Hey now you are in my neck of the woods Brazil but i an smack dab in the middle it's called Brasilia the capitol of this huge country ! Isn't there a ritual crossing equator like wear your everything backwards like your shirt pants ect, Sunday it is great to see @Sailsweetruca nothing but sailing and sailing and of course big smile's ! Thanks so much !
I crossed the equator on the Atlantic coming from the Canary Islands and skimmed past the Caribbean Islands to Bermuda was our next stop aboard TeVega that is now called Deva.
@@SailingSweetRuca I know. We were pretty far south. We ended the crossing off the coast of Brazil but couldn't see it as we were just outside there international waters.
I love the video. I'm glad you gave a little bit of History of your journey. People really need to go back and watch all of the videos to really absorb all of the great places you have been. It looks pretty hot but you guys are making the best of it. Great sailing shots too
Anther great video! Hello, from Michigan. Loved the MI t shirt. I applaud you both, that's a LOT of continuous days at sea.... We were giddy we took our 2022 opening sailing season shake down cruise yesterday. That was our big event, nothing at all like yours! Fair winds, we truly enjoy your videos! BTW, mustard (and egg) in the tator salad must be a Midwestern thing? That's how we do it, too! 😆 🤣
Thanks Mammagiggio! That's a super nice comment! Glad the sailing season is finally getting going, we know it all too well! Great to hear from another Michigander and glad we aren't the only ones to put mustard in our potato salad! Fair winds and hope you have a great sailing season!
Freighters in th night exchanging glances is the song on a dark night ocean passage. If th J46 sails anything like th 42 it's very stable and forgiving and nimble. Great video.
Great episode! Cool to see how far you have come! The Southern Atlantic is a far off dream of many, but you guys actually got there! Cool action shot on the JY15!
Kate, What are your ingredients in your potato salad, I noticed you had mustard on the counter, we would like to try your recipe as it looked interesting.... Congratulations on crossing the equator... John and Penny.. Ontario, Canada... keep safe....
Hey John! Great to hear from Ontario. All Sweet Ruca recipes are very much made up from my own mind with a little help from the internet. I think I'll have to write a short blog about this one! Thanks for the comment and check out our website www.sweetruca.com for a blog soon 😁
Amazing video. You all are killing me with these video's that has me so enthralled in the content that they seem to only last a couple minutes. Kate. I can't believe you put mustard in the tator salad. My wife learned years ago that is a no no. lol to each his or her own though. I loved the narration from both of you and the easy listening music is great. Yall keep having fun and stay safe.
Hahaha! I love hearing that about the mustard! I'm going to have to write a blog about this one. So glad you are enjoying the content and the story as we try to improve from week to week! Thanks for the comment and good to hear from you again 😊
Going slow and cruising, keeping the crew comfortable is the secret to a successful passage, arguably the swells have come all the way from Cape Town. Does Roxy have trouble going on the boat?
Stamina is just as important for speed and safety! I'll have to write an updated blog of Roxy's progress on the boat since she moved aboard! No she doesn't have any problems
Good video. Interesting to see your travels. Cool crossing the Equator. I’ve crossed the Equator four times in my life. Only by air. Even that was a good feeling. Twice on the way to Australia. Twice on the way to Peru. Would love to do what you guys have done at sea. Greetings from Northern Ireland 👍🇬🇧👍
Awesome! Tha KS for sharing your experiences Foster. It is such a unique feeling, you're right about that! Maybe we will see you in Ireland a long time from now. Cheers! Don't forget to follow our Irish friend @peterlawlesssolocircumnavigation
We've had to practice it a lot and we never really regret it! Stamina is just as important for speed and safety. But also it's easier on the boat and rig!
Make sure to catch up with Odd Life while you are there.. I can tell you 100% the water runs in reverse across the equator, I made sure to try it out in Kenya.. The gravity pull changes north to south literally across the street.
