Just thought I'd drop a line and mention that my mom was a violinist who played the soundtrack to the title theme of The Littlest Hobo and worked on the tv series. Love your videos. Long time watcher.
As a Canadian I had no idea the Littlest Hobo was shown anywhere else in the world. Memory of that show theme gave me the warm and fuzzies this morning. Thanks Nick
Hi, Tip for med mooring: Always leave enough space between your boat (or tender) and the dock. Ferries passing nearby can create waves that may slam your boat into the dock. (I learned that the hard way …)
I am absolutely gobsmacked that Nick knows about The Littlest Hobo show and the theme song too! It was a Canadian produced show that was I grew up watching. I had no idea it was aired anywhere outside of Canada.
There is a good technique for "lassoing" bollards that you should try. Both ends of the mooring line remain attached to the boat. Stand inside the loop and find the mid point of the line. Coil half the line into 3 foot circumference loops in one hand. Coil the other half of the line into your other hand. Leave 4 to 5 feet of the line's midpoint between the 2 coils hanging in front of your knees. Face straight toward the bollard. Swing both coils backward on each side of your body in an underhand softball pitching motion and toss them both at the same time. Angle them apart in a slight V. This will form one big loop as it flies through the air. The loop that this forms is so big that it gives you a very good chance of capturing the bollard. The 2 coils can be prepared ahead of time and hung on the lifeline or stern rail. Then just take one coil in each hand, face the bollard, and fling them. Forming the 2 coils so that they uncoil cleanly and don't tangle during the toss takes a little experimentation. Practice this while you are stern tied to the seawall. After 10 or 20 tries you'll figure out the subtleties. You can get moored safely with no shore side help and without leaving the boat. Getting off the boat onto the sea wall can be difficult. Falling into the water between the boat and the sea wall can be fatal. Learning to do these rope tricks is easy and fun. Practice. Have a competition with one of you on each stern and see who can be first to capture a bollard. You are getting really good with your "warping" techniques. Motoring against a mooring line to move and position the boat instead of trying to muscle it by hand is an extremely valuable skill. With big boats the strength of a human pulling a rope is insignificant. Thanks for showing these methods when you are docking. Every sailor can benefit from understanding these ideas. "Lassoing" bollards is jut one more skill in the rope tricks tool box. Brains over brawn.
To be fair, Terysa did address the difficulty of lassoing to a bollard that’s significantly higher than the platform the person is lassoing from. I haven’t tried lassoing up but sounds like it’s a good idea to find something to practice.
I will add that you should aim at a point one metre above the bollard as you will end up short. Same goes when trying to lasso a cleat. André in Sydney
We made a passerelle with half of a aluminum extension ladder and a 1/8 inch diamond plate between the beams, roller wheels on the dock side. Stored it on the hard top.
I think it’s always a good idea to have an agent handle all the bureaucratic paperwork. It saves you from dealing with people who seemingly don’t have three brain cells touching, a sense of humor meter permanently pegged on zero and they’ve had a charisma-bypass! What grace it is to occasionally find those who are a joy to deal with. Some agents may seem like an unnecessary expense at first, but you’re actually paying for peace of mind. I love you guys!
Guys, the best present we have bought for ourselves are the SENA SPH10 Bluetooth head sets (about €250 for two). Otherwise known as marriage savers! So much better than using hand held VHF. Med mooring/anchoring/arrivals/departures are soooooo much less stressful if you can quietly tell your other half to “trot on” rather than sharing it with everyone else!
Med Mooring a cat easy (that you own....) 1. drop as much scope as you can so 60-70m for example in Chios 2. set the anchor and backdown hard at 15-20m from wall 3. continue releasing chain moving in with stern fenders 4. no one to help back against wall and hold in reverse while hooking bollards or rings, tie very loose 4. pull out from wall about eight meters with anchor 5. tighten stern lines with motors full reverse against anchor, should be as far from wall as paserel allows 6. put on a bridle for anchor chain (our spare bridle attached to midship cleats and attached to chain with soft shackle)(charter boats don't pay for a new windless or stern when Gypsy slips) 7. Tighten everything up. Sleep well! sv Stray Kitty
When thing back to a town quay, I don’t go by the generic four boat lengths. Some harbors are much deeper than others and the last thing you want is to have poor scope out when you are essentially anchoring (on purpose) on a lee shore. So I look at the depth of the harbor and do the normal scope calculation I would do as if I were anchoring based on the weather. If I’m going to be there long time I just put out max scope. You never know when you’ll be hit by strong winds pushing you towards the wall. I use that scope plus the boat length to decide how far from the wall I need to drop the anchor. I use the distance measuring tool in our chartplotter. Basically drop a pin on the wall on the chart and then drive away from the wall until I’m the right distance. Then I drop the anchor. I let out 4x scope and back up towards the wall and set the anchor with engines just like I was anchoring so you know you are well set. Then drop the rest of the planned chain and even some extra so there’s plenty of slack. Then back up to the wall aiming one of our cat’s sugar scoops at a bollard. Back up all the way against the wall slowly. If you’ve got good fenders there’s no worries about touching the wall. At that point lasoing really is the best way unless there’s someone there to help. My wife has gotten pretty decent at it. No big deal if it takes a few throws so long as there’s no strong cross wind. It gets easier with practice. A good long pasarelle is very nice for town quays. Ours is 3m. That helps ensure nobody on shore messes with your boat at night.
