Our favorite so far. We started watching from the Beach at Mount Sinai. You've got SO many vids though, after we're caught up perhaps we'll binge watch the priors. My wife loves how you're grateful for the sun, the water, everything around you and everything you have. A humbleness much too rare of TH-cam creators. She might be keen on the recipe app for iPad as well LOL. I love how you tell us what you're thinking, explain the gear with close ups, describe why you have which sails up and other possible options, show passing ships, sunken vessels, and loads of background info on everything you talk about. You inspire me to make improvements to my own show. Thank you for sharing your and Mo's life at sea with us.
We really loved this one - loads of great info. And though Mo only had a short cameo (and was much missed), she did deliver one truly stellar line! :-)
Awesome Video, Can't wait for the next episode. I live in Gloucester and a a result of watching your channel and Delos channel I am totally hooked. As a life long motor boater this year I bought an Oday 26 and have been learning to sail. I also work from home and have been using it for my office. Totally hooked thanks to you. Keep up the good work and again cannot wait until the next episode. Tell Moe she should have sprung up out of that berth entering Glosta Haba. HAHA! Fair Winds my friend. If you ever get back this way I would love to meet you..thanks
I want to do for a home what you have done for Paragon. I love how you've got everything so self contained and on triple back-up. One of my favorite episodes so far and there's still so much more to go. Great wake-up scene, I do that to my wife sometimes and I get a similar death stare.
+Sail Life Hi Dahlke, that's awesome to hear!!! :) Eric told me that he has changed his plans from sailing to England and is headed for Portugal instead. I hope you can get a video interview. That would be great to see!
My Dad and I used to Tuna Fish in Gloucester Bay in the 70s - giant tuna that is on his 40 foot custom power boat. Saw lots of whales and assorted fish - beautiful scenery all around. Thanks for your videos and going through the process of what it takes to plan a sail, interesting.
Very informative. I've just come back from a three-week sailing trip and it's really interesting to compare the way you do things and your thought processes. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Drake! We have learned so much from you all :) In two weeks we move aboard our good old boat in Kemah TX. It will be our start and we have to thank you again for the inspiration. Carl,Sharon,Josh SV Stargazer
+SV Stargazer Thank you guys. Every once in a while we get a comment like yours that makes us realize that all of the work we've put into our videos has been well worth it. Hope to see you in the same anchorage someday. Happy sailing,
I loved the video! You are sailing in my neck of the woods, we stay at the Winthrop marina just on the other side of Logan Airport. It's so great to see you sail were we have been and where we spend our summer ( we live in NH.) looking forward to more New England adventures.
A great video! I love how you think of the different auto pilot's and ways to do them! I always think of the negative that way if it happens I'm ready for it also.
Hi Jennifer, Welcome aboard! :) There are quite a few videos to navigate...may we make a few suggestions? Of our 285 videos produced to date, I would most recommend starting out with: • Our sneak peeks for Season 1 starting at th-cam.com/video/_JAT---54Lo/w-d-xo.html • Or the actual Season 1 episodes at starting at th-cam.com/video/INmbqwVoyIY/w-d-xo.html • And more recently there's our Season 2 trailer which starts in this playlsit th-cam.com/video/b6ZE6RuVMxM/w-d-xo.html and the rest of the Season 2 episodes which follow after that. • We also have several ‘cruiser interview’ videos, but for an overview we would recommend our ‘1st Annual Cruiser Interview Review’ video at th-cam.com/video/aEuBLeVZrgs/w-d-xo.html which highlights some of our favorite parts. • We have several other offshore voyage adventure videos, but for an overview we would recommend our ‘1st Annual Sailing Adventures Review’ video th-cam.com/video/J6IxLLAkprY/w-d-xo.html which also highlights some of our favorite moments. • We also have a separate channel called "ParagonSkies" wherewe publish aerial tour videos of the places we have sailed to, for which I would recommend our aerial trailer at th-cam.com/video/Hbb7xKV2fdI/w-d-xo.html We always really appreciate any feedback or suggestions on how we can improve on our future videos in comments and emails, and try our best to respond to questions as soon as we can. We also have a facebook page at facebook.com/DrakeParagon and blog at 39degree.blogspot.com. Thank you for sailing with us! :) Drake and Monique
Thanks for another great video, Drake! Questions: 1. Did you sort out the problem with the chartplotter? 2. What do you think of Furuno electronics? 3. What kind of furler do you have? I'm wondering if you need something bigger. I have a Schaefer 3100. It easily retracts the genoa on my 47 foot boat in high winds without using a winch. 4. Do you have all of the info on Paragon's equipment written down somewhere on the internet? I think your solar setup is fascinating.
