As always you guys are a refreshing take on all these sailing channels, real people. Yosh the hair looks businesslike dude. and yo that Down Under Go east rally is gonna be SICK. it will probably grow your channel huge as well. Hope the flu/elbow/marley's foot get better quick!
Thank you Yosh & Bonita, I have waited with drawn breath waiting for my hubby to cross that bar many times, I knew exactly where you were & the areas you were in, many boats have had serious problems with that bar, you did well, local knowledge is always best due to ever changing Sands, depths etc...
Thanks. We dont plan to cross that bar again any time soon. It was pretty rowdy! As scary as it was though, I loved it haha. We had heard some horrific stories from other yachties about the bar, so we researched the crossing alot. Spoke to the coast guard on the phone twice to make sure exactly what to expect.
love the dogie..! you must have a good heart..! usually those dogs are put to sleep after they are no longer able to run on the dog racing track...peace capt. rob...
Awesome Guys. Want to sail the sandy straights and basic camp on a hobie wave with my twin teenage boys.. Probs not cross the Bar.... Loving your channel
Hi guys. Great video but I had flashbacks to my last crossing of Wide Bay bar when the waves were standing up and we were crashing into the troughs. The trouble is that once you are committed there is no going back! Gnarly stuff. Enjoy your cruising course. I like the way you are going about gaining knowledge before you head off.
Thanks mate. You can never know enough I reckon. Your bar crossing sounded a bit hectic. Your right though, once committed, there is no turning back! As scary as it was, I loved every minute haha
You did a great job tracking through those sandy bars mate, well done... Looking forward to the next one mate, where are you guys heading... Cheers for now mate... ;-} Great singing guys lol...
Not the dreads!?! Did you lose a bet? Diggin the videos! Keep up the good work and look forward to meeting up somewhere in the future. My wife and I are getting all our ducks in a row make it out there cruising too! Keep up the great inspiration!
Gold coast to New Cal is a hard slog to windward for over a week. You gotta wait for a westerly change which will at least give you a few days of following winds. Im sure you will enjoy it.
Well done. What's your boat design? It looks like some kind of Roberts 40 pilot house or some such. You want a good heavy deep keel for windward work, or you end up going more sideways than forwards. Practice tacking through 90 degrees to see if you can hold it. If not, try to optimise your sail car positions,luff tensions and add wind indicator strings to your sails. cheers
You are close to spot on. Nandji is a Roberts 40 sloop, made from fibreglass. She is a heavy three quarter keel, so wont point at 30 degrees close hauled but close to it. She tacks a bit past 90, more like 100 degree tacks. We have played around a lot with the headsail and luff tension and plan to add a barber haul type set up to help tighten the leech. It is going to be a great challenge! Any other advice you would recommend? we are all ears when it comes to knowledgable advice. Cheers!
Barber hauler can help but its an added expense and complication. I would start with getting the sail adjusted with the fairlead at its optimum. Depending on the size and shape of your headsail, this can be easy or difficult. If its a 130 size genoa, move cars as far back as you can but try to keep enough leech tension. Then adjust leech line to take away any flapping but not make the leech curl and disrupt airflow. Also essential is at least 3 rows of telltales made of wool or similar, and learn to trust them and watch them regularly. Avoid furling a large headsail, as it no longer goes to windward well. It may be better to install a forestay (permanent is better than the fiddly detachable ones) behind your headstay so that you can raise a well sheeted staysail for when it blows 15+ and youre trying to get to windward. A lot of people fly too big a headsail, lean over past 25 degrees, which feels like youre going fast, but if you watch your track on a gps, you see that you are going as sideways as you are going forward. VMG tells you this (velocity made good) to destination. Also a good thing to install is an inclinometer. Keep yourself at no more than 20 degree lean, and you will usually go about the fastest VMG. Its like a power sensor. Over 20 degrees lean, and its time to reef down. Works wonders yet not many boats have one. Dont forget to install telltales on the leech of your mainsail. This is very useful for trimming to windward and it tells you if your headsail airflow is backwinding the main. You can then play with mainsheet tension and traveller position to get the best setup for the conditions. There's many books out there to learn from, with the classics being much more useful than the new stuff which just encourage electronic gadgets, which always break down. Classic books by old sea dogs like Hal Roth, Hiscocks, Pardeys and even the free ones from Webb Chiles, a 6 time solo circumnavigator, currently doing it again solo in a 22 foot boat at the age of 75 whilst blind in one eye! Webb for instance uses headsail to tiller self steering as he is basically taking the piss to those who say it cannot be done and that latest electronic autopilots are "necessary". He has record for longest open boat (18 footer) ocean passage. It ended when he was arrested on suspicion of being a spy in Saudi Arabia haha. And another thing i learned over the years is to keep all weight out of the ends of the boat if you want the boat to perform. Dinghys on stern and heavy anchors and chains on front just make the boat hobby horse to windward and basically come to a dead stop. You'll get there. I learned slowly over the last 15-20 years and i think i have it mostly figured out now that im close to 40 :-D Keep up the good work its good to hear that you are serious about learning more about sailing. It never stops. I have cruised my boat solo the last 7 years and learn something new every time i take it sailing (which is a few times a week). Cheerio
You did a great job tracking through those sandy bars mate, well done... Looking forward to the next one mate, where are you guys heading... Cheers for now mate... ;-}
Sandy Straights can be tricky, the banks move around and they move the marks to suit and may not be where you see them on the chart/plotter. Spent 12 hours on a bank there, we touched and tried kedging off, gave up and in daylight found we were actuall dragging ourselves further on to the bank. Checked the chart against latest notice to mariners in Tin Can and found the channel had moved and the DHM moved the marks to suit.
