What a beautiful boat. Just dreams and a hefty lottery win for me. Although far too late for an old wrinkly like me. Enjoy and safe passages to you both.
Great footage, myself and Liz are same age as you guys Liz is 1st Oct too! We've had yachts on and off for years but not that experienced at night time off shore, but I'm using your footage to inspire Liz so she'll agree to downsize homes get a bigger boat and follow in your footsteps so please keep making it look fun!!
Another fine episode! It is always interesting seeing parts of the world unknown to me. I very much enjoy your sailing adventures, and somehow you manage beautiful weather and fair winds. Looks like your journey back may be a different story! Cudos to Judy for the rowing back, im sure she didn't want to hold the camera!
Well I'm glad you liked Ep 9, we thought it was a really nice episode but it's been left behind on UA-cam. Ep10's had more than 3 times the views. I guess people are more attracted to bad weather than beautiful sunrises?!
During lockdown in Blighty it’s keeping my spirits up watching your posts. I love sailing around the west coast of Scotland. I’ve not done it for several years, now is the time to get back to sailing.
The only time I ventured to the West coast of Scotland was about 15 years ago while circumnavigating the UK. It was June, but we we're still battered by a force 10 off Cape Wroth and had to go through the Caledonian Canal! Lovely place though if you time it right!!
Sailing Fair Isle you guys thrive in the Sun, I’m a Celt who’s family roots are in Eire, rain and cold don’t bother me. Scottish mountains in winter and the Wild West coast in spring and summer. I always say you don’t go to Scotland for the weather, “you’ll be burnt or drowned”. Predicting either is a fruitless pastime. The Mediterranean looks great. I hope you are both well and have all you need in these difficult times. Watching the practical experiences of your sailing is very useful, I know which rope cutter now to invest in for example.
Further to a previous thread we have an Itwit inflatable kayak from Decathlon... fantastic,well built ultra stable and only a couple of hundred quid. Thanks for your inspiring work. Keep doing what your doing
Glad you liked that one Kent, we liked it too but it bombed. We changed the title and the thumbnail to try and help after a month or so with little effect. It shows viewing figures are almost entirely at the whim or You Tube and wether their algorithm decides to promote you.
@@svfairisle Yes, my company is learning how to "attempt" to manipulate Facebook, Google/UA-cam algorithms. When we think we have an ad set strategy figured out all of a sudden the algo changes just enough to keep us scratching our heads.
Well that was a great way to end my Friday evening. I found the anchor footage very interesting and it was nice to see the dinghy being propelled in an environmentally way. Heck I think I'll watch it again!
Thanks Tim, I do enjoy the rowing (when not filming Judy does make me do it!) But we did spend 3 days stuck on the boat at anchor with 30 knot winds not able to row against it, so I think the outboard has it's place! In the end I made it ashore to see the rugby, but it was touch & go!!
Its great to watch ,Steve you are a chef as well ,I see you are not into rowing :):)Sept/Nov can be a lovely time in the Med water still warm just the jelly fish but they are always about
great video and wonderful scenery, nostalgic too,I was working out I was last in Formentera in 1966, ooops ,giving away the old age ! Take care , fair winds if you can have that in the Med !
Beautiful and inspiring videos - thank you!! I visited Cartagena once maybe 12 years ago; loved it then and it looks even better now. Time to revisit I think. Unfortunately my sailing is limited to Lasers and Darts but I can dream. Thanks again!
absolutely wonderful, both of you are extremely inspirational and the film quality with the explanations are top notch and in my opinion second to none. thank you keep it up and stay safe.
We love watching your videos and we were excited to see Fair Isle in the Marina in Cartagena when we docked on the Nieuw Statendam there last month, happy sailing !!
you're unlikely to have problems at sea. I have a license to fly drones as I've done if for the BBC for years, but as usual no governments don't collaborate so my CAA licence is useless elsewhere!
