COLUMBIA RIVER BAR OR BUST! [Adventure #16]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- The time has come... before we get to enjoy warm, sunny sailing and sunsets in the tropics, we have to get there! The journey South from Oregon to warmer weather calls for braving one of the most treacherous bar crossings in the world, the Columbia River Bar, AKA the graveyard of the Pacific, followed by an offshore ocean passage in the North Pacific. We get our sea legs with some real ocean swells and wind, but stay far enough offshore to avoid the gale conditions closer to the coast. Oh, and we catch a big Albacore Tuna! Check it out! (and we hope you don’t get too seasick watching)
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Footage from June/July 2016
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Why would someone give thumbs down on this vid? It is wonderful!! 2 thumbs?...silly people..Loved how you take special care to details.
Too bloody right!
Tried posting a comment but must have pushed the wrong button. I'm Dan, who you named you Fleming after. So happy to see it working so well and I'm proud to be your silent crew. Thank you again. I wish you fair winds and following seas.
It was the least we could do, we were appreciative of your time and the story behind not only your life as a race mechanic but always the history of where "Dan" has been and will be going. We left Ventura, CA three days ago and Dan sailed us the 5 hour crossing to Santa Cruz Island, he will be our favourite crew member when we cross the Pacific in the future.
What can I say? Every time I watch you guys live the dream I get cheered up. Really needed it today. Thanks guys!
Aww shucks, thanks! Glad to share some smiles :)
What are you waiting for tdspot?
Awesome...that Dan can really steer...just imagine if ya had to do that all yourself...
I think he was everyone's favorite thing on board! Way better than hand steering or the power-sucking autopilot!
Ty and Hillary, you guys are doing great! For me it doesn't matter if I am on a ship or a small sailboat, it takes about three days to get my sea legs. After that it's just sailing! Could you give a video "ships daily log?" Example date, time of day, lat/long, weather and sea conditions, sail rigging, making the rounds and checking the boat, and events like rigg adjustments or failures. I know you have done some already and it has been great! Also,,,,, I love to hear about what you're eating. A happy crew is a well fed crew! Keep up the great work and as always I can't wait for the next installment of Adventure Adrift. God Bless.
Hey there! Yeah, the adjusting is no fun, but so much better once we got our sea legs,w e felt alive again! haha. Great ideas about daily log. I was surprised about how well we ate on the way down, we weren't planning on doing so much cooking, but it was good!
I really enjoyed your upload..... your guys got your sealegs nice and quick - good thing considering the weather you had. Bars are bad news but manageable when you take the time to prepare and heed the warnings..... Ty... coming from the East Coast of Oz especially for NSW just about every port entrance is a bared entrance. The Wide Bay Bar (QLD) is one of the really nasty ones. 3 yrs ago I was helping deliver a Cat from Hamo to Syd and was caught there for 10 days before we got the weather window to get across, so well done !!
Yikes, we've heard stories like that of bars being closed and people stuck for days, so we're very glad we got lucky. And also have a lot of respect for the bar, considering that those were "good" conditions that we crossed in, definitely would not want to see it on a bad day...
I kept my 1969 22' Columbia Sloop at Hammond OR and Ilwaco, WA for 20 years. I have no idea how many times I have sailed across the bar under from almost flat and barely a breeze to summer afternoons with way too much NW gales and 15 to 20' swells with the wind waves on top of of the big swells of 6' and the ebb smashing into those for some white knuckle moments in the crossing and breaking seas.. BUT.. good times and awsum memories.
Great offshore cruising video! Really enjoyed it as cruising isn't always smooth sailing and beautiful sunsets! Keep it real and thanks.
Thanks, hope we didn't make anyone seasick... haha!
Dan is surely one of the most handsome windvanes ever, surely one of the most sturdy looking ones out there. I like the idea of Dan being the name you chose... But as you were saying that you named it, I was thinking "OH! Peggy, you got to have named it Peggy!" But Dan is a nice name too. Actually Peggy Fleming was the 1968 Olympic Gold medalist in ice skating for the US the only gold medal the US won that year. But, you might not have heard of her, after all that was over 48 years ago!
