Wow! What an amazing passage, and incredible video. Isabelle is a real trooper. Sea sickness is the worst. But she smiled the whole way, and did her part. My wife and I are really enjoying your channel.
Y.E.A.H. !! You made it.........as if there were any doubts, Captain. Absolutely a beautiful place to arrive at for sure. Bummer our gal was not well along the way, yet I know she is fine now with this exquisite place to explore. ✨ 👍 😎 ✨
@@arottie4097 No, I don't. I just have an inkling. It seems all of the sailing channels are making babies during the COVID lockdowns. Time will tell if I'm right or wrong. 😁
What a pleasant surprise catching this new video so soon after your previous one. Sorry Isabelle that you've been having to deal with the sea sickness, but Kieran keeps you in good hands. Absolutely loving French Polynesia! Much love to you both, and again thank you for taking me along. Doc
Like# 398. Capt. Flaco don't worry about oversleeping as long as that jem mamasita stays beside you, what a dream. It helps when you see the horizon when sea sickness comes, better to be outside than inside. Atos look amazing, just like yours eyes, you can swim in them. love from Antigua Guatemala, OsoYolo.
So for the Hydrovane: Carry extra bolts. And maybe a Z bracket with two more bolts outside the casting to hold down the Z with the Hydrovane bolts going through the raised part of the Z. This way the extra bolts support the two key bolts. (I've found in a wide range of applications that two bolts/screws/nails support each other, dampening movement and stress.) They shouldn't have sheered off, so they were either over tightened, or undersized; or as you point out better the bolts than the casting. Of course once you get the right bolts, replace both of them. I've got a Hydrovane on my boat, I keep docking into it. Not hard, but I shouldn't be doing it. So definitely get a couple more spec'd bolts before I sail away. thanks.
What a contrast from David’s bay to Tuamotu. Both stunning locations for different reasons. You guys are really spoiling us. It’s such a shame Isabelle suffers from seasickness, but the rewards are well worth the discomfort. Can’t wait for next weeks vlog.
Great sail guys, that looked quite demanding, but what a beautiful destination. 😌👏 Best wishes with the hydrovane ans Isabelle’s sea sickness, I hope you can find a solution for both !!
Great video, guys. Loved watching the whole passage in one hit. Such a bummer Isabelle's seasickness lasted the whole journey ... but still managed to cook, and smile for us.☺👏
Isabelle, bless your heart with the sea sickness….awful. I heard the comment about not taking medicine for it. I’ll just mention this one that works for me. It is Zofran (ondansetron) it is a tiny pill that dissolves under your tongue. I don’t know how you get medications as you sail around the world…I guess see a local doctor in a town with some medical facilities (pharmacy) also. Hate to see you feeling bad especially when there is no way to smooth out rough seas. Glad you made the Atoll some overdue calm water. It’s good you are with such a capable and caring Captain. Stay safe guys from Fred in Texas.
Thank you for your kind words Fred! Thank you for the tip, I recently got some root ginger from one of my sailing friends. Hope that will help a bit. But yes, the reward of the calm turquoise waters in the atoll made it worth it😊all the best my friend
I do not know what to say, having used the Hydrovane for one circumnavigation, noting the unit will steer an "S" course, countering this by easing the jib sheet so the boat cannot round up, but we never locked the unit and used the autopilot. I wish you all the best finding a replacement for the broken 10mm stainless-steel bolt in the Tuamotu islands.
