Boat Life Comfort: Small projects, BIG impact
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
- Breaking Waves is a channel about Ben and Alie sailing the world in search of the best surf waves, and the adventures they find themselves in. SV Kiana is a 1989 Sceptre that has circumnavigated once already, Ben and Alie refit her to do it again!
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We just posted our first "State of Kiana" update. With four weeks to go (in real time), we are sharing our preperations and progress and emotional state with a weekly video diary until we leave on our Patreon page. We'll also be doing a live/cocktail hour before we cross. Check it all out at www.patreon.com/breakingwavessailing.
W0W! Living a life of luxury! Ha! That meal ya made sure looked Tasty!?
Wise words from Grace
New subscriber! 👍🏻
Thats some pretty sound advice from Grace! The rewards are worth it cause you earned them. Good video! All those "comforts" will pay dividends!
The one big benefit of having some hard times, it makes the good times so much sweeter. Looking forward to seeing you heading west.
True words! Feels VERy close now. Too close perhaps
You just answered my question
Bought the same ice maker last year for our RV…. Love it!!!
Love your videos, and I always enjoy the collaboration between channels. So much fun.
Thanks Tammy!
A partner that can sew, that’s a huge plus. I can pretty much do anything except sew.
A twinkle lit, cushioned comfort cockpit ??? You guys have got it all ! 😊👍
Yep yep!
Ice maker rocks! I have one also. For $100 thought about carrying a spare 'just in case'.
Legit!!
Boat looks great🎉
Thanks!
My very first boat upgrade was an ice maker. Bought it before I even bought the boat 🤪
Good decision!!
Cockpit light needs a colour changing led so you can have it red at night and white during the day!!
We have other red light sources
Bean Bag chairs for your cockpit
🤠👍
Do the twinkle lights go red by chance? That’ll be super useful if they do! Minor but important: do you have a chart where you can plot your daily or twice daily position just in case the instruments fail (assuming your compass and compass light works as well)? Stoked for you guys to jump the pond. It’s a great experience. Don’t forget to shift your main and jib halyards by an inch or so each couple/few days to prevent chafe! Tons of other little things to remember, but you’ll do great, and then you’ll see a paradise pop up out of the sea in what feels like the middle of nowhere, and it’ll blow your fricken minds!
They do not but we do have other red light sources in the cockpit :). For postion tracking we have our Raymarine Chartplotter as primary and Open CPN (separate GPS puck) as back up along with Navionics on both of our phones. Open CPN have electronic version of paper charts downloaded. We have both Starlink and Irridum go and we have an independent battery/solar system to
Power things up if we have a peor issue on our main system.
The main system. No paper, but enough redundancy and independent systems that we don't feel the need for it. If the satellites all failed, we'd be recording our speed/course and trying to track our position on Open CPN... but honestly if that happens, in this day in age, I think we might be better off staying out at sea!
@@BreakingWavesSailing Lol, if the satellites all fail, we'll see you out there!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Continuing to give us videos while you do these last minute projects before you leave. Do you intend to provide videos on a frequent basis while crossing. I know StarLink has really changed the ability to do something like that. It beats the old, 28 days later here we are in French Polynesia. Stay safe. ❤🙏
Thanks Steve! Ideally
We would have a couple videos edited and uploaded before the crossing that we can release during, but with so much still left to go before we go we'll probably struggle jsut to do stick with our current posting "schedule". Also Starlink is really expensive to use offshore so we won't be uploading long form videos but we might post a few shorts and Instagram reels e route :)
Needs more Bruce😂❤
Agreed
No red in the cockpit lite?
Other sources of red light
make holes in board for vents.ation
You are going to be arriving in French Polynesia at a great time. Try to stay there as long as possible. You will be the first Blue Water people surfing Moorea and Tahiti. I think there are ways to stay for a year. Get into the culture.
Does the bottom need scraping? Getting things done. Miss Bruce!
About once a month down here! We're due again but waiting until
Closer to departure. We miss him too
❤️🇨🇦🍻🌴
You guys should have put red lights in cockpit so you don't lose night vision.
We have red compass glow and our instruments in night mode out enough red light - we've thought about covering the overhead light with red for the crossing but not too concerned about it
Take it from an old timer sailor. Once you can't see land anymore ditch the clothes save on laundry and nothing like feeling true freedom. I realize you have a UA-cam channel to run but trust me you have an opportunity of a lifetime. Enjoy your younger years.
Good advice
Do you have some red lighting in the cockpit for night passage
Yep our compass glows
Red and our instruments have a nihht mode that gives off a dim red glow. Tends to be enough for us (we also have red head lamps)
As I have now caught up with all your posts, I did post a comment in your DIY Sailboat Upgrades regarding your failing dingy plus an essential I feel.
Are you two Canadian?
I thought you guys were in search of waves! Why aren't you going down through Central America and into Peru?
Atolls and reef passes make for far better anchorage/surf opportunities then the coast of the America's. Love
Those places for land based surfing but South Pacific is way more ideal for a surf and sailing adventure.