It's so good having our own personal Jesus watching over us 😉 🤗 Thank you so much for following along! All the very best to you in Muros! Greetings from Essex :) Asha & Mark
Just binged watched your channel from the start. Really love it. We took the leap and bought our own boat last year, it had been a Plan for the future - but we decided to do it now. We can’t go sailing full time yet, but it is in the pipeline and your channel helps to firm up those plans. If you fancy a short cruise before heading back north I’d suggest heading to the anchorage at Sanda Island, then across to Rathlin Island and then push further west to Lough Swilly - our home cruising ground. You won’t be disappointed.
Hi Kevin :) Thank you so much for watching! We are very happy that you have bought your own boat and are choosing to adventure now. Thank you for your cruising suggestions, we were hoping to visit Bangor, Altor's original home, so maybe we can check some of this out too. All the best! Asha & Mark
Thank you for a fantastic season 2. Some really beautiful places - I need to get to the Faroes one of these days. Millport was where I spent summer holidays as a kid, great memories. Glad you got a sunny day there!
Hi Derek 🙃 our pleasure, thank you for following along! We're sure you'll enjoy the Faroe, really fascinating islands. Millport feels like a fantastic place to spend summer (or any) holidays! Despite we weren't there for long, we really enjoyed it.
Hi Royfile 🙃 We are blown away by the positive comments we have received, and thank you so much for yours and your continuous support! All the very best!
Fabulous footage coupled with emotionally intelligent commentary. Thank you Adventure Now. Enjoy your winter break and come back refreshed for Season 3!
Wow….. fantastic! I have loved every minute of watching your Adventure. Excellent final episode with some great sailing footage and some spectacular scenery. Love the music choices too. It was great to have a recap of your previous episodes. What an adventure you have had, thank you for your videos, well done and I am proud of you both xx 💙 💖
Thank you so much, Joanna 🤗♥️ It is great to hear that the video hit the sweet spot on so many levels! You are the best and we appreciate your support and kindness, and we love you lots 💜♥️💛
it's been said before, but the music choices are pretty well-intertwined with the scenery. What are yall? VLOGGING PROS? 🙃All jokes aside, thanks for showing our channel some love and support recently, and here's to seeing you out there one day in the big blue!
Hello La Vida Gypseas. Thank you for watching and for your kind words for our efforts! Hope you are keeping well and, yes, here’s to meeting out on the big blue! 😎
Amazing! We are planning a trip down the Crinan Canal this year so was great to see you guys go through easily. Looks like a blooming amazing trip that you had, and I am excited to see where you go in season 3
Thank you. We had a great trip and the Crinan Canal is so cool, you’ll love it. Nice and easy and lovely not to have to worry what the weather is up to for a few days! 😀 Look forward to seeing you through 👍👍👍
Superb series guys. Your last 2 episodes have inspired me...Sindur is bound for Clyde Marina, Ardrossan, at the end of March (works permitting). Looking forward to Series 3 now. Best wishes, Chris, Karen and Diesel.
Hi Chris 🙃 Great, Chris, so good to have you following along. We're so happy you have been enjoying the series and look forward to our catch up on Wednesday!
Wow! What a finale to your second Season. It's been fascinating following your experiences. Thank you for sharing them with us. Like you, I too feel that this year seems to have passed by very quickly. My first summer of full retirement, though circumstances have meant that my time has been spent very much closer to home than yours, so following you to so many beautiful and fascinating destinations has been very welcome. Your trip along the Crinan Canal and out into the Firth of Clyde brought back so many of my memories of the 1980's steaming aboard VIC32, working in the engine room and learning the basics of navigation on charters with friends from the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (some sadly no longer with us) . Good to see that she's still operating. I like your supposition that the "cup and ring" carvers of the Bronze or Iron Ages were in fact unsuccessful apprentices, or graffitists sent to improve their craft somewhere they could inconvenience no-one. Conversely, they could have been imparting some deep arcane knowledge which has been lost to us over the ages, and somewhere they're laughing up their (fur-clad) sleeves at our ignorance in being unable to understand the import of their work.It has certainly survived for many more millennia than any spray-painted artwork is likely to do! I recall our passage of the Crinan Canal aboard VIC32 on a bright day in May, having felt our way in fog the previous day down Loch Linnhe from Neptune's Staircase at the seaward end of the Caledonian Canal, and on past Oban and Mull, without seeing any of the wonderful views w'd been looking forward to. As we passed through the canal, with only the barest amount of water under VIC32's flattened bottom, many of "Altor's" sisters heading in the opposite direction, on sighting our bluff black bows, threw out fenders, and drew into the bank, reminding me of well-dressed ladies stepping aside to avoid the passing of a particularly obnoxious and grubby old vagrant! But the "Puffers" and the fishing boats were for what the canal was originally constructed by Telford, avoiding the perilous passage around the Mull of Kintyre. After Queen Victoria and her Royal party passed along it from Ardrishaig to Crinan in 1847 aboard a specially decorated Royal Barge, it became part of the "Royal Route" to the Highlands, before the Oban and Fort William railways were completed. We had plenty of hands to help with our passage through the locks, and I remember we reached the "summit" basin at Cairnbaan as the Waterways men knocked off for lunch, so we followed suit. I was sitting on the hatch cover enjoying my food in the sun when an old Morris Minor drew up and two very "tweedY" middle aged ladies stepped out. They admired and photographed the ship and one asked me if it was mine. When I replied that unfortunately it wasn't, one of the ladies remarked "Oh. you're from Kent" I was quite surprised that rather than saying I was a Londoner, she could identify the origin of my accent so accurately. I can remember a few Friday nights in Ardrishaig, (quite lively when the "Tarbet boys" turned up!) after we'd coma ashore from VIC32,and were waiting for the morning bus from Campbeltown to take us into Glasgow (sadly steamers to the Broomielaw are very few and far between these days.) My sailing experience on Loch Fyne and in the Firth of Clyde extended to trips aboard VIC32's lug sail dinghy, and while there's often plenty of breeze at the seaward ends of both stretches of water, your concerns about being sheltered from the wind by the surrounding high ground can be very pertinent towards the head of Loch Fyne and in the Kyles of Bute. On a number of occasions, this resulted in taking to the 2 - (arm) stroke "engine" to make progress. This earned us a "dipped ensign" salute from one of H M Submarines which rose "Jaws" like from the depths of Loch Fyne off our port beam as we rowed back to Inverary after an abortive attempt to sail across to the pub on the far shore. We rested on our oars, sail dropped while they passed ahead of us. We later watched them carrying out "perisher" survival apparatus training in the deep waters off of Inverary. We also sailed from Millport on Cumbrae down to Little Cumbrae, where we received an inhospitable greeting when we were hailed from the quay and told that the island was a private residence . Having sailed downwind on our outbound leg, we had a lot of tacking to do to return to the ship, and this took us close to the shipping lane as a large bulk carrier, the "Norland" passed by. She was in ballast, bound for Hunterston Quay, and her hull and superstructure towered above us with our few inches of freeboard like a cliff surmounted by a block of flats, This was 1983, in the midst of Mrs Thatcher's "handbagging" of the Miners, and Hunterston was being prepared as a secure port into which supplies of foreign coal could be shipped. Usually it was the port of entry of iron ore for the Ravenscraig steelworks near Motherwell (one of my railway colleagues was ASM at the BR depot there, and always one of the sets of the hopper wagons which conveyed the ore from Hunterston was in the works having the brake linings replaced, such was the wear caused by running on the undulating line inland). Ravenscraig was another casualty of Mrs Thatcher's hit list of British industries. Cumbrae is an attractive island and in the days of Glaswegians steaming "doon the watter". Millport was considered a cut above the more popular resort of Rothesay on Bute. I remember leading a peloton of my Keighley and Worth Valley Railway colleagues on a "Tour de Cumbrae" aboard a rather ramshackle collection of bicycles which Nick Walker, the then Skipper/owner of VIC32 had collected during the ship's cruises. I guess your winter will be occupied in refitting "Altor" in readiness for next year's sailing adventures. Enjoy Christmas and the New Year, and I'm sure all your subscribers will be looking forward to following your next experiences, so well produced and presented.
Hi Hugh 🙃 Thank you so much for watching and sharing your fascinating story! I was hoping you'd like to see VIC32 alive and well, we were for sure! Must have been fun to cycle around! We had bikes onboard Altor but managed to go for one cycling trip in the entire season, so we now took the bikes back to England and are going to leave them stored away, making space for other stuff onboard. We have some jobs to carry out on Altor but for now we are enjoying visiting families. I hope 2022 will be even better!
You make thoughtful, quality and often poetic videos…..surely just a matter of time before your subscriber numbers match your quality. Thanks for sharing.
Loved your final video of the season, as always, you have inspired us! Can't wait for your next season of videos. Hoping one day we can meet up in our Moodys!
Ace me and the wife used to go to Crinan 3 times a year not on a boat or yacht as I work on a pilot boat we used to rent a cottage up the road from the boat yard love the place we now have campervan to see more of God's country Scotland
Hi Robert 🙃 Thank you so much for watching! That sounds fantastic, God's country is great, in our view motorhomes and boats are the best way to travel and enjoy the world. Long it may continue! All the best 🙂 Asha & Mark
Hi Simon 🙃 Thank you so much for watching and your suggestion! We have some friends wintering in Portavadie so might venture there in the new year. All the best to you! Asha & Mark
Great series. Love the goofy humor, great sailing and beautiful locations. The recap was fantastic I'm jealous. Cant wait for season 3. All the best to you both!!
Hi and thank you for your kind words. Yes we like the wind generator. We tend not to run it overnight when it’s windy because it is a bit noisy. However it’s great on passage, especially on a reach in f4 or above when we get enough from it to run all systems including the autopilot, if it’s not too rough! 👍
Very nice series of videos, well done!
Hi Keith 🙃 Thank you so much for watching and your comment! All the best. Asha & Mark
cant wait until season three. you guys are the salt of the earth. cheers
Season three underway, and we are so excited too! Thank you so much for your kind words 🙃
Slainte Mark + Asha. Failte gu Alba. great video. the best yet i think. Inspiring. i love the poetry. dont stop adventuring... one day we will meet..
Hi Fergus 🙃 thank you so much! We'll keep adventuring and fingers crossed - our paths will cross too ⛵️
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Great films thanks
Thank you so much, Ken 🙃
Phenomenal. Inspiring. Emotional.
Cheers Giles. Really happy you enjoyed it! 👍👍👍👍
Magical !!! enjoy every minute of your fantastic adventure !!! Please come back soon and share your wind and seas !!! Best regards from Muros !!!!
It's so good having our own personal Jesus watching over us 😉 🤗 Thank you so much for following along! All the very best to you in Muros! Greetings from Essex :) Asha & Mark
.......and thank you for allowing us to share the journey with you. Looking forward to your next season! :-)
Thank you for coming along, David 🙃 We are thrilled with all the positive comments and looking forward to the next season too!
great video! your best one so far i think! :)
Thank you so much, Juho 🤗 See you're having a very feisty time in Iceland. Hope you are keeping warm and well!
Great end to a great series, thanks for the joy you have shared and given. Hurry on back
Thank you so much, Dave 🙃 It's an absolute pleasure to hear that you have enjoyed coming along with us!
Looking forward to next seasons adventure 👍
Hi Clint 🙃 You and us too! Thank you so much 🙂
Just binged watched your channel from the start. Really love it. We took the leap and bought our own boat last year, it had been a Plan for the future - but we decided to do it now. We can’t go sailing full time yet, but it is in the pipeline and your channel helps to firm up those plans.
If you fancy a short cruise before heading back north I’d suggest heading to the anchorage at Sanda Island, then across to Rathlin Island and then push further west to Lough Swilly - our home cruising ground. You won’t be disappointed.
Hi Kevin :) Thank you so much for watching! We are very happy that you have bought your own boat and are choosing to adventure now. Thank you for your cruising suggestions, we were hoping to visit Bangor, Altor's original home, so maybe we can check some of this out too. All the best! Asha & Mark
Thank you for taking me with you, bliss!
Roger, it is our absolute pleasure, thank you for coming along for the ride!
Thank you for a fantastic season 2. Some really beautiful places - I need to get to the Faroes one of these days. Millport was where I spent summer holidays as a kid, great memories. Glad you got a sunny day there!
Hi Derek 🙃 our pleasure, thank you for following along! We're sure you'll enjoy the Faroe, really fascinating islands. Millport feels like a fantastic place to spend summer (or any) holidays! Despite we weren't there for long, we really enjoyed it.
Absolutely fantastic guys, love it 🥃🇬🇧
Hi Royfile 🙃 We are blown away by the positive comments we have received, and thank you so much for yours and your continuous support! All the very best!
Fabulous footage coupled with emotionally intelligent commentary. Thank you Adventure Now. Enjoy your winter break and come back refreshed for Season 3!
Hi Ian 🙃 Thank you so much for watching, your kind comment, and following along! We really appreciate the positive support!
Fantastic series, really enjoyed being with you.
Thank you, Tony! Thank you so much for following, good to have you along for the ride!
Wow….. fantastic! I have loved every minute of watching your Adventure. Excellent final episode with some great sailing footage and some spectacular scenery. Love the music choices too. It was great to have a recap of your previous episodes. What an adventure you have had, thank you for your videos, well done and I am proud of you both xx 💙 💖
Thank you so much, Joanna 🤗♥️ It is great to hear that the video hit the sweet spot on so many levels! You are the best and we appreciate your support and kindness, and we love you lots 💜♥️💛
Followed from the beginning, excellent production ,real life live aboard KEEP GOING Thank you both
Hi John 🙃 Thank you for following along. We really want to show a genuine liveaboard lifestyle so we are really happy to hear you say that.
it's been said before, but the music choices are pretty well-intertwined with the scenery. What are yall? VLOGGING PROS? 🙃All jokes aside, thanks for showing our channel some love and support recently, and here's to seeing you out there one day in the big blue!
Hello La Vida Gypseas. Thank you for watching and for your kind words for our efforts! Hope you are keeping well and, yes, here’s to meeting out on the big blue! 😎
Amazing! We are planning a trip down the Crinan Canal this year so was great to see you guys go through easily. Looks like a blooming amazing trip that you had, and I am excited to see where you go in season 3
Thank you. We had a great trip and the Crinan Canal is so cool, you’ll love it. Nice and easy and lovely not to have to worry what the weather is up to for a few days! 😀 Look forward to seeing you through 👍👍👍
Superb series guys. Your last 2 episodes have inspired me...Sindur is bound for Clyde Marina, Ardrossan, at the end of March (works permitting). Looking forward to Series 3 now. Best wishes, Chris, Karen and Diesel.
Hi Chris 🙃 That's fantastic! We are so happy to hear that and we are looking forward to having a beer with you up north!
What an epic journey you've had! I've loved every minute of it. See you on Wednesday. Chris
Hi Chris 🙃 Great, Chris, so good to have you following along. We're so happy you have been enjoying the series and look forward to our catch up on Wednesday!
Wow! What a finale to your second Season. It's been fascinating following your experiences. Thank you for sharing them with us. Like you, I too feel that this year seems to have passed by very quickly. My first summer of full retirement, though circumstances have meant that my time has been spent very much closer to home than yours, so following you to so many beautiful and fascinating destinations has been very welcome.
Your trip along the Crinan Canal and out into the Firth of Clyde brought back so many of my memories of the 1980's steaming aboard VIC32, working in the engine room and learning the basics of navigation on charters with friends from the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (some sadly no longer with us) . Good to see that she's still operating.
I like your supposition that the "cup and ring" carvers of the Bronze or Iron Ages were in fact unsuccessful apprentices, or graffitists sent to improve their craft somewhere they could inconvenience no-one. Conversely, they could have been imparting some deep arcane knowledge which has been lost to us over the ages, and somewhere they're laughing up their (fur-clad) sleeves at our ignorance in being unable to understand the import of their work.It has certainly survived for many more millennia than any spray-painted artwork is likely to do!
I recall our passage of the Crinan Canal aboard VIC32 on a bright day in May, having felt our way in fog the previous day down Loch Linnhe from Neptune's Staircase at the seaward end of the Caledonian Canal, and on past Oban and Mull, without seeing any of the wonderful views w'd been looking forward to. As we passed through the canal, with only the barest amount of water under VIC32's flattened bottom, many of "Altor's" sisters heading in the opposite direction, on sighting our bluff black bows, threw out fenders, and drew into the bank, reminding me of well-dressed ladies stepping aside to avoid the passing of a particularly obnoxious and grubby old vagrant!
But the "Puffers" and the fishing boats were for what the canal was originally constructed by Telford, avoiding the perilous passage around the Mull of Kintyre. After Queen Victoria and her Royal party passed along it from Ardrishaig to Crinan in 1847 aboard a specially decorated Royal Barge, it became part of the "Royal Route" to the Highlands, before the Oban and Fort William railways were completed.
We had plenty of hands to help with our passage through the locks, and I remember we reached the "summit" basin at Cairnbaan as the Waterways men knocked off for lunch, so we followed suit. I was sitting on the hatch cover enjoying my food in the sun when an old Morris Minor drew up and two very "tweedY" middle aged ladies stepped out. They admired and photographed the ship and one asked me if it was mine. When I replied that unfortunately it wasn't, one of the ladies remarked "Oh. you're from Kent" I was quite surprised that rather than saying I was a Londoner, she could identify the origin of my accent so accurately.
I can remember a few Friday nights in Ardrishaig, (quite lively when the "Tarbet boys" turned up!) after we'd coma ashore from VIC32,and were waiting for the morning bus from Campbeltown to take us into Glasgow (sadly steamers to the Broomielaw are very few and far between these days.)
My sailing experience on Loch Fyne and in the Firth of Clyde extended to trips aboard VIC32's lug sail dinghy, and while there's often plenty of breeze at the seaward ends of both stretches of water, your concerns about being sheltered from the wind by the surrounding high ground can be very pertinent towards the head of Loch Fyne and in the Kyles of Bute. On a number of occasions, this resulted in taking to the 2 - (arm) stroke "engine" to make progress. This earned us a "dipped ensign" salute from one of H M Submarines which rose "Jaws" like from the depths of Loch Fyne off our port beam as we rowed back to Inverary after an abortive attempt to sail across to the pub on the far shore. We rested on our oars, sail dropped while they passed ahead of us. We later watched them carrying out "perisher" survival apparatus training in the deep waters off of Inverary.
We also sailed from Millport on Cumbrae down to Little Cumbrae, where we received an inhospitable greeting when we were hailed from the quay and told that the island was a private residence . Having sailed downwind on our outbound leg, we had a lot of tacking to do to return to the ship, and this took us close to the shipping lane as a large bulk carrier, the "Norland" passed by. She was in ballast, bound for Hunterston Quay, and her hull and superstructure towered above us with our few inches of freeboard like a cliff surmounted by a block of flats, This was 1983, in the midst of Mrs Thatcher's "handbagging" of the Miners, and Hunterston was being prepared as a secure port into which supplies of foreign coal could be shipped. Usually it was the port of entry of iron ore for the Ravenscraig steelworks near Motherwell (one of my railway colleagues was ASM at the BR depot there, and always one of the sets of the hopper wagons which conveyed the ore from Hunterston was in the works having the brake linings replaced, such was the wear caused by running on the undulating line inland). Ravenscraig was another casualty of Mrs Thatcher's hit list of British industries.
