Only in the heart of the big cities are you really alone!... At sea, you're face to face with yourself, in your true place as a tiny animal in the heart of Mother Nature... You're where you belong!
Great perspective on being alone. There is a big difference between being alone and being lonely. I sail solo and in general, spend a lot of time alone. I have never been lonely and relish the time I get to spend by myself. As you said, when you get out there and turn off the noise, get in tune with your surroundings, it is immensely satisfying.
I'm about to buy my first sailboat and plan to sail solo most of the time and you gave very useful info - thanks! The "feeling lonely" risk was however nothing I worried about. I have done several long (4 weeks) solo trips hiking or skiing in the mountains. I share your experience - the connection to nature is much stronger when going solo, and I love that feeling.
This is actually a brilliant video Jerome. Greetings from Alpena. It's been great following along with all of your videos and your journey, keep em comin'!
Re trusting the AIS at sea... I would be afraid of running into the CoughSneese fishing fleet, they like to turn their AIS off from time to time. You never know when you'll run into one of them - literally.
Finally an educational sailing channel!! Subscribed! only wish I would’ve found you sooner, I guess I’m guilty of clicking on bikinis like everyone else 😢 Beginner-ish Sailor from Louisiana, Tartan 34
Isn't it better to inspect the wear and tear on days that it is a bit more safe to wonder on the deck? On a day that it is rather dangerous to go out there but one has to go to do a reefing or something, the focus is set on that and not on inspections. I don't have any lines or halyards or whateever running back to the cockpit. But there were situations where I wish I had.
Check your gear before you leave. IF getting out of the cockpit is not a safe thing to do, you can always use a pair of binoculars (LoL). You should have ran life lines before you undocked and be clipped in with your harness. Even a harness may not be enough. If you fall OB while wearing one but you cannot get back aboard, you are a dead man.
3-500 buck usually, still need to keep a watch but as a solo sailor I sleep when offshore for a few hours at a time. Sometime I go weeks without seeing another ship
@@SailingIntoOblivion thanks man, about to attempt my first ever solo sailing of a large-ish boat, a 1979 hunter 27. i have no experience sailing a big boat like that hands on, but i can sail hobie cats and dinghies and i learned how to sail the bigger boats with the basic esail sailing simulator. call me crazy, call me stupid, and maybe worse when i tell you that it will be sailing from the south east end of long island new york, to the north western part, or specifically from east quogue to oyster bay (mill neck). according to google earth, it's about 300km, so add another 50 to 100 when factoring in tacking, and at a top speed of about 10kph (6 kn), and it should be at least a 35-40 hours sail, and that's if i can manage top speed at all times. the wind in the forecast is light, and the boat traffic is likely to be pretty heavy around here this time of year, so, sailing full days, it will take me 5 days or more! quite amazing when u consider long island ain't even that big! to drive that distance would be under 2 hours comfortably. there will be a few stretches going over pretty open water with no harbors to pull into, like near the beginning going out into the atlantic and around montauk point. it's around 87km to the nearest harbor or safe looking area to anchor for a night. i guess that's doable. probably not a good idea to sleep while boat is sailing at night in the long island sound. i have no real world night sailing experience at all.
AIS is just a warning device. It does not steer the boat. You will need either mechanical wind vane or a electric autopilot. You do NOT want to be hand steering across the great blue.
@@teklife First off, a Hunter 27 is not a 'large-ish' boat. It is if you compare it to a dingy. I suggest you go take some ASA classes before you cast off. With your limited knowledge, you are going to end up in a Coast Helicopter or the evening news.
@@Razman23 yea i get that. the boat has an aftermarket autosteer. but i want to be able to get some shut eye without worrying that i'll crash into something, at least have a warning, that's enough. thanks for your reply.
No comments!??? How about: How closely do you try to stay on course (rhumb line-plus or minus) when you are on a long passage and subject to the whims of fickle winds, currents, and sea state? Kind of a chess game, right?
--On long voyages, the rhumb line is rarely the preferred course. Wind and currents vary predictably, are not fickle. Weather systems can be tracked with a barometer and a compass. Modern electronic satellite forecasting increases precision. --One degree of steering error is one mile in 60. 25 degrees adds 10% to distance, provides time to finish that novel What's the rush? Autopilot helps, but a boat can be steerd by lashing the tiller and adjusting the sails. What else do you have to do? --The real message he gives is: Do you enjoy your own company?
