Really love the idea of that Rainman - very much because it's portable. The thing about boat upgrades is that you never get back what you invest if you come to sell, so being able to take it with you to a new boat definitely makes sense.
When it comes to being able to easily take it with you, that’s such a valuable aspect to my mind, for a whole host of different reasons, especially if you want to take it easily to your next boat too 👌🏼⛵️
I lived and sailed the Dorset Hampshire coast for all my youth. I live in Canada now so look forward to your postings. Total memory lane. Love your footage and presentation style. Hank cracks me up. THE most precious pooch on the internet!!
I think he loves this water more than any other water he’s ever drank, although I have also seen him very enthusiastically drink from a muddy puddle on a walk, so I’m not sure how high the bar is exactly set either? 🧐🤣
No way!!! I thought i was the only one with the idea of putting my solar panels on the mast. But I'm gonna use some of my 3d printing... Well... Talents to accomplish this mission. 😁
As a non sailor I love seeing all the different things you do to the boat and wow having a shower on your deck on your boat in the ocean - pure luxury! And if Hank gives his seal of approval the water must be good! Also interesting to hear about the Flin solar panels.
Yeah Flin solar keep coming up with lots of neat ways to harvest more solar from even the smallest of boats. I love how out of the box they are with their inventions.
A very pleasant surprise, as of 1630 on Friday 29.06.22! We sailed our Moody 37 named Horizon out of Poole harbour to Studland Bay on her maiden voyage! A shake down sail in 25 knots of wind, and who do we see a couple of buoys down from us......Cadoha! This is surreal to be in the same bay, we love your channel!
@@CadohaAdventures It went brilliantly! Enough of a breeze to put her on her side and to test our nerves and rigging. No breakages, no hickups, and feeling a little pleased with ourselves! Heading home tomorrow though :(. Whilst you have certainly been an inspiration of ours in buying and fixing up this boat, our great adventure is still a couple of years away yet ;).
@@jessmarais5929 well I hope it’s packed full of as much colour and enjoyment as ours has been! Best of luck to you on your adventures and keep us posted of how it goes 👌🏼
Arrr…I have being banging on about this for ages to my husband, no bad reviews or anything, I have LOOKED ! I was skeptical ……Thank you for a real go at it. Still considering…..👍🇦🇺🇳🇿
Great upgrades guys, the solar is a very interesting idea I have not seen before. Look forward to seeing some of the golden nuggets that the South Coast has to offer. Andy UK
The guys and girls at Flin solar do keep coming up with very novel ways to squeeze just a bit more juice out of a sailing boat when it comes to solar production. Glad you enjoyed the video 🙏⛵️
Fantastic!! I love those solar panel sails and the way you can tilt them. And now a watermarked, that's amazing, you three are really going self sufficient. I love the way you make videos so interesting, keep it up and thanks again!
Well done guys on well worth upgrades and great long term investments. Yes the world is in a bit of a mess so no better time to unplug yourself from the matrix and enjoy life the best way you can without the shackles. All the best and looking forward to your ongoing adventures for the year. 🙏🏻❤️
Well, I wasn’t expecting to see Carly walking through town today! Didn’t want to intrude at the time, beyond a quick hello,, but just wanted to say I binge watched you guys whilst I had Covid in April, love the channel and always pleased to see a new episode come out. All the best and look forward to seeing your adventures this summer.
Ahh awesome, she mentioned you as soon as she got back from shopping, as it happens, she was just spending some girly time with her future mother in-law 😬🍹 Always happy to hear that the videos helped pass some Covid down time and I hope there were no long lasting effects ☺️🙏
The hammaic at the front area of your boat is nearly magically. That is, once you see down in it, you magically never want to get out again. The solar panel going up your mask is near brilliant. The only thing better would be if you could make all you sails solar powered. Stay groovy and stay safe.
Super Bond-esque intro! I came across your channel from your "5 reasons not to live aboard" episode, and really enjoy seeing how you make it work for you. I also suppose there is also a balance to be had between being self sufficient and not feeling isolated, as sometimes those little side quests in life can lead to good experiences.
I think you’re right. It’s nice to feel like you can fend for yourself, if you have to, but, it’s also lovely to meet new people are you move around ☺️🙏
Yes I can, although if you really want to dial in your fishing skills along this coastline then I highly recommend the channel 'The Fish Locker', made by my friend John Locker: ua-cam.com/users/TheFishLocker
If you are heading west it would be good to see a film of you folks sailing up the exe to turf lock and the other west country rivers great film thanks I did say hi a few months ago up the itchen
@@Bantie1 it’s a 240v system, so as well as huge amounts of power, you’d also need a very powerful inverter too, capable of continuously running at 2000w. I’m not sure this system is really cut out for the ditch bag, but have seen some small hand held ones that may be 👌🏼
I subscribe to several sailing channels and been following you guys since the start. Can't wait to see more vids of our lovely coastline. I'm also looking forward to seeing you venture out to other countries and their cultures. :)
6 seconds in and I MUST comment on the beautiful thumbnail for this video! What magnificent furling of those sails, and the sea has such a great colour and ripple; all very artistic. Carly kinda gets in the way but you can't have everything. Stunning
Thought about it, but we spend most of our time in anchorages that protect us from the wind and no one has any solid data on exactly how much these things produce power-wise, living the way we do on a boat. In the end it seems that just adding more solar equates to more bang for your buck over the season, by a long way.
We bought the same one last yeah, we found it uses a lot of power when filling more than one tank - we have 3 tanks. Fill one tank and let the batteries recharge before filling the next. Batteries recharge faster if they are not discharged too much. Don't forget to run a bucket of filtered water through to clear out salt water from the system before storing. The water is great and the system is so easy and reliable.
