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Yeah, it’s interesting to see that the foam has fallen out of fashion. I guess it adds a bit of weight to the sail but it helps give it shape so we quite like it. And 130% Genoa is just perfect! 🤩

We really appreciate your feedback! We always try to be respectful of the cultures we visit and to highlight their beauty and complexity. We will have to watch this one back and see where we may have misspoke as we certainly don’t intended to be disrespectful and just hope to have a bit of fun as we share these unique places.

Thankfully, Indioko was designed to do exactly that. The halyard runs past the mast winch to line up perfectly with the windlass. We don’t always use it as sometimes it’s faster to do it by hand. Also, you get a better sense of stress on the halyard when doing it manually so we don’t damage things if anything gets caught. 😊

Absolutely!

Merry Christmas! Hope the picturesque white Christmas outweighs the hard work of shovelling. 😀

Thanks!

Merry Christmas to you too Cliff! Hope you have a really lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year! We are really excited for what 2025 will bring.

You are totally right! We are constantly humbled by the generosity and kindness cruisers show each other. It spurs us on to give back in the same way too. Hope you are looking forward to a really fun Christmas and new year when it comes.

It’s going to be a challenge for sure. Not many people around here so I think we are left to our own devices for the most part. That said, any cruisers we meet will for sure be up for helping figure it out. That’s the best part of the cruising community.

It’s been a constant pain and for sure it’s making this quest a lot harder. Fingers crossed we find a fix

Cheers! Hope you have a great Christmas ahead. We will push on as usual and see where we end up. 😊

That's a pretty sweet way to wake up if you ask me 😊 hope you have a Very Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! Hope you have a great one with family and friends near by

I think it’s an indication of our confidence 😂 hope you have a fun Christmas planned

Cheers and a merry Christmas to you too!

Necessity the mother of all invention as they say. 😊

I feel like we made it to stay 2 but definitely keeping your stomach full is the key for us. When there is a lot going on during a passage, it’s way too easy to forget to eat for a day or two so we are doing our best to prepare a snack bag to enjoy while on watch. Just so funny that we both rarely feel sea sick and yet both got hit with it on this passage.

Ooo what’s the new gig? We will have a good think as I’m certain we can think of someone who would make good use of shade fabric. We would totally take it if it wasn’t going to be a challenge to ship.

Glad you enjoyed it

Yes meal prep before passaging is one of the best tips we’ve learned, especially upwind. New sails would be such a huge impact for Indi and our future passaging. If you know Daryl….feel free to put in a good word! We would love to see what Indioko can do with some quality canvas.

Hmmm. We’re gonna need a bigger boat 😂

Hey Cliff! Cheers for the encouragement. We are editing right up to the wire right now so squeezing these episodes out between sailing and repairing has been pretty hard going. It’s good to know you and others are enjoying them. 😊 Hope you are having a very merry Christmas. 🎄

Tell me about it! We would kill for some new sails!

Good to know you know how to celebrate 🥳

I have a strong feeling that we would both be much sicker if we let iain cook! 😂

@@RedSeas he can’t be that bad, surly not? Beans on toast, a little bit of paster in source…etc…? Bri, he is pretending he can’t cook… if he whent to college / /Uni or lived by himself he can cook, that's my theory. Come on Iain, I bet you are a very good cook.

Always the best welcome party!

Right back at ya! 😉

Think this sail has seen far better days! Still, Bri and her sewing machine can do wonders to keep us going.

Oh why do that to yourself! 😂 nothing nicer than some buttery shortbread.

In the same way flying is the art of falling while missing the ground, I wonder if cruising is the art of travelling without sinking 😂

This whole gambier gamble is turning out to be a lot harder than we expected it to br

It’s turning out to be a pretty tough quest, this one. Between autopilots playing up and sails ripping, next week we have even more fun on our beat south.

Merry Christmas to you too! Hope you’re having a great festive season up there.

Cheers! We squeaked through I think. 😊

But only during a 50knot storm with rain lashing down and a Spanish galleon in pursuit that’s already firing canons towards them right?

​@@RedSeas And a dental hygiene challenged lookout in the crows nest yelling, " they're gaining on us Capt'n!"

Yeah, those fluxgate compasses can be a real pain. We have cleared everything from the area so honestly think the autopilot brain may have gone senile. We will see what we can do to coach it back to usefulness tho.

@ you’ll figure it out, no doubt.

kinda sounds like a lottery

Thank you! Cheers!

She is a wizard on that thing. So pleased to have a sewing machine on board…and someone who actually knows how to drive it!

Thank you! I think we are still working thru the screen you were so kind to send us before. It’s amazing stuff. Some more window shades coming soon to Indioko. Just need the time to take on the project properly.

Cheers! I will have to go back and rewatch this one. It’s been a while. We have been so busy with the big Christmas giveaway this year, it’s been fun keeping up with comments and editing. Need the break to go watch this again. 😊

I think we looked it up and more people summit Everest each year than transit the Pacific Ocean and of those who do, less that 2% make it to the gambiers. So while we may use some artistic license to say “no one” I’m sure you can forgive it given the relative rarity of our passage. Also, from recollection the guys of Sweet Ruca were sailing east to west when they went there. We are doing a 1500nm beat against the trade winds to achieve this little quest. 😊

It’s a good question but thankfully our engine bay is well ventilated. We also opened the engine bay every 25/30min to switch over tanks so it doesn’t get much time to warm up thankfully.

Cheers! It’s going to be a beast of a quest to get to the gambiers but hopefully it’s worth it for all of us.

Yeah, that’s the indication that we were overpowered with our main. Indioko’s rig could do with a tune up but in this case, it was more of a user error than a rigging one 😜 It can look quite scary when the inner shrouds are flexing on the leeward side but to some degree, this is not uncommon on catamarans. The harder we crank down the rigging, the more the bridge deck will flex and sooner or later we won’t be able to open or close any of the cupboard doors 😂

Hi Cory, not a dumb question at all. It’s been written in sailing books for decades that you can tow long lines behind the boat to create drag. Often writers go as far as to suggest adding a bucket to the end but in reality, the forces acting on the boat usually result in you simply losing your bucket 😂 In our case, the issues we were facing included our compass swinging randomly, this would have means that any lines we dragged behind us would be overruled by the force of the rudders doing their thing to try and “correct” our course. Quite annoying to say the least. The good news is, we have a bit more info on the autopilot coming in next weeks episode so hopefully you get a better idea of what we were up against. 😊