My dad and brother and i went camping in the keys every winter maybe 5 years in a row, Islamorada BPK bahia honda, super cheap and super relaxing....Your videos remind me that i always wanted to get a sailboat and do what youre doing!
Should have stopped by boot key harbor. I'm on a mooring there on my Tayana 52. I have a ton of spare blocks on my boat. I would have hooked you up with a few. Got a few buddy's here with other boats here getting ready to head to the Caribbean in February.
I literally just learned how to drill out the rivets on the blocks and replace the sheaves for real cheap, I still would have stopped to say hi though if I knew u existed till now haha
After about 15 years, the sun finally wins out on those nylon sheaves and they crack. Some can be disassembled and just have to have the actual sheave to replace, but a lot of them don't have bolts and can't be repaired.
I love the raw, unedited, sometimes clumsy videos of you learning the ocean and I especially love you sharing your music. It's so refreshing to see an unfiltered way of life in a world of so much editing. You remind me of my husband when he was a young novice sailor. We've been married 18 years now and sail 6-months of the year and your vids always make me smile. The arm/shoulder p*rns not bad either. 😉
Glad your channel got recommended to me. Subbed and went back and watched every video from the beginning. Why is because I one day hope to do this too. Almost made it happen several times now. I’ll get my chance
This one so far my favorite!!! Maybe cause you played mom's song who knows....but I googled that island immediately lmao...human remains have been found in the area lol
Yea nobody know how sentimental that song is to me or even that the guitar I play is the one she bought me that got me into guitar and I sold my better 1,200 dollar guitar jst so I could keep playing this one
Bro, so great to see. I anchored out at Rodrigues key 25 years ago. Do they still have that weird bar there? It was wild back then. A shallow marina, trailer park and bar. The bar was great. They had a sign behind the bar that said no cussing on Sunday while church was in progress! They had church in the bar. Saw an OI 40 laying on it's side out there that went aground. Same for Key West. Anchored out by Christmas Tree Island. Spent almost a month there working on my boat at anchor. Makes me wish I was there again. Fair winds brother.
Ehh I couldn’t tell you if the bar was there or not, I only went on land once while I was there. Yea I was anchored behind that island for like a month at key west in my earlier episodes though I had a good time there for sure
I hope that one day one time you will sail to the shores of the Indian Ocean and get to experience the Kenyan 🇰🇪 beautiful beaches on the coastal city and towns. 😊😊😊😊
Yuuup I just learned how to do that, they weren’t made to be fixed but if you drill through the casing u can just fix it with a nut bolt and washer, saved almost 300$
Hey man! Your channel is doing REALLY REALLY well! Well done! So awesome to see! I think a little tweak to your thumbnails could make a HUGE difference to your CTR: Up the contrast a tad, up the brightness a tad (except on the drone TN), and add just a slight bit of saturation (not too much). Its the addition of contrast here though that will greatly help your thumbnails! Keep up the good work!!! You're doing awesome! 💜
Heyyy I really appreciate the feedback, not many people out there genuinely just trying to help.. I’ve got to look into how to do what ur talking about I was literally jst researching how to make better thumbnails to lol
@@OffgridOceanLife We grow faster when we grow together, and I hope you pay it forward. I've got a podcast coming out next month with a professional thumbnail designer, but in the meantime, assuming you're on a PC, right click your photo, click "Open with", click "photos", click on edit button (a little picture w/ a pen on the top left middle area), go over to the tab on the top with the little sun (that gets you to the color functions). I wouldn't recommend adjusting more than 2-4 on each and aim to get your "tint" to be more blue if the topic is sad, and more orange if the topic is happy. Might I ask, what is your average CTR right now?
@@TheAudaciousPath awesome I’ll check it out, I’ll try it on a few and see if I notice any jump. At this moment the ctr is 6.8 but it jumps around and I jst improved all of them like a week ago and have noticed a slight tick up
I like your videos. I see improvement. Maybe point cameras down a little. Always see a lot of sky, etc. but lower things get cut off. Love your guitar!
