Cruising the Pacific North West. 45 knots of wind straight on the nose
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We are doing a little geographical jump in Untie The Lines today, travelling from Ecuador up to the North West of the USA. John and his wife Shelley have invited me to come and crew for them, sailing their boat Persistence up to Ketchikan with John where Shelley would join us for the way back down. Since I have always wanted to travel that region by sailboat, I accepted the offer and jumped ship for a couple of weeks.
John had told me to leave my work clothes at home, stating that there won't be any problems along the way. Luckily, I did not listen and did bring my dirty work clothes since we had a little engine issue already on day one of our trip.
Come on board and join us for the trip north :).
Ahoy,
Nike c/o SV Persistence
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You can fix anything. I believe that you could fix the crack of dawn! But, more importantly, you bring joy and sunshine to any group that you are with. You are such a blessing to the world.
True kindness in these words.
Dude picked the right crew for crawling around in bilges.
45 on the nose and looks like 50 degrees Fahrenheit. That face in the wind is priceless. I sure wish these videos were real time. Better yet, I wish I was there in real time.
I lived in Puget Sound area most of my life... my family had a 32' cabincrusier... our favorite place to go was Kingston... the marina there was great for kids... lots of tide flats... crabbing from the dock, fishing too... we spent many weekends and spring vacations there... now I own a 47' vegabound ketch, her galley had been gutted, she coming together now, and I leave for a around the globe back to Seattle trip of my lifetime, understand I'm a boater, but never have I owned my dream boat, my first stop will probably be the Dominican republic, then Grenada... capetown south Africa, Thailand, possibly Australia, Hawaii, then back to my home in the greater Seattle/Tacoma area.... did I mention I've never had a sailboat before, or anything this big until now... it's my home, I will learn under fire, I've already riden out hurricane Dorian, a few strong nor-eastern storms... at anchor, I've already learned alot, so much more to go... I'm excited, and I'm also scared to death at times, but at 60yrs old, I've never done anything or gone anywhere, it's time, some people call me crazy, that I'll end up shark bait, if I do, I'm going to die happy and fulfilling my dream...
sounds like you have an exciting adventure ahead! It's great to hear you are chasing this dream and making it reality. I am sure you will grow into boat ownership step by step. It is different to have your own boat than just sail on other people's boats for sure. It's good to be excited and scared at the same time. Keeps you on your toes. I wish you all the best for this great adventure, enjoy it to the fullest, both the ups and the downs.
I remember when in deep reflection you questioned your sailing ability as you crossed the equator. I thought then and think now more than ever, there is none in the channel world as good as you.
If anyone is going to journey into the Pacific Northwest or anywhere I guess, having a guest mechanic on board like you is a plus. Lots of cool sites coming up. Can't wait for the next video. And keep smiling even when your cold. It helps us land locked viewers out.
Welcome to my neck of the woods. My wife, newborn daughter, and I did the inside passage from Tacoma WA to Glacier bay AK back in 1996. We saw a lot of bears, including waiting on one to wander away from our dinghy on the beach so we could get back to our boat. But we made the trip over the summer, It looks like you are doing it in the fall. The bear situation might be different. I don't know if you have already completed this trip, but if not get ready for more cold, more wind on the nose, and a lot more rain.
While the scenery is spectacular on the inside passage, the sailing often isn't. The wind only blows two ways in the fjord like passages up there, it's either on your nose or on your tail, and it can change direction frequently. That is, as you start into a passage at the southern end of an island (on the way north), the wind will be behind you. Near the middle of the passage/island, the wind may die completely, and at the northern end of the passage/island the wind will be on your nose. This is thanks to the wind that is coming off the nearby open Pacific ocean often blowing at roughly right angles to the passages. The wind circles around the north and south ends of the island and causes the situation described above.
Enjoy you trip and try to stay warm and dry!
cold, rainy, dark, gusty, boat trouble, had to turn back. "A great first day!" Seriously, you are the best.
John is loving having this person on board, he would have been waiting for ever to get the gearbox fixed otherwise.