So far we’re using it every couple of days to keep the tanks topped up, so not needed to flush it yet. It does use a lot of power but so far the solar is keeping pace 🙏☺️
Nice additions to your lifestyle... Next step would be actual solar sails... We've just taken the plunge and bought a 1975 Westerly Berwick (that's been heavily updated - new mast, boom, engine, sails, rig, nav gear, autopilot) so maybe we'll see you out there next year (my wife's starting from scratch so a lot to learn - she's already studying for her day skipper)...our dream is the isles of Scilly, but the Bristol channel has a LOT of challenges to overcome first: once we can sail here, the World is our oyster 🌎⛵.
Awesome vid guys! Filming/editing quality is spectacular 👌 Some brilliant upgrades there, never seen those solar panels before but that's genius. You'll have to let us know how you get on with them! Much love x
We’ll be sure to keep you posted on how they do in all the varying weather. They’ve spent the last week holding up quite well to the wind, so they’re pretty tough for flexible panels 🙏 Hope the Med is treating you both well 👌🏼
It still works fine and is a great addition to our power systems. For me it's a great final piece of the puzzle, after you've maxed out everywhere else you can put panels. For example we had 400w in folding deployable panels that we just threw on the deck when at anchor and even with the various shading that happens throughout the day from stays etc, it puts in more power than the Flin solar did, and it's a 1/3 of the price and folds up into a comparable sized package for stowage. Again we're happy to have it, especially since we've already maxed out most other options for power generation on board.
Well done for getting off the grid, and becoming completely self-sufficient! Maybe consider re-mineralising the water, as I've heard that drinking pure RO water on a long term basis isn't too good for your health.
Thanks, Trevor, we've been looking into this ourselves recently and have just bought some Himalayan rock salt which apparently just a small sprinkling off can 're-mineralise' the water?
If the unit does not have mineral media after the RO membrane, you may wish to consider re-mineralising the water, especially if this will be your source for months on end. When researching it for a home unit, I found it wasn't recommend drinking totally pure water for long periods of time (occasional use no issue)
As far as we're aware, we should get plenty of the minerals we need from our diets, but we have also bought some Himalayan rock salt which apparently in small amounts does in fact 're-mineralise' the water 🙏🏼☺️
Great water transformer. I am working on a new gadget that turns sea water into gin and tonic...will send you a prototype ASAP😉 Beautiful opening sequence shots👍
Well done guys solar sails and the rainman portable water makers.. 👍🏼😎⛵ The water is is totally de mineralised..so its like pure rain water.. if you have a drinking water tap fit a mineralisation output filter to it to improve the health value... hard water has better health properties long term ...this is soft water like rain water so lacks any healthy dissolved minerals that give water its taste and protect your body... as live aboards you may get more of a benefit long term compared to demineralised/ stripped water. You can get test meters to check for the salinity levels. Check your output each time before you dump it into your boats tanks or if theres a failure you might salt your remaining fresh water in the tanks. . It will say in the instructions but Its probably best to use it at least weekly or you may have to pickle it between uses after say 10 days?
Appreciate all that, Clive. Yes I think we need a PPM meter, although I do a taste test before going into the tanks with it. We currently run it every couple of days to keep the tanks topped up and the system clear, but yes you are right, you need to flush it if it's going to be left much longer, and pickled if it's not going to be used medium to longterm.
You had me at the intro and then you topped it off with the Flin and the Rainman. Congrats on the new essentials and the for the upload!! Good job! So you're saying you three consume only 140 liters per week?! May I ask then what you all use your water for and how much (liters or %) per activity? Top of my head I can think of following activities: shower/personal hygiene, dishes, washing clothes, drinking, cooking, hosing off after diving/beach visit,.....
No, we probably use more like 300 - 400 litres a week, I think, it really depends how cautious we're being with our water, and it's safe to say that this last week we've been somewhat more frivolous than usual with our water 😬😇
Hi guys I think it’s a better idea having a portable so you can chuck it away somewhere on your boat like you said if someone else is running short of water you can help them out and that is a wonderful thinking not stinking thinking helping other people out Cliff from Logan city Queensland Australia
We really love being able to just hand it over to someone else in need too, that’s a big part of the appeal to this system for us, as well as pumping out 140L/ hour which is really impressive ☺️🙏⛵️
Studland Bay, not seen it for 10 years since sailed out of our Poole home on our 49 jeanneau S/O. If you're foraging go ashore 1 hour before low water, look for thin strands of weed sticking out the sand, there's a big cockle on the end of ever one. Sand is too hard to scratch or rake for them. Enjoy.
No problem with the memory just yet. Find tsunami jet head popper lures 4 inch. While kettle boiling in the morning cast and fast retrieve half doz times you'll get bass to 5lb anchored under banks arms.
So far we’ve just been sprinkling in some Himalayan rock salt, but oddly no matter how thirsty I get, I don’t get cravings for this water, so perhaps it is lacking something that my is wanting?
Are you talking about the pre filter (the first filter on the system) or the RO main membranes? We have five additional pre filters that came with the system.
I counted about 1 oz/sec. ~0.5 gpm. When I was blue water sailing, 1/2 gpd per person was enough but that was cooler than the tropics. Thanks for the energy info ~1ah/liter. Put the 2 together and you get 50Wh of solar per day per person. Very little :-)
This really looks like a very cool technology. One question crosses my mind though: Is the watermaker a permanent solution or do you need to replace parts on a regular schedule? Are those parts available as some kind of industry standard or are they proprietary?
There’s pre filters which I think are standard industry parts, not sure on the actual membranes themselves but I’m told that with due care they should last 5+ years, and the other perishables are oil and an impeller for the pump, again low cost items you can always stock up on before you set off.
