We ABANDONED our BOAT in the TROPICS Did we leave it too long? Ep.151 | Sailing SV Cordelia
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Returning to our ABANDONED home Cordelia, never did we think that we would find such a mouldy filthy mess. On top of that we also find things that were perfectly okay when we left but have somehow perished, broken or died during the time we've been away.
On a good note, for the first time ever we pick up our new Cruising Car and we are super chuffed.
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Thanks!
Thank you so much for your support, we really appreciate it. Glad you enjoyed the episode ❤️🥰⛵🐾
I'm sorry, but I love it when you bicker. You're very real and very normal folks. 😄
We're just a couple of normal folks, trying to get by. Glad you enjoy the bickering 😄❤️🥰⛵🐾
Oh I have sooo missed u 3 on the boat, I took my cupboard doors off, cut out the louvers and stapled in some Bird wire, looks great easy to clean, great air flow. 🐶💜sorry the boat wasn't cleaned for u, makes it's really hard to feel good about stuff. But I'm really stoked ur Back. Oh I love the new Mercedes, she's awesome, I saw the black one and went Oh Yeah!!! 👍Then saw urs and went, Oh well next time🤣 but she's got a good engine. Xxx hugs 4 Gus, just a tip, thieves look for nice looking motors, so I resprayed the scowling in camouflaged colours, it made it unique and looked like Sh!t😲😆
We've missed you too xx🐾
Haha! I would definitely like to do something about the louvre doors, but that is the bottom of our 'to-do' list for boat work, which seems to be longer and longer. We are really pleased with the new Mercedes 'Woody', never had a new one and its awesome. We lift her out of the water every day and chain her to Cordelia, to keep her safe. I know that Gus would let us know if anyone approached the boat so that's good too.
Thanks for your continued support. Sending. woof woof hugs ❤️🥰⛵🐾
It's. not necessary to be onboard for everything to go to hell in a bucket. A boat keeps it going without any supervision. The new dinghy looks great. So do Steve's pants in the outtakes. Love and miss you guys. Greetings from a rolly Porto Santo.
You are right, but at least when you're on the boat you can try and keep on top of it. We are chuffed with the dinghy, so happy not to have to pump every day twice a day lol
Love and miss you guys ❤️🥰⛵🐾
Steve and is little ditties!! ‘I’m beach fit’ and ‘my word is the law now’ had me pissing my pants!!
Great to see you both back and in your elements!!
All the best Richard.
Glad we managed to make you laugh. Yes, we're super pleased to be back on the boat.
Thanks for your support Richard, really appreciate it ❤️🥰⛵🐾
The dingy is BEAUTIFUL!!!!
Thank you, we are really chuffed too. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment xx
Cheers guys! 😊
Thanks for watching, we hope you enjoyed it 🥰⛵🐾
Great to see you's back on the boat it looks like you had your work cut out, Steve's camouflage shorts is the stuff of nightmares! It certainly looks very 'moist' out there lol. Your new tender looks the business. Looking forward to the next episode Dave and Helen.
Yes, its been a lot of very hard work in very humid conditions, but we are getting there. Steve's pants are famous, drives me nuts lol. Really pleased with our new tender too. Thanks for watching and commenting, really appreciate the support 🥰⛵🐾
What a perfect view of paradise guys 😂😂 love it keep it real 👍
It is paradise, but sometimes the reality is not so rosy! Thanks for watching 🥰⛵🐾
Just found your channel and can relate. We fly in/out of SE Asia and it takes longer and longer to close the boat up before we depart and equally longer to recommission when we return. Mould is a big problem, and we use vinegar, bleach, oil of cloves and anything else to try and slow it down. Like yourselves it takes us a week to re-climatize in the humidity. Our very flash 10-year center console electric start dinghy died last year and literally went to the bottom (whilst we were onboard). A new Highfield was ordered and being in SE Asia we went from a 55kg Honda 4 stroke to a 17kg Yamaha 2 stroke. The old RIB was fiberglass and all up weighed well over 200kgs - the new one less than 100. My back is loving it. Loved the sharp words when lifting the outboard. We set ourselves a 28 day no swearing challenge but never seem to get past day 1. Yes, I'm the 'CAPTAIN' on our yacht. My wife is quick to tell everyone this, but also in the same sentence that she is the 'ADMIRAL'
I love that 'I am the Admiral', I might adopt that lol
This is the longest we have ever left our boat and never in the tropics, so we learnt a lot. It has also made us consider where we sail to for next hurricane season and how long we leave her.
BTW, you are sailing in my dream place, its top of my bucket list but with a dog we may have make it a charter holiday rather than sail there ourselves. I really would love to do it in our boat though. Where are you from and have you ever met anyone cruising with pets? I'd be very interested then I can start on convincing Steve that that is where we should head.
Thank you for watching and your interesting comment 🥰⛵🐾
BTW, our dinghy is not as light as yours but we are super chuffed with it. The light Highfield was a little out of our price range but they are lovely.
@@SailingSVCordelia We are Australians (our families immigrated from UK 6 decades ago), based in Fremantle Western Australia. We worked and lived in Asia for a decade with pets and whilst there are quite a lot of folks doing this, bringing pets back into Australia is very challenging (and expensive). One way around this is where Ozzie folk take a 6-month sabbatical to UK/Europe then it becomes quite straight forward. After 25 years of bashing up and down the west coast (25knot sea breeze every afternoon), we decided to return to the tropics and have been in Thailand for the last 2 years. Next season we plan to sail Borneo and Kalimantan before heading down to Indonesia.