You are such as amazimg,individual person,who are fight big sea,and specialy young lady skipper who know everithing on the sailing boat!!!!!That"s fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!
Epic winds that week, record-breaking winds on what is typically the calmest day of the year
So the fact is I've sailed out of Edmonds since 1988 with my Pearson 43' and family ...took over 200 people sailing through the years. Sold it about 10 years ago have moved to Everett and now have a Buchan 37'.
Sailed the San Juans, the Gulf Islands, up to Malibu and seen the bears, Orcas, and otters.
Great to have up in our neck of the world.
S/v ...Waves
The Harmony Islands have waters that are 76° up in Jervice Inlet. fyi
Your positive attitude and troubleshooting is priceless.
In spite of problems getting started it was great to see the beginning of your great white north adventure. It wouldn't be a day in your life without a boat repair. I mean that with love.😜
Great Video Nike. I loved seeing you in your new environment.
Seems like it. SV Persistence did not want me to have withdrawl issues 😊
Yea! Your sailing in my part of the world. I live on Whidbey Island which you passed by (several times) in the initial stage of your journey. Have a safe trip and enjoy the great Pacific Northwest.
Awesome boat - so fun. I live in Oregon. My dad used to go up each summer to Ketchican to go salmon fishing. Sorry about the maintenance issues. Hope you have a wonderful trip - be safe out there.
This was like a breath of fresh air. Finally something else and back at adventure 💪
The inside passage is maybe the best cruising in the world.Hope you love it.I love to see people enjoy the part of the Pacific I fell in love with
Its super cool to see you in my neck of the woods. I hope you love/loved the West Coast as much as I do. You're an inspiration, thank you for your channel.
I am not sure how much u love it 😉 but for me it's one of my favorite places on the planet - during summer 😂😂.
Beautiful job by a beautiful woman on another beautiful boat.I miss being on the water, hopefully again soon 👍👍
I love the Pacific North West, its good to see you headed toward the land I live in Alaska.
Wow your in my neck of the woods, and a great plug for Everett!
I was just telling my wife we should invite you to crew for us as we bring our Spindrift (39' Bruce Roberts Design) north from West Palm Beach Fl. to Annapolis Md. but I don't know??? sounds like I would have to expect my Yanmar to falter once you stepped on board..lol .. J/K. You are a true sailor! You have a good clear mind, face any problem thrown your way and press on. We are cheering you on. Keep living life to the max.
hehe, I was wondering if these videos might open up a chance to crew on more boats...but then I watched the first episode and thought..."well, there goes that idea" ;). Before this, people thought it was Karl who was trouble...now it seems more like I am the one bringing bad luck, hehehe.
Your the first sailing channel I started watching, always great content.
Welcome to the GREAT NORTHWEST ❤️... Thank you for sharing your adventures. ENJOY YOUR SAIL.
Great to see you in the PNW. Love the show.
Totally Awesome! Enjoy!
I spent a summer in Kenai Alaska for fun.
Awesome seeing you there..
Love the PNW. My wife and I were paddling our sea kayak in San Juans last July. Oh, but great weather only a little rain. I do love a good storm but not when paddling a sea kayak. I enjoy your videos.
Nice to see a change in direction and you sailing cold water again! Sail safe. Ant, Cid & the Pooch crew.
The new mic wind thingy seems to be working good because the sound was OK even in the wind.
At least you only have the cold for a couple of weeks. It will make you appreciate the warmth of Karl when you get back there.
What a beautiful boat.
She is a beauty, indeed.⛵💚
Sounds like a fun adventure. Thanks for taking me along. Also, love your hat with your name on it. They should be paying you to use your name !
Hey, you were in my old neck of the woods! I was born in Everett, WA. I plan to retire as a live aboard, preferably at the Everett Marina. Hope the trip goes without too many more issues. Good luck!