Hahahaha, he sure is a handsome fellow, and we're happy to have him on board! We did not know that tidbit about Peggy Fleming, very interesting indeed!
you guys are doing so well
It’s really great that you guys show how you do your research and planning. So many of these channels, especially people jumping off from Florida after refits, they are just heading out on a wing and a prayer hoping for the best, but then getting in trouble due to lack of skill and experience to deal with any situation once something goes slightly awry, which it almost always will. The pacific coast is much less forgiving than the much more benign Florida routes.
Yes, we wanted to be as prepared as we could - it's easy to get in over your head quickly out there!
Well now that you are down to Ventura the worst is over. The weather prediction from the coast guard doesn't come with a guarantee, something you will get used to. You can only prepare for the worst and hopefully get the best. Nice albacore. Have fun.
Yep, and crazy how fast conditions can change! We are looking forward to some more relaxed sailing down here, but are planning on heading back out to the Channel Islands for a while, so might have some more windy days, but at least we should have some sunshine to go along with it... haha
This is one of the very best sailing movie of a yacht at sea, you have the yacht moving with the sea that is because you have the camera fix mounted and this to me give that real feelings of being at sea . Also you made me LOL at the last scenes .
Thank you, so glad our video turned out and came together... it's so hard to know if you're really capturing the sea on camera, hope we didn't make anyone seasick! haha..
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You put me on to Two aboard Tuuli, they are so nice and you need to see what they are up to now ! You never know but you may see them in your area in time.
We love Two Aboard Tuuli, they remind us a bit of us.. haha. We would love to cross paths with them someday :)
I agree, the wide shots with the camera mounted really gave me the sense of being onboard. Nicely done!
I'm looking forward to seeing if the windage of the dodger and bimini interfere with Dan's helmsmanship when the wind is forward of the beam.
Excellent. I watched this with my partner. We have a bar in the UK in Cornwall at Padstow, rather ominously called 'Doom Bar'. The plan is to cross it later in the Summer. She now feels she is prepared for the task after watching you guys. Great video as always.
Best of luck with your crossing, it's all in the timing!
I think it is safe for me to say, that your channel will probably become one of the more popular cruiser channels on TH-cam. Every video gets better, and you are fun to watch as well. P.S. Although I like a Vegemite sandwich every now and then, I would much rather have a peanut butter and jelly any day.
Wow, thanks so much for the compliment, we are flattered! That would be a dream for us! We'll keep on making those videos and keep our fingers crossed :) And agreed with you on the PB&J.... I don't get the whole Vegemite thing... ;)
We used to have a friend that ran a fishing charter boat out of Ilwaco, and we went out numerous times. I was very young and naive and didn’t know to be scared. Probably a good thing. But you really have to hand it to those charter boats, who brave that almost daily, except on the worst days. Those are probably some of the most experienced captains and crews in the world.
Totally agree, those are some brave soles that do that daily! I assume crossing in a motorboat has its own benefits and drawbacks as opposed to a sailboat, but still, would take some nerve and some knowledge and experience!
Sweet,
The famous BAR.
Thanks for sharing, time will tell how our crossing goes.
We leave home port on Thursday.
See you in the heat.
Scott and Laurie
"Off the Starboard Hull"
We've been following your Facebook updates, looks like you guys are having a great time! Are you planning on sailing into the Columbia?
We are having a great time.
The Columbia is on the plan.
Our intention is to harbour hop the entire way south.
I have never been on the west coast of the US so seeing it is a priority.
7 weeks in SF.
My insurance restricts my entrance into Mexico until Oct 15 so no reason to rush down and wait.
Christmas in LaPaz we think!
Not sure if you have made the connection that I am the producer of "Off the Starboard Hull" on TH-cam. Most don't .
