If I want to watch real sailing you two are hands down the best by far!!!!!Not just the sailing but the videography and content is so great,plus you are very easy to listen to!!Love how you explain the wind and the current and how it affects how you sail and where you will go next!Thank you so much 🙏🙏
Your Vlogs just get better and better: the Videography (and editing); commentary and, of course the Boat management in spite of sleep deprivation. Wishing you continued bon Voyages.
I do understand why you did this marathon of watching a serial presented by Matt and Amy. I am in the same mood. Thank you for sharing your feelings and emotions.
So soon we will enter into the seventh season of series by great artists and wise people. I admire and love your show Matt and Amy! Hopefully you will find a solution to continue great movies of adventures at seas and different lands, and more - you will go on to expand great geographical lessons for the whole public and living generations. Generally there are loads of people ignoring knowledge about nature science and cosequences of the way we live on the Earth. You are great teachers about those issues without providing moral empty lessons. Thank you a lot.
The experience of time IS relative to our age. To my 1 yo granddaughter a year was a lifetime, the whole pie! To me, at nearly 70yo, a year is just 1/70th of a lifetime. Just a tiny piece of the pie. Zoom zoom!
Matt and Amy, I have watched your videos from the beginning, you two are an amazing couple, matt is the luckiest guy in the world to have found his true partner. I am amazed at how Amy is always working at least as hard as you. amazing team! I watch many sailing channels yours by far is the finest of them all!!!
Your videos capture the pure sailing and sea state better than any. That current is really moving you along at a good clip! What a beautiful video! Just hungery for more!
I have followed several types of TH-cam-sailboats over the years. Has given me different experiences I never would have had without YOU as well. Good luck back to England! My greatgrandfather was a sea captain between Norway and England over 120 years ago, he died at sea of some illness due to handling of ICE .Buried at Gravesend.
Love the teamwork between you two. Can’t wait to see you with a glass of bubblies in your hands when you both finally got back to England. Keep up the good work!!! Legends! ❤❤❤️👍🦘
I just started watching all your videos. They’re great, you guys are a super cute couple, and great sailors and video makers. It’s very inspirational to see you work so hard for your goals and dreams and make them come true. It’s really great to find your channel at the beginning the year. I was actually in Thailand in March 2020 when the pandemic began and I was just beginning my dream of traveling around the world too. I had to come back to Canada and was heartbroken it fell through. Then I decided to travel in Europe as Asia was so closed to people like me on foot, no boat 😉. But after saving up again and having a new job that lets me work remotely I’m ready to start planning again, as seems the world is stabilizing again well. Many thanks for what you do. Cheers from frosty Montreal 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Great videography of the sea state!! Always a joy to follow you two on your journey (though I can see myself leaning my head over the edge of the boat a few times on this passage).
It's going to be very interesting to see French Guiana, it's nearly 50 years since we were there. Thanks for taking us to places less frequented and making these first class programs. All the best from Queensland.
Fantastic shots of the waves. Many videos that one sees don't really show the sea state clearly but yours are great. I look forward to every video you post, they look so professional and are always interesting. Thank you so much for taking us on your adventures.
Oyster needs to pay you royalties ! What a boat! I am amazed at how few breakdowns you report. Maybe it’s your ship keeping. It seems like other channels have lots of break down drama. I have owned three sailboats…. I was always fixing stuff and my boats were used on weekends or weeks long vacation. (They weren’t old trash either).
Haha - loved Amy's thought bubble when Matt was banging on about the reef and Amy just wanted to get it done and go off watch. Not that that would EVER happen on Steely 🙂
I don't know why your channel was recommended to me (at episode 138), but I have been so intrigued that I watched all of the available videos. Congrats on an amazing adventure thus far!
I love your moment to moment analysis/ description of your circumstance vis a vis the ocean and the winds and currents. How strategic it all is. Luv ya stuff
In all the years i have been following you guys i dont think i have ever seen Matt in the galley once !!!!! … anyway, absolutely superb quality as always .. many thanks
Thanks for the latest vlog. As I've said before, I thoroughly enjoy them. It's so refreshing seeing 2 people post their travels and experiences of sailing, on a sailing channel, without resorting to click bait or gratuitous lingering side boob and arse shots. Your cinematography is amazing, and I await the next one.
