Sail Life - Hello Netherlands ⛵ & new VHF handset (Garmin GHS 11i)
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2021
- After being stuck in Borkum (a small German island) for most of the week we finally make it to the outskirts of Amsterdam
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I don't think I have ever seen two people who are more perfect for each other than you two.....So cute. Been following Sail Life since the first video.
The harbour near Amsterdam is Ijmuiden. Since I live in Amsterdam but am Norwegian, I can “translate” the letters of that place into something useful. The letter combo “ij” is pronounced as “ei” is Scandinavian languages, thus pronounced “æi”. The letter combo “ui” is like the Scandinavian “au” sound, thus pronounced “æu”. That means the whole word in Scandinavian phonetics is: Æimæuden.
Amazing ..
.. translation of Danish to Scandinavian in phonetics explained in English... 🐱 ...
This and Tally Ho, makes my day. Cheers!
It's so nice to see you underway, the transition from DIY-only videos to recording your passages has been seamless, and still qualifies as edutainment. Good luck and I look forward to your coming adventures.
Don't worry about the people complaining about your upload time. You don't owe them anything.
I'm suing.
"There goes my dream of getting scurvy like a real sailor" really truly made me do a spit take. Thank you for that hahaha
*Rebuilds sailboat*.... motors all the way to the UK! lol I love it.
Binge watching and the layout and the shower and so much more is for DIY excellent! Also when you say Eva's name you can hear that she is your beloved!!! We wish all your sails to be wonderful!
When you finally get the shower working don't forget to conserve water by showering together. Very important on a long cruise (lol). I was afraid earlier that you weren't able to make a video because you were in transit but it finally appeared. You never fail us Mads. Thank you for the update Mads and Ava. Looking forward to seeing more of your trip to England.
Showering together is always a good idea! Saves water and stimulates closeness also...
:-D
And you have an easy way to get your back scrubbed.
And if the boat gets suddenly jolted by a wave, you have something softer to land on than just the wall. Well.. one of you does, anyway! 😁
By far this is the best DIY channel on UA-cam! Both of you look so happy. I can hardly wait to watch your sailing adventures.
Fair winds and calm seas. And a hearty thank you for your efforts.
I've been working on my Cal 2-46 for the past 6 years, tackling many of the same projects you two did aboard Athena. Seeing you leave the dock and make way fills me with the excitement that maybe one day I'll do the same. :) Fair winds!
The U. S. Navy had "WD 40" developed for use to eliminate moisture build-up on their fleet of ships, therefore reducing RUST. It has some forty to sixty uses, depending on who you talk to. We use it for EVERYTHING! It's an aerosol can. Spray it on the port interiors and wipe off any excess, (leave the film.) It works on mirrors too. FYI, its name comes from the government contract, "Water Displacement 40." Yes, the fortieth attempt worked!"
Checking in from Boston, Massachusetts. Love following your adventures!
Tip for the rocking absorbers: try it with bicycle tire tubes. Fold it, one knot in the rope one end, twist the rope around the tube several times, knot at the other end, ready. Good Journey!
I love the new combination of DIY and cruising. All the issues may never stop happening, that’s what cruising is like.
Any progress is good progress. Coms at the steering station is always ideal, glad you got it sorted out before you headed to real big water.
Athena is looking magnificent. Fair winds when you both make your crossing over the North Sea and through the English Channel. A warm welcome to you guys when you come alongside in the UK.
New Country Ritual is adorable
It still doesn't feel real to me that you're actually on the move! I love how this channel is going to transition. I know have two sailing/traveling channels I love! You and Drake (of course). Fair winds and following seas!
Good luck getting your extension Eva .
I so appreciate the extra effort you put into maintaining your video uploads in the midst of all you have going on!
That weather forecast looked great for a westerly course right now - go for it.
Hi Mads! So good to see you sailing again. Don't put too much effort in eating all these healthy grapes and bananas. To effectively prevent scurvy each of you would have to eat 2 kg of grapes or 1 kg of bananas daily. This means you will have to provision 8 kg of grapes if you plan to do an overnight sail. :)
So good to see your adventures begin.
Oh the Schengen shuffle! You know that you can leave Schengen area and be a vessel in transit? Provided you anchor and do not go ashore. But, your pretty short of protected anchorages on your route. If you need and help or information on the UK from Dover to the Scilly isles along the uk south coast we can help out with marina's anchorages and local knowledge etc. This was our stomping ground for 30 + years. Happy to help you out. Sail Safe Guys, Ant, Cid & the pooch crew.
The boat is so lovely. So pleased for you both that you are travelling well.
Welcome in Holland, good to have you here!
For this season I got a couple of Poly lines Storm X mooring lines. That's mooring lines with built-in flex so I don't need the large rubber compensators. Those lines have really been great this summer and saved us a lot of disturbed sleep on windy nights. I would recommend those lines to anyone.