Cumbrae is an attractive island and in the days of Glaswegians steaming "doon the watter". Millport was considered a cut above the more popular resort of Rothesay on Bute. I remember leading a peloton of my Keighley and Worth Valley Railway colleagues on a "Tour de Cumbrae" aboard a rather ramshackle collection of bicycles which Nick Walker, the then Skipper/owner of VIC32 had collected during the ship's cruises.
I guess your winter will be occupied in refitting "Altor" in readiness for next year's sailing adventures. Enjoy Christmas and the New Year, and I'm sure all your subscribers will be looking forward to following your next experiences, so well produced and presented.
Hi Hugh 🙃 Thank you so much for watching and sharing your fascinating story! I was hoping you'd like to see VIC32 alive and well, we were for sure! Must have been fun to cycle around! We had bikes onboard Altor but managed to go for one cycling trip in the entire season, so we now took the bikes back to England and are going to leave them stored away, making space for other stuff onboard. We have some jobs to carry out on Altor but for now we are enjoying visiting families. I hope 2022 will be even better!
You make thoughtful, quality and often poetic videos…..surely just a matter of time before your subscriber numbers match your quality. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much, Gus 🙃 It makes us feel great that you enjoy the videos with the occasional poetic commentary!
Loved your final video of the season, as always, you have inspired us! Can't wait for your next season of videos. Hoping one day we can meet up in our Moodys!
Hi Candace 🙃 That's awesome, we are so looking forward to a Moody party with you up north. Bring it on, 2022!
Ive enjoyed your journey too. I guess you could call me a virtual stowaway. Thanks.
Thank you so much, Bill 🙃 With the whisky you have on your boat, you are a very welcome stowaway 😁 see you back in Largs soon! 🥃👍
Ace me and the wife used to go to Crinan 3 times a year not on a boat or yacht as I work on a pilot boat we used to rent a cottage up the road from the boat yard love the place we now have campervan to see more of God's country Scotland
Hi Robert 🙃 Thank you so much for watching! That sounds fantastic, God's country is great, in our view motorhomes and boats are the best way to travel and enjoy the world. Long it may continue! All the best 🙂 Asha & Mark
Wonderful stuff! That's quite a season! Just an idea - we had Christmas a couple of times at Portavadie on the boat and it was fantastic.
Hi Simon 🙃 Thank you so much for watching and your suggestion! We have some friends wintering in Portavadie so might venture there in the new year. All the best to you! Asha & Mark
Well done to you both spectacular inspiring footage and commentary can’t wait until next season videos. Have a good break tony jane and family x
Hi Tony, Jane and Family 🙃 We are delighted to hear our content is inspiring, ultimate compliment. Thank you for watching and your continuous support!
Great series. Love the goofy humor, great sailing and beautiful locations. The recap was fantastic I'm jealous. Cant wait for season 3. All the best to you both!!
Hi Olav 🙃 thank you so much! We are so happy you enjoy our videos. We are so looking forward to Season 3 too. All the best to you! Asha & Mark
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Hi Chris 🤗 Thank you so much for your kind emojis and your continuous support 👍🙃 Hope you and your family are doing good.
One good season i have to say on to the next
Hi Andy 🙃 thank you very much indeed, really happy you enjoyed the series! Here's to season 3!
good movie) but will be better to use life jackets )))
Thank you. Re the life jackets, it’s impossible to disagree with you! Thanks for watching 👍
Brilliant video, a quick question, how do you find your wind vane? Does it give a decent output?
Hi and thank you for your kind words. Yes we like the wind generator. We tend not to run it overnight when it’s windy because it is a bit noisy. However it’s great on passage, especially on a reach in f4 or above when we get enough from it to run all systems including the autopilot, if it’s not too rough! 👍
What's happening with that pair of land lumbers?....where is the Adventure Now?...
Rob....Inverness....
Haha! Those roots don’t half grow but we are off again and the first episode is coming soon!!! Hope you are keeping well 😀
well , that was cool
Cheers, Roderick! Thank you so much! Great to hear from you. Hope life is good over there on the East Coast :)