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@@RoversAdventure It vindicates the design and the thoughts behind the design. I guess there was no guarantee until it was tried "in the flesh". I think it would be a great boat for the Jester Challenge
Me gusta el andar noble y los balances pausados del barco. Hay dos cosas que no me agradan. La falta de guarda mancebos y candeleros y la falta de roldana y cofre de cadena en proa...
Obrigado. Estou feliz com a maneira como ela lida e com a facilidade de operação para mim. Sinto-me muito seguro com o arranjo que tenho atualmente. @@mariajosemorenoguerrero8638
Your best video yet! What a great little ship Wave Rover is as she proves herself in lumpy conditions. Her ability to depart when much larger yachts stay on the hook confirms that she is a comfortable bluewater boat. Your ability to reef and to shake them out gives you a huge advantage when singlehanded. Thats once again for taking us along on the best leg of the adventure so far.
@SailingWaveRover what a great boat and crew... that she is so comfortable in Tradewinds like conditions.. Wish I was younger, you got it figured out Alan...talk this weekend?
Very cool boat. You did a wonderful job building it. I used to own a Ranger 23 and I sailed on San Francisco Bay. A normal summer day was similar to what you are in, wet and windy.
That would be a great trip. North to south is the way to go. Someone did part of that trip in a Potter 19 many years ago. I think they stopped in LA.@@RoversAdventure
I hope I one day will have built myself a Wave Rover ⛵ Thank you for sharing your videos. Both from the build and your voyages. 🇨🇦🇩🇰 Every thing has to start as a dream before becoming an ambition which in turn can be pursued to become reality.
I am new to your channel…. And I love it!!! I just watched an older vid and watching this one I see you are now sailing a Junk-rigged boat!! I wonder how a junk rig would work on my Laurin Koster 28….. If anybody has ideas, suggestions or advice…. Greetings Henk, the Netherlands….
i remember sailing along that same path in october 1991. i was on a 22ft bilge keel boat with boom rolling reef system (not my favorite way to reef)... everything was hectic but basically okay until i had to take a helicopter ride to cape charles c.g.. station. never did find that good little boat again. (oh, i went outside the delmarva peninsula...)
Another great V-log Alan! I’m a little worried about Wave Rover not having a conventional cockpit rather a deck helm. I hope you are wearing a vest and teather when the seas get rough. You sure don’t want to flirt with going overboard.
Looking forward to seeing the Cape May entrance as well as from shore. In May 1971 I arrived at the USCG Cape May Training Center.. Yes, I do have memories of Cape May, but for some reason I don't associate it with a vacation wonderland. I very much enjoy seeing how Wave Rover with its junk rig performs in the heavier winds. I am comparing to my Capri 22 which is a similar size but is more of a racing boat (a J/22 want-a-be). I have been out in 30+ knot gusts while racing. The foresail was mostly wrapped up and the main needed a second and third reef (which the main does not have).
I have loved thee last bunch of videos. Long Island Sound is my sailing grounds (from Lower NY Harbor, New Jersey) and have sailed much around Staten Island and Sandy Hook. I am amazed that you are sailing in the winter - my boat is on the hard for the winter... I plan on taking the boat to the Chesapeake in the next year, so will be following your path down the Jersey Shore (but I will do it in warmer weather).
Cape May is a really underrated town. One of our favorite little-airplane flying destinations. You’re getting close to my home town, I hope you’ll soon leave those Yankees in NJ behind and stop somewhere around the mouth of the Chesapeake (“Tidewater Virginia”)!
There's a good possibility that I will be heading that way. I haven't formalized the plan yet. Send me an email if you know of an inexpensive marina or dock space in that area. alanbmulholland@gmail.com
Wave Rover seems like a great coastal cruiser, but if these are ‘challenging conditions’ what about off shore crossing oceans where inevitably you will be occasionally exposed to MUCH worse sea and wind conditions. How is that going to work?
Alan after watching the video I wonder if you're satisfied with the forward visibility from inside the cabin? Would a larger port, or multiple forward facing ports be an improvement?
