Andy I agree this seemed like the best sail yet. I am sure you'll have more of these and better ones as well. Melissa coffee shop with all the fresh morning bakery items I am surprised you did not have a fresh croissant or bagel with your morning brew. This seems like a real lovely easy going spot. Jack maybe this little village would be a great spot for you to explore it's history and put it in video. Cheers you guys looking forward to next video
I had never heard about Fowey before, but it seems to be a cute and gorgeous little town. I love places like this. Thank you for sharing this peaceful moments.
I loved the sailing shots. Totally champagne sailing. I agree that the best solution for the hydro vane would be a shorter boom. The mizzen would not need to be shortened quite as much as the boom because you only need a few inches beyond the sail. When using the whisker pole, I like to rig it with fore and aft guys so that the end is fixed in place by the topping lift and the fore/aft guys. Then the sheet is passed through the jaw and the sail is pulled out from the furler to the pole end. When you need to put it away, just furl the sail and then deal with the pole. This keeps it much more stable.
Yes great ideas. We were on a good deep reach so didn’t need preventers on the whisker pole but yeah they’re something we will play with and 100% have set up next time
Great episode guys i really enjoyed it so good to see her under sail with the drone. You are a lovely part of the country. Good luck Melissa with the new channel looking forward to it.
Fowey just a lovely place to visit. Regards your Hydrovane installation, cut the mizzen boom down don't extend the mounts on the Hydrovane that would increase the loading on your transom connection.
Wonderful, I have been to Fowey, and yes, I mispronounced it too in the beginning! Arrived by sailboat in the late afternoon and had a couple of pints of guinness in a real old typical British pub in the evening. It looks like Fowey hasn't changed one bit. Nice to see it again. By the way, I have a Hydrovane exactly like yours and it is the most wonderful shipmate on board! Much better than an autopilot. If you can make it work with your mizzen, you will see that once you have your sails set up, it really keeps you on course very well.
What a beautiful place to visit and such calm seas. This would be my kind of sailing. Thoroughly enjoyed this vlog. Cheered me up. Keep well and safe. James.
I've been visiting Fowey since childhood. Had lots of family there. It's a fantastic river, especially after all the work to clean the water. The upper reaches are lovely to explore by dinghy. Just outside the river to the east is Lantic Bay, possibly the best beach in Cornwall.
@@SailingMelody we are good. Strong winds in the Menai today - for a change ;-) About to watch your next video while eating chocolate cake and drinking wine to hide from the boat shaking
A very enjoyable episode thanks, champagne sailing indeed. 🍾Ironically, I think I enjoyed Melissa's early morning walk with Ollie even more than I did the idyllic sailing. Beautifully shot and edited. Not a complaint, just a suggestion, as we can't see your wind speed and boat speed gauges, it would be nice to hear what those are a little more often. Eg, at 4:22 you talk about how the 4 hour trip will take you more like 6 hours "at this speed", but you don't let us in on what that speed is. I'm not pushing for frequent, regular telemetry updates, but when you do refer to your boat speed, remember we can't see it. Edit: Only a few minutes later in the video you tell us that you're doing 7 knots! Thanks! Ignore my diatribe if you like, I'll leave it up for the algorithm anyway.
Having now seen the Ocean Melody crew out doing what their ultimate goal was to get under sail, it seems the trials and tribulations trying to get Steel Melody up and running seem a far distant memory. Happy days all around and I am enjoying the sailing and particularly the camera work and presentation. Well done you lot and Carry On and Keep Sailing.
Thank you. We love this life. We really enjoyed working on steel Melody though. I’d happily spend a year gutting ocean Melody and doing a proper back to the shell refit in a couple of years. Maybe we will come across another project boat one day :)
Cornwall has some lovely inlets worth visiting to relax away from the rest of the UK another world your living your dream as a family doing you good Andy a beautiful sail to fowey 😊😊
since the mizzen boom extends beyond the stern, you have a yawl. It should be no problem to shorten it, even if you have to modify the sail a bit. Might be advantageous for a future solar rack with integrated davits also.
