It Took 5 Years to Create This Revolutionary Lifejacket- Sailing Uma [Step 194]
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Most lifejackets drag you facedown, potentially drowning you in a very short amount of time. Not this one. This week we get a tour of the Team-O factory, checked out how our life jackets are made, and get Kika's jacket repacked.
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Captains - I must commend you on the constant state of "Ship Shape" you keep your vessel in, underway or at mooring. . . A signature of true seamanship.
It's great for me to see that from team o.
Several years ago a German sailor tried to invent a new lifejacket. One mayor issue was that stupid strap to drown the person. BUT - it was not granted to install it in another way - it should be there (at the belly) by some strange law. Together with some other struggle (... in certifying process) he finally dropped the project. The team o solution for me is a late tribute to his ideas.
When I first read the name "Teamo", I thought it was in Spanish: "Te amo", which means "I love you". A rather curious name for a life jacket!
Uma is looking pristine inside and out, a tribute to your seamanship. Also we enjoyed the Team - O factory tour. Safe travels.
I'm just going to echo Akicita; Uma always looks so shipshape and professional. You make everything seem so easy. And SOOO laid back. May the wind always be at your back!
Thanks Nick. We do like to keep everything organized and ready, which makes sailing (and living) much easier.
Welcome to my home town, hope you had a blast. You'll have to get used to the weather, changes like every hour if you're lucky might be two ⛵⛵⛵⛵⛵
"It's like they're floating on water" - Nice one Dan!
Just real-life day-to-day stuff. No hype. Love it.
What the world needs is more reality, less hype.
I am so glad You are safety conscious and this shows the safest jacket out there. Just shows people need to see the latest things on the market for safe sailing and fun too.
Hey, you two went from Portsmouth Virginia to Portsmouth England. Nice job.
Awesome visit to Team O !! Thanks guys.Fair winds and following seas UMA!!
The worst sunburn I ever had I got on a cloudy day laying in a tube on a lake. My legs stayed tan for ,2 years. I still have the scars decades later.
I feel your pain!
That star can leave a mark!!
I think the life-jackets are great. I think they should consider how to construct foul weather with these jackets built in. That way you only have to put on your foul weather jacket and your good to go. If a blow comes you don't have to run below and put your life jacket on over your foul weather gear.
While you are kicking about the Solent, you should get over the the isle of wight. Head ba k towards Yarmouth and put the hook out in Newtown Creek. It's probably the most beautiful natural anchorage around the solent, however the pub is a dinghy ride away. If you are lucky enough you will see seals there at low tide on the old sea wall. Great to have seen you at Southampton Boat Show.
Enjoyed the factory tour. Always enjoy learning new things! Thank you!
Ok, You convinced me. I will buy Teamos asap
I learned to big boat sail there and its beautiful. I had a nic 35 built at Campers yard in Portsmouth in 86. Then got my ocean yachtmaster cert. It was so much fun to sail the south coast.
Thanks, really enjoyed seeing the visit to 'TeamO'. :).
30 years ago, Practical Sailor and others emphasized the fact that with any life jacket, you need to try it on in the water, and be sure it is adjusted to keep you face up. IIRC they also named two makers who built their vests to make this most likely.
All the chest storage is certainly nice, but since shipping gas cylinders for servicing invokes expensive hazmat fees--that's simply not feasible. And instead of a hanging loop, a military style grab/drag handle makes it much easier to literally grab and lift a victim.
Yes, most jackets will flip you around face up quite well IF you're not being toed. They will ALL tow you face down if attached with a tether. In the past it was recommended to instal a quick release to avoid being dragged face down and drowning. However, then you're detached from the boat and floating behind, in the dark, watching your boat sail away without you....not a situation we'd every like to be in.
Sailing Uma what about setting up a system than, when you go overboard, it “kills the engine” like motorboats. Something that maybe loosens the sheets and makes it turn in a circle
@@impersonalopinion
Thirty+ years ago I met a couple who had sailed a Nicholson 32 all over the Americas, Caribbean even one TransAt.
Their ‘safety’ system for the event of a watch-keeper going overboard unseen was a last chance disconnect pin in their wind vane self-steering rig. The pin was attached to a very light, low drag line (fishing gear, I guess) towing a small white fender about 200m behind the boat.
That equates to, at boat speed five knots, ~ one minute in the water to catch the line and/or the fender and stop the boat.