I have no experience in it yet but I've heard of some that are 3D printing the sheaves and replacing that way you described drilling out the rivets. What programs are you doing editing on?
Trying to work my editing :) hope ya like it.
Getting much better. Keep at it with the guitar too. Doing good man. Keep it up! Keep going! Fair winds, sailor.
@@travistucker7317 thanks for the positivity and the feedback :)
I love guitar covers !
“I’m just living my life letting the boat sail itself” this has to be your caption motto. “Profile worthy” statement! 😊
Haha thaaanks :) it seems a lot of people are liking the guitar lol I was on the fence with it.
My dad and brother and i went camping in the keys every winter maybe 5 years in a row, Islamorada BPK bahia honda, super cheap and super relaxing....Your videos remind me that i always wanted to get a sailboat and do what youre doing!
Get it done man it’s amazing that’s about all I can say :)
Should have stopped by boot key harbor. I'm on a mooring there on my Tayana 52. I have a ton of spare blocks on my boat. I would have hooked you up with a few. Got a few buddy's here with other boats here getting ready to head to the Caribbean in February.
I literally just learned how to drill out the rivets on the blocks and replace the sheaves for real cheap, I still would have stopped to say hi though if I knew u existed till now haha
After about 15 years, the sun finally wins out on those nylon sheaves and they crack. Some can be disassembled and just have to have the actual sheave to replace, but a lot of them don't have bolts and can't be repaired.
I actually have this on my next video, I was able to drill out the rivets on the blocks and replace the sheaves for 15$ saved me almost 500$ so far
Great shots of the keys. Loving the B roll footage and your personal guitar covers are killing it.
Awesome thanks :) yea I’m trying to switch it up a little bit and learning to edit lol
I love the raw, unedited, sometimes clumsy videos of you learning the ocean and I especially love you sharing your music.
It's so refreshing to see an unfiltered way of life in a world of so much editing.
You remind me of my husband when he was a young novice sailor.
We've been married 18 years now and sail 6-months of the year and your vids always make me smile.
The arm/shoulder p*rns not bad either. 😉
Awesome comment :) thanks. Are you guys in Florida?
@@OffgridOceanLife We’re based in Charleston, SC.
@@treasurechristie39 ahh I gotchya, well thanks for watching:)
Glad your channel got recommended to me. Subbed and went back and watched every video from the beginning. Why is because I one day hope to do this too. Almost made it happen several times now. I’ll get my chance
Thanks man hope you liked em :) my next video is actually “how to quit your job and travel the world” hahah stay tuned on Saturday lol
@@OffgridOceanLife sweet. From Ohio myself. Good place to get out of 🤣
@@slimshady8249 lmao sure is
This one so far my favorite!!! Maybe cause you played mom's song who knows....but I googled that island immediately lmao...human remains have been found in the area lol
Yea nobody know how sentimental that song is to me or even that the guitar I play is the one she bought me that got me into guitar and I sold my better 1,200 dollar guitar jst so I could keep playing this one
@@OffgridOceanLife I've still got yours you were gonna leave lol. One needs re wired and a backplate and tuner piece put on !!! And strings lol
Bro, so great to see. I anchored out at Rodrigues key 25 years ago. Do they still have that weird bar there? It was wild back then. A shallow marina, trailer park and bar. The bar was great. They had a sign behind the bar that said no cussing on Sunday while church was in progress! They had church in the bar. Saw an OI 40 laying on it's side out there that went aground. Same for Key West. Anchored out by Christmas Tree Island. Spent almost a month there working on my boat at anchor. Makes me wish I was there again. Fair winds brother.