I did follow Emerald Steel also, but the best for me was Ran. The Whales are amazing ! Here in California, (Northern) we went from summer shorts to snow and cold almost instantaneously ! Absolutely amazing change ! Wow, an actual universal. They eventually need to be changed, quite common in cars and trucks, I always try to get the ones with the grease fitting. Yes, and the fluffy on the microphone will be a huge help. Tried to talk Chuffed into it. They thought it would affect their audio, but yours sounds great !
Aww, that's fun - we used to be docked by John and Persistence. (Welcome to the area - enjoy the BRR.)
Youre so relaxed man. Its so different when the shit breaks and its not youre shit . Love it. You look really good in foulys...cant believe i just said that. But that 45 knots had you smiling.
😂 it's surely far more relaxing 😂. U don't automatically worry about all the $$ involved in the repairs 😂. Got those foulies early this year and really happy with them. Bad weather isn't that bad with the right clothes. Happy to hear they also look good 😂😎
@@WhiteSpotPirates Waaaaay better than the duct taped set.... ;-)
@@garysouza2277 😂 yeah, I think I wore the best out of that set 😂😎
Nice to see she tracking parts of our 2015 trip
Never seen a u-joint on a sailboat before. Makes sense. I installed a flex coupler on mine.
Welcome to the PNW, where the summers look very much like winters and vice versa sometimes. Hope you enjoy yourself.
Very cool to see you in my hometown of Everett. The San Juan Islands are a great place to explore. Still trying to catch up with season 2 of the videos as I have started from the beginning. Cheers!
Great job well done and great video
you have a great attitude keep up the great work
What a treat 'seaing' you in my home waters! I'm looking forward to your visit to Desolation Sound, home of the hottest ocean waters, north of Mexico
The storm winds in the Puget Sound are from the south, and you were motoring right into them. I did that once in force five, ot doing it again
Another Nice start to a sailing adventure! Why would something need fixing? It looks like a beautiful boat, and a awesome cruising adventure! Enjoy the trip, i know the Captain is going to!!
Great to see our old cruising grounds again and look forward to seeing your views of the Inside Passage which we did four times now. BTW if you bring your work clothes you are welcome any time on our boats. We now have a sailboat with a motor headed to Mexico and a motor boat with sails in Norway. Can’t wait for next week’s video and do hope your wounds are healing well. All the best.
LOL. Work on your own boat in the tropics- now work on another one up North. Well, I can't laugh too much myself. I've got a couple of wood sailboats and plenty of fixing to do myself.
Presto Chango... you sure pulled a fast one on us Nike! Yeah, we love it when you go one-on-one with a gale for our benefit, you go girl! This will be an interesting change and sail in the northwest. Never mind the Orca, bears and whales in that region it is the Sasquatch you must keep an eye out for.
And the 100 ft giant octopus ...
Or was that a 1950's movie ?
Stay tuned.
Hi i sm glad you are traveling this waters greetings from SV Freelance sunshine coast bc Canada cheers
Well, welcome to Pacific North West ;-)
OMG. My neck of the woods. We are in Langford outside of Victoria. Boat is in Sidney. Welcome.
Hi Niki. Go Get it Girl!!!
The San Juan Islands are my favorite spot I've visited. Hope it is amazing for you.
It was totally amazing, yes!
Who hoo my local cruising grounds!
BC is epic.
I love all your videos!
Well the captain has the right person on the boat for any engine trouble now it is a seal.
Yes! I’m so into this trip! I love the PNW
Great to see you having fun without the burden of funding yet another repair. You almost seemed "not-unhappy" with fixing of the transmission.
😂😂😂 I thought it was fun and interesting. I had never seen a universal joint for the shaft like that. I actually had hoped we would Do the alignement with the mechanic so I could learn how to Do it with these joints 😂. Boat repair on other people's boats is way less stressy...unless u break sth that's not urs...then it's double bad 😂
You've got a nice personality and do a nice video. The soft guitar music really fits your style.
