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West Marine is not available in the EU (they won't even let me look at their website. Instead of updating their website to be compliant with a new data security law they just blocked us all... Americans). And I don't think you get any credit when I make purchases on amazon.de . You might want to set up affiliate accounts for EU and UK. I think you're missing out on over half the market by being so US centric .
great content. Sailing Emerald Steel the only other youtube channel that has sage advice from experienced persons. Others are fun but mostly newbies jumping in.
It's just occurred to me, I first crossed the Equator at 81E, on a track from the Straits of Malacca to Diego Garcia, on a US Navy ship. Not too awfully far from your track. I'll never forget Crossing the Line!
Patrick asked me to answer since weather is one of my jobs on the boat. If you go to our blog, there are at least 3 articles there covering the Iridium GO...this will get you started... whereisbrickhouse.com/2018/06/06/predictwind-and-the-iridium-go/ This will lead you to other articles about the same. We started with SSB/Pactor modem downloading of GRIBS..one forecast model that was usually old news and wrong...but now have the Iridium GO and Predictwind. Maybe someday we will make a video about it.
Patrick... look how excited you were about 69 subscribers! How does it feel now that you have over 18 thousand?! It took me years to scrap together 2000 on my facebook page. I'm really happy you've been so successful with it. Seems that somewhere along the way Rebecca got a little more into it as well. Getting the girlfriend to believe in your project is sometimes the hardest part!
It was all started for fun. Rebecca has made a tremendous difference by figuring out thumbnails and titles. This channel has surpassed all my visions. I feel very fortunate.
Patrick is so busy with this refit, it’s the LEAST I can do to try to cover comments for him. But don’t be surprised if he later comes back and changes and or adds to come of my comments...haha :) Glad you are enjoying...he works hard for 10 hours and then comes in and within he hour is working on editing videos. If I know what his storyline was I’d do the editing....buts its truly his creation through and through. He loves getting what he knows out to anyone who wants to watch....a rare man...honored to be his wife, to say the least. -Rebecca
Now you have one more subscriber. I just found your channel yesterday and have gotten this far so far and i'm having a great time catching up. Please keep up the good work.
I love to watch your videos. I have my own 30 feet sailboat - Vindø 32, but we are sailing only in Denmark. We seems to be at the same age - your wife likewise to main. One day - when my last child have flown away from the nest, I hope to meet you .... somewhere.
Long ago I lived for 5 years on a 27 foot sailboat and sailed it around the world. A 30 foot boat was so much bigger and seemed like a real yacht. Rebecca and I have now been away for 12 years. We can't imagine ever going back to live in a house. We do not travel fast but are heading for Uruguay. We will be looking for you!
@@RVLifeNOW Hi Patrick - I've been watching must of your videos now, and have commented here and there. As I speak swahili .... have forgotten must words ... but lived in Tanzania some years. I have visited most of the Parks in TZ and some in Kenya. Serengiti is probably the most famous and largest park. You need several days there. However my favor place is Ngorongoro. I visited that place many times. It is very steep to drive in and out from. The restaurant above is/was great. I hope they still have "my" Dalmatian dogs there - although probably not. Their names were Chui (Leopard in swahile) and Bibi (Grandma/Swahili or a name in Swedish). Most youngers are few days here and there. Your way is the only possibility to learn whats going on. All people I met in TZ were very nice. No thieved ... a few ... there. Looking forward to seeing you one day. Regards from Kim
There is no bucket big enough, on board, to make it efficient enough. I suppose the chain could be laid out on a dock then sprayed with a bleach solution....I am not sure how the bleach would react with the galvanizing though. Video #12 and #34, the newest, shows ways to clean the chain.
Marsello! Great to hear from you. I cannot count the number of times I have told officials in other countries how hard the Board of Tourism in Sangihe and Indonesia, work to make the place desirable for tourists, suggesting they should do the same! Certainly Sangihe is one of our favorites. Thanks for watching the video. This is something new to do which is proving to be fun work. Surprisingly, there are cell towers along this stretch of the desolate Sri Lanka coast so we don't exactly know when our link to civilization will be cut...certainly today sometime. Hope to see you again! Thanks if you can click on the "Subscribe" button.
