+ScubaTony Anschutz - we found Luckyfish in the Wharram Builders and Friends website and bought her pretty much on the spot. We were already convinced about the design and had been looking hard. The builder, Dan, was selling. She had taken 3 years to build and was 18 months since launch, with 1500 coastal Sth Africa miles under her. He and wife fell pregnant with their first kiddie... conceived during some of those miles :-) and realised that they would not have the free time to maintain the boat.
so awesome finding your channel! and seeing these cape town vids im from cape town origanlly but now live in Oahu. Love your vessel for sure my dream cruiser as well.
I am just happy for all these people out sailing the world.... posting videos of their adventures and enjoying life....AND for all the working people willing to give to all these travelers as they share in the adventure by viewing here on You Tube. What an amazing world we live in.
So nice to get the back story. I look forward to all of your videos. Luckyfish suits you two perfectly! Its an amazing boat and the builders love for it shines through. It is very understated in its graceful beauty.
Luckyfish Gets Away I am not sure what I want this stage of the game. I attended the Hui in Fort Myers and really enjoyed seeing some Wharrams and speaking with the owners and builders. So for me in limbo not retired and not having a proper tow vehicle. Take care and have a good summer.
Great you got to the Hui! - We were there last year and miss those guys. Would have liked to have seen Greg and Barb's Tiki 38 after the big reno - pics look good. That was a bit of a bargain that one - ideal for someone who enjoys the work bringing one back. Those sort of projects to come on the market occasionally.
good to see ( maybe ) my fav channel back again, pity it was just old stuff, but good old stuff, i can watch film of that boat all day long,, just leaves me wondering what you are all doing now,, cheers.
Being a South African it was most probably some 'Home affairs' bureaucrat that wanted a 'Back-pocket handout and I also had a giggle at the Simonstown naval ship docked there... what's the bet it was there for at least a year coz the 'New South Africans' can't even maintain them let alone sail them! Our Submarines are a disaster and been in dry dock for ages!!
+Robert Rudolph - ha, had a good laugh bru. We made so many wonderful friends in Sth Africa and miss the place heaps. Shame to expose the government and not highlight the good people there. Good of you to give us this chance. Sure hoping that the new govt is a step forward. Thanks , Stew and Zaya
Stew, we ARE talking about the "New GAGA-MENT" mate... yep, us South Africans are a bunch of hospitable peeps and love showing this wonderful country to others.
+Robert Rudolph too true. reminds me to include some of the outstanding braai footage in next vids. shame the new democracy wasn't really ready. thats a story that gets played out everywhere too - so much human suffering and loss as a result of countries going through "growing pains". Same story in many of the new commonwealth independencies post the UN resolution in the 70's. not a lick of paint on a building since then nor a pot-hole filled. many locals look back on the "good old days" of being governed. learned the same in SA. Interesting but not oft discussed. Cheers.
Hey so great to get some backstory. Luckyfish looked so nice right from the start. Maybe you could tell us a little bit about how you found her and why Dan was selling her?
Loved the back story video. :) But one of the video clips brought up a question. [9:47] (Looking under the deck from the bow while running the outboards.) It appeared that the "coffins" that the outboard motors are housed in were dragging quite deep in the water underway. (it looked like up to a foot?) I would never have thought that they went that deep and instead that just the end of the motor went into the water when it was tilted down. But on thinking about it, you would want to be sure that the prop was well under water, so that waves would not uncover the prop in the troughs. How deep below the water line does the prop normally operate?
Yeah, I noticed that clip too, when we edited. The engine sleds, are easily adjusted for height by setting the length of a fixed strop. The manual pulley system that lowers them (cam cleat) is relaxed when they rest on the strop. In that clip the strops had likely stretched and not been shortened a few inches. However, number of other points. The engines (=heavy bits) are located amidships which is where heavy things should go. But when it comes to propellors, they are often best located at the back end to keep them submerged. So, you are right - we do have to be mindful of how deep we set the props to avoid cavitation in the troughs. It is only a very occasional issue and actually of little consequence, but really good question.
