Beautiful guys. What a lovely episode. Awesome narration and editing! Scotland is indeed a beautiful cruising ground and it has been even more sunny with the Swiss Navy in town for the last two years! ❤
Wow just wow, you’ve made some great miles north in such a short time. Ive arrived back from Ireland into Port Ellen just moments ago. Two goes to get the anchor to stick so a bit late watching your wonderful video. Fair well my friends, Scotland will be here when you’re ready to come back.
What a lovely film, sailing the western isle's and west coast, and whisky ( I even got oot a bottle) My idea of absolute Heaven. This made me feel very homesick. I wish you both all the very best for your new adventure. Thank you for sharing the experience with us all!
@@sailingpolaris Yes I can take the home sickness, please put them all your films up, have seen many but probably not all. I have an urge to get back and visit my relative and friends on the Islands and West coast down to just south of Oban.
@@sailingpolaris Look forward to seeing your next Caledonian Canal film. A friend sailed that in his Yacht Vadis, then the Western Islands for two years. I have temporarily lost touch with him though the pandemic. I sailed with Derrick from Amble Northumberland to Eyemouth, Scotland. His farther lives in Inverness so when you are there, please look out for Derrick and his yacht Vadis. ( Vadis is about 30-35 feet) Best wishes too you both.
How exciting for you - the discovery of new waters - I have loved your wanderings adventures and commentary - Ok so now some questions - did I see an Iridium go on your stern and you also have Starlink ...what are your thoughts and challenges on them... mmm maybe a video on them one day- safe travels..
Hi Dirk Thanks for watching and well spotted… We have both, IridiumGo and Starlink. This has a bit of history. We use a lot of data… Our initial comms setup was with a GSM router, a powerful antenna and SIM cards. In the UK you get super cheap unlimited data deals. However, when we came to Scotland we found out quickly, that in order to have reliable coverage you actually need two providers… but that worked for us. Last year, before we went to the Faroes and Shetland I wanted a tested sat comms solution for weather and emergency calls. So, I fitted an Iridium Go. We also took it with us on hikes etc. However, on the Faroes I found that no UK provider has any roaming contract and our data cost on pre-paid SIM cards exploded… Also, I sat on the fence for Starlink for a while, and finally they seemed to get a grip on their pricing and subscription models. Also, roaming has changed with most providers now only grant 40Gb of roaming (or high speed roaming), so the SIM option became less attractive, particularly with our upcoming plans. So, that‘s why I decided to take a cheap Starlink offer (£199 for a factory refurbished unit). Conclusion: the SIM card router solution worked perfectly in coastal areas in the UK, in Scotland it became a bit more of a challenge and internationally, it is not a valid solution for us. Additionally, even with the external antenna you have no connection from about 20-30nm offshore. IridiumGo is a tested concept but very slow and expensive. Receiving weather GRIB files took me anything from 15-30 minutes and with drop outs. Great for emergency situations and you can take it with you. Starlink is comparably cheap (as compared to mobile roaming, mobile prepaid and Iridium) and so far I am super happy with it. We switched from Mobile Regional (£85 p.m.) to Mobile Priority (£1.95 per Gb) for our North Sea crossing and then back. It worked great. We keep the Iridium because I like redundancy and for longer passages I would activate one of my spare Iridium SIM cards as an emergency solution. Hope this helps and thanks for the hint regarding a video about this. We might indeed do one…
@@sailingpolaris Shew - I was worried that you would do what you did - a detailed explanation for one person - hence the video suggestion - so others may learn from you - so thank you for your reply - to me it seems terribly confusing - I have used Phone based Predict wind for sailing around the Med - not fantastic as we cannot get signal sometimes - then last year we tried just using Windy - as you said Iridium and Predict Wind not cheap - but nice redundancy - I just looked at the price of Starlink - Euro 2800 for hardware and 292 a month for 50GB - then there is Garmin Inreach? And then heard Starlink is power hungry - that is why I asked the questions - and as we hope to follow your wake in Scotland - I appreciate your input and experience - many thanks - I reckon Svalbard and your lovely heating system is on your horizon..thank you for your time..
Because we could… 😇 As we have left the UK and are now formally resident in Switzerland we could register her under the Swiss flag, (which is our nationality)… Not of any benefit from any point of view other than the heart…
Thoroughly enjoying how this little series is turning out!
Thank you! Keep watching…😎
Look at those pushups while underway! Wow Kathrin, you are fantastic!
Thank you so much for taking us with you on your amazing journey ❤
Thank you Regi! ❤️
Beautiful guys. What a lovely episode. Awesome narration and editing! Scotland is indeed a beautiful cruising ground and it has been even more sunny with the Swiss Navy in town for the last two years! ❤
Thank you guys! You will know that when it comes to whisky, many things become easy…😎🥃
Another great video! Love seeing where you are and what you're getting up to.
