Which Tip was most valuable for you in this video? Please be sure to SUBSCRIBE or like if you enjoyed this video...and share it with your sailing friends too!
Hi Rebecca, I like the repair videos the most. Gluing sails, applying copper coat, fixing the heat exchanger and exhaust elbow, hull and blister repair. Also the Indian Ocean series was so informative about how to sail in those conditions so if I do get there someday your videos will be adding to my ability. Truely I do miss Patrick and I hope you are well and continuing onward. Live long and prosper. Joshua
Thanks Joshua. Glad to hear you are still watching. I’m no Patrick with the technical videos...so it will be more of a mix now ;) The next one is a bit technical though ;)
That cumulus nimbus at 8:50 looked like the head of Poseidon! I agree with you Patrick. It is sad to see people in America complain about how poor they are and they have no idea what real poverty is when you compare it to many places that exist around the world. The good news is that many of them are honest folk whom want to make an honest living to provide for themselves and their families. Desperation can lead to the criminal side of the poor countries. Fair Winds Patrick and Rebecca,
A excellent veiw! Nicely done! lol burping diesel & diesel breath yeah! that was sure funny! We sure Appreciate this channel & hope all is well Rebecca 🙂✌ Luv&Peace Sean&family
The best internet satellite, coming from Alon Musk, starling , soon you able to send live pictures and videos the end of 2022 and biggining 2023 , my plan to sail around the world ⛵ 🌎 in 2023 .That time will be covering the world 🌎 in details. This days technology developing very fast . Thanks for sharing Patrick video , super awesome. ⛵ I wish you a fair winds and following seas.
We have a dedicated Halo, Redport, wifi booster antenna for onshore wifi. Most often we use the cell phone as a hotspot. The electronics is Rebecca,s forte. Since she is now gaining an interest in these videos, there is a good chance she will make that video. In the mean time, here is a link to more info: whereisbrickhouse.com/2017/08/24/i-thought-public-wifi-was-a-thing-of-the-past-ancient-history/
Hi Mark, The passage to Chagos was extremely difficult due to contrary wind and contrary current. The current was especially strong for a wide swath above and below the equator. We never did get the westing we wanted. 1,100 miles took 15 days. Chagos is 110 miles north of Diego Garcia, the U.S. forward operating base, so security in the area is tight. Here in Rodrigues, the internet gets the award for being the slowest in the world. It took 15 hours to upload this simple video….then I realized at the end “Suscribe” was spelled wrong! I couldn’t spend another 15 hours fixing that! In Chagos I put together 3 videos called “Surviving The Atoll”….if anyone ever gets marooned and needs to live off the land…but first, there is one other passage video to put up. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for watching! In a couple weeks I will be able to post my favorite videos about surviving on a coral atoll...fresh water, coconuts and coconut crabs, 3 separate videos...but first I have to put part 2 of the very difficult passage to get to Chagos.
I was fascinated with your eyewitness weather forecasting. I remember trying to use Alan Watt's book Instant Weather Forecasting, but found the whole thing rather tricky. I'm curious how you judge how much wind is in a squall--I've been fooled several times, both with reefing down and virtually nothing happening, and again with a squall that didn't look like much and packing over 40 knots. Look which way the anvil top is bent for direction--didn't know that, thanks! Fair winds on your passage ... Kevin Boothby
Thanks for the comment. Spend enough time in the tropics and you run through plenty of, intense and not so intense, localized weather. Black lines of weather near the water are big trouble. In that black wall pictured in the towering Q, winds can easily be 40-50 knots. In the smaller localized weather, 25-35 knots is common. Without the black line but having gradients of gray easing into the squall the severity is not so bad, but I have been fooled at times. Having studied aviation weather helps. The large, dangerous, towering Qs will have an anvil top but the smaller localized systems may not show an anvil top. The other day I had out Instant Weather Forecasting as I wanted to compare its forecast of larger weather systems with our Predict Wind coupled with the satellite communication of Iridium Go! for downloading. As often happens, the clouds in my sky were not pictured in the book….
You have a rare consciousness that the world is not our Disney. There can be purpose in life beyond pleasure seeking, which is what most sailing channels offer.
