Anchored in USVI during the Coronavirus situation. Ep. 51 Hilma Sailing
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- Опубліковано 25 бер 2020
- Because of COVID-19 our plans have changed and we are now in U.S. Virigin Island. We did not plan to go here but we are very happy that we made it and we think a lot about all the sailors out there that are struggling to enter any country. We really hope this situation will change soon.
Half of this episode is recorded the Virgin Islands and the other part is recorded in Kwajalein, in the Marshall Islands, where we wanted to visit the U.S. military base and where Elon Musk and SpaceX launched their first rockets.
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Sorry if we were unclear.🤦🏼♀️😊 we are one year behind with the videos and this last year we have been sailing a lot (17 000 NM)!! 😃 there will be a lot of episodes about all the places we have visited since then, from a lot of countries. 😃 we sail and explore much faster than we have time to edit videos.🤗⛵️ But eventually, we will show it all.🌍🌎
Answer: Liposomal Vitamin C and CHAGA Tea. ;) Question: How to survive COVID-19?Knowledge Base: clif@clif_high
Oooh, lucky you. the great orange orangutang running the US blanket cancelled all visas just after you arrived and they're not even accepting applications for replacements. Lucky timing.
Don't think the BVI immigration officers were just being rude for COVID, that's their natural state.
So glad you folks are in good stead. Some crazy times we are living in. Thank you for your posts. They make the time in quarantine bearable.....Stay safe and keep posting.
Thanks for the current update.
Thanks for posting, stay safe guys!
We left Tortola on March 20th and headed home to the US. Glad we cut the trip short, especially after watching your experience. I'm really glad the USVI was so welcoming to you!
Well done. Thanks for the video. ⛵
So glad the USVI were so helpful to you!!! USA!
Glad you are safe.
Great to hear you guys are safe, I have been wondering where you have been
best of luck, stay healthy!
Very clear and you guys stay safe. With the American market and global market this is the second year I can't buy a boat to live aboard...maybe late fall, December I'll be 75..I have great health and in good shape. but!! to live aboard is my last hurrah !!!
Tanks for this video, stay safe, best wishes from Paris 🤗
Awesome
take care of yourself and I wish you health)
from Russia with love)
You were very clear and i was very interested to see your reaction to the virus circumstance. Arriving in BVI seemed like a twilight zone episode for you. I am in Vancouver Canada and many boaters have been turned away from entering. Its very sad to see, as our family here are lifetime boaters. Please take care and keep producing your vlogs. Cheers!!
Hi guys!! just stumbled upon your video! We glad you are safe in USVI! We made it to US 3 days ago now and glad to be here. We were on our way to Bahamas but they closed the borders a day before we arrived, so we kept going to Virginia. It is cold here though!!! We are in Fishing Bay and it's a good future stop for you if you keep heading north and if borders are open. Take Care!! Love, Crew on Nimbus
Good vid ya'll.
Good update, thanks,
see, I knew you were both safe. Lots of video editing ahead and time to do it. Good for us at least. Did the drone survive? Who wouldn’t want to be isolated, on a self contained, well provisioned sailboat in paradise. Paradise is what you make it, so we are all there if we want. Love the new camera, wider, clearer image. Makes you both look much younger. Stay safe and we will too, DT,🤟👏😃
Very beautiful 😃😍👍
They have the same ferry at US Guantanamo Bay to get you from the airport side to the main side. It looked very familiar seeing this ferry.
Stay safe guys,everything is messed up at the moment,hoping things settle down soon🙂
Stay safe! It is a different world we live in today.
Good see u two bck
Glad you guys are ok and safe , would've been your neighbour as I was supposed to be on a charter in the BVIs in May but obviously it's now been postponed till next year, take care
Welcome to the U.S. My Father's family came to the U.S. over 100 years ago and was from Sweden. Best wishes to you both.
Thank you very much! Do you know where in Sweden he came from? ☺️
Hilma Sailing I wish I did. Long time ago. I’ve been to Sweden, backpacking and really enjoyed it! Great country and nice folks.
I’m glad you made it to the US Virgin Islands and are able to take refuge for 30 days at least. We always found it a friendly place. So many other sailboats in other countries are treated with a little less respect. It was starting to concern me. Glad you’re safe look forward to hearing from you again.
So are we. They were great here and told us we could stay for 6 months since we have a B1B2 Visa and that feels great since we still hope we will be able to sail to the US ☺️
Wow, that yacht with the blue hull behind you is fantastic!
#LifeTargets
We agree! It's beautiful!
Just someone's little dinghy 😊
Stay safe!
As far as I'm concerned you 2 can stay in the US as long as you want, you guys are amazing. I'm glad to hear our immigration people were nice to deal with. If you have to be stuck somewhere, the USVI is a pretty nice place to be. I hope everything is going good for you.
We have B1B2 Visa so they told us we could stay 6 months which feels great! That's true, thank you very much!
Stay safe locked down here in Canada
Aquarius is currently stranded in Phuket Thailand. Sri Lanka closed their boarders, as well as just about every country around Thailand. The only thing bad about USVI is the hurricane season which starts about July 1st. Hopefully you will be long gone before July. It's going to get very interesting to see where all the boats will go when the hurricane season starts. We loved our time in the USVI. If you want to get out of the city, you can sail (2 hours or so) to Christmas Cove, nice place to hang out for a week or two. The Yacht Club is right there, and not sure if the pizza boat is still working, but if so you can get a pizza or two. It's also next to Jeffrey Epstine's two Islands, the closest of which I called Pedophile Island. Good luck with your quarantine, but I will say, a boat in USVI is probably the best place to be quarantined. Fair Winds!
Lots of sailors, cruisers and YT Sailing Vloggers in USVI, St Thomas!
Sailing Doodles, Sailing Satori, several others, I forgot!
Great video. Like to know what is currently happening, without having to pay for privilege. Keep it up.
Thank you for your wonderful and informative video, you certainly picked a beautiful place to sit/ride/float out this man made debacle. I as an Englishman am apalled at your treatment by the civil (not so) servants on your entry to BVI. This is unacceptable behaviour to guests seeking succour from a friendly country, please accept my apologies. You both seem to be living the dream and also seem to be exceptional people, please keep posting your videos as we "chair/desk bound sailors long to be where you are.
Little bit confused last time you were in the pacific now you are in the bvi so did you sail back to panama east or what just asking ???
According to the WHO you both are in one of the safest places. we are near Niagara Falls 🇨🇦 , we are trying, but having neighbours so close is nerve racking. Better to be out on the water , for the short term, anyway, thinking of you guys , stay safe to prove me right.😁👏
Yay!! Been waiting for the Micronesia videos for a long time 🤙🏼 Will have to wait to see how you two ended up back in the Caribbean 🤔
Captain Mike Hawaii wondering the same thing. They must be a year behind
Sorry if we were unclear.🤦🏼♀️😊 we are one year behind with the videos and this last year we have been sailing a lot (17 000 NM)!! 😃 there will be a lot of episodes about all the places we have visited since then, from a lot of countries. 😃 we sail and explore much faster than we have time to edit videos.🤗⛵️ But eventually, we will show it all.🌍🌎
Hilma Sailing all good, adds to the excitement of waiting! Maybe if you two are back in the pacific I can sail to your location.
Waiting for videos from Brazil! Are you going over there?
You have covered a lot of sea in one year! Did you stop anywhere?
Wow, a month ago, you were in Kwajalein. Now you are in the Caribbean?! Send you back to Brazil? How did you get to Brazil from Kwajalein? I guess there are many videos coming now to tell the whole story. :-) Best wishes from San Francisco.
Sorry if we were unclear.🤦🏼♀️😊 we are one year behind with the videos and this last year we have been sailing a lot (17 000 NM)!! 😃 there will be a lot of episodes about all the places we have visited since then, from a lot of countries. 😃 we sail and explore much faster than we have time to edit videos.🤗⛵️ But eventually, we will show it all.🌍🌎
Provision like it’s going to run out of supplies for 6 to 12 months. It’s getting really bad in the States.
You will have to look up Bobby on the Sailing Doodles channel. He and his crew are stuck there too. CHEERS Steve h.
Good you guys are in a safe place, but tell me is that boat a magic carpet, you were in the Marshall Islands and then you are in the BVI, and that is more than a day sail, lololololo
Can you tell us your timeline from the south pacific since suddenly you appeared in the Caribbean? Will we be seeing the voyage and stops in between?
Sorry if we were unclear.🤦🏼♀️😊 we are one year behind with the videos and this last year we have been sailing a lot (17 000 NM)!! 😃 there will be a lot of episodes about all the places we have visited since then, from a lot of countries. 😃 we sail and explore much faster than we have time to edit videos.🤗⛵️ But eventually, we will show it all.🌍🌎
Please be safe while on shore, they are saying this acts more like a bacteria than a virus
Same T-shirt a year ago 11:40 ? Could you go somewhere 2 or 3 weeks away & your cruising time be your quarantine time?
As someone who's British I feel embarrassed to learn of your experience with the customs and/or immigration officials in the BVIs. I know the islands have their own government but they are also a British Territory with a governor appointed from the UK.