Ha ha, the thumbnail was us trying to show just how frivolous we can be in an anchorage with unlimited water, it came after we’d made the video and were both coming up with ideas to demonstrate what the total opposite of having to carefully ration water (whilst anchored) looked like 👌🏼😬
@@CadohaAdventures Your filming & editing, and overall storytelling skill was great. Informative & inspirational for peeps who love sailing channels like me. The issue here is the improper use or clickbait thumbnail. The nature of UA-cam requires awesome thumbnails, otherwise you won't get rhe views, and girls in bikinis are great clickbait. The ONLY issue here is you crossed the line by not including the clickbait thumbnail in any scene in your video. The smart move is to always include the thumbnail in the video, otherwise you'll piss people off. You work damn hard at producing great content so why jeopardize pissing people off by using improper clickbait. In other words, a great thumbnail needs to be great clickbait, just make sure that thumbnail is in the video from now on. This is just a suggestion, meant to help you continue to do great work. Keep those video coming.
Awesome info! I would put one of those apple trackers or some chip that will tell your cell phone where it is all the time!! ? You. Can move this easily aboard or off the boat too? * permanent magnet! Runs on electro magnetic?
@@CadohaAdventures Theives are using those apple tags in order to track shoppers to their home residences. As soon as you said you might lend it out, I thought of that tracker. I would be like you and probably lend it out too, especially helping out a family with children.. If you had to abandon or leave the boat in your time, the capability of taking significant systems with you is a purchase that keeps giving too! You may want to partner with those companies those products are game changers!
@@CadohaAdventures building large solar bank. 10Kw. been collecting batteries for whiie. 12 volt or 24 volt system? te only 12 volt ihave is bildge and a few lights.
may i ask a for your option on heaving tooin open ocean for a rest or over night on a long passage compared to anchoring as i see all the stress involved with will the anchor drag or not
I’ll be honest we’ve never done it ‘for real’ but it’s certainly something we plan to work on more this year, as I believe all boats react a bit differently to each other. Last year when I left Dartmouth in the dead of night to make it to Portland bill with a fair tide, in hindsight I would now leave with daylight still and maybe heave to in Lyme bay and then not have to dodge all those lobster pots in the dead of night upon leaving Dartmouth 🥺🥺
When you have too you'll still be moving so need a lot of water around you for a few hrs rest. In such a situation depth will often be too deep to anchor so the situation will typically be 1 or the other.
With the portable model that we have you flush it manually if you're not going to use it after a few days with 10L of the water you've made. If it's going to be longer then you need to use a pickling ingredient with the 10L of water.
We've been looking into that somewhat and as I understand it we should likely be able to get the minerals we need from our food, but we have also bought some Himalayan rock salt, which apparently a small sprinkling of can replace the minerals also?
@@CadohaAdventures Its all good. I think a water maker is freedom. I dont have one,but i cruise in indonesia and it rains 300 days a year. But i still want one for freedom sake.
Likes cleaning. Cleans bilges. What a find. Definitely a keeper. From personal experience, that is one shitty job to have to do. keep up the hard work. I think the expression is. 'You Rock'
Great video guys! Quite interested in the water maker and I like the fact it can be used or stored elsewhere... Hey Dom, Il do you a deal…Il do a Manikini 👙 Thumb if you do!? 🤙⛵️🦋
Ha ha, it’s not that I’m shy, I’m just not sure the market for a middling aged, pale, semi pregnant looking ginger man is as on fire right now as you’d like to think it should be 😬👨🦰
@@CadohaAdventures Yeah Gday. I really like your videos. I especially like them because you aren't in the "pimp my partner" brigade. (My other favs are Matt and Amy, and Mads and Ava) I can't stomach the way some UA-camrs seem to target the worst aspects of male sexism. I was glad to see the video didn't keep going down that road.
There is a better standard of power consumption, voltage x ah = watt hour (or kilowatt hour if there's a lot) so you used roughly 1100 wh, now somone with a 48v system can relate to your WH without trying to get all maths about it, so on a 48v system it would be something like 20ah ish... sorry if the explanation isn't great! When you see solar panels quoting kwh per day (av) or an appliance uses 10kwh per year, it all nicely ties in to one easy formula 😊 great video, another vote for the next thumb being fella in a bikini!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ahhh, thank you for taking the time to educate me on such things, I'm very much still a white belt when it comes at things of an electrical nature 🙏🏼☺️
But sailboats are almost always 12V and people count ah and amps as the basis of calculating energy balance. And more precisely, the volts of the system varies from 11.7-13.7 so amps are the best measurement. Stick with quoting amps and amp-hrs.
@@barbarianlife we debated if it should be me up on deck in my swimwear, but sadly the market for middling aged, pale, ginger men in Speedo’s isn’t exactly on fire right now 😬😔
It was a bit sad in the beginning where you said about the upgrades and “ let’s have a look now “ and you went to a pick of a girl in a hammik chair what was wrong with the old Kyle I quite liked her? Any way progress can’t be stopped but she will be missed. Cheers Aussie Mike
Been following from the beginning, love your stuff, but why are you posting your content with very attractive bum shots? your better than that. Fair winds, good luck.
Love your channel but not so keen on the thumb. Your film making is second to none along with your story telling but please don’t fall into the objectifying the female on boat
I promise to make a thumb nail of me in a bikini next time, in the name if inclusivity and equality and fingers crossed the algorithm Gods send as many viewers our way 🤞🏼☺️ Appreciate the feedback though, thanks for taking the time 👍🏻
@@CadohaAdventures maybe even hank taking a shower would get you a better algorithm. I guess my point was and I didn’t mean to offend you , but you don’t need to go down the boobs on a boat to be a successful channel. Peace be with you
@@CadohaAdventures Don't listen, sailing doodles has an average of 500k views per episode one had over 1.5 million views ua-cam.com/video/riVYRSAnyQ4/v-deo.html (you do the maths) his boat is worth over 250k most of it paid for from views. I thought the thumbnail of Carly was beautiful something you should celebrate. I'm not so sure about Dom in a bikini but who am I to judge. John 8:7
I don’t know, I noticed this video because of the thumbnail, then watched and subscribed. 😂 Solar and water maker are on our list, so thanks for the info.
