Ep037 Sailing FAIL! The one where we get stuck in a tree.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.พ. 2025
- As we continue our journey North up the ICW we have an eventful 48 hours...we make a mistake entering a lock which sees us get our rig tangled in the trees, then run aground, and finally our engine overheats! Its never dull when living aboard.
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impressive team work and impressive getting oouutt
I really admire you two! Nice to see some people getting along!
Oh, fun times and enjoy!
You did really well to get out of that tree situation. That was nasty. In high winds it would have been far worse.
You guys are so chilled out about getting wrapped up in the tree's....top marks from me for a super calm approach.
Tough time of year too when the trees are at there worst! Over-nighted at that same visitors center too. The water lever is lower at the end of the summer too. looks like you did not have any trouble with high speed motorboats either , they come up behind you fast (no speed limit) and then you are expected to slow to a crawl, and they will slow, you hope, so no wake as the go by!. the dismal swamp is a special piece of water way and you should be proud of doing it.
cheers warren.
despite your problems it looks like you are enjoying yourselves...
I am impressed how well you handled that tree episode! You work well together and both are very capable handling that boat! Nice work!
And no swear words. Well done
that was stressful, cool video
This was such an interesting video. Thanks for sharing what seemed to be a mostly stressful few days!
Great video. We loved it.
I’ve not encountered this site before but color me impressed. To be at your best when things are at their worst and doing so as a team is pretty uncommon. You two work very well together and your no panic methodology makes this site a cut above.
I think that’s the first pilot house sail boat I’ve ever really liked. Cool boat.
Wise boaters always keep a good power saw handy. ;-) Well done. Well handled. Happens from time to time on the Norfolk Broads.
Fun episode...some good pointers for those sailing the Dismal Swamp huh?? Couple of things, I am envious of your calm demeanor when tied to the tree...I would likely have come up with some new verb/noun sentence conjugations....second....coming from the UK (and me having lived there for years...) Miller Lite is hardly a beer break! Continue the travels, guess it will be over the pond back to Europe this summer? Thanks, Andrew
Hey guys great video, we are complete newbies and to see how you get through your challenges is great for us, would love to see more technical videos, they would help us immensely. hope you enjoyed your beer, well deserved.
Cross the Atlantic then get stuck in a tree! I've watched sailing vlogs for 5 years, that's a new one! Seen a few boats get spun in river / lock currents tho, you aren't the first. Some lose masts being driven forward into bridges that haven't opened yet.
😳 that would be a lot more scary!
Really great team work guys. You rock. Can't imagine my wife and I being so cool getting out of the tree situation. Always wanted to do the ICW.
Great teamwork you two... I couldn't help but think of a old saying i was always told. "What doesn't kill ya makes you stronger" You guys got a lot stronger together on this part of your trip ;) lol
On camera you guys kept your cool well and managed the issues - great sunglasses too!
We’ve slapped a few tree limbs, but we never got that hung up! Enjoyed your video!
I follow at least 30+ sailing channels. Of those I have seen at least 6 have problems on the ICW
It's too narrow, too shallow. Considering the huge usage it gets , you would think someone
could dredge it out and cut some trees and kill some mosquitoes !
You guys did really well to get out of the tree without damage, good teamwork :)
Good luck with that! Getting any money out of the federal government for just about anything is like blood from a stone.the latest joker is probably the worse in a while. The infrastructure in the states is a joke. Money for recreational boaters ? Ha! cheers warren
Damn !! I need a beer after watching this . I’m stressed out . You two did Awesome keeping you cool . Cheers to the both of you 🍻🍻
Gotta say u guys kept ur cool,much better than I could.
Amazing. You guys are a great team. Really enjoyed watching how you managed the tree , running aground 🛳🙄 x
Fear and loathing on the ICW. Time for some blue water sailing, eh? Great job!
You two are simply awesome....and entertaining.... thank you with love from texas......
I must have missed the RYA Yachtmaster course on extracting the mast from trees :) Thanks for keeping it real.
Brains and exellent team work! How good you are :) Thanks for the content you make from Russia!
👍 Very interresting 👍❤️ !!! And how we say in France : only who's doing nothing don't do mistakes.... 😊😊😊, you're good guys and always with a perfect gestion of problems 👍.
Have a safe trip, love from France 🇫🇷 😉
Joy, joy, happy, happy - you survived - makes the beer ever so 😋
the ride was more adventurous than the Atlantic crossing, still good luck and good ride
Thanks for the great video. Now you are in my stomping grounds. E North Carolina. My boat is now home ported in Oriental NC. Yes, after open ocean cruising the intracostal is quite different. It really is beautiful and amazingly secluded going up through the Pungo and alligator rivers Ive done the route to the Chesapeake several time and prefer the Dismal Swamp Canal for its beauty. Always stay overnight at the docks in the middle near the visitor center. the worst part of the trip is getting through all those darn bridges in Norfolk area. Now I must say, just saying, that in the tens of thousands of miles that I have cruised, Ive never run into and tangles in a tree. That being said, you did a great job getting unstuck. And all while shooting great video!! I’ll catch up with your latest vids. Cheers.
Well done , guys.
Good job guys! Not too many trees overhanging Poole Harbour 🤣✊🔥
In the moment, sucks for you guys... fun videos for us to watch... 😁 Calm teamwork goes a long way... Looking forward to the next one.
