Noticed your yellow rachet straps on the solar panels. If you put a twist in the section from panel to the attachment point on the boat it wont flap or hum in the wind.. I went through Albemarel Sound in a 21 ft power boat in a huge following sea! Fun the horizon would disappear halfway down the wave. Long hard section! Smooth sailing. Bob
Wow very cool that boat lock you showed is where I grow up after the lock on starboard was my elementary school and that's the deep Creek locks and back in the 70's I fish off the banks of the ICW I guess they haven't drenched it since I was a kid lol ps that big blue ferry boat is better than a roller coaster lol
Just got to say how much I love the real content of this channel. Been subbed from the beginning and it is an awesome tale. Both of you gaining knowledge and experience with the boat and with the camera. Candice looking more confident on camera and on the helm😎 Much respect to you for the water strainer and impeller changes under pressure. As far as sailing goes, I have to say only one thing really remember, REEF EARLY AND REEF DEEP. Easier to shake them out in a calm than put them in with a blow! Don't tow the dinghy unless it is flat calm and check your mast rake to reduce weather weather helm. Having said that it is a great adventure and with near real time updates, a great update diary style to camera and absolutely no pretense, scripting or posing for camera I love this channel more and more. Real people in a real boat and limited cash, what's not to like? Keep on keeping on and don't change a thing. (Except reef early!)
What a day........!!! One for the books I'm sure. Good luck. Chin up, keep your cool, every day is a new adventure..........some more adventurous than others. Capt Kaz
Welcome to our neighborhood! We’re at mm 60 on the western shore of the Pasquotank River. It can really get fun with following seas here. First time we crossed the Albemarle in our trawler we were north bound the first of November in 2013 and had a following sea that kept turning us around! It was a long six hours to Elizabeth City. People have said that this body of water is the most dangerous they’ve ever crossed when the wind is up because of the shallow water. The waves are so close together there is no time for recovery!
The frog weed is still three. I loveit. Hope you checked the raw water exhaust for blockages periodically as you motored along. The frog weed got me some years ago and I had to stop and clean my raw water strainer, or rather my buddy did. Kudos to him.
Hey guys, love your story, just having morning coffee and laughing our buts off, just to let you know that this is ultimitly your learning experience for adventure and you seem to handle it with great enthusiastics, don't let go you'll get there
Hey Guys, great video! I told you the Hampton River was a well protected anchorage, that's basically my backyard! I like the Dismal Swamp Canal, but it can be dirty, bumpy and buggy! I've only been in the Albemarle Sound once and it was calm, but I've heard many, many horror stories, you've just given me another!! Glad you made it through with only minor damage. Still love watching your videos. Anxiously waiting to see your future videos!
Hey, you should check your rake on your mast. If when you put your mast back up you might have changed your back stay tension. You should not not get such heavy weather helm on only 20 knots of wind
Globe Marine make a run-dry impeller for that engine I think. They are blue, and usually only cost about $10 more than the standard impellers. They are 3 times more durable, and last three times as long. This produces a lot less blade finding in the exchanger, and cooling failures. Also if the strainer plugs it won't start to destroy the impeller for about 90 seconds or so, as opposed to a normal one that immediately starts to degrade. Albemarle sound 6 ft deeps...waves...fun...ick...
Question: regarding your dingy, isn't the working towing line supposed to be on the dingy bow with the side lines a bit slacker only stabilizing direction because the side attachment points are much weaker than the bow attachment point?
In spite of all the ugliest that may come your kids way y'all are so blessed... it is so good to hear that God is answering our prayers to keep your kids safe from whatever comes your way... 👍👍🤗🤗 Life sure can be ugly at times trust me in all my years I've seen. Much ugly but God is always been true to HIS word and always make a way out for us . I didn't always like the Way Out but God Made A Way Out and it all ended up that I was blessed in the end. and I know that God's got many blessings lined up for you kids too... I think my prayer now will be that God will make a way that you kids could get one of those lift things to where you can lift your dinghy out of the water insid of having to tow it all the time... I think the greatest blessing of all is that you kids are you able to talk about it at the end of the day God kept y'all safe no matter how many uglies came your way... Love you kids thanks for a great video you're always in our prayers be blessed... BBE 👍 👍🤗 🤗🙏🙏 ♥️♥️
Yeah that 15 boats is the sail to the sun rally headed by canadian named Wally moran, it's a yearly thing after the fall annapolis boat show....his boat is a red hulled dufour 34.....as for the wind, I would have either put two reefs in the main immediately and reefed the jib to cut down the sail area (sounds like you were overpowered), or turned on the engine.
cant understand the selfish attitude of the sun rally bunch, not content with holding everyone else up but he then parks that big catamaran in the middle of the already narrow channel,, people ?