Thanks Tom!
Wow just wow, you’ve made some great miles north in such a short time. Ive arrived back from Ireland into Port Ellen just moments ago. Two goes to get the anchor to stick so a bit late watching your wonderful video. Fair well my friends, Scotland will be here when you’re ready to come back.
Aaaw, thank you Keith. We will definitely be back one day! We wish you a great season!!
Another great video.
Thanks Douglas!
Great video. DDZ misses you both
Thanks Diesel! Miss you too!!
What a lovely film, sailing the western isle's and west coast, and whisky ( I even got oot a bottle) My idea of absolute Heaven. This made me feel very homesick. I wish you both all the very best for your new adventure. Thank you for sharing the experience with us all!
Aaw, that‘s so nice! We have a few more like this one… (if you can take more homesickness, that is)❤️
@@sailingpolaris Yes I can take the home sickness, please put them all your films up, have seen many but probably not all. I have an urge to get back and visit my relative and friends on the Islands and West coast down to just south of Oban.
They are all up on TH-cam… so, you might have seen them all then… we have one more in the make about the Caledonian Canal…
@@sailingpolaris Look forward to seeing your next Caledonian Canal film. A friend sailed that in his Yacht Vadis, then the Western Islands for two years. I have temporarily lost touch with him though the pandemic. I sailed with Derrick from Amble Northumberland to Eyemouth, Scotland. His farther lives in Inverness so when you are there, please look out for Derrick and his yacht Vadis. ( Vadis is about 30-35 feet) Best wishes too you both.
@andrewharper-zu2ln sadly, we are already out of Inverness. We didn‘t happen to bump into Derek though…
How exciting for you - the discovery of new waters - I have loved your wanderings adventures and commentary - Ok so now some questions - did I see an Iridium go on your stern and you also have Starlink ...what are your thoughts and challenges on them... mmm maybe a video on them one day- safe travels..
Hi Dirk
Thanks for watching and well spotted…
We have both, IridiumGo and Starlink.
This has a bit of history. We use a lot of data…
Our initial comms setup was with a GSM router, a powerful antenna and SIM cards. In the UK you get super cheap unlimited data deals. However, when we came to Scotland we found out quickly, that in order to have reliable coverage you actually need two providers… but that worked for us.
Last year, before we went to the Faroes and Shetland I wanted a tested sat comms solution for weather and emergency calls. So, I fitted an Iridium Go. We also took it with us on hikes etc.
However, on the Faroes I found that no UK provider has any roaming contract and our data cost on pre-paid SIM cards exploded…
Also, I sat on the fence for Starlink for a while, and finally they seemed to get a grip on their pricing and subscription models. Also, roaming has changed with most providers now only grant 40Gb of roaming (or high speed roaming), so the SIM option became less attractive, particularly with our upcoming plans. So, that‘s why I decided to take a cheap Starlink offer (£199 for a factory refurbished unit).
Conclusion: the SIM card router solution worked perfectly in coastal areas in the UK, in Scotland it became a bit more of a challenge and internationally, it is not a valid solution for us. Additionally, even with the external antenna you have no connection from about 20-30nm offshore.
IridiumGo is a tested concept but very slow and expensive. Receiving weather GRIB files took me anything from 15-30 minutes and with drop outs. Great for emergency situations and you can take it with you.
Starlink is comparably cheap (as compared to mobile roaming, mobile prepaid and Iridium) and so far I am super happy with it. We switched from Mobile Regional (£85 p.m.) to Mobile Priority (£1.95 per Gb) for our North Sea crossing and then back. It worked great.
We keep the Iridium because I like redundancy and for longer passages I would activate one of my spare Iridium SIM cards as an emergency solution.
Hope this helps and thanks for the hint regarding a video about this. We might indeed do one…
@@sailingpolaris Shew - I was worried that you would do what you did - a detailed explanation for one person - hence the video suggestion - so others may learn from you - so thank you for your reply - to me it seems terribly confusing - I have used Phone based Predict wind for sailing around the Med - not fantastic as we cannot get signal sometimes - then last year we tried just using Windy - as you said Iridium and Predict Wind not cheap - but nice redundancy - I just looked at the price of Starlink - Euro 2800 for hardware and 292 a month for 50GB - then there is Garmin Inreach? And then heard Starlink is power hungry - that is why I asked the questions - and as we hope to follow your wake in Scotland - I appreciate your input and experience - many thanks - I reckon Svalbard and your lovely heating system is on your horizon..thank you for your time..
Just wondering why you changed flag.
Because we could… 😇
As we have left the UK and are now formally resident in Switzerland we could register her under the Swiss flag, (which is our nationality)…
Not of any benefit from any point of view other than the heart…