When you’re out in nature 24/7 embrace all of the kinds of weather, seas, tides, wind it deals you; it’s all part of the mosaic in which we reside and it’s ridiculous to resist/complain about it.
andy’s turning into a boy racer lol what a great day for you guys it really looked fantastic dreamy it was so nice well done dreams can come true love the channel and see you all progress so nicely really is something too see ❤you
We had one but swapped to roller reefing because it’s so much easier for us as a family. If we were living on land and using her for classic racing that’s exactly what we would do
Hi guys, with the whisker poll, you should try wing on wing you’ll get a bit more speed out of it anyway the only way you learn these things is do it be like Nike just do it Cliff from Australia
Yes to everything: 360; shortening mizzen boom for Hydrovan; and winches and clutches on your boom. The problem with bringing your reefing lines and halyards etc back to the cockpit is your nice cosy watertight hard dodger now lets water in through the grommets for the lines every time you cop a wave which gets awfully tiresome, and the lines are harder to pull because of the extra friction of the turning block. A very wise sailor said to me, when I was cogitating running all lines to the cockpit: “You can’t be scared of going up on deck. In fact the more you’re up there, the more problems you fix before they break. And you don’t want all those bloody ropes in your living space, which is what the cockpit is to cruising sailors.” We made a tailings bag which hangs under the boom near the mast and two others which hang on the life lines outboard of the cockpit, on each side for the genoa and staysail sheets and furling lines. Works brilliantly and no water gets through the dodger and no spaghetti of lines in the cockpit.
Andy Try thick cut marmalade on dry toast no butter works a treat for seasickness... Please try it and post a response if it works for you it never fails for me
Just love your voiceovers Melissa. Almost poetic even, could listen to you talking all night. Beautifully descriptive. Excellent episode, quite like the - camera on a stick. Seems strange not seeing the rod/pole thingy ? And yes, looking forward to Melissa’s new venture. Is that going to be a separate channel or attached to this one ?
Dear Melissa and Ollie. 👍👌👏 Oh WOW, this was definitely a nice morning stroll. Calm and peaceful. Because I saw that cute Ollie always tried to see where you are heading, please kindly allow me to ask something: He jas grown a lot already. Wouldn't it be better to carry him on your back with his head facing forward now? So it would be easy for him to see where you are going and point at things he finds interesting. No offense, only asking. Best regards, luck and especially health to all of you.
Sometimes I carry him on my back but we like chatting as we walk along and that's easier on my front. Plus getting him on and off on my own is easier but now he is getting heavier he is often on my back 😊😊
@@SailingMelody Thanks for replying and especially for giving a heart to my comment. As you know, I always and totally appreciate both very much. 2) That's what I meant: Too heavy and tall to carry him on front. Of course you can still chat with him. His mouth is even nearer to your ears when carried on your back. Soon he will be too heavy to be carried anyway. They grow sooo fast, sigh. Sincerely yours.
Looks like a lot of fun ya enjoying it.😅 Andy take some vitamin B1 should help settle sea sickness.😮 She certainly gets along alright looks good doing it.😂 That cockpit canopy has surely made the boat a lot more usable. Keep at it now.😅
Just loo,ING at your dinghy on the foredeck. Its worth rigging a line from the cleat on the mast forward of the dinghy so that a flapping genoa sheet, when you tack doesn't wrap around the outboard. Been there, done that. Very lucky not to do major damage to the outboard
Once we’ve made a fitted cover it won’t be an issue because the single piece cover will not have anything the sheets can tangle in. Tbh I want to see if I can put the dinghy on Davits
@SailingMelody it depends what you plans are. If you are doing long passages with risk of poor weather, the dinghy is best on the deck but deflated with the engine stored on a bracket. For short hops, it's fine on the deck, but I would remove the engine. Keeping weight out of the ends of a boat like yours is good for reduced pitching. When we do long ocean passages, I remove everything we can from the ends of the boat. Less pitching, better boat speed, more comfort, especially in big seas
To catch a fish is 1: Ask the people of the place to found a good fisherman 2-3 is better.2: Ask what kind of fish is good to fish 3: How to catch them.4 Wth the lures or lives fish or with both. 5: what kind of rod and the what kind of line and length with the what kind of reel. 6: 2or 3 kind of fish 7: Most important Not go and buy everything is suggested. Begin with what you have and slowly but surely you buy bait lures like plastic worm and how to install with what of hook but the is good for short time .