Hey hey, that looks very intense. You deserve a medal for tolerating sea sickness and cooking fantastic food. I also have experienced this and have the T shirt mug and video sort of to say. I think certain conditions are just not harmonious and no matter what you do it just makes your body feel sick. I spent a night clinging to the base of a table in a force 10 with 30 ft waves on a ferry boat which should have never left the harbour. I really thought that was the day my last card was being played! What your doing shows that you are learning every day and that you have a much needed respect for each other and the sea! I’m contemplating building a classic Swedish yacht and all that entails..that can make you feel sea sick before begin! Keep safe and always with courage. joy in your hearts. R ⛵️
Hi I think the Swedish have a great sense of design and know how when it comes to building beautiful well performing Yatchs. But they really come at a price and even a lottery win might not be enough! That said I like the Hacken Sodergren designers7 and finot-Conq the French naval architectes I’m hoping to sail a few concepts and and enjoy what’s posdible with then. Stay safe R
Hey guy's, often I wonder if it's us looking @ the Dolphin's OR them Dolphin's looking @ us? @ time's it appears as if they are actually tilting sideway Inorder to have a look. Either way they are beautiful creature's!! I hope there will come a day that I can look @ them in person!!! Sail on my friend's
The cure for mal de mer is to sit under an oak tree. Next tip……..eat oranges, they taste the same coming up as going down. Well done to prepare a meal when feeling off colour. Respect. Capt., JB
Well done with this video - would this be the longest you've ever posted? My impressions (and my apologies if I sound a bit blunt): maybe don't push _Merewether_ that hard? As you say, the boat pushes back; and two things happen: things break, and your lady gets seasick and doesn't enjoy the trip as much. Wind back on the speed and the risk of those two things happening reduces. The hydrovane bolt: I'm guessing you'll be looking for 316 stainless, and I'd be going for zinc-plated clear-passivated as well, which is what we always installed on land installations near the coast. (Before that it was cadmium-plated, but that got banned years ago in the EU, Australia, etc, on environmental grounds.) But you might find that hard to get where you are ... might have to go with what you can get there, get a replacement mailed to your next destination, and once you reach there be prepared to remove a corroded fastener set and replace it with stainless?
I believe it is one of the longest we’ve posted haha we really didn’t want to turn this sail into two movies. What did you think, should we do more long videos? Great thoughts your putting in you comment. The both of us definitely didn’t enjoy this sail and normally we’ll sail quite slower than this. On this particular occasion we had to be at our destination by a certain time otherwise we would have spend 24 hours heave to outside the atoll in the ocean and waves. Definitely will be trying to plan better next time. Thanks for your comment
@@SailingMerewether It wasn't quite clear from the video, but should I assume that someone is always on watch? When I single-hand I sleep but get up every 25 minutes to check the horizon and sail trim. But that includes sleeping during the day as well.
@@SailingMerewether I am binge watching your channel (and very much enjoying them) but jumped to the Hydrovane one since you are not the first voyager to have problems with the lower mount of the vane.
@@roncanizares9966 we were using it in an improper way when it broke. The Hydrovane when not in use should be free to move as it pleases we had it locked in a straight position and there fore put unneeded stress on the bottom mounting pad. We love our Hydrovane so much!
@@SailingMerewether When I started paragliding, every time I went into a cloud I got motion sickness. Then I added a big Silva marine bubble compass to my cockpit setup, and discover that if I kept my eyes on the compass while maneuvering into the cloud, I didn't get sick. Apparently, the compass worked as an artificial horizon, and provided a visual reference that was not in conflict with my ears' information.
I hate to see Isabelle in discomfiture. I tried suggesting that she immediately take the helm when she feels the woozies. Sorry that it apparently did not work. Great work on the video under duress. God only knows how you had the whatever it takes to make a meal for the captain. Being in the galley is impossible when you have mal-de-mer.
