Haha. Yeah, whenever I saw the rope perfectly wrapped around, I said to Spencer that I have to get a few shots of the rope with the GoPro. Thanks for watching!
Glad to have found your videos! Keeping me motivated instead of overwhelmed by my dream! Thanks for all the description and instruction of your projects. I was inspired to write because you quoted something I have written everywhere to keep my focus! Enjoy your journey!
This was a masterpiece Josh! Love your vlog. I took the qoute from mark twain to heart. I'm 51 and look back at a few times in my 20's and wish I had done exactly what Mr. Twain said..oh well, I finally started a business in September that i dreamt of doing for many years which has had it's challenges but you know Josh, I've been inspired to push past issues with web design problems and recent legal changes to how I can operate my business and your vlog has inspired me to get through these rough patches. Heaven knows you had ur share of problems but press on. Truly inspiring!
Robert Keller! You inspired me from being inspired by Josh. I'm 10+ years older than you and casting off my lines on November 7th of 2020! Much success with your new business. If Billy Gates can do it..SO CAN YOU! PEACE OUT! ☼4
Iam sure josh will get the best out of reply’s ,I started sailing 50 years ago with two circumnavigations and many thousands trips , and love watching people setting up to do the same , and setting up there boats to do it thanks
Josh, you are a focused, driven individual who shares the similar dream as mine, I wish i could have helped you crew but have 5 more years until retirement from LE, I'll be 42 & retired so still young. I wish you all the best and hope to see you on the water one day, keep up the great work, Fair winds and following seas my friend.
Thanks, for a sec i got scared that i wouldnt have been so present, but, i look back and see its all in the moment, so be there with it and take hold and move!!!! Awesome vids!!!!
These kind of problems rarely get posted, bravo! Congrats on saving the sheet, I would have cut it away in a breathless panic. Excellent underwater views, you had me shivering as I heard that painful shock of the cold water. This one is going to be an unforgettable life memory, more funny as the years go by. Every time I pull out the jib without the main, I've had some kind of issue. You see cruisers doing it all the time, but I find the overwhelming lee helm to be disconcerting and sometimes embarrassing. With the main up first and down last, even if you lose steerage, you retain control without the engine. Weather helm drives the boat upwind, slowing it down with a more level topdeck. Control sheets stay within arms reach, flapping away inboard.
OMG!! First the Firm then the patreon family, which was the light of the story. Now the greenhorn with absolutely NO experience. Hilarious:) LOvin it! This is out of a Superbad movie. Josh you have balls. Gotta give you that. No pun intended! Love the commentary...
Hey Josh, it is a real pleasure to watch your video's. The content, the stories the projects are all great but more than that, your attitude to life is inspiring. You have a 'can do' attitude to everything you do that makes it easy to see why you have 15k subs and growing. You, #LadyK sailing and #Sailing ABSea are 3 big parts of the reason why after 35 years away from sailing, I have just bought a boat and I will not look back in 20 years and give myself a hard time for not doing it. You will make it, you will succeed and you will enjoy doing it because that's how you are wired. I am going to enjoy watching you and do the same thing here on the other side of the world. Loving what you do fella.
Great work! Next time, if you are drifting, try pulling up the main sail, just so you can have a little bit of course, so you don't head for the possible rocks. Or try and rig the jib first, than roll it out, so you have a rope already on the winch and blocked. I love your videos. You inspired me a lot!!!
Sailing without issues (technical or other) is almost boring. Sure, it's nice and I love it. But when you run into some trouble that you have to figure out a way out of, that's when sailing gets to a different level. You always remember those small accidents you had and all the improvised repairs you had to resort to.
After all that i certainly expected to hear how you'd conquered unstoppered jib sheets the fourth and less well known danger of the fire swamp and as such could live happily there for some time. 😁
Your composure and quick thinking is commendable. You are AWESOME. Very inspiring. Poor Spencer he learned his lesson here and I thank him because it gave me a very good point to consider when I get to do and adjust the lines on my boat. What do you call that "rope" again?
That was pretty impressive and having the camera there was really good. It was impressive to be able to undo that and the sheet wasn't jammed in anywhere or frayed from what I could tell. I was thinking, in the future you might consider scripting out some crises like to make really interesting videos, and who's to know, really? I bet there's writers who could come up with ideas who work with UA-cam channels on a regular basis. It's kind of like some of the survival shows where it happens. Granted, you'll always have real crises out in the ocean and it's good to see those, of course. Thanks so much for the videos!
