Coastal Passage from San Francisco Bay to Avalon - Nordhavn 40 M/V Cassidy Ep. 15
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 พ.ย. 2024
- After spending a couple of months in San Francisco Bay, we continue moving south toward Southern California. We travel non stop from San Francisco Bay to Avalon Harbor on Santa Catalina Island where we spend a week before continuing on to Dana Point Harbor to prepare our boat for sale. She will stay at the Nordhavn headquarters in Dana Point CA while we list her for sale and prepare to continue our attempt to travel the world by small boat in a slightly larger small boat- hopefully in the near future.
In this episode, we show footage of what life is like on passage while running the boat non stop for 58 hours. This episode ends with our arrival in Avalon Harbor, but we will show more in our next episode about our week on the island before continuing on to Dana Point Harbor
Thank you for a TRUE Cruising video. No T & A, cheap crotch shots, wine and craft beer comparisons. Just honest cruising. Keep up the great work. Good luck in your search for your dream yacht. the Old Coastie
John J Cox III But u got to admit The skipper is kind of eye candy 😂
Well filmed. Felt like I was on the journey too. Thanks.
Would love to see more videos like this. More "day in the life"/"VLOG" style.
Catalina never gets old I love that Island. very nice trawler
I love watching Vlogs. I am a power boat at heart and your Vlogs are wonderful. I think you do the most informative Vlogs I have watched to date. I just wish you posted more often. Wishing you all the best luck in exchanging your current Nordhavn for something a little larger to continue your travels.
SLJanis1165 - thanks for the wishes. We enjoy making the videos and hopefully will post more regularly. Our next destination is unknown but will be documented! In the interim we’ve got a lot of footage to scrape through from lot time in the northwest that should be useful for some informational videos.
M/V Cassidy Looking forward to seeing your videos from your Northwest Voyage.
Great video, two best watches, sunrise and sunset.
Sea Travel - Indeed - one of my favorite things on passage is the opportunity to see both sunrise and sunset over the water if the atmospheric conditions allow...
Nice quiet passage without drama. Well done. Happy sailing.
Life is beutiful and we only got one and i am so glad to see you follow yours. we do the same every summer we go out with the boat (smaler one) and love every secund at sea. happy Days
Love your videos and beautiful family. An idea for a video.... maybe reprovisoning the boat. Would love seeing how you shop (groceries and other incidentals), loading on the boat and what all is involved in stowing away... May seem like a boring topic, but I'm interested... Have Fun...!
Fantastic trip and video. Was concerned about the ride you'd get around Point Conception but it looks like Neptune was in a good mood on your passage. Though crowded, Catalina always seems fun to visit.
You guys are doing incredible things, bravo and thanks for sharing.
Raymond Fields - thanks! We are looking forward to many years more seeing the world by boat.
Nice trip. Done it many times from King Harbor and Long Beach. Love the Nordhavn and the Molokai Strait.
Wow - other boat life vlogs that I follow tend to concentrate on the docked life... Terrific to see a glimpse of life during passage! And oh wow, that sequence at 14:48 - that is simply stunning videography!
Great boat and wonderful Family. Little Cassidy is just too cute. Live in Sausalito aboard my Ericson 38. Sailed SF Bay and CA Coast for years. Powerboats are so much more comfortable for living and cruising. This looks wonderful. Good luck on the sale and acquisition of your new yacht.
Guitarman - we lived in Sausalito for a few years - even on one of the floating homes on Issaquah dock for a short while. Kept boats in Clipper. Love the town!
Funny, kept my boat at Clipper basin 3 for years. Chances are I saw you guys around town. Be sure and make some vids of your new boat when the time comes. Best to you.
Just came across this , great video safe travels 🙌🤘
Wow, the camera work in this video is absolutely amazing! I was so captivated by every shot. My only small wish is that we could have seen "GGB" a bit more. But hey, beggars can't be choosers, right? Overall, fantastic job on the video! Keep up the great work!