Just some basic points that might help you with your Hydrovane; 1: Balance your rig to reduce the work the hydrovane has to do 2: From the footage it appeared you had the Hydrovane sail rigged vertically, considering the conditions you may have increased the rake of the Hydrovane sail to reduce its sensitivity to the stronger winds. 3: Not sure if you tried to adjust the Hydrovane steering ratio......maybe 1:1 would have been an appropriate setting You probably already knew these, just trying to help ..... not teach you how to suck eggs, cheers
Hey Bunyip. Thanks for all the information. As mentioned in the video we actually weren’t using the Hydrovane on this sail at all. The HV rudder was attached and locked in the straight position which we think contributed to the problem. Check out next weeks video where we talk about it more. Should be up this time tomorrow 👍🏼
People did not leave the Stone Age because there were no more stones, but because there were better alternatives (innovations). Change asap to Windpilot Pacific and your are save for the next 30 years
Oh heck Isabelle. Honestly I feel sorry for you. Get some ginger tabs or root ginger, and in the case of the latter, chew I an swallow with carbonated water or whatever. The ginger and CO2 working together seems to sort out the problem. There is available online spectacles that look a bit geeky, but in their design they have a what I can only describe as a false horizon. They don't affect your vision. Apparently they work. Take care. Atb from down here in Nz.
Thank you Bryan! Yea that wasn’t a comfortable sail. I’ve used them, they work to some extent but not all the way. Cheers for tuning in again mate! All the best
"The Best captain in the world" ...but not the fastest? :D lol what were the other 2 boats that you werent racing? Looked a bit bigger than you guys......
Enjoying watching you guys, as we haven’t been to our boat since 14/6 🤦🏼♀️ due to Sydney’s lockdown 😷🦠 crazy days. Sea sickness or morning sickness hmmm 🤔
Not sure about these particular bolts, but we were always warned about buying bolts from hardware stores. Consumer grade hardware has sulphur added to it to make it easier to machine and thus cheaper to make. But that makes it weaker, and thus tending to fail earlier than a bolt of the same diameter but made from higher grade steel.
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Wow! What an amazing passage, and incredible video. Isabelle is a real trooper. Sea sickness is the worst. But she smiled the whole way, and did her part. My wife and I are really enjoying your channel.
Thanks so much Larrimo, we appreciate you guys tuning in 🙌🏼
Isabelle - amazing strength and perseverance - RESPECT ✊
Great footage - boat was smoking 👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you Anthony☺️ glad you liked it!
Y.E.A.H. !! You made it.........as if there were any doubts, Captain. Absolutely a beautiful place to arrive at for sure. Bummer our gal was not well along the way, yet I know she is fine now with this exquisite place to explore. ✨ 👍 😎 ✨
very nice super video !!!!!!!!!💯💯👌👍👍
Thank you Mel, glad you enjoyed this one🙌🏼
Oh my, another expectant sailor. It's a sailing baby boom. 💥
Sooo that was Morning sickness NOT Sea sickness after all!?!? Ha! You must know something we don't?
@@arottie4097 No, I don't. I just have an inkling. It seems all of the sailing channels are making babies during the COVID lockdowns. Time will tell if I'm right or wrong. 😁
Hahah mate! We are not pregnant. It was normal seasickness😅
@@SailingMerewether 😰😅
What a pleasant surprise catching this new video so soon after your previous one. Sorry Isabelle that you've been having to deal with the sea sickness, but Kieran keeps you in good hands. Absolutely loving French Polynesia! Much love to you both, and again thank you for taking me along. Doc
So glad you enjoyed it mate! We love French Polynesia too🙌🏼 thank you for tuning in to our videos and our journey. All the best to you and the family!
Like# 398. Capt. Flaco don't worry about oversleeping as long as that jem mamasita stays beside you, what a dream. It helps when you see the horizon when sea sickness comes, better to be outside than inside. Atos look amazing, just like yours eyes, you can swim in them. love from Antigua Guatemala, OsoYolo.
So for the Hydrovane: Carry extra bolts. And maybe a Z bracket with two more bolts outside the casting to hold down the Z with the Hydrovane bolts going through the raised part of the Z. This way the extra bolts support the two key bolts. (I've found in a wide range of applications that two bolts/screws/nails support each other, dampening movement and stress.) They shouldn't have sheered off, so they were either over tightened, or undersized; or as you point out better the bolts than the casting. Of course once you get the right bolts, replace both of them.
