We Got Our Butts Kicked Sailing to the Bahamas [Making Our Way Ep 135]
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- We're sailing to the states from South America and we have just departed Puerto Rico after a short but sweet stop. But before we get to enjoy the beautiful Bahamas Blues, we have to make it through a 4 day passage that feels like 4 weeks. Join us for a bizarrely challenging sail, a completely eerie and dreamlike experience aboard, one the most gorgeous beaches we've ever seen, and more.
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Bahamas is my favorite cruising destination in the world! First went in 1962 and have been going back ever since.
Most anchorages in the Bahamas have surge and it can drive you nuts. It will look dead calm but the boat rolls constantly.
Another tip: bring in your chain about 70 feet, tie off an old halyard to it, then let chain back out. Run the other end of the halyard to a winch and winch in until the bow is pointing into the swell.
Penny & Lucy …..my hero’s
Love the sailing, being life raw without makeup. Just you and the ocean. It can see the real you.Congratulations you passed.
Yeah, new sails make a world of difference and so does a smooth clean bottom.
In these situations, just leave early and then heave-to about 10-15 miles out and wait for sunrise. Being on a boat heaved-to is much better than a boat rolling in an anchorage.
Looking forward to your next vid.
Be safe 👍🏻
I guess you already know by now, Georgetown can get pretty rough too.
Those are some happy doggos❤
Yay! Great passage guys! Crooked is one of our favorite places, we make our way all the way back, past the mailboat pier (even w/our 6' draught), so calm back there. Great blue holes for fish and lobster! Barbara can get you set up with Aliv wifi box if ya need ($99 for 125 gigs). Have fun!❤️🌊⛵️🇧🇸
2 things: 1) it's so much better to leave in bad stuff and end in good stuff as you know it's just going to get better as time goes on. Plus, after the leg, you forget the bad stuff and remember the good stuff. 2) I am going to post under this how to prevent sea-sickness without medication. It is a trick I learned from a mag article just before I left to go cruising back in 2012. It saved me. I used to get sick so much just looking at rough weather on the computer would make me feel sick.
Here are some tips (the trick is the last paragraph): 1) Never assume crew who you have never sailed with can deal with the seas. Make them take sea sickness medicine (stugeron 15 MG pills is best but sometimes all you can find is 75 MG so split it) before you depart and regularly. 2) Only go down in the cabin for needs like head, water, food and make it quick...for the first 3 days. Being down below is the worst place to be for sea sickness. Only let them stay down there when sleeping and make sure to tell them to keep their eyes closed the whole time. Lying on stomach helps. 3) When crew wakes up, have them come up immediately and sit down. They will puke soon and after that, nibble on hard boiled eggs and sip water. Make them take the helm. Helming makes the brain understand the boat is moving.
Sea sickness is caused by 2 things: 1) fear/nervousness/anxiety. The more experienced the crew the less this is a problem unless they have a history of sickness. 2) The difference of the signals the brain is getting from the eyes and ears. When down below, everything is moving with the boat so it doesn't look like the boat is moving to the brain, but the ears on the other hand are screaming loudly that it is moving all over the place. On deck or in the cockpit it isn't as bad but still a problem for many. Here is how to bring those signals closer together but it has to be done at the very first sign of sickness. For me that is the watering of the mouth.
Two methods but it can be summed up as riding the boat like a surf board, not a bull: 1) This is the easiest to master and it works well. Stand on the steps with arms resting on the deck. As the boat moves, let it move under you but keep the upper body still. If the bow rises, you lean forward, of the bow falls, lean backwards, if starboard rises, bend your right knee, if port rises, bend your left knee. 2) The sitting version. Sit up straight and swivel in the midsection. Keep that head still. Just think about letting the boat move under you, not you holding onto the boat and moving with it. These actions sometimes takes only a few minutes or up to 30 minutes to make it go away. Sometimes need to repeat on really rough scary weather often. Do not let it slide to sickness and then try, it will be too late.
I just found your channel. It is interesting that we were in the Caribbean when the virus hit and with all the talk of everything closing down, especially customs and immigration, I felt it was best to go back home in Texas instead of going back to the South Pacific like we had planned on doing, yet that is when so many landlubbers decided it was time to get out of America and go cruising. I guess when things happen, you just want to change what you are doing.
In 18 months my Tongan wife will have citizenship and a US passport and then we take off again. This time though, instead of my wife babysitting and me babysitting her, I'll have 2 crew who can help out. I'll also bring on 2 more crew for the longer trips. I tried that on our return trip as we only made one stop from Bequia and I gotta tell ya, it is a lot different than solo sailing that I did for 6 years before meeting my wife. I could get used to just giving orders and supervising :)
Welcome to this side of things..lol. Nice passage, you guys rock. We're in George Town, Exumas now. Probably heading to Nassau in a couple of weeks.
😀😀😀👍👍👍❤❤❤ A spectacular full moon and glass water! I remember this from being a kid. Bye from Seattle, WA.
The now have mooring balls in the harbor? How much are they? I assume you can still anchor in deeper water?
When you said that the cabin was a war zone, and you showed several items in the galley area strewn about, a question came to mind because you're not the only sailors that have made damn near the same comment when traversing a multi-day sail. Knowing that you will be on a multi-day sail, why wouldn't you make sure items were stored in protected areas to prevent things from being tossed about? Please, please do not take this as criticism because I am not a sailor, it is strictly a knowledge-seeking answer. What makes having the boat listing 15 degrees cause a mess? Thanks for posting this week’s video.
Good Q - When we’re heeled 15 degrees things stay in place - but when you’re heeled 30 degrees or in big chop and/or gusty winds things can get airborne and move around. Most things are pretty well secured but of course it’s also our house and we’re actively living in it so there’s stuff everywhere. Combine that with an utter inability to clean up big messes when they happen (no one wants to be down below cleaning a floor in heavy seas), and the place can become a disaster before too long
Noticed at 7:08 you radar dome was swinging please check it before it’s too late
It’s on a gimbal it’s meant to swing! Good eye tho
Where in the Bahamas are you?
Thou shall not take the Lord's name in vain! That includes OMG. Thank you
lol oh my god you’re so welcome
Sail boat's just are not very smart for living on the oceans. Thank God for every day you wake up and live.
People did it for millennia before stinkpots were invented. 😊
It's a shame your videos are so delayed as (sometimes unwanted) advise is of no value. You could have stayed in Trinidad for hurricane season and then done all of the Caribbean and Bahamas in day sails or at most an overnight mostly in the lee of islands.
Them getting north to be outside of the hurricane area may have something to do with insurance.
Hi Lee. Believe it or not, we did exactly what we wanted to do.
@jeffh1266 I know but I thought Trinidad was safe. They made two long passages, one on the wind that were tiring.
Wow a little judgmental don’t you think ? Maybe STFU ?
This goddamn auto-dubbing by Google is so stupid and annoying. Why would YT think delivering your episode to me in Spanish is what I want?