Oh yes! Vlogging is fun and you're doing great on the camera. I already left Sangihe since last February and now i am back in Jakarta (the capital) -- i hope to see you again in the next future. You are subscribed. stay safe man! brickhouse in da house yo. Patrick Childress
Patrick, I have been binging on your videos ever since I found you. Appreciate your experience and all the many tips and tricks. I am currently looking for a boat and have been a bit focused on Bob Perry designs. I wonder if you have sailed a Panda 40 or Baba 40 and how they compare to the Valiant 40. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
No, I have not sailed on any of those boats. It is surprising how similar in so many ways, many of those canoe stern boats are even though they have different designers. The Pacific Seacraft 44, a Crealock design, really looks like a stretched out Valiant 40, a Perry design. They all look to be good boats but personally, the thing I would stay away from is all the exterior teak some boats use. Thanks for joining us.
Just wondering if you have internet on your boat? Here in the Philippines I use Windy TV for plotting wind, rain and such with google earth as back up, works great for predicting Typhoons and such, that said love your channel, just found it...thank God you dont babble like many on the sailing channels...BTW I love your out of the box thinking...
We have internet only when we are near shore and cell towers. At sea, we get weather updates on our Predict Wind over Iridium Go satellites. Iridium Go is not faster than the Single Side Band and Pactor 3 modem but far more reliable. I really like the Predict Wind for the out in the middle of nowhere ocean current information. I don't know where else to get that information. Thanks for the positive comment.
John, it would be nice to offset the high cost of just the tools required to produce a video and the incredible amounts of time it takes to make a video. I can't fully explain it but I have a hesitation about Patreon. Partly I would feel an obligation to put up "content" on a schedule, like every two weeks. That would defeat the cruising life style we are here for. Rebecca has been putting up affiliate links on our blog site, WhereIsBrickHouse.com and in the video description. Maybe we will start mentioning those links in the videos. We are working on a video to put up this coming Friday, about all the tools in the nav. station including some antiquated tools that are kept as backup.
Patrick,' Once again I do enjoy your insight of sailing preparations and so strongly agree with your methods of what is important... Although I am curious about how long it took to get a permit to get the Ok to get into Chagos and what you had to do to get the permit... I am looking forward to stoping in Chagos in my Indian ocean crossing. Robert North Star
Hi Robert. It changes from year to year…so join the Indian Ocean Crossing group on Facebook…when it’s time for you to sail there. the permit took about a month to get..has to show wreck insurance so if you boat hits a reef there or sinks, it can be taken away… and evacuation insurance to airline you off in an emergency…and a few other things.
Frodo, Fortunately I was able to sail around the world starting out in 1979, long before RO water makers and chart plotters were thought of. Certainly, sailing is a lot easier these days. We get water from clear streams, clear wells, catch rain, from water faucets ashore. A speck of chlorine does a lot of good. Watch my video "Water, What's In It" and you will see how I test water. I have found city water can be cleaner than the water from many RO systems on sailboats. But be sure to add chlorine to any city water in Thailand.....City water in Malaysia is good. Rain water always needs a little chlorine to keep the airborne mildew and bacteria from growing.
I believe the comment was in relation to using PredictWind Offshore and having access to gribs from 4 models and using the weather routing function. I believe they will be out of contact for 4-6 weeks. cheers.
Nick Olson Isn't PredictWind just a fancy way of displaying Gribs? They don't have forecasters on staff optimizing any forecasts. The routing feature is great but Gribs are Gribs.
Grib is just a data format. I believe the reference was in relation to getting a weather fax which only shows the GFS model. What is better is being able to get 4 models in grib format via PW and the Iridium Go. In the video the GFS did not show the system developing near Chagos, but the other models did, hence having more than one model to reference.
Nick Olson You can get Gribs by Sailmail request from the following sources. US National Weather Service (NWS) - a part of NOAA, US Navy Canadian Met Service Météo France I agree that PW packages it all nicely but they do not provide any enhanced forecasting ability. They are resellers of free data in a nice interface.
I work for PredictWind so can correct you on a few things about PredictWind. The only free weather model we redistribute is the GFS. We run full global models for our proprietary PWG and PWE models every 12 hours (this costs money to do) and pay a lot of money for the rights to distribute the ECMWF in our software. I guess indirectly you are paying for free data with your $250 a year sailmail subscription which floats saildocs.
Yes, it is not like the old days. The permit can be obtained on line through BIOT, British Indian Ocean Territory. It cost $75 per week for a maximum of 28 days. Also, a yacht must have wreck removal insurance. We have been to so many atolls in the Pacific that the only reason we stopped in Chagos was because it was on my bucket list, like Bikini atoll, Galapagos Is., Rodrigues island, Reunion etc . Otherwise, there is nothing special about Chagos.