I've got a Hydrovane on my boat, I keep docking into it. Not hard, but I shouldn't be doing it. So definitely get a couple more spec'd bolts before I sail away. thanks.
Nicely Done!, Merewether and her crew!!
Thank you George! Yea she is a winner in our books☺️
Wow!! That was a rough sail! Sorry Isabelle you weren’t feeling well... I agree Kieran is a top notch Captain!! ⛵️👍😊
Thank you mate! He really is☺️all the best
@@SailingMerewether You’re Welcome! I enjoy your videos... Fair winds and Calm seas! ⛵️
What a contrast from David’s bay to Tuamotu. Both stunning locations for different reasons. You guys are really spoiling us. It’s such a shame Isabelle suffers from seasickness, but the rewards are well worth the discomfort. Can’t wait for next weeks vlog.
Hah glad you like it mate! Yes the reward is far greater🙌🏼all the best to you
Congrats on one of the best videos I’ve seen..Truly. Isabell you are a TROOPER! Enjoy.
Thank you so much Vaughn! Really appreciate the feedback🙏🏼all the best
You two continue to display remarkable elan. This might just be skillful editing, but increasingly I think it's just who you are!
Haha thank you Dave, appreciate it mate🙌🏼
Great sail guys, that looked quite demanding, but what a beautiful destination. 😌👏
Best wishes with the hydrovane ans Isabelle’s sea sickness, I hope you can find a solution for both !!
Thanks for throwing in a mix of technical aspects……I learned some stuff.
Glad you liked it! ☺️
Isabelle, so sorry that your sea sickness made such an untimely visit. Beautiful camera work. Safe travels!
Thank you Robert! 🙏🏼
Afther seeing this video I've just one thing to say : Respect!!
Thank you Leander🙏🏼
Great video, guys. Loved watching the whole passage in one hit. Such a bummer Isabelle's seasickness lasted the whole journey ... but still managed to cook, and smile for us.☺👏
Thank you so much Craig! Appreciate it☺️
Isabelle, bless your heart with the sea sickness….awful. I heard the comment about not taking medicine for it. I’ll just mention this one that works for me. It is Zofran (ondansetron) it is a tiny pill that dissolves under your tongue. I don’t know how you get medications as you sail around the world…I guess see a local doctor in a town with some medical facilities (pharmacy) also. Hate to see you feeling bad especially when there is no way to smooth out rough seas. Glad you made the Atoll some overdue calm water. It’s good you are with such a capable and caring Captain. Stay safe guys from Fred in Texas.
Thank you for your kind words Fred! Thank you for the tip, I recently got some root ginger from one of my sailing friends. Hope that will help a bit. But yes, the reward of the calm turquoise waters in the atoll made it worth it😊all the best my friend
@@SailingMerewether Very good my friend, you guys enjoy the beautiful water.
Great sail, handled well.
Thank you Graham!
I do not know what to say, having used the Hydrovane for one circumnavigation, noting the unit will steer an "S" course, countering this by easing the jib sheet so the boat cannot round up, but we never locked the unit and used the autopilot. I wish you all the best finding a replacement for the broken 10mm stainless-steel bolt in the Tuamotu islands.
Hey hey, that looks very intense. You deserve a medal for tolerating sea sickness and cooking fantastic food. I also have experienced this and have the T shirt mug and video sort of to say. I think certain conditions are just not harmonious and no matter what you do it just makes your body feel sick. I spent a night clinging to the base of a table in a force 10 with 30 ft waves on a ferry boat which should have never left the harbour. I really thought that was the day my last card was being played! What your doing shows that you are learning every day and that you have a much needed respect for each other and the sea! I’m contemplating building a classic Swedish yacht and all that entails..that can make you feel sea sick before begin! Keep safe and always with courage. joy in your hearts. R ⛵️
Romas, mate thank you! Oh yea, seasickness is the worst. I feel you. Yess what kind? They make some good boats up there (not biased)☺️all the best
Hi I think the Swedish have a great sense of design and know how when it comes to building beautiful well performing Yatchs. But they really come at a price and even a lottery win might not be enough! That said I like the Hacken Sodergren designers7 and finot-Conq the French naval architectes I’m hoping to sail a few concepts and and enjoy what’s posdible with then. Stay safe R
Excellent video, good sailing [but he did break the hydrovane,] good skipper, good cook, thanks for sharing. Hope that the atoll is good too.