I think I would have to get some kind of low maintenance pet like a parrot to give me a little company...Do you ever get crazy thoughts or anxiety about falling over and what would you do?
2:08 - don't you mean, from Cape Horn to the Cape of Good Hope? Otherwise you'd be sailing the South Atlantic and wouldn't have seen New Zealand! Right?
Why does no one ever talk about safety on these trips? Not from the sea but from pirates and straight-up criminals? How are you (and seeminly so many others) able to steer clear of grifters, cartels, raiders and marauders when visiting foreign countries and unfamiliar seas?
You're more than likely to run over a floating shipping container than run into pirates. Unless you are in certain areas where pirates have been active. Even then they do not go too far offshore unless they know what they are fixing to board.
ALL seafarers are required by law to keep a lookout while at sea. You can't do this if you are asleep, and you have to sleep some time. AIS is good but not infallible and not all boats have it.
Only in the heart of the big cities are you really alone!... At sea, you're face to face with yourself, in your true place as a tiny animal in the heart of Mother Nature... You're where you belong!
Great perspective on being alone. There is a big difference between being alone and being lonely. I sail solo and in general, spend a lot of time alone. I have never been lonely and relish the time I get to spend by myself. As you said, when you get out there and turn off the noise, get in tune with your surroundings, it is immensely satisfying.
Until the sun sets and you can't see sh!t. 😀
Good point about inspecting the deck and rigging while at the mast and foredeck.
I'm about to buy my first sailboat and plan to sail solo most of the time and you gave very useful info - thanks! The "feeling lonely" risk was however nothing I worried about. I have done several long (4 weeks) solo trips hiking or skiing in the mountains. I share your experience - the connection to nature is much stronger when going solo, and I love that feeling.
Love the pith helmet, really suits you, there’s probably a great story attached to it 😆👍
Pretty accurate.
I embrace the solitude. I am so enthralled by the natural world that I haven't taken time to read a book on passage.
Two of my favorite things, sailing and reading at sea
This is actually a brilliant video Jerome. Greetings from Alpena. It's been great following along with all of your videos and your journey, keep em comin'!
Alpena!!! Thanks and will do!
He makes a lot of sense!
It’s funny because if some of these myths are true it’d work out perfectly for me, I’m an insomniac and I love being alone, sounds like a blast 😂
Of all the listening I have heard on sailing yours has been the most honest and forthright. I appreciate you.
Thank for your elaborated explanation that really helped me to advance in my desire to go for it in the sport and lifestyle of sailing.
already I like this channel better than the rest. there are some real poseurs out there, especially when they hit 60k subs they get real smarmy.
It’s good. No bikini thumbnails, no 3 minute intros, no rubbish 👍🏻
Yep, too much clickbait these days.
Re trusting the AIS at sea... I would be afraid of running into the CoughSneese fishing fleet, they like to turn their AIS off from time to time. You never know when you'll run into one of them - literally.
Great answers...
The takeaway: leave people with their problems on shore 😂
Excellent! Can’t wait to experience the ZEN of sailing solo. Somewhere in Baja.! (Sailing my Flicka-20).
Nice, hope you share some video, would love to see where you go. I did a trip up the Baha years ago.
Finally an educational sailing channel!! Subscribed! only wish I would’ve found you sooner, I guess I’m guilty of clicking on bikinis like everyone else 😢
Beginner-ish Sailor from Louisiana, Tartan 34
Thanks so much, I hope to do a few more videos explaining the how and why of ocean sailing
nothing wrong with clicking on bikinis.
My wife sailed around the southern ocean in 2008.. Scary as shit.
Great video. Thank you for your insights
Loneliness and solitude are two very different things.
Terrific insights! Thanks for sharing.
Insightful. Brilliant. Thank you.
Been there, and I agree.
Isn't it better to inspect the wear and tear on days that it is a bit more safe to wonder on the deck? On a day that it is rather dangerous to go out there but one has to go to do a reefing or something, the focus is set on that and not on inspections. I don't have any lines or halyards or whateever running back to the cockpit. But there were situations where I wish I had.