@@CadohaAdventures I fully support you showcasing products you use so that you can do all the "sailing, navigation & passage planning" that I am sure you wish to do as well. The realities of your style of life is that you need the support of companies on top of your patrons to continue making fantastic videos for all us armchair sailors. :)
Sorry Ian, but lots of us.. for instance, those building/buying/restoring/upgrading our own boats, actually *like* to learn about boat gear that may not have crossed our radar otherwise.
“You will have Something, and you will be Happy! 🤗. (free of WEF meddling). 👍
Really love the idea of that Rainman - very much because it's portable. The thing about boat upgrades is that you never get back what you invest if you come to sell, so being able to take it with you to a new boat definitely makes sense.
When it comes to being able to easily take it with you, that’s such a valuable aspect to my mind, for a whole host of different reasons, especially if you want to take it easily to your next boat too 👌🏼⛵️
Hank gives his approval!
I have never seen Hank so excited to drink water as he seems to be to drink the RO water? It must taste amazing to him 😆
That intro was awesome! You truly have a story telling gift;
it’s so enjoying to watch! Thank you
Great video. You seem extremely happy. It's infectious.
I lived and sailed the Dorset Hampshire coast for all my youth. I live in Canada now so look forward to your postings. Total memory lane. Love your footage and presentation style. Hank cracks me up. THE most precious pooch on the internet!!
He is indeed a bit of a diva. Well I certainly hope we’re doing justice to your old cruising grounds and how you remember them ☺️🙏⛵️
that opening is pretty epic.. reminds me of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies.
I do sometimes get a bit carried away when the weather and setting are so stunning ☺️
I love this channel I don't need click bait in the picture. Don't belittle the skipper with this type of picture. You don't need it
Appreciate the feedback, Geoff, although this is what Carly wears both on deck when it’s sunny and on the beach, in public 😳😳
The official Hank Seal of Approval.
I think he loves this water more than any other water he’s ever drank, although I have also seen him very enthusiastically drink from a muddy puddle on a walk, so I’m not sure how high the bar is exactly set either? 🧐🤣
Nice toys and useful.
I look forward to your efforts and Hank's a star. See you on the next clip.
See you on the next one indeed ☺️👌🏼
Brilliant guys. Well done. The more I watch the closer I am to adopting this life when I retire in 6 years time
Glad you’re enjoying the journey and we’ll keep sharing the ups and downs with everyone 🙏☺️
i'm french and i love your channel
No way!!! I thought i was the only one with the idea of putting my solar panels on the mast. But I'm gonna use some of my 3d printing... Well... Talents to accomplish this mission. 😁
Great minds must clearly think alike then 👌🏼☺️⛵️
Haha, had to smile at you guys micro sipping the glass of water. Fair winds!
Ha ha, it just seems so strange to be drinking sea water, even though we've seen it done so many times already 😆
As a non sailor I love seeing all the different things you do to the boat and wow having a shower on your deck on your boat in the ocean - pure luxury! And if Hank gives his seal of approval the water must be good! Also interesting to hear about the Flin solar panels.
Yeah Flin solar keep coming up with lots of neat ways to harvest more solar from even the smallest of boats. I love how out of the box they are with their inventions.
A very pleasant surprise, as of 1630 on Friday 29.06.22! We sailed our Moody 37 named Horizon out of Poole harbour to Studland Bay on her maiden voyage! A shake down sail in 25 knots of wind, and who do we see a couple of buoys down from us......Cadoha! This is surreal to be in the same bay, we love your channel!
Hey Jess, yes that’s us. How did your shake down sail go? My it has been windy the past couple of weeks!
@@CadohaAdventures It went brilliantly! Enough of a breeze to put her on her side and to test our nerves and rigging. No breakages, no hickups, and feeling a little pleased with ourselves! Heading home tomorrow though :(. Whilst you have certainly been an inspiration of ours in buying and fixing up this boat, our great adventure is still a couple of years away yet ;).
@@jessmarais5929 well I hope it’s packed full of as much colour and enjoyment as ours has been! Best of luck to you on your adventures and keep us posted of how it goes 👌🏼
Youre content is a must for all want to be cruisers. Excellent content guys.
Glad you enjoyed the video, appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts 🙏☺️
Awesome bits of kit, both the rain man and the flin! Great reviews of both.
Couldn't agree more! We're feeling very lucky to have these great bits of kit. ☺️
Your dog is hilarious. He knows its a game. His tail wagging after he drank ....
Hank is the cherry on the cake for life on the boat, he forces us to go out walking and exploring the coastline to the Max 🙏☺️
I absolutely love your choice of a portable water maker ! 😊👍
We're really enjoying it too ☺️
Arrr…I have being banging on about this for ages to my husband, no bad reviews or anything, I have LOOKED ! I was skeptical ……Thank you for a real go at it.
Still considering…..👍🇦🇺🇳🇿
Is that the water maker or the solar you’re referring to?
The water maker, I love the whole concept of being portable too.
Great upgrades guys, the solar is a very interesting idea I have not seen before. Look forward to seeing some of the golden nuggets that the South Coast has to offer. Andy UK
The guys and girls at Flin solar do keep coming up with very novel ways to squeeze just a bit more juice out of a sailing boat when it comes to solar production. Glad you enjoyed the video 🙏⛵️
Love that intro! Great episode, thanks 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it 🙏☺️
Fantastic!! I love those solar panel sails and the way you can tilt them. And now a watermarked, that's amazing, you three are really going self sufficient. I love the way you make videos so interesting, keep it up and thanks again!