Thank you! Appreciate it🙏🏼oh the atoll is amazing, stay tuned for next week;)
Have fun and stay safe
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Hey guy's, often I wonder if it's us looking @ the Dolphin's OR them Dolphin's looking @ us? @ time's it appears as if they are actually tilting sideway Inorder to have a look. Either way they are beautiful creature's!! I hope there will come a day that I can look @ them in person!!! Sail on my friend's
I believe they see us too! I was feeling a bit low and he came and said hi, incredible feeling. Cheers for tuning in again my friend!
another awesome video guys, Isabelle i feel your pain :-)
Cheers my friend!
Really enjoying your videos, even more so during the Sydney lockdown, would love to be diving over there looks so good
Thank you Paul! Really appreciate it✨of diving here is unreal
The cure for mal de mer is to sit under an oak tree. Next tip……..eat oranges, they taste the same coming up as going down. Well done to prepare a meal when feeling off colour. Respect. Capt., JB
Haha Rodger. Cheers JB!
You wouldn't try to steer by hand if the wind vane is working, you would release it. Everything has a learning curve.
Well done with this video - would this be the longest you've ever posted?
My impressions (and my apologies if I sound a bit blunt): maybe don't push _Merewether_ that hard? As you say, the boat pushes back; and two things happen: things break, and your lady gets seasick and doesn't enjoy the trip as much. Wind back on the speed and the risk of those two things happening reduces.
The hydrovane bolt: I'm guessing you'll be looking for 316 stainless, and I'd be going for zinc-plated clear-passivated as well, which is what we always installed on land installations near the coast. (Before that it was cadmium-plated, but that got banned years ago in the EU, Australia, etc, on environmental grounds.) But you might find that hard to get where you are ... might have to go with what you can get there, get a replacement mailed to your next destination, and once you reach there be prepared to remove a corroded fastener set and replace it with stainless?
I believe it is one of the longest we’ve posted haha we really didn’t want to turn this sail into two movies. What did you think, should we do more long videos?
Great thoughts your putting in you comment. The both of us definitely didn’t enjoy this sail and normally we’ll sail quite slower than this. On this particular occasion we had to be at our destination by a certain time otherwise we would have spend 24 hours heave to outside the atoll in the ocean and waves. Definitely will be trying to plan better next time. Thanks for your comment
Well done guys, loved your video.
👍🍻🇦🇺
@sailingpopeye
Hey cheers David! Appreciate it🙌🏼
Great video. Question: When you both went to sleep, for how long did you sleep?
Thank you! We do 3h shifts at night.
@@SailingMerewether It wasn't quite clear from the video, but should I assume that someone is always on watch? When I single-hand I sleep but get up every 25 minutes to check the horizon and sail trim. But that includes sleeping during the day as well.
@@roncanizares9966 we have talked about our shift schedule in previous episodes. Yes, we do 3h shifts and one is always on watch.
@@SailingMerewether I am binge watching your channel (and very much enjoying them) but jumped to the Hydrovane one since you are not the first voyager to have problems with the lower mount of the vane.
@@roncanizares9966 we were using it in an improper way when it broke. The Hydrovane when not in use should be free to move as it pleases we had it locked in a straight position and there fore put unneeded stress on the bottom mounting pad. We love our Hydrovane so much!
Hope one of your sailing friends at anchor with you by your first Atol can come up with the size bolt you need for the Hydrovane.
Got it covered Micheal! See when we fix it in tomorrow’s episode☺️
Show us around that Ketch.