For landlubbers (from the interwebs): "Sailors who have already crossed the Equator are nicknamed Shellbacks, Trusty Shellbacks, Honorable Shellbacks, or Sons of Neptune. Those who have not crossed are nicknamed Pollywogs, or Slimy Pollywogs, or sometimes simply Slimy Wogs." Honourable Children of Poseidon, I'd say.
Awesome Ron! Sweet Ruca started her journey on Narragansett Bay! Check our early videos to see our experience! Good luck on all your future sailing adventures!
Love the video Guys - safe sailing and hope you get into your next port ok - did you have a dip off the stern when crossing the aqucator?? We did doing the Pacific not easy - more like dipping toes - anyway enjoy and really hope no structural damage from collision
You're so right! We did do a quick dip and even forgot to record it! Thanks for the comment and keep watching to find out the damage that occurred 😬 What was your journey in the Pacific?
@@SailingSweetRuca we were helping sail a friends yacht through Panama Canal and on down to Galapagos and then French Polynesia Islands which we fell in love with - amazing people and place. In November then we help bring the yacht from Mauritius to Capetown and then on to the Caneries. We're racers like you guys-racing J109s and J70s but love the cruising and one day we hope to do similar to you guys - your vids offer super inspiration for us wanting to do same - safe sailing Guys
Thanks D! We are not sure, but I bet someone is working on something like that. There is something called OSCAR being tested by Vendee racers which looks very interesting.
14:20 - you may not have a chef's knife sharpener on board - if you use the knife to shove things off the cutting board, turn the sharp side of the knife up and you blunt it less.
15:40 - you reefed because you don't want to mechanically stress the boat and its rig. Appreciated. Your boat is relatively light. I'm aware of a 12m monohull that was built for racing only, and she would fly from the top of a wave to the next where it dove into the top of that next wave. Bam. It was so light that even reefed more than you have, she would fly like a surfboard. This gives stresses that conventional sailing engineering cannot deal with. While you and I know that here's my question regarding your boat. When you fly the spinaker, does that lift the boat more out of the water?
The suspense killed us also! Sorry to have to put you through it, too! Also our Patrons have the luxury of finding out more if you're really curious! Thanks for the comment Dianne
Aww you didn't hit something this episode...Keep sailing. I was wondering does your dog bark constantly at birds now in the marina? Since training your dog, I was just wondering if that behavior has changed in a marina setting. I would think Roxy might get confused if told not to in a marina and won't do it at sea anymore.
Haha! I know we are supposed to avoid hitting stuff but UA-cam seems to like it... Roxy only really barks at birds if they are squawking a lot or of we get her amped up to do so. She's fairly quiet. Sometimes in a marina there will be what I call "a little yapper dog" and Roxy will enjoy a conversation with them. We usually try to quiet her in this case. She's usually pretty good, but of course can't resist a conversation with another dog at the marina from time to time. Usually we avoid marinas, but as you know it's sometimes the only option. Send our best to the Bed Pirate 😽
The carbon racing headsail or jib is a beautiful thing - but while a thing of beauty is a joy forever there's reality - how long is such a hi-tech thing supposed to last? From another sailor with racing sails, I got the impression they last much less long than more conventional sails, almost to the point I call them consumables. I would call the process of degrading "ageing" but this has two factors, time aside: first, exposure to the elements like UV radiation and heat or temperature fluctuations, and second, mechanical load (wind related forces). Somewhere there are causes of material fatigue in there and the thread and/or weave disintegrate. Here then, question is if there is any (spray) coating that can reduce the environmental causes of ageing.
Without looking at the calendar I couldn't tell you exactly, but right now we are generally 4-5 months behind in editing. You can find real time detailed updates on Patreon, our live tracker on our website www.sweetruca.com, and our Instagram also has some real time posts of what we are up to if you want spoilers ;-)
I unsubscribed because last week you said this week you were going to get to the damage caused by whatever you hit and you didn't. Than you basically did the same thing this week. If you weren't going to reveal the damage you never should have alluded to it, it should have come out in the normal course of telling the story of the trip. You revealed the ending of episode 12 at the beginning of episode 1 and that's bad story telling.
