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Windward To Eden
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Starting at buying our first sailboat, repairs, sailing, and finally buying our liveaboard/cruising the world dream. All on a very small budget!
We were once told that we seem to be in our element when we are swimming against the current in a river of rice.
With our children leaving the nest soon, we have a goal to become live-aboard world cruisers.
It starts with a sailboat. Learning to sail, working on the vessel, upgrading it to play around with the engineering of making the boat self-sustainable...and of course, family trips and plenty of sailing! We will be out learning the ropes, so to speak. In a few years, we will be selling SV Yemoja and upgrading to a larger sized boat: refitting for sustainable/cruiser/live-aboard/blue water capabilities, and sail the world.
It's going to be an uphill battle to achieve our paradise, but we are willing to head "Windward" to get to our "Eden."
Until then, we live on Beaver Island, and have much to share about the outdoors!
We were once told that we seem to be in our element when we are swimming against the current in a river of rice.
With our children leaving the nest soon, we have a goal to become live-aboard world cruisers.
It starts with a sailboat. Learning to sail, working on the vessel, upgrading it to play around with the engineering of making the boat self-sustainable...and of course, family trips and plenty of sailing! We will be out learning the ropes, so to speak. In a few years, we will be selling SV Yemoja and upgrading to a larger sized boat: refitting for sustainable/cruiser/live-aboard/blue water capabilities, and sail the world.
It's going to be an uphill battle to achieve our paradise, but we are willing to head "Windward" to get to our "Eden."
Until then, we live on Beaver Island, and have much to share about the outdoors!
Getting piercings! || 113 ||
We didn't get much for video during the Beaver Island winter season of 2023-2024. Everything just got busy...school, sports. But next thing we knew, it as starting to turn into spring!
Episode 113
Here is a link to the intro video of the new channel.
"Let's Chat About It" -NEW CHANNEL with Host Nicholas DeLaat
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#Graduation #Christmas #MichiganTravel
Episode 113
Here is a link to the intro video of the new channel.
"Let's Chat About It" -NEW CHANNEL with Host Nicholas DeLaat
ua-cam.com/video/tOUkVGFW3sA/v-deo.html
_________________________________________________________________________
Make a one time donation at: paypal.me/NicholasDeLaat
(we will feature it on a future episode!)
Just a few bucks per month helps us go a long way in upkeep and upgrading equipment.
To help support this channel by becoming a Patreon, click here:
www.patreon.com/Windward2Eden
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#Graduation #Christmas #MichiganTravel
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Whitetail DEER HUNTING on BEAVER ISLAND ||Ep112||
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It's now peak fall colors here on Beaver Island, Michigan USA and what better day than to take a hike out in the beautiful forest? On Candice's Birthday no less! Episode 112 Make a one time donation at: paypal.me/NicholasDeLaat (we will feature it on a future episode!) Just a few bucks per month helps us go a long way in upkeep and upgrading equipment. To help support this channel by becoming a...
Fall Color Hike, PEAK COLOR SEASON ||Ep 111||
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It's now peak fall colors here on Beaver Island, Michigan USA and what better day than to take a hike out in the beautiful forest? On Candice's Birthday no less! Episode 111 Want to buy us a beer? Or, buy us the drink of your choice at: paypal.me/NicholasDeLaat (we will feature it on a future episode!) Just a few bucks per month helps us go a long way in upkeep and upgrading equipment. To help ...
Protect Yourself From Online Fraud: Essential Tips For Seniors
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Seniors are the most vulnerable when it comes to social media, telephone, computer, and online scams. Here, Nicholas De Laat puts on a FREE presentation at the Beaver Island Library teaching: 1: What to be aware of 2: How to spot red flags 3: What to do after... This presentation was held April 16th, 2024 at the Beaver Island Library. (I thought I would post it here, as maybe you can share with...
Graveyard Walk Through Holy Cross Cemetery: Beaver Island, Michigan, USA
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Welcome to Holy Cross Cemetery, on Beaver Island in Lake Michigan. Not as professional of camera work as that could have been, but I was in a hurry to get to work and just happened to pull over quick on this beautiful fall day. Here is a quick hike during fall colors, and with the leaves changing, what better than a graveyard hike! In this cemetery lies many of the Island locals. As you can see...
