Cruising Amongst Icebergs and Waterfalls in Southeast Alaska - Nordhavn 40, M/V Cassidy, Ep. 4
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- We explore the tidewater glaciers - Le Conte and Dawes (Endicot Arm), and Ford's Terror in Southeast Alaska.
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The way your daughter explains having to wipe the lens off is too cute!!! 😂❤. Great video!!!
Edit: I realize I’m about 4 years late to this party. Lol. But I’m just now catching Nordhavn fever. I’m hooked and working towards owning one myself in the future. I’ll follow y’all’s journey til then😎👍
Awesome! Cool Rich People! Haha,, I'm so tired of people buying yachts and parking them at a marina for cocktail parties & weekends. Its very nice to see people use these toys for what they are meant for. Exploring & Discovering!! So cool to share this with your child,, she'll never forget this and its far more educational than school. Very impressed with the video and your story,,, and of course, Ford's Terror! So Majestic!
👍😍Awesome views. 💝 @3:57 I was thinking “look there are people out there on the ice” then I realized that it was seals. 😂
I probably need to go to bed. Thanks for sharing your journey. Safe travels. 🤗💞🤗
I'm so pleased to have stumbled upon a Nordhavn vlog. I imagine it must be a lot of work, but I do hope you keep posting videos so I can live the dream vicariously through you. Cheers.
Thank you for taking us along!
Excellent videography and editing. Spectacular doesn’t begin to describe the scenery.
My wife and I have been thinking of buying a Nordhavn and watching your trip makes us wish we already had one.
Thans for taking us along the journey. A fabulous adventure!!!
What a great education you are giving your daughter.. Enjoy your travels!!
congratulations! you're doing what so many of us just dream of!!! great work on the videos. So many S/V channels but almost no M/V. Yours is excellent and will take off for sure...look forward to your next one. safe travels
Unbelievable footage! "Alaska" very fitting music for the conclusion. Excellent! Thank you for sharing. Happy Father's Day ; )
Absolutely stunning scenery, truly unique and so special. Thanks for sharing.
Ha! Love the comparison to Yosemite and your comment about having Grateful Dead tunes going. We're looking forward to anchoring out with you guys soon! JD, Jen & Ruby
Tight Little Tribe Sailing - let’s make a plan soon!
Great video; like your shots, voice over and choice of music. Keep it up. Safety journeys.
Your Most Awesome episode. Epic! Thanx M/V Cassidy. Beautifully done.
Very well done. Thanks for sharing your adventure. Safe sailing, Fair Weather and smooth seas to you all St Aug, FL
Beautiful, I'm glad I found this channel. I'm a big Nordhavn fan and look forward to following your travels.
Loved how you were reminded of Yosemite Valley crusing that passage /Great Vid /Nordhavn 40 sharp ship/good work...
The videography is just excellent. Looks like a wonderful family taking a trip where many memories will be made and cherished. Cheers...
Wonderful video. Hoping for safe waters and good journeys. Keep the vids coming!
Thank you so much for sharing your adventures!
beautiful! Good filming work Cassidy! Blessings!
3:28 Beautiful view right there, well done.
You have a pretty good channel.
Good job showing where you are. I would like to see a little bit more of the traveling and repair but only because I am considering purchasing a trawler and a couple minutes of that part is educational for me.
After spending 5 years in South America I came back to the states for 4 years and I have been planning my next few years in that time.
BeauJameson - we plan to post a lot more content in the near future. Both travels through. Central America and information about running the 56 Motorsailer and its systems.
Great life allowing us a peek cheers
Yosemite Valley in a Boat? Try Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite Natl. park. They essentially flooded a second version of Yosemite Valley with a dam. When you look at the waters of the "lake" they created on average it is over 300 feet deep. It is still a beautiful hike if you are so inclined.
I'm from the East Coast, USA. I am overwhelmed by the natural beauty of this passage. I am also intrigued to know how the Ranger Tug can carry enough fuel to stay with your Nordhavn and the Nordic Tugs.