Hi Alan! Great voyage thus far. I enjoyed hearing you like to read the names on the benefactor bulkhead. On both Wave Rover 1 and 2 I have wondered why there isn’t a cabin heater of some sort? Stay safe buddy.
Nice job with the video. Your correct on how the seas just dont show true on the video. A suggestion for video showing wind. A couple small tell tales off the bimini frame. Thanks
If this was mostly with wind and waves, how will it be during ocean crossings? 18-20 knots of wind is not much once you get out there. I look forward to the continuation and hope everything goes well. 💕😄😀🇸🇪
Having crossed oceans in small boats, these conditions were not trivial. Perhaps that doesn't show o the video. At one point a 60' plus cutter was slowing passing me fully reefed with only a tiny amount of stay sail showing.
The Understatement of the Week Award goes to Alan Mulholland for "These are really good conditions to stay at anchor." Mulholland shows us all how to be a glass half full with only a quarter of a glass of water!
Good stuff. Could be a trick of the camera but the pointy bit of your anchor looks like it could be trouble if you stumbled on deck. Could it be stowed with the point facing out?
The boat is well up to the task, its a tad noisy (as was my previous boat) which is good the boat talks to you once your brain has synced it you will be able to read conditions in your sleep. Good conditions to learn the boat and find weakness's so take advantage .
Hi mate, considered adding 2" insulation against deckhead and hull ? Should be pretty easy to do, make life more bearable in high latitudes and add buoyancy.
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Done
Thanks for a great video. It's wonderful to see you sail WR and to see her in her element. No frills. No BS, Just sailing. A proper boat.
Well said!
Good to see Wave Rover performing so well in pretty heavy conditions. What a well designed and great little boat!
Yes indeed!
Well built too.
@@RoversAdventure It vindicates the design and the thoughts behind the design. I guess there was no guarantee until it was tried "in the flesh". I think it would be a great boat for the Jester Challenge
Me gusta el andar noble y los balances pausados del barco.
Hay dos cosas que no me agradan. La falta de guarda mancebos y candeleros y la falta de roldana y cofre de cadena en proa...
Obrigado. Estou feliz com a maneira como ela lida e com a facilidade de operação para mim. Sinto-me muito seguro com o arranjo que tenho atualmente.
@@mariajosemorenoguerrero8638
Your ship handles the sea conditions like a champ, taking the 20+ knots easy. Verry nice !
Yes, thanks
Your sail set up showed itself well on this passage.
Your best video yet! What a great little ship Wave Rover is as she proves herself in lumpy conditions. Her ability to depart when much larger yachts stay on the hook confirms that she is a comfortable bluewater boat. Your ability to reef and to shake them out gives you a huge advantage when singlehanded.
Thats once again for taking us along on the best leg of the adventure so far.
Thanks Tom. This had to be one of the most enjoyable of the passages so far on this voyage.
@SailingWaveRover what a great boat and crew... that she is so comfortable in Tradewinds like conditions..
Wish I was younger, you got it figured out Alan...talk this weekend?
Thanks!
Thank you so much for this James.
I'm in awe of how fantastic this boat is, it is incredible you did this yourself with a little help from your friends.
It's a great boat.
Great job Alan. 👍⛵️
Glad you enjoyed it
You built a great little sea boat there.
Thanks
Inspiring I love small boat sailing
Very enjoyable video, impressed in that seems Alan has figured out all the contingencies, which is amazing.
I'm getting her dialed in.
Very cool boat. You did a wonderful job building it. I used to own a Ranger 23 and I sailed on San Francisco Bay. A normal summer day was similar to what you are in, wet and windy.
One passage I'd like to make would be down the West Coast from BC to the Baja, with a major stop over in San Francisco, among other stops.
That would be a great trip. North to south is the way to go. Someone did part of that trip in a Potter 19 many years ago. I think they stopped in LA.@@RoversAdventure
I hope I one day will have built myself a Wave Rover ⛵
Thank you for sharing your videos. Both from the build and your voyages.
🇨🇦🇩🇰
Every thing has to start as a dream before becoming an ambition which in turn can be pursued to become reality.
Thanks and I hope you build one as well my friend.