How do you do those waters without a searchlight? Glad to see you taking a course before a big crossing! I don't sail but I've grown fond of you guys and those two on the Vagabonde! They brag about their ignorance and that's just going to come back to bite them! So good for you study hard!!By the way Yosh, if I have your name wrong I'm sorry, I wanted to tel! You I like the hair cut!! Dreads just look so dirty!! Just my opinion,and you know what they say about those! Happy learning!
Thanks Ken, we have added a good spot light to the never ending list of items we need. We took it steady and I had charts, chart plotter, navionics and a cruising guide as references haha I know the sand can move, but I made an educated decision to continue on until I felt that what lied ahead to be to difficult at night. We are excited about the course. You can never learn enough I reckon. The more we know, the better. Thanks for watching!
Hi Guys , at 6.14 there is a shoot of your boom, and a line may be an outhaul coming out of the boom and going on to a jaw lock I think. What you need here is a knot in the end of the line so it dose not go inside it and if it goes inside you may not get it back.
Well done guys.... the Wide Bay Bar is a nasty place..... last time I went out through it heading south we got stuck at Tin Can Bay for 10 days before it was passable... even then at the best time time it a unpleasant experience. Enjoy your course.
We were lucky in that respect. The swell and weather were reasonably nice to us. We had heard some horrific stories about the bar before we had attempted. It was exciting stuff, thats for sure.
Yeah mate, we had been scared of wide bay bar the whole passage south. Very happy we negioated the channel successfully. Many a boat had come un stuck on this crossing!
Wow! Never go back to the dreads... Be the same cool person, but you honestly look better with the short hair! And for the love of god please no more singing! hahaha, keep up the good work!
You need to get some karaoke backing tracks for the full experience lol (no relation to the link, just the first one that came up)... itunes.apple.com/au/artist/karaoke-backing-tracks-minus/id361311804
If you have questions, we usually have answers. But of course our patrons get priority! Without them, what we are trying to accomplish would not be possible. I notice you have been following our journey for a long time though, so what would like to know?
Hey thanks so much for responding, really i was just rolling (not trolling~!!) y'all to make a point. I get what you're doing, I'm hoping to be doing the same thing within a few months after years & years & years, of preparation. Honestly, seriously, in another world we might been mates, your channel is my flat out favorite sailing channel, period. I was just being difficult to illustrate a point bout the need for diplomacy when addressing the gulf between your patreons & the rest of us cheap ass slobs. Peace! love you guys!
Guys, seriously, ain't nobody more "cheap" than me.... I can and DO squeeze a penny so hard that the Queen farts. But even "cheap ass slobs" can afford to buy em a coffee per month? It's a "Thank You" of sorts for them sharing their adventures. You can set up Patreon anyway that you want... and that includes capping your donation at 2 or 3 dollars per month. Don't feel bad about capping... of the ~17,000 followers Yosh and Bonita have, if HALF of us pledge, say, 1 dollar per video capped at 2 dollars per month, what a glorious thing that would be (!!) I do this with about 6 or 7 of the best sailing channels on You Tube (based on my opinions only), and I also follow a bunch more, so if someone starts to shit-tank their content, I can drop em and swing that 2 bucks per month to someone else. I recently dropped Miss Lonestar and added Uma to the mix of those I support... it's a "fluid" list.
She's nice, beautiful, and looks like loads of fun to be around, but the poor thing doesn't seem to be able to sing at all! Oh well you can't have everything now can you...but I'll still give you an A for effort. Hmmmm he can't sing either...no musical talent in this family at all! I do love his new hair though...I admit it..I just hate dreads..no matter who there on.
