When I lived in Foug, France as a kid in ‘65-66, we lived near a canal and by our house was a few locks, they also had a tunnel and we would watch the barges, waiting for the locks and tunnels. One day a yacht came through with an American flag and we started calling to them. They thought we were French, but we told them we were Americans. They asked if we wanted to see the boat and go through a lock with them. Of course we did and we ran over and tour the boat and then went through the lock. They were from Los Angeles and had sail from there, through the Panama Canal, around Florida and up the East Coast, then across to Europe. They then were traveling the rivers and canals. That could be a great trip to make some day, you would have to take the mast down, but still it would be a great trip on the canals, through the small towns like Foug.
+billyl allen - doing a canal trip through France is definitely on the list. Not sure if the expense and trouble is dropping the mast on this boat tindi it would be worth it but it’s easy to rent a boat for a week or two.
Uncle Daddy Not many know or are fans of Nordhavn yachts sadly :( May improve as links of fantastic videos like this spread across the Inet 👍. Selene Ocean Yachts and manufacturers like it are better priced about 60c to $, but do not offer a MS model yet, and do not have the build quality of a Nordhavn
Watching this brought back great memories from I lived in Panama 1960-64. Coming out if Miraflores Locks and seeing Ancon Hill was especially wonderful. What a great thrill it must have been to make the transit.
Very nice detailed video, on what to expect to cross Panama Canal, will serve as documented “learnings / teaching” summary vid for many years on TH-cam, Thanks for posting 👍
Just discovered your videos and I’m hooked! What a fantastic adventure! I’m a commercial towboat Captain (barges on the Mississippi River and other inland waterways) and have always wanted to sail offshore, particularly recreationally with my family. What an amazing adventure and experience for your child to have! Thanks for sharing!
We transited the new Canal in Nov 2019 on the Disney Wonder . It was the time of a lifetime and something I will remember for many years. Thank you for your video and getting to see the old canal. Looking forward to your future videos.
Transiting the Panama Canal aboard your own boat is a complicated experience that you have told us not just well, but to go overboard, brilliantly. We really can see and understand what it's like because of your work, done with the flair of a natural storyteller. Fantastic to see Cassidy present and fully engaged in the process. How many children in the world will have this for a memory?
Grew up there, in the Canal Zone. Nice vid. Dad was an admeasurer towards the end of his career. Loved going out to the boats. Brought a few yachties home and man the tales they would tell, after a couple of rum and cokes.
you not only DID THE CANAL.... you DID THE CANAL with 2 tag-A-longz!!! koooodooooz that's a bukket list moment, or should be for EVERYONE!!! I have been thru both Ditches, the Panama and Suez! US NAVY on the USS OKINAWA LPH3 when the gulf stuff started up... around the world member here!
I wish you guys would come back with your TH-cam's I sure would enjoy the MS sailing , I'm an old person with little money but sure do enjoy . Thank you Cassidy and all .
Cool story, quite the adventure and learning experience for your subscribers and young pretty Miss Cassidy, enjoyed this a great deal, thank you for posting it!
What a fascinating story. You are doing such a great job on this channel and I am learning so much from it. Everything from your outstanding story telling ability, drone and video footage and editing. You do it all. Thank you so much. Warm regards, Jim Andersen, CatBoat Adventures, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts
Just discovered your channel yesterday and have already watched a number of your videos. Fantastic job and i love your attention to detail, really insightful. The tour of your Nordhavn 40 in particular was brilliant for me. Off to watch more of your content and hoping there will be a detailed tour of your new Nordhavn 56 Motorsailer, its a beautiful looking boat - the navy hull is so classic.
It's midnight and I can't stop watching your videos. Very well done. We went thru the canal on a cruise ship and it was a great experience but being a life long boater I just wanted so bad to be on my own bottom. There were a couple of cruising boats in the lock next to us so I was able to watch the process but your video really brought it all together for me. Soon I hope to be you. lol Keep up the great work.