See you soon,
Be safe and Fair Winds
Scott and Laurie
really an excellent sailing video. most informative i've seen in awhile.
Aww, thanks man!
This was an excellent video. I love the footage of the waves and sails. Good show, keep up the good work. :-)
Wow! Felt like I was really in the cockpit.......great videos. You two are a very impressive young couple.
Thanks so much, feel like it's hard to capture the seas, glad it came through :)
Real offshore sailing, thanks for a great video.
Thanks, man!
Gorgeous fish! What a feeling that must have been!
Best Video yet. Great job. May you always have following seas.
Thank you, we hope to bring you some more cool footage very soon!
Wow, it's like all the planning came together by crossing the bar and running the 128° south. Great video.
wavesfromSeattle
It sure did! We are happy the passage went so well, and happy to be here in the sunshine now... sending some your way in case you need any up in Seattle :)
Well done video folks. I was wondering how Dan was going to do, and I
am glad to see that he has performed as well as he has. A wind vane is
truly another crew member.
Thanks so much! Dan was a rockstar, the trip would not have been the same without him :)
Great video. I've been thinking about you and wondering how the trip was going. I've been keeping an eye on your progress on your website. It looks like you had fairly decent weather, and your decision to go a little further offshore was a good one. Safety first. .....always.
I didn't get a chance to comment on your previous video, I'm glad you got your jib worked on before you left. Great job on your sewing projects.
Hi there! Yeah, overall the weather was pretty good, lots of wind meant lots of speed! Haha, only thing we could have asked for was some more sunshine, but I guess we'll get plenty of that now. Thanks again so much for your help with the sewing projects, and for recommending we work on the sail, glad we did, as we used the staysail for 95% of the trip south!
Yahoo, that was amazing. you guys are going to be great sailors. Well done, bring on the second part of the trip........!
Thanks so much, we'll have the second part out soon!
Great sailing guys. Following you all the way.
Thanks :)
Wow - what a great passage video guys!
You are doing so well.
Thanks so much.
Thanks so much! :)
Just catching up on your excellent videos. I sailed on a friend's Jeanneau 45 from Seattle to LaPaz, MX last fall, then to French Poly from March to July. It was a great experience. We did not have your wind on the trip down the coast, stayed more inshore because it was honking out where you went. We stopped in some great harbors on the way down as we had time to kill. LaPaz was great! 19 days from there to The Marquesas even with El Nino messing with the breeze. This video does a great job of capturing the "boisterous" conditions often encountered at sea. Very impressed with your vane. Good plan having an extra hand on-board for your first offshore work.
Sounds like you had an amazing trip, 19 days is an excellent crossing. Are you in Seattle and thinking about another trip south? We are very happy with our vane and glad we had an extra hand onboard to help out.
i grew up in long beach, seaview washington. just up the penninsula from ilwaco. its been great seeing your videos, seeing astoria and the bridge i grew up crossing. never been on the river / bar though but grew up passing that area . great videos, keep em coming.
Hey! Always cool to hear from local NW people :) Cheers, and thanks for watching!
Great video you guy's. love the way the camera is set up facing the stern and watching the sea and wave motion, just love it
Thanks, we weren't sure if we would be able to capture the seas, waves are surprising hard to photograph, but it came out and glad you enjoyed the video :)
I agree with you on the whales ..
Sometimes sturgeon on the Columbia will mess with depth readings.
Greetings from Brissie guys. Great video. Your depiction of life at sea on a long, lumpy passage was impressive. Brought back some memories for me. Great to see you all hooked on with harnesses and PFDs and enjoying the sail, despite some early seasickness. Look forward to following your adventures. Fair winds and following seas.
Thanks so much, even the "bad stuff" is still good on a boat, all a part of the experience. But we were definitely happy to have adjusted and gotten over the seasickness! Thanks for following :)
Bummer getting sea sick, but what a nice first fish! Great video.
In a way, we were expecting a bit of seasicknesses, and it definitely wasn't as bad as it could have been, as we were still functional, I guess that;s part of the experience! Hoping we got our sea legs and will stay adjusted to life on the water :) We were soo excited about our first fish on Varuna, can't wait for more!
Dan need's a pay hike! and better food! lol Good job with the in stall(of Dan) and it was a lot of work for you two. With all the refiting you've done it must fell good to be on your way. Enjoy your journey and the world.
Hmmm... maybe we will treat Dan to some grease, he would probably enjoy a bit of that.... lol. Thanks, yes we were SO happy to have him on the trip down, definitely made all that work worth it!
Very enjoyable and bumpy ride but like your presentation. Nice to see the seas that you are experiencing rather than trying to smooth over as others do. Great to see the playing around in the sack too. Found you 2-3 weeks ago and glad I did. Looking forward to future vids coming from your trips. God speed and protection during your voyages.
Thanks so much, we're trying to share our journey as it happens, not just the "fun" parts of it... We really want to give a real picture of life at sea, the good, bad, the fun and the hard work, all are a part of it! Thanks so much for following along :)
Cheers from Vancouver Island 🏝️
I checked out WINDYTY for 6/26/16, you did well to stay off-shore. Great starts guys, thx for sharing the adventure.
And thx for Daily Holla
WINDYTY is so cool, didn't know that you could past-date, even better! And yeah, we were very happy to be offshore away from that big patch of wind and big seas!
Good, you aware of it, you could see if usable for you. looks like trip planning might be a thing on it.You might be able to evaluate it's accuracy. Also "Active Captain" is a thing.. Anyways, sail on. I'm glued to my chair after that one. Better vicariuos than not at all i guess.
We've heard of Active Captain as well... haven't used it yet. Heard it's really great in the Caribbean, but we might start checking that our once we get to Mexico :)
Welp, obviously it's open source so must be seen as such. But there must be useful info, contacts, etc.. Oh, and Noonsite is a thing. And listen, should you like, i would be more than happy to a resource. Be it ever so humble. Have a great time Ty, Hillary. I'm so impressed with Varuna. Ty- " This is the real life sailing around the world " You guys are so real and doing a great job. Impressive. MS?
you two are so cool, lots of useful info to a novice sailor like me.
Thanks Robert, we were novices not long ago and we are glad we can help.
Just a thought, you can stop the prop from causing drag and sound by putting the throttle in reverse while sailing, with the engine off. Hard to tell but thought I could hear it during one of you offshore segments. Great vid. Cheers
Great tip, we actually did this for the sail down, as we could hear it spinning as soon as we turned the engine off. Probably the wind noise in the background you were hearing, we tried our best to edit it out/reduce it, but hard with that much wind!
awesome vid guys ,wow pretty intense wave action,glad you got your sea legs .ah hope one of these days to be able to get out there .I'm awaiting kidney transplant,been waiting 4 years now ,I'm hoping this will be my year .fair winds an safe passages ,,paul
Oh man, wow, hope this is your year for sure! Hope to see you out there someday! :)
Wow..almost a week feeding three adults on one fish. Impressive. Could you show more of the proper cleaning and some recipes in a future video? Thanks for the videos !
Yeah, it was amazing how much meat was on that thing! Our crew was an experienced fisherman and did the filleting while we watched... we have yet to fillet one ourselves yet, so we'll see how that goes, hopefully we figure it out! Haha
Nice video, thank you. You guys really appear to have your act together.
Aww well thanks so much! We aren't perfect or experts, but we are certainly trying to so our research and follow the right path :)
Very Neat! The sea looked scary to me.
We were definitely happy to stay on board our boat, which handled great!
Nice vid, guys! Looking forward to following your good work. Fellow Portlander...someday I'll follow in your footsteps. :D
Hey, hey! Say hello to Portland for us! Hope to see you in warmer waters with us someday :)
I'm getting closer!!! Thanks for the inspiration!!
Yay, keep on at it, you will get there!! :)
That was super footage of your trip didn't look to comfy but looks like the boat and crew did a good job,
Rolling sushi in 6ft swells WOW :)
The boat handled great, we were so so happy with her on the trip down! And yeah, hats off to our crew for making that sushi ;)
Great video, good camera placement during that fast downwind sail. You've come a long way in what seems like a short time. Should be a blast heading south. Excellent find and setup of the windvane.
Thank you, it's been a steep learning curve for sure, hard to believe that it was a just a year ago that we took our first sailing lessons and now we're here doing it! And we couldn't be happier with the windvane, easily our best purchase!
Your sailing episodes are the best! thank you for sharing
Thank you for watching and taking the time to write to us.
Great. I really like the way you put it together.
Thank you!
The day u left the spit the coast guard was drunk. What a weather and conditions report? Best wishes!
Lol, they say conditions can change quickly, but even the update that came out after we crossed didn't seem to match what we experienced. If that's what they call a good day, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near it on a bad one!
Did the Bar on a Salmon fishing trip, scared shitless.
Saw the Coasties heading out at warp speed, the radio was full of boaters in distress, never forget it.
I'll be buying my filets at Costco from now on.
Haha nice! Yeah, the Coast Guard captains are so talented and brave... can’t imagine the stuff they must see and handle. And the bar pilots for that matter too!
nice to see a blog that REAL sailors can enjoy. We're in Powell River British Columbia sailing a Panda 40 and interested to see what your boat design is. Well done ! And we look forward to more videos. Tell us more about your camera setup....gimbaled or ??? We aren't making a video just curious......Good luck on your future voyages
Thanks for watching and glad you enjoy our videos, we will certainly have to do a boat tour sometime to show every nook and cranny of SV Varuna. We do not have a gimbal in any of these video's, we try and use tripods a lot for stabilization or sometimes the video editing stabilization works a tad. We will look at trying to use a gimbal on future videos, our biggest challenge has been presentable audio without wind noise.
Cheers.
Brilliant, totally jealous as a NW sailor!
Fantastic video! Really liked the educational part on the crossing of the bar and when to attempt it. That kinda informational knowledge helps me in planning our casting off the lines. Also, what type of mic were you using when in the cockpit with following seas. Your voice was clear and crisp. I had to be some kind of lavalier mic. Would like to know brand and type, please. Keep it up gang. Love watching your travels!!
So good to hear you enjoy the videos and find them useful, here is the mic we use it is a pretty cheap one but seems to do the trick amzn.to/2aQ3nTJ at least it is much better than just our gopro audio. Cheers.
Here I am stumbling on this almost a year after you posted it. You were in Astoria, about an hours drive from where I live now and ended up in Ventura, one town over from where I grew up. Small, small world.
Very small, it is amazing how often we have come across circumstance like this. We recently ran into someone who recognized our boat from the previous owners.
Is that the wind vane steering system in operation I see? How did it work? - HAHA - I commented this while only part way through the video - you've answered my question :-)
We got it up and running the 2nd day, only took about an hour or so of playing with it to get everything tuned properly and then he worked like charm! :)
You should also have hard points (reinforced pad eyes) that you should be clipped into when in the cockpit. Only use the jack lines for when you have to go forward.
Done and done :)
nice vid you both have done well. enjoyed you sail south
Great video, thank you..
Very Nice
PS - some of the *best* sailing footage! What an awesome south-bound passage you guys had - go, Dan!
Dan's the man! haha :)
I like seeing you in rough seas. It's more of an "adventure" than seeing boats cruising the glass like water in the Bahamas. I mean I do like those as well but a mixture of sea conditions in more enjoyable and better practice.
Bryan the more practice the better, we have tried to get as much exposure to varying conditions as possible because we know it is not always flat calm and we want to be able to handle the tough conditions when they come.
well done you guys great video thanks
Thanks for sharing this, the bar is pretty aggro.
Agro indeed, why so though. It needs to chill.
Great video, guys
So it looks like slack high tide is @ 1:45 PM...your table does not specify Standard time or Daylight Savings time as it lists both but does not differentiate which is which?
so the wind vane is working beautifully
Yes, we love our wind vane.
The sound seems very muffled & hard to make out what you were saying. To much bass or something maybe. Nice to see some rolling seas . Do you have a daily mileage goal or can you just go at a comfortable speed ? Nice video !
Man, sorry we tried to get rid of as much as we could, and added the captions to the harder to hear bits. 25-30 knot winds are not friendly to mic's... :/ As for the mileage, we have no schedule to keep, so we go as fast (or slow) as the wind takes us. We were doing about 150 miles a day here, averaging about 6 knots of boat speed.
hey guys. welcome to ventura!!!!! Are you in the Ventura keys, Bayshore? We live in the ventura Harbor as well. love to say hi if your still around
Over in the islands now, we have been checking out Santa Cruz and plan to head over to San Miguel later this weekend. Thank you for the welcome, nice town :)
Nice one! I've taken video in rough seas that looked like it was calm out. Your footage was awesome! Thanks.
Thanks, we agree you don't always get the true perspective. The rolls here helped give a good idea.
Adventure Adrift Youse guys captured the motion better than any sailing vlog video I've watched before. I actually started to feel queasy while watching! lol! Great job guys!!
Another great vid guys. At the masthead you didn't mention that corrosion and pitting in the mast itself. It seemed like there had once been a fitting up there; the corrosion may well have been neutralised but it didn't look too pretty. Next time you're up there it might be worth giving it a closer look. Perhaps coat the damaged area with a skin of silicone sealant? Just a thought. Go, you!!!
Hey, yeah we have been doing a bit of research on that. Sounds like something we should be able to sand, seal and paint, have read a few different opinions on what to use to seal it with, so doing some research and seeing what kind of product we can get. Have you had any experience with this on aluminum?
Hi there - I am not a specialist - merely a practical guy with a bit of experience!
Dealing with a small areas of corrosion on the mast of my last boat - a Beneteau 285 - I cleaned it thoroughly with fresh water and applied a skin of silicone sealant as a patch covering. Some people use polish to achieve the same effect - namely a barrier to the air.
At that time (6 or 7 years ago) I was advised not to paint as it wasn't likely to be a sustainable fix: preparation needs to be very through, including specialist primer; once painted, paint needs to be re-applied surprisingly often; and there is a risk that the corrosion merely continues under the surface - unseen. Many paint manufacturers specifically advise against painting anodized masts.
Given that the area on your mast seems a little larger than those I experienced, possibly a result of galvanic action under a previous fitting, I would suggest that before you adopt a solution you might take a *really* close look......
The thing would be to ascertain whether the pitting is superficial - surface only - or whether it has actually thinned the wall of the mast. In the latter case, most people I know with specialist knowledge seem to agree that the best long term fix is a professionally welded patch (not merely a plate that covers the damaged area - under which all sorts of things could be going on out of sight!).
Sorry, not too helpful, I fear.
Boats, huh?
Thanks for all the info, always good to hear opinions and other experiences that others have had :) We plan to take a closer look here and see if it's something we need to address. We did find a product that should be good for preventing corrosion on aluminum... zinc chromate and zinc phosphate, so we may try that is needed.
You guy's, I love revisting this vid
Great that you can rewatch it and still enjoy it.
Just subscribed sorry I just found your videos today but really enjoyed it trying to buy a boat for myself y'all have truly made up my mind your friend from ga fair winds
Jimmy that is awesome, let us know how your search progresses. Thanks for watching we are happy you found your way here.
Tremendous sailing video! Love it. Love your focus and attention to detail. Was your 3rd crew really camera shy? I felt like there was a stranger lurking on board ;)
Hahaha, maybe... we might have a bit more footage of hime in the next video.