@SailingYachtFlorencee I hope you mean that in a good way. As I said, I thoroughly enjoy your content, where other channels seem to rely on scantily clad young ladies, to get the views and subscribers up.
@SailingYachtFlorencee Hi Matt and Amy. Just to clear up any misunderstanding, I'm saying that I'm glad you DONT resort to tactics other "channels" use to get views or subscribers. Not only does it show the love and respect you have for each other, it also improves the story you are both telling. Not many channels actually concentrate on sailing. As I've said before, I thoroughly enjoy your content, I do look forward to each episode, and I honestly wish you both well and please keep safe x Regards Graeme
Hello Sailors! I just passed you on the route to Trinidad. Watching your fantastic video from Fernando do Guyana was almost like we were on the same boat. So many things were exactly the same. I have to say that you are by far the faster TH-camr on the sailing channel. You guys know how to take out 100% of your boat speed at all time. Great work. I really enjoyed watching your videos. Keep going!
Hi folks. Another great episode. You will both have a future in film when you get home, if so inclined. . Your film making continues to improve. Nicely done. Best regards, AL.
We're finally up to date! My wife and I love watching your videos and she has just said that your videos get better and better. We've been binge watching since we discovered the channel but now we'll just have to wait for the next episode. 🤣🤣Horrors! Well done guys; we love your channel! ❤️xx
Hello to you both,yet again another great sea going episode.I love the factual sailing information as Well as the way you compliment each other regarding the decisions that are relevant to requirements also the entertainment value.Thank you both.Roly 🇬🇧.
I love watching you guys and your intimate bond with your boat. It makes me miss my old 35 footer on which I could hoist the main by sheer muscle power as you do, Matt. My current 50 footer is more comfortable and automated but for some reason I felt far more connected to my smaller boat. I know you envied the luxury of your friend’s big cat but don’t under-estimate the value of a more personal bond that a smaller boat seems to give you.
Thanks very much Scott, that is a very kind and tempting offer. Almost worth the process of applying for a US visa to be allowed to sail over from the BVI... We hope you are enjoying Wild Rumpus in the Caribbean.
Hope you two are having a great day. When it comes to things such as bonito, and you may have done this, cut the gills and bleed out for a couple of minutes first before gutting. Also cut the fillets in thinner slices instead of chunks. sear lightly on both sides as you did and it might be a little more palatable with a less fishy taste.
Hey guys! Noticed when the anchor come up, that you had the swivel directly attached. Kong (it looks like a kong) do reccomend a bow shackle between the swivel and anchor shank to overcome side - loading.
Congrats on crossing the equator again. I think you should count every time you crossed it. I would have serpentined the equator a dozen times for bragging rights if I had the opportunity. 🙂 Thanks for the video. Fair winds and following seas. Sail On!
I think it would be really interesting to hear some about your use of harness, lifeline and lifejackets, and how and why it has changed since you left England six years ago.
Great episode as per usual. Can’t wait to see the mainland in the next episode, and maybe a bit of Kourou Spaceport. Or just the normal port there. Both work. Either way, fair winds and following seas. -J
It was Matthew Fontaine Maury who first identified the Guiana current. He did so by sending forms with sea captains. The forms were to record Long/Lat, VMG, date, and so on. Cruisers today would be familiar with the results of Maury's work; the wind barbs shown in Jimmy Cornell's guides originated with Maury and in that same format.
Captains reported a trip south from N. America were faster than the nortbound legs. Maury deduced an ocean current was the answer. This work was after Maury had been commisoned to survey the route for telephonic cables from N. America to England. When the cable was actually laid, it parted under mysterious circumstances. It was found the cable parted where it had drifted off the intended route. In this manner the hypothesized ocean currents were proven. Mariners today owe much to the brilliance of men like Maury.
Your videos are wonderful. Thank you for all the hard work producing them. Question: Florence seems very rolly.... is that the way the boat is or is just something that happens when going downwind?