Yes I got stressed watching, I felt your anxiety too. I won't take the ICW now too, and my boat is very similar to Scehawk. Great video guys, take care and fair winds.
love the way you work together through it all.
Guys if you were stressed it really didn’t come through in your body language - fantastic team work - very very well handled indeed you must be extremely proud of how you responded to all that was thrown at you - well done
You guys are close to me. I’m in Virginia on the Chesapeake bay. Let me know if you come this way. I will buy you guys some drinks! Great inspiration I have gained from your videos.
Know the area well you have gone through we have been though a number of times. Can be stressful in our 52' Hatteras!
You are both real pioneers getting thru all those obstacles better than Danial Boone. cheers. from San Diego ca. Cap.
Never thought we would see a need for a chainsaw on a yacht :-) Sail safe guy's. Ant & Cid. SV Impavidus.
I carry a chainsaw on my sailboat, since I have a wood burning stove in my boat
Good vid ya'll.
At this rate, I believe you'll be passing my home.. Anxious to see if you stop in St Michael's? Havre de Grace? Love you guys!
Great job both of you in getting off of there, nice and calm under pressure! Could have been far worse if things had gotten panicky or `frayed`.. All in the very big picture of experience I guess, and a surprising amount of flow from a river lock! Best sailing channel on the tube strikes again :-)
Great team work. X
Wow...you guys have an special way of handling stressful stuff!!!! If it had been me, everyone around would have diagnosed me with Tourette's syndrome.....As always a nice vid!!!😀⛵
Nice vid. Thanks for sharing the journey. I’ve never been above Elizabeth City on the canal. Enjoyed seeing it.
You would think that the ICW is a safe bet, but having lived on the east coast for along time, and boated there, I can tell you its a cause for abit of stress, let alone deep keel boats.
I don’t know how you remained so calm throughout all of the the incidents that occurred during your trip through the locks. Good job you two.⛵️
OMG what a frustrating journey! You did well though, happy you’ve made it!
Nena
Great video !
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Depending on the time of year, I would pick getting the rig caught in some trees over getting beaten up in a Norther off of Cape Hatteras. Having sampled the latter, a branch sticking through the backstay, or cleaning the keel on the bottom seem rather benign if there is a norther outside.
So 6’ is no good sailing on the ICW . Great video, n a learning experience.
6 foot is fine for the ICW. The Great Dismal Swamp route is an alternative to the main route. The main route through Currituck Sound and the Albermarle and Chesapeake Canal is plenty deep enough and has fewer obstructions. I believe that is the way Seahawk took as she would have no chance on the Dismal with a 7 ft keel.
Just think how clean the bottom of the keel will be , Nice area.
20:58 The wife and I live just to your left and we get caught by the Gilmerton Bridge ALL the time.
i've had the pleasure of winching myself off the bottom a few times, but never from the grasp of a tree. :)
Miller Lite after an event like that? You should have had a Heineken.
What's the make and draft of your boat? I'm asking because we draw 5'8" and I wonder if it's feasible. Great video
It's a Victory 40 and our draft is a little over 5 feet. So I think you would make it, but be prepared to bump in a few places!! 6 foot seems to be the limit.
Thank for your input. I know we always have the Virginia cut, but I heard elizabeth city is a good place to stop. Virginia cut offers coinjock. It's good but always busy. I will have to check currents levels before the trip. As for the boat I gotta look up the model. I always like the not so standard boats. Looks like a great set up.
Mast stuck in tree is a novel problem.
Miller light is NOT beer...LOL.
Sooo, you have an Interphase forward facing sonar? How do you like it? What range in what depths are you seeing?
It's really good for scouting out anchor spots and obstructions ahead of the boat, but as you get shallower the range also gets shorter. So in 4m of water it sees about 15 to 20m ahead. It goes up with greater deapth, up to 35 to 40m out at a guess.
@@sailingsvborabora8712 I have Garmin's Panoptix version of this mounted on a stainless pole that swings down into the water just in front of the mast on the catamaran. I have only played with it so far around SF bay. I think it would have been useful when we had the boat in French Poly. Although I would be reluctant to rely on it picking my way through bommies.
Do you think you'll be warming up with a wood stove next winter? 😜
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I’ll take open ocean!
Stay out of the ICW, it's more trouble than it's worth in a sailboat...
I once saw a boat arrive at Deep Creek Lock with a branch wedged in his spreaders which would have been very embarrassing to be seen like that. But the lock tender pried it free.
The area outside of the lock was shoaled up by a hurricane so if you don't know the way it's easy to go wrong. A few floating buoys would be a good idea.
If you are doing Delaware Bay be advised it is the worst body of water on the east coast. Conditions can suddenly change to what you had in the Alligator River. Plan to motor abd get it over with.
Were you planning to go to Maine? The density of lobster pots is 5 to 10 times that of crab pots. You might want ti skip it; spend a few nights dyring the week at the Isles of Shoals NH (www.starisland.org) and then sail directly to Shelburne Nova Scotia.
Activecaptain.com is a great resource.
Well that was dismal all right
Lets see...... living the DREAM !!.... and stressed ?? really ?
If it wasn't for bad luck, you would have no luck at all.
Your sound sucks. you need a better mic.