+MiQ Bohlin thanks for the thought mate. We have forwards... just as you left it. And, since that is the direction we are going :-) we will not strip the lower unit until Rio Dulce. Its likely the corrosion issue Clarke mentioned... there is a leaky seal in that unit.
So cool! Thanks for posting this segment. You guys have certainly come a long way since then eh. Just wait until you get back to NZ. Kick any bush and half a dozen SAns will jump out, braai tongs at the ready :)
Kinda lost in the timeline again, I know this video is way back, but I thought you had said something about the sisters being the first Mongolians to cross an ocean or something like that? But I've been watching since SA and I had the impression that was before this, since you only crossed the Atlantic relatively recently.
+Josef - you are right on all counts. Our apologies for any confusion. This one was recorded a few months before the Atlantic Crossing in 2016. We have since been in Florida and presently in Caribbean. We'd like to catch up the timeline but also need to top up the cruising kitty and share the pre-Atlantic preparation - which this vid and the next two, do. let us know any other q's! Cheers, Stew and Zaya
Yes, yes! We have only crossed one time and that was it... hope that now makes sense. We have 2017 season to catch up on and the current season too. (The hydro-generator, boat tour and the live videos are from 2017 - once we arrived in Caribbean) but we have not edited the passages and great folks we met across Carib / Florida yet... they will be published as soon as time and money permit... hope that explains it, if not, do ask! Stew
Aren't "bureaucratic" and "bungle" synonyms? ..yes,.. more adventures, from any time period, please! Thanks! :) I've rather gotten into central asian music, by the way, with an accent on the Bashkir (Bashkoristan Russian-controlled-Republic) area. I'm an "old relative" of the Bashkirs (y-dna paternal line R1b) converging back about 7000 years ago. A bit distant, but I'll take it, as we're all relatives on this nifty planet,.. and it's quite nice to find a "legit" excuse to claim some brothers and sisters in that neck of the woods. ..and a tiny
OK,.. after thinking about it for a while (dealing with tuning the weather/lee helm so that the boat "goes straight" without having to be "babied"), Iʻm chucking the "swinging/raking" mast, and will "simply" make my leeboard "very" adjustable fore and aft. Since water is much denser than air, less "movement" is needed to shift the underwater oriented CLR (center lateral resistance) than the sail oriented CE (center effort), and since my lee side is essentially a plane (itʻs flat) I can just put my "up and down" adjustable leeboard on a fore-and-aft slide to tune the weather/lee helm. Eliminates a CRAP load of mast jointing and standing rigging complexity! Hoorah! I also need to be able to fold the mast down quick like, and the "swinging" mast makes that a nightmare. ..blah blah blah,.. gettinʻ some wood to make the 1/12 (maybe 1/16) scale model, ʻcuz I need to TOUCH a model of the thing to figure out how to shape the "stitch and glue" planking for the hull(s). Nā mahalo and aloha to you guys! :) 🤙
Makes sense to me. Wharram experimented with fore and aft daggerboards on the Pahi's. To adjust the CLR so you are on the right track. Any Pahi owners here want to comment?
Great video. Lovely to see some of the sights where I grew up sailing. Liked the tactic for the trip to Saldanha but would have given Bellows Rock a wider berth if it were me going round. It's a lethal break that's claimed more than it's fair share because in a heavy scend you don't realise from just how far off the rock the swells can pick you up, and before you know it you're in bits. Wouldn't complain too much as an outsider about the SA government. That's nothing compared to the utter disaster of being a citizen under them. It's not the future Nelson Mandela spent all of those years in prison for, bet he's spinning in his grave at just how his ideals have been betrayed by his own people. Great video, used to love it in False Bay and Saldanha.
