Scotland in October with sunny then rainy them windy weather. You just keep going and you do it by finding pleasure most of what you see. Your a wonderful couple and thank you for sharing your adventures with us, your inquisitive followers.
The 'apothecary tower' was a fun place to hug and smile. The quality high definition from your cameras make your videos interesting to watch. The quaint town buildings were refreshingly pretty and inviting.
Love your on shore adventures and good to see Jess enjoying a beer....never does an episode feel complete until that happens. :) And Matt sportin the soul patch.....groovy! :) Another wonderful offering guys, keep up the stellar work and thank you.
You have a beautiful boat. It's the perfect adventure boat because it's made of aluminum and that makes it strong and safe. The reason I'm just recently following you is because of your upcoming catamaran build because I'm into hi performance catamarans. I'd for sure go with the Schionning design over any other due to the way it looks and also the design. It's got much more going for it beyond that over your two other choices that I forgot which ones they were. By choosing the Schionning, you will for sure have a 500k plus boat value the way your describing how your going to build it and that video series will even make your boat that much more desirable to the next owner when you decide to sell her. I come from a few decades of racing small catamarans and can tell you that the Schionning design is by far the best choice.
Congrats again you guys for a very well done vlog! I gotta say I am becoming a very big fan of your musical choices for the videos. P.S. Say hi to Georgie who seems absent from this one. Hope all is well
I lived in kin sale Ireland , it looks much like this. Awesome perfect. Sometimes I love to go back an forget the rest of the world Obviously some local knows about the ruins. But everyone ask what and why. My experience is go to a pub order a beer and start talking about it
Maybe we should have braved the weather to visit the pub there! Our guide book had lots of good things to say, lol. "Come anchor your boat here, it has a good pub!!".
Hi guys, North of your anchorage in the Nadal Bay there is a beatutiful hotel : Kinloch Lodge Hotel. Breathtaking location, fine cuisine and run by an exceptionnal lady. Worthwhile to visit ! Beautiful family house with a lot of history. Don’t miss it :-)
You both capture lots beauty and wonder in your videos, especially the heard of seagulls. Jessica's narration is very easy to listen to. That graffiti on the billboard/castle was disgusting. Scotland is so beautiful with gnarly weather changes.
See, that región is beautiful one day and the other bad. Well, being in the boat with mamasita for days, who cares whats happening outside. Maybe your right Brad.
Where you mention the "undocumented" ruins all round the coast, the one youre looking at is Caistel Maol (Castle Maol), ancient seat of the McKinnons from around 900AD... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caisteal_Maol
Your videos have introduced me to so many awesome songs and musicians. When you had the music for "Walking on Sunshine" I made a mental note to check on the band and at the same time, I thought a band I have been into for a while now, Pomplamoose, would do a great version too. I had to laugh when I saw in the music credits "Walking on Sunshine - Pomplamoose." I guess great minds...
Thank you so much! The heater was an absolute necessity in this area, but it was performing great. We had it running 24/7 to keep the boat around 68-70 (20-21°C), and other than eating into our $ by using about a gallon of diesel a day, she did her job. 😀
You freaking guys! Thanks so much!!! There are channels that have been good and are doing better, but your one of just a very small handful that are elite in production!!! Then you two are the weird ones that do off track??? So awesome!!! Thank you again!!! A freaking +!!!👍👍👍
It would be cool to see Elements dried out with the tide sometime. Cheaper than hauling out too, if you have some relatively quick bottom maintenance to do. 8^)
Much of the ruins you mention are settlements cleared in the "Clearances" or "Highland Clearances". Scotland was well populated but landlords forceably evicted entire villages and communities to make way for sheep etc. It was basically ethnic cleansing by the UK establishment. Many were forced onto boats heading to the new worlds. It is the reason the Scottish diaspora is so big. This happened all over Scotland, including the Lowlands. Much of the north east cliffside fishing villages are the result of the clearing of people off the land and expecting people with no experience to feed their families through fishing.
@@MJSailing Good that you got oute from Tenerif. The sandstorm hit all Canary islands last weekend. Hawe frends on Gran Canaria and they send me photos. The skye was blood red becors of the sand. Aboute Corona its 3 italian turists from the region in italy where there is a corona outebreake. They live in the same hotell in Teneriff. Its the hotell H10 Costa Adeje Palace in Adeje.