Yup remember the show and the song very well. Now I have an earworm of “Maybe tomorrow, I’ll want to settle down, Until tomorrow, I’ll just keep moving on….” stuck in my head🤦♀️
For the distance judging for town docks, maybe pick up a little laser range finder? Obviously if you've done it enough by now you'll have that distance down, but if you're not doing it often enough to have that distance locked into your brain the range finder would be easy.
The Littlest Hobo made it to Australia too - probably a bit before Terysa's time though. On that subject, it looks like you need a long gangplank to get onto the dock. It will give Nick something to walk off when he offends the Admiral.
Soldiers returning from WWII were given a "Homeward Bound" train pass guaranteeing free travel by rail anywhere in the USA. The army officials forgot to put and expiration date on the passes and some rode the trains for the rest of their life. Hobos. Now you know. 🤗 Beautiful edit. Thanks for sharing. -EZ
I can’t believe you guys with all your experience got stressed out med-mooring lol. If you find it hard to lassoo, maybe you can splice a loop into one end of your mooring line and then attach a much lighter leading line to it that you can easily throw. It is much easier to throw and loop a lightweight line than a mooring line. Can’t tell you how many times my wife and I have tied up stern to on a town dock with her on the anchor fwd and me having to either lassoo the windward billiard, or even step ashore if it is hoop. The anchor will hold you, you just need to have the confidence to believe that lol
Can I just say again, how adorable you guys are?! Teryse is just the cutest, and you two together are such an amazing couple. I love watching your adventures! The look on Nick's face when he took the first drink of that beer - priceless!
Nice Video. I think Nick and I must be close to the same age.. Littlest Hobo was a Canadian show from my childhood... ok I also have a 40' Catamaran in Greece. Been here for around the last 10 years off and on.. between trips to Italy and Tunisia, Malta and Croatia. But the Ionian is the best.. and yes we did do the Aegean. Med mooring in a Catamaran is easy when you get your head around it. And like you I do it double handed. I set the fenders out... and a few tricks here.. I use small carabiner snap links on my fenders. With ten fenders and two Scotts man you don't have time to adjust them by tieing lines when you need to adjust quick.. so five fenders on each side. and to change height.. I can clip on the bottom life line.. so that's almost touching the water.. then the next step up is the top life line... and if I need to go higher.. I go over the top life line and back down to the bottom life line and so on. that gives 18" of adjustability each step and quick. like when a charter boat is trying to squish into a spot to small for them. when med mooring I put my Scotsman on the outsides aft.. and a couple of little rubber fenders behind the steps.. some of those Greek walls have some nasty rebar or bolts sticking out... Like you i have the crew drop the hook about 4-5 boat lengths out... anchor tangles are just part of Greece.. get used to it now.. it will happen.. how you handle it makes the difference.. don't fret.. and if people yell just ignore them.. its the nature of the small curved anchorages.. as long as no one goes fishing for anchors this is all fine.. and leave in the reverse order you arrived in. once im a boat length from the jetty i stop the chain and set the hook. this is for me... and I have a big Rocna like you.. and like it set well.. i have had to hold many boats.. but with twin engines its easy to hover even in a 20-25kn crosswind. once set.. just ease some chain and move the crew to the stern.. with the windward line... if no help.. yes we throw the line on a bollard.. using the two hand method. there is a fancy boat hook that will put a line through an eye.. but so far I have not needed it after 10 years here... 9 times out of 10 some one is on the dock to put your line on a bollard. and its normally to save their own boat... then rinse and repeat for the other side... then bring the chain up zinging tight.. because you set the hook hard.. so you don't have to worry... about it dragging when the ferry makes a big wash... and then set your Passarella length... do not.. and I mean do not leave a board from the dock to the stern step while not using it.. seen a boat that did this in Poros and a big Italian power boat ripped through the canal at 20 plus and all the boats started to move on the wave.. and the board fell between the jetty and the boat... and punched a hole right through the back of the boat when the boat came back on the wave. and make sure to grade peoples Passarella. I call the basic board a MK 1... then it has carpet... its a Mk 2 and so on and so on... till you get the fancy fancy articulated wheel chair lift arm from 007. Ok i see your back in Turkey... but I'm sure that's Schengen. and ya easy to pay the cruising tax on the day you arrive at the post office.. they give you a receipt you keep with your boat papers.. See you in the Ionian.. beer is cold.. and the lamb is tasty... and the water warm. And hello form the Canadian catamaran ICE BEAR
forgot that we use a snubber when ship secure.. to take the strain off the windlass. .and not a bridle.. a bridle if for free swinging.. a snubber on a cat is for med mooring.
