CAN A 48FT CATAMARAN DO AMERICA’S GREAT LOOP? - Great Loop #1 - Sailing Life on Jupiter EP80
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มี.ค. 2022
- Preparations are complete. Finally we begin America’s Great Loop. Although we will not be completing the entire route, we are doing the most committing passages through the Erie Canal into the Great Lakes, and down the mighty rivers to the Gulf of Mexico.
In this series we will answer all the relevant questions about America’s great loop. Also we will give you all the tips, tricks and techniques we learnt along the way.
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I met yall on the Illinois River. I'm a captain on a towboat. That's when I started following you.
Hey Ray…glad you’re still with us
How interesting I found this video completely by chance as I was looking for ways to get into the Great Lakes via the Atlantic I have a silent yacht 60 and I was wondering if it would be able to go through the loop
I can't think of a sailing channel that has done a full circuit of the Great Loop. Some had done parts. This will be good content.
Sorry to disappoint Roger, be we didn’t do the entire loop…but we did do the "serious” river and canal portions to the Gulf. Hopefully still useful and entertaining.
Wayward Travelers just completed the loop in a 1980's Gemini 300.
Priceless content!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Outstanding!
Cheers Moman
This series should get you a bunch of new subscribers. I'm not aware of any other sailing VLOG that has done the loop.
That’d be nice…hope you’re right operator0.
Great channel!
You do not see many Cats on the Great Lakes, there is no place to pull them out if you need to. They are also not designed to handle the steep waves very well ( a 6 footer on Lake Michigan is much different than a 6 footer on the open seas). Glad you had a fun voyage!
Fantastic sailing channel...Best on TH-cam, you guys deserve a far higher subscriber count, do not worry you will get there, no doubts about that.
Thanks Russ.
I think you should sail to Chile and Japan next.
My absolute favourite shot was over the cabin roof with the coffee grinder shining in the light & Atlantic city skyline in background. Beautiful lighting, gr8 shot. Thank you!😄👍
No worries…cheers Pete
You’ve been teasing us trip for a while now I’ve been waiting for it there’s been a couple Lady K sailing is Wednesday at the top of my head and a couple others but I think you’re just gonna put them All the shame you guys are always fun and interesting to watch can’t wait enjoy be safe since you already did it you probably were safe ha
We did our best to be safe! Cheers UJM
Jamie, congrats on sailing the loop…you were in my neck of the woods when you passed Cape May-sorry we weren’t around to greet you…thanks for sharing the great tour of our country!
Tks Mike
.. Cheers to you ..
Cheers Laurie
I would also like to see video of all the fun stuff and then every 10 seconds or so go to the map and show exactly where you are. Using close up Google Earth.
I've been anxiously awaiting this series every since we passed at the top of the first three locks. You just entering the canal and me exiting.
Hey PiP glad to have you watching….Us sail boat loopers gotta stick together!
Living the dream . . .
Tryin! Cheers TT
Tryin! Cheers TT
A bit late of a post but, wow! Is it correct what I saw on your gauge, 11 knots on 11 knots of wind? No wonder Plucky was salivating over your Mumby. Numbers baby, numbers. Cant make those up. It is what it is! Those million dollar epoxy boats that crack are rubbish. My dream retirement boat is now a Mumby people!!!
Awesome episode! Stay safe Jupiter crew!! 👍👍👊👊⛵⛵
Tks TW
i"m really enjoying this series. you guys are awesome.
We enjoy hearing that... Tks Jerzee
I hope she can sail this if need be, make sure she can!
I enjoyed that. Thank you.
Cheers Paddy
Great video guys. Funny how Princess is afraid to go fast under motor after sailing the Indian, Atlantic and Caribbean Ocean, especially the Indian Ocean. 😄
She was either brave or nieve in the beginning Walter….now she knows things break when you go fast….btw no motors…just sailing on flat water down the Delaware
Que envidia, una hermosa travesia.Gracias por transmitir tus experiencias. Saludos desde Buenos Aires.
Muito obrigado
As a young man in my twenties and early thirties I fished and crabbed many areas in the Chesapeake bay and in my younger years some of the New jersey inlets on up to The Hudson Bay. That's as far as my east coast waterways fishing extended to.
We enjoyed the East coast…nice change.
What an awesome trip being as I'm Australian I didn't even know about this loop..
Yeah pretty cool hey Luke….gave us the chance to see a bit of the American "outback"
Great video!
Tq sir
We were just discussing the viability of doing the Great Loop in our 38' catamaran - I guess this video answers our question!
Sounds like a perfect loop boat.
I'd bet you are right about the power plant, seems like a perfectly valid thing to collect data on and monitor.
Yeah I reckon Elliot…although the buoys were no longer there!
Great video. I have been looking for a video that explains how to get from New York to Lake Erie in a very detailed way, but there isn’t one on TH-cam. Everybody just says you go into the Hudson at New York and take it to Lake Erie. Even when I Google Earth it, I can’t even figure out how to do it.
Google up the Erie Canal system..here. www.canals.ny.gov/maps/
You enter into it at Troy, just north of Albany.
Also check out www.eriecanalway.org.
We loved it!
Very much looking forward to this adventure. As a Lake Michigan sailor, I'm keen to hear your thoughts on our beautiful Great Lakes.
Ah sweet… unfortunately we had to rush thru, so didn’t get a lot of time to enjoy… but would love to spend more time up near Mackinac…I loved those forests up that way. Cheers Heather
As someone who grew up in Michigan one of my retirement plans was the loop but have decided on the Med. instead. Looking forward to your take on the midwest as an Aussie. I lived in Sydney for 5 years and really miss OZ.
