You are the best SAILING channel on TH-cam- and actually show some sailing! Keep up the great content! We just lost our boat 2 weeks ago after lightning strike took out all electronics on Beneteau 473. Time to look for another boat!
Colin, I have only one complaint. The videos aren't long enough. The vibe is so good. I know it's a lot of work, but you're all showing the world how good people can be. You spread decency everywhere you go!
We've lost touch in modern society with what makes a great village. Hats off to those lads for saving the day on several occasions and doing it all with a smile on their face.
Those islanders have it made! No politicians and no politics or wars, just each other and their beautiful islands! I know those island people and I ❤ them! They are living their lives the way we should be living ours! 😂😅
That was so satisfying to see you find the anchor! Seemed like such a long shot, but you brought all your skills of navigation, technology, currents, buoyancy and equipment at hand and solved the puzzle. I can only imagine the feeling you all had at the achievement 🎉
Geeze Colin you’re a bloody legend of the seas! What a great thing to do for someone! So impressed with your seamanship and willingness to always help a fellow sailer. The world needs more kind hearted people like you. ❤
I actually had no doubt that you would find their anchor. Colin you have so much experience and it showed it’s worth when you chose to follow the correct drag mark. I was surprised that you only had one scuba tank and I hope someone donates a few more tanks and scuba gear to you. You have a wonderful crew, and I find have to admit, I can hardly wait for my Sunday morning adventure watching your videos. Please stay safe.
Thats cool...Thanks...that 450 was our "Explorer" from 2016-2021 in Tonga...good to see she has a new life !! good luck :) we sold her after the Tonga Volcano and Tsunami....we lost our island....and everything on it ... Life hey...
Hi Colin, just an update on Blue Gold from last episode which you are probably already across. Front page story in the Vanuatu Daily Post 30/11 “VMSA confirms Derek French as legal owner of super yacht Blue Gold”. You may be able to find the online version yourself but I’ll copy part of it here. “According to the Shipping Act and VMSA act, as specified in the Certificate of Registry, the superyacht Blue Gold is registered as a private vessel under the ownership of Mr French. French is a naturalized Ni-Vanuatu who resides in Moso and is married to a Moso woman.” So basically French has been given two years to remove the Blue Gold otherwise ownership will revert to the government. Hope this helps. Cheers
It is amazing what the human spirit can do when a little bit ingenuity is used. Colin and the crew are fantastic humans and deserve some serious recognition for their efforts
Wish the World could watch this. Grow up in a sailing community and it will follow your lifetime. My husband is a cowboy. Between us both, we feel life is marvelous. We’ve made our mistakes, don’t get me wrong, but we will meet our maker with heads held high❤. 🤩 BRAVO
As a Scuba instructor, I have done lots of searches. Some successful, some not. That was a great job! It’s not easy searching at that depth. We carried a Scuba compressor and had 10 tanks as we did Scuba charters for the cruising kitty. We didn’t have TH-cam. 2 or so months a year kept us cruising for 20+ yrs. I really appreciate your knowledge on the Lagoons. You could do consulting of extra money before people do it the wrong way.
Colin, nicest guy in the world, (according to my wife, Erica) goes out of his way to help a fellow sailor with a bent Lagoon 450. Well done Parlay crew! Well done!
Great episode. Had a powerboat come too close to my bow and cut my rode in the middle of the night with 50’ of chain and anchor in the mud. All I had to retrieve it was a floor-less Avon inflatable dingy with aluminum oars and a 20# grapnel anchor. Absolutely brutal experience trying to drag that grapnel across the mud by rowing. Hours later, having pulled that grapnel up to check dozens of times, blisters and heartache, I got the chain. 😮😮 one of the most satisfying moments of my cruising life.
This is what I miss most about traveling. The awareness you get of how much other people really do care about each other. We really only hear about the bad stuff most of the time. There is war going on some place on this Earth everyday. It's so nice to see the good stuff that's happening as well. Thanks for that Colin.