I just realized you guys could, sail from the UK to a mile or so within my house. Sail across the pond to the St. Lawrence River (Seaway) to near Montreal, then head into and cross Lake Ontario. South of Toronto, take the Wellington Canal to Lake Erie but stop and enjoy Niagara Falls. From Buffalo NY, head East to Cleveland, and then head to Sandusky, Ohio. Here enjoy the Cedar Park Amusement Park, Sandusky, and Port Clinton, Ohio. North of there is Canada's beautiful Point Pelee. As you then head east, spend the night at Kelly's Island and Put-In-Bay to visit where America's Oliver H. Perry attacked Robert H. Barclay's British fleet in 1813. Continue east to the Maumee Bay at the extreme western end of Lake Erie and head up the Maumee River past Toledo, Ohio. You could, instead head north into the Detroit River to visit Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit where our two countries are building a new huge international suspension bridge. But if you head east to the confluence of the Maumee River, you will gentle glide by the green spaces on the shore lines of Downtown Toledo. A short haul further to just before the City of Maumee is the ramparts and park of the 1894 British Fort Maimi. I know Jack would love grounds of that Fort and it is located at the end of my street. Less than a mile further upriver in Perrysburg, Ohio on the other side of the River is the restored 1812 American Fort Meigs. While power boats do travel this far upriver, the draft is insufficient for sailboats your size to navigate. So, I don't expect to see the Melody crew any time soon, but it is physically possibility that you could sail here from where you are. You could even explore the amazing places around Michigan, like the Wisconsin Dells, all the way to Chicago and even down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. That adds another dimension to the possible places you could sail.
Insta360 are awesome , we don’t use ours as much as we though we would but in your arsenal of shots I’d get one. It took us about 2 months to get used the boats motion whilst underway. I found coffee in the mornings on a sailing day is a very bad idea, even though I a good cup of coffee in the morning
Hi there i have watched all your adventures from day one i wanted to ask if you ever treat the deck with some kind of oil-based preservative good luck to you all.
Great vid. Go Pro for pieces to camera, 360 for action shots and B roll. Or....if you do a piece to the 360, nail it's eyeline as if it's a go pro otherwise at best it's a distorted view, or at worse you'll be Francis Bourgeois at Sea ⛵ 👽 All practice and good fun though 👌
Great music Andy! The scenes at the end reminded me of the Wicker Man - the guitar had some of the devices used in the music of that film. Just me or did you do it on purpose? Either way it was really evocative and put a lump in my throat. You're great film-makers. Really great. Dave
Great episode, Melody starting to stretch her legs and show you how capable she is, the further you travel, the more comfortable and confident you will be with her and yourselves
Hi, we last visited Fowey in 1982. Anchored up the river from town. The harbourmaster arrived very promptly to charge us £14. As we had local crew (from the Helford river) This was reduced to £7. The argument was that foreign boats (Dutch) had to pay more to the Prince of Wales who claims ownership. I wonder how that is now and what fortune you had to hand over for tying up to the dock for the night. Cheers Peter. (From sunny New Zealand)
A question? What does the sail number mean on your main and in particular the letter T? My trailer-sailer had a T on the sail but your boat is not a trailer-sailer! Happy sailing Nick
nice ! don't you have a spinaker ? i heard there are spinakers for the mizzen mast too? OK silly question , why is the main boom so short ? seems like you could have it longer add more sail area! Oh i just like speed! It's SO bloody cold in UK how do you stay warm on deck and in sailing ? maybe video of your gear ? i have ridden M/C for ages and i fancy a base of silk long underwear but i found electric clothing was the bomb ! and now w/ small high-powered lithium batteries you could go mobile if you needed to move about electric gear worked for the brave flyers in WW2 and is far advanced fr what they used! what do you think of folding electric bicycles for getting around when moored ? would still take up some room whilst stored i suppose!
Dear Sailing Melody family. 👍👌👏 This was quite a nice sailing trip. But please, Andy, be careful what you wish for. Because sailing along with almost no wind can't really be what you want to experience for the rest of your life. 😁 ;-) 😋😜👅😇😘 2) Hope that your sea sickness will vanish soon. Nothing worse than being at sea a lot and sailing to paradisiac places while being sea sick. Hope it's only caused by all the stress you had/have (psychosomatic). 3) Why is the small outboard motor so loud? Defective muffler or no muffler or caused by the microphone? As always: Thanks a lot for making explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards, luck and especially health to all involved people.
Oh blimey that little two stroke is loud isn’t it: it’s very old. But I darent swap it for a new one because it’s just so amazingly reliable lol. How are you doing! We love your comments every week xxxx
@@SailingMelody you might also get a bit of flack for calling Polruan (where the shipyard is) Fowey. Fowey is west of the river, Polruan is on the east bank. 🤭
Why not hinge the hydro so you could move it to shorten it? Not sure of specifics on exactly how because I was a fleet sailor in the US Navy and never sailed with the wind.