Thanks for the feedback Satguy. We are just doing our best and don't claim to be video experts. We won't find damage for some time, that is the real story!
@@SailingSweetRuca For me storytelling is like dating, before you have breakfast with somebody don't you really want to get to know them? I wish you well.
I rewatched the last video. Nowhere in it did Kate say the damage would be revealed in this video. In fact she said it would be revealed much later. But whatever. I almost unsubscribed once. I saw Curt scratch his head with his left hand. That ticked me off so bad I came close to doing it. But then I realized just how childish and petty that excuse was I didn't do it. Figured I would stay for the long haul because the content of their videos is just to good to miss.
You all don't get it do you, the story should have gone something like this. We hit something; we don't know what it was but we definitely hit something. It concerned us so much we stopped in the middle of the ocean to look, but didn't see much damage just a few scrapes. Then the following episodes, something's not right, we start investigating and find nothing new, but the symptoms are getting worse, and we start having problems. The episode that the damage is revealed is when we see the boat on the hard in the opening scene and in the episode sailing to the port and getting lifted out. I feel that's how it should have been done, it builds suspense, anticipation and gives us a desire to come back for more. That's my opinion, take it for what it's worth.
Put the boiled egg into a coffee mug and shake it like a washing machine for 3 seconds... take it out of the mug. Peel it will take like 2 seconds. If you need some help with Spanish, contact me so I can give you my phone number. Cheers!!!!
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Look forwad to your videos. Love it when people like you have a plan rather than just drifting from island to island!
Thanks Capfka! Glad you're coming along
Good to see you doing so well and happy even Roxy was smiling take care
Thank you 😊
Hey now you are in my neck of the woods Brazil but i an smack dab in the middle it's called Brasilia the capitol of this huge country ! Isn't there a ritual crossing equator like wear your everything backwards like your shirt pants ect, Sunday it is great to see @Sailsweetruca nothing but sailing and sailing and of course big smile's ! Thanks so much !
Always love comments about our smiles! I suppose we could have been more fun at the equator but it's hard in the middle of the night! Obrigado!
Great episode. Good captains, slowing Sweet Ruca down at night in the swells. Boat preservation is number one. Also keep smiling and having fun.
Thanks Peter! Will do!
Love the chart stuff you show
Hi Robert! Thanks for letting us know :-)
Awesome episode guys. That was super fun to watch. I love how Roxy is trained for your entertainment!
It's for her entertainment! 😆 But we have had some issues with bird poo!
I crossed the equator on the Atlantic coming from the Canary Islands and skimmed past the Caribbean Islands to Bermuda was our next stop aboard TeVega that is now called Deva.
Sounds like an interesting route!
@@SailingSweetRuca I know. We were pretty far south. We ended the crossing off the coast of Brazil but couldn't see it as we were just outside there international waters.
I love the video. I'm glad you gave a little bit of History of your journey. People really need to go back and watch all of the videos to really absorb all of the great places you have been. It looks pretty hot but you guys are making the best of it. Great sailing shots too
Glad you enjoyed it!
Part way through the episode! Great to see you guys and Roxy! I love that Roxy has a job now 😆
It is great to hear from you Diane!!!! We miss you and the rest of the soccer crew! Hope all is well!!! :-)
Congrats crossing equator 🇨🇦❤️
Thanks Yvonne!!! :-)
You’re good storytellers and a good looking cook 👍👍
Many thanks Andrew!
Shellbacks!
Congratulations!
🎉🎊🍾⛵️👍❤️
Thanks Scott!!! 👍 we finally have our shells now :-)
what an epic journey ,great video
Thanks a ton Bill!!!