Another great episode!!
Thanks
Impressive 360 from the port lights Alan, a great design. I was looking forward to this episode, boat performance was great in those winds.
Thanks Ray. This was one of my favorite passages.
0:20 czy na siedmiometrowej łodzi z okrągłym dziobem da sięmieszkaćcały rok?
Nie mam problemu z życiem na tej łodzi. Całkiem mi to odpowiada. Musisz unikać ekstremalnie niskich temperatur lub zaizolować łódź.
Hug the Coast Capt, kudos !
Great to see you and WR2 taking those conditions in stride! Hope the sail anti-chafe mods are holding up! Hold fast! ⛵️🇨🇦😄
Thanks. The anti chafe gear is working out perfectly.
I am new to your channel…. And I love it!!!
I just watched an older vid and watching this one I see you are now sailing a Junk-rigged boat!!
I wonder how a junk rig would work on my Laurin Koster 28…..
If anybody has ideas, suggestions or advice….
Greetings Henk, the Netherlands….
Welcome aboard!
@@RoversAdventure THANKS CAPTAIN!!!!
Big fun on a little boat!
Absolutely!
i remember sailing along that same path in october 1991. i was on a 22ft bilge keel boat with boom rolling reef system (not my favorite way to reef)... everything was hectic but basically okay until i had to take a helicopter ride to cape charles c.g.. station. never did find that good little boat again. (oh, i went outside the delmarva peninsula...)
Wow, very interesting! You will have to fill in the details for us.
@@RoversAdventure yeah, that was ''the halloween storm', or as junger dubbed it, 'the perfect storm'...
Another great V-log Alan! I’m a little worried about Wave Rover not having a conventional cockpit rather a deck helm. I hope you are wearing a vest and teather when the seas get rough. You sure don’t want to flirt with going overboard.
R.B. Weeks is a trailing suction hopper dredge, brand new last spring.
Thanks for that. Do you know the vessel?
No, I just looked it up.@@RoversAdventure
17 gusting to 26. Typical summer day on San Francisco Bay. :) Good job on the video.
Well, all the big boats stayed tied up this day.
That is what I was thinking before reading your comment.
Didn't dissapoint!! Go WR! Go Alan!
Thanks Rob!
Looking forward to seeing the Cape May entrance as well as from shore. In May 1971 I arrived at the USCG Cape May Training Center.. Yes, I do have memories of Cape May, but for some reason I don't associate it with a vacation wonderland.
I very much enjoy seeing how Wave Rover with its junk rig performs in the heavier winds. I am comparing to my Capri 22 which is a similar size but is more of a racing boat (a J/22 want-a-be). I have been out in 30+ knot gusts while racing. The foresail was mostly wrapped up and the main needed a second and third reef (which the main does not have).
These little boats can give a lively ride when the wind blows.
I have loved thee last bunch of videos. Long Island Sound is my sailing grounds (from Lower NY Harbor, New Jersey) and have sailed much around Staten Island and Sandy Hook. I am amazed that you are sailing in the winter - my boat is on the hard for the winter... I plan on taking the boat to the Chesapeake in the next year, so will be following your path down the Jersey Shore (but I will do it in warmer weather).
This was filmed about 7 weeks ago when it was slightly warmer.
Hi Alan, I’m in awe of your adventures. I can’t get enough. Would something like Rainex help keep the port lights more clear?
Good idea.
Cape May is a really underrated town. One of our favorite little-airplane flying destinations. You’re getting close to my home town, I hope you’ll soon leave those Yankees in NJ behind and stop somewhere around the mouth of the Chesapeake (“Tidewater Virginia”)!
There's a good possibility that I will be heading that way. I haven't formalized the plan yet. Send me an email if you know of an inexpensive marina or dock space in that area.
alanbmulholland@gmail.com
@@RoversAdventure I’ll ask around!
Ouch, those short choppy seas are a pain in the A. Good thing the seas died down a bit. Hang on!
Nice passage Alan - Spike
Thank you Spike.
Hi, how do you protect yourself from accidental falls into the sea? Thanks for your great videos
I have a good Stern pulpit and I tie off if I go forward.