+ted renard yeah. good tip about bellows rk. a bit like our anchorage at ascension island. that break!. totally with you on being any outsider commenting on anyone's culture. yes, Mandela spinning for sure at the greed of his beloved ANC. so sad !. loved our time with real sth Africans. black, white and brindle. less so the poli's. same everywhere we go.
I still find it frustrating and puzzling that this planet has SOO MANY obstacles to living and traveling, and just breathing, ie, Zaya credentials. Just Dumb. But, I suppose if we want to travel we have to tolerate and fund the political nonsense of each country whim. Thanks for another Fine video of your explorations.
We have learned that many/most governments have no interest in helping people move freely across their borders. They provide little funding and no common sense to freedoms of this kind. For some reason, it is not seen as being in any nations interest. Not just Sth Africa, but many many others including Barbados who were shockers too. Cost us heaps. And thats before we get started on Customs duties!!! i.e. exchange of goods across borders. If its a government, its called duty, if it were you or me it would be regarded as organised crime and extortion. Still, don't sweat what we cant change eh?
David D Yep, we will never escape the long slimy tenticles of the multi-armed all-devouring beast known as Government --- until there is a sea change in political philosophy to that of individual Freedom. That ideology must be paramount and all other issues secondary.
I believe what you are experiencing is the sad fact that so many want something for nothing and Countries don't want free loaders coming across their borders. You deal with customs official to confirm you have funding to take care of yourself and will not become a burden to the people of the country you visit. THE USA has finally learned they don't have enough pockets to fill all people seeking a hand out.
Agreed. As sailors though, our ability to support ourselves rests on the boat we arrive and leave on - the officials don't even seek proof of income or means as some air-travellers from certain countries are forced to provide. All we needed in our case in SA and Barbados was to be able to talk to an independent and reasonably minded official prepared to look outside a sledgehammer rule that caused alot of unnecessary stress.
Something else I have noticed by watching Sailing Uma is that Dan has fewer issues with his Canadian passport than Kika has with her Haitian. Has the Lucky Fish crew run into that particular prejudice?
+ScubaTony Anschutz - we found Luckyfish in the Wharram Builders and Friends website and bought her pretty much on the spot. We were already convinced about the design and had been looking hard. The builder, Dan, was selling. She had taken 3 years to build and was 18 months since launch, with 1500 coastal Sth Africa miles under her. He and wife fell pregnant with their first kiddie... conceived during some of those miles :-) and realised that they would not have the free time to maintain the boat.
OH man! You got the super bargain on that one mate! You were ready to buy at just the right time. I hope mine comes out half as nice as Luckyfish!
Ha, according to you it will be better :-) and we couldn't be happier 👍👍👍
11:33
You created a sailor out of a Mongolian woman with steppe culture.
I congratulate you on the great success
:)))
That drop down boarding ramp and drop down outboard motor nacelles are great ideas.
Thanks capt! glad you enjoyed
so awesome finding your channel! and seeing these cape town vids im from cape town origanlly but now live in Oahu. Love your vessel for sure my dream cruiser as well.
I am just happy for all these people out sailing the world.... posting videos of their adventures and enjoying life....AND for all the working people willing to give to all these travelers as they share in the adventure by viewing here on You Tube. What an amazing world we live in.
Too true!
This cat has got to be the coolest design ever.
+Michael Kerr Yep.
You two are very brave souls!
I pray for you fare wind, pleasant sky and many days!
Thanks Thomas, it might seem brave but we take things in small steps and they soon add up - you know the routine I am sure. Cheers, Stewart and Zaya
So nice to get the back story. I look forward to all of your videos. Luckyfish suits you two perfectly! Its an amazing boat and the builders love for it shines through. It is very understated in its graceful beauty.
Understated - agreed and graceful too. The Wharrams do seem to harmonise with the sea, you sense it when you sail on one.
Great to see you guys back. I love watching your videos.
+Hammer Rocks great to see you back too!