Hello Patrick, We are in Oregon. Our home port, at least for now, is in Charleston Oregon, near Coos Bay. You are headed to the Atlantic? We have a history related voyage planned across the South Pacific. I hope we meet up someday.
20th Century...My father did some of that Island Hoping with MacArthur and i intend to follow his route...landing, then and now...I have tons of Old archival stuff to weave in...all completely from the human perspective of all involved...not at all a celebration of the old victory. I am in touch with some Japanese veterans groups as well ( Very few left) and their sons. The boomer sons of WWII vets took a long time as one would expect, to realize the impact all of this has had on their lives...Some of the stories are INCREDIBLE...Of course, there is no history without context, and the hundred years or so before WWII is especially relevant.
Hi Pat, thanks for making these videos. Can you make one video on bad weather sailing? Maybe how you set your boat up to heave-to. What do you do when you're caught in a squall? Do you heave-to? Do you use a drogue or sea anchor? If yes, did you make your own? Do you have a storm sail? Or do you just reef in your jib? Some actual footage of you dealing with a squall will be interesting. :-)
Ed, That is a good idea. Till recently, I never had the cameras or video know how to document rough weather. We just arrived in Tanzania, Africa, on the east coast. In about a year, we will be rounding the south of Africa. Maybe we can find some challenging weather there.Actually, we rarely get into anything more than 25 knots. Even 30 knots of wind is no problem as long as we don’t have to head into it. Then it is just uncomfortable. I have been in extreme weather between New England and the Caribbean and also in the Indian Ocean, south of Madagascar. In those conditions I never hove-to as actively sailing seemed the best strategy. Only time we have hove-to was simply to hold station in pleasant weather till the sun came up. A lot of the strategy depends on so many factors, the boat, crew, shape of the waves, direction of desired travel…… With our cutter rig, the staysail is our storm jib. It is amazing how much lift that little sail can give in 40 knots of wind off the beam or close hauled. Rolling in the big jib really kills its aerodynamics so in anticipation of high wind areas, we put on the 90% and use the 120% in anticipated lighter wind areas. Only once was the wind so high we were moving directly down wind under bare poles at 9 knots did I start to consider using a drogue to slow us down....but the Monitor self steering vane was doing a good job steering and the conditions did not get worse so we had a good run for that part of the passage. I will keep the cameras ready!
That can be a long story as there is the raunchy one and the children's version. But the shortest version, which bypasses some of the raunch is.... I used to fix rotten houses, do remodel work and a lot of carpentry around Newport, Rhode Island. When Rebecca moved there she gave up computers to become a very good real estate agent. We teamed up and started flipping houses. We were in at just the right cycle. Buying a junker, fixing it up and selling it in about 4 weeks. When the housing boom turned, we were ready to leave to go sailing. Then there is the song by the Commodores called "Brick House" which had us dancing around the hotel room after drinking too many Black Russians while skiing at Killington, Vt....ahhh, the good old days of raunch and wild fun.
Another good video, Patrick. I have a question about Brick House. Is it a Uniflyte boat? Any blister issues in the years of ownership by Rebecca - or previously? l am interested in hearing your thoughts and experience dealing with blister issues. Thanks.
Randall, Brick House is a blister boat. From the water line down, before I got involved, Rebecca had that area peeled and fiberglassed. From the water line up, I did some blister treatment the two times we painted the topsides, but I did not go crazy and do all the blisters as there were far too many. Some of those topside blisters returned but it really seems the recurrence has greatly slowed. Below the waterline, I can see some of those blisters have bubbled up again. Is this a problem to worry about; I really don't know. We are going on 12 years on this trip and I am not aware of any major problem because of the blisters. Sometime in the next year, I want to haul out in S. Africa for as many months as it takes to grind out all the blisters from the toerail down and do a proper rebuilding job. We have no plans to ever end this life style so I want to make sure this boat can deal with any sailing conditions we might encounter. We are running out of places to go on this boat....but Uruguay and Magellan Straights are looking enticing to me but Rebecca does not like the cold weather....we will see.