Well done colin !! You my friend are blessed ! Keep listening to your gut and follow your heart and you'll never go wrong. I see the power of Gratitude is paying off 10 fold What a great life you are living
Ha well done I know one “experienced”sailor who didn’t check the bitter end and layed out all his 100lb anchor 100metre chain on a sand bottom 15 metres deep on a calm morning 😂by pressing the wrong button!,😮😂We used my spare 35lb delta anchor on a sheet rope to drag across his track picked it up second attempt then the hard work getting it up began for three blokes. Cheers crew good stuff
The Parlay team is Awesome.... solving big problems with no expectations... it's called expert charity Your engagement with the locals is always a hoot and obviously appreciated
Good on you and your crew, Colin! The sea, well, she doesn't care what flag we fly, or what conveyance we sail upon. She's going to try to get us all, one way or another. All we have out there is each other, and you exemplify the Mariner's Code. Well done you! Fair winds...
Great dive, boss. And a bit lucky, eh? Not even a delayed smb for a marker in case you hit pay dirt? The dive gods gave you some sort of break 🤗🤗 but we all need one now and again 🤗🤗 fair winds etc, 30 metres was plenty, working hard....You know what I'm talking about, right on a dcs limit I'll bet. Stay with us, boss, you are needed and much loved.
Colin an excellent job getting the anchor back - I think your two friends should be congratulated for getting out and doing it - the only way to learn. Cool man
Onya Colin! My favorite saying is "there's always a way" it helps if you've got an engineers brain of course! It's surprising how just working the problem and not focusing on the negatives gets the results! Cheers mate, safe travels.🤟
Over my lifetime I have salvaged 7 small boats and helped with others. One CRITICAL fact has turned up on every job, whether the engine was under for a day or a month, many on them have up to 4 double lipped seals on the crankshaft and reduction gear. You recently flipped 2 hurricane salvage boats without a mention of this problem. Salt water gets between the wipers on those seals and slowly corrodes the shaft away. spreading outward until the rough surface until it eats the seal lip away. It can take from months, to years. We first saw this on 2cycle outboards, 50+ years ago. It show up in months as the base compression drops.
We're a sailing family of 5 on 38 ft monohull for 3 years, having cruised US east coast, Bahamas, DR and now in Guatemala doing some bottom work. Watching episodes like yours makes us want to continue exploring distant locations.
Nothing gives us sailors more pleasure than helping a fellow sailor. PS: All of us old experienced sailors allow our wife to always pull up the anchor.
A party on a private island with such beautiful and nice people. Amazing.I think the fact that you had such a great team really helped. I've been told about folks trying to do what you did without that team and its just overwhelming ! Bravo team !
Another great episode guys, Only thing, Please tryn make the next few a lil longer, These 20 minute ones go by so fast!! That was awesome Colin runnin into their anchor so quickly!! Great recovery man!! Until next Sunday brother, Yall stay safe out there and Have tons ah fun!!! Thanks again Mates!!!
Geeezz Colin that dive was incredible and a lot of luck, probably come into the category of what you don't teach people to do 🤣🤣🤣 but it worked and again it amazing how the local people come to help, it seems to be common in the Pacific Islands there. A great video all round, I'm not sure of your timing in the area but the Breaking Waves crew had Kiana pushed onto a reef in French Pollanesha and very lucky not to loose the boat, happy and safe sailing 👍👍🇳🇿
Awesome as always, really glad to see you go through the bulkhead issue again. That was the first thing I wondered about when I saw another 450. They’re off my list. Thanks for sharing.⚓️🏖️🌴☀️😎🇦🇺
Colin; In the Pacific Northwest, logging is big business. Logging trucks secure their loads using chain and "chain hooks", which are heavy duty hooks designed to engage individual chain links. Most commercial fishing boats around here, and we on our little trawler, carry a couple chain hooks to retrieve chain 9and potentially other things) from the bottom. This is valuable if an anchor and chain should get loose from the boat as was your case in Vanuatu. As long as we know approximately where the anchor chain lays on the bottom, we can drag a chain hook back and forth across that line hoping to hook up on the missing anchor chain links. Once a chain hook links up, it is relatively secure. The key is to use about 10' to 20' of chain rode on the chain hook end of the drag line to keep it on the bottom when it is being towed around, with adequately sized nylon rode as the tow line from the boat. I have personally used this method to find another boat's anchor and chain (successfully), and have seen others use it for similar purposes. This approach works more often than not. The biggest problem is usually random bottom debris that the chain hook picks up. Around here dragging a line around with a chain hook is better than putting people into the water (even with dry suits or set suits). The water is pretty cold up here (+/- 10C), dark, and there is typically limited visibility. The ease of use in this situation certainly justifies the limited cost of a couple chain hooks. FWIW, we also regularly use our chain hook to pick up mooring balls. Once the chain hook is dropped into the ring on a mooring and set, tension is taken on the line and you can more easily deal with getting the mooring line through the ring and back to the boat. It is even faster and easier than putting a kayak in the water to attach a line to the mooring. When we have the morring line sset, we just release the chain hook from the mooring ball and put it back in the deck tool locker.