Just a tip on snatching mooring lines. I have used old climbing rope as a second line. This has lots of stretch and by using different lengths you can “tune” the spring. It’s cheap and you can get it in long lengths and use it as a long line as well, although it’s a bit stretchy for that.
Hi Nice to see you and Ava starting to enjoy your fruits of your labour over the last 5 odd years. Cheers Ian New Zealand
Stellar storytelling. That is something that really stands out. Keep it up, guys.
Very cool seeing you use all the toys you've installed!
Hey it’s great to see you finally sailing this dang thing. Enjoy the uk and all future adventures!
Hey Mads and Ava it’s so good to see that after all those years of hard work, you now are getting to enjoy being together on Athena. I wonder Mads could you perhaps in time once you have lived aboard and travelled distance on the boat perhaps make a video regarding how well all the equipment and systems upgrades/installations have worked. Are they meeting your expectations and if not what problems you might have found or perhaps built differently into the boat.
If nothing else Athena is an absolute credit to both of you given how hard you worked on it over the past 5 years. Fair winds to you as you embark on this journey together.
So happy to to see you are on your way & doing well. You two are so good together. Love Ava’ s smile. Better than crossing my fingers I am lifting your request for an extension up in prayer. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Wow, what a difference to see you out at sea, finally! Let the adventures really begin, many congrats, Athena looks like a sturdy sailor, fair winds.
Good video! Happy to see you embarking on your journey!
After all of the years watching you building a boat your being underway brings a new flavour to your channel. It’s a nice change. I trust you’ll settle into a more relaxed pace soon. They say gentlemen don’t sail to windward and I’ll add they also don’t like sailing to a schedule. Safe journey.
So good. Can't wait for more.
I was getting worried about the video. Better late than none. I liked the new intro.
I'd rather have no video.
@@tomypreach seriously? Just stop..
Good luck with the Schengen application. Depending on that and the wind, Ijmuiden to Harwich might be your best bet for the crossing. Unless it's dead on the nose, you should be able to do it in 24 hours. Leave late morning and do the Dutch shipping lanes in the light. You won't see a lot of shipping in the middle. Leave the N Shipwash to port and make your approach inshore of Harwich Shipping Channel in the light. You stay north of all the shipping that goes to Rotterdam or Harwich. Tide is no issue. Once you get into Harwich you have the choice of four or five marinas or anchoring.
👍🏻 heartwarming stuff guys!
So nice to see you under way!
I am so happy that you two are living the dream
So nice to see you sailing. Looking forward to next week.
So happy for your video uploads. Y’all look fantastic! Keep smiling and be safe!
Happy sailing. Stay healthy.
Good luck guys👍🏻
Thanks for the video. So happy to see you guys out sailing. Fingers crossed for Eva.
Welkome to the Netherlands! How nice that the journey so far is going wel! Following you with interest! Keep up the good spirit!
time to replace your companion way trim and doors :) Love seeing Athena on the water! Have a great week!
Oh GLORIOUS motoring.
You guys are wonderful. My favourite sailing channel. Thanks!!
I was so excited when you said you were headed to Vlieland. But I was gutted when you left so quickly. It's such a shame, it is *BY FAR* the best island in the world, by a huge margin. It's such a shame, I really hope you'll be going back some day...
So exciting I feel like it’s been a diy adventure and now a travel adventure !
Safe travels and blessings!
Good luck guys 😃
It's so awesome to see you guys transition into cruisers.
Best part of every sunday
I have worked with visas for many many years. Overstaying your visa is not big deal if you don´t have plans to extend your visit in schengen. Due to the fact that Eva is already on the maximum 90-days visa, she can´t extend any ways. What she could do is apply for temporary resident permit. Note that the permit is only valid for that specific country. Also one important thing that a lot of people get wrong, the date in the top right corner is NOT that last day of your stay. To know the last valid date you need to count number of days you been inside of schengen.
My advice for you guys is, make it to your last stop inside schengen (France?) before you overstay your visas. You can easily apply for a permit to stay for longer, it should not be a issue. If you have any questions let me know and i will try and help you out.
So good to see you guys underway. Take care. Looking forward to the next one!👍
Well done, its great to see you both out there.
Great video, will be glad when you guys can slow down and start enjoying the ports you pull into. Good luck on the extension. See you next week
Great video guys, stay safe
Good times!
Good luck and keep safe
Good to see you out sailing. The camera placement at 15:05 was really cool.
So happy to see you guys out on the water! I have been a fan since the beginning! We moved aboard our own yaght Tecumseh V in August in Croatia. We are also playing the 90 day game down here with extensions and all that good stuff!
Welcome, Mads and Eva, to the land of my ancestors. Great to see Athena underway.
Well done you two 👍🏻👍🏻
Getting close to 100k subscribers! Great series I have followed from the beginning.
Going well!
Can't wait to see what's next...
Wonderful video, guys! So impressed that you are uploading so consistently! Love to hear about the details of the places you're stopping.