Glad you enjoyed it and we are beyond excited to be lucky enough to have these amazing upgrades. Feeling blessed 🙏☺️
Well done guys on well worth upgrades and great long term investments. Yes the world is in a bit of a mess so no better time to unplug yourself from the matrix and enjoy life the best way you can without the shackles. All the best and looking forward to your ongoing adventures for the year. 🙏🏻❤️
It’s felt like a huge weight has been taken off of our shoulders and we’re feeling super lucky to have these amazing additions to the boat 🙏😬⛵️
Nice James Bond themed opening soundtrack. :D
Love the new upgrades! Will check them out for our boat as well!
Glad you enjoyed the video ☺️🙏
I was wondering when you were going to show the water maker 😃, oh and it’s a very slippery slope teaching Hank to drink out of a wine glass. 🤣🤣🍻🥂
I mean he is already a massive Diva, I think the slope has been fully greased for a while now 🤣
Well, I wasn’t expecting to see Carly walking through town today! Didn’t want to intrude at the time, beyond a quick hello,, but just wanted to say I binge watched you guys whilst I had Covid in April, love the channel and always pleased to see a new episode come out. All the best and look forward to seeing your adventures this summer.
Ahh awesome, she mentioned you as soon as she got back from shopping, as it happens, she was just spending some girly time with her future mother in-law 😬🍹
Always happy to hear that the videos helped pass some Covid down time and I hope there were no long lasting effects ☺️🙏
The hammaic at the front area of your boat is nearly magically. That is, once you see down in it, you magically never want to get out again. The solar panel going up your mask is near brilliant. The only thing better would be if you could make all you sails solar powered. Stay groovy and stay safe.
I’m sure full solar sails are very possible, but as with anything marine, the big question is at what cost?! 🥺🥺😬
thank you for the vids and the time you give to us you are a inspiration
It's our pleasure, Joe. Thanks for taking the time to hang out with us for ten minutes 🙏🏼⛵️☺️
Thamk you!
It’s our pleasure 🙏☺️
Great intro guys
Glad you enjoyed it, Judy 🙏☺️
Super Bond-esque intro! I came across your channel from your "5 reasons not to live aboard" episode, and really enjoy seeing how you make it work for you. I also suppose there is also a balance to be had between being self sufficient and not feeling isolated, as sometimes those little side quests in life can lead to good experiences.
I think you’re right. It’s nice to feel like you can fend for yourself, if you have to, but, it’s also lovely to meet new people are you move around ☺️🙏
Great vid! Can you make a video describing your fishing setup and tactics?
Yes I can, although if you really want to dial in your fishing skills along this coastline then I highly recommend the channel 'The Fish Locker', made by my friend John Locker: ua-cam.com/users/TheFishLocker
If you are heading west it would be good to see a film of you folks sailing up the exe to turf lock and the other west country rivers great film thanks I did say hi a few months ago up the itchen
Love the new solar! FYI, keep your Rainman close to your Ditchbag at all times so if you have to leave by raft you will have a water supply with you.
We’d need to take a serious amount of battery power with us too, as it’s very energy hungry! 😳
@@CadohaAdventures portable flexible solar panel you can roll up - there's bound to be a way
@@Bantie1 it’s a 240v system, so as well as huge amounts of power, you’d also need a very powerful inverter too, capable of continuously running at 2000w.
I’m not sure this system is really cut out for the ditch bag, but have seen some small hand held ones that may be 👌🏼
There are manual pump RO water. Sometimes military surplus.
I subscribe to several sailing channels and been following you guys since the start. Can't wait to see more vids of our lovely coastline. I'm also looking forward to seeing you venture out to other countries and their cultures. :)
We can’t wait for all the adventures still left to be discovered 🙏☺️⛵️
6 seconds in and I MUST comment on the beautiful thumbnail for this video! What magnificent furling of those sails, and the sea has such a great colour and ripple; all very artistic. Carly kinda gets in the way but you can't have everything. Stunning
It is indeed a lovely anchorage. 👌🏼
Time to sail around the world:)
We have a little more to do here first before we set off, off, but Cadoha and her systems are certainly getting close to being 'go anywhere' 🤞🏼🙏🏼⛵️
Regarding power have you thought of a wind generator, works at night.
Thought about it, but we spend most of our time in anchorages that protect us from the wind and no one has any solid data on exactly how much these things produce power-wise, living the way we do on a boat.
In the end it seems that just adding more solar equates to more bang for your buck over the season, by a long way.
We bought the same one last yeah, we found it uses a lot of power when filling more than one tank - we have 3 tanks.
Fill one tank and let the batteries recharge before filling the next.
Batteries recharge faster if they are not discharged too much.
Don't forget to run a bucket of filtered water through to clear out salt water from the system before storing.
The water is great and the system is so easy and reliable.
So far we’re using it every couple of days to keep the tanks topped up, so not needed to flush it yet. It does use a lot of power but so far the solar is keeping pace 🙏☺️
Nice additions to your lifestyle...
Next step would be actual solar sails...
We've just taken the plunge and bought a 1975 Westerly Berwick (that's been heavily updated - new mast, boom, engine, sails, rig, nav gear, autopilot) so maybe we'll see you out there next year (my wife's starting from scratch so a lot to learn - she's already studying for her day skipper)...our dream is the isles of Scilly, but the Bristol channel has a LOT of challenges to overcome first: once we can sail here, the World is our oyster 🌎⛵.
Sounds awesome. Fingers crossed we cross paths out there on the water, the Isles of Scilly are certainly worth getting to 🙏☺️⛵️
Awesome vid guys! Filming/editing quality is spectacular 👌 Some brilliant upgrades there, never seen those solar panels before but that's genius. You'll have to let us know how you get on with them! Much love x
We’ll be sure to keep you posted on how they do in all the varying weather. They’ve spent the last week holding up quite well to the wind, so they’re pretty tough for flexible panels 🙏
Hope the Med is treating you both well 👌🏼
How is the flinsail holding up after 2 years? Still happy with it? Is it practical to deploy in most situations?