+Christopher Young Thanks Christopher, It happens very rarely, but sometimes our Furuno Navnet chart plotter crashes and requires rebooting, Otherwise I am really happy with it. I was able to install it all myself, including a Furuno radar dome, and depth/speed/wind transducer and instrument displays. I like the chart detail, the ease of downloading charts and installing them, and having a radar overlay on top of the chart. We have Profurl roller furlers on both headsails, and I can easily furl them without a winch in lighter winds, but in heavier air, anything over 30 knots I find it's a lot easier to use the winch. Sorry we don't have a website with all of the details about our boat and systems and etc, but we are focusing all of our energy towards filming and editing. We are doing our best to produce episodes that are the best that we can, and find that there's hardly any time left over much else. But I am happy to try to answer any questions that I can in comments when we are able to. Our solar set up is made up of 15 130 watt Kyocera solar panels that are hooked up to 5 networked BlueSky Solar boost solar controllers.
I have installed and used Garmin and RayMarine systems. So far I find Garmin much better. My research into Furuno is that it might be overkill for most boats. Lots of info here: docs.google.com/document/d/1CZqCmxsEZ944-Py9MZoq0p21f54hJJflBg_jly5gLIE/edit
One of the things you can do to pole out a head sail is attach a snatch block on the end of the boom (main down) and run the jib sheet through that. Then ease out the boom with a preventer and unfurl. Works great for sailing deep and wing 'n wing with jib and staysail if you only have one whisker pole.
I've been experimenting with using the whisker pole as a crane boom to put the hard dinghy on deck. Would be interested to know how you get yours on deck and flipped as well as how you launch it.
+LEB 3 HI LEB 3, Nowadays we just use one of our spinnaker halyards to raise the dinghies on deck. I can put it on a winch on the mast or preferably I use it on the electric windlass. Flipping it over is always a multi step time consuming chore but can manage it even single handed. I use the halyard again to raise one side or the other, and a boat pole to pull the dingy over. We will make a video of it at some point (I think we may already have but have not come to that part it our editing yet.)
Hi Drake, did you sort your auto pilot issues? One possible problem with powerful drives is too thin wires. You need wires with a large section so that in a gust, when the pump has to work harder and take a higher current the voltage won't drop which may lead to an error or it may even shut down. Thank you for sharing another great video which apart from the whale sounds was great! I truly enjoyed the monologue/ singlehanded video. Cheers!
+Luis Martins Thanks Luis.. Reminds me of when I spent most of an extremely cold winter living aboard in Boston Harbor without heating because I had installed an Espar diesel forced air heater with an inadequately sized wire between the batteries and the glow plug. I wasn't sized large enough for the current drop and so the glow plug would never heat up enough to start the heater. Weeks and weeks of living in the freezing cold trying to figure it out... and when I did it was one of the happiest days.. :)
Drake, always great day when your video comes out. I love Mo's, "Are you high?" comment. Good stuff! Also like when you show how you work the sails. Where are you nowadays? Still in Europe?
+S/V AIRPOWER Thanks! In realtime we have spent the past 2 months in the Faroe Islands and are preparing to sail back to Scotland very soon to spend the winter editing Season 3. In the meantime we have accumulated about 1500 hours of unedited footage and are still filming.
I continue to enjoy all of your videos while I dream of our own (eventual) sailing life. I know this isn't real time - have you by chance picked up a whisker pole to benefit the downwind sailing since this video was made?