👍👍 Very interesting. Loved seeing the operation. $2300 seemed like a lot until i saw all that was involved. Panama can be proud of their canal and the people who run it as a benefit of all the peoples of the world.
Looks like the transit went well and considering what it would of cost in fuel and time to go around the horn. Well I guess $2k isn't all that expensive. It took 8 days down to Panama, 10 days to transit and another 8 to 10 days up to SD, CA. That doesn't seem to long to travel from Florida to CA. Not counting the adventure thrown in for fun. Happy sailing.
You certainly don't want to make a mistake. Mechanical troubles are costly as well. From what I understand every extra day spent in the canal costs a few hundred dollars extra. It would seem the small monohull that couldn't keep up may have had to pay the extra fee.
Bill Van Den Ouden - we are all doing well and plan to post a lot more in the near future. Both about travels through Central America and Mexico and technical information about the Nordhavn 56MS.
Cassidy's Sailing Trawler - like Bill, I was concerned. Glad to here all is well. Based on my own work/life balance, I haven’t had time to create the boating content I wanted to this summer, so I get where you are coming from.
Could you make a tour of your 56MS? What would be really interesting are the fuel switching from one tank to another, the stuffing box, oil changing system and stuff like that. What makes this 56MS be the amazing vessel that it is.
+John Baker - we definitely will. Have been moving the boat and still learning about her systems and running her every day so it will take a little time.
Hi Dougal, Awesome video. First time I've seen such detail going through the canal. A lot better than reading about it. Well done! I'm sure I'll have a million questions for you when I get to do it myself one of these days. I didn't hear from you in Costa Rica. I'm sure you had a million other things on your mind. If you ever do get some free time I'd love to talk to you about your boarding. I'm sure it was scary. Glad you're doing well and looking forward to talking with you. Paul
Well done your reports and video editing in the episodes. Very good choice of music too. I really would appreciate a playlist of the music played in them, Sound hound doesn't recognize them all.
It's not necessary to have an agent so that a savings .. Standard sail boat under 50' is closer to $1100 after you get the $800 back if you don't mess anything up.. Plan on spending the extra day to pay your line handler's at $100 a day. You also need food and water for the guide per day. If you can bring cash from other places USD to pay the fees , you only will have one trip through the most dangerous city in panama. Because the city bank has no atm withdrawal so you risk wandering around the city with $2000 cash on you. They only except cash.... Bring a total of 10 fenders for your boat and that's a cost invested for your boat and no renting. They can just rent the lines at a less cost. So long as you have everything on the list setup and can do at least 5kn under power you should be fine to enjoy the trip. I'd absolutely love to do it on a massive boat like this one.
This is the best Panama Canal transit informational and visualization video I've seen to date. Thank you! Question regarding the on-board line handlers and manager... do you need to tip/gratuity them all at the end, or just feed them really well?
Truly enjoyed watching how the canal works. It sure looked like there were a lot of mosquitos flying around during that crossing! Everyone get eaten alive?
Best canal transit video I have on you tube
That little girl will remember this time FOREVER!!! Hope it was magical! !
When I lived in Foug, France as a kid in ‘65-66, we lived near a canal and by our house was a few locks, they also had a tunnel and we would watch the barges, waiting for the locks and tunnels. One day a yacht came through with an American flag and we started calling to them. They thought we were French, but we told them we were Americans. They asked if we wanted to see the boat and go through a lock with them. Of course we did and we ran over and tour the boat and then went through the lock. They were from Los Angeles and had sail from there, through the Panama Canal, around Florida and up the East Coast, then across to Europe. They then were traveling the rivers and canals. That could be a great trip to make some day, you would have to take the mast down, but still it would be a great trip on the canals, through the small towns like Foug.
+billyl allen - doing a canal trip through France is definitely on the list. Not sure if the expense and trouble is dropping the mast on this boat tindi it would be worth it but it’s easy to rent a boat for a week or two.
