21 Nov 2022 A case for the modest boat. Some adventages found sailing non big boats for 60 years.
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I say, boats of modest size gives much joy and few problems.
Others say that they like the comfort that big boats give but they misunderstand life.
Comfort makes you fat and bored. It’s better to be agile and vivacious.
You can only get energy by using energy.
But big boats gets you around the globe, you should try it once! ;)
@@linusd3551 A small boat can get you around the globe much faster if you include the building time.
It also uses much less of the non renewable resources.
@@SvenYrvindExlex What boat can you recommend, if i don't have the time or knowledge to build my own?
@@linusd3551 That's a bit of a "How long is a piece of string" question. People have crossed oceans in every type of boat.
You are very cool Cuckoo guy . I love your composition of spirit ))Hope to meet you one day .
a small boat is a small headache. a big boat is a big headache.
Thanks to YOU my friend. You are a inspiration for all of us who also believe that small boats are way more fun! Im building a 20 foot gaff rigged sailboat here in Brazil. Im fiberglassing the hull this week! Thanks for sharing your adventures with us! I am looking forward to see you sailing again!
Thanks for this great video.
Yrvind is Salior Legend!
I love that square lugsail mizzen used as a self-steering vane. No need for a servo and all the co0mplication that involves and easy to make and repair and almost zero cost. Brilliant!
Like the idea of Go small, go now. I have a 6 m trailer sailer. Can be pulled by a normal car. Use a normal boat ramp. I can go in all costal waters in Sweden, on big lakes. Even take it to Norway, Finland or Denmark if I want. Whith a larger boat you have to choose a place and more or less stay there for the summer. I can go to different places during a season. It was fun squeeze my 40000 sek boat in between the million sek boats at Smögen with all the posh sailors. The smallest mast in the habour. Do they get more sailing for all those money more? I doubt it. Most of them spend alot of time at the dock.
With a longer boats all the forces grow in square and all the materials grow in cubic. And so does the cost of everything. On a small boat the forces are dinghy sized, and so are ropes, blocks, kleets, shackels etc.
Generally speaking and within reason - the bigger the boat the less you really use it unless you're a live-on-board. Being able to single-hand your vessel is liberating and a joy. Pocket cruisers are a great way to go. Book a motel when you get there. Shallow water cruising is open to smaller vessels and inlets don't like deep keels. Tailor your boat to its purpose. Draft matters and some boats are swingers. I still keep a small wood boat under cover. great topic ! Welded aluminum these days and shallow draft.
Love your boats.
Love your approach to life.
Great admiration for you sir.
Mr. Yrvind is correct on so many levels. My wife and I live on our Beneteau 473. For "our" sailing, we do short trips on this boat. For myself? I was lucky enough to find, and buy, a beautiful 1973 Fisksatra Havsfidra 20, named Pippi - and she is a safer, and much more pleasurable boat for me. The "thrill" of owning a large sailboat has finally left me...
Thanks for sharing you're boat history. Looking forward to you're next adventure.
Enjoyed the film clips of your previous boats Sven. You are certainly a perfect example of the use of small boats for cruising and building of the small boat yourself. Thank you Sven for reminding us that small and strong is more sustainable than large and expensive.
That's so funny you remember the A&P from Martha's Vineyard!! Nott sure if it's there anymore , I know they closed the ones here on the mainland!! So awesome the boats you've made and cruises you've been on around the world!! Thanks for sharing all this with us Sven it's is so cool 😎 stay safe and healthy Sven🙏🙏
I agree! Smaller is better. I retired up north (Illinois/Wisconsin boarder) freezing cold in a 3500 SqFt home, sold it and moved to Clearwater Fl, 200 yards from the Gulf of Mexico and purchased a 900 Sq Ft home. Less cleaning. Would still like to get a small sail boat, maybe sail around the Gulf of Mexico... Hopefully
All great points. My Pearson Triton 28 is a the smallest boat my wife is willing to sail on with me, at least in the ocean. I could put it on a trailer if I really needed to. If it was just me, I would go smaller, but I'm glad it's not just me. You always impress me, Mr. Yrvind. Very few people in the US have any idea what A&P stands for. Well done.
What, the supermarket Russ? I'm British but I believe I know the correct answer - the name of two rather large bodies of water!
Thanks Sven for sharing your story, God Bless you. Sailing is a wonderful way to live!! From Buffalo NY
ambie bris is a gem of a boat.
😊 always great to see your other boats!
I live in a mini van and have a 35' sloop. I thought it was a small boat. But working on it alone is tough, I don't get to sail as much as I'd like. And don't get me started on the price of parts 😑😑😑.
Big boats= big work, big prices, and a little bit of sailing.