All the best,
Sam Miceli....N E U S A Quincy, MA
.... laughing ...... you see it is not only Karl that has mechanical challenges ..... sure looks like you enjoyed your time on deck in the wind, having the right clothes can make it of break it ... grew up in Victoria ... sister and her husband sail the Gulf, and San Juan, Islands in their 36 foot Sceptre, .... thx for sharing, looking forward to the next leg .... have fun be safe, save our oceans ......
they have got a lovely sailboat 👍
This is my home cruising grounds! And, I live here in Edmonds. Any chance you went to Walnut St Coffee while you were here? That is my home town local which I often pick up a coffee and a pastry and walk down to the Edmonds marina to skulk the guest docks to see what's happening. I look forward to seeing more of your travels to Alaska.
Bring on the orcas and bears, oh my! I'm convinced a blue water boat is not just the boat-it's the (mechanics) sailors.
It's nice not seeing you all sweaty LOL!
Great adventure for sure 😎👍
what a great hairstyle you have created ...
Seattle Area and Alaska are places everyone should visit at least once, and maybe revisit because there is so much to see and explore.
totally agree :)
@@WhiteSpotPirates Love your videos. ;-)
Cruising in a new place, boat work, and gale force winds. What more can you ask for...
Shaft alignment with a universal in the system is not necessary. Shaft alignment is critical when it is a straight solid shaft coupling to the transmission.
way cool chica! In my pacific northwest! :)
You’re sailing into my home waters! I’m guessing you’re already in Alaska or beyond, and I’m sure your found the scenery along the way quite spectacular. Desolation Sound is beautiful. So welcome to the Pacific Northwest and the Salish Sea. Fair winds.
Don
Nike is back in Germany. The trip actually took place between July 15 and August 18, 2019
J Brownlow yes I finally figured that out. Interesting in that I was cruising some of those same waters at that time. I’m looking forward to the next few videos. The weather vastly improved through the latter half of July and early August, but the winds were not favourable for my trip.
Greetings from Seattle. South Park to be exact. We have a vibrant sail community.
You absolutely must visit Sucia Island in the San Juan’s. It is a Gem.
Of coarse summer would have been better.
If you need boat yard salvaged parts,.... reply to this and I’ll see what’s available for free from my favorite DYI boatyard.
There should be a betting pool on how long it takes, after boarding a boat, before Nike ends up in the Engine room. Or maybe a drinking game? ; )
😂😂😂 good idea 😉.
If you're near Sequim Bay (John Wayne Marina) on your return voyage, look us up! Sail on~
very enjoyable... g
If I had said, "Great first day!" I would definitely have been speaking ironically.
I thought it was quite the fun first day 😂. But then John mentioned sth about me being weird having a smile on my face when it's rainy and 45 knots on the nose and having to crawl into the engine room 😁
@@WhiteSpotPirates It just happens you are wonderful.
Hi, good for you
Before 911 we put the scuba gear on went under the ferry at Edmonds and watched it take off. Only time I ever looked up at a river. Wish I knew you were here I would have bought you a beer.
Drop into our marina on Vancouver Island in Sidney.
I've been watching forever. Love the vids. I'm in the Coast Guard and wondering when you're going to come to the great lakes?
Well done best experience shows you what your boat will experience on an off shore crossing well done
Hi Nike,what a super opportunity for you to take advantage of 👍If I am correct,this is the boat that I mistakenly called Joana some time back,because I didn't look closely enough,but you set me straight,hahaha.Best wishes😊
Not a storm, maby 20 knots!
I live in PDX and have sailed the San Juan Islands. It is lovely and I think that going to Alaska will take a month minimum. Have fun. The weather will be like Germany, or colder.
We did it in three months, but that was a bit insane, to be honest ;). So I will still have to bring Karl up there one day to cruise with my usual snail speed and check out all the little cute bays.
I live above Skagit bay, Hope & Kukatali islands inside Deception Pass. (A great place to anchor in bad weather.) I hope to make the same journey some day, but have heard that it's better to sail a motor sailboat up the passage as the wind is often blocked. I have a diesel power boat. I look forward to watching this journey! Although this is not the best season to make the trip, I predict It will be one of the most amazing ones you have been on I'm sure! Enjoy!