Because the white fender had a little black ‘nose’ where it was attached they called it their “Life Snoopy”
It was awesome to see the bit with the TEAM O people and the thoughts and testing that went into those wonderful life jackets. If by chance I ever get to put to sea I would definitely want to have one.
13:25 it’s like they’re floating on water.......I kind of thought you guys were floating on the water
😂I was hoping no-one would call me out on that one hahaha.
@@SailingUma But you totally knew we would. :D
@@SailingUma should put it on a t-shirt... insider joke for the Umanistas ;)
Loved the Teamo visit and info. I know it’s a serious issue but the cup of tea whilst being towed backwards was a classic. Safe touring. 🌼
Tea is indeed a very serious issue, good to see them taking it seriously.
Great Vlog Guys, love watching you’re exploits! ~ Enjoy you’re time in the UK!
You just sold plenty of Teamo gear.
Smaller scale businesses and manufacturing is immensely cool. TeamO - good luck!
Old Navy Photographer another fine video never dull and not talking about Brasso
Great Video , never thought you would be in UK, Great to see you, have a brilliant time.
"Work in progress" ! Well said! It appears that the cruising life is the perfect place to prove the compatibility of a man and a woman. Every one is not up to the life style but it sure would be an excellent proving ground as you two and others are showing us through your videos.
We're getting our first snowfall here in Syracuse NY right now 😖
I think I'd rather take the weather there with my favorite sailing couple 😊
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Love the Solent! Great sailing there.
A beautiful woman with an English accent is awesome.
Hear, Hear!!
haha, thank you, I am blushing. - Lauren
I know right. I want to meet a cute sailing chick! I live in Atlanta, and women here want nothing to do with sailing. 🤔... I'm pretty sure it's a sign of the zombie apocalypse.
Any beautiful woman with any accent is awesome 😎
Thanks for taking us to Portsmouth, enjoyed the sail.
Cheers, and good sailing from Brazil!
Welcome to England (I know you’ve been here a few weeks already). First rule of England (more so in Scotland): if you don’t go out in the rain, you won’t ever go out.
The first time I ever sailed in England was at the end of May, and it hailed.
Yup. That's we we stocked up on all the wet weather gear before we got here. Now sailing in the cold and rain is almost...dare we say it....enjoyable.
Sold. I'm buying one when my next paycheck comes in. Thanks for giving me all this information.
“Just like there’re floating on water...” good one Dan !! LOL
My first sailing lessons were on the Solent. I was given the helm to take us into Portsmouth in late afternoon. I confused the traffic lights ashore for navigation lights and narrowly avoided a Royal Navy aircraft carrier parked near the harbour entrance. We tied up at the Camper Nicholson marina. That was in the 80s. You did well. All the best.
just picked up m first teamo pdf thanks to you guys i hope i never have to use it but if i feel pretty good about it with watching you all test yours,. I also used #
Great insight and production! Brilliant!
Team O, Sister is so cute. I bet people call up just to talk with her. Great gear and outstanding sailing by both of you.
Love the sailing parts.
I Enjoy your Esprit de corps.
I used to live in Southampton and its very bad news between the people of Southampton and Portsmouth, could almost cause a war lol ive just come across ur channel today and loving it and admire what ur doing. Your both such beautiful nice people and I've alot to catch up on is 1st july2001 todays date, so u gonna be my main entertainment for while. Xxx
Sail the ocean yet humble and honest about docking - that's why I watch!
Docking is much more stressful that open oceans. The only time a boat is really in danger is when it's near land, even more so when that land is made of concrete and padded with expensive yachts.
Thank you so much, I just ordered mine. And thanks to you guys I saver 30 bucks!
You guys are awesome!
"dress for all three seasons"... Dan, are you saying something about the English summer?
Kika, *you* can get a tan in the English summer but I doubt Dan can.
Fabulous info on the history of those tools for a sailing venture. I have my own PFD for use in my Kayak, max speed in that is maybe 1 to 1.5 knots and that's a hard workout even if fishing and floating. Thanks for this video and info, great stuff..Happy Sailing !!.
Yeah, I bet you're no to concerned with being dragged at 15 knots then ;)
great product.. Thanks for the introduction
While in Portsmouth, hope you guys have a chance to tour the HMS Victory (ship upon which Admiral Nelson died) and the HMS Warrior (England's first iron-hulled warship). They are well worth the time.
As always, thanks so much for sharing.
Steve
Thank's for sharing your experience's
Team O Rocks!
Great job!
