Preparation for Full Time Cruising & Leaving San Francisco Bay - Nordhavn 40, M/V Cassidy, Ep. 1
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- This is the first in what we hope will be a series of videos documenting our adventures underway and ashore as we explore the world on a 40 foot motor vessel, a Nordhavn 40 long range Passagemaker.
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👍Awesome! I’ve finally watched the first video of how it all got started. 😃 No regrets. 🤗💞🤗
The people of Cassidy... Thank you much it's like I know you personally... Bless your hearts for what you are able to do....Sach a beautiful young family... May the best be to you... Guy
Lovely introduction
really a an aye catcher
keep them coming
stay safe
You guys are certainly living the dream. As an ex owner of a Catalina 36 sailboat, I really miss being on the water, but I don’t miss all the expense that comes with owning a boat. I will follow your adventures with interest.
Nice to find you and follow you on UA-cam. You will never regret this adventure. Nice family! Love your young daughter. Thanks for sharing all your videos.
Pretty cool to randomly click on a video that looked interesting and find they're or were Alameda Residents ...born and raised and still living here ...you got a new sub guys ...
YES!!! Finally, a VLOG from powerboaters!!!!
Amazing! A well thought-out production!
This is new, I used to watch people in sailboat and now I found you..this will be interesting to see how well Nordhavn boat performed. Stay save and have a wonderful journey.
Thank you for sharing. This is the first yatch life video that I have come across that moves from the fantasy of what long term boating really looks like, to seeing it get done. Even if there are obviously steps in between missing, it still is more than I have seen online so far. Will follow your adventures. All the best!
Awesome boat. You chise one of the best in Nordhavn. Look forward to following your adventures.
Doug Ford.
Oooo there aren't enough M/V vlogs on youtube. Looking forward to following your adventures.
Great to see a fresh face posting on the thing we’d like to do, on a boat similar to what we’d wish.
Cheers!
I am really happy for you and your family to be able to pull this off, have a wife that is supportive and have the same vision as you. This exactly what I want to do in a few years most likely without my wife as she fears the open ocean. Haha! Alameda Marina is my home port..
Absolutely wonderful!
There are a couple sailing vlogs I follow, but is good to see a motor vessel show up. This was a good start, keep 'em coming!
What a great story wish you all joy and safe travels!!!
I just found you guys , well done I really enjoy that and I’m tuning in for your adventures from Noosa Australia. I once followed 3@sea on there Nordhavn 10 years ago , happy adventure to you all 😀
Same, looking forward to more posts.
As a city boy I watch all the sea-going videos with all the sales and sometimes the catamaran people which gets old... Nice to see adults with I consider an awesome yacht and a beautiful family PS I was so envious of all the tuna you were catching
Love the videos glad I found them
Thank you so much for doing these. This is the dream I am saving for.
A very brave but inspired decision to do this journey. I'm so happy for you.
This is awesome. Been looking for this kind of a vlog on a Nordhavn. You're certainly living my dream. Excited to follow along on the adventure!
The new 3 @ Sea. Great video and thanks for sharing.
Isn't Sausalito just the perfect place? A great place to set off from. I just found your channel and it's refreshing to see someone doing a big tour on a power boat over a sailboat. O know this is an old video but hopefully you stopped at Morro Bay on the way up. Great spot
Paul Paterson - we absolutely agree about Sausalito. One of the most scenic anchorages and towns in the world. We didn't make it in to Morro Bay in the N40 but have been in there before for a fuel pitstop while running our old Ocean 38 Sportfish boat between SF Bay and San Diego.
That's what I kinda figured... I'm definitely jealous... looks like a great way to live... unfortunately I'm not physically capable anymore... keep the videos coming...
I love Nordhavn boats, just not the price, so will definately be following you. Great video, thanks. Fair Winds.
I just found this, subscribed. Was also a huge fan at 3@sea. Its an adventure your taking on. The Nordhavn 40 should be a reliable little ship. Look forward to more postings and video.