+Lofty Goals As we are at this moment preparing to sail from Faroe back to Iceland we still don't have a whisker pole. I did previously set up our whisker pole and we used it with a jib a few times which was great but then it snapped in half while sailing from Newfoundland to Greenland. We need a bigger and sturdier whisker pole, but I have no idea how I can convenient and affordably get one where we are sailing currently.
+DrakeParagon's Real Cruising Life My wife and I are looking at being in Edinburgh in early Oct - if you're there, maybe we can help you stock up on firewood for the winter! Looking forward to the next video.
+David Wales Thanks David, In realtime we have spent the past 2 months in the Faroe Islands and are now preparing to sail back to Scotland very soon to spend the winter editing Season 3. In the meantime we have accumulated about 1500 hours of unedited footage and are still filming.
About your error message on your Nav Device. the address is showing the location of where the read error or write error happens. Think of a large parking lot with slots for vehicles and each slot has an address. Now think of each vehicle in the parking lot as being a packet of information that is put in a spot and the address to that spot is noted. That information could be its own independent packet or it could be part of several packets that can be usually next to it or could be parked wherever it happened to be parked in the lot (usually in consecutive spaces though). Now you know that a huge parking lot is going to have some tiny spots within some of the parking spaces that are not exactly perfect. If information happens to be on a parking space where their are more imperfections, it can sometimes be hard to read and takes several attempts. Just about every computer device will make several attempts automatically to read before it gives up and makes a log of it (the mis-read or mis-write) and the location it happens (the address). Every storage media (hard drive, floppy disc, SD or micro Card etc...) has an index of where everything is stored. When you delete anything, it really actually just removes it from the index file, not the actual packet of information. This would be like someone removing the keys and note log from a valet parking lot attendant booth and leaving the vehicle still there. The valet guys or gals say the vehicle is gone because the note log and key are gone. Well even the index file that tells the computer where every piece of information is stored, that file is its self parked in a parking spot with an address. If there is a read error there, the computer device could think the whole drive is now empty and will not boot up when turned on. This is also true for memory cards with photos and video. If the index sector or file gets damaged, the card could show needing to be reformatted as if it is new. Usually the photos and videos are still there 9 out of 10 times. Most devices have read errors but do not report them because on the repeated tries, it is able to read and it just goes on doing what it does. You usually only get a read error address notice if the event met the criteria to notify the user of the problem. If the read errors happen at an increased rate over time, it is best to get the device serviced. If your device is using any sort of inserted card or jump drive, sometimes it is that and not the devices main storage drive. Also a weak solder at a data ribbon port connection or a wire data ribbon its self wearing out can cause it. Sorry I wrote so much but now you know it is not serious, unless you notice it happening more often. I was born in 1966 and have been working with and on computers since I was about 16. I taught my oldest son to build his first computer when he was in 4th grade.
+enerZise Thanks for the detailed info. I was born a few year after you and majored in computer science. I worked in the high tech industry up until when I pushed off from Boston in 2002... Sometimes I miss those coding days.
+DrakeParagon's Real Cruising Life Pretty cool about the tech career. I thought I was giving some helpful advice. I am glad you pushed off in 2002 because our family has learned so much from you and Monique.
Really enjoyed this video. I liked how you showed everything going on outside and inside the boat. I'm not an experienced sailor but find cruising and live aboard lifestyles fascinating. Thank you for this! You're the man Drake. Glad you like cruising LeaLea too. Have you checked out SV Delos Crew and Wicked Salty's channel? If you like LeaLea you will probably like those too.
+Seth Williamson Seth thank you very much. I really appreciate the help with the info. Unfortunately our hydraulic RAM autopilot is still on the fritz, but we are extremely pleased with our CPT wheel mounted autopilot. It's really proven itself to us over the past 11,000 nautical miles of offshore voyaging in all kinds of conditions.
very nice vlog with some nice info on the surroundings, really good. only sometimes your a bit hard to understand. maybe speak a little louder in the next one. Keep sailing!
