@@NikosWings thank you. I’m sure it’s harder than ever keeping up the TH-cam. Commitment, but I just wanted let you know (as an aviation enthusiast, but non-pilot, that I really enjoy your content and your professionalism.
Excellent video, great adventure. Might want to rename your YT name to something like "Niko's Wings & Fins" or Wings & Water. Whether by air or sea, your videos are top notch. 👍
Janis and I both got our ASA 101-114 certifications last year and we can now Bare-Boat Charter anywhere in the world. We loving sailing as a slower/relaxing method of traveling! Still love flying but sailing and flying as you know both compliment each other! We post our sailing videos to our channel as well, November we are sailing in Tahiti/Bora-Bora. Good job, enjoyed the change of pace!!!
Love this video! My wife and I have made most of that trip several times in our Ranger Tug. It was good to see Sanibel Marina was back up and running, one of our favorite places and they still have fresh blueberry muffins delivered to your boat in the morning! Thank you for the memories Niko.
This was super awesome Niko, and fantastic editing! I had no idea you can navigate right across Florida like that. Definitely a bucket list thing to do. 👍
My parents undertook the same journey in a 28 foot Silverton flying bridge in the early 1970's, except they started and finished in Key West where we lived. Thanks much for helping me see what they saw!
Awesome dude great to see you again Niko,i see you living the dream chief enjoying this beautiful planet, greetings from the imperial city the southern hemisphere
Oh Lord, I’ve been there done it. It’s so much fun when the family is young like yours, it will become the money pit of a lifetime eventually so… In the meantime, enjoy every minute of it.
@@NikosWings although this year we’re low on rain and the depth across Lake Okeechobee is questionable, if you ever get the opportunity, definitely do the crossing from Stuart to Fort Myers or vice versa. Probably one of the best trips I had, including getting some lock experience.
That was a great video, and to come along with you on your adventure is really nice. I am based in the U.K. however we spend a lot of time in Naples & St Petes
Nikooooooo, Beautiful video. It's so awesome to see this side of you. I have been following since the 1st video. I just got the check out on SR22 and will be flying it around for the owner of it. Love flying the cirrus after flying the C172 and C150 for years.😂
That’s Fat Albert, it’s part of the TARS recon system for the Air Force and Coast Guard. Radar stretches out beyond Cuba and can see small boats the size of a row boat.
Niko it is air radar. When I was at Riddle in the early 90's they were starting to put them up around the keys to track drug runners. I was told, while at Embry-Riddle, that drug runners used to file flight plans out of Marathon. I was advised they would skim the water, come right down the runway, and then pull up into a climb so they would be picked up on radar and then contact ATC for flight following and to ATC it looked as if the plane had just taken off from Marathon. They started attaching radar, that was down-facing, to the blimps, that were tethered to the ground, and they could track those planes. I am sure there is more surveillance on them now. I believe they used to have a couple in the keys back in the early 90's, but I think only one now, R-2916.
Niko. Freaking sweet video. I would take that up the Mississippi to Chicago for the summer and stay on that when you fly in. Regardless though epic trip.
We parked the airplane and have been sailing the last 6 months from Miami through the Bahamas, and all through the Caribbean on our 55' sailboat "Airspeed".
The tethered blimp I would assume is some type of radar. There used to be one near where I live, but the tether broke and dragged along the ground breaking things. They didn't replace it after that.
I have a Grumman AA-5 Traveler and a 40’ Carver Motor Yacht in Charleston SC. I’d love to give you a ride on either or both if you’re ever back in Charleston.
that is a nice vessel must be fun to captain it and here your tender is about as big as my flatbottom i run around on no doubt a fun way to spend a week
The Greek isles are great but unorganized in terms of marinas, you have to be ready to spend time anchored out or must go early enough to bribe the dock master to get a spot, and services are non existent like water etc. fuel is also not widely available and expensive and the season is very short. The Aegean is almost impossible to cross in the windy summer months. Trust me I’ve done it all.
Thanks. Get good sleep, eat well, have your stuff ready for the examiner, simple tings like your ID already out. Don’t have him ask for it, make his job easy. If you don’t know something say so. It’s ok. The first five minutes of you seeing the examiner he will know whether you will pass or not. For the flying part of you make a mistake correct it, we are humans. Good luck!
The northern-est I've been in a boat is on a ferry transport into ENEV. You would have enjoyed it. Pro tip, if you're trying to come top up the anti freeze even in the summer it can get pretty crazy.
It was topped off at the beginning and topped off 5 more times. Yes, it could have been done in one load if running at 1000 rpm and 7-8 knots but that would had taken several days more and several hours more between stops, you add marinas to the mix the cost would have been higher. At regular cruise I would have need 2+ full tanks but you don’t want to take those risks when you are uncertain about where and when you will find fuel.