After I realized I was going to be able to unjam the rope and it wasn't as big of a crisis as I thought, I yelled for Spencer to hand me the GoPro so I could get a few shots under water. I thought it was going to make a good scene. The line was not frayed but what I wasn't able to show was I had to cut the line up by the clew of the sail before I jumped in the water. So we lost the sheet. I later bought a new 100 ft replacement line, so the whole ordeal was an expensive mistake.
Hope your replacement might be a little bigger line. Easier on the hand to have larger softer line that will work better in the self tailing winches. Glad you made it there as It would have been too much suspense without that! Congrats on taking on this challenge and heading out with such a good attitude. Thanks for sharing. Bought my own boat 3 years ago and have raced with others the last 7, it’s really a good way to learn some of the rookie mistakes.
Looking forward to seeing the story of getting to Bahamas. We (Sayonara) had a heck of a time (not) getting to Antigua, including an 8 day stopover in Bermuda for fuel.
Yes, jump into action and decide your own fete: Like learn to feed the sheet through its leads and around the winch before you unfurl it. That was really dangerous, you are lucky your crew didn't lose a finger or a hand. Then, you started the engine! The sea is just waiting to kill you. Think about your prop to fowling on a fishing net, maybe, when you are 2 miles off a lee shore with 50 knots of wind, in the dark.
Dont know if you will ever read this but get a sea anchor. It will keep you from going broadside into the waves. Never seen a sail boat mention it but when you started this disaster my fitst thought was throw out the sea anchor. Okay I grew up on a commercial fishing boat in Wa and we used a sea anchor all the time. Thanks.
I wonder if there's a sailor out there that _hasn't_ wrapped a line around the propshaft at some point. I screwed it up _in_ the marina, and without engine power the wind was pushing my boat into the pump out station. Luckily, I tried the old trick of putting it in reverse for a few seconds and the line came free (whew!). The next time I was at the marina, I was watching one of my dock neighbors leave and saw one of their dock lines slip into the water, and I yelled like a lunatic to get their attention ... didn't want them having the same trouble.
Hey Josh...may I PLEEEEEASE come sail with you?! I'll even pay you to sail with you. You seem to have the most adventure of any channel I watch...and I currently watch 98. Q? So what valuable lesson(s) did you learn from this part of your journey? BTW...I love the quote and now have two of your quotes on my Dream Wall. You're a rock star!!! Thanks a million for keeping us in the loop! PEACE OUT! Ü
The magic of the movies. Haha. Actually after I calmed down a bit and realized that I was going to be able to get the rope off easier than expected, I called up to Spencer to hand me the GoPro so I could get some footage.
all you had to do was round up and the sail would had let you furl it up with orwith out the sheet , easy all sheets should have a figure 8 tied in , a hell of a job untying A roper round prop , any thing goes wrong with sails , rig etc round up
gess ges um, yeah thanks Captain Obvious. He already mentioned the figure 8s. And it’s hard to round up with no boat speed and no main out yet...all while getting flogged by the headsail. Not to mention his first mate is more passenger than crew.
Greg Chesterton hey wasn’t trying to be disrespectful with that terrible typing. (Gess ges). Not sure why that happened or even how it got there. So for that I hope Josh didnt take offense. On the other hand, don’t be a Dhead.
Greg Chesterton. All good. I think all comments here weren’t being critical but hopefully being taken as a learning opportunity.. We have all made mistakes and unfortunately that’s how you learn fastest. I’ve personally made a lot and the trend occasionally continues.
You know, seeing you go round to the patreon's house for grub, I am ceaselessly impressed how American women, by and large, seem to be comfortable with their menfolk taking the leading role in the marriage. If you came to the UK for the same thing the woman would be having to tell you something that would show her independence of mind, or have her hair cut so damned short you'd think she was a boy with good pectorals, but not in the US. It's yet another reason I love that wonderful country. *I just thought of a good strapline: America, where men are men and women are women.
Please allow me a stupid comment, I don't mean to offend you. Is important to teach Spencer how to stop the boat under sail and under motor, in case he has to rescue you. Cheers mate!!!
Please look at the video at 7:30. We were RIGGING the jib sheets by running them through the blocks on the jib track and back to the cockpit. He was not supposed to pull the sail out yet. He was supposed to bring the sheet back through the track and to the cockpit so that we could tie the stopper knots. And THEN sometime later we’d pull out the sail. He wasn’t supposed to pull out the sail when he did. The lines were not even prepped yet. We were simply running/prepping the boat’s jib sheets when this happened.