+Quadcopter Testing Hi Quadcopter Testing, thanks for your kind words and the great the feedback. How did you find our sailing channel DrakeParagon? I hope you'll also like our aerial channel called ParagonSkies. We have a few great aerial videos there of some of the most remote places that we have sailed to in Greenland, Iceland, Faroe, Scotland and Ireland... Here's an old demo reel of our aerial footage. I hope you like it! :) Happy flying, Welcome to ParagonSkies v1.1 th-cam.com/video/Hbb7xKV2fdI/w-d-xo.html
+DrakeParagon's Real Cruising Life i found it through just searching on youtube. yours will pop-up just like all the others. there arent really much doing sail vlogs that catches the eye in my opinion. I looked at you aerial channel, really some nice footage there but i would rather like to see the southern (more sunny) aerials of the world, but thats all a matter of taste. Also i would, if i were you, fuse those 2 channels to 1, so you get a nice mix of sailing and aerial footage in 1, again its personal. To leave a good note, your vlogs are in my opinion very well made if not one of the best, with background info and music fitting in really nice. But more sun and exotic beaches is more my style. Keep sailing!
+Quadcopter Testing Thank you for you kind words and great feedback Quadcopter Testing. I spent 7 years living aboard mostly at anchor in the Caribbean and Venezuela and sometimes really miss that warmer climate. Someday we will be sailing back there, but first we are going to sail to Svalbard next Summer. We appreciate your feedback. Thanks for sailing with us!
+samj2000 Hi Sam, The official displacement of a Westail 42 is 31500 lbs, with 12000 lbs of ballast. But when we were last on the travel lift we weighed in at 38,500 lbs with empty water tanks and very little diesel aboard... right here... :) th-cam.com/video/dKPfU-4eGxc/w-d-xo.htmlm7s (Paragon Hull Tour)
re the blackbox.exception codes. If you google it there are issues mentioned on Furunousaforum.com. One I saw mentioned had to do with turning tides/current info off after some time period to prevent the crash. I remember you showing the "update" back on the Hudson where you put the cursor over the current arrows to see info. source: www.furunousaforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1887&sid=9e0567fc1525dd5569a018d64bcb5018&start=10
There is no such thing as "port stern" or "starboard stern". It's port quarter or starboard quarter. Also, "astern" is dead behind and nowhere else. Try "Aft of the beam" or "behind" when you're trying to say "behind us". Finally, It's not "Hard alee". It's "Helm's Alee" as in "The helm is alee." I shouldn't really care about these trivialities except that I'm ADD and it distracts me.
Pulling the fore sail in one handed while filming with the other, now that's what I call skill !!
Our favorite so far. We started watching from the Beach at Mount Sinai. You've got SO many vids though, after we're caught up perhaps we'll binge watch the priors. My wife loves how you're grateful for the sun, the water, everything around you and everything you have. A humbleness much too rare of TH-cam creators. She might be keen on the recipe app for iPad as well LOL. I love how you tell us what you're thinking, explain the gear with close ups, describe why you have which sails up and other possible options, show passing ships, sunken vessels, and loads of background info on everything you talk about. You inspire me to make improvements to my own show. Thank you for sharing your and Mo's life at sea with us.
We really loved this one - loads of great info. And though Mo only had a short cameo (and was much missed), she did deliver one truly stellar line! :-)
Awesome Video, Can't wait for the next episode. I live in Gloucester and a a result of watching your channel and Delos channel I am totally hooked. As a life long motor boater this year I bought an Oday 26 and have been learning to sail. I also work from home and have been using it for my office. Totally hooked thanks to you. Keep up the good work and again cannot wait until the next episode. Tell Moe she should have sprung up out of that berth entering Glosta Haba. HAHA! Fair Winds my friend. If you ever get back this way I would love to meet you..thanks
I want to do for a home what you have done for Paragon. I love how you've got everything so self contained and on triple back-up. One of my favorite episodes so far and there's still so much more to go. Great wake-up scene, I do that to my wife sometimes and I get a similar death stare.
"Are you high?" Best comment so far i literally laughed out loud.
Hey Drake, thanks for introducing me to Brad Sucks! I like how you keep sneaking him into the vids.
+Cam Campbell Thanks Cam. We're always really looking forward to more new awesome music from Brad Sucks.
It's always a highlight of my week to watch the adventures of you all.
+Sam Witzig Hearing a comment like that makes all of the hard work that we put into making our episodes worth it. Thanks for sailing with us Sam!