Lovely series of vblogs and very professional. They have a nice, alternative, look and feel to the Delos/La Vagabond ones. My wife and I aim to do the same as you guys in a few years time (hopefully inside 10 years) once weve paid the usual bills off and sent the last of our 3 girls on their way in life. In the meatime we are settling with a 35' Jeanneau for coastal use. interesting to see your HC48T. I had to google her as I wasnt familiar with this brand of boat. She looks very sturdy and safe. GRP hull and deck but with a lot of wood and brass to look after and maintain though! :) Reasonably priced for what you get too looking at the second hand market. I can see theres a lot of work and effort gone into them. Keep up the tech corner videos. They are great. I will take you up on your use of dielectric grease. :). Might be good if you did a vblog on HC boats so we know more about them. Fair winds and following seas! David
Hi David, thanks for your comments. Very similar situation to us then with 3 girls and picking your moment to head out. If they're not all off on there own buy the time you want to go take them with you! There's several boats here in Cartagena with older kids, it's a sort of alternative gap year! Good that you're getting some experience with the Jeanneau but for cruising I would definitely advise something heavier. Light displacement coastal boats have their place but will be too tiring for anything other than day sailing. I'll try and do a film on the attributes of a cruising boat, I think that's a good idea. Steve
Hello folks. Canada here. I just found you site, binging now. One suggestion, I didn't notice a " snubber " on your anchor chain. It will keep the strain off the windless and bow sprit. And a big ' yes ' , beautiful lines !
Arh very good point! Well you'll just have to binge watch some more my friend! Not sure if there is a shot in Ep.9 but there certainly is in the one I'm editing now Ep10. I tend to only use the snubber when there's wind or swell. I know lazy... but in my defence I use a double bridle & it's a bit of a pain to put on around the bowsprit. Also we've got substantial hinged roller system on Fair Isle that means there's no clanging or strain in normal weather. On the second half of the Ibiza trip we had 35 knots in the anchorage and I do go through my bridal system. There is a little chat through retrieving the anchor without unduly straining your windlass in Ep 9 when you get that far. Thanks for watching and commenting, Steve.
I hope you guys get a longer time on the boat cruising without having to fly back to England so often. As far as the outboard not working, just think of the great pecs you'll develop. Cheers, Rob.
We’re hoping we can at least keep the summer free for sailing. At the moment flying off for work has to be done until we either take our pensions or find some other way of propping up the sailing kitty.
Great videos. Thanks guys. Retiring early next year and going to campaign my boat from May onward. Currently based in San Carles Marina. Was planning to come back to the UK in October but you are making me think to stay out longer. Do you plan to sail the whole winter? Must be nice to have empty anchorages. Nightmare peak season with everyone fighting over the last few metres of available water.
We had already booked into Cartagena until March, not much choice this winter as we have to spend time flying off for work. But our trip to Ibiza off season made us think continued sailing over winter might be a good option. The empty anchorages are a welcome change for the Med!
Somebody has to row. Somebody has to film. 'Surely the cooked curry bought Steve enough brownie points to be rowed Judy'? - Great video and look forward to joining you both soon.
Gulls will try to frighten it off especially during nesting season, but basically they just squawk a lot and make dive bombing runs at it. They're very unlikely to hit it. Just move slowly if they're around.
We’re anchored in la linea (per your recommendation, thank you) and heading out in a few days. Are you still in Cartagena? We are heading to Sicily and hope to stop over there and meet up. Otherwise we can share an anchorage further into the Mediterranean :)
Arh, that might be bad timing. We're here until Friday then in London on a shoot. Will probably be back on the boat on 25th/26th. Keep in touch would love to meet up if we can.
Sailing Fair Isle we are going to be in the Mediterranean for a year so we will meet up again. Our plan is to sail to Greece over the winter and then start making our way back out to the Atlantic for a November crossing to the Caribbean.
@@RiggingDoctor Yes I hope so. do stop at Cartagena if you can though, it's an interesting place. Good luck with the trip along the costas, take care in November there's not much shelter in anything other than Northerlies. The marinas should be reasonable though out of season if you have to use them. There's a sheltered anchorage on the entrance to the Mar Menor that we used on the way back from our trip to Ibiza last week it's an abandoned marina, have a look on the charts, good shelter but don't do what we did and go in there in the dark it's pretty freaky! If you're going the Balearics route you should find sheltered sides of the islands, beware though marinas can still be expensive there, Ibiza is expensive full stop so try and provision on mainland Spain if you can. Fair winds, Steve
Sailing Fair Isle thanks for the heads up! We’re going to provision in Gibraltar (English side) and try to do a single sail to Sicily, but it’s good to know of places to hide if it gets too out of hand out there!
Sailing the Med in Autumn is probably the best time of year, as you've correctly noticed everyone has gone home and the charter fleets are laid up for the winter , if you make it back to Formenterra take a look the other side of the island at the sand isthmus that links the smaller islands its stunning, also look up the Columbrete islands few people visit them its an extinct volcanic crater and reef, they are half way between Ibiza and San Carles on the Spanish mainland. fair winds and see you further East ?