That mooring description, advice and help was fantastic! I used to think anything below chin-height was easily scalable/jumpable in a harbour or marina ... these days if you can't step on to the dock I'm a bit buggered. (Can I say "buggered" on TH-cam, or is it like we are living with the Amish?) Loved that the Greek lady and her boyfriend were so welcoming and pleased to see visitors. Sorry, Terysa, but I was both insulted on your behalf and delighted over the 'plane taking off = airport'/chewing crayons/that's just mean! ie I laughed a lot. 10:25 chatter onwards. "Little Hobo"? As a Brit of a vaguely similar age I have no recollection of it whatsoever! I have looked it up on this website and found a version with the lyrics if you want to sing along ... I blame my very strict father who wouldn't allow us to watch commercial TV (ie *ONLY* ITV at the time) because they showed advertising - how obscene! Very mercantile. So I guess it was on the commercial channel that only the lower classes watched...? (We subsequently heard that 'Coronation Street' soap opera was a favourite of the queen's and my father's standards relaxed...)
You are yet again amazing, so thankful for your shared experiences, very valuable. My quite limited experience in Greece is this that many boats are just very fine with trying several times to approach the dock when Med-mooring. I have been in anchor and seen from the side. It is very comforting to see that it is absolutely ok and fine to try again if the captain is not happy with the process and again and again and it is all chill and absolutely ok. There is no race, there is no right or wrong, just relax and do your thing. I just love it this way. Yeah, in some cases it has been very educational to see captains to solve situations when the anchor chains get mixed and how those situations are solved. You see this quite a lot in Poros harbor. I admire the coolness of the captains in these situations.
Hi The key point for the distance is : you should arrive close to the dock and make a turn away instead of going in from far away. This would give you a much better distance appreciation. We also use to count in boat length from the dock or rocks, looking at scum in the water we have a very precise distance read. Last point about chain length in the wild especialy, the closer you are to shore the more chain you have to release BUT, it must be tensionned on the bottom for the mooring to be rigid enouth. So you must sit the anchor after about 3x, then release the same again while tensioning it in reverse. You have a success when you have 6x or 7x, well tensionned on the bottom when securing the stern on dock or rocks. You should also experience the med mooring onto rocks in the wild, in coves for example. It took us a lot of experiments [;oD ( my dream is a laser distance pointer for 200 to 300m )
Grateful you were able to "humble brag" about sailing to Greece. When we left beautiful Türkiye, we had to sail to Cyprus first. No direct Türkiye to Greece available in Spring 2021. No regrets as Cyprus was an amazing stop. Oh, sweet roasted pork.
Terysa, as a keelboat racing sailor of 35 years experience, I learnt how to lassoo a bollard by watching your technique in the canals. Thank you. You 'd Boss. Cheers from Adelaide. Go the Crows.🇦🇺🐨👍
I bet the tsatsiki was awesome I love to dip everything into it or spread it on the top of my burger patty for a better tasting burger. Thanks for letting us share these experiences through your eyes.
Ok, my Australian wife knew the TV show and kept singing the theme song with you Nick. As for the SIM cards, I’ve seen other TH-cam cruisers sing the praise of an app where you can download e-sim as long as you have WiFi. Come on man, get with the 21st century!!!
Some say that The Littlest Hobo is a great choice for fans of Lassie and Rin Tin Tin. Both The Littlest Hobo and Lassie feature dogs traveling from town to town helping people in need
So I watch 3 of these sailing channels… you guys seem to be doing it the best right now. Patrick and Michaela are the newbies, the Winns are stuck in boat repair purgatory, and you guys are just seeing the world… Keep it up! Beautiful place you are visiting, beer just seems to taste better when a boat is involved, either in getting to said beer location, or whilst on said boat. 🤣
Littlest Hobo...... Wow now that's some good Canadian low budget tv from a time when there were only 3 channels to chose from. Can't believe Nick knows that show....
If you guys need help please reach out. I’m a Brit (don’t hold it against me), I’m a commercial YM and do a lot of my sailing in Greece and Croatia. Sure you worked out med mooring but if you want tips I can give you an opinion. The most important thing really is ignore the textbooks re when to drop anchor; use the maximum length you can “end of story”! That Meltemi is vicious and can come out of nowhere and you don’t want to spend a whole night fending off a dock. If you do as I suggest you can let off stern and be 15’ off the dock if you need
You got the Tepai perfect but the bank transfer is very easy with a Wise account. Makes payment super easy for the Tepsi, Cotinth Canal and you will need it for every marine service business in Greece!! Have fun and maybe see you next summer. SV Stray Kitty
Those four boat length have come to bite me once. Charteryacht without enough chain in an admittedly surprisingly deep port. Ran out of chain about 2m from the quay. Did it all over again 3 length from the quay...