Another awesome video! Thoroughly enjoyed it as always :) BTW I'm going to meet up with Eric tomorrow. I'm very excited to meet him! :)
+Sail Life Hi Dahlke, that's awesome to hear!!! :) Eric told me that he has changed his plans from sailing to England and is headed for Portugal instead. I hope you can get a video interview. That would be great to see!
My Dad and I used to Tuna Fish in Gloucester Bay in the 70s - giant tuna that is on his 40 foot custom power boat. Saw lots of whales and assorted fish - beautiful scenery all around. Thanks for your videos and going through the process of what it takes to plan a sail, interesting.
Very informative. I've just come back from a three-week sailing trip and it's really interesting to compare the way you do things and your thought processes. Keep up the good work.
Wow! Nice in depth analysis, and great commentary.
Thanks Drake! We have learned so much from you all :) In two weeks we move aboard our good old boat in Kemah TX.
It will be our start and we have to thank you again for the inspiration.
Carl,Sharon,Josh
SV Stargazer
+SV Stargazer Thank you guys. Every once in a while we get a comment like yours that makes us realize that all of the work we've put into our videos has been well worth it. Hope to see you in the same anchorage someday. Happy sailing,
Awesome video, love it when you're underway.
Enjoyed this very much. Thanks for the "thinking out-loud" parts. This one srot of epitomizes the real sailing life, dirty dishes and all ;)
+Coolumbo Thanks Coolumbo, I think you will really enjoy our next episodes. Thanks for sailing with us. :)
Finally some sailing action, i love it.
Thanks that was cool. Can't wait until the crossing of the atlantic ocean
I loved the video! You are sailing in my neck of the woods, we stay at the Winthrop marina just on the other side of Logan Airport. It's so great to see you sail were we have been and where we spend our summer ( we live in NH.) looking forward to more New England adventures.
Another great video! Thanks for showing us all your slice of the cruising life.
+Formosa41 Thanks for your comment Formosa41 and for sailing with us. And good luck with your refit of your Formosa Paradise. Happy sailing, Drake
A great video! I love how you think of the different auto pilot's and ways to do them! I always think of the negative that way if it happens I'm ready for it also.
hahah I love that you give new meaning to "single handing it!"
+Sailing Lolita :) One hand for the ship, one hand for the camera..
Loved to see some sailing action! Great one, Drake!!
first , whishing to drake and mon good winds and fair weather :0) awesome ep :0)
Thank you for another very informative video.
Fantastic vid!!! Thank you so much!!!
+Errol Smith Many thanks! :)
"Are you high?" LOL, I heard that before. : )
great episode!!
great job
Don't worry about the steering systems. If they all fail, you still have Mo-steering.
Awesome video Drake!! Just sub'd!! Gotta Love New England!!
Hi Jennifer, Welcome aboard! :) There are quite a few videos to navigate...may we make a few suggestions? Of our 285 videos produced to date, I would most recommend starting out with:
• Our sneak peeks for Season 1 starting at th-cam.com/video/_JAT---54Lo/w-d-xo.html
• Or the actual Season 1 episodes at starting at th-cam.com/video/INmbqwVoyIY/w-d-xo.html
• And more recently there's our Season 2 trailer which starts in this playlsit th-cam.com/video/b6ZE6RuVMxM/w-d-xo.html and the rest of the Season 2 episodes which follow after that.
• We also have several ‘cruiser interview’ videos, but for an overview we would recommend our ‘1st Annual Cruiser Interview Review’ video at th-cam.com/video/aEuBLeVZrgs/w-d-xo.html which highlights some of our favorite parts.
• We have several other offshore voyage adventure videos, but for an overview we would recommend our ‘1st Annual Sailing Adventures Review’ video th-cam.com/video/J6IxLLAkprY/w-d-xo.html which also highlights some of our favorite moments.
• We also have a separate channel called "ParagonSkies" wherewe publish aerial tour videos of the places we have sailed to, for which I would recommend our aerial trailer at th-cam.com/video/Hbb7xKV2fdI/w-d-xo.html
We always really appreciate any feedback or suggestions on how we can improve on our future videos in comments and emails, and try our best to respond to questions as soon as we can. We also have a facebook page at facebook.com/DrakeParagon and blog at 39degree.blogspot.com.