You did a great job tracking through those sandy bars mate, well done... Looking forward to the next one mate, where are you guys heading... Cheers for now mate... ;-} Great singing guys lol...
Thanks for sharing the sandbar prep and trip. Few people video when the going gets tough. Well done.
Oooo Yosh all clean cut! So CUTE!
Love the new look Yosh! Great video. Awesome! Thanks!
I really enjoyed listening to the how you navigated the sand bars and of course your acapellas are always a hoot.
Mate the hair cut works. Cheers to both.
As always you guys are a refreshing take on all these sailing channels, real people. Yosh the hair looks businesslike dude. and yo that Down Under Go east rally is gonna be SICK. it will probably grow your channel huge as well. Hope the flu/elbow/marley's foot get better quick!
Thank you Yosh & Bonita, I have waited with drawn breath waiting for my hubby to cross that bar many times, I knew exactly where you were & the areas you were in, many boats have had serious problems with that bar, you did well, local knowledge is always best due to ever changing
Sands, depths etc...
Thanks. We dont plan to cross that bar again any time soon. It was pretty rowdy! As scary as it was though, I loved it haha. We had heard some horrific stories from other yachties about the bar, so we researched the crossing alot. Spoke to the coast guard on the phone twice to make sure exactly what to expect.
HAIR LOOKS MUCH BETTER. TAKE CARE YOU TWO.
Thanks for showing us some tricky sailing.
You guys are getting better and better with each video great work and the hair can't makes you look so much cleaner
I blew coffee out my nose when yosie started singing and woke you up lol
Great video and music as usual. Get well soon
love the dogie..! you must have a good heart..! usually those dogs are put to sleep after they are no longer able to run on the dog racing track...peace capt. rob...
Nice Vid, great haircut.
Nice one, hope you feel better soon guys
You can sing as loud as youuuu want! :) thanks for sharing
Awesome Guys. Want to sail the sandy straights and basic camp on a hobie wave with my twin teenage boys.. Probs not cross the Bar.... Loving your channel
That corse is a really good idea for the first time sailor offshore with no where to run to out their
i like this haircut much better! good on ya....hi from san diego
Great video guys, thank you..
Great video. Don't forget the knot at the end of that line guy's. Dig the hair do lol.
Always a bit nicer to follow another boat through the straights
They were heaven sent haha
Hi guys. Great video but I had flashbacks to my last crossing of Wide Bay bar when the waves were standing up and we were crashing into the troughs. The trouble is that once you are committed there is no going back! Gnarly stuff. Enjoy your cruising course. I like the way you are going about gaining knowledge before you head off.
Thanks mate. You can never know enough I reckon. Your bar crossing sounded a bit hectic. Your right though, once committed, there is no turning back! As scary as it was, I loved every minute haha
Yeah. The adrenaline rush gets you everytime ha ha
You did a great job tracking through those sandy bars mate, well done... Looking forward to the next one mate, where are you guys heading... Cheers for now mate... ;-} Great singing guys lol...
Love the video, especially when the going got tough. Looking good Yosh!
Can we get some more singing from you two?
Hey everyone else, don't be haters.
I am not sure if people would like to hear the duets we belt out when sailing haha
like the new due bro, lookin sharp and a few years younger.
Best yet guys. Keep it up!
Not the dreads!?! Did you lose a bet? Diggin the videos! Keep up the good work and look forward to meeting up somewhere in the future. My wife and I are getting all our ducks in a row make it out there cruising too! Keep up the great inspiration!
Hope you are cruising soon!
Good on guys. Great stuff
Love you guys!
Great work, keep it up. Stay safe
Gold coast to New Cal is a hard slog to windward for over a week. You gotta wait for a westerly change which will at least give you a few days of following winds. Im sure you will enjoy it.
We have done a lot of research and know what we are in for. It will be our greatest challenge yet! Lets hope for a good weather window!
Well done. What's your boat design? It looks like some kind of Roberts 40 pilot house or some such. You want a good heavy deep keel for windward work, or you end up going more sideways than forwards. Practice tacking through 90 degrees to see if you can hold it. If not, try to optimise your sail car positions,luff tensions and add wind indicator strings to your sails. cheers
You are close to spot on. Nandji is a Roberts 40 sloop, made from fibreglass. She is a heavy three quarter keel, so wont point at 30 degrees close hauled but close to it. She tacks a bit past 90, more like 100 degree tacks. We have played around a lot with the headsail and luff tension and plan to add a barber haul type set up to help tighten the leech. It is going to be a great challenge! Any other advice you would recommend? we are all ears when it comes to knowledgable advice. Cheers!