Great Video and good editing... Nice you dont have to lower the mast like the erie cannal.... I agree with the other comment about adding a static mount to showcase all the action.
DOH! I wish I'd started following you a few weeks earlier, you passed within a few miles of my house. The Naval Station you passed in the Elizabeth River just south of the Bay is Naval Station Norfolk, the largest naval base in the world, home to most of the US Navy's Atlantic Fleet. In the unlikely event you should sail back through I'll get hold of you, I'm retired Navy and would love to buy you guys a beer and take you on a tour! Love your Vlog! I have similar plans to head south on our Spencer 35 in a few years, for all the same reasons you chose to do this. Keep up the good work! Oh, by the way. Thank you for putting the episode numbers in your titles, it helps quite a bit. It would also help if you could flash the date up on the screen in the morning or something. Just a thought. Fair winds and following seas, hope to see you out there some day!
Thanks for following along! Seems to be the way of things - as soon as we pass through somewhere and post a new video about it, all of our followers come out of the woodwork! Would love to meet up with more of you along the way!! Hope to see you down South! 🍻
S/V Bright Eyes, I highly recommend an AIS receiver for your travels a transmitter also would be nice. This tells you where other ships are direction, distance and closest point of approch, bear in mind I am almost blind and can not spell worth a sh**, again well done
With all the waiting at bridges, shallow waters, bugs, floating debris and being on edge, I have never understood why people decide on motoring the ICW in good weather when those things can be avoided while sailing just off the continental shelf (not out in the Gulfstream). I've never been on the ICW so I imagine there must be some logical draw for some sailors....but I prefer more space around me and greater water depth for generally more distance between wave crests. You two worked well together in some very trying moments!
because Cape Hatteras in prone to absolute brutality. www.sailboat-delivery.com/cape_hatteras.htm. Been through there on 300' destroyers and a 500' cruiser and hated every second of it.
Just purchased a S2 9.2 sitting in Camden N. C. just east of Elizabeth City and have been thinking how to get a 44 year old underpowered with an aging Yanmar back to Florida...your just talked me out of going south..what is the current like in the dismal?
In previous episode when they panned-up the sail in the video, there were no reefing lines installed. That could have made a big difference. My boat is much happier in fresh breeze with a reef - or two.
Pamlico Sound is just as bad for waves as the Alligator River. I wait until the forecast is for 10 knots or less for those awful areas. I think you missed the best part of the whole trip - it looked like Robert was working the Deep Creek Lock. On your way north make a point of spending half a day in his office chatting.
After their deaths( of course..and 8 years apart) both my parents ashes were scattered from a plane just south of Solomon Is. 1974 and 81 respectively...my father loved that area..but he was a powerboater
Got a great laugh at your expense (sorry) but I learned early on to never tow a dingy with following Seas or any semi rough weather, its a guaranteed way to lose a boat forever! but that's how you learn and glad neither of you got hurt.
Most folks don't run aground on the ICW, only the Rigging Doctor does that frequently. But then, we come to expect unusual mistakes from that fruit loop......
Wow, stress day, but you prevailed! At least the big seas of the sound cleaned up the swamp goo off of the boat. Great video guys! Glad you have a Canadian buddy boat!
Best strategy for towing an inflatable in rough seas is to pull her right up to your stern, with the bow out of the water so that she can't dance around back there.
I SO stumbled over "Albemarle" when I first moved here. It's a tongue twister if you aren't local. "All'-bu-marel" Even with the phonetics it's no that easy to say.
I had a big surprize today. Staring me in the face was LADY K SAILING written on the wall of Deep Creek Lock. What are the chances that I would be lined up to notice it? :p
I hope you bought all of your fuel jugs in Canada so you don't have to put up with the STUPID US EPA/CARB compliant one we have to use ! Maybe you need a static camera mount so we can watch all of your chaos. Personally, I never understood why anyone would tow a dinghy. You need to find some way to get it out of the water and secure it.