Small boat=🌟🌟
tbh, there's not actually that much difference in the running and maintenance costs of a 25ft boat and a 45ft boat really. yes Sails are a bit cheaper (but not if you get good secondhand Sails, or unused new sails) and a bit more antifouling and engine oil. Bigger with Aft Cockpit means Solar Arch able to mount worthwhile amount of solar panels (only relevant for liveaboard really. example, the 45ft boat I'm planning on getting- a decent 316 strong Solar Arch will mount 4x 250 watt high efficiency Monocrystalline Panels weighing 15kg each. Below the Cockpit there is space behind the engine for a generator, in which 4x 200ah Lifepo4 batteries weighing 23kg each the same distance below the Cockpit as the panels are above the Cockpit = balancing out the panels plus a decent amount of the leverage of the top of the arch itself. 1,000watts, will pretty much run everything on the boat, and the Batteries, if not fast charged (kept at say 0 .2C Charge rate, and never discharged below 50% capacity, can still be good after maybe 30 years. By which time, being able to recycle Lifepo4 Battedies will have been worked out. Recycling doubts for Lifepo4 batteries almost had me sticking to 100% Recycleable AGM batteries, until I worked out how to really make Lifepo4 Batteries last by dramatically increasing the recharge Cycles, after chatting with a Manufacturer. Some stuff tou simply can't do with a too small boat if you intend to live in one. Sad, yes, but it is what it is. Best Wishes and Fair Winds. Bob. 👍
One can buy a generator the size of a suitcase nowdays that while 14' boat would be difficult to carry, my 23' boat would be just fine with one plus 3 or 4 of the batteries you mention. Really there are so many options out there and combos that even in a
@@brownnoise357 you are definitely spot on with the costs of boat sizing. Which is why I'm building a 19' 6" sailboat. Maybe world cruising is not viable, but I think Sven Yrvind has the right idea. I just want to sail, so I'm going straight bare bones simple. Three to four months capacity. 🤷 We'll see if it works out.
Sven Loved this video and you are an inspiration. Keep up that wonderful Viking spirit young man. Blessings to you and yours coming at you from the mountains of Southern Oregon
I enjoyed watching this again. Though I don't see my comments! ✝️🙏❤️🇺🇸🇸🇪⛵️👣🍍😊
He is on an adventure of life, liking the passion he has for his boats. This is what life's about.
Life is really about serving Jesus. He's the best boat ❤
Absolute truth, it is after all the beginning of sail, the intended purpose, that is pushing the boundaries to the unknown. Greetings from Maine.
Look at any marina, and you will find its small boats that actually get sailed on. There will be numerous expensive yachts say 30' to 50' in size in their boat slips, and its the 14' sailing dingy or something similar that is actually out on the water being enjoyed by its sailors.
What a beautiful craft!!!
Very good points!
A small boat can take you many places. I enjoyed meeting you in Horta a few years ago and look forward to seeing you again.
Which boat was your favourite? Which was easiest to sail, and which one did you find most comfortable on long journeys?
Bris. the first one was good.
Like girls the all had desirable qualities but of different kind.
Bris could not dry out but that could Amfibie Bris and also the yellow boat.
You can have the biggest boat but you still need a little boat to get ashore Great vid Sven
One of the most dangerous aspects of boating is getting between the big boat and the small boat. It gets harder the older you get.
If you still can alone to rise mainsail - that is your boat size. 😎
Great stuff ,thanks 🙏
gr8 little mini-yachts you have. i always love watching your adventures. 🤩 i have a tiny sailing yacht also that i use on a lake. and i sail a kayak when i am not using that boat. when i lived in the south pacific, i sailed an outrigger canoe i made out of a log, and had a little trimaran and catamaran that i built. happy sailing!😎
Much agreed the smaller boat is enough and sensible. Not being allowed to live on my 20’ is the reason I spend years now working on the 36’. Less is better most of the time.
It seems most people want the comfort and storage of a large apartment.. And will tolerate only slightly more motion..
One design feature I like is the lack of any real chain plate for the stays and shrouds… Just some hard points for synthetic rigging to be tied - elegant! Nothing to leak, and nothing to corrode! Even if the hard point were to be damage in a collision it would be relatively easy to repair it.
One thing I think I’d want (but am probably wrong about) is some kind of deck bulwark against which my feet could rest, especially while in heavy seas. I gather that the idea is to rarely if ever go on deck?
The masts are freestanding so there is no stays and shrouds.
@@SvenYrvindExlex, ah, of course - my mistake!
@@SvenYrvindExlex, oh wait.. Is that true even for the yellow boat? What are the lines the run between the gunels and upward on the mast?
@@matthewprather7386 It is true starting after the yellow boat including the present and feuture ones.