Great edit Kate. Best yet. btw, toilets aren't big enough to reliably show the Coriolis Effect. There's a good Veritasium youtube episode on this....
Hi Steve! Thanks so much!!! Going to have to watch that Coriolis Effect Veritasium video!
Pollywogs Beware! Wish you could have crossed with me in the Indian Ocean, 19 July 79, aboard the USS Brewton, FF-1086. You had it easy!
I'm not complaining!
Anther great video! Hello, from Michigan. Loved the MI t shirt. I applaud you both, that's a LOT of continuous days at sea.... We were giddy we took our 2022 opening sailing season shake down cruise yesterday. That was our big event, nothing at all like yours! Fair winds, we truly enjoy your videos! BTW, mustard (and egg) in the tator salad must be a Midwestern thing? That's how we do it, too! 😆 🤣
Thanks Mammagiggio! That's a super nice comment! Glad the sailing season is finally getting going, we know it all too well!
Great to hear from another Michigander and glad we aren't the only ones to put mustard in our potato salad!
Fair winds and hope you have a great sailing season!
Freighters in th night exchanging glances is the song on a dark night ocean passage. If th J46 sails anything like th 42 it's very stable and forgiving and nimble. Great video.
Thanks! J boats are great boats!
Sounds pretty scary. Especially when it's in the middle of the night. Great job on the video
Thank you!
Excellent Man! Kudos! Welcome to the club.
Heya tatman! Thanks!!!! :-)
Hi Sailors, do you all ever drag a Lure? to supplement food?
Hi David!! Yes we do. We catch some stuff in past episodes.
Great episode! Cool to see how far you have come! The Southern Atlantic is a far off dream of many, but you guys actually got there!
Cool action shot on the JY15!
Thank you Kyle!
The alarm on my waffle maker goes off intermittent and is very obnoxious and annoying, but it makes great waffles. Love the episode. Thanks!
Hahaha! Your waffle maker is just like our boat! :-) Cheers Al!
Kate, What are your ingredients in your potato salad, I noticed you had mustard on the counter, we would like to try your recipe as it looked interesting.... Congratulations on crossing the equator... John and Penny.. Ontario, Canada... keep safe....
Hey John! Great to hear from Ontario. All Sweet Ruca recipes are very much made up from my own mind with a little help from the internet. I think I'll have to write a short blog about this one! Thanks for the comment and check out our website www.sweetruca.com for a blog soon 😁
Man you guys have a really cool set up. Picture of racer cruisers.
Thanks d p!
Amazing video. You all are killing me with these video's that has me so enthralled in the content that they seem to only last a couple minutes. Kate. I can't believe you put mustard in the tator salad. My wife learned years ago that is a no no. lol to each his or her own though. I loved the narration from both of you and the easy listening music is great. Yall keep having fun and stay safe.
Hahaha! I love hearing that about the mustard! I'm going to have to write a blog about this one. So glad you are enjoying the content and the story as we try to improve from week to week! Thanks for the comment and good to hear from you again 😊
Going slow and cruising, keeping the crew comfortable is the secret to a successful passage, arguably the swells have come all the way from Cape Town. Does Roxy have trouble going on the boat?
Stamina is just as important for speed and safety! I'll have to write an updated blog of Roxy's progress on the boat since she moved aboard! No she doesn't have any problems
Good video. Interesting to see your travels. Cool crossing the Equator. I’ve crossed the Equator four times in my life. Only by air. Even that was a good feeling. Twice on the way to Australia. Twice on the way to Peru.
Would love to do what you guys have done at sea.
Greetings from Northern Ireland 👍🇬🇧👍
Awesome! Tha KS for sharing your experiences Foster. It is such a unique feeling, you're right about that! Maybe we will see you in Ireland a long time from now. Cheers!
Don't forget to follow our Irish friend @peterlawlesssolocircumnavigation
Good to see Roxy at barking stations. I like how you can slow down Ruca and she still sails well, some boats roll a lot when the pressure is off.