Athena's looking good!! 👍👍
I think the most of us will be honored if Eva is allowed to stay longer in our Schengen area. Enjoy your journey!
The rubber ones are great. I brought the metal spring type in the summer while stuck in Guernsey after a day of working well they started grinding which traveled through the boat and amplified in my cabin at night and day oil worked for an hour, so first thing in the morning I was back down and brought the rubber ones which were much better and Ive had no problems with them so far.
So happy for the two of you. Hopefully I will get our boat ready for full time cruising.
I'm down to 4 big projects to make her a cruising boat. Sails, GenSet repair, Hardtop, and 1200 watts of solar on the Hard Top. I've been working on her since I bought her in 2015 to get her cruise ready.
Bought her with the cockpit sole cut out for easy removal of the GenSet and Propulsion Engine. The previous owner had no idea what he did when he did that. I found a GenSet and Engine with transmission on Craigslist for a good deal and paid to have them installed. Hired a friend of a friend to reinstall the Cockpit sole. I didn't know nothing about fiberglass and if I saw your channel before I would of done it my self. He basically tabbed in 3/4 inch marine plywood and put 3/4 inch of fiber glass over it to recreate the strength of the center cockpit. What the previous owner didn't know was by cutting it out he compromised the entire structure of the boat. My friend's buddy said that thicker is better because the stress on that center cockpit in an angry sea is astronomical.
The GenSet failed after 3 years of use and for that I need to replace the head. No problem though, the engine is strong. If the boat yard I had her stored in before I got her in the water took better care the GenSet probable would be still ok. They damaged the shrink wrap and didn't tell me so the GenSet and Propulsion engine was rained on for a year before I knew there was a problem and had my buddy's friend put the cockpit sole back in. The boat was 2k miles from me so I couldn't keep an eye on her and trusted the boat yard I was paying to do that for me. Anyways, I'm so happy for you and hope I'm there soon.
The summer of 2018 my father and I went to her and finished what was needed to get her in the water and take her from Cape Cod, MA to Destin, FL. Alot of hard work paid off and that trip was epic. Can't wait to top it once she is off grid ready.
Really enjoy your channel and you have tough me alot so I can do so much more on my own.
Blessings to you both! Take care on your leg to the U.K.
I like the dark footage from early morning leaving the marina, although grainy it gives a sense of the atmosphere and conditions you were in.
keep pushing along it will work out !!!
You literally pulled into the same spot in IJmuiden as I did when hopping from Lowestoft. A mere 18 hours non stop hand-steering & dodging container ships, in less favourable conditions. Good luck on the hop.
Cheers to both of you! So happy to see you actually sailing :) I wasn't able to put our boat in the water this year so it's great to see you on the go! Bryan
Love your show xxx
Just wondering how the hinge on the extra spiffy DIY frig worked out.
Keep up the great work. I never thought you would be sailing that boat this soon. You seem very happy now.
Good to see you both again. It has been fun to follow your progress on Marine Traffic. Ran ll is a little ahead of you.
Fedt at se jer på vej !!
Good luck with Ava’s Schengen extension!
It’s hard to believe Eva has already been in Europe for nearly three months. We felt the drudgery of waiting for her along with you Mads. The boat looks phenomenal. I hope there’s some footage of the shower build that we might see at some point. We understand you were in a time crunch before Eva arrived.
Nice video - definitely worth the wait. Sailing on a schedule sucks, hopefully you get an extension to allow you to slow down and enjoy the stops along the way.
Glad and relieved to see 👀 a video 📹 today. I admit i was a bit worried. But thanks for this week's video 📹.
I can't wait tell you have finished most if not all your boat projects and give us a tour. Ok untell next week, Aloha from the Big Island 🏝 of Hawaii 🏝
Good to "see you" both again real trials and tribulations of sailing - great too watch. Good luck with getting to non Shengen UK
Sailing from marina to more marinas.. oh yeah.. life is good
The mooring snubbers are great but also using 3 strand vs braided gives a lot more stretch and shock absorbing by itself. The three strand and snubber is a belt and suspenders and work great together.
Such a great channel!
Welkom in my home country 😊😊
i hope you have a pleasant stay here 😊
3 strand nylon dock lines will help with the jerkiness too, double braid rope has substantially less stretch. My boat has 3 strand nylon for normal conditions and then I add heavier braided as extra backup for big storms
Depending on the gap in your head door frame, you might be able to put a few layers of tape about where the latch striker plate will go and the friction from this tape "wedge" might just keep it closed.
So good to see you on the move. When you need to motor into a headwind, you might try letting out some of the jib and motor sailing. It gives you some more speed and smooths out the ride. I also do this when motoring into very strong headwinds, letting out maybe 6'-8' of the fib and sheeting it tight (almost to centerline) then falling off just far enough to fill it. It gives the extra power needed to punch through the waves instead of riding up and over them.
Ah, I believe this is the vicinity of the setting for "The Riddle of the Sands", a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers