C-22 Cruising Cabin - Seanachai Style
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- This video is about the things we have done to make cruising on "Seanachai," our 1986 Catalina 22, more comfortable, also where we stow things, and how we keep our secondary battery charged. Some ideas were inspiried by other C22 owners. Not so much a "how to" video, but rather a "how we do it".
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You've got that boat organized, I love it. Your sewing skills really come in handy and such great ideas. When you said at the end of the video, we have a cover that goes over the entire boat, somehow I already knew that. ❤ Fair winds and following seas ⛵
How refreshing and inspirational to see an older couple sailing and not a g-string in sight! Thank you 😊
Thanks so much for stopping by, Rhymney Bells. And thanks for the kind words. I absolutely promise you'll never see a g-string on this crew! LOL!
@Richard Gleaves lol
Does anyone have a clue about why females are so enthralled with exposing more and more of their bodies to the sight of total strangers and lustful men? I am old, but I once upon a time I believed that modesty was hard-wired into the vast majority of girls and women. But then I also used to believe in "motherly instinct," back before women were given permission to kill their sons and daughters who were growing in their bodies. Today, tell women they're allowed to wear nothing but a g-string, and they jump at the chance. Tell them they can abort their kids, and they protest and vote against anybody who would put any limits on that right. I'm not saying there aren't exceptions, but they are just that---the exceptions, not the norm. No...there is nothing special about women...and I used to think there was. Turns out I was just dumb. I'm not dumb now...but I am sad.
Thanks for sharing. My son (34) is purchasing a 1984 Catalina 25 this weekend. I love how you store your door in the towel slip you made for it. I'm looking forward to helping him fix his now boat up and taking it out for a week or so. I'm now 65, and did a bit of sailing as a kid on a sunfish, but that's about it. He's taken a few sailing classes so I'll just be crewing for him.
Thanks for stopping by and the kind words. All the best to you and your son on the next adventure. While I never expected we'd start Catalina 22 sailing at 58, I must say it's been amazing--and hard to believe we're about to celebrate our 10th anniversary with Seanachai!
This is the first Catalina 22 I've ever seen that actually looks cute inside! Great use of space and beautiful tidy look!
Thanks, Reality TV...it was a "tidy" day ; )
very nice, I sailed my Catalina 22 on Lake Erie for 13 years. I was very proud of my boat. I was 1987, most people thought it was new. I enjoyed every aspect of boating
I wish I had been able to watch this video back in 1991 when my Wife and I, newly wed, sailed our Catalina 11 (sail # 15048) Wind's Highway II...I took a $16k boat, motor and trailer and made a $30K cruising boat out of her! Fully battened main, all lines led aft, a nav/com tower, autohelm, lazy jacks and a 22 lb. Bruce anchor, roller furling 150% Genoa, second set of reef points on the main...to name a few. I even took out the cooler used as a step and bolted in a 3 step latter for a big boat feel. I had two Dryfit Pervailor batteries that were charged by the alternator on the 8HP outboard.
Wow, so I miss that boat...
Thanks for stopping by, Silver Wings! Sounds like you made a VERY comfortable cruiser...I'll bet she was a beauty! Hopefully, you also made some wonderful memories. All the best!
Beautiful boat and great ideas! I just purchased a 1974 Catalina 22 a few weeks ago. Can’t wait to make mine look like this!
Thanks for sharing Liz!
Liz, you are an inspiration to SO many things I would like to do to our Cat 22! Your boat is beautiful and I look forward to following our adventures!
This drawstring towel bag is a life changer 👍💫
It is amazing to see how clever space has been used. I was starting to think that Catalina 22 could not be made to look appealing until I saw your video.
Thank you for stopping by, Lokesh Raghupathy. And thanks for the kind words...I think it was CaptDon01 (in a Sailboat Owners Forum) who said a cleaned up new design C-22 "is the prettiest girl at the marina." I agree!
Outstanding video you both are just so much fun to watch and how well you coordinate together and yet so quietly. I been watching your video's now for a few years along with the couple O'Neil. You both are professional and so inspiring! Thank you so much for all you have displayed to us and boy just great ideas that everyone who owns one of these beauties should know to help save space and also take care of your equipment and making it easier to sail towards your goals! Again I thank so very much! Joe!
Such a great use of space. Thank you for the tour
Enjoyed that, simple effective layout. Bedrolls were awesome, like the easy toilet solution, keeping it simple means it doesn't break.
Thanks for stopping by, Edward Schmitt. You're so right, the KISS method is the way to go!
Your boat is in great condition! Nice work! you sure put a lot of thought into laying out your boat. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for your kind words, John. It takes some trial and error, but after 5 years I think we've hit a good comfort zone.
So clever, so nicely made! Superb interior. Greetings from Bordeaux - France
that is a beautiful interior for a C22. it looks big and clean.
Wow, I just saw your boat at the marina last week. I got a slip there for my Catalina 22 as well.
We enjoy our 1984 Catalina 22 sailing out of Perdido Beach, Alabama, Palmetto Creek. We've owned a Catalina 22 for over 10 years. Thank you so much for the crib board idea. Will have it installed this week!
Thanks for stopping by, Jay Warthen. We got to sail in the Northern Gulf Coast Cruise twice, (Ft. Walton Beach to Josephine Alabama & back). It's a beautiful sailing area! All the best.
Planned to be on that cruise too. Weather and engine problem kept us at the dock. Happy you enjoyed it. Next year perhaps. Sailed Perdido Bay Wednesday and Thursday. Fun. Used the crib board storage. Thanks again for that improvement.
I just took my second sailing lesson on a C 22, today, in Seattle. I've noticed the huge amount of space in these little pocket rockets and marvel at what you've done. Brava!
Where did you take it?
@@azazelRising72 Windworks at Shilshole Marina in Seattle.
Thank you so much for sharing your creative ideas and inspiring us..
All your videos are quite good. This one is especially useful. Thank you.
Always appreciate your kind words, Jim. And enjoy your channel, too. Keep up the good work!
Liz: really great video, and a very nice C-22. We have a 1987 model here in Arizona and love it. I hope to do some cruising in the coming years (we do club racing and day sailing with it now) - your videos are very informative. Great to see you guys enjoying your C-22.
Thanks so much, Noodleheimers West! All the best with your adventures.
Great video, lot's of creative ideas! Thanks
Beautiful sailboat! 💗
That's really a nice setup. Thank you.
Love your solution for the crib boards!
Thanks! It was an inspiration that just came to me one day. Thanks for subscribing.
Thanks for all the great storage ideas. Our boats are practically twins and I see I'm not the only one who ditched the fiberglass keel winch cover. Having just made a new set of crib boards out of mahogany, I'm definitely borrowing your towel storage idea.
Hello SailinSlim! Yeah, being able to see the keel winch wire as the keel is raised or lowered is a big PLUS. Mahogny sounds great. I'm sure they're beautiful!
Thanks for the tour! I just bought a Vivacity 20 that I plan to do some extensive cruising on and am brainstorming smart storage ideas. Lots of good one here! (I love the towel storage for the companionway doors.
Thanks for stopping by, Lunagard. All the best with your cruising. That towel idea was pure inspiration.
On the lookout for a 22/23 day-sailer. What a great job you have done. Repurposing the forepeak really inspires me. I subscribed and look forward to your input, Fairwinds (:
Thanks so much for stopping by, The GypsyHook! Lots of trial and error goes into use of space on Seanachai, but after spending the night onboard (about 20 times so far) we get to know what works for us.
Great outfit on the boat!
Very cleverly equipped little boat, and great ideas.
Thanks so much for stopping by, Mo River.
First time I have seen a tidy boat...wonderful.
Thanks for stopping by for for the kind words, David Sheriff. Wish I could say it's that tidy all the time ; )
The beach towel hanger for the 3 hatch sections is genius
Absolutely love watching your videos. We are in the UK and we have the same boat. 😊
Thanks so much! It really means a lot. Would love to see pix of your boat! Fair winds!
Love the bed rolls! I am applying this idea for my vw westfalia camper! And plan to transfer them to my pocket sailboat soon!
Thanks for stopping by, Nora Elkin. I give credit for the idea to the Duvalay, a UK manufacturer. Easy to make with bedsheets as the fabric.
I'm very interested in the content if your video, but the (fan?) noise made it difficult to understand you and the sound itself is so irritating I stopped at 3:07.
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Beautiful layout! Your hair is so pretty too.
Thanks for stopping, Jesus! I'll be sure and tell my hair dresser ; )
What a beautiful nice little boat :)
Love the companion way board storage.
You win the awesomeness competition
{{Blushing}} Thanks Rob Banks! So many others contributed with great ideas.
Wonderful! So much imagination.
Beautiful boat, Liz! My wife and I were watching this video together and got a good laugh when we saw ourselves mentioned at 11:04. Thanks for that! :)
We're going to steal your boat hook storage method. We've always hung ours in the port side "cavern", where it is much more difficult/impossible to get at in a hurry.
We're actually working on a "how we do it" video of our own, if I can ever get it done. I'm not very talented at making videos ... which you already know, if you've ever seen ours! LOL
LOL, Gene Neill! It was watching your videos (featuring your "SHW" Carlotta) that motivated us to start telling video stories. Can't wait to see your next adventure.
Great little boats. We had two of them.
Really nice Catalina ⛵️❤️
Wow that looks really good
Thanks, Sam Cyanide, just remember it's the "tidy version" ; )
it looks absolutely gorgeous. I'm copying almost ALL of your ideas!!!
Thanks so much, TravelNester! Feel free to copy...I sure did!
Seanachoi...storyteller...love it. Hi from Ireland 😊
Hello Annie! Thanks for stopping by. You made my day.
@@lizmccafferty-seanachai3694 delighted I did. Great to recognise the Gaeilge 😊
Thanks
You are amazing!
Thanks so much for stopping by. So glad you like the videos!
Such a lovely boat
Thank you! Appreciate you stopping by.
Great way to store your cabin door slats!
Very nice layout. I like the way you use the v berth. Sleeping there isnt possible on mine. Never thought of putting a cooler up there.
Thanks. The cooler worked out well up there for the cruise. We keep the drinks in the step cooler, and the food in the forward cooler.
Thanks alot We got some Great ideas for are boat 🙂
Thanks, Rusty Love. Just passing on the good ideas we heard about!
Your a great inspiration. I,m just looking to purchase a22 catalina.
Thanks' so much, Alan Stokes. Getting Seanachai is one of the best decisions we made. It's just the right size for us, simple enough to sail right away and the support of the C-22 community is awesome. All the best.
You turned it into a real yacht.
Thanks for the kind words, Captain.
This really makes me miss our C-26. Even with 4 more feet, the V-berth wasn't suitable for sleeping except for small children. But great for storage area. It was always a bit amazing to see just how much stuff we had aboard in the various compartments/cubbies when it came time to empty her out at the end of the season. I think the dinette layout is more useful than the C-26's drop table mounted on the compression post.
Thanks for stopping by...will remember your comment when we start to come down with two-foot-itis (that recurring fever that makes one consider trading up from C-22).
Liz, you made this video in anticipation of an "extended trip". I'd like to hear how many miles, days, nights aboard, and meals aboard. How big a trip did you provision?
I love seeing Charleston area from a pleasure sailor point of view. Charleston was my last homeport before moving home permanently.
Hello jDL FtW. The trip was 5 days and 4 nights, traveling 50 miles one way, from Charleston to Edisto Beach by way of the ICW. We anchored out two nights and stayed at the Marina at Edisto for two nights, sleeping on the boat every night. We grilled shrimp onboard the first night, ate dinner at a restaurant when we were at Edisto. On our final night at anchor we had a salad topped with a pre-cooked burger. Breakfast is usually coffee and hard-boiled eggs or egg salad wraps. We generally have veggies and nuts to snack on. We rarely eat a big lunch. That said, we probably pack too much, but we're getting better. We always have extra water. The video clips in the post about Tides and Currents feature some of the sites along the way. My next project will be editing the hours of video and still shots from that trip to tell (as Paul Harvey might say) the rest of the story. Thanks again for your interest!
Nice no nonsense improvements. I’ve watched several of your videos and appreciate particularly the content on mods and repairs. I have owned a couple of C-22s and may again soon after retirement. I would be interested if y’all added a bushing to the keel after pulling it since the hole was a bit worn. Seems to be the biggest issue I see on used C-22s and I am wondering how difficult drilling out that hole to 1.125” would be for installing the offered bushing to fix it.
Hi Davy, Thanks for stopping by, and thanks for the kind words. We really appreciate hearing from people who watch the videos. We have not added the bushing yet, and for the very reason you suggest. It seems like a pretty daunting task for DIY. A good machine shop is probably the way to go, but then there's the issue of getting it to someone. We'll post something if/when we take that next step.
You should send your video to the "SHARKS", and have them invest in your WONDERFUL IDEAS! :-D - Great Job!!
The Catalina is a good boat. I like your clever organization , especially regarding the drop boards. . Did you do the bright work on the outside of the cabin?
Paul
Hi @pauljessome5718, thanks for stopping by and for the kind comments. Before I made this video in 2020, we sanded down just the crib boards and stained with Sikkens Cetol Marine Natural Teak and a coat of Cetol Marine Gloss. Very shiny, but not really our taste. About a year ago the Captain cleaned and sanded all the outside teak (hatch guides, handrails, eyebrows, cubby holes, crib boards and tiller) used a teak brightener and then two coats of Starlight "Classic Teak" teak sealer. Seems to be holding up well.
@@lizmccafferty-seanachai3694 Great, as an old salt I appreciate folk who care for their boat as it gives back what it receives. A sound boat in a storm is a very good thing. I have owned a variety of boats , one being a Catalina 25. Fair winds two both of you
Paul in Canada
Thank you for sharing... reminds me of the family camping trailer... I'm so stealing your bed roll idea... and the use of the v-berth for storage makes far more sense than trying to sleep up there...
So glad it was helpful, Rj Gilens. I stole the bedroll idea first-- from www.duvalay.co.uk/Boats ; )
That is really cool! Great job. Where did you get your solar panels?
Thanks for the your .I'm curious what if you want to camp out on the beach or an island ,do you need a dingy or bring the boat close and walk out .
Thanks for stopping by, John Morgan. We just bought a dinghy, but haven't used it yet. On a recent trip, we beach anchored (one stern anchor and one bow anchor) in shallow enough water to step off the swim ladder onto knee deep water and walk ashore. That's not always going to be the case, so we thought a dinghy may give us more flexibility. Seanachi draws 2 feet with the keel up.
Awesome!
Thanks, Ed! Glad you enjoyed it.
We love you and of course the way you live by the sea.
You're too kind! Thanks for stopping by, Dimos!
I like the little 12v fan. Could you share what brand it is and if you like it?
Hello Paul Uhlig. The fans are 6 inch, 3 speed, Caframo Bora. Got 'em at West Marine for $79 on sale (reg. $95). For their size, they make things pretty comfortable in the cabin when it's hot. (Cross vent is important). We like the fact that they're adjustable (swivel and speed). We keep one on the lowest setting when Seanachai is at the marina and we're away from the boat to keep the air circulating in the cabin (reduces build up of mildew). Only downside, for me, is I have to remove the cage to clean the fan blades. (4 small screws). Small price to pay to keep mildew at bay!
Curious, which transducer are you using for Garmin?
Thanks for stopping by Kris Press. The transducer is CV-20. Chart plotter is Garmin EchoMap Plus CV63 with CV-20 TM (TM=Transom Mount) transducer.
Love the crib board storage solution! Please share what the hooks (1:10 in your video) are called or where they came from. Thanks!
This version already has bolt holes drilled. unitedyachting.com/product/snapper-ii-line-holders/
Hello Thuban06. Thanks for stopping by. The surface mount pole holders came from West Marine, made by United Yachting. Approx $17 for the pair.
the roof cover is excellent. is it from Catalina Direct? your boat is nice!
Thanks, John. The cover is from The Sailor's Tailor, the same company that made our mainsail cover.
Please decorate and organize my Catalina too
Did you have the cushions recovered at a "Boat Place" or an ordinary reupholstery place? Do you remember about how much it cost as mine really need to be reupholstered.
Hello Ben Kanobe. Thanks for dropping by. I did the reupholstery work on those cushions. Here's a little video on some things I learned when I did it...
th-cam.com/video/vRLoEXNV1CI/w-d-xo.html
The materials from Sail Rite cost about $500. I didn't do the V-Berth cushions cause we don't use them.
@@lizmccafferty-seanachai3694 Thank you!
About how much to re do the cushions?
Hello @harringtonb2, thanks for stopping by. In 2019 dollars, it was about $530...About 2:58 into this video "Five Surprising Things I Learned...", you can grab a screen shot of the materials list I used from Sailrite--an amazing source for a first time DIY. th-cam.com/video/vRLoEXNV1CI/w-d-xo.html.
Where does water enter ?
Ah! That is the question we'd like to answer, too, Jay! We thought it was coming in through the hatch, but we're still getting some water in the bilge with a the new canvas cover. Could be something related to the stanchions, but we don't know yet.
Is this a pop up
Hi George Mouliere, Yes, it's a pop-top, but we don't use it. Seems like a hassle to me.
What a poopy video 🤣🤣👍Good ole poo powder to the rescue.
That’s the worst door design ever