I just found your channel and subbed. Looking forward to seeing your journey. I live in Orange County and sail out of Dana Point, right next to Nordhavn’s headquarters. Incredible boats. Safe travels to you.
A new take on a fishing cruiser. Hope to see some catch and cook:)
I live in Alameda and just saw this on one of the local FB groups. Good on you for pursuing your dream. Can't wait to see what you get up to on your voyage :)
Your video caught my eye as I was stationed on NAS Alameda in the late 80s (USMC). Looking forward to your videos.
Great video guys. Journey of a Nordhavn 40, sign me up! :-) Looking forward to more adventures! Fair winds and calm seas.
Fair question! We brought a couple of folding electric bicycles to give us a little more range in port - but the little trials bike is an electric bike that Cassidy (the kid, not the boat) can ride sometimes when we are on the bicycles.
It was a last minute decision to through it up on the boat deck rather than sell with all our other stuff!
Webster st and the Navy base important parts of my life. My ship was home ported and met my wife in Webster street
You can't go wrong with a Nordhavn! And glad you got your kid out of CA. Schools.
Ictpilot Ictpilot - totally agree about the schools!
M/V Cassidy About what did it cost to get everything done on your haul out? Just looking for a rough figure. Thx
Ictpilot Ictpilot - roughly $10k for the most recent haulout. But it includes some longer interval maintenance like the keel cooler removal and clean out and transducer replacement.
M/V Cassidy Thx. I'm hoping to get out to Dana Point in July. Got to see a 52 and a 40 I think it was in Seattle about a month ago. What do you think your annual maintenance costs will be? Thx for your time.
Ictpilot - we looked at a 52 recently. Great layout with a lot of room. The lazarette on that boat is huge! Maintenance is really all over the place depending on what breaks. So far since we left SF, we’ve had to replace a few parts on our hydronic diesel heater, a navigation computer, and now the exhaust system on our wing engine. If nothing breaks it’s really just oil changes every 200 hours and bottom paint every few years. The 40 is probably the most economical boat in the Nordhavn fleet to operate - tradeoff being space and speed. One caveat to that is that they recently destroyed the molds for the 40 so you’re looking at a brokerage boat no matter what now with the 40 and depending on condition there could be some expense to get one ready for extended cruising.
We are expecting (at least hoping) that costs become relatively level as we exercise all the systems on the boat. Boats are boats though and there the unexpected always seems to happen at inopportune times. I’ve heard cruising referred to more than once as “fixing your boat in exotic locations”
this guy is cool. just did some work for the commercial boat I work on. He is very much "the inflatable guy"
Way to go, guys!
Ok, I subbed in - I’m here from S.E. Kansas U.S.A do you say, Fair Winds to a m/v anyway. Good luck !! 🍀 😎
I just came across your channel after watching my weekly Delos and Vagabond episodes.. looks good.. subbed .. curious to see how the cruisers do it..
I'm about 95% sure I'm going to do this on a large Lagoon catamaran, but every once in awhile I get swayed by the Nord Havens. When I got to crunching the numbers on the fuel it wasn't too bad maybe 30k to 35k to circumnavigate the globe. Spread that price out over 7 to 10 years and it's not too bad. Since I haven't bought Lagoon yet {2 more years}, I'll Follow Your Story with interest. I hope to see some rough weather Motoring, but nothing too dangerous for you.
Lorne Serpa - we are big fans of catamarans - both Sailing and power cats. Lots of great open space. To your point about fuel - in a smaller, full displacement powerboat like ours, fuel usually isn’t the biggest cost of ownership or operation. At ocean crossing speeds we can do better than 3 nautical miles per gallon.
With a sailboat, you’ve got cost of replacing sails and rigging as if west’s, tuning the rig, and still have to maintain an engine, or two in the case of a cat. So depending on the boats that are considered/compared there may not be much difference in operating cost between power and sail.
