How We Turned Our Sailboat Into A Canal Boat: Preparing For The French Canals | Sailing Ruby Rose
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2019
- How did we turn our sailing yacht into a canal boat for our journey through the french canals? This week we demonstrate the process of preparing our Southerly 38 for the french canals. We had to build a frame for transporting the mast, take down the boom, sails and wind generator, and make everything ready for unstepping the mast on the Mediterranean side of France, in preparation for entering the Canal du Midi.
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The second most amazing thing about this video was discovering the Nick can play the accordion! A man of many talents...
HA! i was thinking just the same thing. although i'm surprised he admitted to it :-))
English folk musician in a past life my friend
@@sailingrubyrose All good sailors are musicians. At least there should be at least one musician on board a sailing vessel.
@@sailingrubyrose Nicky, how many folk musicians does it take to change a light bulb???
Answer:
...
Four. One to actually put in the new bulb, and three to sing about how great the old one was!
Ok, so play us some tunes!
Nick, you’re acerbic and witty and sarcastic (all excellent qualities) but you treat Terysa with wonderful respect and kindness. One more thing to like about you.
Thank you so much
The posts in the shopping cart… I’m dying! 🤣
Daddy's got a squeeze box
Momma never sleeps at night! LOL
Nick just grew massively in my books with the Grand Turismo reference!
What a pain in arse. Sounds fairly simple at first. Just drop the tall metal pole. When you started getting into all the stuff that is connected to it that had to be taken off and protected, I was waiting for one of you to say "we should have sailed around." Sailboats are so much work. Thanks for the effort! Can't wait for the next video!
Worth every minute of it my
Friend
Worth it alright! What a cracking video that was you folks. Lovin it.
Nick is the Man!
Not forgetting Theresa is an extremely wonderful first mate ...sorry love...from one medic to another..
Love Nick’s attention to detail.
gees guys support under the piece you are cutting needs to be a few inches from the cut on both sides. The piece was bowing down and binding on your saw blade because the supports were to far from the cut. Love you guys, keep it up.
agree it was bowing & gripping the blade
First thing I noticed. Got the job done though👍🏼
Exciting times for sure
Second time around for watching you go through the French canals. Just as interesting as the first time.
The accordion, Nick? You’ve thusly cemented your standing as the leading man of sailing vlogs. Of course, Terysa deserves no less.
And French as well. Sex symbol status acquired.
Haha haha. Too kind.
As soon as I saw Nick movin' on down the street with his lumber in a shopping cart I knew it was gonna be a good vid. T'was not disappointed, looking forward to more. :-)
Allemand boatyard in Le Grau d'Agde is a very well run family business. They have the best reputation in the area, knowledgeable, honest and hard working people always ready to help the sailors. I had my sailboat there on the hard for a month when coming back from Turkey. I'm pleased to see that you used their services.
They were all kind and helpful. Fantastic yard
At our marina, we remove and install approximately 65 masts twice a year, (at lift out and at lift in). We do this ourselves using a mast crane with a manual winch. It is interesting to note that no matter how often we do this every year, that nervous feeling of the mast leaving the boat and it being overhead never goes away. Great job on the mast supports and great video.
Cheers.
Yahoo!!! Really looking forward to these videos.
Absolutely brilliant! You guys make it seem
So easy! Great video, thanks for sharing!! As always! Well done Nicky n Terry 💙👍💪🤓
Wow thats a hell of alot of work. You guys are amazing
Awesome what an adventure.
Great episode, good work guys!
Wow, that’s a lot of work! If I did that, when I went to reassemble everything I would have both missing pieces and a mystery extra cable! Well done, as always.
Binge watching all your episodes, really enjoying your travels and your friends. Thank you for taking me along, loving your adventures and you are a thoroughly nice couple and great fun.
Great video, can't wait for the next one. Hurry up guys.
WOW I could watch Terysa saw all day,great vid guys.
Fantastic video love the attention to detail. Looking forward to following you guys through the canals. Have kind of gone back in time after watching a few catamaran reviews which are great by the way. Nick has a future in construction for sure 😀😀
Love these technical videos where Nick gets to OCD out. Tiny tip at 3:20 when you are having trouble sawing the 4x4. It is because you are leaning on the beam in between the two points where the beam is raised off the deck causing the saw to bind. A second set of supports close either side of the saw point would have made it easy.