Being that it's your first time buying so many groceries and having to take off all the paper labels and write what it is at the top, How was that for the first time takes hours yes? : ) peace and good luck
I love your tenacity, sense of humor & the fact that you know a butt load about sailing but WTF is up with getting a crew guy from a website? Might as well go "hire a maid", that's clueless..and possibly get lucky.
Dude, I can't believe you filmed removing that line from the prop, while freezing your ass off in a short suit with no fins or booties. Rock on!!!!!
Haha. Yeah, whenever I saw the rope perfectly wrapped around, I said to Spencer that I have to get a few shots of the rope with the GoPro. Thanks for watching!
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This might interest you ;)
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Another famous Mark Twain quote "don't let an idiot get you killed"..
Hahahahaha
Glad to have found your videos! Keeping me motivated instead of overwhelmed by my dream! Thanks for all the description and instruction of your projects. I was inspired to write because you quoted something I have written everywhere to keep my focus! Enjoy your journey!
Awesome video with powerful message. I am 23, figuring life out and just got a sailboat of my own. Look forward to seeing more of your trip!
Congratulations!!😃❤🙏🏻
This was a masterpiece Josh! Love your vlog. I took the qoute from mark twain to heart. I'm 51 and look back at a few times in my 20's and wish I had done exactly what Mr. Twain said..oh well, I finally started a business in September that i dreamt of doing for many years which has had it's challenges but you know Josh, I've been inspired to push past issues with web design problems and recent legal changes to how I can operate my business and your vlog has inspired me to get through these rough patches. Heaven knows you had ur share of problems but press on. Truly inspiring!
Robert Keller! You inspired me from being inspired by Josh. I'm 10+ years older than you and casting off my lines on November 7th of 2020! Much success with your new business. If Billy Gates can do it..SO CAN YOU! PEACE OUT! ☼4
Robert wise words..so do I. I am now 57 and looking at new ventures.. you will do well.
Great to see you finally casting off! Fair winds and following seas Josh.
Iam sure josh will get the best out of reply’s ,I started sailing 50 years ago with two circumnavigations and many thousands trips , and love watching people setting up to do the same , and setting up there boats to do it thanks
Very helpful experiences. Excellent shots at the bottom of the market cart and under water. Great patron network.
Hah!! Maggie here! AGAIN so many lessons here Josh!! So AGAIN Thank you!!
Excellent one Josh!!! A great Vlog, you certainly have an inspiring and proving philosophy there!
Great true to life video. Glad to see you solve problems in the good old Navy fashion.
Josh, you are a focused, driven individual who shares the similar dream as mine, I wish i could have helped you crew but have 5 more years until retirement from LE, I'll be 42 & retired so still young. I wish you all the best and hope to see you on the water one day, keep up the great work, Fair winds and following seas my friend.
love your Videos ,they are quite insightful, and very inspiring, love the live You are living..many blessings!
Thanks, for a sec i got scared that i wouldnt have been so present, but, i look back and see its all in the moment, so be there with it and take hold and move!!!! Awesome vids!!!!
Way to go Josh, great videos.
always a pleasure to watch!
Awesome Job Josh keep them coming my Friend !!
These kind of problems rarely get posted, bravo! Congrats on saving the sheet, I would have cut it away in a breathless panic. Excellent underwater views, you had me shivering as I heard that painful shock of the cold water. This one is going to be an unforgettable life memory, more funny as the years go by.
Every time I pull out the jib without the main, I've had some kind of issue. You see cruisers doing it all the time, but I find the overwhelming lee helm to be disconcerting and sometimes embarrassing. With the main up first and down last, even if you lose steerage, you retain control without the engine. Weather helm drives the boat upwind, slowing it down with a more level topdeck. Control sheets stay within arms reach, flapping away inboard.
An advantage to a weather helm I was unaware of. That pretty cool. Bonus.
Hang in there! Good luck!
This is waay better than movie night..
OMG!! First the Firm then the patreon family, which was the light of the story. Now the greenhorn with absolutely NO experience. Hilarious:) LOvin it! This is out of a Superbad movie. Josh you have balls. Gotta give you that. No pun intended! Love the commentary...
Hey Josh, it is a real pleasure to watch your video's. The content, the stories the projects are all great but more than that, your attitude to life is inspiring. You have a 'can do' attitude to everything you do that makes it easy to see why you have 15k subs and growing. You, #LadyK sailing and #Sailing ABSea are 3 big parts of the reason why after 35 years away from sailing, I have just bought a boat and I will not look back in 20 years and give myself a hard time for not doing it. You will make it, you will succeed and you will enjoy doing it because that's how you are wired. I am going to enjoy watching you and do the same thing here on the other side of the world. Loving what you do fella.