My wife and I rented or chartered a small 6 person cannel boat that took us through a small section of the French channels. Magical and cheep.
Panama Canal transit - ~ $2k
Adventure of a lLifetime - PRICELESS....⛵️
i think i can have a really good time on 2k)
I can now say I traversed the Panama Canal... in my armchair. Thank you for sharing that wonderful adventure with us! M
What a great experience for Cassidy!! She will remember this forever 😍😍😍
I really cant believe you don't have more subscribers right now... I've been watching for awhile now and I really enjoy your videos
Uncle Daddy Not many know or are fans of Nordhavn yachts sadly :( May improve as links of fantastic videos like this spread across the Inet 👍. Selene Ocean Yachts and manufacturers like it are better priced about 60c to $, but do not offer a MS model yet, and do not have the build quality of a Nordhavn
👍😍Wow! Absolutely fantastic! 💝 Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your journey! 🙏Wishing you all continued safe travels. 🤗💞🤗
Best Panama transit vlog I've enjoyed seeing and on my next new boat. Superb.
Best video of the Panama Canal transit I have seen to date. Thanks for sharing.
Watching this brought back great memories from I lived in Panama 1960-64. Coming out if Miraflores Locks and seeing Ancon Hill was especially wonderful. What a great thrill it must have been to make the transit.
Love the documentary style, keep it coming, love the technical stuff
Very nice detailed video, on what to expect to cross Panama Canal, will serve as documented “learnings / teaching” summary vid for many years on TH-cam, Thanks for posting 👍
Just discovered your videos and I’m hooked! What a fantastic adventure! I’m a commercial towboat Captain (barges on the Mississippi River and other inland waterways) and have always wanted to sail offshore, particularly recreationally with my family. What an amazing adventure and experience for your child to have! Thanks for sharing!
Great storytelling! Cassidy is a very bright beautiful little girl (who knows her way around a SLR).
Informative, fascinating and well produced video. Great channel no nonsense just motor-sailing.
Best canal transit video on TH-cam..grew up on and around boats on the east coast of Canada . Always wanted to see a good video of the Panama canal
We transited the new Canal in Nov 2019 on the Disney Wonder . It was the time of a lifetime and something I will remember for many years. Thank you for your video and getting to see the old canal. Looking forward to your future videos.
That was really cool. Best Panama Canal transit video I've seen by a wide margin!
Vince Resor - thank you.
I agree, always wanted to see the canal transit.
Awesome video
Agreed! I've watched others in the past that just showed locks and no procedures. This was amazing. I felt like I was there!
Transiting the Panama Canal aboard your own boat is a complicated experience that you have told us not just well, but to go overboard, brilliantly. We really can see and understand what it's like because of your work, done with the flair of a natural storyteller. Fantastic to see Cassidy present and fully engaged in the process. How many children in the world will have this for a memory?
Bruce Benson - Thanks for the comment! Cassidy definitely enjoyed being there for the transit.
Awww home sweet home. Grew up there. I worked at the Pedro Miguel locks. Left in 82. Lived on the Atlantic and pacific side.
Another great episode thank you guys : )
I sit and patiently wait for you to load up new episodes, And every one of them is amazing love your family God's blessings forever be with you
Excellent video production and the best explanation of the costs involved for transiting the canal I've seen thank you
Grew up there, in the Canal Zone. Nice vid. Dad was an admeasurer towards the end of his career. Loved going out to the boats. Brought a few yachties home and man the tales they would tell, after a couple of rum and cokes.
Beautiful video!
Fantastic video, so well edited and what an experience for your daughter to take.
Nice choice of music, easy listening, while still watching !
Panamanians are such Dam good People Great vid
you not only DID THE CANAL....
you DID THE CANAL with 2 tag-A-longz!!!
koooodooooz that's a bukket list moment,
or
should be for EVERYONE!!!
I have been thru both Ditches, the Panama and Suez!
US NAVY on the USS OKINAWA LPH3 when the gulf stuff started up...
around the world member here!