Thanks for the tips. We already had the Formentera isthmus earmarked but never heard of Columbrete, sounds great. We will be taking that route East in the spring & will have time to explore. This trip was just a quick excursion before we have to go off and do some work. We will certainly look our for you further East, where are you planning to be next year?
Sailing Fair Isle - The Columbretes are seldom visited as they are well hidden , if you don’t have paper charts or zoom in through the chart layers on electronic charts you’d be forgiven for not knowing of their existence. Most likely somewhere in Greece or Turkey for a season or two , what are your long term plans ?
Blown Away Sailing We will spend a couple of years in the Med before crossing the pond. Next year we plan to head for Venice via what ever route works out best with the wind and recommendations (Columbretes just been added to the list!) We probably won’t make it to the Aegean side of Greece until the year after so if you’re hanging out over that side & Turkey we may cross tracks there.
Sailing Fair Isle I saw your recent face book post and replied via messenger - we skipped Venice but have done all of Italian west coast mainland and across to the Ionian which is simply stunning by comparison to most places in the western med (excluding Formenterra) we are saving the islands of Malta - Sardinia for our med exit and will also head to the caribbean in a couple of seasons time.
Я использую много камер, но основной является Lumix GH5s, который я бы порекомендовал. Может быть, придерживаться Go Pro для снимков, где вы могли бы промокнуть, хотя!
Good question. I avoided it in this video although I originally meant to focus on the Posidonia meadows, only because in November there was masses of room for us to anchor. For the really sensitive coves there are mooring buoys, we picked up one on the Spanish mainland actually on the way back, also no one else there in November. So to answer your question off season definitely not. We will revisit that when we pass through the Balearics next year!
yes that big ship is a bilk carrier unloaded at the time but ballasted amidships to counteract a hogging (as against sagging) position due to excess bouyancy in the midshiip region. The tugs are necessary because it loses steerage at low speed.
Sorry but he patently does not “know his ships “ so I don’t know why he feels compelled to comment - that’s a container ship not a bulk carrier . It’s devoid of containers , hence riding so high - probably heading into dry dock . Yes , big ships can hog and sag if incorrectly loaded and shift ballast to counteract this but this one will be evenly ballasted . Bulk carriers are almost always “all aft “accommodation blocks with anything from 2 to 9 hatches forward of the bridge. If no cranes they look a bit like tankers from a distance except for the noticeable hatch covers. Tankers always have a derrick or crane half way along the deck to handle the loading hoses. Container ships have finer lines in the bow for speed and are often “midships” accommodation like this . Unusual to see them empty unless laid up or heading for maintenance.
Can either of you tell me why there are so many ships around the world anchored for long periods? I've seen it all my life although it seems to becoming even more common to have ships laid at anchor presumably waiting for the next job? You'ld think it would be in everybody's interest to keep them working.
A wide variety of reasons. Waiting for their berth. Waiting for a cargo. Various degrees of lay up . ( from deep lay up with min crew to almost operational) Specialist ships waiting for next job/ charter . Cargo being traded while on board ( common on tankers ) waiting on sale or scrap. Vagaries of market and rates. Some ships rarely stop and others seem to spend most of their life on the hook.
Yes I recognised your boat, we were anchored there too , just in front of the catamaran next to you guys on the marcon 34 . Awesome little bay shelter wise , we moved a little further round to Es canar , very nice anchorage this time of year
Yeah, thats what I meant. Good to know, lot of youtubers i follow are in the caribbean or the bahamas and they are using two anchors all the time. I was wondering why. Thank you
I know it's counter intuitive but lying to two anchors at the same time is a mistake. In the Bahamian moor you lay one up stream of the tidal flow and set it then another at 180 degrees downstream set oppositely, so that when the tidal flow switches you lie to the other anchor. But you only ever to one anchor at a time. Lying to two anchors together actually means you're more likely to pull the boat away from having the bow directly on to the wind and therefore greatly increase the load. You just end up dragging one anchor then the other!
z in the middle of a Spanish word is pronounced 'th' the anglicised version always seems to have been pronounced correctly whereas places like Cadiz is usually pronounced wrongly, strange!
Sailing Fair Isle It reminded me of a trip, we made from Peter Port to the anchorage off Sark (1983). Because of the fog, we couldn’t see the shore. So, we didn’t dare to go ashore because I was afraid we wouldn’t find our yacht again. Then, we sailed back to St Peter Port again! We bought our Contessa 32 in 1978 before we bought our first house. We have lived 30 meters from the Mediterranean, close to Frejus for 10 years. We came back only this year. Without wanting to sound pedantic,, and you may very well already know this, a little bit of advice in return for your beautiful filming: avoid most of the Med in summer, protect all the wood of your beautiful yacht, and protect your own skins very carefully. Merry Christmas and wonderful seasons in 2020....