Gorgeous anchorage! Wow! Almost reminded me of Norway! Good job guys!
Cool video, I also follow carolyn's RV who is also heading and probably already there via road who is also from the bay area. Look forward to more footage.
great video. i use to watch three@sea , a couple with their daughter and a 43 nordhavn , the little girl grew up and her many voyages ended, nice to see someone else doing the same
roger white - we watched all the 3 @ Sea videos too. It was definitely an inspiration!
Stunning views wow
Wow, beautiful I can't wait we will be there in 3 weeks. Denali here we come.
👍Oh yes @14:37 very fitting song. It’s not Grateful Dead, pretty spot on. Great editing! I know this video was posted 2 years ago, but with that kind of footage you could make postcards, framed prints and other art as well as screen shots and video footage that you could sell. 😍🤗
I like how you give visual ques at specific points in the video. Nice video.
This channel deserves a lot more subscribers. Awesome video!
Really great videos. Looking forward to more. As others have said, plenty of SV but few MV's.
Great video. Looks amazing
Awesome footage!
Great post...just continue to remind you kids that when they use to look out, they saw cars, and building and urban sprawl. At least that's what I would do:)
I am a new subscriber and really enjoyed your first few videos. Really looking forward to the boat tour and your subsequent adventures. I want to do the same thing when I retire but I don't want to do it with sails either so it is nice to find a good motor channel starting out. I look forward to your next great video!
All I can say is WOW!!
Awesome video.
Awesome scenery for sure. What a place to see.
Thanks again for sharing.
Love this channel! I hope to be doing this in my future as well. It would be a pleasure to share this with my kid one day. You do so much for their development. Great to see.
Fantastic, what is the depth where the Glacier enters the sea? Amazing entrance into Fords Terror! Love the shot of your daughter eating a sandwich and waving " no worries, Dads driving, piece of cake" Great attitude and trust. Choice of leaving music great.
Gogs - the depth at the face of the glaciers is at least hundreds of feet. There arms on the way in are all really deep with no real anchorages.
Here’s a link to a good chart of Tracy Arm and South Sawyer Glacier as an example. Note the depths on the chart are in fathoms: www.charts.noaa.gov/BookletChart/17311_BookletChart.pdf
Greetings from New York City: Love your videos. Looking at a St. Francis Catamaran and Nordhavn Motorsailer..... Thank you guys. Say hello To Cassidy.... :-)
Great videos.. thank you so much for sharing your adventure. I would be very interested in some info on the costs you incur from maintenance to fuel and marinas etc. Keep it up !
Amazing!
What is the red boat out there with you? Looks like a Sargo we are looking at but for the glass Aft doors. Thanks for all the sharing. My wife and I are planning to shake the nest and get going. This is all in the name of research! lol
Thank you again, Phil
Phil Muller - it’s a Ranger 29. Pretty cool boats in that you can run slow at trawler speed to save fuel but they will also get up and move fast if you need to. I just found out that the owner of the boat that we cruised with is selling it to move to a bigger boat:
www.yachtworld.com/boats/2017/ranger-tugs-r-29-cb-3487742/
M/V Cassidy Thank you.. Oh does it look like a sign. But you have just opened us to something I had not known of. A boat that can get some speed to get in town for dinner or nice and slow to see it all. My wife and I have been diving into this whole new world and loving it. I think the Rangers still look better to us for the fact that we can haul it out or selfs! Still a few years away from the baby getting into College and starting her big adventure which will open our door to go on ours..
I just saw on SlowBoats your Cassidy is up for sale in Dana Point. Good luck on your next adventure! Hope its another boat to do more and not that corp life pulled you back in.
God bless and happy holidays to you from all the Muller’s! :)
Phil & Leda
Every time my wife and I have anchored in Ford's Terror we were the only boat there. I'm shocked to see it so crowded.