"Like they're floating on water" that's your most profound observation yet 😁😁😁
Any thoughts yet on how you guys might be able to enclose that cockpit a litte more? I love your spirit and willingness to sail in various weather conditions, but I would also love to see you dry-ish if and where possible. Love what y'all do!
Thanks for posting this - we were wondering what those were in the other videos and how to get them!
Great to see the Teamo factory, I think Teamo should make the harness like you guys made with the double hook system I would definitely buy one ⛵️
Actually, factory-made triple hook safety lines are available in all well equipped chandlery stores/webstores. Well known brands like Crewsaver, Spinlock and many others make those. The main thing is, they are pretty expensive, mostly because of the super-safe, super-expensive locking hooks. Some brands also have models with standard carabiner hooks.
Most of our safety lines (both 2 hook and 3 hook ones) are made of 25mm (1") wide, UV-resistant tubular webbing, max strength 20kN(4500lbs), similar to what is used for rock climbing equipment. The clips are standard marine grade carabiners (stainless steel, ø8mm or ø10mm). They were sewn by a local shoemaker with his 50 years old, super heavy duty sewing machine and sail sewing thread.
Personally I find using lines with standard hooks much more convenient than the ones with locking hooks. After a few tacks in a pitch black night, the bowdeck man sometimes finds himself/herself entangled in a spiderweb of safety line and genoa sheets, and has to be able to disconnect the safety line from the harness really fast.
The difference between factory-made and self-made is not strength or durability (if done properly). It is the fact that factory-made ones usually have an indicator that "rips" under heavy load and shows when you need to replace the line. Factory-made safety lines also may have stitching made with a contrast colour thread, which makes it easier to monitor and notice the possible wear and tear.
As for harnesses, you can use any safety line with any harness/lifejcket, and vice versa. regardless of the brand.
cmcsailor Wishfull Sailor . Funny they didn’t wear the vest in the rest of the video. Am I wrong??
When your in Portsmouth you have to take a tour on HMS Victory Admiral Nelsonès flagship. I m sure you viewers would enjoy it too..
No kidding! That’s one of my bucket lists do’s! Along with the USS Constitution, and I believe there’s some repro ships in Europe? I know there’s one on Lake Erie that used parts from the original Brig from the war of 1812!
"Aubrey, could you pass me the salt?"...my favorite line from Master and Commander concerning Adm. Nelson.
@@brentparks2292 I've seen the Niagara from a distance once. Would love to see her up close.
@@snootdingo9365 My favorite line is, "Don't you know that in the Service you have to pick the lesser of two weevils"
Great video!
Love you guys... I am inspired by your challenges..
great product - thanks for sharing
It is super cool that these are re-packable, most companies would take the opportunity to sell you a new unit!!
Great factory visit with Team-O. Oh my Dan.... haven't had a chance to rest since the Bahama's! We all saw lots of snoozing during the Atlantic Crossing XD JK I know its a different kind of relaxing :D Welcome to Portsmouth! Thanks & Cheers!
I like that back tow feature. Real life saver when tethered I suspect.
"it's like they're floating on water!" Lol ... He says while floating on water.
"...It's like their floating on water" Great quote LOL
This step was so informative! My ancestors came from England but that doesn't help much now. lol But if I lived in the UK now it would be great to meet you guys. I really wish I'd made it to the Brooklyn meet-up. It's much harder to paddle a kayak from the US to England! hahaha Good luck with all your sailing adventures yet to come. Captain SNAFU : - )
I love this work in progress!
#LoveSailingUma
WOW, great video and showing the factory, excellent people those that work for the industry of sailing and very wonderful to see also a family business! I was wondering these past days if you would change areas for the fronts coming in? Heya, I used to live in Bradford on Avon it is a small and very cute village near Bath! I know you guys have loads of plans, but if you can there is a good train ride to Bath and the canals between Bradford and Bath were for me, beautiful! Also the histories of that area! Also I had to laugh as I kept hearing Portsmith, not Portsmouth and it is early here and I kept typing it wrong and I lived in the UK for over 11 years! lolol Yet if I had limited time I still would go to The Royal Observatory Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College and The Cutty Sark, all next to each other. The Old Royal Naval College Museum is simple epic, or rather it was when I was last there! 17 years ago! Well whatever you do and whereever you go I think you will enjoy yourselves! The canals are worth having a look at Crusing the cut, but if I recall you guys did some longboating already in the UK, I am going to go back and have a look, but I think you did, if you didn't I am sorry for my getting that wrong!