Wow!
Great gaff job Hillary! What a beautiful fish that tuna was. I've watched a lot of cruising sailors catch fish, but that big fat tuna was about the heaviest one I'd seen. Great team effort.
Awesome!! We don't have much to compare it to, but it seemed like a big fish to us!
Another great video. Suggestion: Add a map (or Maps) to your videos to show where you are and where you are heading. BTW the after clip was very cute. Did she get away?
-johnny
Thanks for suggestion, we were actually just talking the other day about showing some better maps when we talk about places, so be on the lookout in future videos! :)
PS. Named my Fleming "Ian" after the Bond creator. Ian steered for 42 days across the Indian Ocean without complaining once!
Wow that's awesome! We were so happy to have him on board, and looking forward to having him do some more steering. Great to hear from someone else with a Fleming!
I have been there twice , First and Last !
Great video, what blue sea sailing is supposed to look like from my laptop ( :
Thanx for sharing your journey.
Thanks so much ! :)
Loved this but I think TH-cam ate your audio. Didn’t see any other comments but looked like a great trip.
Hmm, thanks, will look into the audio issue!
Nice job! I, have tbut have to ask how you wound up staying in the Keys? I'm at Ventura West Marina, just down the street a few blocks from you. Can't wait to see the rest of the trip south!
We are lucky to have some really awesome viewers, like yourself, and someone invited us in... it's a beautiful place here, and has been super handy for getting projects done while at a dock!
That's great! While you're there, be sure to visit some of the local restaurants. I can highly recommend Brophy Brothers, on the southwest side of the harbor, great seafood and a nice view.
Also, be sure to check out the islands, if it fits in your schedule. Santa Cruz has some great anchorages, sea caves, snorkling, etc. Oh, forgot to mention from where you're at you can walk a few blocks and hop on the free 'trolley" to go over to the Harbor Village or downtown Ventura, so you don't need to have a car or Uber.
You rock! We did take the trolley into town and we have been to the Islands and are heading back again, dropped into Santa Barbara today from SC Island to upload the next video. Heading back towards San Miguel next.
As a longtime Oregon Coast resident I'm a bit confused. What is this "sun" thing you refer to?
Just a word of caution, lifevest are dangerous below deck, especially if resting. They can pin you in the boat when things go south. If the boat takes on water, gets hit by a rogue wave, then your life saving device can limit your exit, or worst pin you to the ceiling if submerged. Manual inflated vest accrually are better in this regards. In Canadian waters, it's recommended not to wear them in cabins or below decks for this very reason.
Do they really inflate that big that you couldn't get through the companion way? Guess it depends on the boat.
Good point, and makes sense. We generally took them off when we went below deck, only left them on if it was going to be a quick trip down there... It became quite the nice break to go below and take off the vest and harness actually! haha
How long did it take to get your sea legs .. cheers
Nicely done....What make and size of boat?
That's a nice jacket. Where did you get it? I'm about to go from there to Hawaii.
Ventura!? My old stomping grounds.
nice
Wow!! Just discovered your channel today. Love your videos!!! They're very educational and inspiring. Ty's antics are delightfully funny, too. Many youtubers know a lot of stuff about their subject, but not everyone is capable of TEACHING what they know and many hold back important info rather than sharing.
I have a question and you guys seem like the perfect people to ask. I've been wondering for a long time-- when paying by the foot to park the boat somewhere, what all must be included in the length? I know there's an "official" LOA for each vessel, but do you have to include a non-original bowsprit, for example? What about the stainless tubular structures that often protrude beyond the stern-- like those built for solar panels and/or dinghy storage, or even "Dan" for that matter? Is all of that add-on, non-original stuff included in the overall length when paying by the foot?
I appreciate you both. Thank you for being GREAT TEACHERS and WILLING to SHARE your knowledge and experience. I'm looking forward to hearing what you have to say on this subject in reply to this comment or in a video-- either way. THANK YOU!!!