Great job. Thanks
Great video, thanks, The Panama Canal has always facinated me it't on my bucket list.
I wish you guys would come back with your TH-cam's I sure would enjoy the MS sailing , I'm an old person with little money but sure do enjoy . Thank you Cassidy and all .
+Guy Manges - we have a lot more to come innfhe near future.
I love this video. You answered several questions and provided 21 minutes if great entertainment. I am subscribing!!
Awesome awesome awesome video guys , thanks so much , I was riveted to the screen and listening to every word , well done 👍🏻
Cool story, quite the adventure and learning experience for your subscribers and young pretty Miss Cassidy, enjoyed this a great deal, thank you for posting it!
What an awesome experience for you all! Especially your daughter!
What a fascinating story. You are doing such a great job on this channel and I am learning so much from it. Everything from your outstanding story telling ability, drone and video footage and editing. You do it all. Thank you so much. Warm regards, Jim Andersen, CatBoat Adventures, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts
Thank you Jim!
I’m enjoying your videos more with each one I see. 🍻
Thoroughly enjoyed your passage experience... Was last a the canal a year prior to the activation of the new locks.... Great Vid! Thanks a million!
Just discovered your channel yesterday and have already watched a number of your videos. Fantastic job and i love your attention to detail, really insightful. The tour of your Nordhavn 40 in particular was brilliant for me. Off to watch more of your content and hoping there will be a detailed tour of your new Nordhavn 56 Motorsailer, its a beautiful looking boat - the navy hull is so classic.
+Brian Boland - thank you for the kind words. We are having fun with this channel and will have a lot more new content from the N56 soon.
Well done one of the best videos I have seen for a PC transit
It's midnight and I can't stop watching your videos. Very well done. We went thru the canal on a cruise ship and it was a great experience but being a life long boater I just wanted so bad to be on my own bottom. There were a couple of cruising boats in the lock next to us so I was able to watch the process but your video really brought it all together for me. Soon I hope to be you. lol Keep up the great work.
I walked underneath Pedro Miguel locks while working there. Ty great footage.
Thank you for this amazing video...I learned a lot.
A GREAT ADVENTURE !!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING! =]
I really enjoyed this video.
Thanks for this great video well done.
Great video, excellent educational experience for cassidy
Great to see another ep!!! ⛵
What an experience of a lifetime. Thankful you traveled so easily through thus part of Central America. Thank you for sharing!!!!
Thanks for sharing your video 👍
GR8 video..cant wait to do this !!
Ten days waiting around plus a small chunk of money, but I guess it beats the distance and rough water going around the cape. Really good video!
Very cool, great description of how that works!
Thanks for the great reminder of our transit in 2012. Except we started 12 hours later and ended up in the Balboa Yacht Club around midnight.
Nicely done. Thanks for sharing the experience.
Wow what an adventure! thx for sharing
Very cool episode
I was one of those people that paid $20 to watch the boats from the Panama Canal visitor centre!
👍👍
Very interesting. Loved seeing the operation. $2300 seemed like a lot until i saw all that was involved. Panama can be proud of their canal and the people who run it as a benefit of all the peoples of the world.
What an adventure! So cool!
Wow, not something one would want to do a lot. Good video, if I ever have to do it, it will seem a little less stranger now.
Looks like the transit went well and considering what it would of cost in fuel and time to go around the horn. Well I guess $2k isn't all that expensive. It took 8 days down to Panama, 10 days to transit and another 8 to 10 days up to SD, CA. That doesn't seem to long to travel from Florida to CA. Not counting the adventure thrown in for fun. Happy sailing.
Fantastic episode and footage!
Great job maneuvering and editing!
Very thorough & informative. Thanks a lot for sharing.
Another nicely done and well edited video. Looking forward to many more!
Great episode!!
Great episode thanks for sharing
You certainly don't want to make a mistake. Mechanical troubles are costly as well. From what I understand every extra day spent in the canal costs a few hundred dollars extra. It would seem the small monohull that couldn't keep up may have had to pay the extra fee.