We've had to practice it a lot and we never really regret it! Stamina is just as important for speed and safety. But also it's easier on the boat and rig!
Make sure to catch up with Odd Life while you are there..
I can tell you 100% the water runs in reverse across the equator, I made sure to try it out in Kenya.. The gravity pull changes north to south literally across the street.
Thanks for the tip!
For landlubbers (from the interwebs): "Sailors who have already crossed the Equator are nicknamed Shellbacks, Trusty Shellbacks, Honorable Shellbacks, or Sons of Neptune. Those who have not crossed are nicknamed Pollywogs, or Slimy Pollywogs, or sometimes simply Slimy Wogs."
Honourable Children of Poseidon, I'd say.
Most importantly - what was the Scotch used in the ceremony? Those with property in Spey Valley are curious :-)
Nice boat you've got there
Thank you Goffredo!!!!! Cheers!
A friend and i are getting certified for sailing in Narragansett Bay now. Hope to go on some long sailing adventures when we get more experience.
Awesome Ron! Sweet Ruca started her journey on Narragansett Bay! Check our early videos to see our experience! Good luck on all your future sailing adventures!
@@SailingSweetRuca thank you! I am now watching your channel : )
Thanks Ron! I promise the audio gets better as you go.. we are still always learning 😁
Congratulations on crossing the equator!!!
Thanks! Big milestone!
Love the video Guys - safe sailing and hope you get into your next port ok - did you have a dip off the stern when crossing the aqucator?? We did doing the Pacific not easy - more like dipping toes - anyway enjoy and really hope no structural damage from collision
You're so right! We did do a quick dip and even forgot to record it! Thanks for the comment and keep watching to find out the damage that occurred 😬 What was your journey in the Pacific?
@@SailingSweetRuca we were helping sail a friends yacht through Panama Canal and on down to Galapagos and then French Polynesia Islands which we fell in love with - amazing people and place. In November then we help bring the yacht from Mauritius to Capetown and then on to the Caneries. We're racers like you guys-racing J109s and J70s but love the cruising and one day we hope to do similar to you guys - your vids offer super inspiration for us wanting to do same - safe sailing Guys
Great episode, and really good new intro! Enjoyed seeing how you met!
Thanks! Sailing brings people together! 🥰
Thanks for putting mustard on your
Definitely adds flavor!
Another awesome video!
Would having a SONAR be the next 'must have' item for cruisers?
Thanks D! We are not sure, but I bet someone is working on something like that. There is something called OSCAR being tested by Vendee racers which looks very interesting.
👏👏👏
It does !
Nice Badfish shirt
Takes a keen Great Lakes racer eye to notice that one ;-) Nice!!!
@@SailingSweetRuca i have a couple of them also
14:20 - you may not have a chef's knife sharpener on board - if you use the knife to shove things off the cutting board, turn the sharp side of the knife up and you blunt it less.
👍🌊⛵🎣💯
Hi Vincent!!!!! :-)
15:40 - you reefed because you don't want to mechanically stress the boat and its rig. Appreciated. Your boat is relatively light. I'm aware of a 12m monohull that was built for racing only, and she would fly from the top of a wave to the next where it dove into the top of that next wave. Bam. It was so light that even reefed more than you have, she would fly like a surfboard. This gives stresses that conventional sailing engineering cannot deal with.
While you and I know that
here's my question regarding your boat. When you fly the spinaker, does that lift the boat more out of the water?
How do you do with the dog? Does it have a special plays to lay it's faeces? Like the urin? How do you solve that?
One day we will make a video about this, but the running joke we have is that she goes on the "poop deck". Lots of practice too..
Steam your eggs for 15 minutes, they can't be in the water. They peel easy.
We will have to try that sometime!
We really can feel your love for sailing but the suspens kill me...