Looking for Fall Colors ||Ep 110||
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Candice and Nicholas go out looking for fall colors on Beaver Island, in Northern Lake Michigan. A lighthouse, beach, and of course the search for fall colors lay ahead! Episode 110 Want to buy us a beer? Or, buy us the drink of your choice at: paypal.me/NicholasDeLaat (we will feature it on a future episode!) Just a few bucks per month helps us go a long way in upkeep and upgrading equipment. ...
Fishing Lake Geneserath and Flying Over Lake Michigan. ||Ep.109||
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Well, Candice went twice with each kid to different sporting events in the UP, so Nicholas took the opportunity to get some one on one time with the kiddos...including some good fishing time with Parker on Lake Geneserath (Beaver Island, Michigan). Walleye was what they were going for, but it was a couple bass that ended up being on the menu. Episode 109 Want to buy us a beer? Or, buy us the dr...
Sailing and Failing on LAKE MICHIGAN; (Hauling out for the year...) ||Ep. 108||
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Well, a storm surge created a new sandbar, so we had to get Yemoja unstuck AGAIN! LOL It's all in good fun! In this episode, we get Yemoja, along with another boat ANGUS, out of Lake Michigan for the winter. Episode 108 Want to buy us a beer? Or, buy us the drink of your choice at: paypal.me/NicholasDeLaat (we will feature it on a future episode!) Just a few bucks per month helps us go a long w...
FLYING over LAKE MICHIGAN, Landing on BEAVER ISLAND ||107||
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Flying over Lake Michigan, and Landing Back on Beaver Island. Well, the kids are back in school and right off the bat it was time to fly to Hannaville, Michigan (in the Upper Peninsula) for a Soccer and Volleyball game. While flying, Nick discusses the future of our UA-cam Channel. Episode 107 Want to buy us a beer? Or, buy us the drink of your choice at: paypal.me/NicholasDeLaat (we will featu...
SAINT JAMES, Beaver Island, MI, USA - “FALL COLOR Tour"
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Take a quick fall color tour of the Town of Saint James, a small town located on Beaver Harbor (Saint James Harbor-Paradise Bay), Beaver Island, Michigan. Do you need any camera work or drone shots for real estate, transition shots, or other work on Beaver Island? Email us at: WindwardToEden@gmail.com Want to buy us a beer? Or, buy us the drink of your choice at: paypal.me/NicholasDeLaat (we wi...
Saint James, BEAVER ISLAND, Michigan - “Downtown Fall Color Aerial Tour"
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Take a quick aerial view of the Town of Saint James, a small town located on Beaver Harbor (Saint James Harbor-Paradise Bay), Beaver Island, Michigan. Do you need any camera work or drone shots for real estate, business promotion, transition shots, or other camera work on Beaver Island? Email us at: WindwardToEden@gmail.com Want to buy us a beer? Or, buy us the drink of your choice at: paypal.m...
Coming Home to Beaver Island, If Only For A Visit... |106|
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Quintan returns home to Beaver Island for a visit. We re-anchor the boat, dance, sail on Lake Michigan, dance some more... Nothing like time with loved ones. Enjoy Episode 106 Want to buy us a beer? Or, buy us the drink of your choice at: paypal.me/NicholasDeLaat (we will feature it on a future episode!) Just a few bucks per month helps us go a long way in upkeep and upgrading equipment. To hel...
Sailing Lake Michigan, 100(ish) Year-Old Boat Mini-Tour, And Beaver Island Summer Guests Ahoy! |105|
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Two different sailing cruises on Lake Michigan, one with my parents and one with just us is a great way to round up some sailing this summer! We had many guests, and lots of good sails, even though we only recorded our family ones. PLUS: I get to to work on a century or so old boat and give you a mini-tour of the engine compartment! Episode 105 Want to buy us a beer? Or, buy us the drink of you...
EMERGENCY: Our Boat is Floating Away! ||104||
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Nick was home working with a fellow islander stopped by to give the emergency news...our boat was floating away on Lake Michigan!!!! Yup, our Catalina 25, SV Yemoja, decided she wanted to go out on a sail without us... Episode 104 Want to buy us a beer? Or, buy us the drink of your choice at: paypal.me/NicholasDeLaat (we will feature it on a future episode!) Just a few bucks per month helps us ...