M/V Cassidy thanks. I've looked at the costs and yes over a good span of time, sails and rigging make the sailing and motoring pretty close. Not enough to matter IMHO. Your choice of boat was my only option. I'm really looking forward to your story/adventures!
finally something ive been waiting on!! :D
I love your choice of Nordhavn...The 40 or 43 would be my trawler choice. Also the Boston Whaler are incredible tenders, you literally can't sink them. I am sure you could sink one, but it would take a lot of effort to do so. I love Boston Whaler as a tender, although that is a personal preference. The Nordhavn 40 was the first MV of its size to go around the world. Your good for Hawaii on less then a tank of fuel with fuel left over. Even if you do not do passages, this Nordhavn will last a long time between fuel fill ups.
The combination of the 40 Nordhavn and Boston Whaler combination, in my opinion is the perfect combination. Boston Whalers are not cheap even used if they are in questionable shape. They are easy to fix and work on. I am looking for an FPB 64, which are the terminator of passage yachts, which have a range capacity of 7,000 to almost 10,000 NM, unfortunately there have been only around 10 made. A Nordhavn would be far cheaper as there are a lot of them out there.
I wish you guys Great adventures and a Nordhavn 40 is a wonderful yacht to explore with.
JoJo/Clem Kadilihopper - the FPBs appear to be great boats and I really like the Dashew’s design philosophies. I prefer the Nordhavns aesthetically but functionally the FPBs appear to be incredible. Great sightlines from inside and more importantly, they go FAST for ocean crossing powerboats. The difference between 6 knots and 10 knots is not insignificant.
Please don’t take my previous comment the wrong way. Just an observation. I’m actively looking at boats and trying to figure it out. Do I want a boat, really, or is it a dream that now seems like it could be reality? Maybe you know the feeling. Dreaming and actually doing are two different things. HAHAHAHA. Thanks for your vids. Another guy said he followed 3@sea. I did too. Great stuff and VERY informative.
We normally do not follow motor sailor channels, but yours look interesting. Oh, and you're forgiven for being a powerboater. ;)
Sail Before Sunset - we appreciate the pass on not being sailors! Actually our boat isn’t that different than a sailboat in that we have a full lead ballasted keel, draw 5 feet, and travel as slow as a sailboat.
We watched a lot of Sailing v-logs before becoming our journey - and there are a lot of really good ones. But there was no one doing a v-log of actually traveling on a small ocean crossing power boat so we wanted to try to share that it is possible to travel long distances and to places traditionally only travelled by sailboats.
Good luck this has always been a dream of mine also. Keep up the Videos and would be happy to help out on land anyway I can for you just ask.
Awsome, a nordhaven vlog.
* Nordhavn (no e).
Another good Nordhavn vlog can be found here: ua-cam.com/users/ThreeAtSeafeatured?disable_polymer=1
SeikiBrian ah yes seen most of what they have done
Loving this. 8-)
AWESOME! Follow your dream and ENJOY! Subscribed and will follow you. I'll soon be doing the same on a slightly larger MY so hope we meet somewhere out there. God bless you!
Awesome Let us know when you get to the north east. (Greenport, Long Island} would be glad to help out with rides..etc anyway we can... M and L
Marc St.james - Thank you! We lived in Milford, CT for a year and did a lot of boating in Long Island sound and in the forks of the island in our little C-Dory 22 and stayed in Greenport for a night. Very cool town.
Nice
My Gawd! The fuel bill to power around the world must be redonkulous!
Nice, how much was the cost of the boat, it’s really beautiful? Be safe.
That folding prop pictured by your daughter standing by the boat when it was on the hard. Is that powered by the gen set should the main go down?
MrMikewr - it’s powered by an independent 30HP Yanmar engine offset to the port side. They call it a wing engine. Wouldn’t get us anywhere fast but it could theoretically get us home or allow us to make repairs if we lose the main engine.
How did I miss your garage sale?
What function do they outriggers perform? I could see them deployed at anchor.