@NikosWings I understand, I was not criticising, just wondered if it was necessary and thought you were doing about 9 or 10 knots. I know if you up the speed it can get thirsty. Thanks for the reply.
More fun than the pane? I don’t know about that but definitely more relaxing. It’s quite likely more expensive to operate hourly with regards to fuel consumption.
Hey Niko if you anchor away from a marina like you said you dont sleep well you might accidentally drif off during the night or have some pirates come on board or just any weird unexpected thing happen.I here you loud and clear on that one I wouldnt feel to good on that either.
Pirates maybe not, but down here in the intracoastal with the shifting flow of water every 6 hours you will swing plus you’ll rely on your generator running constantly. You can do it but I prefer to sleep well at night and I’m glad I did because I got the best sleep every night.
Amazing video. Justin.
Justin!!!!! Thanks for the help and prep for this trip. Five Star Yacht Management rocks!
That really means alot. I can’t wait for the next trip
The vibe on any of Niko's videos, especially this one, is incredibly captivating. His editing is way underrated.
Thank you!
You have a nice airplane and a sweet boat. I have a forklift and a Lincoln welder. We should meet for a beer.
Perfect match
Beautiful boat. Love the change up. Great video as always
Love it Nikko. Right now we are traveling the country in a RV, 4,000 miles and counting. Got about 4,000 miles to go. 3 month trip!
Wow!!! RVing and boating are similar in logistics.
Awesome video. Sweet boat. Thanks for sharing the adventure.
Man, I enjoyed that as much as the flying vid's. I never would have guessed you could take a boat across the state. Thanks for the adventure Niko
Glad you enjoyed it
I enjoy the boating vids almost as much as the airplane vids. Hopefully there’ll be more.
Thanks so much for sharing your Life with us! I really enjoy your videos!
Awesome video! I have always been curious to see the "boat's eye view" of going through locks and now I know :)
Great to see you Niki and something different, sweet boat!
Very nice addition to the usual (outstanding) aviation mix! Have you ever disclosed your occupation? Just wondering.
Yes typically in the description. I’m the founder of a payments processing company.
@@NikosWings thank you. I’m sure it’s harder than ever keeping up the TH-cam. Commitment, but I just wanted let you know (as an aviation enthusiast, but non-pilot, that I really enjoy your content and your professionalism.
Woooo Nice boat Niko... thank you for sharing... I don't drink however looks good ... nice trip and thanks for sharing.. !! All The Best !!!
Thanks for watching
Excellent video, great adventure. Might want to rename your YT name to something like "Niko's Wings & Fins" or Wings & Water. Whether by air or sea, your videos are top notch. 👍
lovin' that yacht!
I hope everything is going ok for you w/all these awful storms hitting your area. Stay safe.
Awesome, thank you for sharing! Enjoyed it all.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Looks like a fun way to travel, Niko - though it's hard for me to imagine that it's 10 times more fun than flying! 😎
Best, Martin
Nothing beats flying. Good hearing from you Martin
Wie geht es dir, Martin? Ich hoffe, du bist gesund.
Nice to see you back Niko!
Hey, thanks!
Restricted Area, surveillance blimp. Nice video.
Correct!!!
Buddy you just make great videos! Thank you
Glad you like them!
Janis and I both got our ASA 101-114 certifications last year and we can now Bare-Boat Charter anywhere in the world. We loving sailing as a slower/relaxing method of traveling!
Still love flying but sailing and flying as you know both compliment each other! We post our sailing videos to our channel as well, November we are sailing in Tahiti/Bora-Bora.
Good job, enjoyed the change of pace!!!
That is awesome!
Awesome video Niko! What a very cool trip. Thanks for the adventure!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This guy should have wayyyy more subscribers.
Love this video! My wife and I have made most of that trip several times in our Ranger Tug. It was good to see Sanibel Marina was back up and running, one of our favorite places and they still have fresh blueberry muffins delivered to your boat in the morning! Thank you for the memories Niko.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice to see your boating adventures showcasing Florida 🛥️
Nice boat! I grew up in Jupiter, nice to see the lighthouse.
Very cool!
Great travel time, even on the water. Thank you for this stunning ride along!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was super awesome Niko, and fantastic editing! I had no idea you can navigate right across Florida like that. Definitely a bucket list thing to do. 👍
My parents undertook the same journey in a 28 foot Silverton flying bridge in the early 1970's, except they started and finished in Key West where we lived. Thanks much for helping me see what they saw!
Next time I’ll do it the other way and include Key West as well. Thanks for sharing
What a video! Living the dream. Thanks for taking us along for the ride.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for sharing nice boat looks like a lovely trip to do Yamas
Your posts are always GOLD!
Awesome dude great to see you again Niko,i see you living the dream chief enjoying this beautiful planet, greetings from the imperial city the southern hemisphere
Hey, thanks!