The suspense killed us also! Sorry to have to put you through it, too! Also our Patrons have the luxury of finding out more if you're really curious! Thanks for the comment Dianne
Aww you didn't hit something this episode...Keep sailing. I was wondering does your dog bark constantly at birds now in the marina? Since training your dog, I was just wondering if that behavior has changed in a marina setting. I would think Roxy might get confused if told not to in a marina and won't do it at sea anymore.
Haha! I know we are supposed to avoid hitting stuff but UA-cam seems to like it...
Roxy only really barks at birds if they are squawking a lot or of we get her amped up to do so. She's fairly quiet. Sometimes in a marina there will be what I call "a little yapper dog" and Roxy will enjoy a conversation with them. We usually try to quiet her in this case. She's usually pretty good, but of course can't resist a conversation with another dog at the marina from time to time. Usually we avoid marinas, but as you know it's sometimes the only option. Send our best to the Bed Pirate 😽
@@SailingSweetRuca I told the bed pirate you said hi. He stopped "bed pirating" for just a second to look up.
The carbon racing headsail or jib is a beautiful thing - but while a thing of beauty is a joy forever there's reality - how long is such a hi-tech thing supposed to last? From another sailor with racing sails, I got the impression they last much less long than more conventional sails, almost to the point I call them consumables. I would call the process of degrading "ageing" but this has two factors, time aside: first, exposure to the elements like UV radiation and heat or temperature fluctuations, and second, mechanical load (wind related forces). Somewhere there are causes of material fatigue in there and the thread and/or weave disintegrate.
Here then, question is if there is any (spray) coating that can reduce the environmental causes of ageing.
The Surface of Water no matter the size or shape of the container is always Flat.
So how old is this video?
Without looking at the calendar I couldn't tell you exactly, but right now we are generally 4-5 months behind in editing. You can find real time detailed updates on Patreon, our live tracker on our website www.sweetruca.com, and our Instagram also has some real time posts of what we are up to if you want spoilers ;-)
@@SailingSweetRuca I don't do Patreon but I really appreciate the response.
I unsubscribed because last week you said this week you were going to get to the damage caused by whatever you hit and you didn't. Than you basically did the same thing this week. If you weren't going to reveal the damage you never should have alluded to it, it should have come out in the normal course of telling the story of the trip. You revealed the ending of episode 12 at the beginning of episode 1 and that's bad story telling.
Thanks for the feedback Satguy. We are just doing our best and don't claim to be video experts. We won't find damage for some time, that is the real story!
@@SailingSweetRuca For me storytelling is like dating, before you have breakfast with somebody don't you really want to get to know them? I wish you well.
I rewatched the last video. Nowhere in it did Kate say the damage would be revealed in this video. In fact she said it would be revealed much later. But whatever. I almost unsubscribed once. I saw Curt scratch his head with his left hand. That ticked me off so bad I came close to doing it. But then I realized just how childish and petty that excuse was I didn't do it. Figured I would stay for the long haul because the content of their videos is just to good to miss.
Thanks for the kind words Stubby
You all don't get it do you, the story should have gone something like this. We hit something; we don't know what it was but we definitely hit something. It concerned us so much we stopped in the middle of the ocean to look, but didn't see much damage just a few scrapes. Then the following episodes, something's not right, we start investigating and find nothing new, but the symptoms are getting worse, and we start having problems. The episode that the damage is revealed is when we see the boat on the hard in the opening scene and in the episode sailing to the port and getting lifted out. I feel that's how it should have been done, it builds suspense, anticipation and gives us a desire to come back for more. That's my opinion, take it for what it's worth.
welcome shellbacks
What a cool experience!
Put the boiled egg into a coffee mug and shake it like a washing machine for 3 seconds... take it out of the mug. Peel it will take like 2 seconds. If you need some help with Spanish, contact me so I can give you my phone number. Cheers!!!!
Thanks Jorge! We will have to try that sometime. Thanks for the offer!