Great story. Sub!
Did your wife attend Adams Middle School in Redondo? One of our daughters taught there for 15 years.
+Captain Fatty - negative. But her dad kept a boat in King Harbor for many years.
how much fuel to catalina from oakland?
What kind of range are you getting? Doesn’t sound like a lot of fuel for a long distance trawler.
Barry Fields - we carry 920 gallons and at really slow speed - 5 knots - we get over 3 nautical miles per gallon. 3000 nautical miles is definitely possible but we’d carry reserve fuel on deck for long ocean passages.
M/V Cassidy that what I was wondering, if you were using any fuel bladders. That's still like 23 day without refueling.
I recently found your channel - really like your videos. I live in the SF bay area, though have done all my boating in the delta on smaller sport boats. I have always been a big fan of Nordhavn and Kadey-Krogen boats and dream of selling it all and taking off in either a Nordhavn 40 or Kadey-Krogen 39. How is the headroom in the 40? I'm 6'4" tall. I know the KK 39 has gobs of headroom, but have not read much on the N 40.
920 gallons!
Be honest, how rich are u? Job industry? That’s like a $1m boat
Did you really bring a trials bike??? LOL!
that was the funniest thing of the entire video :-)
justsomeguy "It's an electric bike."
An electric TRIALS bike.
If you sell that house now, you would have made few millions. Now when you come back if you want to buy a house you have to spend a lot of money.
Great video but it is obvious y’all are quit wealthy. Where you live, your age, the boat you chose, all add up to big money.
great video but the music so loud it was hard to under stand you
J. Brian Dal Porto - Thanks for the feedback! We are pretty new at this but definitely planning to pay more attention to audio levels in the future episodes.
General advice, as little music as possible.
Thanks again for posting the videos I just finished watching all of them and am very jealous. Looks like a great time
I wish you got a cat😶
Seems you guys are average people... where do you get the money or what source of income do you have coming in to pay for this life style... If you are multi millionaires... then I get it... but just the average Joe... How long does he money last from selling all your stuff?
Peter Sylves - not an uncommon question. We both had professional careers and worked hard to put money away over the years. We definitely are not funding the trip off of money from selling all of our things - getting rid of things was more of an exercise in removing risk and complication from our life.
We are not traveling extravagantly by any means. Doing our best to stay out of expensive marinas and keeping expenses as low as possible. Nothing is certain but we wanted to avoid the trap that seems to prevent people from doing something like this that is waiting to long and then never going.
with sincere respect - if you are going to narrate, you must learn how to use your voice. Learn to modulate, lexpress the natural rhythm of the language and the emotion of the topic. When spoken with interest and engagement, every word does not get the exact same tone and beat.
Listen to newscasters. I am not saying imitate them. They go way to far in the other direction, with dramatic emotions added to words.
But all things in moderation. Listen to your opening narration here. Notice it is totally empty of the excitement of this moment of starting one of the most interesting, exciting, dangerous and satisfying voyages you have ever taken. Your delivery (a shrink might say, "your affect") is as if you are reading the phone book (Is that why they no longer exist).
Get excited and let us hear it in your narration. Bon Voyage. I'm looking forward to seeing and hearing this adventure.
BTW - not every scene needs "background music" - especially when you are narrating. They clash.
Joe Harkins - genuine thanks for the feedback. I’m definitely nothing more than an amateur trying to share this adventure and show people that this sort of cruising can be done on a small powerboat vs. sailing. Originally the motivation was just to share what we are doing with friends and family but there appears to be a more widespread interest in what we are doing.
That said, I am hoping the videos get smoother as I get more experience editing and narrating the parts that need it!
I'm pleased you recognize my intent is to see your videos improve. You have a great story to share.
sub n l;ikec x:-)
Just say'n but your musical background music is annoying as hell
your driving me crazy,just stop talking so much,and just get in the boat and go,ugh...
Taking the daughter away from her friends and school. How heartless