Must visit in regard to the Greek islands.. Paros (Naousa) and Anti Paros. Beautiful place! Food, you must try the Greek fried cheese called Sagonaki 😋
Gang planks. The cheap and dirty way is to get a 8-12 foot long 2x12 or whatever length will fit for you (sorry I don't know what they are in metric). When coming into port pull them up on deck and when you are backing in you just slide them back and down the steps. That gives you a way to walk way up or down to the concrete. you have to devise a way to counter balance them and then let it drop when you are close enough. If you want to get fancy, attach a rope so you can lower them slowly.
I was trying to find out what a pasero was and when I looked it up "Pasero Opioid-induced Sedation Scale" I thought that could be an interesting addition to your boat. What is it or do I have the spelling wrong?
A passerelle is a walkway ramp used to get aboard boats. See also: gang plank. gang way, boarding ramp, In theaters it is a bridge over the orchestra pit just in front of the stage.
Clearly a gangplank is in your future. Two wheels on the shoreward side, two cleats on the ship side. Then a couple of cleats mid plank to use with a lifting bridle off the end of the boom. Aluminum will be best. Think of the ship side cleats as the hinge, & suspend the plank a few inches above the quay. It will be quieter that way.
Ask around about the meltemi winds there. SERIOUSLY. Especially in the Cyclades. These come up fast and will bite you ! From nice sunny weather to Beaufort 8, (gale/ 35 knots) still sunny, in 10 minutes or less. You have to have harness / shoes ready, and be conservative with the sails. Guests cannot go on deck when it hits etc. I damaged a head sail twice! Only happened to me in the Cyclades 🙂 Very nice area though. Anchoring in Santorini is a bitch!😎
Did you get to go to Bozburun? (Turkey) Didn’t see that you had. Just asking since my parents live there Really enjoy your videos Thanks for sharing 🙏🙏
Have fun in Greece and beyond. Looks to me like you are going to need some type of passerelle…..…… But you have already figured this out…. Also surprised you guys don’t use headsets to communicate while docking or anchoring.
Just thought I'd drop a line and mention that my mom was a violinist who played the soundtrack to the title theme of The Littlest Hobo and worked on the tv series.
Love your videos. Long time watcher.
We need to pin this comment!!!!!! Epic !
Great little story.
As a Canadian I had no idea the Littlest Hobo was shown anywhere else in the world. Memory of that show theme gave me the warm and fuzzies this morning. Thanks Nick
Things I didn’t expect today, Nick referencing great Canadian TV shows.
As a Canadian I absolutely just chuckled at that reference. Cheers from the cold north
Hi, Tip for med mooring: Always leave enough space between your boat (or tender) and the dock. Ferries passing nearby can create waves that may slam your boat into the dock. (I learned that the hard way …)
Love all the Canadians finding out the littlest hobo was on uk tv :-)!
I am absolutely gobsmacked that Nick knows about The Littlest Hobo show and the theme song too! It was a Canadian produced show that was I grew up watching. I had no idea it was aired anywhere outside of Canada.
It showed in the US as well. I was a fan.
I seem to remember it being showed in the UK.
There is a good technique for "lassoing" bollards that you should try. Both ends of the mooring line remain attached to the boat. Stand inside the loop and find the mid point of the line. Coil half the line into 3 foot circumference loops in one hand. Coil the other half of the line into your other hand. Leave 4 to 5 feet of the line's midpoint between the 2 coils hanging in front of your knees. Face straight toward the bollard. Swing both coils backward on each side of your body in an underhand softball pitching motion and toss them both at the same time. Angle them apart in a slight V. This will form one big loop as it flies through the air. The loop that this forms is so big that it gives you a very good chance of capturing the bollard. The 2 coils can be prepared ahead of time and hung on the lifeline or stern rail. Then just take one coil in each hand, face the bollard, and fling them. Forming the 2 coils so that they uncoil cleanly and don't tangle during the toss takes a little experimentation. Practice this while you are stern tied to the seawall. After 10 or 20 tries you'll figure out the subtleties. You can get moored safely with no shore side help and without leaving the boat. Getting off the boat onto the sea wall can be difficult. Falling into the water between the boat and the sea wall can be fatal. Learning to do these rope tricks is easy and fun. Practice. Have a competition with one of you on each stern and see who can be first to capture a bollard.
You are getting really good with your "warping" techniques. Motoring against a mooring line to move and position the boat instead of trying to muscle it by hand is an extremely valuable skill. With big boats the strength of a human pulling a rope is insignificant. Thanks for showing these methods when you are docking. Every sailor can benefit from understanding these ideas. "Lassoing" bollards is jut one more skill in the rope tricks tool box. Brains over brawn.