Love your boat and really enjoy watching your videos! Amazing job on editing and really cute family! Looking forward to more adventures!
You guys are a few of several that sailed out to the island while the wild fires were burning. We ended up sailing to Avalon, then around the back to Cat Harbor.
We have a love/had relationship with Avalon. Been there when it was calm and been there when the Santa Ana winds whipped up the chop so badly that 50 foot yachts were leaving at 2 in the morning. We will probably not stay there again after our last experience, but Avalon does have its charm. Cat Harbor is our all-time favorite, though. It's so calm and you can fish and catch lobster there, too. If you're feeling adventurous, Little Harbor is great and really beautiful, but watch out for the rocks!
Sail Before Sunset - we actually saw your video from Avalon harbor on the way down about how they were stacking boats on the west side of the harbor because of fear of Santa Ana winds. They put us on a larger mooring than we needed because we are really heavy for the size of boat but other than a few hours of rolling in the harbor it wasn’t bad.
In the late 90's I was stationed at the Nasa Base at Vandenberg.
I grew up in LA and spent many times on Catalina. As a teen a bunch of us would take the ferry over on a Saturday morning, sleep on the beech, then come back Sunday Evening. That was in the 60's When Avalon was OLD California.
Can't do that today.
I sooooo remember. In 1967 we'd take my friend's 13" Boston Whaler to Catalina out of Newport Harbor. Buy gas at Avalon to get back. Just two dumb kids. We'd have to spend the night if the afternoon chop got too bad.
Superb video👌 .loved it. keep them coming.
Loved this one.
For those curious about the moorings in Avalon, they are near impossible to get in peak season. But you can own one, for the low price of $100,000 to over $1.0 million. Oh, little tid bit, you don't get to recoup the fees when its rented out to someone else, and you pay yearly maintenance fees on them.
MrReece I went in peak season in June. No problem getting a mooring. They are expensive though.
Good luck on your sale! Your listing looks good. Cheers
We live in South Florida on the Atlantic side. The Nordhavn would make an awesome liveaboard for the Bahamas. Especially for diving. Have to admit a bit of envy! Best wishes.
M Swede - this boat would be great in that climate as we’ve got 3 air conditioning units on board. We do draw 5 feet though so that might limit some of the anchorages that you can access in the Bahamas. Although I know that people do travel there within even deeper draft boats.
@@CassidysSailingTrawler True about the 5 foot draft. Although some of the best reefs are sufficiently off shore. Just thought of it, you would have to transit the Panama Canal to get to the Bahamas. Too much of an East coast guy to remember those little details! ; )
Outstanding channel. Love the video.
I just subscribed today, I enjoyed your video. I like how you don’t use a wheel, what I was in the CG our 410 had a aluminum handle that came out of the helm and we used it a lot like you use your clicker. Nice boat, I’m going to look at previous videos to find out more about her.
Nice post and holy cow, dem look like some decent cowboy steaks right there! Nice!
While you are in Dana Point hit up Wine Bistro!! It’s at PCH and Golden Lantern. For breakfast they have the best chicken and waffles. For lunch the French dip is the best I’ve ever had.
dave r - thanks for the tip. Will definitely check it out!
Just caught this . Pretty nice run.
I saw what you did there with the N60. Not my favorite Nordhavn, that being the N63, but my dreams are always bigger than my coin purse. Great looking trip down the Central California Coast. Growing up in Monterey those waters have great memories. Nasty and cold one day, calm and cold the next. Cold water, always cold. Looking forward to the next stage of your travels.
RanchHQ - I’m a big fan of the N63 as well. Really like the aft pilot house models. That 60 that we saw had apparently just been commissioned and they were practicing picking up moorings and launching the tender.
We are looking forward to getting to warm water!!
Great to hear. I was worried when I saw her in the marina for sale
Awesome! Thanks for sharing
Hi M/V Cassidy. What are you looking for in the new ”larger small boat” Sail or motor?