Heya Chris…we did enjoy the inland towns…stay tuned!
Great! That's also our plan in the future. What is your air draft with and without the mast? What is the minimum bridge clearance on the loop?
Cool... Were 73' mast up, and 13.5' mast down... You'll need to pass under 15.5' bridge if you do the entire Erie, otherwise you can go up the Oswego where and then 17' will be enough.
There's a 13.5' bridge in downtown Chicago, but you can bypass it.
A fantastic video. Very inspiring. Well done. By the end of the series, I will want to know what the additional costs were over that time sailing/boating compared to ocean sailing. Was it an expensive trip?
Sure jfuite…will cover that.
Best chicago deep dish pizza @1:40
Awesome pizza Jack
I had given you some advice on some areas on the river.
Do you remember which tow boat you were driving? I’ll try find footage of it.
Yep I reckon your right those buoys are sensors for the nuke plant temperature, radiation etc.
Looks like that Dredge didnt wind its ropes out enough (I drive one here in Oz) and you collected its winch cable, not very professional effort by the crew, that would have caused any other boat a lot of mischief.
Ah was that it Kell?….certainly felt hard…not like mud at all.
@@SailingLifeonJupiter Yep if it was a solid hit and you felt a type of twang or metalic reverbaration id say its a Dredge rope, ours at the mine uses 44 mm steel cables, not something you want falling on you, they are a bastard to change out when they break.
Hey Jamie, did you fail to mention to Princess that she is aboard a performance Cat? As such, their preferred speed is FAST!
Too bad you couldn't enter Canada. Chicago Deep Dish pizza is very good but, my favourite is still Windsor Pizza. Also you could have done a tour of Hiram Walker's for some Canadian Club.
Hehe She’s nervous from experience Marcel…she knows things break when we are moving .
I somehow missed you doing the loop. First time on your channel and I am now subscribed. You actually went passed my house in KY as you made a right off the Ohio river and onto the Tennessee River into Kentucky lake. I would have loved to have brought you some beverages... I have so many questions about the trouble of stepping the mast.. you missed some great sailing in KY lake but I understand the cost would have been probably too high if you needed a crane.
We spent a week at the cheap Paris Landing state park marina, on Kentucky lake…hired a car…drove to Memphis and Nashville….enjoyed the area….woulda be great to have beverages wid ya!
@@SailingLifeonJupiter oh yes the TN side of the line. I would have suggested heading to the KY bourbon trail if you were driving that far from your boat.
Do you have any information about the max boat draught to do the canals of the loop excluding the IWC.
Sure Claus…info will be in future episodes…but 5-6ft would be a practical limit.
Have you done the rhine/Danube yet?
We have always enjoyed your videos but this is a whole other level of enjoyment. My wife and I want to do blue water cruising and we have always wanted todo the great loop but never thought we could do it IN THE SAILBOAT!!
Maybe we missed this but when did you leave and how long did the route take?
Hey Mike, nope you didn’t miss it…that’s episode 1 of AGL…but our vids run about 6mths behind (keep up to date on www.patreon.com/lifeonjupiter)….but to answer your question we headed up the Hudson in Aug and popped out of the gulf in Nov.
@@SailingLifeonJupiter AMAZING!!! great way to avoid hurricane season, we hope to follow your wake one day and do the same. Safe travels
Really looking forward to this series as the loop is on short list to do as well! Is there a certain beam of catamaran that would make the trip more challenging (like 27’ for example).
Should still be no problem….just means you can’t do the Trent-Severn canal in Canada…
@@SailingLifeonJupiter Thanks for the reply! Did you consider putting the mast back up once you got into the great lakes, or is it just not worth the time/expense/hassle since you have to drop it again in Chicago?
Correct Kirk, we didn’t want the expense of raising/lowering the mast for the lakes….also we were in a rush….shame tho.
Terrific sailing. I'm curious to know: What are the maximum hull widths on the Great Loop? And Is it possible to re-step the mast at the end of the Erie Canal, or after you pass through the Welland Canal (to pass Niagara Falls)? And would this be a good option?
Hey Will…no real beam limits….but I do remember, on a narrow river, being thankful that we weren’t twice as wide….if you venture into Canada on the Trent-Severn canal there is a limit of about 23ft.
Yes you can raise the mast in Tonawanda/Buffalo and sail the lakes…possibly a limit of 65’ due to bridges….and then drop again in Chicago.
This obviously doubles the cost of the mast work!
What Catamaran are you sailing in? I was wondering if its Grainger's or Schonning's?
No it’s a Tim Mumby design…called a Cyber48
more technical dismasting video please
Coming up
How fuel did you use during no sail?
I think I worked it out to about 4 fills from Chesapeake to Mobile….that’s about 2000L.
What was the fuel consumption for 1200 miles ?
I don’t have an exact figure. But we filled up only 3 times … so I’m guessing about 1000L or about 260Usg…. We burn just under 3L an hr.
Did she say, "Kenny Powers"?
Sure... Kenny rocks!
@@SailingLifeonJupiter A true American. "I play real sports. Not trying to be the best at exercising"
Boat look great, looks like she just came out of a boatyard.
Doesn’t stay that way for long! Especially with the muddy river water.
Thank you for sharing. Can you tell me how tall your mast is?
18.5m stick... Works out to be about 73' air draught, including antennas.
Lol..."Can we slow down". No
Sometimes you gotta put your foot down…..and then something breaks!