Sail from Minnesota to Belize in just 40 days!
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- This is a short version of learning to sail and with a little experience two guys sailing from Minnesota Belize. 2500 miles over 40 days. And how lucky they were to make it Yet this is how many sailing trips go
blog of the trip
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Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this Northern port
Aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was not a sailing man,
The skipper not so sure.
No passengers set sail that day
For a Mississippi tour, a Gulf of Mexico tour.
The weather started getting rough,
The tiny ship was tossed,
If not for the courage of the sick and fearful crew
The Bettie J would be lost, the Bettie J would be lost.
The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted mud next to the dock.
Without Gilligan
Without The Skipper too,
Missing The millionaire and his wife,
A poster of a movie star
A Cooler and some Mary Jane
Here on Donavan’s Isle….
(Anything to not rake leaves…)
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂yup love it thanks
@@donavanshomes Seriously I’ve only been out fishing at night on the Ohio River and it is disorienting and creepy… and everything and everybody loses when messing with a river barge! You’ve had an unbelievable adventure…thanks for sharing! (Oh and it’s Kentucky Lake )
YOU, my good man are one lucky dude! Gotta respect Mother Nature and what she can dish out.
All the best!
My hat is off to you Donovan. What an epic journey. Journey of a lifetime, not to be repeated!!
It was not my last adventure on the Mississippi but probably done now
We keep our Catalina C-30 in Pepin. Amazing journey and great video.
I love woodworking.....I love sailing....Great video
Donovan you are a well rounded adventurer. Not only do you rebuild homes, build barns, and sail the open seas. Thanks for sharing
Don you are welcome
What an amazing journey.
I spent most of 2015 summer on my sailboat at Lake City Minnesota… I gave my boat to my son last year… he still keeps it at Lakecity Marina. He just took it out this last weekend for the winter.
Damn, son! Epic journey. Cool story.
That was quite the adventure. I am reminded of a good book "Paddle to the Amazon" by Don Starkell. They started in Winnipeg and canoed all the way to the mouth of the Amazon.
What an adventure! Thanks!
Donovan, great story!!
Thanks
I never thought of an alternate route, other than the Mississippi, to the gulf of Mexico. Interesting journey, thanks for sharing Donavan.
You are welcome
Interesting Donavan. Quite a hobby, sailing and a great difference between sailing in Minnesota and the Gulf of Mexico. But, life is an adventure and most people will not get off the shore much less a 33' foot boat. No pain, no gain.
yes life is a adventure and you need to live it
Sounds a lot like the trip me, my father, and one of my brothers took from Washington DC to the Virgin Islands. Someday I will retell that story…not today. Glad it all worked out for you and Dave.
great story. I had no idea you were into sailing
What a great story of adventure. Thank you for sharing it with us Donovan!
Awesome. You went right by my son's home in Mobile, lol.
👋🏻, That was some adventure and a great story, thanks for sharing 👌
That is just so cool. I want to do the great loop.
The loop would be fun to do
I’ve been using UA-cam mainly for sailing videos and woodworking/construction videos. You just brought both worlds together in one channel. Thanks for sharing your wild adventures with us.
You are welcome I too watch lots of both
You must be my brother (in soul and mind). Cheers ...
Sailing -
Fun is great, doing well is a bonus.
Sounds like a great idea experience, I’m sure at some points you wondering why the hell you were there. Some of my fondest memories have been of sailing though mainly dingies and far too long ago. Thanks for sharing
Glad you made it safely to Belize! Interesting tale!
In 2016 my dad signed up to help a friend sail his boat from San Diego to Hawaii. He had sailed a bit with the owner, but not much, and had never even met the 3rd crew member (now his partner of 5 years). My brother (34yo at the time) and I (30yo at the time) tried very hard to talk him (63yo at the time) out of this, even my mom (they divorced in 2012) called him to see if she could convince him. All I had for contact was a GPS ping that in theory was hourly, but failed way more often than it succeeded, and they had a satellite phone they could use to call the wife of the boat owner or me (and then we texted each other an update). I was plotting GPS pings into a spreadsheet (linked below) to track their progress.
Three days into the trip, about 450 miles from San Diego I see no update for most of the day, and am somewhat worried since I knew they had just passed a shipping lane and while that means radio contact it also means they could screw up and get hit by a ship that'd hardly notice them.
When I finally get a call from my dad on the satellite phone I learn that overnight their rudder control seized up, and they had about 5 degrees of rudder control either direction. And as a result they where effectively unable to control the boat when it was under wind power.