It still works fine and is a great addition to our power systems. For me it's a great final piece of the puzzle, after you've maxed out everywhere else you can put panels. For example we had 400w in folding deployable panels that we just threw on the deck when at anchor and even with the various shading that happens throughout the day from stays etc, it puts in more power than the Flin solar did, and it's a 1/3 of the price and folds up into a comparable sized package for stowage.
Again we're happy to have it, especially since we've already maxed out most other options for power generation on board.
Its would be good if there was a further add on kit to the water maker, to convert sea water into beer !!
We'll be sure to pass the feedback on to Rainman! 😍
Well done for getting off the grid, and becoming completely self-sufficient!
Maybe consider re-mineralising the water, as I've heard that drinking pure RO water on a long term basis isn't too good for your health.
Thanks, Trevor, we've been looking into this ourselves recently and have just bought some Himalayan rock salt which apparently just a small sprinkling off can 're-mineralise' the water?
@@CadohaAdventures Excellent! Glad you've already looked into this as it was just something I'd heard (I'm not an expert)
Happy Sailing! :)
If the unit does not have mineral media after the RO membrane, you may wish to consider re-mineralising the water, especially if this will be your source for months on end. When researching it for a home unit, I found it wasn't recommend drinking totally pure water for long periods of time (occasional use no issue)
As far as we're aware, we should get plenty of the minerals we need from our diets, but we have also bought some Himalayan rock salt which apparently in small amounts does in fact 're-mineralise' the water 🙏🏼☺️
Your videos and editing just get better and better. Great episode, loving the new gadgets too.
Thanks, David, glad you enjoyed it ☺️🙏⛵️
@@CadohaAdventures That picture of Cadoha as the sun comes up is absolutely stunning.
Great water transformer. I am working on a new gadget that turns sea water into gin and tonic...will send you a prototype ASAP😉 Beautiful opening sequence shots👍
We’ll be first in line to test out said transformer 😬🙏😇
I will be second please!
its worth getting a TDS meter to test the output of the watermaker, you can then see when the membranes are deteriorating.
That’s a great point 👌🏼☺️
Well done guys solar sails and the rainman portable water makers.. 👍🏼😎⛵
The water is is totally de mineralised..so its like pure rain water.. if you have a drinking water tap fit a mineralisation output filter to it to improve the health value... hard water has better health properties long term ...this is soft water like rain water so lacks any healthy dissolved minerals that give water its taste and protect your body... as live aboards you may get more of a benefit long term compared to demineralised/ stripped water.
You can get test meters to check for the salinity levels.
Check your output each time before you dump it into your boats tanks or if theres a failure you might salt your remaining fresh water in the tanks. .
It will say in the instructions but
Its probably best to use it at least weekly or you may have to pickle it between uses after say 10 days?
Appreciate all that, Clive. Yes I think we need a PPM meter, although I do a taste test before going into the tanks with it. We currently run it every couple of days to keep the tanks topped up and the system clear, but yes you are right, you need to flush it if it's going to be left much longer, and pickled if it's not going to be used medium to longterm.
@@CadohaAdventures
😉⛵ .... Your probably on you way so good winds and safe ways.🤞🏼🧙♂️
You had me at the intro and then you topped it off with the Flin and the Rainman. Congrats on the new essentials and the for the upload!! Good job!
So you're saying you three consume only 140 liters per week?! May I ask then what you all use your water for and how much (liters or %) per activity? Top of my head I can think of following activities: shower/personal hygiene, dishes, washing clothes, drinking, cooking, hosing off after diving/beach visit,.....
No, we probably use more like 300 - 400 litres a week, I think, it really depends how cautious we're being with our water, and it's safe to say that this last week we've been somewhat more frivolous than usual with our water 😬😇
How proud are you of that 👙 thumbnail
I’m proud of Carly for many reasons, creating great thumbnails is just one of them 👌🏼☺️
Hi guys I think it’s a better idea having a portable so you can chuck it away somewhere on your boat like you said if someone else is running short of water you can help them out and that is a wonderful thinking not stinking thinking helping other people out Cliff from Logan city Queensland Australia
We really love being able to just hand it over to someone else in need too, that’s a big part of the appeal to this system for us, as well as pumping out 140L/ hour which is really impressive ☺️🙏⛵️
Studland Bay, not seen it for 10 years since sailed out of our Poole home on our 49 jeanneau S/O. If you're foraging go ashore 1 hour before low water, look for thin strands of weed sticking out the sand, there's a big cockle on the end of ever one. Sand is too hard to scratch or rake for them. Enjoy.
Well I hope the video does justice to how you remember your old cruising ground 🙏⛵️
No problem with the memory just yet. Find tsunami jet head popper lures 4 inch. While kettle boiling in the morning cast and fast retrieve half doz times you'll get bass to 5lb anchored under banks arms.
Speak to Rainman abut adding a mineral cartridge. Its not good to drink RO water for extended periods and it will also help witj the lack of flavor
So far we’ve just been sprinkling in some Himalayan rock salt, but oddly no matter how thirsty I get, I don’t get cravings for this water, so perhaps it is lacking something that my is wanting?
Interesting do you ever actually get 300w from the 300w panel or array alone ?
Hope you got a supply of filter cartridges. Thiis is the only downfall and costly part. Never mind rhe energy use .
Are you talking about the pre filter (the first filter on the system) or the RO main membranes? We have five additional pre filters that came with the system.
So for the solar panels to work you basically need to have a northerly or southerly wind blowing when at anchor?
Or tide, depending on where you’re anchored, much the same as the winged panels on the guard rails.
Bedankt
Bonza 🐟
I counted about 1 oz/sec. ~0.5 gpm.
When I was blue water sailing, 1/2 gpd per person was enough but that was cooler than the tropics.
Thanks for the energy info ~1ah/liter.