To be fair, Terysa did address the difficulty of lassoing to a bollard that’s significantly higher than the platform the person is lassoing from. I haven’t tried lassoing up but sounds like it’s a good idea to find something to practice.
@@jackchen5290 this is the method i mention and yes. it requires practice prior to use but it becomes easy when practiced.
I will add that you should aim at a point one metre above the bollard as you will end up short. Same goes when trying to lasso a cleat. André in Sydney
We made a passerelle with half of a aluminum extension ladder and a 1/8 inch diamond plate between the beams, roller wheels on the dock side. Stored it on the hard top.
Yes! Littlest Hobo! Best Canadian show from when I was a child. Glad you have fond memories of it too.
Totally got the Littlest Hobo reference. Now I've got the song stuck in my head;-)
I think it’s always a good idea to have an agent handle all the bureaucratic paperwork. It saves you from dealing with people who seemingly don’t have three brain cells touching, a sense of humor meter permanently pegged on zero and they’ve had a charisma-bypass! What grace it is to occasionally find those who are a joy to deal with. Some agents may seem like an unnecessary expense at first, but you’re actually paying for peace of mind. I love you guys!
Guys, the best present we have bought for ourselves are the SENA SPH10 Bluetooth head sets (about €250 for two). Otherwise known as marriage savers! So much better than using hand held VHF. Med mooring/anchoring/arrivals/departures are soooooo much less stressful if you can quietly tell your other half to “trot on” rather than sharing it with everyone else!
Fully agree. Makes med mooring soooo much easier.
We have the same. One of the best purchases we ever made. Takes away a lot of the stress of coming alongside, or picking up a buoy.
Med Mooring a cat easy (that you own....)
1. drop as much scope as you can so 60-70m for example in Chios
2. set the anchor and backdown hard at 15-20m from wall
3. continue releasing chain moving in with stern fenders
4. no one to help back against wall and hold in reverse while hooking bollards or rings, tie very loose
4. pull out from wall about eight meters with anchor
5. tighten stern lines with motors full reverse against anchor, should be as far from wall as paserel allows
6. put on a bridle for anchor chain (our spare bridle attached to midship cleats and attached to chain with soft shackle)(charter boats don't pay for a new windless or stern when Gypsy slips)
7. Tighten everything up. Sleep well!
sv Stray Kitty
Funny how a Canadian show, The Littlest Hobo, has such global reach
Arguable more reach and far more popular than every CBC program ever produced..
Never realised that it was Canadian… but feel so much better for enjoying it now that I know it’s from the right side of the border🎉😂🇨🇦🇨🇦
@@Valerie_Dawn Right up there with the various versions of Anne of Green Gables.
I was shocked to hear it mentioned. I have always loved that show.
New Zealand as well...
The littlest Hobo from 🇦🇺
Grew up watching the littlest hobo. Great Canadian tv show! :)
When thing back to a town quay, I don’t go by the generic four boat lengths.
Some harbors are much deeper than others and the last thing you want is to have poor scope out when you are essentially anchoring (on purpose) on a lee shore.
So I look at the depth of the harbor and do the normal scope calculation I would do as if I were anchoring based on the weather.
If I’m going to be there long time I just put out max scope. You never know when you’ll be hit by strong winds pushing you towards the wall.
I use that scope plus the boat length to decide how far from the wall I need to drop the anchor.
I use the distance measuring tool in our chartplotter. Basically drop a pin on the wall on the chart and then drive away from the wall until I’m the right distance.
Then I drop the anchor. I let out 4x scope and back up towards the wall and set the anchor with engines just like I was anchoring so you know you are well set.
Then drop the rest of the planned chain and even some extra so there’s plenty of slack.
Then back up to the wall aiming one of our cat’s sugar scoops at a bollard.
Back up all the way against the wall slowly. If you’ve got good fenders there’s no worries about touching the wall.
At that point lasoing really is the best way unless there’s someone there to help.
My wife has gotten pretty decent at it. No big deal if it takes a few throws so long as there’s no strong cross wind.
It gets easier with practice.
A good long pasarelle is very nice for town quays. Ours is 3m. That helps ensure nobody on shore messes with your boat at night.
Classic during the summer holidays, along with the Banana Splits!
Yup remember the show and the song very well. Now I have an earworm of “Maybe tomorrow, I’ll want to settle down,
Until tomorrow, I’ll just keep moving on….” stuck in my head🤦♀️
For the distance judging for town docks, maybe pick up a little laser range finder? Obviously if you've done it enough by now you'll have that distance down, but if you're not doing it often enough to have that distance locked into your brain the range finder would be easy.
The Littlest Hobo made it to Australia too - probably a bit before Terysa's time though.
On that subject, it looks like you need a long gangplank to get onto the dock. It will give Nick something to walk off when he offends the Admiral.