Thanks for the comment. It has been a big relief to me that she has come around and gotten involved with the videos. Certainly, she is the better half.
Thanks, Clay. Finally....., Rebecca has come around. In the interior vid to go up not this Friday, but two weeks after that, she will show the electronics, many of which she installed, at the nav. station. More than a cameo, but it is a start. Hopefully I can get her to do the outro for the same vid. We will be away into central Tanzania for a while so these vids will be set to auto release.
Hi everyone! Please make sure to SUBSCRIBE...so you know when our next video is released! What did you learn from this video...anything?
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⛵️ TWO FREE SAILING COURSES: www.nauticed.org/?school=where...
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West Marine is not available in the EU (they won't even let me look at their website. Instead of updating their website to be compliant with a new data security law they just blocked us all... Americans). And I don't think you get any credit when I make purchases on amazon.de . You might want to set up affiliate accounts for EU and UK. I think you're missing out on over half the market by being so US centric .
great content. Sailing Emerald Steel the only other youtube channel that has sage advice from experienced persons. Others are fun but mostly newbies jumping in.
Exactly - I have the same impression.
Glad to hear...thanks
It's just occurred to me, I first crossed the Equator at 81E, on a track from the Straits of Malacca to Diego Garcia, on a US Navy ship. Not too awfully far from your track. I'll never forget Crossing the Line!
Ha...thats great! Thanks!
Patrick, your channel is one of the best!, extremely informative, thanks for sharing your knowledge and adventures. Cheers!
Ah hope you still think so…
My BRIGHT EYES a Corbin 38 is much like your Valent, I have lived and sailed for over 16 years, Thanks you are doing a great job.
Thanks, John.
Go Rebecca!
Haha…you know it!
Beautiful sailing video, ⛵️ thank you for sharing. Greetings from beautiful tropical paradise island Kauai 🏝 Hawaii
Thank you very much!
from 69 subscribers in April to 3500 now - just shows you are doing a great job Patrick - well done and good to see Rebecca is alive!!
It has been a long haul, and fun.....but also a ton of time spent at the computer learning the editing process. Thanks for staying with us.
SIr, your tips are very valuable to me. Please tell us your advices to check the weather out at sea. Bonjour de France.
Patrick asked me to answer since weather is one of my jobs on the boat. If you go to our blog, there are at least 3 articles there covering the Iridium GO...this will get you started... whereisbrickhouse.com/2018/06/06/predictwind-and-the-iridium-go/ This will lead you to other articles about the same. We started with SSB/Pactor modem downloading of GRIBS..one forecast model that was usually old news and wrong...but now have the Iridium GO and Predictwind. Maybe someday we will make a video about it.
Patrick... look how excited you were about 69 subscribers! How does it feel now that you have over 18 thousand?! It took me years to scrap together 2000 on my facebook page. I'm really happy you've been so successful with it. Seems that somewhere along the way Rebecca got a little more into it as well. Getting the girlfriend to believe in your project is sometimes the hardest part!
It was all started for fun. Rebecca has made a tremendous difference by figuring out thumbnails and titles. This channel has surpassed all my visions. I feel very fortunate.
Thanks a lot for sharing these knowledge for future generation. God bless you Sir
Thanks for joining us.
Great video. Glad to see Rebecca got less camera shy on the latest videos. Look forward to watching the passage to Chagos!
Seems like such a long time ago now, but it was just a year ago :) -Rebecca
@@RVLifeNOW So cool to have had several replies from you Rebecca as I binged watched PCS. I am really enjoying the channel.
Patrick is so busy with this refit, it’s the LEAST I can do to try to cover comments for him. But don’t be surprised if he later comes back and changes and or adds to come of my comments...haha :) Glad you are enjoying...he works hard for 10 hours and then comes in and within he hour is working on editing videos. If I know what his storyline was I’d do the editing....buts its truly his creation through and through. He loves getting what he knows out to anyone who wants to watch....a rare man...honored to be his wife, to say the least. -Rebecca
@@RVLifeNOW lol
Just found your channel yesterday going to binge watching you guys.
John, Thanks for watching.
Rest in peace, Patrick!
Yes!!
Now you have one more subscriber. I just found your channel yesterday and have gotten this far so far and i'm having a great time catching up. Please keep up the good work.
Thanks for watching and the positive comment.