@@kjc9trader491 That would make it faster and less work but they, or any saw for that matter can bind as well.
what a job guy's you did the unbelievable WELL DONE.
Such a pleasant couple, and a great team. Nice to see 👍!
I'm so looking forward to the canals!
All I can say is Wow, that looked like a lot of work!!! Good job!!
These were the videos that originally caught my eye when I was watching a narrowboat video. I have faithfully watched every video from the beginning of the playlist and now finally what I have been waiting for. So excited! Thanks for sharing this with us.
Bravo guys - great team effort
We done! That was big!!!
Kudos to you guys! Wow, that was a good amount of work you did on your own in order to traverse through the canals of France. Can't wait to see your next video! Liza & Kaz 😎✌🏼🐶
That was a great undertaking done very nicely, between you 2 and Nick O'Kelly I am learning quite a bit. Cheers Ruby Rose and thank you for sharing.
It looks like you two are having a prodigious amount of fun. God bless, and go well.
Catching up on missed episodes and binge watching LOL ! Good job on unstopping the mast guys. Merry Christmas Nick and Terysa ! Fair winds and following seas Ruby Rose!
Amazing work, you two! Nick playing the accordion was a surprise, for sure. Truly, man of many talents!
while I was wating videos of tiny houses, youtube suggested one of your videos. Since then, I sat and watch all your videos chronologically. What a delight. I am always looking forward for the next one.
Aww, thanks. Welcome to our channel
I never thought I'd be this excited to see a mast get unstepped. It's sad to see for me personally. But with that trailer you released, I have an idea as to what is to come, and HOLY SHIT I CAN'T WAIT THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME!
You “guys” are really turning into bonne equipe. Merci d’avoir partage.
Really liked Nick on the squeeze box! More! Nice build, even with the saw fiasco. Good job turning her into your very own sawzall!
Happy Belated Birthday Nick! Thanks again for sharing this with us, I'm going through a rough patch and your videos are my happy place right now.
You stay strong my friend. Rough patches are hard on the soul and draining. I promise you things will get better at some point, and we will look back on this in happier times with a cold beer in hand ( obviously if you are struggling with alcohol, then forget the cold beer bit 🤣🤣)
I was looking forward to this.
Amazing😃
My mother played the accordion! Kudos to Nick. What a great and worthwhile project!!!
Wow very impressive guys what a chore when you get tired of sailing full time Nick can start building homes!
Big balls project! I wouldn't do it. WOW!
This was amazing. I've never actually seen anyone do this before.
This would be the part of sailing I would feel most comfortable. I guess my mechanical and constructive brain is naturally drawn to this part of it. Well done on your execution! 👏🏼🙌🏼
That was a lot more work than I thought it would be. Good effort :)
I was amazed with your patience and determination when you were cutting wood beams with a hand held miter saw! :)
Hi guys! Thanks for showing the on-board sail flaking, have to give that a try the next time I have to pull the main (which I hope isn't anytime soon).
: What a huge undertaking. I commend you both for your hard work. Also for the fortitude to undertake such a job.
Super!
Nice to have a dentist around for drilling holes. Great adventure!
Awesome vid.... The opening sequence was golden. I am now sure you put yourself thru school working for Two Men and a Truck. The squeeze box at the end was epic. My mother taught her best friend how to play the piano, organ and the accordion when they were in college many, many moons ago. Her friend went on to play for the Laurence Welk Show. Fascinated by the complexity and sound of the accordion, I attempted to take lessons from my mother. Alas I am not as coordinated as she. I bought a dime bag and a guitar. Never looked back! LMAO
Much work my friends, I understand the new experience motoring thru the canals of France and the opportunity to go thru all the rigging to verify conditions of the fasteners and such, but really this is a boat load of work, not sure I would have done it . But you two are gamers. Good Job.
Lovely to see the Master training the Apprentice in the use of a Tenon saw - Nick, Boris needs you as his Apprentice Tsar
'Lotta' work... nice video thanks
As my grandad used to say "Let the saw do the work" !
Great advice!