Hahahah which scene was that issue? We watch each episode dozens of times before posting but sometimes you get blind to stuff and miss things which are obvious to someone who’s not been staring at it for hours and hours and hours. It’s like you can’t see the wood for the trees. I found the same when buying cymbals for my drum kit. You can spend so long testing cymbals you can’t hear them right and need to walk away and come back to it another day with fresh ears.
As an ex - pro photographer the camera gets a good pass from me! The lens is quite a strong wide - angle (W A) which for the most part produces a well corrected perspective from edge to edge with just one small exception; I noticed a small amount of W A distortion if shooting close - up (C U) from above the head and down the subject's body, when it is a little prone to a small amount of W A distortion, easily controlled by avoiding extreme C U shots if you want to avoid it. All things considered I have no reservations in recommending the camera.⁴
Melissa, your early morning stroll and coffee was so peaceful. Lovely.
Glad you enjoyed it too 🥰
That brought back some memories - I've spent many a happy hour in The Galleon ;-)
Thanks x
Andy I agree this seemed like the best sail yet. I am sure you'll have more of these and better ones as well. Melissa coffee shop with all the fresh morning bakery items I am surprised you did not have a fresh croissant or bagel with your morning brew. This seems like a real lovely easy going spot. Jack maybe this little village would be a great spot for you to explore it's history and put it in video. Cheers you guys looking forward to next video
Thank you :)
I had never heard about Fowey before, but it seems to be a cute and gorgeous little town. I love places like this. Thank you for sharing this peaceful moments.
It really is lovely.
no doubt the 360 is wonderful and versatile.
Great is it!
Lovely episode.
I loved the sailing shots. Totally champagne sailing.
I agree that the best solution for the hydro vane would be a shorter boom. The mizzen would not need to be shortened quite as much as the boom because you only need a few inches beyond the sail.
When using the whisker pole, I like to rig it with fore and aft guys so that the end is fixed in place by the topping lift and the fore/aft guys. Then the sheet is passed through the jaw and the sail is pulled out from the furler to the pole end. When you need to put it away, just furl the sail and then deal with the pole. This keeps it much more stable.
Yes great ideas. We were on a good deep reach so didn’t need preventers on the whisker pole but yeah they’re something we will play with and 100% have set up next time
A great yacht club in Fowey visiting boats always welcomed, My stamping area since the 1960's I know it well.
It’s gorgeous isn’t it!
Great episode guys i really enjoyed it so good to see her under sail with the drone. You are a lovely part of the country. Good luck Melissa with the new channel looking forward to it.
Glad you enjoyed it
Stunning video ,your looking well Andy great to see cannot believe how fast this Chanel is growing lovely family Chanel something for everyone 😊
Thanks so much
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. You were just sailing, not fixing anything.
Thank you :) we’re loving this life
I loved your morning walk with Ollie!, what a delightful town!
Great melanconic music at the end too. 👌
It's a gorgeous place! Good coffee too!
Love the footage really shows what a beautiful boat she is. Fair winds.👍
Thanks 👍
Its so nice for you guys to be enjoying your boat that is really sailing :-)
It really is!
Fowey just a lovely place to visit. Regards your Hydrovane installation, cut the mizzen boom down don't extend the mounts on the Hydrovane that would increase the loading on your transom connection.
Exactly my thoughts
I was the boat boy at the yacht club in Fowey, in the 70s my grandad run the club. Best time of my life.
Wow that’s so cool
Wonderful, I have been to Fowey, and yes, I mispronounced it too in the beginning! Arrived by sailboat in the late afternoon and had a couple of pints of guinness in a real old typical British pub in the evening. It looks like Fowey hasn't changed one bit. Nice to see it again.
By the way, I have a Hydrovane exactly like yours and it is the most wonderful shipmate on board! Much better than an autopilot. If you can make it work with your mizzen, you will see that once you have your sails set up, it really keeps you on course very well.
Thank you we can’t wait to get really familiar with using it
What a beautiful place to visit and such calm seas. This would be my kind of sailing. Thoroughly enjoyed this vlog. Cheered me up. Keep well and safe. James.
Glad we cheered you up!!!
Unforunatly calm seas never make a sailor..
@@MrSychnant true. We’ve had our fair share of rough passages
I've been visiting Fowey since childhood. Had lots of family there. It's a fantastic river, especially after all the work to clean the water.