London the wonder dog was the Hobo ,great show for kids. Good one Nick
Soldiers returning from WWII were given a "Homeward Bound" train pass guaranteeing free travel by rail anywhere in the USA. The army officials forgot to put and expiration date on the passes and some rode the trains for the rest of their life. Hobos. Now you know. 🤗
Beautiful edit. Thanks for sharing. -EZ
Hi. I used to love watching The Littlest Hobo. Great singing of the song😊. Thanks for sharing your videos 😊
Never thought I'd hear a Littlest Hobo reference. Too funny
Watching Nick take a drink of beer almost made me want one again. He really enjoys them! Very nice show, thank you
I can’t believe you guys with all your experience got stressed out med-mooring lol. If you find it hard to lassoo, maybe you can splice a loop into one end of your mooring line and then attach a much lighter leading line to it that you can easily throw. It is much easier to throw and loop a lightweight line than a mooring line. Can’t tell you how many times my wife and I have tied up stern to on a town dock with her on the anchor fwd and me having to either lassoo the windward billiard, or even step ashore if it is hoop. The anchor will hold you, you just need to have the confidence to believe that lol
❤ congratulations guys, looking good out there. 👍😊🌏🐬
Yes, I watched the show. It was a Canadian show .
Can I just say again, how adorable you guys are?! Teryse is just the cutest, and you two together are such an amazing couple. I love watching your adventures! The look on Nick's face when he took the first drink of that beer - priceless!
I watched the littlest hobo when I was a kid. It is a Canadian show and I didn't realize it was so popular. Cool. Great video. Such beauty 😻
I can’t believe that you remember the theme song from The Littlest Hobo.
I don’t think I ever watched the show.
Nice Video. I think Nick and I must be close to the same age.. Littlest Hobo was a Canadian show from my childhood... ok I also have a 40' Catamaran in Greece. Been here for around the last 10 years off and on.. between trips to Italy and Tunisia, Malta and Croatia. But the Ionian is the best.. and yes we did do the Aegean. Med mooring in a Catamaran is easy when you get your head around it. And like you I do it double handed. I set the fenders out... and a few tricks here.. I use small carabiner snap links on my fenders. With ten fenders and two Scotts man you don't have time to adjust them by tieing lines when you need to adjust quick.. so five fenders on each side. and to change height.. I can clip on the bottom life line.. so that's almost touching the water.. then the next step up is the top life line... and if I need to go higher.. I go over the top life line and back down to the bottom life line and so on. that gives 18" of adjustability each step and quick. like when a charter boat is trying to squish into a spot to small for them. when med mooring I put my Scotsman on the outsides aft.. and a couple of little rubber fenders behind the steps.. some of those Greek walls have some nasty rebar or bolts sticking out... Like you i have the crew drop the hook about 4-5 boat lengths out... anchor tangles are just part of Greece.. get used to it now.. it will happen.. how you handle it makes the difference.. don't fret.. and if people yell just ignore them.. its the nature of the small curved anchorages.. as long as no one goes fishing for anchors this is all fine.. and leave in the reverse order you arrived in. once im a boat length from the jetty i stop the chain and set the hook. this is for me... and I have a big Rocna like you.. and like it set well.. i have had to hold many boats.. but with twin engines its easy to hover even in a 20-25kn crosswind. once set.. just ease some chain and move the crew to the stern.. with the windward line... if no help.. yes we throw the line on a bollard.. using the two hand method. there is a fancy boat hook that will put a line through an eye.. but so far I have not needed it after 10 years here... 9 times out of 10 some one is on the dock to put your line on a bollard. and its normally to save their own boat... then rinse and repeat for the other side... then bring the chain up zinging tight.. because you set the hook hard.. so you don't have to worry... about it dragging when the ferry makes a big wash... and then set your Passarella length... do not.. and I mean do not leave a board from the dock to the stern step while not using it.. seen a boat that did this in Poros and a big Italian power boat ripped through the canal at 20 plus and all the boats started to move on the wave.. and the board fell between the jetty and the boat... and punched a hole right through the back of the boat when the boat came back on the wave. and make sure to grade peoples Passarella. I call the basic board a MK 1... then it has carpet... its a Mk 2 and so on and so on... till you get the fancy fancy articulated wheel chair lift arm from 007. Ok i see your back in Turkey... but I'm sure that's Schengen. and ya easy to pay the cruising tax on the day you arrive at the post office.. they give you a receipt you keep with your boat papers.. See you in the Ionian.. beer is cold.. and the lamb is tasty... and the water warm. And hello form the Canadian catamaran ICE BEAR
forgot that we use a snubber when ship secure.. to take the strain off the windlass. .and not a bridle.. a bridle if for free swinging.. a snubber on a cat is for med mooring.
Having just spent some time in Athens, we can attest to the warm and friendly culture of the Greeks! Such lovely people!
Of course I remember Landon and his adventures. Now I can't get the theme song out of my head. Thank you very much. lol
That mooring description, advice and help was fantastic!