Mate thanks for writing and watching, glad we can offer worthwhile education and we love inspiring people as many have inspired us. To answer your question, yep even Dan :( really it depends on the habour master if they come by, you can tell them you are 36 feet but if you are there any length of time they will measure you tip to toe. Anything that hangs over is considered chargeable by the marina's etc. this is why many boats will do retractable bowsprits. Cheers... Ty
Varuna's finest hour
Is the audio not messed up for anyone else?
Large gaps in audio for me. I wonder TH-cam muted some songs based on copyright.
Great sailing footage !
See if you can locate a compounding pharmacy in your current area and have them make you some Scopace capsules. You will need a prescription from your doctor. I fish in the ocean (Oregon and Washington coasts) via kayak and the Scopace capsules are the way to go. I take one about an hour before launch, and one every 4 hours to keep them overlapped. I can stick my head in a bowl of chum, on rough seas, while sniffing diesel fumes with zero issues. Without it, I would puke like a drunk teenager regularly.
Wow, sounds like some powerful stuff! We were definitely happy to adjust after a couple of days... we'll see if we keep our sea legs or have to readjust each time we head out...
Really enjoyed your video, My wife and I are from the Northwest.
Why, thank you! And cheers, always great to hear from other local North-westerners :)
Hi to you both,
Please bear in mind this is not a criticism but advice.
You made me laugh when you were very thorough cleaning the stay wires after seeing a little corrosion up there on the mast. However, you really should have taken the pins or bolts out and cleaned and greased the joints as well as cleaning the rust.
It is the rust that shows there is possibly something wrong, but you never went that far.
Thank you and we appreciate your advice, we plan on doing more thorough work later in the year. We have had a survey and inspection on the boat this year and we have a good history on her up until now, we mainly wanted to make sure no pins or anything obvious was out of place. Thank you for your advice and we will take it on board for our next trip up.
Hi,
And I thank you for your kind reply. Can I say your videos tell your story very well, great videography!
You may or not be aware of another sailor who had a so called Professional look over his boat whilst he was on it and after a short three day cruise they found the stays holding the mast up were split at one point and they found it co-incidentally as they were diving, one or more of the (I am guessing ’18') strand steel rope was spit.
They had paid $300 for this chap to check everything, and from now on, because the boat was their home they decided after doing the job themselves and paying a Royal Yacht Club to Use their facilities of there engineering shop $over $10,000, to do a the checking in the future!
After saying this as again a kind of gentle warning, was it not your yacht you had a woman who I think you said on a video took almost a full day to check over even the minutest of details?
It took something like an hour for the check of a 53 or 58ft yacht and even though, you know, it would not have cost him, a ‘professional yacht surveyor’ and he took the trouble to go up the mast he mentioned nothing.
I certainly do not want to worry you, and if your boat was the one the surveyor was a woman and very competent, you can sit a little more relaxed that she did seem to get into every cranny and nook!
It still doesn’t mean you can take it as what she said was from the Bible. Whatever your pressures to get here or there it is your ‘Home’ and your personal safety at risk.
Do your own checking! You should have or be able to get the original building drawing, work from them and call specialists in when and if necessary.
Take care, No need for a reply, just get into more friendly waters.
PS. Sorry for any errors, my keyboard is not working properly.
Yikes, always sad to hear stories like that. You're right, we were lucky to have an extremely thorough surveyor, who spent about 10 hours going over every nook and cranny of the boat, she was amazing! But even so, like you said it is our home, so we plan to keep a close watch and take great care of everything on board. Thanks so much for your kind comments. We are looking forward to spending more time in warm friendly waters too :)
Hi,
There was no need to reply but I thank you for your courteous ways.
I sincerely wish you have nothing serious go wrong apart from planned things.
Take care
mrbluenun
Cute gal... Wish I’d met her 50 yrs ago!
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