Seems as though every TH-cam sailing channel sailors pick the ICW rather than just going offshore. Why is that? Is it to avoid fighting the Gulf Stream or unfavorable winds? Or is it because cruising the ICW makes for more interesting g podcasts?
Hard to say. I was very green and never been there. I did what the weather wanted to do. Also we were having such a good time exploring the east coast and meeting people. Also insurance wouldn't let us cross to the Bahamas until nov 1st. I guess there can be a lot of reasons.
@@LadyKSailing the meeting more people explanation works well. It's obvious you are a people person and enjoy being around others. And encountering new people does make for interesting podcast material. I have a similar personality, but, my inner cheapskate just keeps going back to "the wind is free. use it". My wife is more of a hermit, so if we ever do become cruisers, I suspect she'd be happier going off shore, once she got over her terror of not being able to see land.
I started to write this comment at the beginning of the video to warn you of pulling your dingy that way..then deleted it , I guess they know what they are doing. I was going to warn you that they are designed to be pulled by the eye under the bow. I know the inflatable will track better the way you had it hooked up but its not if, it's when it will fail.
Noticed your yellow rachet straps on the solar panels. If you put a twist in the section from panel to the attachment point on the boat it wont flap or hum in the wind.. I went through Albemarel Sound in a 21 ft power boat in a huge following sea! Fun the horizon would disappear halfway down the wave. Long hard section!
Smooth sailing. Bob
Thanks for the tip, Bob! We’ll try that next time. 👌🏼
Always interesting listening to people talk about my area as they pass thru. :)
Wow very cool that boat lock you showed is where I grow up after the lock on starboard was my elementary school and that's the deep Creek locks and back in the 70's I fish off the banks of the ICW I guess they haven't drenched it since I was a kid lol ps that big blue ferry boat is better than a roller coaster lol
Just got to say how much I love the real content of this channel. Been subbed from the beginning and it is an awesome tale. Both of you gaining knowledge and experience with the boat and with the camera. Candice looking more confident on camera and on the helm😎 Much respect to you for the water strainer and impeller changes under pressure. As far as sailing goes, I have to say only one thing really remember, REEF EARLY AND REEF DEEP. Easier to shake them out in a calm than put them in with a blow!
Don't tow the dinghy unless it is flat calm and check your mast rake to reduce weather weather helm.
Having said that it is a great adventure and with near real time updates, a great update diary style to camera and absolutely no pretense, scripting or posing for camera I love this channel more and more. Real people in a real boat and limited cash, what's not to like?
Keep on keeping on and don't change a thing. (Except reef early!)
Thank you so so much for the kind words. It really means a lot :)
We’re newbies getting ready to go and learn so much from you guys! Thanks for being real!
What a day........!!! One for the books I'm sure. Good luck. Chin up, keep your cool, every day is a new adventure..........some more adventurous than others. Capt Kaz
I love Candice's animation along with your "bad day" story! That was awesome.
So many experts. So much advice.
You are both inspiring!
Wow, what a story! Glad you made it through safely!
Another story for the books, while sitting around drinking sundowners. Glad to see you made it through it.
Welcome to our neighborhood! We’re at mm 60 on the western shore of the Pasquotank River. It can really get fun with following seas here. First time we crossed the Albemarle in our trawler we were north bound the first of November in 2013 and had a following sea that kept turning us around! It was a long six hours to Elizabeth City. People have said that this body of water is the most dangerous they’ve ever crossed when the wind is up because of the shallow water. The waves are so close together there is no time for recovery!
The frog weed is still three. I loveit. Hope you checked the raw water exhaust for blockages periodically as you motored along. The frog weed got me some years ago and I had to stop and clean my raw water strainer, or rather my buddy did. Kudos to him.
Yes! You put the decals on!
Hey guys, love your story, just having morning coffee and laughing our buts off, just to let you know that this is ultimitly your learning experience for adventure and you seem to handle it with great enthusiastics, don't let go you'll get there
Two vids in less than a week!? Awesome! Grabbing a beverage to watch this one. I can't wait to see you two in blue water.
A real sailing channel with content .. Just subscribed
Hey Guys, great video! I told you the Hampton River was a well protected anchorage, that's basically my backyard! I like the Dismal Swamp Canal, but it can be dirty, bumpy and buggy! I've only been in the Albemarle Sound once and it was calm, but I've heard many, many horror stories, you've just given me another!! Glad you made it through with only minor damage. Still love watching your videos. Anxiously waiting to see your future videos!