I used to think anything below chin-height was easily scalable/jumpable in a harbour or marina ... these days if you can't step on to the dock I'm a bit buggered. (Can I say "buggered" on TH-cam, or is it like we are living with the Amish?)
Loved that the Greek lady and her boyfriend were so welcoming and pleased to see visitors.
Sorry, Terysa, but I was both insulted on your behalf and delighted over the 'plane taking off = airport'/chewing crayons/that's just mean! ie I laughed a lot. 10:25 chatter onwards.
"Little Hobo"? As a Brit of a vaguely similar age I have no recollection of it whatsoever! I have looked it up on this website and found a version with the lyrics if you want to sing along ... I blame my very strict father who wouldn't allow us to watch commercial TV (ie *ONLY* ITV at the time) because they showed advertising - how obscene! Very mercantile. So I guess it was on the commercial channel that only the lower classes watched...?
(We subsequently heard that 'Coronation Street' soap opera was a favourite of the queen's and my father's standards relaxed...)
You are yet again amazing, so thankful for your shared experiences, very valuable. My quite limited experience in Greece is this that many boats are just very fine with trying several times to approach the dock when Med-mooring. I have been in anchor and seen from the side. It is very comforting to see that it is absolutely ok and fine to try again if the captain is not happy with the process and again and again and it is all chill and absolutely ok. There is no race, there is no right or wrong, just relax and do your thing. I just love it this way. Yeah, in some cases it has been very educational to see captains to solve situations when the anchor chains get mixed and how those situations are solved. You see this quite a lot in Poros harbor. I admire the coolness of the captains in these situations.
Hi The key point for the distance is : you should arrive close to the dock and make a turn away instead of going in from far away. This would give you a much better distance appreciation. We also use to count in boat length from the dock or rocks, looking at scum in the water we have a very precise distance read. Last point about chain length in the wild especialy, the closer you are to shore the more chain you have to release BUT, it must be tensionned on the bottom for the mooring to be rigid enouth. So you must sit the anchor after about 3x, then release the same again while tensioning it in reverse. You have a success when you have 6x or 7x, well tensionned on the bottom when securing the stern on dock or rocks. You should also experience the med mooring onto rocks in the wild, in coves for example. It took us a lot of experiments [;oD ( my dream is a laser distance pointer for 200 to 300m )
Grateful you were able to "humble brag" about sailing to Greece. When we left beautiful Türkiye, we had to sail to Cyprus first. No direct Türkiye to Greece available in Spring 2021. No regrets as Cyprus was an amazing stop. Oh, sweet roasted pork.
You both seem so much happier now than you have been for a long while.
Terysa, as a keelboat racing sailor of 35 years experience, I learnt how to lassoo a bollard by watching your technique in the canals. Thank you. You 'd Boss. Cheers from Adelaide. Go the Crows.🇦🇺🐨👍
Yep. Littlest Hobo 👍👍
I bet the tsatsiki was awesome I love to dip everything into it or spread it on the top of my burger patty for a better tasting burger. Thanks for letting us share these experiences through your eyes.
It's always great to start my Monday with RR2 and crew. Lovely episode.
Ok, my Australian wife knew the TV show and kept singing the theme song with you Nick.
As for the SIM cards, I’ve seen other TH-cam cruisers sing the praise of an app where you can download e-sim as long as you have WiFi. Come on man, get with the 21st century!!!
I've never had to med moor in Greece alone, there's always help, passers by, boat neighbours, locals, marineros ...
Gyros, a decent beer and a nice walk, can't ask for a much better a day.
Looking forward to your adventures in Greece.
Teresa I love your beige shorts they look so light and comfy! Can't wait to watch more of Greece
BTW, "The Littlest Hobo" was a Canadian tv series about a wandering Husky dog who helps people but always leaves at the end of each episode.
Some say that The Littlest Hobo is a great choice for fans of Lassie and Rin Tin Tin. Both The Littlest Hobo and Lassie feature dogs traveling from town to town helping people in need
Thanks for sharing stay safe❤
So I watch 3 of these sailing channels… you guys seem to be doing it the best right now. Patrick and Michaela are the newbies, the Winns are stuck in boat repair purgatory, and you guys are just seeing the world… Keep it up! Beautiful place you are visiting, beer just seems to taste better when a boat is involved, either in getting to said beer location, or whilst on said boat. 🤣
Thanks for the ride, it is beautiful there and I so to have visited with you seeing you both so enjoying it all, good fortune and good sailing.
Littlest HOBO still on Canadian TV weekly. LOL great content thanks for the laugh.
Groovy episode.
I loved that show.
What a lovely episode. Thank you so much for sharing! ❤
Cool 😎 episode! I enjoyed it very much. Thanks again for taking me along!😊
I went from Cesme to Chios on a small ferry with my scooter in June. Nice to see you in the same places I was visiting.
Thanks for your adventures
So, I also remember The Littlest Hobo for UK TV.