Barber hauler can help but its an added expense and complication. I would start with getting the sail adjusted with the fairlead at its optimum. Depending on the size and shape of your headsail, this can be easy or difficult. If its a 130 size genoa, move cars as far back as you can but try to keep enough leech tension. Then adjust leech line to take away any flapping but not make the leech curl and disrupt airflow. Also essential is at least 3 rows of telltales made of wool or similar, and learn to trust them and watch them regularly. Avoid furling a large headsail, as it no longer goes to windward well. It may be better to install a forestay (permanent is better than the fiddly detachable ones) behind your headstay so that you can raise a well sheeted staysail for when it blows 15+ and youre trying to get to windward. A lot of people fly too big a headsail, lean over past 25 degrees, which feels like youre going fast, but if you watch your track on a gps, you see that you are going as sideways as you are going forward. VMG tells you this (velocity made good) to destination. Also a good thing to install is an inclinometer. Keep yourself at no more than 20 degree lean, and you will usually go about the fastest VMG. Its like a power sensor. Over 20 degrees lean, and its time to reef down. Works wonders yet not many boats have one.
Dont forget to install telltales on the leech of your mainsail. This is very useful for trimming to windward and it tells you if your headsail airflow is backwinding the main. You can then play with mainsheet tension and traveller position to get the best setup for the conditions.
There's many books out there to learn from, with the classics being much more useful than the new stuff which just encourage electronic gadgets, which always break down. Classic books by old sea dogs like Hal Roth, Hiscocks, Pardeys and even the free ones from Webb Chiles, a 6 time solo circumnavigator, currently doing it again solo in a 22 foot boat at the age of 75 whilst blind in one eye! Webb for instance uses headsail to tiller self steering as he is basically taking the piss to those who say it cannot be done and that latest electronic autopilots are "necessary". He has record for longest open boat (18 footer) ocean passage. It ended when he was arrested on suspicion of being a spy in Saudi Arabia haha. And another thing i learned over the years is to keep all weight out of the ends of the boat if you want the boat to perform. Dinghys on stern and heavy anchors and chains on front just make the boat hobby horse to windward and basically come to a dead stop.
You'll get there. I learned slowly over the last 15-20 years and i think i have it mostly figured out now that im close to 40 :-D
Keep up the good work its good to hear that you are serious about learning more about sailing. It never stops. I have cruised my boat solo the last 7 years and learn something new every time i take it sailing (which is a few times a week). Cheerio
Nice video thanks for sharing. I hope you both mend well with the elbow and flu!
Thanks! Slowly on the mend
you guys are great!!! keep up great work!!!!
I enjoyed the video and great hair cut. Sooo much better. I also agree, no cat.
pretty cool. thanks for sharing
In waters like that it would be nice to have a search light!!!
It would have been handy! We dug out the trusty dolphin torch but it did not cut the mustard. Another thing on the never ending list!
Lovin' the new Video good Job
You did a great job tracking through those sandy bars mate, well done... Looking forward to the next one mate, where are you guys heading... Cheers for now mate... ;-}
And great haircut Yoshi... ;-}
Good job!!
LOVE that hair cut!!! Bet it feels nice to run your fingers through you hair :p
Sandy Straights can be tricky, the banks move around and they move the marks to suit and may not be where you see them on the chart/plotter. Spent 12 hours on a bank there, we touched and tried kedging off, gave up and in daylight found we were actuall dragging ourselves further on to the bank. Checked the chart against latest notice to mariners in Tin Can and found the channel had moved and the DHM moved the marks to suit.
Great music! Atrocious singing😀! Love your videos.
haha classic
How do you do those waters without a searchlight? Glad to see you taking a course before a big crossing! I don't sail but I've grown fond of you guys and those two on the Vagabonde! They brag about their ignorance and that's just going to come back to bite them! So good for you study hard!!By the way Yosh, if I have your name wrong I'm sorry, I wanted to tel! You I like the hair cut!! Dreads just look so dirty!! Just my opinion,and you know what they say about those! Happy learning!
Thanks Ken, we have added a good spot light to the never ending list of items we need. We took it steady and I had charts, chart plotter, navionics and a cruising guide as references haha I know the sand can move, but I made an educated decision to continue on until I felt that what lied ahead to be to difficult at night.
We are excited about the course. You can never learn enough I reckon. The more we know, the better.
Thanks for watching!
Do you have AIS onboard? Haircut looks good dude!