They made the wise decision to turn around, which takes a long time with 5 degrees of rudder control, and were motor sailing back towards North America. They did the determination that they were better off going for San Diego than anywhere in Baja California because of wind patterns, but were going to be very low on fuel by the time they got there (they had a lot of fuel on ship) and straight sailing wasn't going to work very well. They ended up about 15 miles off shore when they ran out of fuel and the wind was not favorable to sail further. They radioed and got towed in the rest of the way by the Coast Guard.
Fortunately he hasn't sailed further than Catalina or Ensenada (from Long Beach) since.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQhgEAhv7Y93vfsA3wt5sJiqNgUUYsf3wIUp7N3E3fQR87lUQwA-eOrOUbvXWJwX7DkXpHxsE5PWz7Q/pubhtml?gid=553503816&single=true
Thank you for sharing your sailing adventure, awesome 😎
Interesting Donovan ! My son-in-law and daughter want to do this level of boating when he retires. But not in a sail boat. So Was told some of what will be involved , locks were only thing I sorta kinda understood, cool! Be safe!
*Sound like a awesome trip... that you had fun doing.*
Donovan - Been there, done that. Except that our trip was the "Great Loop", (yes, I'm a "Looper") which included that exact waterway, the TomBigBee south to Mobile. Never again. Absolutely not. That part of the world is strange, to say the least. And then going up along the coast wasn't so bad, but going up the Chesapeake to round the DelMarVa peninsula was another type of nightmare with all the monster freighters on the Chesapeake. And it was at night! It was finally a relief to get off the blue water and head up the Hudson River. How do you spell relief? I had wanted to take the Severn Waterway but we were already behind schedule and October was fast approaching. Now I'm strictly on Lake Superior and I explore the Apostle Islands and the Bayfield area, although I see a trip to Isle Royal National Park possibly next year. But Lake Superior can be very full of surprises, one of which is a fog bank that appears out of nowhere. There's that...... 🤢 Back to work on Matt's barn. I like the progress and I'm curious as to what he's going to do for electricity.
the Apostles great place to sail I have taken my Hunter 23 for a few times for about 6 days stay plus Chartered a few times and I also try to get there to race some too I also race On Lake Minnetonka with our boat
It was nice knowing you Donavan.
Wow thanks for charing.
Quick question, How did you, and the boat, get home. Or, is that going to be another video? Very interesting, thank you for sharing.
The Boat stayed there my friend retired and was moving to Belize
Donovan, i follow you through Matt. i had no idea you were so worldly. Crazy Adventure indeed. Loved the story and your Video.
Thanks
11/28/22. Mn to Belize by 30ft sailboat!Wow, what an interesting story!...but...can't remember your describing your return !!? So did you sell the 🛥 boat & fly home?🤔 Glad you are back in the USA. Stay safe & carry on!👍👍👍⚙️🔩🔧🛠💪😊🍺
I flew house boat stayed there
Team up with Matt to recreate this journey, of course we’ll need to see you two make the boat from Matt’s urban lumber first 👍
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Thanks
Did you sail back home or did you make other arrangements? Thanks for sharing your story.
Indeed!! What happened to the boat? How did you get home? I feel like you left out the epilogue of the story.
It was my friends boat and he was retiring in Belize
Marvelous tour and more adventurous than the now defunct Sailing Soulianis YT channel (I followed some yrs ago) that did the Big Missisippi run, but never got farther than the Keys since they were affraid of wind (hurricane wind).
I also been on neighboring piers on Cay Caulker. However, my route getting there was a bit different as I took an open taxi boat across the open and wide bay btw Livingston in Guatemala and Punta Gorda (where I was seriously detained at the border bcs I apparently looked like a drug trafficker), hopped on a sizzy old Cesna to Belize City, and then a tourist speedboat to that Cay. Marvelous trip too ...
A bold bold adventure! Gotta have a set to do that! Fortune favors the bold
good job guys
Soooooo where is the boat now and did you fly home?
Excellent story. Movie rights?
The boat stained there my friend was going to retire in Belize I flew home a few week after we got done with the trip
That must have been terrifying.
Part’s were
Of all places, why Belize? I might not have been listening when you said it, if so sorry. They should make an adventure movie about this.
My friend who owned the boat was retiring there
We’re going to need a bigger boat! 😉
Yes
Hello from Siesta Key Florida
Hi 👋
Great adventure! NOMB, but did you sell the boat in Belize?
the boat was my friends he was retiring there it stayed there
So do tell...how did you get the boat back to Minnesota?
Boat is still in Belize last time I checked
i like it
❤️
Would you do it again?
Maybe but differently for sure
How did you get back home?
We flew back boat stayed there friend Bought land and retired there