Another wonderful video, I have followed you from the start and your channel just gets better and better. I feel guilty for not being a patron as I have enjoyed your channel so much. But as I said to the boat yard here “there are fools and old fools, and this old fool is trying to keep a large boat on a small pension”. Fair winds.
Another great video...very interesting and informative as always. Catch rate seems to be up now that you have a proper rod and reel. Can't get a dinner much fresher than that. Shame you cant BBQ the tuna in steak form. Bet it was delish anyway.😂😂
Guys, I sailed on James Cooks replica of the Endeavour and the thing that made a huge difference to fatigue?!! a hammock, climb in the hammock and I was out like a light, dozens of people around me in hammocks tween decks, all quietly snoozing, you could rig one inside Florence.
Also for bonito/skipjack, cut out the really red meat (bloodline) and it doesn't taste so fishy. But that was a fairly small one, so you might not have had enough meat to do so.
@@SailingYachtFlorence I was told this by a friend who is the best cook I know and also the most experienced sailor. I believe that fish caught the same day are still in rigorous mortis stage and this makes it a bit tough or rubbery. The following day it has relaxed and is more tender. I have experimented and this seems to be the case. I understand why you would not include the bleeding on TH-cam as it is a bit gross. But cut the gills and make a small cut at the tail end of the lateral line as soon as you land it. Thanks for your channel and I have enjoyed all of your episodes. Good luck on your final leg home. Cheers, Steve (Hobart, Tasmania)
Your channel is the best pure sailing channel out there, and what great videography! Thanks for another great video. Love watching your adventures. 🙂
If I want to watch real sailing you two are hands down the best by far!!!!!Not just the sailing but the videography and content is so great,plus you are very easy to listen to!!Love how you explain the wind and the current and how it affects how you sail and where you will go next!Thank you so much 🙏🙏
There isn’t another sailing channel who capture the sheer awesomeness of the ocean as you guys!
Fun Florance
With RAN & UMA you are the best couple on the Internet!
Cheers
Your Vlogs just get better and better: the Videography (and editing); commentary and, of course the Boat management in spite of sleep deprivation. Wishing you continued bon Voyages.
I do understand why you did this marathon of watching a serial presented by Matt and Amy. I am in the same mood. Thank you for sharing your feelings and emotions.
So soon we will enter into the seventh season of series by great artists and wise people. I admire and love your show Matt and Amy!
Hopefully you will find a solution to continue great movies of adventures at seas and different lands, and more - you will go on to expand great geographical lessons for the whole public and living generations.
Generally there are loads of people ignoring knowledge about nature science and cosequences of the way we live on the Earth. You are great teachers about those issues without providing moral empty lessons. Thank you a lot.
It's true what they say. As you get older, time speeds up. That last fortnight felt like a week 🙂
New Florence already. What a treat.
The experience of time IS relative to our age. To my 1 yo granddaughter a year was a lifetime, the whole pie! To me, at nearly 70yo, a year is just 1/70th of a lifetime. Just a tiny piece of the pie. Zoom zoom!
Matt and Amy, I have watched your videos from the beginning, you two are an amazing couple, matt is the luckiest guy in the world to have found his true partner. I am amazed at how Amy is always working at least as hard as you. amazing team! I watch many sailing channels yours by far is the finest of them all!!!
Your photography is breathtaking. By far the best I've ever seen. I feel like I'm in your yacht. Greetings from South Florida.
Thanks 👍
Florence surfs those waves like a boss! She's lucky that you two are at the helm. The three of you are a sailing dream team!
Your videos capture the pure sailing and sea state better than any. That current is really moving you along at a good clip! What a beautiful video! Just hungery for more!
I have followed several types of TH-cam-sailboats over the years. Has given me different experiences I never would have had without YOU as well. Good luck back to England! My greatgrandfather was a sea captain between Norway and England over 120 years ago, he died at sea of some illness due to handling of ICE .Buried at Gravesend.