Tough days are bound to happen, make the best of it and keep positive.
Hey, you should check your rake on your mast. If when you put your mast back up you might have changed your back stay tension. You should not not get such heavy weather helm on only 20 knots of wind
Lots of great information. Keep it coming.
Globe Marine make a run-dry impeller for that engine I think. They are blue, and usually only cost about $10 more than the standard impellers. They are 3 times more durable, and last three times as long. This produces a lot less blade finding in the exchanger, and cooling failures. Also if the strainer plugs it won't start to destroy the impeller for about 90 seconds or so, as opposed to a normal one that immediately starts to degrade. Albemarle sound 6 ft deeps...waves...fun...ick...
That's great! I will look into it right away, thank you!
Question: regarding your dingy, isn't the working towing line supposed to be on the dingy bow with the side lines a bit slacker only stabilizing direction because the side attachment points are much weaker than the bow attachment point?
In spite of all the ugliest that may come your kids way y'all are so blessed... it is so good to hear that God is answering our prayers to keep your kids safe from whatever comes your way... 👍👍🤗🤗
Life sure can be ugly at times trust me in all my years I've seen. Much ugly but God is always been true to HIS word and always make a way out for us . I didn't always like the Way Out but God Made A Way Out and it all ended up that I was blessed in the end. and I know that God's got many blessings lined up for you kids too...
I think my prayer now will be that God will make a way that you kids could get one of those lift things to where you can lift your dinghy out of the water insid of having to tow it all the time...
I think the greatest blessing of all is that you kids are you able to talk about it at the end of the day God kept y'all safe no matter how many uglies came your way... Love you kids thanks for a great video you're always in our prayers be blessed... BBE 👍 👍🤗 🤗🙏🙏 ♥️♥️
Yeah that 15 boats is the sail to the sun rally headed by canadian named Wally moran, it's a yearly thing after the fall annapolis boat show....his boat is a red hulled dufour 34.....as for the wind, I would have either put two reefs in the main immediately and reefed the jib to cut down the sail area (sounds like you were overpowered), or turned on the engine.
and turn off ongine if ya have too much power adding power seems to be a bit counter
cant understand the selfish attitude of the sun rally bunch, not content with holding everyone else up but he then parks that big catamaran in the middle of the already narrow channel,, people ?
Love you guys. Sorry you had a sh*t day!
Great Video and good editing... Nice you dont have to lower the mast like the erie cannal.... I agree with the other comment about adding a static mount to showcase all the action.
We’d love one. It’s just a matter of money. We will get there.
What can go wrong will go wrong. Still having fun?
Absolutely! There’s no turning back. 👌🏼
DOH! I wish I'd started following you a few weeks earlier, you passed within a few miles of my house. The Naval Station you passed in the Elizabeth River just south of the Bay is Naval Station Norfolk, the largest naval base in the world, home to most of the US Navy's Atlantic Fleet. In the unlikely event you should sail back through I'll get hold of you, I'm retired Navy and would love to buy you guys a beer and take you on a tour!
Love your Vlog! I have similar plans to head south on our Spencer 35 in a few years, for all the same reasons you chose to do this. Keep up the good work!
Oh, by the way. Thank you for putting the episode numbers in your titles, it helps quite a bit. It would also help if you could flash the date up on the screen in the morning or something. Just a thought.
Fair winds and following seas, hope to see you out there some day!
Thanks for following along! Seems to be the way of things - as soon as we pass through somewhere and post a new video about it, all of our followers come out of the woodwork! Would love to meet up with more of you along the way!! Hope to see you down South! 🍻
All for an adventure of a lifetime. Experiences you would not have had any other time in your life
S/V Bright Eyes, I highly recommend an AIS receiver for your travels a transmitter also would be nice. This tells you where other ships are direction, distance and closest point of approch, bear in mind I am almost blind and can not spell worth a sh**, again well done
With all the waiting at bridges, shallow waters, bugs, floating debris and being on edge, I have never understood why people decide on motoring the ICW in good weather when those things can be avoided while sailing just off the continental shelf (not out in the Gulfstream). I've never been on the ICW so I imagine there must be some logical draw for some sailors....but I prefer more space around me and greater water depth for generally more distance between wave crests. You two worked well together in some very trying moments!
because Cape Hatteras in prone to absolute brutality. www.sailboat-delivery.com/cape_hatteras.htm. Been through there on 300' destroyers and a 500' cruiser and hated every second of it.