Thank you for sailing with us! :)
Drake and Monique
Thanks for another great video, Drake! Questions:
1. Did you sort out the problem with the chartplotter?
2. What do you think of Furuno electronics?
3. What kind of furler do you have? I'm wondering if you need something bigger. I have a Schaefer 3100. It easily retracts the genoa on my 47 foot boat in high winds without using a winch.
4. Do you have all of the info on Paragon's equipment written down somewhere on the internet? I think your solar setup is fascinating.
+Christopher Young Thanks Christopher, It happens very rarely, but sometimes our Furuno Navnet chart plotter crashes and requires rebooting, Otherwise I am really happy with it. I was able to install it all myself, including a Furuno radar dome, and depth/speed/wind transducer and instrument displays. I like the chart detail, the ease of downloading charts and installing them, and having a radar overlay on top of the chart. We have Profurl roller furlers on both headsails, and I can easily furl them without a winch in lighter winds, but in heavier air, anything over 30 knots I find it's a lot easier to use the winch. Sorry we don't have a website with all of the details about our boat and systems and etc, but we are focusing all of our energy towards filming and editing. We are doing our best to produce episodes that are the best that we can, and find that there's hardly any time left over much else. But I am happy to try to answer any questions that I can in comments when we are able to. Our solar set up is made up of 15 130 watt Kyocera solar panels that are hooked up to 5 networked BlueSky Solar boost solar controllers.
I have installed and used Garmin and RayMarine systems. So far I find Garmin much better. My research into Furuno is that it might be overkill for most boats. Lots of info here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1CZqCmxsEZ944-Py9MZoq0p21f54hJJflBg_jly5gLIE/edit
Captains Courageous Spencer Tracy and Lionel Barrymore. Great schooner movie.
Ah the infamous one eye of death. Mo is maybe not a morning person?
One of the things you can do to pole out a head sail is attach a snatch block on the end of the boom (main down) and run the jib sheet through that. Then ease out the boom with a preventer and unfurl. Works great for sailing deep and wing 'n wing with jib and staysail if you only have one whisker pole.
+Eric S. (Argyle) thanks for the tip! we might try it. :)
hit a buoy after tide changed on the south end of CCcanal lol when I was a kid with my dad. We were sleeping , southern cross 31 HMS Justice
+uainteasyb anchor dragged
I've been experimenting with using the whisker pole as a crane boom to put the hard dinghy on deck. Would be interested to know how you get yours on deck and flipped as well as how you launch it.
+LEB 3 HI LEB 3, Nowadays we just use one of our spinnaker halyards to raise the dinghies on deck. I can put it on a winch on the mast or preferably I use it on the electric windlass. Flipping it over is always a multi step time consuming chore but can manage it even single handed. I use the halyard again to raise one side or the other, and a boat pole to pull the dingy over. We will make a video of it at some point (I think we may already have but have not come to that part it our editing yet.)
Hi Drake, did you sort your auto pilot issues? One possible problem with powerful drives is too thin wires. You need wires with a large section so that in a gust, when the pump has to work harder and take a higher current the voltage won't drop which may lead to an error or it may even shut down.
Thank you for sharing another great video which apart from the whale sounds was great! I truly enjoyed the monologue/ singlehanded video.
Cheers!
+Luis Martins Thanks Luis.. Reminds me of when I spent most of an extremely cold winter living aboard in Boston Harbor without heating because I had installed an Espar diesel forced air heater with an inadequately sized wire between the batteries and the glow plug. I wasn't sized large enough for the current drop and so the glow plug would never heat up enough to start the heater. Weeks and weeks of living in the freezing cold trying to figure it out... and when I did it was one of the happiest days.. :)
Drake, always great day when your video comes out. I love Mo's, "Are you high?" comment. Good stuff!
Also like when you show how you work the sails.
Where are you nowadays? Still in Europe?