Love the teamwork between you two. Can’t wait to see you with a glass of bubblies in your hands when you both finally got back to England. Keep up the good work!!! Legends! ❤❤❤️👍🦘
I just started watching all your videos. They’re great, you guys are a super cute couple, and great sailors and video makers. It’s very inspirational to see you work so hard for your goals and dreams and make them come true. It’s really great to find your channel at the beginning the year. I was actually in Thailand in March 2020 when the pandemic began and I was just beginning my dream of traveling around the world too. I had to come back to Canada and was heartbroken it fell through. Then I decided to travel in Europe as Asia was so closed to people like me on foot, no boat 😉. But after saving up again and having a new job that lets me work remotely I’m ready to start planning again, as seems the world is stabilizing again well. Many thanks for what you do. Cheers from frosty Montreal 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
You made my weekend, seeing another episode out and not having to wait another week. 😁
Your filming of the waves and movement of the boat makes me feel like i am right there with you. Love it!!
Beautiful views!
It is amazing that you can catch the ocean swell, and others can't seem to get it right. Thanks for some real sailing video!
Great videography of the sea state!! Always a joy to follow you two on your journey (though I can see myself leaning my head over the edge of the boat a few times on this passage).
It's going to be very interesting to see French Guiana, it's nearly 50 years since we were there. Thanks for taking us to places less frequented and making these first class programs. All the best from Queensland.
Fantastic shots of the waves. Many videos that one sees don't really show the sea state clearly but yours are great. I look forward to every video you post, they look so professional and are always interesting. Thank you so much for taking us on your adventures.
Oyster needs to pay you royalties ! What a boat! I am amazed at how few breakdowns you report. Maybe it’s your ship keeping. It seems like other channels have lots of break down drama. I have owned three sailboats…. I was always fixing stuff and my boats were used on weekends or weeks long vacation. (They weren’t old trash either).
Haha - loved Amy's thought bubble when Matt was banging on about the reef and Amy just wanted to get it done and go off watch. Not that that would EVER happen on Steely 🙂
I don't know why your channel was recommended to me (at episode 138), but I have been so intrigued that I watched all of the available videos. Congrats on an amazing adventure thus far!
I could just watch you sea videos for hours. Your skill in capturing producing that part alone is truly world class. Go on do a 2 hour sea only video!
Downwind in a following sea is exhilarating sailing!
Inspirational. I admire you both so much - fantastic sailing and achievements
miss you guys! love your vids to keep us close to you vicariously!
Rum for breakfast! You two are true sailors 😄
Always a treat to catch the breeeze of Florence…every part of the world has a unique flavor to the adventure. Cheers 🥂
the way you guys shoot water in slo mo is just breathtaking, thanks for the video!
We feel like we're on Florence with you due to your brilliant filming! Great work.
That was a beefy tot or rum you served up Matt. Take it easy!!!!!
Despite that, another great vid’. Your shots of seascapes are quite superb.
JohnL
I love your moment to moment analysis/ description of your circumstance vis a vis the ocean and the winds and currents. How strategic it all is. Luv ya stuff
In all the years i have been following you guys i dont think i have ever seen Matt in the galley once !!!!! … anyway, absolutely superb quality as always .. many thanks
Thanks for the latest vlog. As I've said before, I thoroughly enjoy them.
It's so refreshing seeing 2 people post their travels and experiences of sailing, on a sailing channel, without resorting to click bait or gratuitous lingering side boob and arse shots.
Your cinematography is amazing, and I await the next one.
@SailingYachtFlorencee I hope you mean that in a good way.
As I said, I thoroughly enjoy your content, where other channels seem to rely on scantily clad young ladies, to get the views and subscribers up.
@SailingYachtFlorencee
Hi Matt and Amy. Just to clear up any misunderstanding, I'm saying that I'm glad you DONT resort to tactics other "channels" use to get views or subscribers. Not only does it show the love and respect you have for each other, it also improves the story you are both telling. Not many channels actually concentrate on sailing.
