You know something that occurs to me is that you two real are proficient at making necessary repairs both short term and long term. A little intimidating I must admit when I review my own skill set. What you have done with Skua and what you accomplished with Kitty before is really pretty amazing. Thanks for sharing your journey.
This is the second boat video I've watched this morning with boats being pulled out and a pickling procedure done to the water system. I like the pulley block idea at the reefing points. It's amazing how a new sail feels.
Eeeek! No thanks with the scary fog!! Great video guys, hope you're doing well in more tropical places, sure you've no need for coats there! Sending love xx
I have seen blocks on the luff at each reef but never on the leech as you can just put the reef line from the boom up through the cringle and down to the boom with a bowline onto itself. Those blocks flapping around look a bit hazardous. Always nice to get new Dacron though 👍
Bonjour vous deux. C'est toujours un plaisir de voir s'afficher la notification de la mise en ligne de vos vidéos. Maintenant que vous avez une grand voile neuve vous êtes tranquilles pour quelques années et vous pouvez envisager la traversée de l'atlantique plus sereinement. Bravo pour cette navigation de nuit au milieu des bateaux de migrants. Les repérer ne peux se faire qu'à l'oreille car ils ne disposent d'aucun système de localisation. Encore bravo pour votre sang froid. Bonne continuation. Prenez soin de vous.
Great video again guys. Nice new sail too skua is having lots of love which shows. looking through the comments there are sailors learning from you, that is impressive !! Take care guys.
Great idea with the block at the reef point. You learn something new every day:) The sail looks so nice (and new clean;) congrats guys. Great upload🙂Stay safe, Stay healthy and happy ⚓⛵❤
Hit the like before I viewed the entire video because I like what you two have done to make excellent videos. Thank you. Yes I was correct great video.
Beautiful mainsail!!! We just picked up our first yacht today, a little Sonata 6. Can't wait to get out there! Fair winds and calm seas! Ben and Deborah :)
Guys another brilliant video. Thank you. Whilst reducing the size of the main is a good idea, not sure about not having battons in the main. For windward beats battons help flatten the main enabling a closer haul. On the other hand, you appear so far to have avoided hard beats to windward, so maybe you are applying Adlard Coles’ recommendation - gentlemen only beat upwind in up to force 3, reach in a force 4 and go downwind in a force 5. Look forward to your next instalment.
New sail looks great. Tradewind 33's suffer the same weather helm issue as Main is too big. My friend took eight inches off his sail and cured the problem. Apparently his boats previous owner sailed around the world with the 1st reef permanently in and when he got back ordered the exact same sail! Was planning to reduce the size on mine this year but lockdown has put paid to that idea. Next season. Hopefully your Weather Helm will be gone. New sail wont be baggy either so should be great. Best regards Tom
ah that brought back some memories, I bought my yacht in Almerimar and then got stuck there for about four weeks with a broken gearbox. Bit of a soulless place but cheap tapas and a lidl/aldi within easy walking distance
The new main looks huge! I'm surprised that it doesn't have any battens! Can you feel the difference? Now that you went on the hard, are you going to address the chain plate issues? Hopefully so, then you can start your big passage to the West! Nice tuna kids! I'll bet that tasted good! Love that you have a Radar just in case!
Hi there, we are considering FarEast sails and just wondered how your main sail and genoa is doing 6 months on? I know you mentioned in the video that you were happy with the yanky.
My biggest fear while commercial fishing the gulf of Maine is sailboats at night when moderate seas and they have no AIS and 2 radars have hard time picking them up. And very little navigation lights on. I make my vessel look like a city with lights. I love sailors but is there a reason for lack of navigation lights
The "city" makes it hard to pick out your nav lights to determine heading and it makes you night blind so you can't see by dilating your pupils and you can't see anything . I run with my nav lights on and all other lighting minimized and red so I can see at night and you can see me .....if you wen't blinded by your own lights . Very little navigation light - lol they are specified by Colregs
Hi, as always very enjoyable we noticed your water maker is an Osmosea did you fit it? If so is it in one of your previous videos? How have you found living with the Osmosea? We have one that we have yet to fully commission and use so would appreciate your thoughts as there's not much real world info on line about them. Cheers
3 years in all sorts of conditions wearing our old hiking clothes and a €9 waterproof yellow jacket from the fishing shop 😁👍 Sailing clothing must be a marketing thing?
Hey the crew, your main looks small for the mast/boom. At least on video. Was it not possible to improve the main sail area ? Any reason to keep it smaller ?
I really would not put those blocks on the trailing edge of the sail. They will chafe the heck out of the fabric local to them. I wonder why you went with such a fractional area main. That ship is heavy, and needs a lot of drive from a big main.