The upper reaches are lovely to explore by dinghy.
Just outside the river to the east is Lantic Bay, possibly the best beach in Cornwall.
Hey guys. How’s you doing. Love to you both
@@SailingMelody we are good. Strong winds in the Menai today - for a change ;-)
About to watch your next video while eating chocolate cake and drinking wine to hide from the boat shaking
A very enjoyable episode thanks, champagne sailing indeed. 🍾Ironically, I think I enjoyed Melissa's early morning walk with Ollie even more than I did the idyllic sailing. Beautifully shot and edited.
Not a complaint, just a suggestion, as we can't see your wind speed and boat speed gauges, it would be nice to hear what those are a little more often.
Eg, at 4:22 you talk about how the 4 hour trip will take you more like 6 hours "at this speed", but you don't let us in on what that speed is. I'm not pushing for frequent, regular telemetry updates, but when you do refer to your boat speed, remember we can't see it.
Edit: Only a few minutes later in the video you tell us that you're doing 7 knots! Thanks!
Ignore my diatribe if you like, I'll leave it up for the algorithm anyway.
That’s a great suggestion. We will try to find ways to incorporate that information
Zipping along in this episode! Cut the mizzen! The Hydro-vane makes life easy. Cinematic delight with Melisa's video ending.
Yeah agreed :)
Love to hear the water rush past the hull
We love that too
Having now seen the Ocean Melody crew out doing what their ultimate goal was to get under sail, it seems the trials and tribulations trying to get Steel Melody up and running seem a far distant memory. Happy days all around and I am enjoying the sailing and particularly the camera work and presentation. Well done you lot and Carry On and Keep Sailing.
Thank you. We love this life. We really enjoyed working on steel Melody though. I’d happily spend a year gutting ocean Melody and doing a proper back to the shell refit in a couple of years. Maybe we will come across another project boat one day :)
Great video
Thanks
Cornwall has some lovely inlets worth visiting to relax away from the rest of the UK another world your living your dream as a family doing you good Andy a beautiful sail to fowey 😊😊
Thank you
Yes a fantastic video very easy to watch
Glad you enjoyed it
Absolutely delightful !
🥰
since the mizzen boom extends beyond the stern, you have a yawl. It should be no problem to shorten it, even if you have to modify the sail a bit. Might be advantageous for a future solar rack with integrated davits also.
Yes indeed
Nice sail, ice to see everyone enjoying the trip!
Yes it was!
When you’re out in nature 24/7 embrace all of the kinds of weather, seas, tides, wind it deals you; it’s all part of the mosaic in which we reside and it’s ridiculous to resist/complain about it.
Agreed. But we’re so good at complaining. They say you should do what you’re good at and we’re really good at it 😂😂😂
A wee touch on the vang would help shape the main a bit better. Not too much take up slack. Tell tales needed on the leech 😊
😁 thanks for the tip looking back at the footage we agree
andy’s turning into a boy racer lol what a great day for you guys it really looked fantastic dreamy it was so nice well done dreams can come true love the channel and see you all progress so nicely really is something too see ❤you
Thanks 👍
Beautiful episode guys. She goes well when fully powered up as I’d expect. Imagine a full Hank in Genoa with a low clew! Andy UK
We had one but swapped to roller reefing because it’s so much easier for us as a family. If we were living on land and using her for classic racing that’s exactly what we would do
Omg ! That boat sails well
Thats a proper sailing boat..ha! Lucky you!
She really does doesn’t she
I was taught how to sail in the 80s at Fowey sailing school in a Wayfarer.. happy times
Oh I LOVE a wayfarer. I’d have one tomorrow if I could
The camera is worth it. Love the mapped voyage as well.🎉🎉❤
Thanks
Man to man, Andy, you look much younger clean shaven. You look healthier, you were a worry over the last few weeks.
Thank you 😊
Hi Andy the drone would a good thing to teach Jack how to use it would give him something to learn about
Definitely he has flown on land we will do that a bit more before the sea.
Wow!
Absolutely fabulous vlog!