@@RVLifeNOW Your comittment to living aboard and actually cruising is an inspiration to all of us yet to cast off without a return date. It is great to hear that the blisters are only cosmetic. I recently did a bottom job on my boat and had to research the subject. FWIW - David Pascoe, a brilliant 'forensic boat surveyor', who unfortunately just passed away, has written extensively over the years about blisters, their repair, recurrence, cause and effect on his website yachtsurvey dot com. Mads Dahlke, over on 'Sail Life' youtube channel did an extensive blister repair job on his boat, and it is well-documented on his channel. What is interesting is he went beyond grinding and used a silicone heating mat and vacuum pump setup going section by section to dry out the hull and catalyze the uncatalyzed resin that is believed to be the cause ( though with Uniflyte, I understand it is the fire retardant they used - which may have prevented catalyzation). I am sure you and others know much more about this than I do, however having completed a hull strip, penetrating epoxy, epoxy, and bottom job on my boat, I found his approach quite thorough and progressive, yet not crazy expensive. Keep well.
The cost to cruise the Maldives is $1,400. for 4 weeks. I have better things to spend my money on. The cruisers we know who went through the Maldives, for the most part, say it was something they would not do again. There were far too many tourist boats, too few things on land of interest and the free diving depths of the reefs have been destroyed by global warming. But even from the Maldives, cruisers had a difficult time fighting their way south as they also had difficult currents and winds to contend with. In retrospect, since the wind never did what it was supposed to have done, we should have hugged the south coast of Sri Lanka and used some favorable currents and wind along that coast to get us some westing. Next time.
Hi Patrick is there any way you can post a route of your journey with rough timelines (I know these can change) as just wondering if you would be around the southern coast of spain in the near future. Happy sailing 🌍⛵
We won't be any where near the Med for the foreseeable future. After Cape Town, we will sail down to the S.E. coast of S. America and see how far south we can get, tolerate, because of the cold weather. I'd like go go through one of the channels to the west coast of S. America. And, we never have a timeline. We thought we would be out sailing for 4 years and now it has been 12 years.
I was in PNG and i had not had a cigarette in a week .We were yet to clear customs and were flying the yellow flag .A young group of men said do we want some fruit etc .I asked do you have any smokes and made a hand gesture .I gave him 20 bucks and in a hour he was back and threw a package wrapped in paper and plastic and was a huge bag of marijuana lol. I quickly threw it over board .lol
The biggest problem caused in these poorer countries is globalisation which skewed local economies causing prices to rise keeping pace with global prices but not the income off populations. I live in a third world country and see it happen everyday.
Which Tip was most valuable for you in this video?
Please be sure to SUBSCRIBE or like if you enjoyed this video...and share it with your sailing friends too!
Thanks for sharing the siphon tip good luck from New Zealand
The one where Rebecca handles all the Electronic Hocus Pocus.
Hi Rebecca, I like the repair videos the most. Gluing sails, applying copper coat, fixing the heat exchanger and exhaust elbow, hull and blister repair. Also the Indian Ocean series was so informative about how to sail in those conditions so if I do get there someday your videos will be adding to my ability. Truely I do miss Patrick and I hope you are well and continuing onward. Live long and prosper. Joshua
Thanks Joshua. Glad to hear you are still watching. I’m no Patrick with the technical videos...so it will be more of a mix now ;) The next one is a bit technical though ;)
Straight up sailing and no baloney. Thumbs up!
Thank you SailnBlue.
I really appreciate Patrick's practical wisdom. You are missed. I will keep reviewing all of your videos to keep learning. Thank you Patrick.
Patrick is indeed missed and would be so happy to read your comment.
Among the Amateur Radio community, the enhanced range of VHF signals through bending is called "ducting".
I probably knew that once...I am a General Ham :)
@@RVLifeNOW Me too. KB2LDM
Love what your doing, it's refreshing to see a series that doesn't really glamorize sailing as a sunny vacation.
First I've seen of that siphoning method, thanks.
That cumulus nimbus at 8:50 looked like the head of Poseidon! I agree with you Patrick. It is sad to see people in America complain about how poor they are and they have no idea what real poverty is when you compare it to many places that exist around the world. The good news is that many of them are honest folk whom want to make an honest living to provide for themselves and their families. Desperation can lead to the criminal side of the poor countries. Fair Winds Patrick and Rebecca,
Thanks for watching and commenting...Es...you are right! -Rebecca
Nice, you've been at it quite a while. Will be watching with interest. Cheers!