I wish some of the naysayers watching his new boat build would watch this video! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Only trouble is it is a bit of a problem trying to live on a small boat, and discomfort brings with it serious Safety issues as well. Obviously I have great admiration for him "Doing things his way, and with great success, but different strokes for different folks. Personally, I feel there are compromises to be made to end up with something Big enough as well as Small enough, which for me, is a Sailboat under too big, and large enough to live aboard that is not too small. So nothing over 50 foot, and nothing under 40ft (for me due to some special considerations due to my age and factors needed to keep me on a Sailboat), but if young and fit enough a pretty decent liveaboard can be had in the 30ft range - my last single hander Sailboat to live on, was 32ft, but tbh, not exactly comfortable, though it sailed well, and which confirmed I needed a bigger boat much easier to move around on and in. For me, just to be able to stay with Sailboats, that sweet spot is mid 40ft range and as much as anything initially to be a nice experience for a delivery crew taking boat and me, where I want it to be taken. Lifecthrows us walls to climb, and that's how I can climb the present wall, with a boat that God willing, will take me into my 90's with the joy that comes from being Afloat in a Sailboat, and totally connected with Nature. Everyone else's mileage will vary. Best Wishes and Fair Winds. Bob. 👍🏴
I'm sorry, I didn't read any of these "serious safety concerns" that you alledge smaller boats have. There may be some comfort or lifestyle issues, but "serious safety concerns" seems like an exaggeration. There are plenty of 20 something foot boats that are just as equipped to live on for one as any 40 something footer...now if one has special needs then that's by definition an extenuating circumstance. Sounds like something a marina might make up to ensure that only well to do people are able to apply for live aboard status
@@norml.hugh-mann Never tried Sailing Solo or with someone else on a long Trip, like an Ocean Crossing, on a boat incapable of Providing a very Comfortable Period of Deep Sleep then have you ? It should be bloody obvious just how Serious the Safety issues are that can Rapidly Arise. Or do you not have a Functioning Brain due to excessive tiredness resulting in your inability to think Clearly, such that you can't join Rational words together to create a Coherent Comment ? That Tiredness affects the ability to make Correct Action Decisions has long been a Confirmed Reality Right ? An AIS Transceiver has been a huge help when Offshore with Loud Proximity alarms for other vessels getting too close, which have enabled A Deep Sleep period of up to a reasonable period depending on Circumstances, but the Maximum sleep period for me has been 45 minutes efore being woken by the Non AIS Alarm to wake up, Scan the Horizon and the AIS Screen plus Radar, to check what's around, before resetting the Alarm and getting back to sleep. Frankly, 4 days and nights of that was enough to have me Heaving to, and getting 6 hours of Solid sleep. Easier if there are two on board, but my next Sailboat will have comfortable sleeping accommodation for Seven, including myself, so that Nobody gets Tired Enough to Start making Stupid and Dangerous Mistakes. If all you do is Coastal Sailing or Short Distance island hopping, then Ssrious Safety issues due to Tiredness shouldn't arise, but an over relia ce on Weather Forecasts an really Ruin your Day, and you need to keep a regular eye on right here right now, with what a Barometer, or better yet a Barograph is telling you, and the ability to understand what one is Saying. Same goes for paying attention to what Weatherhelm is saying, about Depowering your Sails in time, you know (or don't ) being mentally alert and infected to your Environment, so that You Have Not Become the Boats Safsty Hazard ? If you haven't started Sailing yet, which seems likely, I recommend starting with a two sailed Dinghy like UGOR STROPNIK Used in his video for New Sailors on his TH-cam Channel. That is one of the Best Teaching Aids I have ever seen, just look through his Channel ideo list, and you'll find it. I used Caps as a Aid to get people to the right Channel. Igor is Croatian, but he has very good English. Starting Out with a Single Sail Dinghy is OK, can still acquire a pretty good feel, but having two Sails does fill in some important Gaps. Croatia does appear to be a nice place to do some Sailing Courses at reasonable Cost too. If zstarting Out with Sailboats, I think I'd head there to get some experience under my Belt, as a preparation foundation for RYA purses. The USA Traing Courses are dry good too, and you can do the first qualifications Online too. Though not needing to, when in the USA buying my last Sailboat, I thought they were worth a look, and I was impressed. Something else that impressed me, to further Boating Safety for Evdryone, No Marine VHF Licence for the Boat or personal Licen es to use Marine VHF Radios were needed. So Why have we been lumbered with them ? Not exactly assisting Safdty at Sea is it. 🤔
WOW, I really enjoyed this video with some of your sailing history. Though I have been watching you a lite before you sailed to Horta in Azores. That's where you met Sam Holmes.
I love it. You are amazing.
Thank you very much for sharing
I noticed Olga was crew on at least one of your voyages. Where is Olga today?
Which do you enjoy more, sailing or boat building? Curious minds want to know.