Thank you ❤❤❤❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you! We really enjoyed your walk around Fowey😊
Thanks
360 looks good,
It’s great isn’t it
Absolutely lovely
Thanks so much x
Hi guys, with the whisker poll, you should try wing on wing you’ll get a bit more speed out of it anyway the only way you learn these things is do it be like Nike just do it Cliff from Australia
We weren’t deep enough on the wind to go wing on wing, we were on a broad reach
Yes to everything: 360; shortening mizzen boom for Hydrovan; and winches and clutches on your boom. The problem with bringing your reefing lines and halyards etc back to the cockpit is your nice cosy watertight hard dodger now lets water in through the grommets for the lines every time you cop a wave which gets awfully tiresome, and the lines are harder to pull because of the extra friction of the turning block.
A very wise sailor said to me, when I was cogitating running all lines to the cockpit: “You can’t be scared of going up on deck. In fact the more you’re up there, the more problems you fix before they break. And you don’t want all those bloody ropes in your living space, which is what the cockpit is to cruising sailors.” We made a tailings bag which hangs under the boom near the mast and two others which hang on the life lines outboard of the cockpit, on each side for the genoa and staysail sheets and furling lines. Works brilliantly and no water gets through the dodger and no spaghetti of lines in the cockpit.
Thank you so much! That’s great :)
Andy
Try thick cut marmalade on dry toast no butter works a treat for seasickness...
Please try it and post a response if it works for you it never fails for me
Ohhhhh marmalade! Yummy
Looks an interesting place 😄 the good old trent class lifeboat. Hope you are all keeping well
Thanks, you too!
Nice, you were caning it!
Oh yeah!
Thanks guys!
G'day Crew,,
Cool vid ,as always.
Moring ,and putting the kettle on after a day at sail with the family ,
what more could you want .
Respect....!
Cheers Trev me old mate. How’s things going
Just love your voiceovers Melissa. Almost poetic even, could listen to you talking all night. Beautifully descriptive. Excellent episode, quite like the - camera on a stick. Seems strange not seeing the rod/pole thingy ? And yes, looking forward to Melissa’s new venture. Is that going to be a separate channel or attached to this one ?
Awh thanks
It will be a separate channel, just nosing round boats.
Just thinking back on some of your road bumps, here you are sailing like pros Beautiful scenery‼️♥️
Thank you so much xx
Dear Melissa and Ollie.
👍👌👏 Oh WOW, this was definitely a nice morning stroll. Calm and peaceful. Because I saw that cute Ollie always tried to see where you are heading, please kindly allow me to ask something: He jas grown a lot already. Wouldn't it be better to carry him on your back with his head facing forward now? So it would be easy for him to see where you are going and point at things he finds interesting. No offense, only asking.
Best regards, luck and especially health to all of you.
Sometimes I carry him on my back but we like chatting as we walk along and that's easier on my front. Plus getting him on and off on my own is easier but now he is getting heavier he is often on my back 😊😊
@@SailingMelody
Thanks for replying and especially for giving a heart to my comment. As you know, I always and totally appreciate both very much. 2) That's what I meant: Too heavy and tall to carry him on front. Of course you can still chat with him. His mouth is even nearer to your ears when carried on your back. Soon he will be too heavy to be carried anyway. They grow sooo fast, sigh.
Sincerely yours.
Very nice guitar music.🙂
Many thanks
Looks like a lot of fun ya enjoying it.😅 Andy take some vitamin B1 should help settle sea sickness.😮 She certainly gets along alright looks good doing it.😂 That cockpit canopy has surely made the boat a lot more usable. Keep at it now.😅
B1? I’ll get some and try it. Thanks for the suggestion
Rocking it now guys, brilliant
Yes indeed :)
Things ate looking good well done ❤
Thank you 😋
Just loo,ING at your dinghy on the foredeck. Its worth rigging a line from the cleat on the mast forward of the dinghy so that a flapping genoa sheet, when you tack doesn't wrap around the outboard. Been there, done that. Very lucky not to do major damage to the outboard
Once we’ve made a fitted cover it won’t be an issue because the single piece cover will not have anything the sheets can tangle in. Tbh I want to see if I can put the dinghy on Davits
@SailingMelody it depends what you plans are. If you are doing long passages with risk of poor weather, the dinghy is best on the deck but deflated with the engine stored on a bracket. For short hops, it's fine on the deck, but I would remove the engine. Keeping weight out of the ends of a boat like yours is good for reduced pitching. When we do long ocean passages, I remove everything we can from the ends of the boat. Less pitching, better boat speed, more comfort, especially in big seas
I like Foyl (?), especially at night. Have you caught a fish since the departure? The fish is free... You have to catch it.😅😊😊😊
We haven't caught one big enough to keep and eat yet.