Shame, you missed all the best anchorages around Ibiza.Puerto an Miguel, Cala Blanca,Cala Llonga, Formentera.............. A bit of a 'box-ticking' exercise.
Don't worry this was just a quick late season recce. We always planned to go back and do it properly on our way East after winter. Of course thats all been slightly scuppered at the moment but we will get there. So let us know if there's any places we miss this time. We still have a third attempt on the way back out of the Med in a few years so I'm sure we'll do it justice!
We are really enjoying your videos but we would like to hear how you actually 'live aboard'. so that means the boring stuff.. 'laundry, provisioning, 'getting by' etc. etc.... We know how to sail, etc...
Also do follow the Facebook site as we plan to try and chart the everyday issues on there next season . We want to keep the youtube videos in real time as much as possible so people can follow along with the story and get more of a sense of what it's like to be full time cruisers.
@@svfairisle As you are seasoned travellers, I was surprised. Unfortunately, Ibiza is mispronounced by a lot of Brits. Surely, it cannot be "I bee tha" it must "I by tha" or "ee bee tha" and of course correctly, it's "ee bee tha". I hope you don't play Pok ee mon, otherwise you'll get me going again :-) Love your videos and life, makes me jealous. Unfortunately, I'm too old to follow you :-( Best wishes to you both and family.
Thank you for producing such a great series of sailing videos! Man Hans-Christians are beautiful boats!
We really enjoyed this video, Keep it up, thank you Paulette & John
We are really enjoying your videos. Catching up slowly.
What a beautiful boat. Just dreams and a hefty lottery win for me. Although far too late for an old wrinkly like me. Enjoy and safe passages to you both.
Thank you for your videos.
Great footage, myself and Liz are same age as you guys Liz is 1st Oct too! We've had yachts on and off for years but not that experienced at night time off shore, but I'm using your footage to inspire Liz so she'll agree to downsize homes get a bigger boat and follow in your footsteps so please keep making it look fun!!
It certainly is fun!
Very Nice vídeos
Just found ideal for self isolating brilliant 👍
I am South African - and a Spring Bok Supporter - England really did play well - Great video and thank you for bringing it to us. God Bless you both
Another fine episode! It is always interesting seeing parts of the world unknown to me. I very much enjoy your sailing adventures, and somehow you manage beautiful weather and fair winds. Looks like your journey back may be a different story! Cudos to Judy for the rowing back, im sure she didn't want to hold the camera!
Well I'm glad you liked Ep 9, we thought it was a really nice episode but it's been left behind on UA-cam. Ep10's had more than 3 times the views. I guess people are more attracted to bad weather than beautiful sunrises?!
A friend pointed out Steve had just cooked a curry so a bit of rowing is very fair I think.
During lockdown in Blighty it’s keeping my spirits up watching your posts. I love sailing around the west coast of Scotland. I’ve not done it for several years, now is the time to get back to sailing.
The only time I ventured to the West coast of Scotland was about 15 years ago while circumnavigating the UK. It was June, but we we're still battered by a force 10 off Cape Wroth and had to go through the Caledonian Canal! Lovely place though if you time it right!!
Sailing Fair Isle you guys thrive in the Sun, I’m a Celt who’s family roots are in Eire, rain and cold don’t bother me. Scottish mountains in winter and the Wild West coast in spring and summer. I always say you don’t go to Scotland for the weather, “you’ll be burnt or drowned”. Predicting either is a fruitless pastime. The Mediterranean looks great. I hope you are both well and have all you need in these difficult times. Watching the practical experiences of your sailing is very useful, I know which rope cutter now to invest in for example.
Further to a previous thread we have an Itwit inflatable kayak from Decathlon... fantastic,well built ultra stable and only a couple of hundred quid. Thanks for your inspiring work. Keep doing what your doing
The boat is incredible, state of art... and both of you are pure joy. Thank you for sharing it. Cheers from Rio de Janeiro.❤
This may be my favorite episode. Good mix of sailing (glad to see all three sails up), sightseeing, and a little cuisine magnifique.
Glad you liked that one Kent, we liked it too but it bombed. We changed the title and the thumbnail to try and help after a month or so with little effect. It shows viewing figures are almost entirely at the whim or You Tube and wether their algorithm decides to promote you.
