Ep 59 | What's gonna break next?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- What's going to go wrong on our first sail of the season? Well quite a lot it seems!
We also get our first look at our lithium batteries, Nomada 105AH modular batteries from Super-B. It's going to be very exciting getting these babies installed, there will of course be a full tech video.
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So many issues, so much going on, so much angst yet not a sour feeling between you two. Such an amazing, enjoyable, beautiful, well edited and filmed channel you have created. Two people, obviously In Love and sailing the world. What a dream :)
A tip for slime-line handling. I bought my Southerly 38 in Greece (now based in Sovereign Harbour...) and it came with a special boat hook for picking up slime-lines and taking them forwards to the bow without having to handle the line. It is simply a length of stainless steel rod about 400mm long and bent through about 135 degrees attached to an ordinary boat hook handle. One does of course have to handle the line while making it fast to a cleat, but contact with the line is minimised. While on boat hooks, I thoroughly recommend the telescopic Hook & Moor boat hook which enables the user to pass a line through the eye on a buoy and bring it back to oneself - a great bit of kit!
Much enjoying your mix of sailing, technical advice and travel documentary reporting.
Sounds like a good idea👍
Thank you again for another great video. Excellent work! Steve, if there is an alternate universe of an underwater marine version of TH-cam, no doubt you'll be an absolute hero among fish! I can imagine titles like "Kind man feeds us bread in winter", "Hero with a massive tackle box only for show", "The only sailor who remains murder-free". I really enjoy watching you fumble with the fishing lines and hooks baits and things! You're an expert with tools, brushes, engines, knots, electronics, sails and everything else on a boat, but when the tackle box comes out, your hands just take on a mind of their own and almost deliberately find ways to be kind to marine life. Well done, from one fish-saver to another!
Anchor away from gulets or any local commercial boats. They are allowed to dump their tanks anytime. I was downwind early one morning about to go for a swiim and a gulet upwind dumped their tank and the stuff was all around my aft swim ladder clinging to it. I waited many hours until it was all gone.
A new definition of Happiness - Steve tucking into Coffee and Cake whilst inspecting new Lithium Batteries.
Reminds me of Christmas Eve many decades ago! Thank you for another excellent presentation. The food in the Restaurant was mouth-watering.
Looking forward to the battery installation technical video.
Forget the new lithium, Fair Isle runs on banana bread. Looked yummy. You’ll never have to buy coffee or tea if you hang out in the bazaar’s and play tavla.
Well done on reaching 50k subs. Well deserved and slightly surprising it took so long. One of the best channels on YT.
Thanks!
Great video Judy and Steve. Brilliant to see you out on the water again. Your marina looks like a great place to be overwintering. Looking forward to seeing more of your adventures in the coming months. Kudos to Steve for being so cool on the shakedown; nothing seems to phase or upset you. Not sure if I would be quite so good-humoured if everything was breaking on me!!
good stuff
Great video ,,Guess fish don't have to worry about Steve catching them ,huh? Keep thrown ur lines in you're bound to catch some eventually,congratulations on the bats
Lithium really is a game changer for solar
Cheers guys
Thanks so much for another lovely episode. Beautiful views, fascinating facts, some intriguing insights into your life afloat and ashore, and everything seamlessly as one with your typically flawless editing (which must take for ever when you'd probably far rather be playing cards!). Oh, and that banana bread looked beyond absolutely *delicious*. . . Thanks!
Thank you! Card playing at sea is just so relaxing. Recommend!
As is customary with your vlogs: impressive Boat Management; impressive application of Technology and now impressive Marina facilities and Service. Plus Blue Sky Sailing while dealing with 'setbacks'. Just gets better. - as will, I hope, your Fishing Luck.
Do you plan to do a tech episode on your new lithium battery system installation? You do your homework well so I’d be interested to hear your selection process as I contemplate a similar upgrade.
Yes there will be a detailed tech video on what’s required to change over to lithium which will look at battery choice too.
@@svfairisle brilliant thanks look forward to it!
try making some ANZAC biscuits also make a batch with diced dried apricots- yummo
Hello Steve and Judy, as a boat owner in Marmaris, do not need to concern blue card, grey water also black water, coast guard checks only commercial boats and gulets. your videos are great !
Thanks Ali, usefulminformation.
Great video as always, think you need a fishing tackle upgrade Steve 🦈🙈
Not sure I can blame the tackle!