Fowey, yep lovely place, grandparents lived there for years, always nice to visit.
To catch a fish is 1: Ask the people of the place to found a good fisherman 2-3 is better.2: Ask what kind of fish is good to fish 3: How to catch them.4 Wth the lures or lives fish or with both. 5: what kind of rod and the what kind of line and length with the what kind of reel. 6: 2or 3 kind of fish 7: Most important Not go and buy everything is suggested. Begin with what you have and slowly but surely you buy bait lures like plastic worm and how to install with what of hook but the is good for short time .
I hit Like before watching because I was 982 and wanted positive algorithmic affirmation.
Thank you so much :)
I don’t often hear sailors saying “ this is gorgeous “ with no wind, and no sails up, we hate it with the engine on
Very nice video. Thank you so much! Bruce in Boise Idaho USA
Thank you too!
I just realized you guys could, sail from the UK to a mile or so within my house. Sail across the pond to the St. Lawrence River (Seaway) to near Montreal, then head into and cross Lake Ontario. South of Toronto, take the Wellington Canal to Lake Erie but stop and enjoy Niagara Falls. From Buffalo NY, head East to Cleveland, and then head to Sandusky, Ohio. Here enjoy the Cedar Park Amusement Park, Sandusky, and Port Clinton, Ohio. North of there is Canada's beautiful Point Pelee. As you then head east, spend the night at Kelly's Island and Put-In-Bay to visit where America's Oliver H. Perry attacked Robert H. Barclay's British fleet in 1813. Continue east to the Maumee Bay at the extreme western end of Lake Erie and head up the Maumee River past Toledo, Ohio. You could, instead head north into the Detroit River to visit Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit where our two countries are building a new huge international suspension bridge. But if you head east to the confluence of the Maumee River, you will gentle glide by the green spaces on the shore lines of Downtown Toledo. A short haul further to just before the City of Maumee is the ramparts and park of the 1894 British Fort Maimi. I know Jack would love grounds of that Fort and it is located at the end of my street. Less than a mile further upriver in Perrysburg, Ohio on the other side of the River is the restored 1812 American Fort Meigs. While power boats do travel this far upriver, the draft is insufficient for sailboats your size to navigate. So, I don't expect to see the Melody crew any time soon, but it is physically possibility that you could sail here from where you are. You could even explore the amazing places around Michigan, like the Wisconsin Dells, all the way to Chicago and even down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. That adds another dimension to the possible places you could sail.
Nice day trip :)
Right. Put the kettle on! We’re on the way!!
Insta360 are awesome , we don’t use ours as much as we though we would but in your arsenal of shots I’d get one. It took us about 2 months to get used the boats motion whilst underway. I found coffee in the mornings on a sailing day is a very bad idea, even though I a good cup of coffee in the morning
Lots of people have said to avoid coffee yeah
i'd love to do this.
Is there a reason why you can’t :)
Hi there i have watched all your adventures from day one i wanted to ask if you ever treat the deck with some kind of oil-based preservative good luck to you all.
We do! We will talk about that at some poin
Andy, I would get seasick if I was overdressed with foul weather gear. I would only wear foulies when I needed to.
Champagne sailing. A little indulgence. Me time.
Thank you xx
Great vid.
Go Pro for pieces to camera, 360 for action shots and B roll.
Or....if you do a piece to the 360, nail it's eyeline as if it's a go pro otherwise at best it's a distorted view, or at worse you'll be Francis Bourgeois at Sea ⛵ 👽
All practice and good fun though 👌
Thanks for the tips!
Great music Andy! The scenes at the end reminded me of the Wicker Man - the guitar had some of the devices used in the music of that film. Just me or did you do it on purpose? Either way it was really evocative and put a lump in my throat. You're great film-makers. Really great. Dave
Thank you :)
Cornwall is at the bottom of uk
You go up to Fowey from Falmouth and down from Plymouth
Great episode, Melody starting to stretch her legs and show you how capable she is, the further you travel, the more comfortable and confident you will be with her and yourselves
Yes for sure
I meant to ask before Andy, but your sails today reminded me -- do you sail a ketch or a yawl?
She is a Yawl.
Thank you. Sometimes it's not easy to tell unless the boat's on the hard.
Take a Kalms tablet for seasickness and eat ginger biscuits 🙂
Don't eat too many ginger biscuits, because when they decide to return they stick to the deck and take a lot of effort to shift!!