As I've said before, I thoroughly enjoy your content, I do look forward to each episode, and I honestly wish you both well and please keep safe x
Regards Graeme
You guys have one of the best sailing Vlogs on TH-cam !! 😍
No…THE BEST
wow dude, keep on going guys. U are such good sailors and youtubers too. I love the music u use, it remind me of BBC ocean documentaries haha
Hello Sailors! I just passed you on the route to Trinidad. Watching your fantastic video from Fernando do Guyana was almost like we were on the same boat. So many things were exactly the same. I have to say that you are by far the faster TH-camr on the sailing channel. You guys know how to take out 100% of your boat speed at all time.
Great work. I really enjoyed watching your videos. Keep going!
Great sailing Amy and Matt! ⛵️
Hi folks.
Another great episode. You will both have a future in film when you get home, if so inclined.
. Your film making continues to improve. Nicely done.
Best regards,
AL.
We're finally up to date!
My wife and I love watching your videos and she has just said that your videos get better and better. We've been binge watching since we discovered the channel but now we'll just have to wait for the next episode. 🤣🤣Horrors!
Well done guys; we love your channel! ❤️xx
Two remarkable people. I truly admire you.
Great sailing guys making good progress across the ocean great to watch, also great to see the lovely smiles as you journey further, All the best, Al
Your videos give me goosebumps. Choice of music, wow. 🙏
Hello to you both,yet again another great sea going episode.I love the factual sailing information as Well as the way you compliment each other regarding the decisions that are relevant to requirements also the entertainment value.Thank you both.Roly 🇬🇧.
I love watching you guys and your intimate bond with your boat. It makes me miss my old 35 footer on which I could hoist the main by sheer muscle power as you do, Matt. My current 50 footer is more comfortable and automated but for some reason I felt far more connected to my smaller boat. I know you envied the luxury of your friend’s big cat but don’t under-estimate the value of a more personal bond that a smaller boat seems to give you.
Husband and wife teamwork. 😍
Good show!
Tip: use your back stay as an upriger to keep away from the weeds, plus the bait skips at slow speed.
yes i have to agree with others Love the passage making Videos you do very informative
Mal
The North Remembers :)
Good to see a new video again
Thank you for sharing your adventure. We look forward to seeing French Guyana.
Another lovely vid. Thank you M and A.
I really enjoy sharing your adventures, thankyou.
Absolutely gorgeous, whistled by much too quickly...Well done and thank you guys 👏👏🤗🤗
Love you two! Great job.
16:53 see , it worth being generous with Neptune's rum ration . You received your reward
Well done and a safe passage.
So exciting to watch your videos, definitely in the top five. Thanks for your effort, love it. Good wishes from NZ.
It’s a fascinating passage, SE trades, horse latitudes then NE trades. Fair winds
Great vid. On behalf of Wild Rumpus, if you stop by the Virginia Islands the dishwasher, hot showers, and galley are yours to use. 😊
Thanks very much Scott, that is a very kind and tempting offer. Almost worth the process of applying for a US visa to be allowed to sail over from the BVI... We hope you are enjoying Wild Rumpus in the Caribbean.
Very nice of you, I love Yachty friends. Kindred spirits, cheers!
Hope you two are having a great day. When it comes to things such as bonito, and you may have done this, cut the gills and bleed out for a couple of minutes first before gutting. Also cut the fillets in thinner slices instead of chunks. sear lightly on both sides as you did and it might be a little more palatable with a less fishy taste.
Wonderful filming. I love watching your sailing adventures. Thanks for sharing.
I love your long passage videos.
I really enjoy watching you guys!
Thanks for another great video.
Well done both, another great video for us to enjoy. Stay safe.
Thank you.
Hey guys! Noticed when the anchor come up, that you had the swivel directly attached. Kong (it looks like a kong) do reccomend a bow shackle between the swivel and anchor shank to overcome side - loading.
A comment for the algorithm so please accept it with the good wishes with which it is intended. 😀
Congrats on crossing the equator again. I think you should count every time you crossed it. I would have serpentined the equator a dozen times for bragging rights if I had the opportunity. 🙂 Thanks for the video. Fair winds and following seas. Sail On!
Another enjoyable video! Thanks.