@@svfairisle Yes, my company is learning how to "attempt" to manipulate Facebook, Google/UA-cam algorithms. When we think we have an ad set strategy figured out all of a sudden the algo changes just enough to keep us scratching our heads.
I like you sailing channel. No drama, plenty of money to do things properly and a lovely yacht. 👍
I sailed to the Med in 2005, watching you videos brings back all of those memories, thank you.
Hope you get back out here sometime :)
Thank you very much for sharing your adventue. This is exactly my retirement plan and I Love your boat.
Best of luck and keep having fun.
nice video thanks
Wonderful vision thanks for sharing 👍🇦🇺🚜
So loving your vids! Thank You 😊🌞⛵️
Thanks a lot for yet another wonderful video!
Lovely video guys
Nice to follow your journey
Another lovely video.
Well that was a great way to end my Friday evening. I found the anchor footage very interesting and it was nice to see the dinghy being propelled in an environmentally way. Heck I think I'll watch it again!
Thanks Tim, I do enjoy the rowing (when not filming Judy does make me do it!) But we did spend 3 days stuck on the boat at anchor with 30 knot winds not able to row against it, so I think the outboard has it's place! In the end I made it ashore to see the rugby, but it was touch & go!!
Love your talks. Thank you.
Its great to watch ,Steve you are a chef as well ,I see you are not into rowing :):)Sept/Nov can be a lovely time in the Med water still warm just the jelly fish but they are always about
Nice, thanks for sharing this beautiful video
Love your boat !
great video and wonderful scenery, nostalgic too,I was working out I was last in Formentera in 1966, ooops ,giving away the old age ! Take care , fair winds if you can have that in the Med !
The rugby was a great game. Thanks for sharing your travels with us. Really enjoyed it 👍😎🇿🇦
Classy camera-work & love to listen to Your commentary
You know how to please everyone! At least on this boat!! Thanks a John
You know how to please everyone! At least on this boat!! Thanks a John
@@svfairisle Loving the dolphin footage at the beginning. Fair winds.
Another great video, thanks.
Really nice video beautiful you guys do a great job thanks for sharing looking forward to seeing more thanks
You guys have great style.
Great work with the videos guys, keep them coming.
Very nice. Thank you. :-)
Another great production with informative snippets on an awesome boat too :)
Looking forward to see more videos! Great job guys, thanks. Love from Ibiza.
Beautiful and inspiring videos - thank you!! I visited Cartagena once maybe 12 years ago; loved it then and it looks even better now. Time to revisit I think. Unfortunately my sailing is limited to Lasers and Darts but I can dream. Thanks again!
absolutely wonderful, both of you are extremely inspirational and the film quality with the explanations are top notch and in my opinion second to none. thank you keep it up and stay safe.
Hey thanks Mike, very nice of you to say.
Fantastic, great to see you both back, lovely filming and very interesting and inspiring thank you!
Fantastic videos. Some of the best produced videos on UA-cam
We love watching your videos and we were excited to see Fair Isle in the Marina in Cartagena when we docked on the Nieuw Statendam there last month, happy sailing !!
Thanks Bob, I hope you enjoyed Cartagena, it’s a shame you guys only get a day here.
excellent way of showing the matter of a sailing , thank You ...as if I were there with You … ;-)
I think I saw your boat anchoring in that bay of Ibiza. I spent a few days in a hotel at waterside, end of October. Greetings from Germany.
Yes that would almost certainly be us, very few other boats around
Greetings guys froom.South america
Loverly clean wake , sign of a good design , Well done on getting to the final , from NZ
Ha! I've got to say the better team won on the day. And yes canoe stern for me every time!
You guys should buy rectangular plates or something to make your cockpit table wider.
Another great episode! Thanks. I’m beginning to think that Steve is a bit cheaky; Subtle though. ( 17:48). SK in the UK.
Loved the drone footage of the paddle board practice! But with all the drone regulations these days, I don’t think I’ll bother.
you're unlikely to have problems at sea. I have a license to fly drones as I've done if for the BBC for years, but as usual no governments don't collaborate so my CAA licence is useless elsewhere!