Littlest Hobo...... Wow now that's some good Canadian low budget tv from a time when there were only 3 channels to chose from. Can't believe Nick knows that show....
When to marina is as in the video, You will need a gang board to get off the boat. There was one just next to where you docked
Happy clams !
Loved the littlest hobo :). Highly recommend you swing into Galaxidi, especially in match for carnival, the "Galaxidi flour war" is famous in Greece.
Come winter in Cyprus after exploring Greece. We can recommend Ayia Napa Marina
If you guys need help please reach out. I’m a Brit (don’t hold it against me), I’m a commercial YM and do a lot of my sailing in Greece and Croatia. Sure you worked out med mooring but if you want tips I can give you an opinion. The most important thing really is ignore the textbooks re when to drop anchor; use the maximum length you can “end of story”! That Meltemi is vicious and can come out of nowhere and you don’t want to spend a whole night fending off a dock. If you do as I suggest you can let off stern and be 15’ off the dock if you need
Littlest hobo was the best - thanks for that!
Excited ain't the word for it mate. Jealous, is more like it. ❤❤❤❤
Wow! That's a lot of stuff! You seemed to take it all with a good sense of humor though lol.
I didn't know anyone outside of Canada got The Littlest Hobo... Lol. It's still aired daily in Canada's capital city! Lol
You got the Tepai perfect but the bank transfer is very easy with a Wise account. Makes payment super easy for the Tepsi, Cotinth Canal and you will need it for every marine service business in Greece!! Have fun and maybe see you next summer. SV Stray Kitty
I love the sea colors there. Nothing prettier!
I remember the littlest hobo
Loved that show when I was a child.
A passerelle might be the answer to get ashore whilst mooring although not sure where you would put one on your boat.
Yes, favorite dog tv shows, littlest hobo. & lassie..
Damn that was a good lookin beer Nick. 🍺
Those four boat length have come to bite me once. Charteryacht without enough chain in an admittedly surprisingly deep port. Ran out of chain about 2m from the quay. Did it all over again 3 length from the quay...
We've all done it!😁
Must visit in regard to the Greek islands.. Paros (Naousa) and Anti Paros. Beautiful place!
Food, you must try the Greek fried cheese called Sagonaki 😋
The Littlest Hobo landed on Australian television too.
Now that you are in Greece, it must be really slick.
Gang planks. The cheap and dirty way is to get a 8-12 foot long 2x12 or whatever length will fit for you (sorry I don't know what they are in metric). When coming into port pull them up on deck and when you are backing in you just slide them back and down the steps. That gives you a way to walk way up or down to the concrete. you have to devise a way to counter balance them and then let it drop when you are close enough. If you want to get fancy, attach a rope so you can lower them slowly.
The mooring line system is everywhere in the Mediterrarian sea😊
Thanks for sharing
Beautiful
I was trying to find out what a pasero was and when I looked it up "Pasero Opioid-induced Sedation Scale" I thought that could be an interesting addition to your boat. What is it or do I have the spelling wrong?
A passerelle is a walkway ramp used to get aboard boats. See also: gang plank. gang way, boarding ramp, In theaters it is a bridge over the orchestra pit just in front of the stage.
Sailing Holly Blue will be a fhenom er great source of info for you.
remember it well-!!
yeah!!!! littlest hobo, thanks for that memory lane :D
Maybe a dock line on a boat hook so you can use an extended pole to catch the bollards from the transom, kinda like an animal control pole.
its harder due to north winds this month......if you like them come during June......Aegean winds are a little crazy this time of the year
Clearly a gangplank is in your future. Two wheels on the shoreward side, two cleats on the ship side. Then a couple of cleats mid plank to use with a lifting bridle off the end of the boom. Aluminum will be best. Think of the ship side cleats as the hinge, & suspend the plank a few inches above the quay. It will be quieter that way.
Nick, Terysa is way behind the times. I grew up near and attended a college that celebrates Hobo Day! Terysa it is a thing!
Ask around about the meltemi winds there. SERIOUSLY. Especially in the Cyclades. These come up fast and will bite you ! From nice sunny weather to Beaufort 8, (gale/ 35 knots) still sunny, in 10 minutes or less. You have to have harness / shoes ready, and be conservative with the sails. Guests cannot go on deck when it hits etc. I damaged a head sail twice! Only happened to me in the Cyclades 🙂 Very nice area though. Anchoring in Santorini is a bitch!😎
Did you get to go to Bozburun? (Turkey)
Didn’t see that you had. Just asking since my parents live there
Really enjoy your videos Thanks for sharing 🙏🙏
Have fun in Greece and beyond. Looks to me like you are going to need some type of passerelle…..……
But you have already figured this out….
Also surprised you guys don’t use headsets to communicate while docking or anchoring.
eSim might make sense for you guys!
My husband has a tee- shirt that says "I'm sorry for what I said when I was trying to back up the camper"