Another great video. Splendid!
Great update Josh , tight lines !
Take care, and best of luck!
You must have had three Adams apples by the time you sorted things out. Good video. Thanks.
Tom and Jackie are legends..Ohh Spencer one should learn well the very basics, it is worth more than gold...
Great work! Next time, if you are drifting, try pulling up the main sail, just so you can have a little bit of course, so you don't head for the possible rocks. Or try and rig the jib first, than roll it out, so you have a rope already on the winch and blocked.
I love your videos. You inspired me a lot!!!
Glad you posted a video kinda worried after the Thanksgiving update
Sailing without issues (technical or other) is almost boring. Sure, it's nice and I love it. But when you run into some trouble that you have to figure out a way out of, that's when sailing gets to a different level. You always remember those small accidents you had and all the improvised repairs you had to resort to.
Another great video Josh!
oh what an adventure your in for Josh... will be watching lol
Another entertaining and informative video, thanks for your sharing.
Who else was holding their breath the whole time Josh was underwater?
Hey, I think sailing is awesome. And I also love horses.
After all that i certainly expected to hear how you'd conquered unstoppered jib sheets the fourth and less well known danger of the fire swamp and as such could live happily there for some time. 😁
Your composure and quick thinking is commendable. You are AWESOME. Very inspiring. Poor Spencer he learned his lesson here and I thank him because it gave me a very good point to consider when I get to do and adjust the lines on my boat. What do you call that "rope" again?
That was pretty impressive and having the camera there was really good. It was impressive to be able to undo that and the sheet wasn't jammed in anywhere or frayed from what I could tell.
I was thinking, in the future you might consider scripting out some crises like to make really interesting videos, and who's to know, really? I bet there's writers who could come up with ideas who work with UA-cam channels on a regular basis. It's kind of like some of the survival shows where it happens.
Granted, you'll always have real crises out in the ocean and it's good to see those, of course.
Thanks so much for the videos!
After I realized I was going to be able to unjam the rope and it wasn't as big of a crisis as I thought, I yelled for Spencer to hand me the GoPro so I could get a few shots under water. I thought it was going to make a good scene. The line was not frayed but what I wasn't able to show was I had to cut the line up by the clew of the sail before I jumped in the water. So we lost the sheet. I later bought a new 100 ft replacement line, so the whole ordeal was an expensive mistake.
Hope your replacement might be a little bigger line. Easier on the hand to have larger softer line that will work better in the self tailing winches. Glad you made it there as It would have been too much suspense without that! Congrats on taking on this challenge and heading out with such a good attitude. Thanks for sharing. Bought my own boat 3 years ago and have raced with others the last 7, it’s really a good way to learn some of the rookie mistakes.
Excellent vlogs .. I wish you well
Reminds me to ask potential crew pointed questions about protocol before the 11th hour
Looking forward to seeing the story of getting to Bahamas. We (Sayonara) had a heck of a time (not) getting to Antigua, including an 8 day stopover in Bermuda for fuel.
Awesome videos!
Great vlog. All the best on your voyage.
I like that!! Actions
Great Job, Video content is great!!!!
good music and visual....go get'm tiger!
wow so coll thanks
I think your awesome dude. These vids are helpful.
omg!!!!!
was anyone else thinking....man I hope he remembered to turn it off
Yep. Was waiting for the feathered prop to start spinning :P
Happy birthday bro!
That was a bad ass moment
Good vid bro, good job.
Yes, jump into action and decide your own fete: Like learn to feed the sheet through its leads and around the winch before you unfurl it. That was really dangerous, you are lucky your crew didn't lose a finger or a hand. Then, you started the engine! The sea is just waiting to kill you. Think about your prop to fowling on a fishing net, maybe, when you are 2 miles off a lee shore with 50 knots of wind, in the dark.
Dont know if you will ever read this but get a sea anchor. It will keep you from going broadside into the waves. Never seen a sail boat mention it but when you started this disaster my fitst thought was throw out the sea anchor. Okay I grew up on a commercial fishing boat in Wa and we used a sea anchor all the time. Thanks.