@@NikosWings thanks to you we can see the world from up in the clouds and sea ⛵
Amazing! love the BGM.
Great video!! Enjoyed seeing the sights from the ground. Coastal Blimp Radar doing its job.
Absolutely always an adventure with every video you make Niko! So happy someone enjoys sharing these epic passions we all dream about!
Oh Lord, I’ve been there done it. It’s so much fun when the family is young like yours, it will become the money pit of a lifetime eventually so… In the meantime, enjoy every minute of it.
It is a money pit already
@@NikosWings although this year we’re low on rain and the depth across Lake Okeechobee is questionable, if you ever get the opportunity, definitely do the crossing from Stuart to Fort Myers or vice versa. Probably one of the best trips I had, including getting some lock experience.
That’s what this video is all about. Now sure I understand what you mean
That was a great video, and to come along with you on your adventure is really nice. I am based in the U.K. however we spend a lot of time in Naples & St Petes
Sounds great!
Thanks for sharing! Awesome videos no matter what you are driving!
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Keep up the amazing content!
Thank you! Will do!
👍✅ Small planes and big boats, my favorites🏝 Tks Niko👏 And the surveillance blimp.
That was so incredibly interesting, and impeccably presented. What a beautiful part of the world. Thank you for sharing. Regards from New Zealand
Glad you enjoyed it
Good to see another great video! Thank you Niko! Safe Travels!
Fantastic video as always. Enjoying life to its fullest! Thanks for posting!
Always entertaining. Thanks for sharing NIKO. Miss ZOE, she’s a beauty 🙌🏾
Nikooooooo,
Beautiful video. It's so awesome to see this side of you. I have been following since the 1st video. I just got the check out on SR22 and will be flying it around for the owner of it. Love flying the cirrus after flying the C172 and C150 for years.😂
I love that you enjoy flying the SR22. Have a great day
What a lovely vid. So relaxing. You have a great life Niko. So jealous. 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video , thank you.
bare hands on ropes can get old quickly - great vid / tour!
Very true! I had a segment when I spoke about that but had to edit it out, didn’t look or sound good
Fun easy trip. Had my boat in Sarasota going to and from the Bahamas.
Beautiful boat. Thankyou for your sharing your successful life. Very motivating
Thanks for the nautical adventure Nico. As a former 24' boatowner, love your boat but all I see is $$ signs when something goes wrong!
You and me both!
Money comes and goes. Happiness and once in a lifetime trips are hard to come by.
G'day Niko! Ahoy Mate!! Pleasant change of viewpoint to the flying bridge to the cockpit! Great video Captain!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Good video! I think flying is easier than piloting a boat that big!
Piloting is easier once you build the time and confidence
That’s Fat Albert, it’s part of the TARS recon system for the Air Force and Coast Guard. Radar stretches out beyond Cuba and can see small boats the size of a row boat.
Yessss
Amazing adventure, your boat rocks !
Awesome vessel Niko! Cheers from North Bay Ontario Canada.
Very nice for a change. Beautiful ...😍
Niko it is air radar. When I was at Riddle in the early 90's they were starting to put them up around the keys to track drug runners. I was told, while at Embry-Riddle, that drug runners used to file flight plans out of Marathon. I was advised they would skim the water, come right down the runway, and then pull up into a climb so they would be picked up on radar and then contact ATC for flight following and to ATC it looked as if the plane had just taken off from Marathon. They started attaching radar, that was down-facing, to the blimps, that were tethered to the ground, and they could track those planes. I am sure there is more surveillance on them now. I believe they used to have a couple in the keys back in the early 90's, but I think only one now, R-2916.
Correct
Just about finished getting my PPL and now this??
It will make you a better captain when you get your boat
Beautiful trip! Looked like a lot of fun!
It was!
Niko. Freaking sweet video. I would take that up the Mississippi to Chicago for the summer and stay on that when you fly in.
Regardless though epic trip.
Now that’s a real adventure
Nice to see you on a different Adventure. Cool Trip
Love the video and yes I see the tethered balloon 🎈.
Loved the trip Nico, thanks! Love the boat! Greetings from Waterford Ireland where the crystal glass comes from.
Would love to visit. It’s one of my dreams and I want to do it soon. What a beautiful country
@@NikosWings Come and see us sometime!
Very nice voyage...thx
Many thanks!
Great video Niko, awesome editing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hey Niko are you doing ok? Haven't heard from you since the boat trip video. Did you come through the hurricane ok?
Yes all good, thank you for asking
We parked the airplane and have been sailing the last 6 months from Miami through the Bahamas, and all through the Caribbean on our 55' sailboat "Airspeed".
I want to be like you one day
Echoing a comment below. Your visual story-telling (ex ad agency creative director, here) is outstanding!
Thank you, I appreciate that coming from you
always love the aviation content but just another great adventure gday from Australia
Glad you enjoyed it
The tethered blimp in r-2916?