Thanks for watching Sailing Infidels.
A excellent veiw! Nicely done! lol burping diesel & diesel breath yeah! that was sure funny! We sure Appreciate this channel & hope all is well Rebecca 🙂✌ Luv&Peace Sean&family
Thanks...it’s going ok
Great video. Did not know you could siphon like that. Good to know.
Yes…
The best internet satellite, coming from Alon Musk, starling , soon you able to send live pictures and videos the end of 2022 and biggining 2023 , my plan to sail around the world ⛵ 🌎 in 2023 .That time will be covering the world 🌎 in details. This days technology developing very fast . Thanks for sharing Patrick video , super awesome. ⛵
I wish you a fair winds and following seas.
Thanks for watching. Yes…sailing will be yet another whole thing!
I liked the tip about siphoning diesel w/o 'tasting' it!! I am curious about what is the intro and trailing music.? Great advice!
Thanks again Patrick for the latest good tips....Siphoning had me as a good sucker many times....
Thanks for watching Dennis!
Loved the Siphon & general relaxed philosophy, I'll defo be using that one. In awe of your journey mt friend. Fair winds & good luck to ya 😎
Thanks for the positive comment! I can't imagine living in a house again in Rhode Island.
So much valuable information, thank you Patrick for taking the time to do this.
Gary Penney thanks for watching. Sorry I missed your comment!
Thanks for taking the time for doing your great videos. Keep up your great work it's really much appreciated.
SWT, Thanks for the positive comment!
Many years ago growing up in the south, the hose and rag trick, was called a Georgia credit card...
Interesting tidbit of info!
Great video again,many thanks captain I love it your videos well done so in details fair winds always.
Thank you
hello Patrick would be useful a video on how to use the internet and WiFi on board you use wifi antennas for internet or not? thank you
We have a dedicated Halo, Redport, wifi booster antenna for onshore wifi. Most often we use the cell phone as a hotspot. The electronics is Rebecca,s forte. Since she is now gaining an interest in these videos, there is a good chance she will make that video. In the mean time, here is a link to more info: whereisbrickhouse.com/2017/08/24/i-thought-public-wifi-was-a-thing-of-the-past-ancient-history/
Great to see your latest! Looks like your passage is going well.
Hi Mark, The passage to Chagos was extremely difficult due to contrary wind and contrary current. The current was especially strong for a wide swath above and below the equator. We never did get the westing we wanted. 1,100 miles took 15 days. Chagos is 110 miles north of Diego Garcia, the U.S. forward operating base, so security in the area is tight. Here in Rodrigues, the internet gets the award for being the slowest in the world. It took 15 hours to upload this simple video….then I realized at the end “Suscribe” was spelled wrong! I couldn’t spend another 15 hours fixing that! In Chagos I put together 3 videos called “Surviving The Atoll”….if anyone ever gets marooned and needs to live off the land…but first, there is one other passage video to put up. Thanks for watching!
Fun video, Uncle!
Thanks for watching! In a couple weeks I will be able to post my favorite videos about surviving on a coral atoll...fresh water, coconuts and coconut crabs, 3 separate videos...but first I have to put part 2 of the very difficult passage to get to Chagos.
I was fascinated with your eyewitness weather forecasting. I remember trying to use Alan Watt's book Instant Weather Forecasting, but found the whole thing rather tricky. I'm curious how you judge how much wind is in a squall--I've been fooled several times, both with reefing down and virtually nothing happening, and again with a squall that didn't look like much and packing over 40 knots. Look which way the anvil top is bent for direction--didn't know that, thanks! Fair winds on your passage ... Kevin Boothby
Thanks for the comment. Spend enough time in the tropics and you run through plenty of, intense and not so intense, localized weather. Black lines of weather near the water are big trouble. In that black wall pictured in the towering Q, winds can easily be 40-50 knots. In the smaller localized weather, 25-35 knots is common. Without the black line but having gradients of gray easing into the squall the severity is not so bad, but I have been fooled at times. Having studied aviation weather helps. The large, dangerous, towering Qs will have an anvil top but the smaller localized systems may not show an anvil top. The other day I had out Instant Weather Forecasting as I wanted to compare its forecast of larger weather systems with our Predict Wind coupled with the satellite communication of Iridium Go! for downloading. As often happens, the clouds in my sky were not pictured in the book….