Put the 2 together and you get 50Wh of solar per day per person. Very little :-)
This really looks like a very cool technology. One question crosses my mind though: Is the watermaker a permanent solution or do you need to replace parts on a regular schedule? Are those parts available as some kind of industry standard or are they proprietary?
There’s pre filters which I think are standard industry parts, not sure on the actual membranes themselves but I’m told that with due care they should last 5+ years, and the other perishables are oil and an impeller for the pump, again low cost items you can always stock up on before you set off.
@@CadohaAdventures Thanks for replying!
If Hank drinks the water, then it's ok.
Ha ha, I want to agree with you, really I do, but I've also witnessed some of the puddles he's happy to drink out of 🤢😂
I enjoyed watching you taste the newly made fresh water, but tell me why I never saw anyone taking a shower like in the thumbnail ???
Ha ha, the thumbnail was us trying to show just how frivolous we can be in an anchorage with unlimited water, it came after we’d made the video and were both coming up with ideas to demonstrate what the total opposite of having to carefully ration water (whilst anchored) looked like 👌🏼😬
@@CadohaAdventures Your filming & editing, and overall storytelling skill was great. Informative & inspirational for peeps who love sailing channels like me. The issue here is the improper use or clickbait thumbnail. The nature of UA-cam requires awesome thumbnails, otherwise you won't get rhe views, and girls in bikinis are great clickbait. The ONLY issue here is you crossed the line by not including the clickbait thumbnail in any scene in your video. The smart move is to always include the thumbnail in the video, otherwise you'll piss people off. You work damn hard at producing great content so why jeopardize pissing people off by using improper clickbait. In other words, a great thumbnail needs to be great clickbait, just make sure that thumbnail is in the video from now on. This is just a suggestion, meant to help you continue to do great work. Keep those video coming.
@@DavidHaney1 fair, appreciate the feedback 🙏
Awesome info! I would put one of those apple trackers or some chip that will tell your cell phone where it is all the time!! ? You. Can move this easily aboard or off the boat too?
* permanent magnet! Runs on electro magnetic?
Appreciate that, will have a look into them 👌🏼
@@CadohaAdventures Theives are using those apple tags in order to track shoppers to their home residences.
As soon as you said you might lend it out, I thought of that tracker. I would be like you and probably lend it out too, especially helping out a family with children..
If you had to abandon or leave the boat in your time, the capability of taking significant systems with you is a purchase that keeps giving too! You may want to partner with those companies those products are game changers!
New sub here just bought a 34 foot sailboat
Congratulations, Glenn. Here's to many adventures for you to come 🙏🏼⛵️
@@CadohaAdventures Thanx boat is by cocoa beach fl. been working on it to bring it home to Brunswck GA.
@@CadohaAdventures building large solar bank. 10Kw. been collecting batteries for whiie. 12 volt or 24 volt system? te only 12 volt ihave is bildge and a few lights.
@@glennsepelak5113 I’m no expert to be honest, we have a 12v system ourselves, but we also have the gigantic wiring to go with it too.
@@CadohaAdventures Thank you, I will let you know what I do
Excellent intro to this video getting very dramatic!
I can't help it, this coastline on a perfect morning just triggers the inner James Bond wannabe, man-child in me 😁🇬🇧
👌👌👌
may i ask a for your option on heaving tooin open ocean for a rest or over night on a long passage compared to anchoring as i see all the stress involved with will the anchor drag or not
I’ll be honest we’ve never done it ‘for real’ but it’s certainly something we plan to work on more this year, as I believe all boats react a bit differently to each other.
Last year when I left Dartmouth in the dead of night to make it to Portland bill with a fair tide, in hindsight I would now leave with daylight still and maybe heave to in Lyme bay and then not have to dodge all those lobster pots in the dead of night upon leaving Dartmouth 🥺🥺
@@CadohaAdventures thank you for your honesty looking fwd to you videos on hauling too
When you have too you'll still be moving so need a lot of water around you for a few hrs rest. In such a situation depth will often be too deep to anchor so the situation will typically be 1 or the other.
How do you flush this one ?
With the portable model that we have you flush it manually if you're not going to use it after a few days with 10L of the water you've made. If it's going to be longer then you need to use a pickling ingredient with the 10L of water.
get some minerals to add back and it'll taste better than tap
We've been looking into that somewhat and as I understand it we should likely be able to get the minerals we need from our food, but we have also bought some Himalayan rock salt, which apparently a small sprinkling of can replace the minerals also?
My only advice is 38 feet is not big enough for all that great gear
Not big enough for a water maker, or are you referring to some of the other bits we’ve fitted over the years?
@@CadohaAdventures Its all good. I think a water maker is freedom. I dont have one,but i cruise in indonesia and it rains 300 days a year. But i still want one for freedom sake.
Likes cleaning. Cleans bilges. What a find. Definitely a keeper. From personal experience, that is one shitty job to have to do.
keep up the hard work. I think the expression is. 'You Rock'
☺️☺️🙏
Great video guys! Quite interested in the water maker and I like the fact it can be used or stored elsewhere... Hey Dom, Il do you a deal…Il do a Manikini 👙 Thumb if you do!? 🤙⛵️🦋
Ha ha, it’s not that I’m shy, I’m just not sure the market for a middling aged, pale, semi pregnant looking ginger man is as on fire right now as you’d like to think it should be 😬👨🦰
@@CadohaAdventures 🤣
Give it to the dog, he will test it with the nose.
I would be with you, except I’ve seen some of the things that Hank is happy to put in his mouth when he’s out on his walk. 🤢🥺
I believe that the thumbnail should come from the same video that it represents. Just saying.