RESCUE at SEA! Boat Stranded on Lake Michigan ||Ep.103||
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MAST CLIMB and First Sail of the Year! ||Ep.102||
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Spring Flowers, Friends, and FINALLY Splashing our Boat! ||Ep.101||
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The Angel of Beaver Island: Feodor Protar - A documentary.
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Where Has Our Channel Been? Where Is It Going? UPDATE on Windward to Eden.
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FISH DISPLAY at the Grand Rapids Museum, Grand Rapids Michigan, and Flying To Beaver Island.
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Thanks for sharing.
I'm not sure if you're still having problems with this, but there is a locating tab on the bottom of the recoil that needs to go in the hole that's at 10 o'clock in relation to the recoil bolt hole. You can see the hole at 5:09 of this video... Hopefully this will help someone in your situation here.
Thank you!!!!!!!
its a movie dick heads
Not a sailor… but I liked it… more of a message kind of thing… wort a look
Make me disappointed after i watch this movie
7:33 I know the feeling bro. Nice one!
Bad idea that luckily didn't end in disaster. There are marks here for ingenuity, but there where many opportunites for disaster, including death. Local boat yards charge $$ to do this job, and for that price, no one gets hurt, and nothing gets broken. Many sailors step their own masts, but they know the process and are not figuring it out on the fly.
I do it on land, on the trailer.
I want to move there.
Good catch up ! We have been doing a few of these
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Sent. We miss you guys. Maybe a trip next year. Take care of my niece, nephew and gorgeous sis in law.
Awesome! Thank you! It will be nice to see ya’all again. You take care of that niece and nephew of ours.
I would have my well scouted blind setup a week or more before opening day and be on it before suns up. And I would have my deer at sunrise. I got a deer or more every year. I always hunted or fished for results and was raised by folks who had to keep large families full. You cant hear me in the woods.
We usually are out a couple weeks early scouting, but we fell behind this year. There just seems to be less and less time available every year. And I find myself spending more hours working nowadays, trying and failing to keep up with inflation. Best to get out then to not get out at all (and, it’s really about more time with the kid…any excuse I can get).
@@WindwardToEden The economic goal posts are on the move. Near impossible to keep up.
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Bravo! A masterful tribute, Nick, to him that some also call "our island saint." Very informative, inspiring, and well done! I hope that you'll be in attendance at this summer's Music on the Porch event. I'm very much looking forward to it. A group of us are planning to sing a cappella as the the closing number a song that I wrote for my two-act musical play, "Beaver Isle." The musical portrays in song scenes from the lives of Protar, Pat Bonner, and Beaver Island life. The closing song is called "Our Island Saint." We'll invite the audience to join in singing with us.
That sounds awesome! Hopefully I’m not working…one of the problems of living/working here is when it’s everyone else’s vacation time, that’s when we make our money for the year. As a result, we rarely go to events we aren’t working on the island…but we will try!
Wow! Best boodle ride ever. Thanks, Nick. Great narration, wonderful drone and other production work, and very inspiring message...much needed in these crazy times.
Wow, thanks! Glad you liked it!
We miss the island and you all. We will return someday. :)
And we will be glad to have ya! Hope everything is going well.
😊 Stopping by to say hi from Port Orchard WA.
Awesome!!!!!
I stopped watching when you said are we done with this yet and he wasn’t even on the lifeboat. I can’t watch anymore, it’s terrible. And I’m just an armchair sailor, and I thought this character was an idiot!
It’s a tough movie to watch…lol
I love fall! The trees are so beautiful!
It is our favorite time of the year!
We just got scammed on a used water maker. Never use Zelle to Pay for used products. The banks and the law make you as the person buying the product are at fault and not the scammer
Yes, something has to be done.
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What newer scams have you ran across? Let me know in the comments below! Make sure you continue to talk to the vulnerable people in your life, help them protect themselves!
The open windows on the starboard side I'm beginning to think you're not a sailor, btw personal flotation devices are not uses when solo sailing in the middle of the Indian ocean...why would you, harnesses are a must though
After that trip across the lake for the first time with your new boat solo sailing. I'll bet your neck was stiff as a board for a week. That's a really nice boat you got their sailor. You got your money's worth out of it the first trip😂
My whole body was stiff as a board! Lol, but I have to tell ya, this solo sail was one of the best times I had had in years!
awesome! How long does it take to get to the island?