I absolutely love all the interesting details on your boat. Simply a gorgeous boat!
solar panels may work on a smal sail yacht but here in cntrl florida our home can pay 30 dlrs a mo to fpl in miami fo electricity an no roof or lithium battry truble
Just happened on your channel and absolutely love your boat and the care you each put into her. I especially love the swim platform and push pit you put on the stern and am wondering if you have an episode on this element of your boat.
All Hans Christians have a push pit, it wasn’t put on by us. It is really useful being latticed teak everything drains through
Keep them coming, and thanks.
On my TH-cam view of your channel, your season 4 videos are in reverse order on that playlist. Not sure if that's just me or affecting others binge watching.... Thanks!
It’s actually up to you which order you see them in. On the playlists page press the series you want then press Sort and you can have them in order of published, newest first or oldest first.
@@svfairisle thanks. Didn't know that
Great video. ‘ To do ‘ list is never ending. 👍
It may be a old boat but she is very nice.
Welcome back guys. I’ve missed you. Ah boat jobs eh they never end do they. Lovely to see you back tho.
You think that’s a small space you want to try working in an engine room on a much smaller boat. I can just about get access to the side of the engine squashed flat between the rear birth and headlining. On my Southerly 95. Keep up the good work, always enjoy your videos. Having been an avid TH-cam sailing channel follower since 2018 when I was laid up on the settee for over 3 months I have become very discerning on what I watch now. Some have become very gimmicky, full of promotions and all about themselves. Your Channel has always remaining informative, non pretentious, and very objective when giving account of equipment you have bought. Keep up the good work.
Envy you. Wonder what I am doing here in Canada at -20’sies and you are enjoying Cesme.. Wish you a lot of good days. Mind you, it rains more in late March and April, so try to get the varnish done before the spring rains..
Oh dear, I was banking on March for varnishing!
@@svfairisle you will still have a number of good days..
You better be prepared for the worst when headed out to sea.
You are rocking that 360 camera Steve, maybe you should take it up as a profession! :)
Get you Judy, "Blowing a Hoollie" , you`ll be swearing like a three-badge stoker next!
Ref the blue card/ blackwater issue, in the early stages of large construction projects there are often no mains sewer connections. A bank of porta-loos with storage tanks is the way to go and the guys who come to site and empty these are known as the Poo Fairys !
Be interesting to see what your recharge time is with the lithiums, are they charged off the engine alternator besides your solar and what are you using for an invertor for shore power?
Fair winds guys xx
Ha! Yes well there’s not a chance that all the boats in the Turkish Aegean are coming into a marina every time they need to empty the black water tanks either so I think there might be a touch of the pool fairies there too! On the lithium there will be a mind numbingly detailed tech video I feel!
@@svfairisle Steve, to anyone interested , it won`t be mind numbing at all!
The solutions in a marine environment are strikingly similar to the extreme off-roading environment we have here in Western Australia where vehicles can be very remote for days or weeks at a time. The components may have different names but they carry out the same functions. This tech is brand new, ten years ago most of it didn`t exist. As we know, leading edge tech of today will be commonplace tomorrow. Look at satnav in cars, for instance. Check out the HH 44 . The electrical system in that boat will be commonplace in five years.
I look forward to your install video with interest mate.
Take it easy ;)
What about if you have a dry composting toilet onboard. How does Turkey deal with that? I need to find out…
I’ve no idea to be honest, I will ask someone. I assume you usually have to dispose of composted material our at sea when it gets too much? So that wouldn’t be allowed in Turkish waters. But from what we can see it seems people do pump out off shore. I very much doubt if there is an official way of logging you have disposed of the waste on shore even if there was somewhere to do it, I may be wrong.
I’m getting complacent watching your videos, forgetting to like and comment on them! Very interesting the lithium battery thing as I am about to replace my batteries…but won’t be able to afford them yet. I’ve just replaced my Harken electric winch, fitted a new wind vane and a 60 litre calorifier….and next week I will have my cockpit canvas extended.
Your work is so clean Steve. Look forward to the technical on fitting the lithium batteries. You were influential when I bought my anchor chain last May.
The Spring is just around the corner here in Northern Ireland . Hoping to cross the English Channel this summer!
I love your optimism Hugh 'spring is just around the corner' while a 70knot storm bears down on you! Were in the UK this week, not feeling spring like. Perhaps I've gone soft?!
I’ve been out twice in my Dehler over the last 10 days, albeit motoring. But it amazing how invigorating it is to get out on the water after two months. Everything comes alive!
Yes I used to sail on the East Coast with my father on Boxing day, always loved it.