They are so different that they do not compare and for me they cannot be separated as there are no good boats to find.
You have to build them.
UN GRAN SALUDO DESDE ARGENTINA CAPITAN !!!
Hei!!! 60 year sailing experience!! Yo have owned really beautifull boats. I like and share your thoughts about small boats. I own a 17 feet sailboat... and it's ridiculous how people think that you need help when the find you at remote places... I hope to see your works on next 12000 days at least!!!😃 Big hugh!!
Bring Your Own Ice-cream! I am crushed, the saddest day of my life Sven. But okay, so it is... I will bring several Imperial Gallons - Vanilla only (my favorite). Thank you for the video, the evolution of your various craft are quite interesting sir.
In recent years I’ve been realising that less is more really is true in many cases, in the case these tiny boats I think one great advantage is the strength to weight which applies to most things small.
Vivacious would be a great name for one of your boats. 👍
Like the pink panther music at 3:57 😊
Sailing "Puff"the little yellow boat that could float !🇨🇦😄
I like one with forward view window & controls inside & a single main sail.
I'm not sure that I'd be happy in a small boat as I'm a little claustrophobic, but as far as being strong hull wise and sailing gear wise, you're exactly right, very strong. By looking at the videos the progress in hull design made for a better sailing vessel as well. I hope you get a chance to sail to New Zealand for a taste of that Kiwi ice cream. Good Luck on your Birthday. How old are you again?
I have the same flag flying on my truck! I STAND WITH SWEDEDN !
As prefect marin saling
The smaller the boat the more the fun. Understanding that at sea, a man and his ship are ONE! The less needs the better, simpler is always better, smaller is usually simpler...
When your life depends on it, less is more.
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Is the such a thing as a small, self righting, unsinkable, ocean crossing production sailboat? Or must you build it yourself.
And I thought US Navy Frigates were small... Bad weather was a Puke-Fest! This short vessel would be scary in large swells. I suppose you just dog the hatches and ride it out? I assume it is self-righting. The end result is a beautiful sight. Nice lines..
Its so very sad more humans don’t think like this man, I get it if you have a family of 8 your going to need a bigger boat! Most of us sailors are not right in the head and want to solo passage! Why not a smaller boat?
I'm reminded of Dave Martin who set off round the world in a 25ft boat and gained a wife and three children on the way. TH-camr Wind Hippie Sailing is his daughter.
@@cornishhh 25ft boat is a decent sized boat for one that is creative for 4 people!
One day your children grown and fly away. In that day you choose small and cozy boat for single/couple sailing. My choice Havsfidra-20. 😎
The music at minute 5:14 is maybe even better than the boat.
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Do you do any fishing on your voyages. Thank you!
Take 63!!!!
If You add up all Your boats-how long will that ship be? ;-)
Good Luck turning 100!
havsfidra is it a good safe boat,if you know the boat,i,m thinking of buying one,hallo from Germany
Same reason you have a big shop.
Yrvind admits his body suffers from having no moving space on his boats.
Hello Sven. Are your sextant designs available to buy from the UK?
They are available on Mr Yrvind's website. Price is around 900 US dollars.
Sven, you inspired me to start building a ML Paradox we’ll see how it goes as a East Coast US coastal cruiser. Either modify it or build a scaled up 20% (next build) to cross the Atlantic.
Also! Will you ever make build plans available for your vessels? I’d buy them.
Its kinda funny how things go. I bought an 1979 Maxi 84, a 28 foot sloop that i intended to restore a little and sell again to buy a bigger boat to live aboard. Now i have had my boat for 6 months and im liking it better and better and am now wondering if i should not just build this boat up to my dream boat? Im not one of those that need to brag about size or worth and i find this boat to be pretty well suited to my lifestyle. Only thing that worries me is its not exactly a blue water boat so longer passages might be a challenge.
Check out Wind Hippie. Go back to her early adventures. Small, and Blue Water.
@@delukxy Yeah ive seen her. She is a proper sailor!
Small yes, but should it be a bit longer? I'm still leaning towards Viking Long Boat hull design for faster long distance travel. Things get hairy fast in a short dinghy, also the sail area, especially the mast height in a small boat is very limited. This limits the top speed and average travel speed, making crossings and long distance travels unecessarily agonizing.
Your mom had a cool Saab! What year is that model?
No idea but I liked her very much. Fun to drive with free spinning wheels.
Did he say he was STUCK for 150 days?
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Small boats require big brain /heart.
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A case which I think needs stating much more often.
Couldn't think of anything worse, strong trades and wet conditions and you are locked in a stuffy coffin with zero ventilation in 35 degree heat with 90 percent humidity. Those boats may work in cooler climates.
sailing for the masochist
Thats, one point of veiw!