Wow thank goodness. When I first started watching I thought it was Parlay. Sorry to hear about it though, for the Aussies. Some more work though to straighten it like you had too. Now to be the teacher on Lagoon 450 problems. Yes it was a super lucky fond on the first dive.
Brilliant work Colin! They must have been so relieved that you were able to get their anchor back. Hopefully they will get that slipping clutch sorted too! cheers Malcolm Perrins (JeanneauOwners)
Another great video, a clear example of your willingness to help a fellow sailor, and another opportunity to see and hear the wonderful people of Vanuatu. Thanks for sharing!
You are incredible people and anyone that would judge these people are not worth the effort. You are all living life and taking a risk no matter what, that makes you brave.
Your karma account is more than full, Colin. I love how quick you are to lend a helping hand to those in need!
It’s an engineer thing, we’re built to find solutions.
You are the best SAILING channel on TH-cam- and actually show some sailing! Keep up the great content! We just lost our boat 2 weeks ago after lightning strike took out all electronics on Beneteau 473. Time to look for another boat!
It’s a kiwi thing bro.
Funny I always think when these disasters happen to him it’s because of the Karma for all the murdered fish lol
Colin, I have only one complaint. The videos aren't long enough. The vibe is so good. I know it's a lot of work, but you're all showing the world how good people can be. You spread decency everywhere you go!
We've lost touch in modern society with what makes a great village. Hats off to those lads for saving the day on several occasions and doing it all with a smile on their face.
Those islanders have it made! No politicians and no politics or wars, just each other and their beautiful islands! I know those island people and I ❤ them! They are living their lives the way we should be living ours! 😂😅
That was so satisfying to see you find the anchor! Seemed like such a long shot, but you brought all your skills of navigation, technology, currents, buoyancy and equipment at hand and solved the puzzle. I can only imagine the feeling you all had at the achievement 🎉
Geeze Colin you’re a bloody legend of the seas!
What a great thing to do for someone!
So impressed with your seamanship and willingness to always help a fellow sailer.
The world needs more kind hearted people like you. ❤
I love the camaraderie between the sailors, the natives, Colin, and the crew! Truly, our world is one big community! Love to ya'll 😍🙌❤
Awesome episode Colin! Your willingness to lend a helping hand is inspirational!
Great episode guys! Parlay to the rescue again.
I’m not in to sailing but I really like watching every episode of your channel. It brings me peace and motivation at times when I have none
You guys and gals are ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! The world could definitely use more people like you!!
It's so heartening to see the locals chipping in to fix a problem. The world is a mess, but not there. Great vid as usual. Thankyou.
Hahahaha, Pedro copped a fair serve. Ya gotta watch what you say when you are full of singing syrup.
I actually had no doubt that you would find their anchor. Colin you have so much experience and it showed it’s worth when you chose to follow the correct drag mark. I was surprised that you only had one scuba tank and I hope someone donates a few more tanks and scuba gear to you. You have a wonderful crew, and I find have to admit, I can hardly wait for my Sunday morning adventure watching your videos. Please stay safe.
come on Pedro, give your fellow men a hand! 😅 Well done Colin, showing us humans helping humans, its heartwarming! ❤
Way to go, Colin. I love how you and your Parlay crew are so quick to help people out.
Kiwis helping Aussies, aussies helping kiwis is so good to see. We're still anzacs.
Idk how Colin always does it, he’s always able to adapt on the fly. Freaking incredible.
Thats cool...Thanks...that 450 was our "Explorer" from 2016-2021 in Tonga...good to see she has a new life !! good luck :) we sold her after the Tonga Volcano and Tsunami....we lost our island....and everything on it ... Life hey...