Great video..one of the best (actually the best) sailing channel! cant wait to see this season.
check then also free range sailing also very good with a lot of practicable information
Gave this one a big like Stew. Keep the sailing vid's coming - love your cat.
Thanks Joe!
great to see you posting again
+Andrew Keir thanks AK !
Great video and especially enjoyed the solar shower!
Finally u got a new vid...miss ur vids.
What a Blast from the Past....!!!....I had totally forgotten you're not running a boom......Enjoyed it All.....S.F., Ca..... ;-)
Thanks alot Mark! yeah, no boom equals double mainsheets, thinking outside the box! More on rig set ups in next few vids
beautifull ...
Good Story!!
Thanks mate. When are you starting your build??
Luckyfish Gets Away I am not sure what I want this stage of the game. I attended the Hui in Fort Myers and really enjoyed seeing some Wharrams and speaking with the owners and builders. So for me in limbo not retired and not having a proper tow vehicle. Take care and have a good summer.
Great you got to the Hui! - We were there last year and miss those guys. Would have liked to have seen Greg and Barb's Tiki 38 after the big reno - pics look good. That was a bit of a bargain that one - ideal for someone who enjoys the work bringing one back. Those sort of projects to come on the market occasionally.
Woo. Nice video. And also nice song.
Thank you guys!!!
Zugeree. Glad you enjoyed. Always nice to see some Mongolians here ! Stew and Zaya
good to see ( maybe ) my fav channel back again, pity it was just old stuff, but good old stuff, i can watch film of that boat all day long,, just leaves me wondering what you are all doing now,, cheers.
Awesome, you guys loved it. Cheers mate Brice
+The Marble guy hey Popeye from radio Sarasota. Z and I spent today editing your interview. Will send you link for approval... it's a gift to Patrons.
And on top of the windvane 🌼🌸🌻 Thnx for sharing the first beginning 👍🏽
a sweet gift from the owners of a Lagoon 550 we rafted up against ... on arrival at midnight at Yachtport
You're finally back!!
Simonstown my home town
great place to grow up, reminded me of my home town, christchurch, where all the best sailors and rugby players come from ;-)
crazy for just 2 days over
Being a South African it was most probably some 'Home affairs' bureaucrat that wanted a 'Back-pocket handout and I also had a giggle at the Simonstown naval ship docked there... what's the bet it was there for at least a year coz the 'New South Africans' can't even maintain them let alone sail them! Our Submarines are a disaster and been in dry dock for ages!!
yeah, where is the human input in all this?? crazy is the right word, thanks for understanding. Stew and Zaya
+Robert Rudolph - ha, had a good laugh bru. We made so many wonderful friends in Sth Africa and miss the place heaps. Shame to expose the government and not highlight the good people there. Good of you to give us this chance. Sure hoping that the new govt is a step forward. Thanks , Stew and Zaya
Stew, we ARE talking about the "New GAGA-MENT" mate... yep, us South Africans are a bunch of hospitable peeps and love showing this wonderful country to others.
+Robert Rudolph too true. reminds me to include some of the outstanding braai footage in next vids. shame the new democracy wasn't really ready. thats a story that gets played out everywhere too - so much human suffering and loss as a result of countries going through "growing pains". Same story in many of the new commonwealth independencies post the UN resolution in the 70's. not a lick of paint on a building since then nor a pot-hole filled. many locals look back on the "good old days" of being governed. learned the same in SA. Interesting but not oft discussed. Cheers.
Excellent video!
Thanks! What did you like about it?
Lovely review.
Thanks. So happy you enjoyed it.
Great story. Thanks and best from HKG 🇭🇰
Thanks Laurent, always a pleasure to hear from you!
Nice post guys!
Thanks John, more to come in next few episodes including a few pearls from Rory on setting up the rig
I'm going to have to check my books but I don't remember Huck Finn making so much importance about the raft.