Yesss
The tethered blimp I would assume is some type of radar. There used to be one near where I live, but the tether broke and dragged along the ground breaking things. They didn't replace it after that.
Correct
Nice Niko! Great change, love your content 🎉 awesome boat 🛥️ I have a 42 foot power cat.
Very cool!
Balloon? Restricted Area 2916 (R-2916) SFC-14000 MSL. Really cool you included that. 😉
Exactly, it’s one of the first things I learned when started to fly down here in FL 11 years ago
Very nice boat and it looks like the great trip.
I have a Grumman AA-5 Traveler and a 40’ Carver Motor Yacht in Charleston SC. I’d love to give you a ride on either or both if you’re ever back in Charleston.
That sounds amazing! I’ll go with both!!! How’s the boating there?
Much like what you went through. You have to follow the channel markings with the bigger boats. Especially in Charleston harbor.
Very cool, nice boat.
Thanks 👍
Pretty awesome Niko...planes, boats....any Hot Rods?
Love my Porsche
that is a nice vessel must be fun to captain it and here your tender is about as big as my flatbottom i run around on
no doubt a fun way to spend a week
It was a lot of fun
Nothing compared to cruising the Greek isles! 😀
The Greek isles are great but unorganized in terms of marinas, you have to be ready to spend time anchored out or must go early enough to bribe the dock master to get a spot, and services are non existent like water etc. fuel is also not widely available and expensive and the season is very short. The Aegean is almost impossible to cross in the windy summer months. Trust me I’ve done it all.
Just watched your IFR check ride video. I've got mine coming up soon! Any extra tips? New sub!
Thanks. Get good sleep, eat well, have your stuff ready for the examiner, simple tings like your ID already out. Don’t have him ask for it, make his job easy. If you don’t know something say so. It’s ok. The first five minutes of you seeing the examiner he will know whether you will pass or not. For the flying part of you make a mistake correct it, we are humans. Good luck!
@@NikosWings Thanks, Niko! I'm enjoying your videos and I hope to catch you around some day!
This was so cool Niko, only issue was bringing Bannana's on the boat.... That will bring Hard luck.... Stay safe and as always "Clear Prop"
Haha the bananas thing must not be true in my case
Really enjoy this video. but you need to smile more :)
😀
I will try my best
Amazing
The northern-est I've been in a boat is on a ferry transport into ENEV. You would have enjoyed it. Pro tip, if you're trying to come top up the anti freeze even in the summer it can get pretty crazy.
Good to know!
Are you topping-up each time with fuel? or you did not fill up the first time?. You could easily have done this trip in one load of fuel..
It was topped off at the beginning and topped off 5 more times. Yes, it could have been done in one load if running at 1000 rpm and 7-8 knots but that would had taken several days more and several hours more between stops, you add marinas to the mix the cost would have been higher. At regular cruise I would have need 2+ full tanks but you don’t want to take those risks when you are uncertain about where and when you will find fuel.
@NikosWings I understand, I was not criticising, just wondered if it was necessary and thought you were doing about 9 or 10 knots. I know if you up the speed it can get thirsty. Thanks for the reply.
@deniermurch8693 I didn’t take it as criticism at all, yes average was 10 knots but the fast runs are the culprit.
@NikosWings True it does mess up your economy a bit I am glad you enjoyed it.
More fun than the pane? I don’t know about that but definitely more relaxing. It’s quite likely more expensive to operate hourly with regards to fuel consumption.
It totally is very expensive to maintain and operate, burns 30gph vs 16gph to go 10 times slower. But as you said very relaxing.
Smiles per mile.
Great video Niko, did not know you owned a boat!, Will the channel be now renamed to "Niko's Props" ??..lol
Ha no we will keep it aviation
The Object you saw the morning in Marathon looks like a Coastal Blimp Radar watching for Drug Smugglers.
Yes
Is it a blimp ?
Yes it does drug run surveillance but it’s supposed to get decommissioned
I went around the ICW in the early 1970s on a US Army LCU from FT Eustis Virginia to Mobile Alabama
I bet that was amazing
Hey Niko if you anchor away from a marina like you said you dont sleep well you might accidentally drif off during the night or have some pirates come on board or just any weird unexpected thing happen.I here you loud and clear on that one I wouldnt feel to good on that either.
Pirates maybe not, but down here in the intracoastal with the shifting flow of water every 6 hours you will swing plus you’ll rely on your generator running constantly. You can do it but I prefer to sleep well at night and I’m glad I did because I got the best sleep every night.
Which do you prefer boats or planes.
Both for different reasons
Now,the Great Loop
highest obstacle rounded up +1000 feet. OROCA
Loved it
its the teather ed weather ballon that they tell you to be careful not to fly into it.
That’s right
Blimp- marks No fly?