It's Carly being frivolous with our water supply at anchor, because we have a water maker. This is where we were anchored when we made the video too 😇
@@CadohaAdventures Yeah Gday. I really like your videos. I especially like them because you aren't in the "pimp my partner" brigade. (My other favs are Matt and Amy, and Mads and Ava) I can't stomach the way some UA-camrs seem to target the worst aspects of male sexism. I was glad to see the video didn't keep going down that road.
Probably better quality water than the fluoride toxic yuck that comes out of our taps at home.....smells dreadful too
I do love the fact that I can’t taste chlorine 👌🏼☺️
There is a better standard of power consumption, voltage x ah = watt hour (or kilowatt hour if there's a lot) so you used roughly 1100 wh, now somone with a 48v system can relate to your WH without trying to get all maths about it, so on a 48v system it would be something like 20ah ish... sorry if the explanation isn't great! When you see solar panels quoting kwh per day (av) or an appliance uses 10kwh per year, it all nicely ties in to one easy formula 😊 great video, another vote for the next thumb being fella in a bikini!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ahhh, thank you for taking the time to educate me on such things, I'm very much still a white belt when it comes at things of an electrical nature 🙏🏼☺️
@@CadohaAdventures no worries! Life’s about learning right 🤟
@@allornothing7957 Amen to that, every day is indeed a school day 🙏🏼☺
But sailboats are almost always 12V and people count ah and amps as the basis of calculating energy balance. And more precisely, the volts of the system varies from 11.7-13.7 so amps are the best measurement. Stick with quoting amps and amp-hrs.
Most of the time I see a water maker installed, its the women who try the water first. They are obviously tougher then men lol.
No argument there< that's why Carly is the Captain 😁
Lets face it in matters of taste etc. the opinion of the bloke is pretty much immaterial, the lady of the boat is going to have the final say :-)!
@@tomriley5790 she’s the boss! 💪🏽⛵️
You do great video's and don't need to resort to pimping out the Mrs with thumbnails just to try and get more hits. You're better than that.
Appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts 🙏☺️
@@CadohaAdventures Ha ha. She has the figure for it. Good for you both. Happy sailing!
@@barbarianlife we debated if it should be me up on deck in my swimwear, but sadly the market for middling aged, pale, ginger men in Speedo’s isn’t exactly on fire right now 😬😔
Lol
Carly is the reason why I subscribe! I wish I knew her! ;)
♥️♥️🥰🥰
🙏🙏☺️⛵️
It was a bit sad in the beginning where you said about the upgrades and “ let’s have a look now “ and you went to a pick of a girl in a hammik chair what was wrong with the old Kyle I quite liked her? Any way progress can’t be stopped but she will be missed. Cheers Aussie Mike
It's still the same Carly, she's just a bit more relaxed in the warmer months, ha ha.
Hope things are all good, down under 🙏🏼☺️
@@CadohaAdventures sorry Carly bloody spell checker happy to hear that
@@mikebatterham4970 she’s still not come to her senses yet and is sticking with me 🙏☺️
@@CadohaAdventures ok let me no if that changes and she wants to come and chase some kangaroos with me
Ps love your videos
This comment, Below, was posted on the 'Ship Happens' Site. Nothing to do with this one.
Been following from the beginning, love your stuff, but why are you posting your content with very attractive bum shots? your better than that. Fair winds, good luck.
Appreciate the feedback 👌🏼⛵️
Fun Fact: Unlike humans, who can only taste dissolved minerals in the water, Dogs have taste receptors for actual water.
So that's why it literally tasted like 'wet nothingness' to me, I wasn't just imagining that? Hank on the other hand seemed to love it!
I never did see her toss the net, bummer.
Talk about theatrical intros....!
I can't help it, Nick, this coastline on a perfect morning just brings out the inner James Bond wannabe, man-child in me 😆
@@CadohaAdventures 😆
I loved it!
Love your channel but not so keen on the thumb. Your film making is second to none along with your story telling but please don’t fall into the objectifying the female on boat
I promise to make a thumb nail of me in a bikini next time, in the name if inclusivity and equality and fingers crossed the algorithm Gods send as many viewers our way 🤞🏼☺️
Appreciate the feedback though, thanks for taking the time 👍🏻
@@CadohaAdventures maybe even hank taking a shower would get you a better algorithm. I guess my point was and I didn’t mean to offend you , but you don’t need to go down the boobs on a boat to be a successful channel. Peace be with you
Agreed, click bait cheapens a great channel.
@@CadohaAdventures Don't listen, sailing doodles has an average of 500k views per episode one had over 1.5 million views ua-cam.com/video/riVYRSAnyQ4/v-deo.html (you do the maths) his boat is worth over 250k most of it paid for from views. I thought the thumbnail of Carly was beautiful something you should celebrate. I'm not so sure about Dom in a bikini but who am I to judge. John 8:7
@@CadohaAdventures I think everyone should comment under this, we want to see him in a bikini 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Please avoid the click bait as you are better than that!
Noted, thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts 🙏
I don’t know, I noticed this video because of the thumbnail, then watched and subscribed. 😂 Solar and water maker are on our list, so thanks for the info.
I'm fine with it. Would rather see a Carly thumbnail than a Hank thumbnail! 😁
It could have been Dom in his swim wear. But in general I totally agree. Still a brilliant channel👍👍🙏
I want to see sailing, navigation & passage planning, not a 15 minute commercial
Noted 👌🏼
It is free content. I think they get to make whatever they wish.
@@CadohaAdventures I fully support you showcasing products you use so that you can do all the "sailing, navigation & passage planning" that I am sure you wish to do as well.
The realities of your style of life is that you need the support of companies on top of your patrons to continue making fantastic videos for all us armchair sailors. :)
Sorry Ian, but lots of us.. for instance, those building/buying/restoring/upgrading our own boats, actually *like* to learn about boat gear that may not have crossed our radar otherwise.
Ian should go to a sailing, navigation and passage planning channel. I think you guys have got the balance right.
This isn't a budget boat
I guess that term is relative.