Yes, in light airs, they will chafe that new sail like crazy. In heavy airs too they will not rest. The blocks will chew up the trailing edge and that would be a pity. We have similar ships. We have the USC Polaris 36, and her rig is very similar and she crossed the North Atlantic. Just use the orthodox reefing technique. It works fine, my friend. It just needs a bit more pull. Fair winds.
We’ve crossed the Atlantic in real time and there’s zero chafing. We’ve now used both reefing techniques and vastly prefer blocks as it means we can haul in most of the reefing line by hand downwind and have minimal winching at the end, maybe you should try it. I explained about reducing the size of the main and the weather helm in a recent video, should explain it clearly.
Nice video! Would you perhaps have the name of your first boat? (Kittiwake) I've been looking online and as you said you paid around $12,000 for it but I cannot find the same Boat
No used boat costs the same. We negotiated that price because she needed a lot of work. We did the same for Skua. You need to look carefully and negotiate, via a survey 😊
Got a spin from them , looks great , well made . Not fast . My 30 year old one is faster . Great cruising spin if you didn't know better and most don't care about that last 1/4 knot
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You know something that occurs to me is that you two real are proficient at making necessary repairs both short term and long term. A little intimidating I must admit when I review my own skill set. What you have done with Skua and what you accomplished with Kitty before is really pretty amazing. Thanks for sharing your journey.
was going to comment but you said it better than i could.
This is the second boat video I've watched this morning with boats being pulled out and a pickling procedure done to the water system. I like the pulley block idea at the reefing points. It's amazing how a new sail feels.
Fresh, crispy sail was very satisfying to watch! Hope you are still loving life in Bequia, am looking forward to your journey there 😁
Eeeek! No thanks with the scary fog!! Great video guys, hope you're doing well in more tropical places, sure you've no need for coats there! Sending love xx
I have seen blocks on the luff at each reef but never on the leech as you can just put the reef line from the boom up through the cringle and down to the boom with a bowline onto itself. Those blocks flapping around look a bit hazardous. Always nice to get new Dacron though 👍
Bonjour vous deux. C'est toujours un plaisir de voir s'afficher la notification de la mise en ligne de vos vidéos. Maintenant que vous avez une grand voile neuve vous êtes tranquilles pour quelques années et vous pouvez envisager la traversée de l'atlantique plus sereinement. Bravo pour cette navigation de nuit au milieu des bateaux de migrants. Les repérer ne peux se faire qu'à l'oreille car ils ne disposent d'aucun système de localisation. Encore bravo pour votre sang froid. Bonne continuation. Prenez soin de vous.
Great video again guys. Nice new sail too skua is having lots of love which shows. looking through the comments there are sailors learning from you, that is impressive !! Take care guys.
Thank you so much Richard 🙏☺️
Read in the British press that you had made it to Caribbean OK and in viral ignorance:-)
Spot on this makes for a nice watch during my lunch break.
Very Nice
Hello you guys!!!Travel safe and be careful!!!♥️🇬🇷♥️
Lovely new sail guys, can’t argue with the Pardey’s advice. Say safe. Andy UK
Cheers Andy!
Great idea with the block at the reef point. You learn something new every day:) The sail looks so nice (and new clean;) congrats guys. Great upload🙂Stay safe, Stay healthy and happy ⚓⛵❤
Hit the like before I viewed the entire video because I like what you two have done to make excellent videos. Thank you. Yes I was correct great video.
Aw! Thank you!
Beautiful mainsail!!! We just picked up our first yacht today, a little Sonata 6. Can't wait to get out there! Fair winds and calm seas! Ben and Deborah :)
nice ~
it look like a new boat !
Guys another brilliant video. Thank you. Whilst reducing the size of the main is a good idea, not sure about not having battons in the main. For windward beats battons help flatten the main enabling a closer haul. On the other hand, you appear so far to have avoided hard beats to windward, so maybe you are applying Adlard Coles’ recommendation - gentlemen only beat upwind in up to force 3, reach in a force 4 and go downwind in a force 5.
Look forward to your next instalment.
nice sail
I hope all is well with the both of you! I learned a lot from your comparison of the main sail having with or without battens. Thanks!
Pacific Solo : it’s battens not buttons
@@frankd2301 Thanks, I appreciate the correction!
New sail looks great. Tradewind 33's suffer the same weather helm issue as Main is too big. My friend took eight inches off his sail and cured the problem. Apparently his boats previous owner sailed around the world with the 1st reef permanently in and when he got back ordered the exact same sail! Was planning to reduce the size on mine this year but lockdown has put paid to that idea. Next season. Hopefully your Weather Helm will be gone. New sail wont be baggy either so should be great. Best regards Tom
ah that brought back some memories, I bought my yacht in Almerimar and then got stuck there for about four weeks with a broken gearbox. Bit of a soulless place but cheap tapas and a lidl/aldi within easy walking distance
Yes it has its benefits 😊
I think full battens give a much better shape in all winds however you make fair points about reefing downwind etc....God bless x
The new main looks huge! I'm surprised that it doesn't have any battens! Can you feel the difference? Now that you went on the hard, are you going to address the chain plate issues? Hopefully so, then you can start your big passage to the West! Nice tuna kids! I'll bet that tasted good! Love that you have a Radar just in case!