@@sailingrubyrose I prefer let Therysa do the work LOL. I hope i spelled your name right
After arriving in Tréguier and examining our boat with double head sails and all the associated electronics on the mast (18.5 m) we decided against removing the mast and shipping it... we were sorely disappointed in not doing the canals from Bordeaux to the Med but your video confirmed our right decision! Wow, what a project and the fact that we are a bit bigger 14.55m LOA and 4.03 beam.... we thought for the price of removing, packing, transporting and re-stepping the mast we could rent a canal boat reducing the insane stress that you went through (not to mention the amount of work). Well done you two, sorry we missed you. We sailed the outside across the Bay of Biscay to Camarinas Spain, down the coast of Portugal to Gibraltar... 1400 nm in just a few weeks. Not restful but ... our boat is in one piece and still fully rigged ready to cross the Atlantic in a few months.
impressive feat of engineering. well done....and with no time Toulouse. (ba dum bum :)
Excellent job on the mast cradle. We have done it with our Hunter 356 going to Florida from Kentucky Lake TN River mike 24 in the US to Mobile, Alabama 650 miles, where mast goes back up, then to SW Florida and returning to Mobile to take the mast down for the 650 mile trip back north to just 1-1/2 miles south of Kentucky Dam - Lighthouse Landing. We use the Tennessee River and Tenn-Tom waterway. It’s quite a job getting the prep done to take down and put back up. We have 13 locks and lots of bridges. We see a lot of boats with mast cradles since we are on the US Great Loop route. You are to be complimented on the robustness of your rig. It is quite a process dealing with the wiring, radar and then still being able to get to your anchor well and move about the deck when you are going through locks and tieing up at various marinas and other places. Another factor is you make your boat go from your typical,length to,your mast length. It takes a day or two to mentally compensate for the mast overhang at the front and back. In our case we go from 36 to 50 feet. I look forward to your videos and wish you both the best in your travels.
Love the joinery!
And the ADVENTURE CONTINUES.....cheers
That was cruel! Getting her to cut the wood while it was nipping up 😂
I see the Neel's Black Helicopters swooped in and removed your video review of the Neel 47....LOL!
Yeah, we’re getting some blowback from this. We thought it would be kinder to let them respond before we put it back. Felt this would give them fair opportunity to let us know what happened
@@sailingrubyrose Hey it was a very fair review & from the internet fit & finish is not their strong points.
@@sailingrubyrose In all fairness - I am one of the Neel fence sitters (ever since the 51) and frankly your review felt VERY fair and unbiased to me.
Also been on boats since the eighties, and feel comfortable saying, nobody should be able to show that many problems on ONE production boat.. plain and simple.
You were kind and generous in not giving a rather balanced opinion constantly pre-empting by saying "this is the first hull" I review hardware and often pad opinions with "this is a pre-production unit we can all hope it will be better when it ships, but I can't comment on that until I see a shipping hardware"
But being im still somewhat interested in the 51, not the 45 and probably not the 47. Can't wait to see your Neel unbox - take two.
Hi there Ruby Rose! I love your videos and it is a shame that this year when you were in Brittany, we did not meet up (I live here). Anyway, this video was really informative and ..... has totally put me off ever considering taking a yacht onto the French Canals. My dreams of a blue water boat (perhaps a nearly classic Contessa 43) with a 2 metre drought would not be possible anyway, but to add all of that prep work with the mast ... I think that a quick sprint through the Straits of Gibraltar would be easier! Keep going , I promise to keep watching.
Wow, you are a musician, too? You can always fall back on that, but your carpenter and design skills are impressive to say the least. You could always be a carpenter as a fall back. After all, look where it got Harrison Ford! Tying up in the French countryside is magical. Some lock houses are so original they still have shell marks from WWII on their walls. My advice to the Frenchmen I would see fishing along the canal banks was, "Bonjour, don't eat the fish!!"
Bravo!! Congrats!!
Nick, try to find and buy a Japanese style saw, it’s the one which cuts when you pull the saw instead to cut when you push it! You will immediately appreciated how easier is to cut!!!
So, you are going to Bordeaux, not to Northern France. Nevertheless, I do hope to meet you, at least, once at sea !
All the best to both of you
Gigi
Indeed my friend. We literally decided 2 days earlier to transport our own mast and as such we’re at the mercy of the local hardware store. It was tiny and not well stocked.
Hey guys, you're a recent discovery for me (thanks Nicky and Jason) and look forward to your videos every week. Maybe think about getting a fold able Japanese pull saw...small lightweight and very sharp. Thanks for the great videos!