You have a rare consciousness that the world is not our Disney. There can be purpose in life beyond pleasure seeking, which is what most sailing channels offer.
SailinBlue, Thank you.
I think I was your 100th sub, glad to see you growing!
You will always have my appreciation for being #100. The growth is moving along which is nice to see. Where are you located?
Hello Patrick, We are in Oregon. Our home port, at least for now, is in Charleston Oregon, near Coos Bay.
You are headed to the Atlantic? We have a history related voyage planned across the South Pacific. I hope we meet up someday.
20th Century...My father did some of that Island Hoping with MacArthur and i intend to follow his route...landing, then and now...I have tons of Old archival stuff to weave in...all completely from the human perspective of all involved...not at all a celebration of the old victory. I am in touch with some Japanese veterans groups as well ( Very few left) and their sons. The boomer sons of WWII vets took a long time as one would expect, to realize the impact all of this has had on their lives...Some of the stories are INCREDIBLE...Of course, there is no history without context, and the hundred years or so before WWII is especially relevant.
Atmospheric "Ducting", I believe...
Possibly!
The Simon tip
Thanks for watching…
Hi Pat, thanks for making these videos.
Can you make one video on bad weather sailing? Maybe how you set your boat up to heave-to.
What do you do when you're caught in a squall? Do you heave-to?
Do you use a drogue or sea anchor? If yes, did you make your own?
Do you have a storm sail? Or do you just reef in your jib?
Some actual footage of you dealing with a squall will be interesting. :-)
Ed, That is a good idea. Till recently, I never had the cameras or video know how to document rough weather. We just arrived in Tanzania, Africa, on the east coast. In about a year, we will be rounding the south of Africa. Maybe we can find some challenging weather there.Actually, we rarely get into anything more than 25 knots. Even 30 knots of wind is no problem as long as we don’t have to head into it. Then it is just uncomfortable. I have been in extreme weather between New England and the Caribbean and also in the Indian Ocean, south of Madagascar. In those conditions I never hove-to as actively sailing seemed the best strategy. Only time we have hove-to was simply to hold station in pleasant weather till the sun came up. A lot of the strategy depends on so many factors, the boat, crew, shape of the waves, direction of desired travel…… With our cutter rig, the staysail is our storm jib. It is amazing how much lift that little sail can give in 40 knots of wind off the beam or close hauled. Rolling in the big jib really kills its aerodynamics so in anticipation of high wind areas, we put on the 90% and use the 120% in anticipated lighter wind areas. Only once was the wind so high we were moving directly down wind under bare poles at 9 knots did I start to consider using a drogue to slow us down....but the Monitor self steering vane was doing a good job steering and the conditions did not get worse so we had a good run for that part of the passage. I will keep the cameras ready!
Really enjoying your videos Patrick keep em coming, awesome content 👍🏼
Thanks, Aaron.
Amazing!
Tha ks!
Great video as always.
What is the history behind the name brick house? Can we get a tour?
That can be a long story as there is the raunchy one and the children's version. But the shortest version, which bypasses some of the raunch is.... I used to fix rotten houses, do remodel work and a lot of carpentry around Newport, Rhode Island. When Rebecca moved there she gave up computers to become a very good real estate agent. We teamed up and started flipping houses. We were in at just the right cycle. Buying a junker, fixing it up and selling it in about 4 weeks. When the housing boom turned, we were ready to leave to go sailing. Then there is the song by the Commodores called "Brick House" which had us dancing around the hotel room after drinking too many Black Russians while skiing at Killington, Vt....ahhh, the good old days of raunch and wild fun.
Another good video, Patrick. I have a question about Brick House. Is it a Uniflyte boat? Any blister issues in the years of ownership by Rebecca - or previously? l am interested in hearing your thoughts and experience dealing with blister issues. Thanks.