It is indeed unfortunate that the best weather (summer) in the Pacific Northwest (July through September) can be one of the most frustrating for sailing. As you will see from the videos, we had everything from 46 to 0kts, rain fog and hot summer days. During this time of the year a high normally establishes over the eastern North Pacific and generally provides a NW flow .. great if you want to go south .. but as you will see a lot of wind directly on the nose on our way north. On the return trip, the high had moved further east and we had quite a bit of SE wind (once again on the nose). Time constraints and the route that followed the deep channels that make up the Inside Passage for quite a bit of the 850nm to Ketchikan meant that we didn't get as much sailing in as Nike and I would have liked. The 135hp Perkins Sabre diesel ended up doing most of the work.
Sharp skipper getting you for crew.
nice tejour belle ebon courages capetin 😍🌟⛵🎊💐💐
Little did Nike know but that she was recruited for her mechanical troubleshooting and maintenance skills.
18:00 Let's see... it's about (looks at bracelet) 4-5 o'clock I guess... Still on tropical time? 😊
sehr schön und ein kleines Motorproblem ist ja für dich nichts neues, oder... Danke für die schöne Bilder
Cool.
this is close to home for me Im from the South Sound area, Lakewood, and have friends from Edmonds and I worked in Everett for a short time. Interenting to know you were so close. Did you go thru Deception pass? its close to Would be Island . love you.
More about that next week 😉
Happy birthday
I was going to leave a comment , heard a noise outside
being as I like opossums I'll' give her a ride in my garbage can down to the Delta where she can watch the marine life also.
Happy trails and smooth sailing Nike. bbltr
Don't forget, darling. Small boat, small problems. Big boat, important problems...
Like last week a 100 ft yacht hit rocks ( jetty maybe....high tide ? )
Coastguard station close by...nevertheless too late to put pumps...sunk from stern. No one killed as owners/crew got in tender. Location Sandheads mouth of Fraser R. Yes Pacific Northwest waters.
5 miles upstream I got into 14 ft standing waves in a 16 ft boat !!!
Incoming tide & NW fast wind.
See they had a pleasant first day in comparison !!!
Most people (and birds) migrate south this time of year. What were you thinking, haha! Enjoy and good luck. I'm leaving balmy Scotland (5deg) behind for a motorcycle trip around Mozambique. I'll be thinking of you while I'm lying on a tropical beach, brrrrr!
Nothing brings a team together quicker than solving problems like the gearbox leak. It's going to be great watching you doing the same'ish route to RAN Sailing (but in the opposite direction), which produced some of the best sailing footage on the TH-cams.
Oh they did such a sweet job with their drone, loved those episodes. I was too scared to fly mine most of the time because of high winds 🙄 Have to come back one day to get more footage 😊
@@WhiteSpotPirates What a GREAT idea ;-) Next year ??
Tolles Video, Gruß "aus der Heimat"
Last time i checked you put a u joint in to so the alignment doesn’t have to be perfect just look at the drive shafts on a 4X4 truck.
No, not perfect, but there are also limits to what can be compensated for...
Also, the angle changes constantly so wear spreads out on the bearing bits. When they turn at the same angle all the time they run only on one area. The only way I've ever killed one of those is trying to rock (forward, reverse, forward) a stuck 4x4.
In a boat application it's possible to have just a single u-joint (not a pair like on a truck). This can let the engine sit level even if the prop shaft angles down. If there were only one u-joint, then only the angle can change. The alignment both side-to-side and vertically is still critical. HOWEVER, at 17:31 you can see the u-joint sitting down on the hull of the boat. This is probably because there is a second u-joint further back that allows the prop shaft to bend down. In which case, I agree that there should be a lot of flexibility in alignment.
@@Cornelious.P.Drabnar.Esqire U-joints are often used where there is a near constant angle of deflection. For example on larger trucks the drive shaft is often two parts with a center carrier bearing support in the middle. In this application, the u-joint at the transmission is at essentially a constant angle. A u-joint will perform just fine in a straight-line application.