A suggestion for computing your monthly costs: include only those specific for the month, like fuel, dockage, food etc and apportion annual costs like insurance, capital repairs / additions to the boat. If you did that, your September cost would be less than $1100/-
Alvin. We use IMGlobal for health insurance. It's a high deductible plan for catastrophic emergencies, but is one of the few travel ones that cover major things like cancer or a heart attack. Our 2 million dollar policy with a 2.5k deductible is $1600 a year for both Jess and I. -Matt
@@MJSailing thank you for sharing! Wishing you the best - if you ever decide the Black Sea and Russia are on your horizon we'd be happy to show you around :-))) take care!
Another comment/question... Where do you get your local information on tides and current... like how do you know what high tide is going to be under the Sky bridge at a certain time of day... how do you know how to time the tides right, like when you were talking about going through the narrows at 10:10? Thanks guys!
Tyler, We typically use Navionics for tidal and current information. But we always use a secondary source to confirm that they are correct. I downloaded a tidal list of the area before we left. -Matt
Did you leave your D400 operational during the high winds or tie it up? I left both of mine going all winter in Tromsø and will not know for another 2 months whether I made a mistake or not. I probably in hindsight should have left a small load on the batteries like a light or two the batteries could charge and discharge all winter. Solar panels won’t be adding much until the coming month and by the time we get there 18 hours of daylight. Love the scenery in Scotland and rainbows too.
Hey Judy. I don't 100% trust the solenoid that engages the diversion load for our wind gen, so we always tie it off when not in use or away for any period of time. But our controller is a Homebrew setup I made and not the commercial one sold by Eclectic Energy. Tieing off the wind get is one of those fun chores I get to do on windy/rainy days.... Hang off the back of the boat trying to catch the wind gen blades-not with my head this time- so it doesn't fry the batteries. -Matt
The night before we left this anchorage in Skye we saw one come in that had liveaboards. We also just missed another boat of Americans (sv Creeky) that was making their way down the same time as us, but after spending December in Cornwall, they're now down in Portugal for the rest of winter. 🙂
@@MJSailing good choice some amazing places, and you can get some better weather, have you tried far area you can anchor out , and in the river that joins Spain and Portugal, past ayamonte,
Holy sh1t! Your Heath insurance costs are 60% of your total costs! Thank gawd for the NHS. You should have suspended it while in the U.K. If you rocked up at any hospital by ambulance, you would have revived world class treatment, FOC, no questions asked.
Thanks for sharing your videos and adventures, especially the monthly cruising costs. We're planning our leave of the US at the end of '20 or the start of '21, and health insurance is at the top of our planning agenda. We're going to check out IM Global. You guys are paying 1/12 annually of what we're paying, still being in the states, and we have a $7K deductible!! UGH!!
We haven't needed to try out the quality of the coverage, and it does exclude preexisting conditions, but the price seemed right. We went without health insurance for the first 5 years of cruising, but had to get something for the Visa extension in Portugal. This requirement, along with us ageing, forced me to look for something after ignoring the issue for so many years. -Matt
@@mattjohnson6716, thanks. We've done the same thing, basically. DAN has been our go-to, but with ageing concerns, etc., it's time to look at options. I say UGH again!!
Are you two looking into options for audio? It seems that it’s usually hard to hear Matt when he is talking more than a few ft away from the camera. Listening over headphones it may not be an issue but on speakers I’m normally adjusting my volume for your videos when I don’t have to do that on others
We've been having issues with the microphone jack to our external microphone on our primary camera, so a few times we went out with our GoPro and Osmo, both using the internal microphone. That's why in those few clips that day had such poor audio. We have since purchased a new camera so we don't run into that issue, but that's still 5 or so episodes away. 😪
Maybe drugs were legal in the 1800"s with a big flashing light on top of a hill advertising. lol Jessica I hope you shared that beer with Matt it looked rather large. You two be careful out there. Also what do you do for five days siting out there on the boat in bad weather? :)
I have to know!!!!!!! The joke about "huffing" with the song "I'm walking on sunshine," did that come from the show Intervention? There was an iconic scene of a girl who huffed keyboard cleaner singing that song! I think of her everytime I hear that song!!!!!!!!
YESSSSS!! I can't believe anyone got that, haha. But for some reason it has also stuck in my head for years, and every time I hear that song, my mind automatically goes there.
Scotland in October with sunny then rainy them windy weather. You just keep going and you do it by finding pleasure most of what you see. Your a wonderful couple and thank you for sharing your adventures with us, your inquisitive followers.
The 'apothecary tower' was a fun place to hug and smile. The quality high definition from your cameras make your videos interesting to watch. The quaint town buildings were refreshingly pretty and inviting.
Very beautiful 😍👍
Your cost for cruising to these beautiful places is very reasonable. Thanks so much for taking us along
Love your on shore adventures and good to see Jess enjoying a beer....never does an episode feel complete until that happens. :) And Matt sportin the soul patch.....groovy! :) Another wonderful offering guys, keep up the stellar work and thank you.
The sole patch was just my inability to fully grow a beard :). -Matt
This is stunning!
Fantastic as usual!
Beautiful shots of the country side!
⛵ Pretty clouds. ☺
Really enjoyed this episode. Your narration at the end about the weather was beautiful, almost like poetry.
my thoughts exactly, it was poetry.
Even in miserable weather you make it look so inviting !!
And Once Again, Another Awesome video put out by you two! You guys capture So-Much=Beauty in every video it's remarkable! Safe Travels
Great video, you two are the best.
Great video as always..thanks for sharing your adventures!
Great Job!! Thank You.... :-)
Thanks, You are blessed.
You have a beautiful boat. It's the perfect adventure boat because it's made of aluminum and that makes it strong and safe. The reason I'm just recently following you is because of your upcoming catamaran build because I'm into hi performance catamarans. I'd for sure go with the Schionning design over any other due to the way it looks and also the design. It's got much more going for it beyond that over your two other choices that I forgot which ones they were. By choosing the Schionning, you will for sure have a 500k plus boat value the way your describing how your going to build it and that video series will even make your boat that much more desirable to the next owner when you decide to sell her. I come from a few decades of racing small catamarans and can tell you that the Schionning design is by far the best choice.
Congrats again you guys for a very well done vlog! I gotta say I am becoming a very big fan of your musical choices for the videos.
P.S. Say hi to Georgie who seems absent from this one. Hope all is well
I lived in kin sale Ireland , it looks much like this.
Awesome perfect. Sometimes I love to go back an forget the rest of the world
Obviously some local knows about the ruins. But everyone ask what and why.
My experience is go to a pub order a beer and start talking about it
I often used to stop in Isle Orinsay when I had a yacht. The pub had good beer and a decent meal.
Maybe we should have braved the weather to visit the pub there! Our guide book had lots of good things to say, lol. "Come anchor your boat here, it has a good pub!!".
Hi guys, North of your anchorage in the Nadal Bay there is a beatutiful hotel : Kinloch Lodge Hotel. Breathtaking location, fine cuisine and run by an exceptionnal lady. Worthwhile to visit ! Beautiful family house with a lot of history. Don’t miss it :-)
You both capture lots beauty and wonder in your videos, especially the heard of seagulls. Jessica's narration is very easy to listen to. That graffiti on the billboard/castle was disgusting. Scotland is so beautiful with gnarly weather changes.
Did you spot the traditional Scottish, phallic graffiti on the wall of the tower behind Jessica 3:45 into the video!
Have you ever seen a movie called "Local Hero"? It's about a small Scottish seaside town, it's a neat little quirky movie
See, that región is beautiful one day and the other bad. Well, being in the boat with mamasita for days, who cares whats happening outside. Maybe your right Brad.
Where you mention the "undocumented" ruins all round the coast, the one youre looking at is Caistel Maol (Castle Maol), ancient seat of the McKinnons from around 900AD...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caisteal_Maol
Your videos have introduced me to so many awesome songs and musicians. When you had the music for "Walking on Sunshine" I made a mental note to check on the band and at the same time, I thought a band I have been into for a while now, Pomplamoose, would do a great version too. I had to laugh when I saw in the music credits "Walking on Sunshine - Pomplamoose." I guess great minds...
Pomplamoose rocks. I really love that you post the credits for the songs!
Very well produced episode, thanks for taking us along! How has the heater been working? thumbed
extremely well produced, they are very inspiring
Thank you so much! The heater was an absolute necessity in this area, but it was performing great. We had it running 24/7 to keep the boat around 68-70 (20-21°C), and other than eating into our $ by using about a gallon of diesel a day, she did her job. 😀
@@MJSailing Yeah, most Americans don't realize that our fuel is cheap compared to most parts of the world . Probably quadruple where you are.
You freaking guys! Thanks so much!!! There are channels that have been good and are doing better, but your one of just a very small handful that are elite in production!!! Then you two are the weird ones that do off track??? So awesome!!! Thank you again!!! A freaking +!!!👍👍👍
Hi, Jess & Matt Question in your opinion do you think aluminium boats are colder inside than wooden or fibre glass.
Uk, George.
It would be cool to see Elements dried out with the tide sometime. Cheaper than hauling out too, if you have some relatively quick bottom maintenance to do. 8^)
We're going to try it this spring, we're really curious to how she'd handle it.
Much of the ruins you mention are settlements cleared in the "Clearances" or "Highland Clearances". Scotland was well populated but landlords forceably evicted entire villages and communities to make way for sheep etc. It was basically ethnic cleansing by the UK establishment. Many were forced onto boats heading to the new worlds. It is the reason the Scottish diaspora is so big. This happened all over Scotland, including the Lowlands. Much of the north east cliffside fishing villages are the result of the clearing of people off the land and expecting people with no experience to feed their families through fishing.
Georgie is a wise kitty. Stay in the boat curled up next to the heater. Maybe the humans will bring back fish?
We should have tried fishing again, she seemed to really love the one we caught in Norway. 😍
MJ can you give us some indication of how much power your wind generator is producing for your boat batteries? Thank you .
If you still are on Teneriff then keep up on the news.
1000turists in quarantine on a hotell becors of Corona virus.
Be safe.
From sweden
We just landed in London last night, lucky us. First the sandstorm, and then the Corona virus ... whew, Tenerife has been making a lot of news lately!
@@MJSailing
Good that you got oute from Tenerif.
The sandstorm hit all Canary islands last weekend.
Hawe frends on Gran Canaria and they send me photos.
The skye was blood red becors of the sand.
Aboute Corona its 3 italian turists from the region in italy where there is a corona outebreake.
They live in the same hotell in Teneriff.
Its the hotell H10 Costa Adeje Palace in Adeje.
Were cats welcome in the bar too?
A suggestion for computing your monthly costs: include only those specific for the month, like fuel, dockage, food etc and apportion annual costs like insurance, capital repairs / additions to the boat. If you did that, your September cost would be less than $1100/-
That bottle of beer looked so big in Jessica's hand, or is she that petite?
Have you done a video on health insurance? Which firm do you use if your not apposed to the question? Thanks for sharing!
Alvin. We use IMGlobal for health insurance. It's a high deductible plan for catastrophic emergencies, but is one of the few travel ones that cover major things like cancer or a heart attack. Our 2 million dollar policy with a 2.5k deductible is $1600 a year for both Jess and I. -Matt
@@MJSailing this is really helpful information!! Thank you
@@MJSailing thank you for sharing! Wishing you the best - if you ever decide the Black Sea and Russia are on your horizon we'd be happy to show you around :-))) take care!
Another comment/question... Where do you get your local information on tides and current... like how do you know what high tide is going to be under the Sky bridge at a certain time of day... how do you know how to time the tides right, like when you were talking about going through the narrows at 10:10? Thanks guys!
Tyler, We typically use Navionics for tidal and current information. But we always use a secondary source to confirm that they are correct. I downloaded a tidal list of the area before we left. -Matt
Thanks for taking time, Matt!!!
Im no longer a person who likes the cold zones...you ever remember those tropical days and ask yourself, what in the hell are we doing here?
All the time..... That's why we left for a month in the Canaries (just got back to the UK). Matt
Did you leave your D400 operational during the high winds or tie it up? I left both of mine going all winter in Tromsø and will not know for another 2 months whether I made a mistake or not. I probably in hindsight should have left a small load on the batteries like a light or two the batteries could charge and discharge all winter. Solar panels won’t be adding much until the coming month and by the time we get there 18 hours of daylight. Love the scenery in Scotland and rainbows too.
Hey Judy. I don't 100% trust the solenoid that engages the diversion load for our wind gen, so we always tie it off when not in use or away for any period of time. But our controller is a Homebrew setup I made and not the commercial one sold by Eclectic Energy.
Tieing off the wind get is one of those fun chores I get to do on windy/rainy days.... Hang off the back of the boat trying to catch the wind gen blades-not with my head this time- so it doesn't fry the batteries.
-Matt
Did you come across any live aboard cruisers in the UK in winter ?
The night before we left this anchorage in Skye we saw one come in that had liveaboards. We also just missed another boat of Americans (sv Creeky) that was making their way down the same time as us, but after spending December in Cornwall, they're now down in Portugal for the rest of winter. 🙂
@@MJSailing good choice some amazing places, and you can get some better weather, have you tried far area you can anchor out , and in the river that joins Spain and Portugal, past ayamonte,
Great Video.. Thank you! Do you have a source of heat on the boat?
We use a cheap Chinese forced air unit. About $300-400 USD total with accessories once installed. -Matt
Why did you track the word "gogs" onto the pylon at 8:00? :-D
Patron perk I believe
Thanks Ewicberger!
Holy sh1t! Your Heath insurance costs are 60% of your total costs! Thank gawd for the NHS.
You should have suspended it while in the U.K. If you rocked up at any hospital by ambulance, you would have revived world class treatment, FOC, no questions asked.
gee health insurance is stupid crazy!
Thanks for sharing your videos and adventures, especially the monthly cruising costs. We're planning our leave of the US at the end of '20 or the start of '21, and health insurance is at the top of our planning agenda. We're going to check out IM Global. You guys are paying 1/12 annually of what we're paying, still being in the states, and we have a $7K deductible!! UGH!!
We haven't needed to try out the quality of the coverage, and it does exclude preexisting conditions, but the price seemed right. We went without health insurance for the first 5 years of cruising, but had to get something for the Visa extension in Portugal. This requirement, along with us ageing, forced me to look for something after ignoring the issue for so many years. -Matt
@@mattjohnson6716, thanks. We've done the same thing, basically. DAN has been our go-to, but with ageing concerns, etc., it's time to look at options. I say UGH again!!
Are you two looking into options for audio? It seems that it’s usually hard to hear Matt when he is talking more than a few ft away from the camera. Listening over headphones it may not be an issue but on speakers I’m normally adjusting my volume for your videos when I don’t have to do that on others
We've been having issues with the microphone jack to our external microphone on our primary camera, so a few times we went out with our GoPro and Osmo, both using the internal microphone. That's why in those few clips that day had such poor audio. We have since purchased a new camera so we don't run into that issue, but that's still 5 or so episodes away. 😪
:)
8:01 Why does it say "Gogs" on the post?
It's one of our benefits through Patreon...to have you name hidden in an episode. 😊
Maybe drugs were legal in the 1800"s with a big flashing light on top of a hill advertising. lol
Jessica I hope you shared that beer with Matt it looked rather large. You two be careful out there. Also what do you do for five days siting out there on the boat in bad weather? :)
Edit videos and drink beer?
Gecko
I know comments help, but seriously Jessica consider audio book narration for side money.
I think publisher would love to have you
the druids remember.....
Scottish weather 08:30
I have to know!!!!!!! The joke about "huffing" with the song "I'm walking on sunshine," did that come from the show Intervention? There was an iconic scene of a girl who huffed keyboard cleaner singing that song! I think of her everytime I hear that song!!!!!!!!
YESSSSS!! I can't believe anyone got that, haha. But for some reason it has also stuck in my head for years, and every time I hear that song, my mind automatically goes there.
@@MJSailing About a year later they interviewed her, she was straight and was an absolutely beautiful lady. I hope she has turned it around forever.
7 years later! ua-cam.com/video/L-jp3bgyUCo/v-deo.html
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I noticed that Matt is being quite heavily discriminated against with his Health Insurance. :)
I was also wondering why there was such big difference.
@@daveamies5031 Probably pay back time for all his undeserved white male privileges.