Sorry you're land-locked, but we all must be at times. Great vid!
Nooooo!!! haha
Hi Guys , at 6.14 there is a shoot of your boom, and a line may be an outhaul coming out of the boom and going on to a jaw lock I think. What you need here is a knot in the end of the line so it dose not go inside it and if it goes inside you may not get it back.
Thanks Captain, your close watching of our vids has solved a few issues for us so far! We really appreciate your viewing and advice. Legend!
Well done guys.... the Wide Bay Bar is a nasty place..... last time I went out through it heading south we got stuck at Tin Can Bay for 10 days before it was passable... even then at the best time time it a unpleasant experience. Enjoy your course.
We were lucky in that respect. The swell and weather were reasonably nice to us. We had heard some horrific stories about the bar before we had attempted. It was exciting stuff, thats for sure.
Ho ho...I m waiting you guys in new cal in may.best rgdsEric🌈⛵🌏❤️🙋🏻♂️
Looking forward to it!
How dose Nandi fall in on size of boat for that kind of crossing your planning ? Great video :-)
People do it in smaller boats then Nandji and some in bigger boats. But ask any man, its not the size but the way you use it.
you guys are really entertaining
Yew!!!
Lol awesome :-)
How many times to I have to hear 'Subscribe?'
I LIKE A LOT OF YOUR CHANNEL I ALREADY ENTERED
AND I AM ALWAYS VISITING YOU, THANK YOU FOR
VISITING ON MY CHANNEL
what's that? goodonya?
just becouse you can sing don't always mean you should
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...yeah
Oh thank goodness ... dreads look good on some ... but now you look respectable ... good move
We love you, but please stop singing! You scare the dog, I saw it. There was fear in his eyes.
Good Onion?
haha the best
ah, you look mavelous, fitter, manley man
crosssing :-P
Thankyou! Hahah these flu tablets are hectic!
Pretty choppy waters.
Yeah mate, we had been scared of wide bay bar the whole passage south. Very happy we negioated the channel successfully. Many a boat had come un stuck on this crossing!
Good you remember 3 years ago. Waiting to see your Indian Ocean crossing. That will be adventurous.
Wow! Never go back to the dreads... Be the same cool person, but you honestly look better with the short hair! And for the love of god please no more singing! hahaha, keep up the good work!
You look uncomfortably like Paul Walker.
You need to get some karaoke backing tracks for the full experience lol
(no relation to the link, just the first one that came up)...
itunes.apple.com/au/artist/karaoke-backing-tracks-minus/id361311804
So no answering us poor unpatreonly beggars questions then? :(
If you have questions, we usually have answers. But of course our patrons get priority! Without them, what we are trying to accomplish would not be possible. I notice you have been following our journey for a long time though, so what would like to know?
Hey thanks so much for responding, really i was just rolling (not trolling~!!) y'all to make a point. I get what you're doing, I'm hoping to be doing the same thing within a few months after years & years & years, of preparation.
Honestly, seriously, in another world we might been mates, your channel is my flat out favorite sailing channel, period. I was just being difficult to illustrate a point bout the need for diplomacy when addressing the gulf between your patreons & the rest of us cheap ass slobs. Peace! love you guys!
Guys, seriously, ain't nobody more "cheap" than me.... I can and DO squeeze a penny so hard that the Queen farts.
But even "cheap ass slobs" can afford to buy em a coffee per month? It's a "Thank You" of sorts for them sharing their adventures. You can set up Patreon anyway that you want... and that includes capping your donation at 2 or 3 dollars per month. Don't feel bad about capping... of the ~17,000 followers Yosh and Bonita have, if HALF of us pledge, say, 1 dollar per video capped at 2 dollars per month, what a glorious thing that would be (!!)
I do this with about 6 or 7 of the best sailing channels on You Tube (based on my opinions only), and I also follow a bunch more, so if someone starts to shit-tank their content, I can drop em and swing that 2 bucks per month to someone else. I recently dropped Miss Lonestar and added Uma to the mix of those I support... it's a "fluid" list.
zrRyan2
Great decision to switch, loving Uma. Have you seen Sailboat Story?
She's nice, beautiful, and looks like loads of fun to be around, but the poor thing doesn't seem to be able to sing at all! Oh well you can't have everything now can you...but I'll still give you an A for effort. Hmmmm he can't sing either...no musical talent in this family at all!
I do love his new hair though...I admit it..I just hate dreads..no matter who there on.
You did a great job tracking through those sandy bars mate, well done... Looking forward to the next one mate, where are you guys heading... Cheers for now mate... ;-} Great singing guys lol...