Lovely series of vblogs and very professional. They have a nice, alternative, look and feel to the Delos/La Vagabond ones. My wife and I aim to do the same as you guys in a few years time (hopefully inside 10 years) once weve paid the usual bills off and sent the last of our 3 girls on their way in life. In the meatime we are settling with a 35' Jeanneau for coastal use. interesting to see your HC48T. I had to google her as I wasnt familiar with this brand of boat. She looks very sturdy and safe. GRP hull and deck but with a lot of wood and brass to look after and maintain though! :) Reasonably priced for what you get too looking at the second hand market. I can see theres a lot of work and effort gone into them. Keep up the tech corner videos. They are great. I will take you up on your use of dielectric grease. :). Might be good if you did a vblog on HC boats so we know more about them. Fair winds and following seas! David
Hi David, thanks for your comments. Very similar situation to us then with 3 girls and picking your moment to head out. If they're not all off on there own buy the time you want to go take them with you! There's several boats here in Cartagena with older kids, it's a sort of alternative gap year! Good that you're getting some experience with the Jeanneau but for cruising I would definitely advise something heavier. Light displacement coastal boats have their place but will be too tiring for anything other than day sailing. I'll try and do a film on the attributes of a cruising boat, I think that's a good idea. Steve
Hello folks. Canada here. I just found you site, binging now. One suggestion, I didn't notice a " snubber " on your anchor chain. It will keep the strain off the windless and bow sprit. And a big ' yes ' , beautiful lines !
Arh very good point! Well you'll just have to binge watch some more my friend! Not sure if there is a shot in Ep.9 but there certainly is in the one I'm editing now Ep10. I tend to only use the snubber when there's wind or swell. I know lazy... but in my defence I use a double bridle & it's a bit of a pain to put on around the bowsprit. Also we've got substantial hinged roller system on Fair Isle that means there's no clanging or strain in normal weather. On the second half of the Ibiza trip we had 35 knots in the anchorage and I do go through my bridal system. There is a little chat through retrieving the anchor without unduly straining your windlass in Ep 9 when you get that far. Thanks for watching and commenting, Steve.
I hope you guys get a longer time on the boat cruising without having to fly back to England so often. As far as the outboard not working, just think of the great pecs you'll develop. Cheers, Rob.
We’re hoping we can at least keep the summer free for sailing. At the moment flying off for work has to be done until we either take our pensions or find some other way of propping up the sailing kitty.
Forget paddleboarding, do kajaking instead, much more relaxing! ;)
Yes I'm looking out for a good inflatable sea kayak.
I love the fact that you're Dominion players! What other games do you have on board?
Dominion is it at the moment, we must branch out!
Great videos. Thanks guys. Retiring early next year and going to campaign my boat from May onward. Currently based in San Carles Marina. Was planning to come back to the UK in October but you are making me think to stay out longer. Do you plan to sail the whole winter? Must be nice to have empty anchorages. Nightmare peak season with everyone fighting over the last few metres of available water.
We had already booked into Cartagena until March, not much choice this winter as we have to spend time flying off for work. But our trip to Ibiza off season made us think continued sailing over winter might be a good option. The empty anchorages are a welcome change for the Med!
Nice channel, show's you are pro in front of the camera. More technical videos please.
Somebody has to row. Somebody has to film. 'Surely the cooked curry bought Steve enough brownie points to be rowed Judy'? - Great video and look forward to joining you both soon.
When was that picture taken Kerry, you look 12!
65-12=53, about 53 years ago
You are right. Happy to row when Steve cooks. It wasn’t too far!
Dominion, a great game.
Do birds ever bother your drone?
Gulls will try to frighten it off especially during nesting season, but basically they just squawk a lot and make dive bombing runs at it. They're very unlikely to hit it. Just move slowly if they're around.
We’re anchored in la linea (per your recommendation, thank you) and heading out in a few days. Are you still in Cartagena? We are heading to Sicily and hope to stop over there and meet up. Otherwise we can share an anchorage further into the Mediterranean :)
Arh, that might be bad timing. We're here until Friday then in London on a shoot. Will probably be back on the boat on 25th/26th. Keep in touch would love to meet up if we can.
Sailing Fair Isle we are going to be in the Mediterranean for a year so we will meet up again.
Our plan is to sail to Greece over the winter and then start making our way back out to the Atlantic for a November crossing to the Caribbean.
Sailing Fair Isle we will surely have another chance to meet up again later in the Mediterranean.
@@RiggingDoctor Yes I hope so. do stop at Cartagena if you can though, it's an interesting place. Good luck with the trip along the costas, take care in November there's not much shelter in anything other than Northerlies. The marinas should be reasonable though out of season if you have to use them. There's a sheltered anchorage on the entrance to the Mar Menor that we used on the way back from our trip to Ibiza last week it's an abandoned marina, have a look on the charts, good shelter but don't do what we did and go in there in the dark it's pretty freaky! If you're going the Balearics route you should find sheltered sides of the islands, beware though marinas can still be expensive there, Ibiza is expensive full stop so try and provision on mainland Spain if you can. Fair winds, Steve
Sailing Fair Isle thanks for the heads up! We’re going to provision in Gibraltar (English side) and try to do a single sail to Sicily, but it’s good to know of places to hide if it gets too out of hand out there!