8-10 hours by sail from Mackinac Island, dock to anchor, averaging 5knts.
We have property on Allens Lakeview and our beach property has grown in the last 2 years. Love Beaver Island!
I make this drive way to often. Chicago traffic is horrible. That is why I bought land and escape to beaver twice a year.
😂😂😂 You made this movie
Not as professional of camera work as that could have been, but I was in a hurry to get to work and just happened to pull over quick on this beautiful fall day.
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;-)
Thanks again for your help, enjoy. Old Man with Tools.
Not a problem at all!
Have you ever traveled anywhere to see the fall colors? If so, ,where? Let us know in the comments below!
Holy Hill Basilica WI.
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Been giving those apple thieves and sellers a bit of online grief.
They did what?! i pity the fools when Jonny Appleseed hears about this!
My wife said that I may be inaccurate on part of that, going to see if I can find out the truth, don’t want to put someone under the buss that don’t deserve it…
From what I know they where coming to BI to take apples to make hard cider to resell. Was an article about it and I found out who was reselling the pilfered apple cider. They most likely will not be doing so this year. And your wife is right to be sure before you vent on social media.
My husband and I visited Beaver Island last fall and we loved fishing on Lake Generserath, it was our favorite place!
Awesome! What did y’all catch?
@@WindwardToEden we got a small mouth bass, a perch, and the biggest blue gill we have ever seen. Brought em back to camp and cooked em up!
Hope y’all liked this one, and all of you are doing well out there! Drop a comment for us and tell us where you’re watching from!
Have one on me.
Thank you!!!!!!
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I know very little about sailing, but this movie was driving me nuts!
Lol
You guys are great thank you for sharing the lovely video😊
Thank you! We are so happy you enjoyed it!
Did i miss it?!? What was the name of the excursion company? And what places did u go to - El Cielo, by chance?
Yes, that was it!
to much sailing footage, to much music and no instructions
What were you expecting from a vlog?
Hello from Venice Florida, Tony Kazmierski ( Tony's Father )
Hello! We know Tony well. Great friend and neighbor!
Another great video! I’ve got a funny story of breaking my rib while trying to unstick my own boat once! 😂 I’m all for getting your forever boat. We upgraded from a 27’ to a 36’ and never looked back. More room for visiting kids and we feel more comfortable on the water.
I bet that hurt! I’ve broken ribs before, not fun… Yea, it’s hard to weigh…I have 3 summers left with them, then visits only…kind of don’t want to waste these last couple years, so kind of leaning to see if I can trade for a swing keel…
I looked at swing keels (trailer sailers) for a long time before I settled on my keel boat, a grampian 26. The reasoning was, I'd want to go sailing, then put it off, since all the work every time to trailer to a ramp, rig the mast every time, launch, and reverse repeat, and I knew that the boat would just sit in my driveway. I found a relatively inexpensive marina on lake ontario, we live 45 min away, but I know that I can hop in the car anytime, and once at the marina, I'm rounding the lighthouse in 10 min and sails are up and we're good to go. I have been averaging 29-39 sails a season, and part of a great little fun race league. It costs a bit of money, but my main hobby, so worth it. The race club (NewCastle Yacht Club) has social events often also,, so we sleep over often and make a bit of a party out of it also. Some nights we just get out for a sail, then go back, cook some BBQ off the stern rail, and settle in for a movie night on the boat off the laptop,, things like Master and Commander are awesome, by candle light. Hope this helps. I certainly appreciate the value of a trailer sailer, but know that I wouldn't get out as often, even with the 45 min drive. Life is short, and if you can afford, a cheap marina is the way to go. Also helpful to have other more experienced sailers around to ask about issues, trimming, etc. My 2 cents. Cheers from Peterborough Ontario.
Get the swing keel and keep sailing then save the money for your forever boat. You need to hurry up and come buddy boat with us
Right??? Lol
Hey there! Another awesome sailing adventure on Lake Michigan, even if there were some challenges along the way. Don't worry about the occasional "fail". It happens to the best of us, and it's all part of the journey. Remember, it's not just about the destination, but the memories you create along the way. Keep enjoying that time on the water with your family, and before you know it, those teens will be all grown up. By the way, loved the footage! Keep up the amazing work! ⛵️🌊💙