I love to watch your videos. I have my own 30 feet sailboat - Vindø 32, but we are sailing only in Denmark. We seems to be at the same age - your wife likewise to main. One day - when my last child have flown away from the nest, I hope to meet you .... somewhere.
Long ago I lived for 5 years on a 27 foot sailboat and sailed it around the world. A 30 foot boat was so much bigger and seemed like a real yacht. Rebecca and I have now been away for 12 years. We can't imagine ever going back to live in a house. We do not travel fast but are heading for Uruguay. We will be looking for you!
@@RVLifeNOW Hi Patrick - I've been watching must of your videos now, and have commented here and there. As I speak swahili .... have forgotten must words ... but lived in Tanzania some years. I have visited most of the Parks in TZ and some in Kenya. Serengiti is probably the most famous and largest park. You need several days there. However my favor place is Ngorongoro. I visited that place many times. It is very steep to drive in and out from. The restaurant above is/was great. I hope they still have "my" Dalmatian dogs there - although probably not. Their names were Chui (Leopard in swahile) and Bibi (Grandma/Swahili or a name in Swedish). Most youngers are few days here and there. Your way is the only possibility to learn whats going on. All people I met in TZ were very nice. No thieved ... a few ... there. Looking forward to seeing you one day. Regards from Kim
I really like your videos, very informative, good content, symphatically presented. Peace and fair winds.
Ah..it’s you Andreas…saw it and had to reply. Write to me…tell me what you are up to these days!!! Rebecca.childress@yahoo.com
Bon Voyage. Good luck and God speed on your passage to the Chagos. Looking forward to seeing and hearing about it !
Thanks Mark
Very good info Patrick, in some cases life saving. With a calm interesting perspective.
Thanks, Michael.
Like Your videos, like your boat ! Thanks.
Thanks!
Great video,many thanks fair winds
Thank you
Great info, and like your format,
thanks take care,
Thanks for watxhing
Thanks
Great channel, love it. How about cleaning the anchor chain in a bucket of water with a sodium hyperchlorite (bleach) tablet, just a thought.
There is no bucket big enough, on board, to make it efficient enough. I suppose the chain could be laid out on a dock then sprayed with a bleach solution....I am not sure how the bleach would react with the galvanizing though. Video #12 and #34, the newest, shows ways to clean the chain.
Hi Patrick, it's good to see you on youtube. Safe cruising to you and rebecca cheers. -marsello- sangihe island
Marsello! Great to hear from you. I cannot count the number of times I have told officials in other countries how hard the Board of Tourism in Sangihe and Indonesia, work to make the place desirable for tourists, suggesting they should do the same! Certainly Sangihe is one of our favorites. Thanks for watching the video. This is something new to do which is proving to be fun work. Surprisingly, there are cell towers along this stretch of the desolate Sri Lanka coast so we don't exactly know when our link to civilization will be cut...certainly today sometime. Hope to see you again! Thanks if you can click on the "Subscribe" button.
Oh yes! Vlogging is fun and you're doing great on the camera. I already left Sangihe since last February and now i am back in Jakarta (the capital) -- i hope to see you again in the next future. You are subscribed. stay safe man! brickhouse in da house yo. Patrick Childress
Patrick, I have been binging on your videos ever since I found you. Appreciate your experience and all the many tips and tricks. I am currently looking for a boat and have been a bit focused on Bob Perry designs. I wonder if you have sailed a Panda 40 or Baba 40 and how they compare to the Valiant 40. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
No, I have not sailed on any of those boats. It is surprising how similar in so many ways, many of those canoe stern boats are even though they have different designers. The Pacific Seacraft 44, a Crealock design, really looks like a stretched out Valiant 40, a Perry design. They all look to be good boats but personally, the thing I would stay away from is all the exterior teak some boats use. Thanks for joining us.
Just wondering if you have internet on your boat? Here in the Philippines I use Windy TV for plotting wind, rain and such with google earth as back up, works great for predicting Typhoons and such, that said love your channel, just found it...thank God you dont babble like many on the sailing channels...BTW I love your out of the box thinking...
We have internet only when we are near shore and cell towers. At sea, we get weather updates on our Predict Wind over Iridium Go satellites. Iridium Go is not faster than the Single Side Band and Pactor 3 modem but far more reliable. I really like the Predict Wind for the out in the middle of nowhere ocean current information. I don't know where else to get that information. Thanks for the positive comment.
Thank you for posting and why not make a little money? Be safe and great luck out there. Standing by for you next post.