Sailing the Med in Autumn is probably the best time of year, as you've correctly noticed everyone has gone home and the charter fleets are laid up for the winter , if you make it back to Formenterra take a look the other side of the island at the sand isthmus that links the smaller islands its stunning, also look up the Columbrete islands few people visit them its an extinct volcanic crater and reef, they are half way between Ibiza and San Carles on the Spanish mainland. fair winds and see you further East ?
Thanks for the tips. We already had the Formentera isthmus earmarked but never heard of Columbrete, sounds great. We will be taking that route East in the spring & will have time to explore. This trip was just a quick excursion before we have to go off and do some work.
We will certainly look our for you further East, where are you planning to be next year?
Sailing Fair Isle - The Columbretes are seldom visited as they are well hidden , if you don’t have paper charts or zoom in through the chart layers on electronic charts you’d be forgiven for not knowing of their existence. Most likely somewhere in Greece or Turkey for a season or two , what are your long term plans ?
Blown Away Sailing We will spend a couple of years in the Med before crossing the pond. Next year we plan to head for Venice via what ever route works out best with the wind and recommendations (Columbretes just been added to the list!) We probably won’t make it to the Aegean side of Greece until the year after so if you’re hanging out over that side & Turkey we may cross tracks there.
Sailing Fair Isle I saw your recent face book post and replied via messenger - we skipped Venice but have done all of Italian west coast mainland and across to the Ionian which is simply stunning by comparison to most places in the western med (excluding Formenterra) we are saving the islands of Malta - Sardinia for our med exit and will also head to the caribbean in a couple of seasons time.
Do you have a stainless anchor chain?
Yes on both anchors. Must have been phenomenally expensive. Fortunately it was on the boat when we bought her :)
Какой камерой снимаете? У меня месяц назад камера утопла. Сейчас ищу чем заменить,. так как старая марка меня уже не устраивает. Удачи.
Я использую много камер, но основной является Lumix GH5s, который я бы порекомендовал. Может быть, придерживаться Go Pro для снимков, где вы могли бы промокнуть, хотя!
Great video, thanks. Do you feel that seagrass/posidonea is causing it difficult to anchor?
Good question. I avoided it in this video although I originally meant to focus on the Posidonia meadows, only because in November there was masses of room for us to anchor. For the really sensitive coves there are mooring buoys, we picked up one on the Spanish mainland actually on the way back, also no one else there in November. So to answer your question off season definitely not. We will revisit that when we pass through the Balearics next year!
16:35: It does outweigh a floppy Limey.
I thought the rugby score was fantastic :-)
You haven’t lived until you’ve jiggled yer windlass off Ibiza...
Hi Steve, your headsail looks more like a genoa than a yankee?
No it's definitely a Yankee, wouldn't need all the gymnastics to get to the leach tape if it were a Genoa!!
@@svfairisle Yes, I see that now!
yes that big ship is a bilk carrier unloaded at the time but ballasted amidships to counteract a hogging (as against sagging) position due to excess bouyancy in the midshiip region. The tugs are necessary because it loses steerage at low speed.
Ahh you know your ships! Interesting about the mid ship ballast, didn’t think of that.
Sorry but he patently does not “know his ships “ so I don’t know why he feels compelled to comment - that’s a container ship not a bulk carrier . It’s devoid of containers , hence riding so high - probably heading into dry dock . Yes , big ships can hog and sag if incorrectly loaded and shift ballast to counteract this but this one will be evenly ballasted . Bulk carriers are almost always “all aft “accommodation blocks with anything from 2 to 9 hatches forward of the bridge. If no cranes they look a bit like tankers from a distance except for the noticeable hatch covers. Tankers always have a derrick or crane half way along the deck to handle the loading hoses. Container ships have finer lines in the bow for speed and are often “midships” accommodation like this . Unusual to see them empty unless laid up or heading for maintenance.
@@llcfwilson Well someone knows their ships and it isn't me!!
Can either of you tell me why there are so many ships around the world anchored for long periods? I've seen it all my life although it seems to becoming even more common to have ships laid at anchor presumably waiting for the next job? You'ld think it would be in everybody's interest to keep them working.