Randall, Brick House is a blister boat. From the water line down, before I got involved, Rebecca had that area peeled and fiberglassed. From the water line up, I did some blister treatment the two times we painted the topsides, but I did not go crazy and do all the blisters as there were far too many. Some of those topside blisters returned but it really seems the recurrence has greatly slowed. Below the waterline, I can see some of those blisters have bubbled up again. Is this a problem to worry about; I really don't know. We are going on 12 years on this trip and I am not aware of any major problem because of the blisters. Sometime in the next year, I want to haul out in S. Africa for as many months as it takes to grind out all the blisters from the toerail down and do a proper rebuilding job. We have no plans to ever end this life style so I want to make sure this boat can deal with any sailing conditions we might encounter. We are running out of places to go on this boat....but Uruguay and Magellan Straights are looking enticing to me but Rebecca does not like the cold weather....we will see.
@@RVLifeNOW Your comittment to living aboard and actually cruising is an inspiration to all of us yet to cast off without a return date. It is great to hear that the blisters are only cosmetic. I recently did a bottom job on my boat and had to research the subject. FWIW - David Pascoe, a brilliant 'forensic boat surveyor', who unfortunately just passed away, has written extensively over the years about blisters, their repair, recurrence, cause and effect on his website yachtsurvey dot com. Mads Dahlke, over on 'Sail Life' youtube channel did an extensive blister repair job on his boat, and it is well-documented on his channel. What is interesting is he went beyond grinding and used a silicone heating mat and vacuum pump setup going section by section to dry out the hull and catalyze the uncatalyzed resin that is believed to be the cause ( though with Uniflyte, I understand it is the fire retardant they used - which may have prevented catalyzation). I am sure you and others know much more about this than I do, however having completed a hull strip, penetrating epoxy, epoxy, and bottom job on my boat, I found his approach quite thorough and progressive, yet not crazy expensive. Keep well.
Go to Svalbard
Why did you not cruise the Maldives? Too expensive? Not yacht friendly?
The cost to cruise the Maldives is $1,400. for 4 weeks. I have better things to spend my money on. The cruisers we know who went through the Maldives, for the most part, say it was something they would not do again. There were far too many tourist boats, too few things on land of interest and the free diving depths of the reefs have been destroyed by global warming. But even from the Maldives, cruisers had a difficult time fighting their way south as they also had difficult currents and winds to contend with. In retrospect, since the wind never did what it was supposed to have done, we should have hugged the south coast of Sri Lanka and used some favorable currents and wind along that coast to get us some westing. Next time.
Hope you all know that we also have a great blog...www.WhereIsBrickHouse.com. Lots more info to be found there, as well as many of our past articles.
Hi Patrick is there any way you can post a route of your journey with rough timelines (I know these can change) as just wondering if you would be around the southern coast of spain in the near future.
Happy sailing 🌍⛵
We won't be any where near the Med for the foreseeable future. After Cape Town, we will sail down to the S.E. coast of S. America and see how far south we can get, tolerate, because of the cold weather. I'd like go go through one of the channels to the west coast of S. America. And, we never have a timeline. We thought we would be out sailing for 4 years and now it has been 12 years.
whereisbrickhouse.com You can usually tell where we are there...
Siphoning fuel by blowing into a closed container? Shucks, every home brewer/winemaker knows that. ;-) interesting video, thanks!
Haha...
diesel breath!!! ha ha ha
The fast food people want $15 an hour to flip burgers! I get my Atlas out to see where you are at.
In many of these foreign countries, people don't earn $15 in a day. Life can be unfathomably different out of the U.S..
I was in PNG and i had not had a cigarette in a week .We were yet to clear customs and were flying the yellow flag .A young group of men said do we want some fruit etc .I asked do you have any smokes and made a hand gesture .I gave him 20 bucks and in a hour he was back and threw a package wrapped in paper and plastic and was a huge bag of marijuana lol. I quickly threw it over board .lol
Thanks for watching!!!
The biggest problem caused in these poorer countries is globalisation which skewed local economies causing prices to rise keeping pace with global prices but not the income off populations. I live in a third world country and see it happen everyday.
John, we just arrived in Richards Bay, S. Africa and have limited internet so have to be quick. I agree with you completely.
lMAO Diesel Breath and Diarrhea
Love it! Haha!