+S/V AIRPOWER Thanks! In realtime we have spent the past 2 months in the Faroe Islands and are preparing to sail back to Scotland very soon to spend the winter editing Season 3. In the meantime we have accumulated about 1500 hours of unedited footage and are still filming.
I continue to enjoy all of your videos while I dream of our own (eventual) sailing life. I know this isn't real time - have you by chance picked up a whisker pole to benefit the downwind sailing since this video was made?
+Lofty Goals As we are at this moment preparing to sail from Faroe back to Iceland we still don't have a whisker pole. I did previously set up our whisker pole and we used it with a jib a few times which was great but then it snapped in half while sailing from Newfoundland to Greenland. We need a bigger and sturdier whisker pole, but I have no idea how I can convenient and affordably get one where we are sailing currently.
+DrakeParagon's Real Cruising Life Ah, too bad. By the way...heading to Iceland? In September?? Looks like that might get brutally cold.
We will probably sail back to Scotland very soon, or stay the winter in Faroe.
+DrakeParagon's Real Cruising Life My wife and I are looking at being in Edinburgh in early Oct - if you're there, maybe we can help you stock up on firewood for the winter! Looking forward to the next video.
what is the name of the app for recipes that you mentioned? It sounds like it's perfect for provisioning for an extended passage.
I love your updates, thank you!
Mo is great...are you high???? Love the vids...
that was good
Very nice Video ! I always enjoy them. Where are you now ? Thanks, David:
+David Wales Thanks David, In realtime we have spent the past 2 months in the Faroe Islands and are now preparing to sail back to Scotland very soon to spend the winter editing Season 3. In the meantime we have accumulated about 1500 hours of unedited footage and are still filming.
About your error message on your Nav Device. the address is showing the location of where the read error or write error happens. Think of a large parking lot with slots for vehicles and each slot has an address. Now think of each vehicle in the parking lot as being a packet of information that is put in a spot and the address to that spot is noted. That information could be its own independent packet or it could be part of several packets that can be usually next to it or could be parked wherever it happened to be parked in the lot (usually in consecutive spaces though).
Now you know that a huge parking lot is going to have some tiny spots within some of the parking spaces that are not exactly perfect. If information happens to be on a parking space where their are more imperfections, it can sometimes be hard to read and takes several attempts. Just about every computer device will make several attempts automatically to read before it gives up and makes a log of it (the mis-read or mis-write) and the location it happens (the address).
Every storage media (hard drive, floppy disc, SD or micro Card etc...) has an index of where everything is stored. When you delete anything, it really actually just removes it from the index file, not the actual packet of information.
This would be like someone removing the keys and note log from a valet parking lot attendant booth and leaving the vehicle still there. The valet guys or gals say the vehicle is gone because the note log and key are gone. Well even the index file that tells the computer where every piece of information is stored, that file is its self parked in a parking spot with an address. If there is a read error there, the computer device could think the whole drive is now empty and will not boot up when turned on. This is also true for memory cards with photos and video. If the index sector or file gets damaged, the card could show needing to be reformatted as if it is new. Usually the photos and videos are still there 9 out of 10 times.
Most devices have read errors but do not report them because on the repeated tries, it is able to read and it just goes on doing what it does. You usually only get a read error address notice if the event met the criteria to notify the user of the problem. If the read errors happen at an increased rate over time, it is best to get the device serviced. If your device is using any sort of inserted card or jump drive, sometimes it is that and not the devices main storage drive. Also a weak solder at a data ribbon port connection or a wire data ribbon its self wearing out can cause it.
Sorry I wrote so much but now you know it is not serious, unless you notice it happening more often. I was born in 1966 and have been working with and on computers since I was about 16. I taught my oldest son to build his first computer when he was in 4th grade.
+enerZise Thanks for the detailed info. I was born a few year after you and majored in computer science. I worked in the high tech industry up until when I pushed off from Boston in 2002... Sometimes I miss those coding days.
+DrakeParagon's Real Cruising Life
Pretty cool about the tech career. I thought I was giving some helpful advice. I am glad you pushed off in 2002 because our family has learned so much from you and Monique.