Check your gear before you leave. IF getting out of the cockpit is not a safe thing to do, you can always use a pair of binoculars (LoL). You should have ran life lines before you undocked and be clipped in with your harness. Even a harness may not be enough. If you fall OB while wearing one but you cannot get back aboard, you are a dead man.
how much is an AIS and then can i just get in the cabin and let the boat sail on a heading for hours and hours without any input?
3-500 buck usually, still need to keep a watch but as a solo sailor I sleep when offshore for a few hours at a time. Sometime I go weeks without seeing another ship
@@SailingIntoOblivion thanks man, about to attempt my first ever solo sailing of a large-ish boat, a 1979 hunter 27. i have no experience sailing a big boat like that hands on, but i can sail hobie cats and dinghies and i learned how to sail the bigger boats with the basic esail sailing simulator.
call me crazy, call me stupid, and maybe worse when i tell you that it will be sailing from the south east end of long island new york, to the north western part, or specifically from east quogue to oyster bay (mill neck). according to google earth, it's about 300km, so add another 50 to 100 when factoring in tacking, and at a top speed of about 10kph (6 kn), and it should be at least a 35-40 hours sail, and that's if i can manage top speed at all times. the wind in the forecast is light, and the boat traffic is likely to be pretty heavy around here this time of year, so, sailing full days, it will take me 5 days or more!
quite amazing when u consider long island ain't even that big! to drive that distance would be under 2 hours comfortably. there will be a few stretches going over pretty open water with no harbors to pull into, like near the beginning going out into the atlantic and around montauk point. it's around 87km to the nearest harbor or safe looking area to anchor for a night. i guess that's doable.
probably not a good idea to sleep while boat is sailing at night in the long island sound. i have no real world night sailing experience at all.
AIS is just a warning device. It does not steer the boat. You will need either mechanical wind vane or a electric autopilot. You do NOT want to be hand steering across the great blue.
@@teklife First off, a Hunter 27 is not a 'large-ish' boat. It is if you compare it to a dingy. I suggest you go take some ASA classes before you cast off. With your limited knowledge, you are going to end up in a Coast Helicopter or the evening news.
@@Razman23 yea i get that. the boat has an aftermarket autosteer. but i want to be able to get some shut eye without worrying that i'll crash into something, at least have a warning, that's enough. thanks for your reply.
Where were you going that you were at sea for 271 days?!
No comments!???
How about: How closely do you try to stay on course (rhumb line-plus or minus) when you are on a long passage and subject to the whims of fickle winds, currents, and sea state? Kind of a chess game, right?
--On long voyages, the rhumb line is rarely the preferred course. Wind and currents vary predictably, are not fickle. Weather systems can be tracked with a barometer and a compass. Modern electronic satellite forecasting increases precision.
--One degree of steering error is one mile in 60. 25 degrees adds 10% to distance, provides time to finish that novel What's the rush? Autopilot helps, but a boat can be steerd by lashing the tiller and adjusting the sails. What else do you have to do?
--The real message he gives is: Do you enjoy your own company?
Is it the svvizzera
No 1….do you get scared.
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I think I would have to get some kind of low maintenance pet like a parrot to give me a little company...Do you ever get crazy thoughts or anxiety about falling over and what would you do?
A parrot is a very high-maintenance pet. Please do research about an animal before adopting/buying it.
@@lmack3024 Good advise! Thanks..
Maybe a Seagull?
2:08 - don't you mean, from Cape Horn to the Cape of Good Hope? Otherwise you'd be sailing the South Atlantic and wouldn't have seen New Zealand! Right?
Why does no one ever talk about safety on these trips? Not from the sea but from pirates and straight-up criminals? How are you (and seeminly so many others) able to steer clear of grifters, cartels, raiders and marauders when visiting foreign countries and unfamiliar seas?
Offshore it's not an issue, unlike the old days, moder pirates are afraid of the ocean and will not go very far out. good question!
You're more than likely to run over a floating shipping container than run into pirates. Unless you are in certain areas where pirates have been active. Even then they do not go too far offshore unless they know what they are fixing to board.
people just sailing around are not high value targets
what are they going to steal, your 3 month supply of instant noodles?
...you've been watching too many movies.
ALL seafarers are required by law to keep a lookout while at sea. You can't do this if you are asleep, and you have to sleep some time. AIS is good but not infallible and not all boats have it.
Bore off mike