"Te amo" is "Love you" in portuguese. Nice name for a lifejacket.
Nice catch. Probably unintentional, but a really cool look at the name!
It means the same thing in Spanish too.
In correct Portuguese write like this, Amo-te. Quite different from Portuguese from Brazil.
@@nmcatarino There is no "correct portuguese" thing. It's the same language, with regions differences. But for 95% of portuguese speakers, is "te amo". And give back our gold.
Oh yes, I'm sure that's by accident but still some things are just great coincidences!
great whistling
Cheers mate
Keep up the good work. I thaught saw you guys in cowes last week.
You may very well have. We were on the island for the morning.
The english channel tides are something else . Enjoy the sailing. Pity yiu didnt come a few decades ago when i was living and working in Portmouth we could have met up then but that is life
that was great information
wHOOP! looking forward to your version of Portsmith. Many great things to do/see including the great maritime museums.
14:35 I didn't know they still use hovercraft in the UK. I remember crossing the English Channel on a SR.N4 when I was a child but these have been long gone.
It’s like they’re floating on water! 👍
The teamO ladies are sweet!
Great idea. I'll be ordering some Teamo life jackets.
Cheers!
We have something here called the SeaStreak and it takes you to Manhattan and it goes so fast! You can get from Atlantic Highlands to Manhattan in 40 minutes!
We actually hopped on the fast cat later and took it to Cowes. We thought we were going only 5-10kts (it was dark) we had to look at the phone and found out we were cruising at 35! Felt like we were standing still....pretty cool actually.
6:00 face up in the water is a no brainer.
Is there any ranking, for TH-cam. I guess the question I’m asking is is there a way for you to find out what place that you’re in as far as most watched sailing channels, I think you guys should definitely be tapped for at least if not two
Portsmouth !! Was there back in 86' on a aircraft carrier. There was a tavern there called the Wheelbarrow because the officers were taken back to their ships in wheelbarrows.... Also you might want to see the old navy ship there. Donn't remember her name was a nice size sailing ship painted black and yellow.
I agree with Kika. My worst sunburn was on a cloudy day...it was bad, as in, legs peeling, chest bubbling, drug needing sunburn... needless to say, I learned my lesson. On a side note, it's interesting to see how the sea is in different countries.
Guys, I just noticed stg: do you not have a separate bimini top under the solar panels? Do you use the panels also to protect you from rain/sun? Are they enough to keep the rain away from the helm area at least? Btw! great that you introduces TeamO - it seems such a nice company - I am going the check if we need new life wests..:)
Clicked for the lifejackets, stayed for the pupper repacking...
at 11.37 is weston s.c where i used to race my catamaran
It's nice to do some photosynthesis from time to time. When the Sun comes out it is. :)
Love the adv algorithm; ive been watching your videos and an all bunch of others sailings.... now i've got adv for Mercury marine motors ;)
Creepy right? We've downloaded add blockers on all our computers to help stem the flow.
13:18 The boats are like floating on water? WHAT? Who would have thought that we would see the day where boats would float on water!
Sailing with wind and no waves must be a treat for you guys. You should try sailing into your slips(and out of them) or at least up to docks. You can actually sail your boat backwards by backwinding the jib.
We have before, on and off the dock. We sail on and off anchor and moorings pretty much every time and definitely get strange looks when we sail backward out of a tight anchorage. It's just a hard thing to film with just the two of us. A gopro on a clip never really does it justice.
Welcome to the U.K. 🇬🇧🏴👍
Have Team O thought of designing a waterproof jacket with their PFD integral? Glad you are enjoying your UK experience.
Don't forget to request Harbour entry!
Wud have been a great time to brush up on your Med mooring skills. Hope all is well, stay safe. :-)
The best thing about Portsmouth is the Krispy Kreme Shop at Gunwarf Quay.....Yum, Yum...Have a great time in the UK, any Idea where you're off to next?
Do they make Doggie life jackets too? I have a friend with a Schiperkee (Danish Canal boat dog) who is famous for falling overboard EVERY time he gets on a boat (and he does NOT swim well). We have learned to clip him to the front bumper of the car (50 yards away from the pier) and put his life-jacket on him BEFORE we get CLOSE to the water!
I was told recently, no whistling on a boat. Kika, apparently Dan about to mutiny. 😯
While you are in Portsmouth, PLEASE do a visit to the Royal Navy Submarine Museum in Gosport!
Worst sunburn ever was when it was overcast. Many others will agree. Awesome vid, thanks