John, it would be nice to offset the high cost of just the tools required to produce a video and the incredible amounts of time it takes to make a video. I can't fully explain it but I have a hesitation about Patreon. Partly I would feel an obligation to put up "content" on a schedule, like every two weeks. That would defeat the cruising life style we are here for. Rebecca has been putting up affiliate links on our blog site, WhereIsBrickHouse.com and in the video description. Maybe we will start mentioning those links in the videos. We are working on a video to put up this coming Friday, about all the tools in the nav. station including some antiquated tools that are kept as backup.
for you the air conditioner is a useful tool that is essential or useless Thank you
Yep..great in a boat yard!
thumbs up mate
Thank you Caio.
Patrick,'
Once again I do enjoy your insight of sailing preparations and so strongly agree with your methods of what is important... Although I am curious about how long it took to get a permit to get the Ok to get into Chagos and what you had to do to get the permit... I am looking forward to stoping in Chagos in my Indian ocean crossing.
Robert
North Star
Hi Robert. It changes from year to year…so join the Indian Ocean Crossing group on Facebook…when it’s time for you to sail there. the permit took about a month to get..has to show wreck insurance so if you boat hits a reef there or sinks, it can be taken away… and evacuation insurance to airline you off in an emergency…and a few other things.
6000 miles with no wzter maker, seriously how did you do that?
Frodo, Fortunately I was able to sail around the world starting out in 1979, long before RO water makers and chart plotters were thought of. Certainly, sailing is a lot easier these days. We get water from clear streams, clear wells, catch rain, from water faucets ashore. A speck of chlorine does a lot of good. Watch my video "Water, What's In It" and you will see how I test water. I have found city water can be cleaner than the water from many RO systems on sailboats. But be sure to add chlorine to any city water in Thailand.....City water in Malaysia is good. Rain water always needs a little chlorine to keep the airborne mildew and bacteria from growing.
Have a great passage. What is "better than Gribs"?
I believe the comment was in relation to using PredictWind Offshore and having access to gribs from 4 models and using the weather routing function. I believe they will be out of contact for 4-6 weeks. cheers.
Nick Olson Isn't PredictWind just a fancy way of displaying Gribs? They don't have forecasters on staff optimizing any forecasts. The routing feature is great but Gribs are Gribs.
Grib is just a data format. I believe the reference was in relation to getting a weather fax which only shows the GFS model. What is better is being able to get 4 models in grib format via PW and the Iridium Go. In the video the GFS did not show the system developing near Chagos, but the other models did, hence having more than one model to reference.
Nick Olson You can get Gribs by Sailmail request from the following sources.
US National Weather Service (NWS) - a part of NOAA,
US Navy
Canadian Met Service
Météo France
I agree that PW packages it all nicely but they do not provide any enhanced forecasting ability. They are resellers of free data in a nice interface.
I work for PredictWind so can correct you on a few things about PredictWind. The only free weather model we redistribute is the GFS. We run full global models for our proprietary PWG and PWE models every 12 hours (this costs money to do) and pay a lot of money for the rights to distribute the ECMWF in our software. I guess indirectly you are paying for free data with your $250 a year sailmail subscription which floats saildocs.
Did you have to get a special permit for Chagos?
Yes, it is not like the old days. The permit can be obtained on line through BIOT, British Indian Ocean Territory. It cost $75 per week for a maximum of 28 days. Also, a yacht must have wreck removal insurance. We have been to so many atolls in the Pacific that the only reason we stopped in Chagos was because it was on my bucket list, like Bikini atoll, Galapagos Is., Rodrigues island, Reunion etc . Otherwise, there is nothing special about Chagos.
I am AN RMSN
That is nice to have.
Throw those white grapes in the freezer... the sugars change once frozenand making them much more enjoyable.
We will give that a try.
Love your videos hope camera shy Rebecca will share a female perspective as a sail life captan
Thanks for the comment. It has been a big relief to me that she has come around and gotten involved with the videos. Certainly, she is the better half.
4.2k subs, it’s not a hobby any longer...and Rebecca does exist. :) Rebecca, your husband/Captain is a star...and you can too...come on. 😜👍
Thanks, Clay. Finally....., Rebecca has come around. In the interior vid to go up not this Friday, but two weeks after that, she will show the electronics, many of which she installed, at the nav. station. More than a cameo, but it is a start. Hopefully I can get her to do the outro for the same vid. We will be away into central Tanzania for a while so these vids will be set to auto release.
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