Ehh I couldn’t tell you if the bar was there or not, I only went on land once while I was there. Yea I was anchored behind that island for like a month at key west in my earlier episodes though I had a good time there for sure
Thanks for sharing 😊
Thanks for watching :)
I hope that one day one time you will sail to the shores of the Indian Ocean and get to experience the Kenyan 🇰🇪 beautiful beaches on the coastal city and towns. 😊😊😊😊
One day in this life I’ll get there but sadly I don’t think it’ll be any time soon :/
Like the guitar work Amigo!
You can replace the plastic sheaves within those blocks much cheaper than new blocks
Yuuup I just learned how to do that, they weren’t made to be fixed but if you drill through the casing u can just fix it with a nut bolt and washer, saved almost 300$
Great to see you again!
Great video !!! Enjoyed it .
Awesome glad you liked it :)
Great video Nick!
Thanks for the support man hope all is good in ohio
Plenty of marine salvage shops in Florida, buy spare gear there. While you're at it buy longer chain and put spare anchor in stern locker
Ehh I just fixed all 5 blocks for 100$, saved about 500$ but I could use more chain for sure
Just subbed. Thanks for sharing, keep them coming.
Awesome :) I appreciate the sub. Lemme know if I can do anything better
Also my friend Terry Johnson used to own a house Big Pine Key
It’s a Bristol 29.9 1978
Hey man! Your channel is doing REALLY REALLY well! Well done! So awesome to see! I think a little tweak to your thumbnails could make a HUGE difference to your CTR: Up the contrast a tad, up the brightness a tad (except on the drone TN), and add just a slight bit of saturation (not too much). Its the addition of contrast here though that will greatly help your thumbnails!
Keep up the good work!!! You're doing awesome! 💜
Heyyy I really appreciate the feedback, not many people out there genuinely just trying to help.. I’ve got to look into how to do what ur talking about I was literally jst researching how to make better thumbnails to lol
@@OffgridOceanLife We grow faster when we grow together, and I hope you pay it forward. I've got a podcast coming out next month with a professional thumbnail designer, but in the meantime, assuming you're on a PC, right click your photo, click "Open with", click "photos", click on edit button (a little picture w/ a pen on the top left middle area), go over to the tab on the top with the little sun (that gets you to the color functions). I wouldn't recommend adjusting more than 2-4 on each and aim to get your "tint" to be more blue if the topic is sad, and more orange if the topic is happy.
Might I ask, what is your average CTR right now?
@@TheAudaciousPath awesome I’ll check it out, I’ll try it on a few and see if I notice any jump. At this moment the ctr is 6.8 but it jumps around and I jst improved all of them like a week ago and have noticed a slight tick up
My friend Randy Meeks lives near Fort Lauderdale!
Nice I was there for a lil while
I suppose you can only do what you can do but it is good to have spares.
U talking about spare blocks? I just learned how to rebuild them for 15$ rather than buy new ones for 140$
🙂 Well done@@OffgridOceanLife
Life at 5 knots is just the right pace.
@sirkyoj1 sure is :) boats barely leaning to, love it
Whoa there Speedy! 😳
--- canal boaters
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@@jimg5669 lmao :)
I like your videos. I see improvement. Maybe point cameras down a little. Always see a lot of sky, etc. but lower things get cut off. Love your guitar!
Heyy thanks for the tip man I’ll have to keep an eye on that
Haunted Island!!!
Something ain’t right about it lol
Subs are moving up closer to the 1k money bracket. 👍
Yea people were telling me it would take at least a year lol hasn’t even been 7 weeks yet and I’m still learning every day
I have no experience in it yet but I've heard of some that are 3D printing the sheaves and replacing that way you described drilling out the rivets.
What programs are you doing editing on?
I jst bought the sheaves for 14$ online it wasn’t to bad compared to the 150$ for a whole new block, I’ve been using davinci to edit :)
You got a wrong chord in Stairway!!
Lmao I’m sure there’s a few wrong, I Jst listen and try to copy
What design is the boat?
Bristol 29.9
Mr Foot ?
That island is full of rats! They are nasty at night.