If you considering sailboat, look for 45+Ft cat's in the Mediterranian (Croatia) area, you might do a scoop over there now that the season there is over and everything is stoked for the winter time. And you can get a very good scoop on a second hand one, and do a few upgrades done in Turkey for 3/10 of what it would cost in a westerly EU country, just a tip for you... Look at what "Sailing Zatara" did on their 582 sailing cat there.
Purchase this time of the year, do the upgrades needed during the "off sailing season" then sail the Mediterranean during upcoming summer and join the ARC rally over the Atlantic in late November early December, and then you are in the Caribbean for Christmas and new year.
Just tips, for you guys on M/V Cassidy...
T-N In the works aka Mr Sundowner - thanks for the advice. We watch the Sailing Zatara videos fairly regularly and their boat looks nice. Unfortunately, we don’t know how to sail nor are we interested in doing it on a sailboat. We got into cruising specifically because of the fact that we learned that ocean crossings can be made in relatively small powerboats and that continues to be our goal.
We do have a short list of boats that we are considering and will share once we get closer to a specific boat.
Being that power boating is my personal preference I truly enjoy your channel and adventures
however I wish you would post more often. By the way nothing like a Nordhavn eh?
Thanks for sharing
Ya, those freak'n crab pots. Same problem with lobster pots in the NE.
I started watching your videos recently, and they are great! I grew up sailing in the SF Bay, and always thought that someday I might "sail" around the world. Seeing that long distance motor cruising is possible without a gigantic yacht was really eye opening for me. M/V Cassidy is a beautiful boat. I'm guessing there is always a desire/need for the next size up. What size/style do you think will make the difference? And, would you mind explaining what was too limiting about the 40 besides space?
Thank you for showing "everyday" life. Those are the aspects of your videos that really appeal to me. I loved the tour of your floating home, and all the explanations. Being a diver, having the compressor on board is sweet. Did Cassidy come with that or was that an upgrade you installed? Hope she sells quickly and you can keep going around the world, and allowing us to follow along!
Brinton Deighton - Thank you! With respect to your comment about moving up in size, for us it is mainly space and at this point it is a "want" vs. "need". The wants are really a larger private space for our daughter and another nice to have that will come with a slightly larger boat is an additional head. We could definitely continue to cruise on this boat and go anywhere in the world that we want to go. Our motivation for looking to something slightly larger is that we see ultimately living on a boat and cruising long term and don't want to outgrow the boat. I am of the opinion there is a sweet spot in size for any given crew and mission. For us, we don't want it to be too big. Everything with boating scales exponentially with length. We want this to be a sustainable cruising mission and costs of operation and maintenance are always something we are trying to keep low.
The 40 is an incredibly capable boat and one of the best things about it is that because it is at the lower end in size of the true passagemaker Nordhavn range it is INCREDIBLY economical to operate for a boat of this type. We routinely burn less than 2 gallons per hour. The downside to that type of fuel burn on this boat is that to get that low realistically you are running at around 6 knots. This is basic physics related to the waterline length and hull speed. Realistically we won't gain much speed with a slightly longer boat but we will burn more fuel.
The dive compressor - I installed it but it has been removed in preparation for sale as it did not require permanent modifications to the boat and was thus easy to remove. Motivation for that being it was a relatively expensive piece of equipment and not everyone interested in this boat is going to want it nor appreciate the intrusion of space into the cockpit for the tank storage. It will find a home on our next boat!
great trip . Isn't the avalon yacht club building the location they used in the film " Chinatown " ?
Great videos. Keep on truckin. FYI : this one had some issues with the on screen text. See 9:24.
Mark Skierkiewicz - thanks! That’s supposed to say Point Arguello to give some geographical context. It must have not rendered correctly on output. Poor quality control from this editor!!
Super all video
In the future don't bring that slimy mooring line aboard!Just take a dockline,run it thru the eyesplice and cleat back to boat. In an emergency you'll always be able to slip the mooring no matter how much pressure is on the line!