+JandT LivingLife - we went in with 4 other boats so that was already a crowd and then a couple of relatively large tour boats came in on the next high slack.
Good Stuff.
Beautiful views but the drone was to close to the seals it stressed the mother as she was thought it was threatening her pup.
Great video, not a lot of MV videos out there.
Could you do a video of your outriggers and how they work.
I don't see many of those on nordhavens.
We’ve got plans to post a video with a full tour of the boat - have started filming it but proving to be fairly time consuming!
Great idea though. I’ll try to include a demonstration of deploying the outrigger and the paravane stabilizers.
Shh Tim The Tool man Taylor! Dang, could you please let me think there outriggers for nets, and soon a haul of tuna will break water...DANG.
I would love to see a video about how you financed this, weekly, monthly costs, budgeting, etc.
Great video and what an incredible adventure for a child, not to mention the parents...LOL.
Also you can oversee the actual education without all the teachers "personal" views. Look forward to more video's:)
Terrific job on the videos. Looking to make a similar trip next spring. Would be very interested to know what other boat makes and models are on the trip with you. There appears to be a red hulled Ranger Tug, if so, am surprised that a boat of that size and type is making the trip.
Steve Cieri - there are 3 Nordic Tugs (2 37s and a 34) with us and you were correct about the Ranger - it’s a 29.
The Nordic Tugs are super popular around here and probably one of the better choices for the inside passage. They have more speed than we do and you don’t really need an ocean crossing capable boat like we have for most of the inside passage. That said - it’s nice to have our stabilizers when it gets windy and around the “gates” like Cape Caution.
The 29 Ranger Tug is a really nice boat and plenty capable of making the trip - it just needs to go fast to prevent rolling when it’s rough and then fuel burn becomes an issue.
Awesome!
Smart idea using a drone for the aerial shots. Your videos, in spite of your apologies, are very well done. Thank you for going to the trouble of sharing your voyage with those of us who can only dream of such a thing.
The video editing, camera work and drone work was simply amazing. Is this something you do for a living? Very professional. Great content. I hope to see many more. Very lucky family.
Robert Skinner - definitely not something we do for a living. I’m a mechanical engineer by training and Jen is is a CPA / accounting management type.
Shooting and editing video is a new hobby that I picked up as a way to document our adventures on the boat - wherever it is that we may go next. Really enjoying it so far. The drone is a really neat tool because it opens up an entire new perspective and viewpoint of places.
You missed your calling Sir. I look forward to seeing more of your story unfold. I am trying to convince my wife to move to the cruising life. Video like your I am using to provide her some inspiration. My wife asked me to pass on that she adored your daughter talking about having to clear the camera lens when you were recovering your dingy.
Great Videos! Really looking forward to following your story. What kind of Drone are you using? I see you have both a Boston Whaler and rigid inflatable. Why both?
You probably get this a lot but id be curious to get a picture of the financial commitment for this lifestyle. Ive been looking at this myself for a while and trying to get an idea of when the right time to do it would be. Do you plan to live on savings or do you have a passive revenue to fund this lifestyle?
Cody McGowan - a couple of your questions are easy to answer.
The drone is a DJI Spark. It works surprisingly well for an inexpensive drone but I’m coming up on limitations with the short battery life and lack of a gimbal in the panning axis.
We have an 11 foot whaler but not a RIB. That boat was one we borrowed from another boat we were cruising with. I like the Whaler because there are no tubes to repair or maintain. Tradeoff is that it is heavy!
We do have another dinghy, a roll up inflatable Takacat with wheels for when we need to land on the beach.
The cost part is hard to answer. We haven’t been cruising long so don’t have a lot of data. There are some things that are easy to control like anchoring our vs staying in marinas, cooking on board vs eating out. The big variable is boat expenses. We’ve been fixing things like our hydronic diesel heater, watermaker, charging system etc. and sometimes you get hit with a big expense or a lot is small ones add up. I’ve seen a figure thrown around that boat maintenance can be 10% of the value of the boat annually, but that seems so arbitrary and I’m not sure I buy it. So I guess I’d say check back in after we’ve been at it a little longer and have more data.