Super nice job.
The boat handlers wear life jackets and vests that's good to see !!!!!
Great content. Great video.
Loved your video you made it look easy! Enjoy and be safe!
Next episode please! Lol... Hope all is well.
marshall baires - we are working on a few things to post right now!! Hopefully in the next couple of days we will be back to posting.
you had to pay them $2000 and then feed them too love it lol . great video as always
I really enjoy your videos I haven't seen a new one lately is everything okay hope all is well with you and your family
Bill Van Den Ouden - we are all doing well and plan to post a lot more in the near future. Both about travels through Central America and Mexico and technical information about the Nordhavn 56MS.
Cassidy's Sailing Trawler - like Bill, I was concerned. Glad to here all is well. Based on my own work/life balance, I haven’t had time to create the boating content I wanted to this summer, so I get where you are coming from.
So cool. Thanks!
Great info. Thanks!
Great video.
Well done!
Love seeing Cassidy with a camera in hand - Start um young and they'll become excellent photographers who love to shoot.
Lawrence D - she’s got a lot of interest and a decent eye already. It’s fun to see what comes out of the camera that Cassidy uses.
Too bad this was the video after the day you bought it. I'll have to try & figure out order glad you numbered them.👍
Great editing! For such a small and growing Channel!
Could you make a tour of your 56MS? What would be really interesting are the fuel switching from one tank to another, the stuffing box, oil changing system and stuff like that. What makes this 56MS be the amazing vessel that it is.
+John Baker - we definitely will. Have been moving the boat and still learning about her systems and running her every day so it will take a little time.
Boy, the Cannel really nickels and dimes you!
Nice trip!
Seems like here's a lot of room in there for more boats.
Hi Dougal,
Awesome video. First time I've seen such detail going through the canal. A lot better than reading about it. Well done! I'm sure I'll have a million questions for you when I get to do it myself one of these days. I didn't hear from you in Costa Rica. I'm sure you had a million other things on your mind. If you ever do get some free time I'd love to talk to you about your boarding. I'm sure it was scary. Glad you're doing well and looking forward to talking with you.
Paul
+Paul V - we are now in Mexico and have free roaming on AT&T so happy to talk sometime soon!
I would love that. Just let me know whenever you have some time.
Well done your reports and video editing in the episodes. Very good choice of music too. I really would appreciate a playlist of the music played in them, Sound hound doesn't recognize them all.
It's not necessary to have an agent so that a savings ..
Standard sail boat under 50' is closer to $1100 after you get the $800 back if you don't mess anything up..
Plan on spending the extra day to pay your line handler's at $100 a day.
You also need food and water for the guide per day.
If you can bring cash from other places USD to pay the fees , you only will have one trip through the most dangerous city in panama.
Because the city bank has no atm withdrawal so you risk wandering around the city with $2000 cash on you.
They only except cash....
Bring a total of 10 fenders for your boat and that's a cost invested for your boat and no renting.
They can just rent the lines at a less cost.
So long as you have everything on the list setup and can do at least 5kn under power you should be fine to enjoy the trip.
I'd absolutely love to do it on a massive boat like this one.
Just found your channel .. love the content .. keep up the awesome videos ... subscribed :)
This is the best Panama Canal transit informational and visualization video I've seen to date. Thank you! Question regarding the on-board line handlers and manager... do you need to tip/gratuity them all at the end, or just feed them really well?
+Jason Stanley - thank you. Tipping is not expected but they do expect cooked meals.
Fantastic Vid mate
Nice !
AWESOME!!!!
Loved it Thankyou
hope you the best
Truly enjoyed watching how the canal works. It sure looked like there were a lot of mosquitos flying around during that crossing! Everyone get eaten alive?
+Edward Grant - no mosquitos - but it was raining really heavily at times. Maybe that’s what you we’re seeing?
Welcome Pacific ocean!