It is patently obvious that people will sail in from being out at sea and require shelter and supplies. It should also be obvious that sailors will probably not have the latest information on what is happening ashore. There is a long history of port officials and seafarers managing disease and controlling the spread of infection.
State officials should be seen as a beacon of reassurance, providing a safe and professional service with expert advice for people. The very definition of a virus pandemic like this means that we are 'all in this together'. I can only suppose that the officials in question were themselves scared, not sure what to do for the best and lost their composure - very disappointing. I'm so sorry that happened and glad you found a suitable location.
People are not rational beings.
We all file these stories under places to avoid and when someone says, where should we sail to? No one wants to go to places where they hear these stories. Noonsite is full of things like this about my own country.
Didn't understand... That I believe...
Hy guys, nice to see you again. Did i miss something? You were in micronesia, and now in BVI? What happened?
Sorry if we were unclear.🤦🏼♀️😊 we are one year behind with the videos and this last year we have been sailing a lot (17 000 NM)!! 😃 there will be a lot of episodes about all the places we have visited since then, from a lot of countries. 😃 we sail and explore much faster than we have time to edit videos.🤗⛵️ But eventually, we will show it all.🌍🌎
@@HilmaSailing Ok, I think that would be very good if you say or put the date of the video. I thought that you still in Micronesia.....
You probably might like to stay at USVI probably better there than mainland USA. Note from a Canuck.
Are you still in Charlotte Amalie bay? Would love to stop by and say hello.
Oh sorry, we have not read all comments yet. We are at Lindberghs bay but we will go back there for provisioning before we leave. We also take the dinghy there sometimes. are you anchored there? Send us an email at info@sy-hilma.com if you are :) That would be great!
Sorry you had such a bad experience in the BVI, the people of the BVI are wonderful but customs officers are usually rude, we have been going there on and off since the early '80s. Safe travels
Did you see sailing doodles? They are in the usvi
We have not seen them yet ☺️
do you really need a lot of money to sail around the world ? except cost of the boat
You should be glad you're in the USVI. I was there 30 yrs ago with my gf on vacation from a job in Puerto Rico, fantastic place. You should also be glad you're not in Sweden. The idea that the spread must follow its natural course to build flock immunity in the population has resulted in fewer restrictions as compared to the rest of the world: pre- and primary schools, ski resorts, public transport, bars and restaurants, etc are still open. Last week Sweden had comparable number of deaths to Norway (not sure but about 10),,, as I write Sweden has 105 deaths, Norway 19. Nobody understands Sweden.
It makes no sense that if a boat arrives with 2 people after being on the water for longer than (14 days really) 3 weeks that that boat couldn't get supplies and then leave again. In 3 weeks you either had the virus and are immune or you never had the virus in the first place. Ok add a week and let's say 4 weeks for extra extra safety. But there is a time line that is safe . Play safe, and sorry some customs agents have lost their souls doing such a difficult job.
People are not rational beings. Thats why.
@@rorytennes8576 very, very, very well said. And thank you for being awake in life. ⛵
@@rorytennes8576 I guess you are saying that you (a "people") are NOT a rational being!!
You, in that respect, are correct.
The majority are more rational then you present yourself.
Cheers, and stay safe.
where can I find a swedish girl like that??...asap!!:)
When somebody is rude to you, don't get angry, stay composed and reciprocate by being even ruder.
Can’t you afford a “wind sock” for your microphones?
Quit listening after a few minutes..
Maybe will sub, we’ll listen to one more and see if quality improves
We actually bought one but maybe it's not good enough :)
Awesome description of the cov 19 situation for sailboats. At least you could get Gas and store food for a while. Meanwhile you dont want to be in the US. As you know it's horrible. it's good for you to not go ashore on mainland US.
i wonder what you will do for times to come because it's only the beginning. today we have in US over 10000
known cases. looking forward to new video.
thank you.
NO PLACE LIKE THE USA
Why are all of the cruisers complaining?
It is baffling. Truly baffling.
You dont have much to complain about compared to the rest of us who are landlocked.
Rory Tennes, I dont hesr complaining. quite a clear situation description. They can't land anywhere.
I didn't see any complaining! But, I think, they would have something to complain about if none of the Islands close by would take them! No? You do imply one thing that is so true.... Those of us that are lucky enough to be on a Yacht sailing around the world have no business complainin'. But, that said, a guy living on the street in San Francisco would say anyone in a nice apartment would have no right to complain. It's all relative.
Sailing Aquarius Around The World well said and western Society has taught all of us that nothing is good enough but we will now see how equal we all are across the globe 👍👍