Oh wow, I pretty sure I know which island. Very sad story.
What a small world. Was the 450 called Bikini when you owned it?
@@diamondpanda No we named her EXPLORER :) ...great boat :)
@ was it showing signs of being bent or movement when you when you had it?
Omg, like finding a needle in a haystack. Colin, not only are you kind but you are a legend!!
Wow what a great episode! Good on you for helping the newbies with their anchor!
Hi Colin, just an update on Blue Gold from last episode which you are probably already across. Front page story in the Vanuatu Daily Post 30/11 “VMSA confirms Derek French as legal owner of super yacht Blue Gold”. You may be able to find the online version yourself but I’ll copy part of it here. “According to the Shipping Act and VMSA act, as specified in the Certificate of Registry, the superyacht Blue Gold is registered as a private vessel under the ownership of Mr French. French is a naturalized Ni-Vanuatu who resides in Moso and is married to a Moso woman.” So basically French has been given two years to remove the Blue Gold otherwise ownership will revert to the government. Hope this helps. Cheers
That was GANGSTA Colin!! Love the islanders willingness to get into it. No questions asked.. Perfect
It is amazing what the human spirit can do when a little bit ingenuity is used. Colin and the crew are fantastic humans and deserve some serious recognition for their efforts
What an adventure! I love it. I can definitely appreciate the difficulties in that dive, way to make it happen. Thanks for another amazing episode.
Wish the World could watch this. Grow up in a sailing community and it will follow your lifetime. My husband is a cowboy. Between us both, we feel life is marvelous. We’ve made our mistakes, don’t get me wrong, but we will meet our maker with heads held high❤. 🤩 BRAVO
Parlay saves the day. Another feel good vid. Good work ya'll...
As a Scuba instructor, I have done lots of searches. Some successful, some not. That was a great job! It’s not easy searching at that depth. We carried a Scuba compressor and had 10 tanks as we did Scuba charters for the cruising kitty. We didn’t have TH-cam. 2 or so months a year kept us cruising for 20+ yrs. I really appreciate your knowledge on the Lagoons. You could do consulting of extra money before people do it the wrong way.
Everybody pitched in to help those that were really in need. Awesome sight to see. Good on all of you! Respect!
Best way to learn is by making mistakes. Just shows how quickly things can escalate. Great work team !
Colin, nicest guy in the world, (according to my wife, Erica) goes out of his way to help a fellow sailor with a bent Lagoon 450. Well done Parlay crew! Well done!
Great episode. Had a powerboat come too close to my bow and cut my rode in the middle of the night with 50’ of chain and anchor in the mud. All I had to retrieve it was a floor-less Avon inflatable dingy with aluminum oars and a 20# grapnel anchor. Absolutely brutal experience trying to drag that grapnel across the mud by rowing. Hours later, having pulled that grapnel up to check dozens of times, blisters and heartache, I got the chain. 😮😮 one of the most satisfying moments of my cruising life.
Colin what an Incredible plan ! An with tha Help of tha friendly locals , U really pulled off a Long shot ! Jus Awesome Colin 👌 👏 👍
This is what I miss most about traveling. The awareness you get of how much other people really do care about each other. We really only hear about the bad stuff most of the time. There is war going on some place on this Earth everyday. It's so nice to see the good stuff that's happening as well. Thanks for that Colin.
@1:08 Use Lindos' ears as telltales for trimming the sails. 😂
Thanks for sharing.
Well done colin !! You my friend are blessed ! Keep listening to your gut and follow your heart and you'll never go wrong. I see the power of Gratitude is paying off 10 fold
What a great life you are living
So many skills to identify specialties in construction/design of the vessels ! And loved the community appeal on the fiesta meal island !
Great team from Parlay, awesome friends we made together from the islands. Hehe more Kava next time ayeee ( Marsel dugong Guide ) 😎
The anchor recovery story is the magic of a nomadic life.
Good on ya mate.