Wave Rover seems like a great coastal cruiser, but if these are ‘challenging conditions’ what about off shore crossing oceans where inevitably you will be occasionally exposed to MUCH worse sea and wind conditions. How is that going to work?
Wait and see my friend.
5:33 "...and these are..." wave breaks over camera "...very short seas." 😄👍
Alan after watching the video I wonder if you're satisfied with the forward visibility from inside the cabin? Would a larger port, or multiple forward facing ports be an improvement?
It gives me full visibility as is. I can always go on deck for more.
Thanks,for,taking us along. Having sailed sloops and now a gaffer what differences have you noticed between them in higher winds? Just curious.
The Junk rig is certainly much easier to reef and set.
Hi Alan! Great voyage thus far. I enjoyed hearing you like to read the names on the benefactor bulkhead. On both Wave Rover 1 and 2 I have wondered why there isn’t a cabin heater of some sort? Stay safe buddy.
I don't plan on being in cold temps too often but it's an option
Nice job with the video. Your correct on how the seas just dont show true on the video. A suggestion for video showing wind. A couple small tell tales off the bimini frame. Thanks
Great suggestion!
If this was mostly with wind and waves, how will it be during ocean crossings? 18-20 knots of wind is not much once you get out there.
I look forward to the continuation and hope everything goes well. 💕😄😀🇸🇪
Having crossed oceans in small boats, these conditions were not trivial. Perhaps that doesn't show o the video. At one point a 60' plus cutter was slowing passing me fully reefed with only a tiny amount of stay sail showing.
The Understatement of the Week Award goes to Alan Mulholland for "These are really good conditions to stay at anchor." Mulholland shows us all how to be a glass half full with only a quarter of a glass of water!
Thanks for a great comment my friend. I also know where I can go now for quality movie reviews...good stuff!
@SailingWaveRover many thanks, skipper!
Good test conditions with decreasing wind.
It was a great test with good results. Thanks
Lookin good alan...are you happy with the flat sail performance so far...fair winds👍
Perfect conditions for the flat sail on this passage.
Good stuff. Could be a trick of the camera but the pointy bit of your anchor looks like it could be trouble if you stumbled on deck. Could it be stowed with the point facing out?
Good comment. I'm experimenting with different ways of storing it.
I have a little flicka 20 just wondering how the solar panels are holding up on the high little tower you have in the back.
No problems.
The boat is well up to the task, its a tad noisy (as was my previous boat) which is good the boat talks to you once your brain has synced it you will be able to read conditions in your sleep. Good conditions to learn the boat and find weakness's so take advantage .
I certainly enjoyed this passage. Thanks
Hi mate, considered adding 2" insulation against deckhead and hull ? Should be pretty easy to do, make life more bearable in high latitudes and add buoyancy.
Great video Allan. Stay safe. I was wondering if any of your windows have leaked now that they are tried and tested?
None thank God.
thx
Hello Alan, another great video. BTW, what is the brand of your anemometer?
Thanks Gregory. I'll have to get back to you on that, I'm not onboard for a few weeks and I can't remember.
Great video always look forward to them. What AIS brand do you use? I think its time i buy one.
It's a Vesper
Buenos acabados pero falta de aislamiento térmico...
Sorry if I missed this in one of your previous videos, though I don't recall it being mentioned - do you have a heater on board?
No heater.
@SailingWaveRover Wrap up warm I guess!
Full of bottom lol hope your safe!
You know. you pan around there and I can clearly see my name on the bulkhead, well I think that's called a bulkhead. Anyway, it's kinda weird cool.
That's great! Remind me of your bulkhead name.
When you talk about miles, do you mean nautical miles or british land miles?
On Wave Rover, it always nautical miles
Is this boat fully automated how it will steer itself
I use my self designed MK3 self steering gear
You do know us all by name. Ganadora might still happen.
Good to hear my friend
Ive lost several meals in conditions like that!
lol
Hello from Florida,
a little bit of Rain-X on those little glass windows will give you a wonderful result .
Thank you
What’s all that squeaking down below?
RB Weeks drudger