13:30, Alchohol may have been involved!
May??? :-)
Hey so great to get some backstory. Luckyfish looked so nice right from the start. Maybe you could tell us a little bit about how you found her and why Dan was selling her?
pinned our reply to this at the top of comments. Good questions!
Loved the back story video. :)
But one of the video clips brought up a question. [9:47] (Looking under the deck from the bow while running the outboards.) It appeared that the "coffins" that the outboard motors are housed in were dragging quite deep in the water underway. (it looked like up to a foot?) I would never have thought that they went that deep and instead that just the end of the motor went into the water when it was tilted down.
But on thinking about it, you would want to be sure that the prop was well under water, so that waves would not uncover the prop in the troughs. How deep below the water line does the prop normally operate?
Yeah, I noticed that clip too, when we edited. The engine sleds, are easily adjusted for height by setting the length of a fixed strop. The manual pulley system that lowers them (cam cleat) is relaxed when they rest on the strop. In that clip the strops had likely stretched and not been shortened a few inches. However, number of other points. The engines (=heavy bits) are located amidships which is where heavy things should go. But when it comes to propellors, they are often best located at the back end to keep them submerged. So, you are right - we do have to be mindful of how deep we set the props to avoid cavitation in the troughs. It is only a very occasional issue and actually of little consequence, but really good question.
About the lower gear unit on starboard engine - How is it? Did you have to replace any bearings? Or was it just an issue of adjustment?
+MiQ Bohlin thanks for the thought mate. We have forwards... just as you left it. And, since that is the direction we are going :-) we will not strip the lower unit until Rio Dulce. Its likely the corrosion issue Clarke mentioned... there is a leaky seal in that unit.
So cool! Thanks for posting this segment. You guys have certainly come a long way since then eh. Just wait until you get back to NZ. Kick any bush and half a dozen SAns will jump out, braai tongs at the ready :)
Ha ha. Mate if they bring their Borswers? (that sausage thing) and braai skills with them, make them welcome !
I think you're referring to the South African manna from heaven known as boerewors :-)
yes Ted, thats them. Delicious.
Kinda lost in the timeline again, I know this video is way back, but I thought you had said something about the sisters being the first Mongolians to cross an ocean or something like that? But I've been watching since SA and I had the impression that was before this, since you only crossed the Atlantic relatively recently.
+Josef - you are right on all counts. Our apologies for any confusion. This one was recorded a few months before the Atlantic Crossing in 2016. We have since been in Florida and presently in Caribbean. We'd like to catch up the timeline but also need to top up the cruising kitty and share the pre-Atlantic preparation - which this vid and the next two, do. let us know any other q's! Cheers, Stew and Zaya
Luckyfish Gets Away
Right, I know where this one fits in, but when did they set some kind of record? Where in the timeline was that?
Ah! They crossed the Atlantic Ocean when they landed in Barbados in 2016
Well, that's even more confusing. I just watched you cross to Barbados a few months ago, is that video from 2016? Or was that a different crossing?
Yes, yes! We have only crossed one time and that was it... hope that now makes sense. We have 2017 season to catch up on and the current season too. (The hydro-generator, boat tour and the live videos are from 2017 - once we arrived in Caribbean) but we have not edited the passages and great folks we met across Carib / Florida yet... they will be published as soon as time and money permit... hope that explains it, if not, do ask! Stew
Aren't "bureaucratic" and "bungle" synonyms?
..yes,.. more adventures, from any time period, please! Thanks! :)
I've rather gotten into central asian music, by the way, with an accent on the Bashkir (Bashkoristan Russian-controlled-Republic) area. I'm an "old relative" of the Bashkirs (y-dna paternal line R1b) converging back about 7000 years ago. A bit distant, but I'll take it, as we're all relatives on this nifty planet,.. and it's quite nice to find a "legit" excuse to claim some brothers and sisters in that neck of the woods.