Great video. But the music is drowning your voice in the beginning of the video :)
You're welcome :-). www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-ATH-M50x-Professional-Monitor-Headphones/dp/B00HVLUR86/ref=dp_ob_title_ce
Really enjoyed this video. I liked how you showed everything going on outside and inside the boat. I'm not an experienced sailor but find cruising and live aboard lifestyles fascinating. Thank you for this! You're the man Drake. Glad you like cruising LeaLea too. Have you checked out SV Delos Crew and Wicked Salty's channel? If you like LeaLea you will probably like those too.
+SpaceManSpiff20001 Thanks SpacMan. There are so many awesome sailing channels out there today. It's really amazing! Here's to the cruising life! :)
"One of the last things on the list." Until you start the new list.
+Urban Deployment It never ends.. but that's a good thing. Like Eric says, "It keeps you young." :)
I recommend talking to W-H Autopilots, Inc. of Bainbridge Island, Washington. They are a leading supplier for the pacific fishing fleet.
+Seth Williamson Seth thank you very much. I really appreciate the help with the info. Unfortunately our hydraulic RAM autopilot is still on the fritz, but we are extremely pleased with our CPT wheel mounted autopilot. It's really proven itself to us over the past 11,000 nautical miles of offshore voyaging in all kinds of conditions.
Make you wish for electric winches don't you think? but free exercise :D
very nice vlog with some nice info on the surroundings, really good.
only sometimes your a bit hard to understand.
maybe speak a little louder in the next one.
Keep sailing!
+Quadcopter Testing Hi Quadcopter Testing, thanks for your kind words and the great the feedback. How did you find our sailing channel DrakeParagon? I hope you'll also like our aerial channel called ParagonSkies. We have a few great aerial videos there of some of the most remote places that we have sailed to in Greenland, Iceland, Faroe, Scotland and Ireland... Here's an old demo reel of our aerial footage. I hope you like it! :) Happy flying,
Welcome to ParagonSkies v1.1
th-cam.com/video/Hbb7xKV2fdI/w-d-xo.html
+DrakeParagon's Real Cruising Life i found it through just searching on youtube. yours will pop-up just like all the others.
there arent really much doing sail vlogs that catches the eye in my opinion.
I looked at you aerial channel, really some nice footage there but i would rather like to see the southern (more sunny) aerials of the world, but thats all a matter of taste.
Also i would, if i were you, fuse those 2 channels to 1, so you get a nice mix of sailing and aerial footage in 1, again its personal.
To leave a good note, your vlogs are in my opinion very well made if not one of the best, with background info and music fitting in really nice.
But more sun and exotic beaches is more my style.
Keep sailing!
+Quadcopter Testing Thank you for you kind words and great feedback Quadcopter Testing. I spent 7 years living aboard mostly at anchor in the Caribbean and Venezuela and sometimes really miss that warmer climate. Someday we will be sailing back there, but first we are going to sail to Svalbard next Summer. We appreciate your feedback. Thanks for sailing with us!
love your videos
, Q is Paragon really 40000 pounds? that's massive?
+samj2000 Hi Sam, The official displacement of a Westail 42 is 31500 lbs, with 12000 lbs of ballast. But when we were last on the travel lift we weighed in at 38,500 lbs with empty water tanks and very little diesel aboard... right here... :) th-cam.com/video/dKPfU-4eGxc/w-d-xo.htmlm7s (Paragon Hull Tour)
Was Moe sea sick again?
re the blackbox.exception codes. If you google it there are issues mentioned on Furunousaforum.com. One I saw mentioned had to do with turning tides/current info off after some time period to prevent the crash. I remember you showing the "update" back on the Hudson where you put the cursor over the current arrows to see info.
source: www.furunousaforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1887&sid=9e0567fc1525dd5569a018d64bcb5018&start=10
nice but better with no music
There is no such thing as "port stern" or "starboard stern". It's port quarter or starboard quarter. Also, "astern" is dead behind and nowhere else. Try "Aft of the beam" or "behind" when you're trying to say "behind us". Finally, It's not "Hard alee". It's "Helm's Alee" as in "The helm is alee." I shouldn't really care about these trivialities except that I'm ADD and it distracts me.