I enjoy all your video's. I'm trying to get an idea of how much fuel you used to see costs for running a boat like yours. What is the most efficient speed and now much fuel per hour? Thanks
Dave Pace - we put in fuel flow meters before we left to go cruising and the sweet spot for this boat seems to be around 1500 rpm where we burn a little under 2 gallons per hour and cruise at about 6 knots depending on conditions. For super long ocean passages, efficiency increases even more running closer to 5 knots but that’s getting painfully slow.
@@CassidysSailingTrawler Thanks for the info
Selling 😳. Be sure to contact us when you do. Rob DesMoines WA. WE can’t wait until we’re barefoot on our own Nordhaven 😉
Excellent video guys! Curious what was your fuel burn to Avalon.
Judd _S - roughly 125 gallons.
That’s incredibly efficient for boat of that size, thanks
How many days did that take? and how many time did you stop overnight?
This boat sunk years ago, could you tell us if you ever had long term issues with this boat or what you had inspected before purchasing?
Donald Wade - zero issues. We were obviously a little cautious with the purchase and had multiple surveys and inspections done as part of that process. You don’t buy a boat that costs this much money without due diligence and the condition of the boat and equipment is better than most her age. We’ve put 1000 hours and over 5000 nautical miles on the boat since we’ve had her and no issues other than normal maintenance stuff.
M/V Cassidy glad you had a great experience with that purchase!
Just wandering what’s happening with MV Cassidy?
what type of boat will your next boat be ?
what size ?
mattyj342111 - it will be another Nordhavn but with slightly more interior space - especially for our daughter as she gets older while we continue to cruise. Exactly what model depends on what’s available when
M/V Cassidy sells but there are a few boats that we really like.
thanks for getting back to me are you thinking a 43 or 47 nordhavn ?
@@CassidysSailingTrawler
mattyj342111 - the N47 is high on our list. The 43 is a great boat but not that much larger to justify the switching costs and most of them that come onto the market are way more expensive than a 40.
Great video, bigger boat will make your journey more comfortable.
D, is MV CASSIDY LISTED YET?
Don't put a red line at the bottom of the title image of your video's.. it looks like its been watched on my feed.... Great video though!
William Pozo - thanks for the tip. Never thought of that! I’ll update the thumbnail.
No closing comment from Cassidy?
What time of year did you make the trip?
DC - late November. We got an amazing weather window where it was almost flat the entire way - even around Point Conception. Almost unheard of.
What is the term a larger small boat mean?
Rodney Pratt - I now realize that phrase can appear completely meaningless and ambiguous. We are looking for a boat that allows us a little more internal space but without giving up much in the way of efficiency and ease of use that is so great with the Nordhavn 40. So it needs to be something that can be easily handled by a crew of 2. The 40 can be single handed in most conditions which is really nice. We'e got a couple of specific boats that we are looking at and will post more information soon!
avoid burning steaks (which is carcinogenic) by wrapping the steaks in 2X parchment paper wrap and 2 x aluminum foil. now slow cook em with the BBQ set to low temp for 45 mins or so.
If you burn a steak you are doing it wrong. Either the heat is way too high or you forgot to flip the steak. Shouldn't take longer than 15 minutes from cooking start to finish (depending on how you like your steak). The steak will continue to cook when removed from the grill so you can alway pull it off early and let it sit if needed.
ysesq - We always enjoy cooking tips. However I don’t remember our steaks being burnt. They were cooked medium rare to medium and tasted excellent! There are some sear marks from the grill grates but I wouldn’t characterize it as charred by any means.
Is she really up for sale?
MrRaychs - indeed. We are looking to move to a slightly larger boat but will continue to cruise.
Why do you sleep in the saloon? because its too noisy downstairs when the engine is running?
Gaia Sibling - it’s mainly because there is too much noise from water and hull slap and too much motion in the front of the boat. The back of the saloon has the least amount of motion underway so it’s a comfortable place to sleep. It also puts the off watch person closer to the pilot house in case we need to jump up in an emergency.
My neighbor has Nord 60
Paid 1.7M for it
Says it’s a tank