Oh no!!!
Epic :)
Cheers Spencer!
Try Ginger Root capsules for motion sickness. It helps me a lot. Take 2 1?2 hour before setting sail and as needed from there after.
I’ve just got some from a friend and keep to try them out. Thank you for the tip!
Yep! a godsend really
@@SailingMerewether When I started paragliding, every time I went into a cloud I got motion sickness. Then I added a big Silva marine bubble compass to my cockpit setup, and discover that if I kept my eyes on the compass while maneuvering into the cloud, I didn't get sick. Apparently, the compass worked as an artificial horizon, and provided a visual reference that was not in conflict with my ears' information.
Please check on the little bottle of oil that you can put a dab behind each ear. I promise it will help you with the sea sickness. "motion ease"
Amazing! Gonna try that. Thank you William🙏🏼
I hate to see Isabelle in discomfiture. I tried suggesting that she immediately take the helm when she feels the woozies. Sorry that it apparently did not work. Great work on the video under duress. God only knows how you had the whatever it takes to make a meal for the captain. Being in the galley is impossible when you have mal-de-mer.
I have not been getting any notifications 😕 but I'm redoing everything hopefully I will now
Very strange! Hope it’s sorted now🙏🏼
Just some basic points that might help you with your Hydrovane;
1: Balance your rig to reduce the work the hydrovane has to do
2: From the footage it appeared you had the Hydrovane sail rigged vertically, considering the conditions you may have increased the rake of the Hydrovane sail to reduce its sensitivity to the stronger winds.
3: Not sure if you tried to adjust the Hydrovane steering ratio......maybe 1:1 would have been an appropriate setting
You probably already knew these, just trying to help ..... not teach you how to suck eggs, cheers
Hey Bunyip. Thanks for all the information. As mentioned in the video we actually weren’t using the Hydrovane on this sail at all. The HV rudder was attached and locked in the straight position which we think contributed to the problem. Check out next weeks video where we talk about it more. Should be up this time tomorrow 👍🏼
Your pealing from the wrong end..
He needs bell-ringing lessons ...
People did not leave the Stone Age because there were no more stones, but because there were better alternatives (innovations). Change asap to Windpilot Pacific and your are save for the next 30 years
Oh heck Isabelle. Honestly I feel sorry for you. Get some ginger tabs or root ginger, and in the case of the latter, chew I an swallow with carbonated water or whatever. The ginger and CO2 working together seems to sort out the problem. There is available online spectacles that look a bit geeky, but in their design they have a what I can only describe as a false horizon. They don't affect your vision. Apparently they work. Take care. Atb from down here in Nz.
Thank you Bryan! Yea that wasn’t a comfortable sail. I’ve used them, they work to some extent but not all the way. Cheers for tuning in again mate! All the best
@@SailingMerewether until next time.
👍😎👍💕
Why do you use an autopilot and the steering vane at the same time? They don't work against each other?
Clip in?
Always!
"The Best captain in the world" ...but not the fastest? :D lol what were the other 2 boats that you werent racing? Looked a bit bigger than you guys......
An amel 54 and a jeanneau 42. We were built for the charter industry, not for racing haha
Enjoying watching you guys, as we haven’t been to our boat since 14/6 🤦🏼♀️ due to Sydney’s lockdown 😷🦠 crazy days. Sea sickness or morning sickness hmmm 🤔
Sailing is Noisy!
I would say the bolts you purchased were probably Chinese made junk get some good bolts and try again
Not sure about these particular bolts, but we were always warned about buying bolts from hardware stores. Consumer grade hardware has sulphur added to it to make it easier to machine and thus cheaper to make. But that makes it weaker, and thus tending to fail earlier than a bolt of the same diameter but made from higher grade steel.
no harness on deck on your own in rough seas. I won't be subscribing here.
Hi Crypto. We normally always clip in. This happen so quickly and we were both there. When kieran fixed the hydrovane he was clipped in.