Ha well done I know one “experienced”sailor who didn’t check the bitter end and layed out all his 100lb anchor 100metre chain on a sand bottom 15 metres deep on a calm morning 😂by pressing the wrong button!,😮😂We used my spare 35lb delta anchor on a sheet rope to drag across his track picked it up second attempt then the hard work getting it up began for three blokes. Cheers crew good stuff
That was so awesome to watch! You guys are so kind and friendly and giving... you're like the Robin Hood of the Seas 🤩
Love what you guys are doing. Its like international rescue.
The Parlay team is Awesome.... solving big problems with no expectations... it's called expert charity
Your engagement with the locals is always a hoot and obviously appreciated
Colin , what absolute lovely people !!! It must have been an amazing experience to be treated with so much love & friendly people !!
Wow, talk about good luck! Great job. See you Sunday!
Well done guys. I find it hard to believe there boat was fixed bent WTF .
Colin you are an absolute gem
Good on you and your crew, Colin! The sea, well, she doesn't care what flag we fly, or what conveyance we sail upon. She's going to try to get us all, one way or another. All we have out there is each other, and you exemplify the Mariner's Code. Well done you!
Fair winds...
Great dive, boss. And a bit lucky, eh? Not even a delayed smb for a marker in case you hit pay dirt? The dive gods gave you some sort of break 🤗🤗 but we all need one now and again 🤗🤗 fair winds etc, 30 metres was plenty, working hard....You know what I'm talking about, right on a dcs limit I'll bet. Stay with us, boss, you are needed and much loved.
Hilarious, give a bunch of guys a challenge like this and they'll be all in. Add beer and now it's priceless! ❤
Nice job on salvaging the anchor ⚓️
They gotta start somewhere! Good on them. Good thing the locals are so giving!
Not one bit surprised you found their anchor. The good Karma is like a snowball rolling downhill for this Captain and his crew!
Another awesome episode! Such seamless editing, great camera angles...better than network and cable TV, way better!
Colin an excellent job getting the anchor back - I think your two friends should be congratulated for getting out and doing it - the only way to learn. Cool man
Great effort, I think the locals enjoyed the challenge.
Learn by doing. We all have to start somewhere.
Onya Colin! My favorite saying is "there's always a way" it helps if you've got an engineers brain of course! It's surprising how just working the problem and not focusing on the negatives gets the results! Cheers mate, safe travels.🤟
Over my lifetime I have salvaged 7 small boats and helped with others. One CRITICAL fact has turned up on every job, whether the engine was under for a day or a month, many on them have up to 4 double lipped seals on the crankshaft and reduction gear. You recently flipped 2 hurricane salvage boats without a mention of this problem. Salt water gets between the wipers on those seals and slowly corrodes the shaft away. spreading outward until the rough surface until it eats the seal lip away. It can take from months, to years. We first saw this on 2cycle outboards, 50+ years ago. It show up in months as the base compression drops.
Thank you for another great episode Colin Jamie and Crew!!!
So cool to be living this adventure with you every week! My arms are as sore as Pedro's pulling that anchor up! 🤣😂🤣
That's so epic, Colin!
Too cool for Cats! love you all and Ta for the laughs xoxo
We're a sailing family of 5 on 38 ft monohull for 3 years, having cruised US east coast, Bahamas, DR and now in Guatemala doing some bottom work. Watching episodes like yours makes us want to continue exploring distant locations.
Nothing gives us sailors more pleasure than helping a fellow sailor.
PS: All of us old experienced sailors allow our wife to always pull up the anchor.
A party on a private island with such beautiful and nice people. Amazing.I think the fact that you had such a great team really helped. I've been told about folks trying to do what you did without that team and its just overwhelming ! Bravo team !
Very nice deed you've done for those people.
well that was different, good idea to find the anchor, all worked out well. always good to help fellow boaties, another great episode, cheers guys
Colin, you Rocked it.
Colin finds a needle in a haystack. Wow that was an awesome video of the Parlay boys coming to the rescue…… again.
Legend effort finding the Anchor and boy what an amazing effort pulling that thing up.
Parlay to the rescue again!
Love the channel. Never dive by yourself.
Good times man, looks like good fun being of service and hanging out with people who have all the time in the world. Real cool
Another great episode guys, Only thing, Please tryn make the next few a lil longer, These 20 minute ones go by so fast!! That was awesome Colin runnin into their anchor so quickly!! Great recovery man!! Until next Sunday brother, Yall stay safe out there and Have tons ah fun!!! Thanks again Mates!!!