Thanks you two are the best
Thanks guys
Another enjoyable video.
Cheers
I think it would be really interesting to hear some about your use of harness, lifeline and lifejackets, and how and why it has changed since you left England six years ago.
I now have a mental picture of hundreds of marine microorganisms becoming suddenly drunk. Loving your work.
I had the same thought.🤔
Never too early for rum when at sea!!!!
Take care.
Great episode as per usual. Can’t wait to see the mainland in the next episode, and maybe a bit of Kourou Spaceport. Or just the normal port there. Both work. Either way, fair winds and following seas.
-J
It was Matthew Fontaine Maury who first identified the Guiana current. He did so by sending forms with sea captains. The forms were to record Long/Lat, VMG, date, and so on.
Cruisers today would be familiar with the results of Maury's work; the wind barbs shown in Jimmy Cornell's guides originated with Maury and in that same format.
Captains reported a trip south from N. America were faster than the nortbound legs. Maury deduced an ocean current was the answer.
This work was after Maury had been commisoned to survey the route for telephonic cables from N. America to England. When the cable was actually laid, it parted under mysterious circumstances. It was found the cable parted where it had drifted off the intended route. In this manner the hypothesized ocean currents were proven.
Mariners today owe much to the brilliance of men like Maury.
Northbound/southbound .. there often are counter currents associated with ocean currents. They may be just as strong and predictable.
You guys capture the ocean on your channel much better than the others. Curious?
Your videos are wonderful. Thank you for all the hard work producing them. Question: Florence seems very rolly.... is that the way the boat is or is just something that happens when going downwind?
Just the best on u tube
Another wonderful video, I have followed you from the start and your channel just gets better and better. I feel guilty for not being a patron as I have enjoyed your channel so much. But as I said to the boat yard here “there are fools and old fools, and this old fool is trying to keep a large boat on a small pension”. Fair winds.
can't wait to see what you guys got up to in south america!
Another awesome episode, thank you.
Another great video...very interesting and informative as always. Catch rate seems to be up now that you have a proper rod and reel. Can't get a dinner much fresher than that. Shame you cant BBQ the tuna in steak form. Bet it was delish anyway.😂😂
Guys, I sailed on James Cooks replica of the Endeavour and the thing that made a huge difference to fatigue?!! a hammock, climb in the hammock and I was out like a light, dozens of people around me in hammocks tween decks, all quietly snoozing, you could rig one inside Florence.
Nope, still none the wiser.
Great footage as always thanks guys
Really nice video. Well done.
love it
Groovy video
Happy Thanksgiving from the colonies. Nice current. Can't wait to hear what the amazon outflow looks like.
Stunning video 😌
You are soooooo good you two ❤❤
sad that you skipped Rio...Paraty and Ilha Grande are amazing sailing spots
For the best from your tuna you should bleed it as soon as you catch it and leave it for a day or two in the fridge.
Hi Stephen, we understand the bleeding it, but why leave it in the fridge for a day or two? Is it not best fresh?
Also for bonito/skipjack, cut out the really red meat (bloodline) and it doesn't taste so fishy. But that was a fairly small one, so you might not have had enough meat to do so.
@@SailingYachtFlorence
I was told this by a friend who is the best cook I know and also the most experienced sailor. I believe that fish caught the same day are still in rigorous mortis stage and this makes it a bit tough or rubbery. The following day it has relaxed and is more tender. I have experimented and this seems to be the case. I understand why you would not include the bleeding on TH-cam as it is a bit gross. But cut the gills and make a small cut at the tail end of the lateral line as soon as you land it.
Thanks for your channel and I have enjoyed all of your episodes. Good luck on your final leg home.
Cheers, Steve (Hobart, Tasmania)
Matt, did you or Amy do the fine eye splicing on the lines contoling your wind vane?
Amazing footage as usual, so professional. What camera do you use?
Amy, has the sea gotten so rough that you thought of giving up Saling? What is the worst storm you've have been in?
its important to bleed that skipjack well before cooking - the meat goes pinkish and tastes wayyy better
Fantastic
That’s the most British burrito I’ve ever seen lol