Do love watching your videos guys but seeing nick try teach Terysa how to cut that first bit of wood was brilliant, you can’t cut a piece of wood in the middle while it’s supported either end and both leaning on it haha, it will trap the saw and make it impossible to cut 😂 cracking video tho 👌🏻
Very beautiful 😍👍
I remember an old magazine that demonstrated how to do a cutaway in a semi acoustic guitar. At about halfway through the cut the amusing quip was, "at this point, there's no turning back". :)
Awesome job of engineering both of you!
Nice. This and Distant Shores recent recap of their transit of the canals have be excited about variable draft boats.
You 2 are influential in my life now. Believe it or not you've convinced me to stay in a mono. After watching your decision process whether to go to Catamaran, i realized that the only reason I wanted a cat was the cool factor. I'm single handed so I don't need the room. Price is a consideration. There are other influences but to complicated for here. From not liking your channel to loving it to being influenced by it. WOW!!! Hope you are at Annapolis so I can meet you two
Glad we could win you over 😊 Great decision on sticking with a mono- if you see us in Annapolis definitely come and say hi!
You´re awsome!
Cracking vlog guys and I did larf when yous was trying to saw the timber whilst standing on it braking the saw . Top job n bet it was stressful to say the least
:-D
Wow that was a massive undertaking! Not to mention expensive. Than you have to include all the many spots of tea for all the energy needed to get all that work done. Tea is my go to. Both hot and iced although I still drink coffee in the morning. Do you ever drink iced tea? That Southerly is like a transformer. It can be many things. It does it all beautifully.
Well done Nick and Therysa! Thanks for sharing.
We love iced tea! And the associated costs were actually very reasonable. We’ll release a Q&A after the canal series is published that will talk about lots of the practicalities, logistics and costs of the canals.
A smart idea on how to carry lumber.
i am so excited to see the canals!
I hope you enjoyed your libation :) Good job :)
thanks for ALL !!! have fun, hope you make it up to gulf de Morbihan, simply lovely !....they have a bi-annual " Semaine du Morbihan" which is a fun and well organized event !...success
My kingdom for a power saw!!
Mind BLOWN! 🤯🤯🤯🤯
Great episode. No rants... 8)
Man that is a lot of work!! It seems almost easier to go around Spain & Portugal. Color me impressed at your construction skills. :)
Oh no it isn't.
How many sailors can say they have taken their SV down a canal...? Looking forward to seeing all the stops you guys make and sharing with us!
"...Let's go ( long pause)...get this boom off." Well, hell yeah. You need to get that on a t-shirt asap.
Nick, I like that you use the measure twice, cut once method. I still catch myself using the measure once, curse twice method...LOL. You also seem to be very proficient with basic hand tools. I like that!
My mom used to say « my goodness, it’s three times I’ve cut these pants and they are still too short ! »
I watched when Distant Shores went through the canals and it was beautiful and amazing at times that they actually fit. You probably have already gone through by now I don't know how much delay you're working with on your videos but good luck. Get fresh batteries when you travel under the streets through the tunnel 😊👍👍👍
We passed through a few
Months back now. @distantshores are amazing. We know them well and they are a font of knowledge
I was pretty impressed with your building ability, Nick. I look forward to seeing the end result of the trip. As I said elsewhere, you couldn't do THIS trip in a cat, that's for sure. Going to visit the Privilege factory on the other side of France? LOL
Bahahaha, that’s the next review out! Privilege 5.0. Ooooh
"A Skilsaw! My kingdom for a Skilsaw!"
LOL yeah that saw probably would work better in a miter box
Nice Video, traveling through the french canals seem to become quite popular, the folks from Distant Shores did that a couple of years ago with their sailboat and even got through the canals in Paris with their boat. Similar boat, also a Southerly with a swing keel, I think it was a 48.
Yes my friend it was a southerly 49. They inspired us to do it many moons ago.
They are super nice people
Sawing on the other side of the fulcrum will make it easier.
OMG, That was so much work. I would have realized it if I'd thought it thru, but I hadn't and seeing you do this just brings it home. Hopefully the experience of having your own home on the canals was worth it. Nice work Team! :-)
After watching what you two and the DSII crew went through to prepare each of your sailboats to go through the canal, I think I'll just buy a canal boat for the trip and sell it on the other end :D
Hahaha. Good point
Yes I would like to sail, i'm on a travelling mode and not experience of sailing. its a nice vlog and to see the canal. Bobby from Q. City Philippines.
Welcome My friend. Looking forward to seeing your country soon
@@sailingrubyrose Thank you.