That was so awesome !!! Thanks so much for sharing 💜🛞⛵️
That was awesome you found the anchor… ⚓️🤓🥰⛵️
That was such an exciting episode. Wow like looking for a needle in a haystack.
What a bloody legend You guys 👏👏👏🫡
Kiwi ingenuity at its best. Well done all of you for helping them out.
Generous spirits you Parley gang ❤️
Love you guys! Great job finding and salvaging the anchor & chain. Safe travels. ❤
Well done so awesome. Good people helping good people. It's what makes the world beautiful❤y'all happy safe travels
Never a dull moment with this crew…good on you
Great episode of people helping each other, awesome efforts and detective work, nice one 😊
Geeezz Colin that dive was incredible and a lot of luck, probably come into the category of what you don't teach people to do 🤣🤣🤣 but it worked and again it amazing how the local people come to help, it seems to be common in the Pacific Islands there. A great video all round, I'm not sure of your timing in the area but the Breaking Waves crew had Kiana pushed onto a reef in French Pollanesha and very lucky not to loose the boat, happy and safe sailing 👍👍🇳🇿
Enjoyed the adventure. Very good you had a tank of air and that you chose the right drag line. Very cool.
Amazing! You are truly blessed. Thank you for spreading positive vibes around the world!!
Awesome as always, really glad to see you go through the bulkhead issue again. That was the first thing I wondered about when I saw another 450. They’re off my list. Thanks for sharing.⚓️🏖️🌴☀️😎🇦🇺
I feel you guys are one of the few real sailing channels among all the fake ones. Keep it up and you'll be #1.
Amazingly good karma points and well done!
Colin; In the Pacific Northwest, logging is big business. Logging trucks secure their loads using chain and "chain hooks", which are heavy duty hooks designed to engage individual chain links. Most commercial fishing boats around here, and we on our little trawler, carry a couple chain hooks to retrieve chain 9and potentially other things) from the bottom. This is valuable if an anchor and chain should get loose from the boat as was your case in Vanuatu. As long as we know approximately where the anchor chain lays on the bottom, we can drag a chain hook back and forth across that line hoping to hook up on the missing anchor chain links. Once a chain hook links up, it is relatively secure. The key is to use about 10' to 20' of chain rode on the chain hook end of the drag line to keep it on the bottom when it is being towed around, with adequately sized nylon rode as the tow line from the boat. I have personally used this method to find another boat's anchor and chain (successfully), and have seen others use it for similar purposes. This approach works more often than not. The biggest problem is usually random bottom debris that the chain hook picks up.
Around here dragging a line around with a chain hook is better than putting people into the water (even with dry suits or set suits). The water is pretty cold up here (+/- 10C), dark, and there is typically limited visibility. The ease of use in this situation certainly justifies the limited cost of a couple chain hooks. FWIW, we also regularly use our chain hook to pick up mooring balls. Once the chain hook is dropped into the ring on a mooring and set, tension is taken on the line and you can more easily deal with getting the mooring line through the ring and back to the boat. It is even faster and easier than putting a kayak in the water to attach a line to the mooring. When we have the morring line sset, we just release the chain hook from the mooring ball and put it back in the deck tool locker.
Wow thank goodness. When I first started watching I thought it was Parlay. Sorry to hear about it though, for the Aussies. Some more work though to straighten it like you had too. Now to be the teacher on Lagoon 450 problems. Yes it was a super lucky fond on the first dive.
Love it Colin! You and your crew are absolute rock stars!
This is so amazing! Good people helping good people! Thanks for that!
Brilliant work Colin! They must have been so relieved that you were able to get their anchor back. Hopefully they will get that slipping clutch sorted too! cheers Malcolm Perrins (JeanneauOwners)
Another great video, a clear example of your willingness to help a fellow sailor, and another opportunity to see and hear the wonderful people of Vanuatu. Thanks for sharing!
Loved this one, Colin! Always enjoy a task wrapped in a mystery. Peace.
You and the crew are always ready to help anyone it is awsome great job
You are incredible people and anyone that would judge these people are not worth the effort. You are all living life and taking a risk no matter what, that makes you brave.
Absolute legend Colin and of course the crew. Great thinking too