That was some fancy drone flying! I think. Not sure how else you wove a camera through the lines but you were both in shot so how on earth did you do that.
Wish I could claim my drone flying skills were that good, but it’s actually a 360 camera on a stick. I’m just putting together a series on filming techniques so if you’re interested watch out for that
Nice video - trying to work out how you flimed it with those bow shots - was the camera on a line or did you really fly a drone between the forestay and staysail? Looking forward to all the techie videos (and the sailing!)
Ha! yes that would have been some seriously cool drone flying! Sadly not that... I filmed it with a 360 camera on a stick. I will show you how in the camera series I'm just filming now!!!
Hey. It looks like you two have done this before!
You know what they say. Ahh the cruising life - work on your boat in exotic locations. I think the best coffee I’ve ever had was in HongKong. But it was definitely not Starbucks!
What fittings had red lock tight on them?
The pin on the Ultra anchor swivel
What I would find interesting not knowing Turkey to well , what was the price of that restaurant meal that you said were London prices ?
To be fair or wasn’t West End prices, it was the equivalent of £70. It is possible to have a good meal with wine in Turkey for less than £10/head though
Nice Video. Can you please share where did you buy the Lithium batteries and what other components you had to get with them? Also the old batteries Amps you had to replace? The cost of the new batteries if possible. Thank you
Yes I will put together a very comprehensive tech video on changing over to lithium as there are some specific challenges. It’s not too difficult once you get you head around it but you cannot just swap your batteries as I’m sure from your comment you already know.
@@svfairisle thank you. Yes, you know you need to revamp all and make lots of changes. Thanks again love your videos.
Fantastic videos. Which charting app do you recommend?
I’ve actually done a video on it if you’re interested… th-cam.com/video/xBLGStEI2sY/w-d-xo.html. But to answer your question I use Navionics the most
Great video as always. What for are the two circular holders on the aft railing on port and stbd?
I think you're probably talking about the the circular stainless steel tubes which are for the hoisting arm. It can slot out of one side and go to the other if you need it there. We used it when we had the petrol outboard, but we don't need it to lift our electric outboard as it's so light. Always good to have though & I use the empty side as a fishing rod holder when we're trolling.
@@svfairisle Thanks, but it's probabely something different. Please have a look at 1.07 into the video.
Arh! Well 1:07 is on Dogan’s boat, I’m not aware of any circular holders on the aft rail though
I enjoy your videos
But i just google the price off those battries
2800 Euro for 105 A/H or 1269 W/h really .......They would want to be good
Cheers
Tim
Warning. Lithium batteries internal resistance is, ‘very very low,’ hazard by fire can only be contained by sand?
That's not the case with LiFePO 4, they do have low internal resistance so charge quickly all the way to full, but they are not any more of a fire risk than lead acid.
Your engine room is my nightmare.
We need to look at the Starbucks outlets per capita or per 100,000 citizens in any given country or continent for the metric to make any sense.
It failed in Australia, they packed up and went home with their tails between their legs.
Hmm, is that really a dorado?
If what they call them in Turkey, I think your right and the name belongs to a different fish elsewhere
is the number of Starbuck shops an indicator on how "democratic" a country is ruled? Turkish people are lovely though!
Göz boyama diyebiliriz in aut
A Wife always wants to know when a job will be finished ... when you're just getting started.
@Sailing Fair Isle *_Why did Judy yank your hand away from her waist at **22:25** ?? was she p!ssed off at you Steve?? Mmmmmm? Pray tell!! _*
I think BBC will buy u back.... Or at least make something about u....
You’re going over the top with the number of ads now. Please don’t tell us you have no control over the ads on your channel because we know better. Seems once channels think they have enough subs you all pour on the ads even if you’re making a good dollar amount through paetron. Some of you sailing channels are raking in 1/2 million dollars a year. Hats off to the work that went into creating and maintaining such a high dollar channel. Question is; what about all the 1,000s of people paying high dollar bandwidth to ads. Time cost money both ways and many struggle to pay it.
YT added 8 mid roll ads to this video! I reduced it to 3. Patreons get it early with no ads
And you're getting the show for free, so wind your neck back in. I'm no fan of ads so like it or click on by.......
@@svfairisle well apparently 3 is over the top. Its a free show, and in my opinion worth every penny. Joking aside, I'm astounded that someone would complain, I'm mean really? Keep doing what you're doing and stay safe. Kind regards David.
Ps I bought one of those cordless outboards, you should be getting some credit for that, so thanks from me.