After sailing your Tayana for awhile now do you miss your catamaran?
Finally sailors who understand that huge sails for cruising are a waste.
😊👍
That knot you used to tie the reefing blocks looks intetesting. What is its name?
Correct! 😊
Everyone else wants a huge main and then reef it 95% of the time. Why not start with a smaller main? Excellent
I have a small main, but hugely overpowered Genoa instead 🤠
Sailing the Cosmos : oops. I’d never get more than 100%
Now you will suffer in lite wind even more with reduced sail area. Did you try racking the mast forward a bit to get rid of the weather helm?
Hi there, we are considering FarEast sails and just wondered how your main sail and genoa is doing 6 months on? I know you mentioned in the video that you were happy with the yanky.
We are very happy with both.
Just curious what efforts you put into tuning the rig to reduce weather helm ? I assume you are aiming for 2-5% like you are supposed to have
My biggest fear while commercial fishing the gulf of Maine is sailboats at night when moderate seas and they have no AIS and 2 radars have hard time picking them up. And very little navigation lights on. I make my vessel look like a city with lights. I love sailors but is there a reason for lack of navigation lights
The "city" makes it hard to pick out your nav lights to determine heading and it makes you night blind so you can't see by dilating your pupils and you can't see anything . I run with my nav lights on and all other lighting minimized and red so I can see at night and you can see me .....if you wen't blinded by your own lights . Very little navigation light - lol they are specified by Colregs
Hi, as always very enjoyable we noticed your water maker is an Osmosea did you fit it? If so is it in one of your previous videos? How have you found living with the Osmosea? We have one that we have yet to fully commission and use so would appreciate your thoughts as there's not much real world info on line about them. Cheers
Yup. Here: th-cam.com/video/Vn3gwt3ozWg/w-d-xo.html
And here: th-cam.com/video/j4SqN7dVvro/w-d-xo.html
We love it.
I can't believe you've managed to make it so far without branded sailing clothing! It's almost as if people are wasting their money.
3 years in all sorts of conditions wearing our old hiking clothes and a €9 waterproof yellow jacket from the fishing shop 😁👍 Sailing clothing must be a marketing thing?
Hey the crew, your main looks small for the mast/boom. At least on video. Was it not possible to improve the main sail area ? Any reason to keep it smaller ?
Listen to what they say in the video. That explains it all. regards
Thanks so much Gary!
@@SailingKittiwake I did not get it all, maybe my english is not good enough, sorry. I'll try to figure it out.
Where did you find her? :)
th-cam.com/video/6sy5T57UryM/w-d-xo.html regards
I really would not put those blocks on the trailing edge of the sail. They will chafe the heck out of the fabric local to them. I wonder why you went with such a fractional area main. That ship is heavy, and needs a lot of drive from a big main.
Will it chafe on the Atlantic?
Yes, in light airs, they will chafe that new sail like crazy. In heavy airs too they will not rest. The blocks will chew up the trailing edge and that would be a pity. We have similar ships. We have the USC Polaris 36, and her rig is very similar and she crossed the North Atlantic. Just use the orthodox reefing technique. It works fine, my friend. It just needs a bit more pull. Fair winds.
We’ve crossed the Atlantic in real time and there’s zero chafing. We’ve now used both reefing techniques and vastly prefer blocks as it means we can haul in most of the reefing line by hand downwind and have minimal winching at the end, maybe you should try it. I explained about reducing the size of the main and the weather helm in a recent video, should explain it clearly.
No problem to two young sea dogs..!!!( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°) thanks for the upload as usual stay safe...x
Haha! Thank you.
Nice video! Would you perhaps have the name of your first boat? (Kittiwake) I've been looking online and as you said you paid around $12,000 for it but I cannot find the same Boat
yachts.apolloduck.com/boat/heavenly-twins-26/619835 Took me 5 seconds to find it. 16k now.
No used boat costs the same. We negotiated that price because she needed a lot of work. We did the same for Skua. You need to look carefully and negotiate, via a survey 😊
This video might help: th-cam.com/video/nZgR0QD05u8/w-d-xo.html
👍👍👌✌️
Got a spin from them , looks great , well made . Not fast . My 30 year old one is faster . Great cruising spin if you didn't know better and most don't care about that last 1/4 knot
First again South Australia
sorry to spoil your little joke Zeb was here but his pencil broke..( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@Zeb1432 I love how you made your comment 5 minutes older then the one you replied to, no idea how you did it but 👍🏼
That is a shame such a supposedly seaworthy boat has an overpowered mainsail
Not anymore :)