What is the draw on your boat and where are you reading the depth from?
We draw about five three. We read from two feet below the waterline. Five three total depth
Just purchased a S2 9.2 sitting in Camden N. C. just east of Elizabeth City and have been thinking how to get a 44 year old underpowered with an aging Yanmar back to Florida...your just talked me out of going south..what is the current like in the dismal?
Had you considered reefing the main to alleviate your weatherhelm?
In previous episode when they panned-up the sail in the video, there were no reefing lines installed. That could have made a big difference. My boat is much happier in fresh breeze with a reef - or two.
Yeah, but wait til you get to the Bahamas!
Pamlico Sound is just as bad for waves as the Alligator River. I wait until the forecast is for 10 knots or less for those awful areas.
I think you missed the best part of the whole trip - it looked like Robert was working the Deep Creek Lock. On your way north make a point of spending half a day in his office chatting.
We met him! What a guy. Played a conch shell for us haha. That was fun
After their deaths( of course..and 8 years apart) both my parents ashes were scattered from a plane just south of Solomon Is. 1974 and 81 respectively...my father loved that area..but he was a powerboater
Got a great laugh at your expense (sorry) but I learned early on to never tow a dingy with following Seas or any semi rough weather, its a guaranteed way to lose a boat forever! but that's how you learn and glad neither of you got hurt.
Most folks don't run aground on the ICW, only the Rigging Doctor does that frequently. But then, we come to expect unusual mistakes from that fruit loop......
Furl in the jib and go on a reefed main...tough day for sure.
Wow, stress day, but you prevailed! At least the big seas of the sound cleaned up the swamp goo off of the boat. Great video guys! Glad you have a Canadian buddy boat!
You found the frog weed!
What do you draw? Keel depth?
Best strategy for towing an inflatable in rough seas is to pull her right up to your stern, with the bow out of the water so that she can't dance around back there.
wooo hoooo you just hit 3K subscribers :)
Hope you had some adult beverages after that nightmare!!?!
Pasquotank River and Albemarle Sound
I SO stumbled over "Albemarle" when I first moved here. It's a tongue twister if you aren't local. "All'-bu-marel" Even with the phonetics it's no that easy to say.
I had a big surprize today. Staring me in the face was LADY K SAILING written on the wall of Deep Creek Lock. What are the chances that I would be lined up to notice it? :p
Oops! You didn’t tattle on us to Robert did you!? 🤭😉
Whereabouts are you now? Can’t be too far behind us!
There has been a lot of wind up here. 1 boat tried to leave yesterday and turned back. About 25 boats will be leaving Elizabeth City tomorrow.
Why the dismal swamp route ??
It sounded real nice, actually. Why not?
Davits would be helpful!
I hope you bought all of your fuel jugs in Canada so you don't have to put up with the STUPID US EPA/CARB compliant one we have to use !
Maybe you need a static camera mount so we can watch all of your chaos. Personally, I never understood why anyone would tow a dinghy. You need to find some way to get it out of the water and secure it.
Whew!
Seems as though every TH-cam sailing channel sailors pick the ICW rather than just going offshore.
Why is that?
Is it to avoid fighting the Gulf Stream or unfavorable winds?
Or is it because cruising the ICW makes for more interesting g podcasts?
Hard to say. I was very green and never been there. I did what the weather wanted to do. Also we were having such a good time exploring the east coast and meeting people. Also insurance wouldn't let us cross to the Bahamas until nov 1st. I guess there can be a lot of reasons.
@@LadyKSailing the meeting more people explanation works well. It's obvious you are a people person and enjoy being around others. And encountering new people does make for interesting podcast material.
I have a similar personality, but, my inner cheapskate just keeps going back to "the wind is free. use it". My wife is more of a hermit, so if we ever do become cruisers, I suspect she'd be happier going off shore, once she got over her terror of not being able to see land.
A supplement to my earlier message is the following video about how to configure a dingy bridle.
m.th-cam.com/video/USt2sCT6W5Y/w-d-xo.html
I started to write this comment at the beginning of the video to warn you of pulling your dingy that way..then deleted it , I guess they know what they are doing. I was going to warn you that they are designed to be pulled by the eye under the bow. I know the inflatable will track better the way you had it hooked up but its not if, it's when it will fail.
You guys need dingie davits.
Sure do
Raft.