Do you cruise at night with all those scary icebergs? Does your radar pick them up? Do boats your size have radars? Are all the screens in the captains room radars? Do you have to be a ship captain to drive your boat?
J Altenburg - We do have two radars but don’t run at night in the inside waters in the northwest - mainly because there are a kind t if logs and other debris that don’t show up well on radar. Offshore we will run 24/7 with someone always on watch.
The screens are configurable to show any instrument on the network. We plan to put up a video showing the inside of the boat, including the pilothouse in the near future.
You know those seals can jump out the water like 10 feet right? Coming up on a mama seal like that, one time you might loose your drone bro... Hahaha. Awesome footage tho.
What camera are you guys using
I too would love to know about your cameras and what you use for video editing. Guessing Adobe Premiere. We too are in the early planning of selling it all and moving onto a Nordhavn. We’ve lived on 56 foot Hatteras in the Great Lakes, but want to find a more seaworthy vessel for coastal cruising. Your channel has sealed the deal for both of us! Fantastic work and thanks in advance for taking the time to share your experience with the world!
Great video, it's a beautiful place to sail.
But a heads up on the seals, please don't approach seals with pups. The pups need the mother's warmth and haven't developed enough blubber to keep themselves warm when she's chased off.
Thanks for posting, not a lot of MV pages out there. I was starting to get a little tired of of watching whiny sailboat people.... Not sure if you’ve seen them, but If you want some good ideas of cool places to go to in Alaska you should check out some of Tony Flemings videos....
Love the vids but please don't disturb the animals with a drone.
Nice video I hope you shoot more nice images.
Where are you guys I noticed you had put your for sale
Barry Ness - we are just returning from a trip to San Carlos, MX where we went to look at a very unique boat that we thought may have had a chance of being the “next” boat. We will post an account of the trip soon.
An awesome boat but seems to not be exactly right for us right now, we we will continue to hone in on another Nordhavn and hope the timing works out when our boat sells.
VERY NICE ! THANKS =]
can you do some videos on your cost breakdown too - hos much is all this costing in real money and how much do you plan to burn over the next few years.
ysesq - we’ve had a lot of requests for information about cost and budget. The truth is that we do have a plan but no where near enough data to know whether our planned budget jibes with real world spending. It is something we may share in the future as we get some time cruising behind us and a better set of data.
Damn, I miss what I used to do for a living !!!!!!!
Captain BUCKLEY(ret.)
I really want a DFF3D now!
T H - the 3D sounder is pretty cool. I’ve found that it works really well for verifying where we are with respect to contours and rocks on the charts in the narrow passages in BC and Alaska. Have not tested it out much as a fish finding tool yet unfortunately!
Excellent...At 7:52 in the video, the DFF3D shows the charted rock passing just as you look down. We should add a little more history so that it is not as easy to miss targets....Perhaps a zoom out window on the display....???
Great videos. At the end or the beginning you should remind people to like and/or subscribe/comment... many people will just forget if you don’t remind them even though they love the videos
You can pay for music rights through the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (“ASCAP”); Broadcast Music, Inc. (“BMI”); and the Society of European Stage Authors and Composers (“SESAC”) collectively, the “Performing Rights Organizations” for musical works. I use to have to pay for rights when I owned a online county music radio station. Then you just respond to youtube and tell them you paid the rights to use the song.
Love the videos. The area looks serene... But, the music is way too heavy in nature and the leveling distracts from the video. I hope you take this as constructive criticism because I do videos.
+Lee Scheel - we appreciate it. Our videos have been evolving over time and I always appreciate constructive feedback. It’s been fun making these videos and we are trying to be constantly learning as far as the editing goes.
Fantasy video
Be Careful. A Resurgence in Raping , Murdering Pirates on Cruisers.