..and a tiny
cant help you with the proa problem - how do the Marshallese do it?
OK,.. after thinking about it for a while (dealing with tuning the weather/lee helm so that the boat "goes straight" without having to be "babied"), Iʻm chucking the "swinging/raking" mast, and will "simply" make my leeboard "very" adjustable fore and aft.
Since water is much denser than air, less "movement" is needed to shift the underwater oriented CLR (center lateral resistance) than the sail oriented CE (center effort), and since my lee side is essentially a plane (itʻs flat) I can just put my "up and down" adjustable leeboard on a fore-and-aft slide to tune the weather/lee helm.
Eliminates a CRAP load of mast jointing and standing rigging complexity! Hoorah! I also need to be able to fold the mast down quick like, and the "swinging" mast makes that a nightmare.
..blah blah blah,.. gettinʻ some wood to make the 1/12 (maybe 1/16) scale model, ʻcuz I need to TOUCH a model of the thing to figure out how to shape the "stitch and glue" planking for the hull(s).
Nā mahalo and aloha to you guys! :) 🤙
Makes sense to me. Wharram experimented with fore and aft daggerboards on the Pahi's. To adjust the CLR so you are on the right track. Any Pahi owners here want to comment?
Great video. Lovely to see some of the sights where I grew up sailing. Liked the tactic for the trip to Saldanha but would have given Bellows Rock a wider berth if it were me going round. It's a lethal break that's claimed more than it's fair share because in a heavy scend you don't realise from just how far off the rock the swells can pick you up, and before you know it you're in bits. Wouldn't complain too much as an outsider about the SA government. That's nothing compared to the utter disaster of being a citizen under them. It's not the future Nelson Mandela spent all of those years in prison for, bet he's spinning in his grave at just how his ideals have been betrayed by his own people. Great video, used to love it in False Bay and Saldanha.
+ted renard yeah. good tip about bellows rk. a bit like our anchorage at ascension island. that break!. totally with you on being any outsider commenting on anyone's culture. yes, Mandela spinning for sure at the greed of his beloved ANC. so sad !. loved our time with real sth Africans. black, white and brindle. less so the poli's. same everywhere we go.
:)
I still find it frustrating and puzzling that this planet has SOO MANY obstacles to living and traveling, and just breathing, ie, Zaya credentials. Just Dumb. But, I suppose if we want to travel we have to tolerate and fund the political nonsense of each country whim. Thanks for another Fine video of your explorations.
We have learned that many/most governments have no interest in helping people move freely across their borders. They provide little funding and no common sense to freedoms of this kind. For some reason, it is not seen as being in any nations interest. Not just Sth Africa, but many many others including Barbados who were shockers too. Cost us heaps. And thats before we get started on Customs duties!!! i.e. exchange of goods across borders. If its a government, its called duty, if it were you or me it would be regarded as organised crime and extortion. Still, don't sweat what we cant change eh?
David D Yep, we will never escape the long slimy tenticles of the multi-armed all-devouring beast known as Government --- until there is a sea change in political philosophy to that of individual Freedom. That ideology must be paramount and all other issues secondary.
I believe what you are experiencing is the sad fact that so many want something for nothing and Countries don't want free loaders coming across their borders. You deal with customs official to confirm you have funding to take care of yourself and will not become a burden to the people of the country you visit. THE USA has finally learned they don't have enough pockets to fill all people seeking a hand out.
Agreed. As sailors though, our ability to support ourselves rests on the boat we arrive and leave on - the officials don't even seek proof of income or means as some air-travellers from certain countries are forced to provide. All we needed in our case in SA and Barbados was to be able to talk to an independent and reasonably minded official prepared to look outside a sledgehammer rule that caused alot of unnecessary stress.
Something else I have noticed by watching Sailing Uma is that Dan has fewer issues with his Canadian passport than Kika has with her Haitian. Has the Lucky Fish crew run into that particular prejudice?