As if...as if I'm watching a TV show. So dramatic. 😄
I wonder if there's a sailor out there that _hasn't_ wrapped a line around the propshaft at some point. I screwed it up _in_ the marina, and without engine power the wind was pushing my boat into the pump out station. Luckily, I tried the old trick of putting it in reverse for a few seconds and the line came free (whew!). The next time I was at the marina, I was watching one of my dock neighbors leave and saw one of their dock lines slip into the water, and I yelled like a lunatic to get their attention ... didn't want them having the same trouble.
drifting towards the rocks.... drop anchor?
lol, so clear the water.
tbh this is a nice edit
Hey Josh...may I PLEEEEEASE come sail with you?! I'll even pay you to sail with you. You seem to have the most adventure of any channel I watch...and I currently watch 98. Q? So what valuable lesson(s) did you learn from this part of your journey? BTW...I love the quote and now have two of your quotes on my Dream Wall. You're a rock star!!! Thanks a million for keeping us in the loop! PEACE OUT! Ü
The guy was lucky to get the chance....
Things just tend to happen....go south..come in for a landing ....lol.
Simple snorkeling to free the line following a simple mistake when setting sail!
Not surprised... Your sailmate are wearing a clown trousers :)
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Nice video
Funny how something as simple as a missed stopper knot can quickly get out of hand.
Thanks to your shipmate's blunder
Hey amazing underwater footage!!,! Did you film that in one take? Didn’t see the camera….where was it?
The magic of the movies. Haha. Actually after I calmed down a bit and realized that I was going to be able to get the rope off easier than expected, I called up to Spencer to hand me the GoPro so I could get some footage.
Interesting...
all you had to do was round up and the sail would had let you furl it up with orwith out the sheet , easy all sheets should have a figure 8 tied in , a hell of a job untying A roper round prop , any thing goes wrong with sails , rig etc round up
gess ges always expect to run over the line if you start the engine with it in the water. Always. Line hits the water, engine off. Good lesson.
gess ges um, yeah thanks Captain Obvious. He already mentioned the figure 8s. And it’s hard to round up with no boat speed and no main out yet...all while getting flogged by the headsail. Not to mention his first mate is more passenger than crew.
Greg Chesterton hey wasn’t trying to be disrespectful with that terrible typing. (Gess ges). Not sure why that happened or even how it got there. So for that I hope Josh didnt take offense. On the other hand, don’t be a Dhead.
T.J. Mills actually my comment was directed at gess ges. But you’re right - I shouldn’t be a Dhead.
Greg Chesterton. All good. I think all comments here weren’t being critical but hopefully being taken as a learning opportunity.. We have all made mistakes and unfortunately that’s how you learn fastest. I’ve personally made a lot and the trend occasionally continues.
What size is your sailboat?
You know, seeing you go round to the patreon's house for grub, I am ceaselessly impressed how American women, by and large, seem to be comfortable with their menfolk taking the leading role in the marriage. If you came to the UK for the same thing the woman would be having to tell you something that would show her independence of mind, or have her hair cut so damned short you'd think she was a boy with good pectorals, but not in the US. It's yet another reason I love that wonderful country. *I just thought of a good strapline: America, where men are men and women are women.
This got zero likes lol 💀
Kinda of a rookie mistake but hey, we've all been there
Next time put reverse and the rope will get out of the propeller... Most likely
Are you any relation of John and Marlise Post who lived in Ireland in the seventies/eighties?
Happens much less with experienced crew. But then crap happens.
Please allow me a stupid comment, I don't mean to offend you. Is important to teach Spencer how to stop the boat under sail and under motor, in case he has to rescue you. Cheers mate!!!
Shows how long you'll last if you go into water on even a warm day. Not long
Why didn't you have a stopper knot? Especially when you're asking inexperienced crew to deal with it and in a bit of wind
Please look at the video at 7:30. We were RIGGING the jib sheets by running them through the blocks on the jib track and back to the cockpit. He was not supposed to pull the sail out yet. He was supposed to bring the sheet back through the track and to the cockpit so that we could tie the stopper knots. And THEN sometime later we’d pull out the sail. He wasn’t supposed to pull out the sail when he did. The lines were not even prepped yet. We were simply running/prepping the boat’s jib sheets when this happened.
Well l was thinking of buying a yacht..
Oh God I'm so mad at that little goofball crew member of yours
Spencer needs to get out of his pajamas a little earlier....LOL
I think Spencer was still asleep, hence the PJs.
Being that it's your first time buying so many groceries and having to take off all the paper labels and write what it is at the top, How was that for the first time takes hours yes? : ) peace and good luck
20 years from now you...........................
I love your tenacity, sense of humor & the fact that you know a butt load about sailing but WTF is up with getting a crew guy from a website? Might as well go "hire a maid", that's clueless..and possibly get lucky.
Or get a crew who knows what they're doing....
ex military???