Yes I’ve found Kalms prettt decent
This is very true! I know this from regurgitive experience
Hi, we last visited Fowey in 1982. Anchored up the river from town. The harbourmaster arrived very promptly to charge us £14. As we had local crew (from the Helford river) This was reduced to £7. The argument was that foreign boats (Dutch) had to pay more to the Prince of Wales who claims ownership. I wonder how that is now and what fortune you had to hand over for tying up to the dock for the night. Cheers Peter. (From sunny New Zealand)
14 pounds in 82 was a serious money :)
Yeah it’s pricey that’s for sure!! Winds me up bit tbh lol
It certainly was! You could buy a new album on vinyl for less!
A question? What does the sail number mean on your main and in particular the letter T? My trailer-sailer had a T on the sail but your boat is not a trailer-sailer!
Happy sailing Nick
Not sure really. It’s just the identifying number. I don’t actually know what it means
7 knots are not shabby.😅
No indeed! We’re thrilled with her performance
nice ! don't you have a spinaker ? i heard there are spinakers for the mizzen mast too?
OK silly question , why is the main boom so short ? seems like you could have it longer add more sail area!
Oh i just like speed!
It's SO bloody cold in UK how do you stay warm on deck and in sailing ? maybe video of your gear ? i have ridden M/C for ages and i fancy a base of silk long underwear but i found electric clothing was the bomb ! and now w/ small high-powered lithium batteries you could go mobile if you needed to move about electric gear worked for the brave flyers in WW2 and is far advanced fr what they used!
what do you think of folding electric bicycles for getting around when moored ? would still take up some room whilst stored i suppose!
Watch next week 😊 spinnakers all flying
Dear Sailing Melody family.
👍👌👏 This was quite a nice sailing trip. But please, Andy, be careful what you wish for. Because sailing along with almost no wind can't really be what you want to experience for the rest of your life. 😁 ;-) 😋😜👅😇😘 2) Hope that your sea sickness will vanish soon. Nothing worse than being at sea a lot and sailing to paradisiac places while being sea sick. Hope it's only caused by all the stress you had/have (psychosomatic). 3) Why is the small outboard motor so loud? Defective muffler or no muffler or caused by the microphone?
As always: Thanks a lot for making explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards, luck and especially health to all involved people.
Oh blimey that little two stroke is loud isn’t it: it’s very old. But I darent swap it for a new one because it’s just so amazingly reliable lol. How are you doing! We love your comments every week xxxx
Save up for a mizzen staysail as well
...........wait until next week's episode!!
@@SailingMelody you might also get a bit of flack for calling Polruan (where the shipyard is) Fowey.
Fowey is west of the river, Polruan is on the east bank. 🤭
🙈 oops
Why not hinge the hydro so you could move it to shorten it? Not sure of specifics on exactly how because I was a fleet sailor in the US Navy and never sailed with the wind.
Way too much force to use hinges. The hydrovane mounts are HUGE and sturdy. Hinges would break immediately
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Thank you
I can only think that you never looked at the video before you posted it, Unless your head is really that big 🙂
Hahahah which scene was that issue? We watch each episode dozens of times before posting but sometimes you get blind to stuff and miss things which are obvious to someone who’s not been staring at it for hours and hours and hours. It’s like you can’t see the wood for the trees. I found the same when buying cymbals for my drum kit. You can spend so long testing cymbals you can’t hear them right and need to walk away and come back to it another day with fresh ears.
Buckets
Buckets?
I think that it was your channel which I saw a long time ago when a derelict yacht was discovered in a boatyard and restored to life. Was that you?
That was us.
This channel should be “MOTORING”MELODY coastal cruisers.
🤣 I think we had the motor on for about 30mins in 6 hours.
@@SailingMelodygreat response Andy I would not have wasted my time but you lot have such a lovely nature crack on we love the Chanel
Eat an egg sarnie before you start sailing no sea sickness.
Really? Egg sarnie? Not heard that one before but I’ll give it a try :) thanks
As an ex - pro photographer the camera gets a good pass from me! The lens is quite a strong wide - angle (W A) which for the most part produces a well corrected perspective from edge to edge with just one small exception; I noticed a small amount of W A distortion if shooting close - up (C U) from above the head and down the subject's body, when it is a little prone to a small amount of W A distortion, easily controlled by avoiding extreme C U shots if you want to avoid it.
All things considered I have no reservations in recommending the camera.⁴
We have one now and are experimenting with it