A wide variety of reasons. Waiting for their berth. Waiting for a cargo. Various degrees of lay up . ( from deep lay up with min crew to almost operational) Specialist ships waiting for next job/ charter . Cargo being traded while on board ( common on tankers ) waiting on sale or scrap. Vagaries of market and rates.
Some ships rarely stop and others seem to spend most of their life on the hook.
Can I ask what anchor/s you use?
Yes the main anchor is a Delta and the other on the bow is a Bugle, which is a German design, good for hard sand.
Did you anchor in Santa Eularia bay ?
Yes we did, good sheltered spot while the wind was up over the weekend. I'm just editing the pictures now, part2 of this trip (episode 10)
Yes I recognised your boat, we were anchored there too , just in front of the catamaran next to you guys on the marcon 34 . Awesome little bay shelter wise , we moved a little further round to Es canar , very nice anchorage this time of year
Why are you never using two Anchors? Seen that a lot.
Not sure what you mean. We use our anchor every day!?
Arhh, do you mean two anchors? If so it's because this is very bad practice other than in a Bahamian moor situation. (i.e. in a changing tidal stream)
Yeah, thats what I meant. Good to know, lot of youtubers i follow are in the caribbean or the bahamas and they are using two anchors all the time. I was wondering why. Thank you
I know it's counter intuitive but lying to two anchors at the same time is a mistake. In the Bahamian moor you lay one up stream of the tidal flow and set it then another at 180 degrees downstream set oppositely, so that when the tidal flow switches you lie to the other anchor. But you only ever to one anchor at a time. Lying to two anchors together actually means you're more likely to pull the boat away from having the bow directly on to the wind and therefore greatly increase the load. You just end up dragging one anchor then the other!
How come Ibiza is pronounced as Ibitha?
z in the middle of a Spanish word is pronounced 'th' the anglicised version always seems to have been pronounced correctly whereas places like Cadiz is usually pronounced wrongly, strange!
All the positive comments are dead on spot. Was it easy to find the yacht again with the dinghy, when it was pitch dark?
Luckily I had put the anchor light on before we left just in case & we were the only yacht out there so gave us something to aim for!
Sailing Fair Isle It reminded me of a trip, we made from Peter Port to the anchorage off Sark (1983). Because of the fog, we couldn’t see the shore. So, we didn’t dare to go ashore because I was afraid we wouldn’t find our yacht again. Then, we sailed back to St Peter Port again! We bought our Contessa 32 in 1978 before we bought our first house. We have lived 30 meters from the Mediterranean, close to Frejus for 10 years. We came back only this year. Without wanting to sound pedantic,, and you may very well already know this, a little bit of advice in return for your beautiful filming: avoid most of the Med in summer, protect all the wood of your beautiful yacht, and protect your own skins very carefully. Merry Christmas and wonderful seasons in 2020....
Shame, you missed all the best anchorages around Ibiza.Puerto an Miguel, Cala Blanca,Cala Llonga, Formentera.............. A bit of a 'box-ticking' exercise.
Don't worry this was just a quick late season recce. We always planned to go back and do it properly on our way East after winter. Of course thats all been slightly scuppered at the moment but we will get there. So let us know if there's any places we miss this time. We still have a third attempt on the way back out of the Med in a few years so I'm sure we'll do it justice!
We are really enjoying your videos but we would like to hear how you actually 'live aboard'. so that means the boring stuff.. 'laundry, provisioning, 'getting by' etc. etc.... We know how to sail, etc...
We plan to do more of that, doesn't come naturally for us to have us being the story!
Also do follow the Facebook site as we plan to try and chart the everyday issues on there next season . We want to keep the youtube videos in real time as much as possible so people can follow along with the story and get more of a sense of what it's like to be full time cruisers.
@@svfairisle Thank you, yes, we will. Keep up the amazing job, you are a great team.😁
is yer hans chrstn big nuf fo me at 6 ft 2 in? i need hedrm of a jeanneau 57 i like yer full keel = id liker to keep a boat up west of cannes
Great video, shame about not pronouncing Ibiza correctly :-(
Never heard it pronounced any other way.
@@svfairisle As you are seasoned travellers, I was surprised. Unfortunately, Ibiza is mispronounced by a lot of Brits. Surely, it cannot be "I bee tha" it must "I by tha" or "ee bee tha" and of course correctly, it's "ee bee tha". I hope you don't play Pok ee mon, otherwise you'll get me going again :-) Love your videos and life, makes me jealous. Unfortunately, I'm too old to follow you :-( Best wishes to you both and family.