mate! Season 6 starts this December stayed to tuned to find out what happens..
See you in Georgetown captain. Its on this winter..
keep the dream going mike
Hello from Florida!!!!
Hey Cptn Michael. Nice you are making it happen for you. Some nice drone footage. Have a brewski for me, cheers! BTW gf is singing "Log Drivers Watlz" right now. Be safe out there.
Hey love!! You will have to explain that one a bit further for me.. Who is GF? LOL.. Been a bit lonely out here on my own. Really appreciate you always commenting hope your well up there in Canada...
@@sailingEV888 GF is girlfriend. I be of the male gender. And not from Canada, OR. But we do like Canada and our Canadian Friends to the north. Surely you can find a nice southern girl. They don't like to be cold :)
Glad to see your subscriber count tick up. 200 to go before you can get monetized (as I'm sure you know). Glad to be along for the ride.
Unfortunately I still have 1800 public watch hours to go still... Really appreciate you watching the entire video! Cheers mate!
great vid!
Well thank you! Ive been trapped here in Florida during this crazy storm. Thank you for taking the time to comment.. it means everything to me. New video out Saterday morning at 9am About the famous haulout inlet Florida!!
Ahoy Capt Mike! I searched you up because I was looking for more local sailors that started near me! I sail a tiny catamaran on the Niagara River! Toronto is pretty close and I really enjoy that city, I've been curious about sailing larger boats and knowing our cold temperatures make that a bit challenging so finding a TH-camr from my area is a pleasant surprise! This summer I will be borrowing a friend's Columbia 30, 1972 to sail Lake Erie. Any tips for that water?
I have never ventured into lake erie however my suggestion would be to go to main duck island on Lake Ontario! I have a 3 part series about sailing there check them out!! Hello from Cape Canaveral Florida!
We anchored in the same spot on the Aligator
Coconut trees in Daytona is encouraging
Ahoy Captain Mike,
Very nice progress this episode. Looking forward to seeing what weather you will find the further south you go.
Have you made it to Florida?
I'm in Daytona Beach!! Little chilly in the mornings but just motivation to head more south!
@@sailingEV888 Did you happen to catch the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch on Sunday at 17:56? Probably could see something from Daytona Beach?
I'm right near cape Canaveral! I wish I had of known that!!!!!!
@@sailingEV888 There will be another launch of a Falcon 9 on the 18th at around 7am. If you are still around, and if the weather is good, that would be something neat to see.
Yeeew! Welcome to the south!
Thanks!! Glad to have been there! Hello from Miami
Thanks!
Thanks Robert!!! Really appreciate you taking the time to support these videos! Thanks captain!
If you were in this spot with this same weather window today (~a year more experienced) and headed south would you have taken the outside? I feel like as soon as I get off the rivers I will want to sail more than motor. Hindsight and all, honest question, cheers!
By the way, we use to cross the sound to eat at the restaurant in Coinjock. Great food back then!
Hey Captain Michael, Jennifer and I are from Canada, and we’ve been trying to watch your videos in order but can’t seem to find them they don’t come up when there’s a new video that’s posted it’s so difficult to follow your journey. Is there someway we can watch it from start to your current position?
We are planning to sail down the ICW as well in the near future and we are enjoying following your journey
Thanks
Michael and Jennifer from Canada.
Welcome!! You can click this link which will bring you to my main page there are 94 videos there for you to view!! youtube.com/@sailingEV888
Or
You can start here
th-cam.com/video/egfkBx3dJI4/w-d-xo.html
That video is the day I left to cross lake Ontario headed to the Bahamas..
Thanks for following along!!
Hey Cat!!!👍
Hello cat? I'm a sloop monohull!!? Please expand on your comment...
Was a Typo-meant Capt.!!! Awesome! Hoping to follow ya footsteps....
We are about to cross Albrmarle and you mentioned having to stayin the channel. It is 12-30 ft across the entire sound. What did you mean?
This area of the inside pasage of Hataras pre Abermarle sound is wide channels of shallow water with the ICW dredged out to a 50 ft area to sail. Abermarle sound its self is 20 to 30 ft at its deepest point. There is a marked channel across abermarle sound which is a part of the ICW. You would be smart to stay within the marked channel as this area is dredged and maintained by the Army Corps of engineers. Abermarle is notorious for its unpredictable weather. Most of this part of the ICW is essentially a 50 ft channel even though in some areas its as wide as 4 nm.
@@sailingEV888 I gotcha. We have been down it before. Just making sure nothing has changed. Maybe we will see you out sometime. Thanks for the response and safe travels!
@@jasontodt Thanks Jason. Ill be heading for the Pacific Via Georgetown Bahamas next season. At one point Im going to post up anchored off an island somewhere resembling paradise for a month. Stay tuned to the channel so you know where that is.. heck sail there and join me brother. The world is ours for the taking yet world is about to change.. with an internet conection your boat is no different than a house on land just way better. Plus we get to be pirates..
@@sailingEV888 I hear ya. Sounds like a plan. We are heading down the icw down to the keys and to eventually, Gulfport MS. We have no plans other than exploring, so hope to see you one day. We will follow and keep track of your travels. Fair winds my friend!
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Thanks Allen!!!!!! it means everything to me my friend! I appreciate you taking the time brother!! Fair winds from Florida!!!
@@sailingEV888 It's my pleasure! The quality of your videos is among the best. Can't wait to see you pass my area (Ponce Inlet/New Smyrna Beach) in FL!
I have to say, on another tack that I was a little shocked by the cultural differences coming from MInnesota close to Canada and crossing the Mason/Dixon line into North Carolina. Life in the South is different. And the accents were real funny to me too. lol 🍻