I thought it would take longer for the heat to affect Steve, but to be so delusional so soon thinking he is back in charge, and beach fit...so sad. well done on getting the outboard out and not injuring yourself, Annette, Gus, the outboard and Cordelia. You deserve a fizzy drink for that alone. Keep up the great work 👌
You know Steve very well, he spends most of his life in a delusional state...bless him. The outboard was a real achievement. Thanks for your continued support ❤️🥰⛵🐾
Great new dinghy 🥰🎉 bet cordelia is pleased to have you back too taking good care of her again 😊
Yes, we are really happy with the new dinghy, our first ever new one. BTW, we have seen lots of those Whally dinghys here in Martinique. Not sure if they are French but we are amazed at how many we've seen. Thanks for your fantastic support xx ❤️🥰⛵🐾
Steve, Annette will always be the boss 🤣🤣 xx
Absolutely until he is the boss hahaha! xx ❤️🥰⛵🐾 xx
@@SailingSVCordelia 🤣🤣
I AM THE CAPTAIN....NOW..... bless ..... love your jazzy pants Steve .... great to see you both in your happy place... love from S & G ❤xxx
You got to love them....bless them haha! Yes, Steve has lots of jazzy pants and will be showing them soon haha! Thanks for watching and your great support xx ❤️🥰⛵🐾 xx
We really feel for you with the clean up. From experience in tropical areas it is what we feared you might face although it does provide the chance for the big clear out that you had probably been putting off like we do. The new dinghy looks great though. Cheers R & K
Yes, we were dreading it but we both agree a massive clean out is good for the soul and the boat, thanks for your kind words. We love the new dinghy, definitely not a good as the AB, but price dictated on this occasion 🥰🐾⛵️
So glad you are back. Sounds like quite the adjustment to the heat until you get climatized again. Looks like Gus is happy to be on the water too!
Thank you, yes, we are super pleased to be back on Cordelia too. Gus just loves the water and seemed to remember the boat very well. Thanks for watching ❤️🥰⛵🐾
You need more vented doors to keep the mold off your drawers!!
Sorry the boat so bad, but glad y'all back !!
NOOOOOOOO! They are a nightmare, although I agree we do need more ventilation. We do wonder what she would have been like if we hadn't have done the prep work. Thanks for your support 🥰⛵🐾
7:03 seen a few channels actually remove them slats and fit stainless mesh in it’s place, looks easy enough if you can keep the outta frames and just attach the mesh to the rear with screws then neatly bead it with silicone to stop any sharp edges..
and it actually looks really modern without being overly expensive or difficult, basically you have the timber and either a chrome type mesh, but also looks good in black mesh, (black is far less obvious while chrome is a real statement)
That's quite a good idea. We are looking to do quite a major refit job next year so we may add that to the list. Steve will be pleased hahaha!!
@@SailingSVCordelia yeah the channel “building mistress” done a really good job of the mesh.. there’s other channels as well, just a way to make it look more modern but without a ton of money, but still allowing ventilation.. not a real drop everything kinda job, obviously Steve’s pants there were the biggest priority. 😂 kinda shocked UA-cam didn’t recommend this episode? Maybe too long between? No idea.. who knows will the UA-cam gods? I actually had to search to see if anything was uploaded, I assumed it was from facebook, pretty sad that another social media company is required to recommend a channel I actually follow…. I guess, well hence the need for our FB group?
@@trevhedges Absolutely, YTSC is booming. So many new channels along with the sad loss of a few channels. I'll have a look at Building Mistress, thanks 😊
4:31 wow a nice “welcome home” ? Omg!
It was bad, but what on would it have been like had we not prepped Cordelia 10months ago, I dread to think 🥰⛵🐾
You two are so funny. Loved the Ep and yeah the stifling heat and humidity was what made us leave the Caribbean. Everyone says "but you're from Australia, isn't it very hot there?" Yes it is but where we're from the heat is dry. Over 40 degrees Celcius it's warm but much more bearable than a humid 30 degrees. We'd been in the Caribbean for only 11 months, in St Martin at the time, planning to head south to Grenada but the heat was getting us down so much that we decided to head north to the US instead. Apart from doing the daily basics we were achieving absolutely nothing as far as deep cleaning and organising much below deck or even above for that matter due to the heat not to mention the bloody mosquitoes. Sightseeing was another thing we had no desire for either cos of the constant sweating. I don't like being freezing cold either (I have a health condition that doesn't like cold) but at least you can get some layers of clothes on. But I must admit I didn't expect Europe to be humid. I was born and grew up in Slovakia and guess I either forgot what the climate was like or it didn't bother me when I was a kid although I do remember the summers getting hot and sticky.
Good job on cleaning the mould in that heat Annette......take my hat off to you. That stuff just pops up out of nowhere. Looking forward to the next vid.
Having done most of the work in this heat and humidity I can understand why you made that decision to leave the Caribbean. We have spoken in length about how we are going to tackle the next couple of years in hurricane season, we definitely need to leave Cordelia and go back to the UK or Canada or even travelling somewhere else.
We were hoping to sort out our B1/B2 when we were in the UK but didn't have the time. We'd like to get that sorted so we can spend some decent time in the US, that would help with us going north for hurricane season. Its easier to warm up than to cool down.
Yes, the Med can still get quite humid but at least its only in short spurts.
Thanks for watching and supporting us ❤️🥰⛵🐾
You can still do it and be in the US next year for the hurricane season. You have heaps of time if you start slowly making your way north. We did ours in Nassau but I believe they can be done in Barbados. We couldn't go anywhere near Barbados because of our 3m draft. For you it might be more convenient than Nassau but take your time going through the Bahamas because it is so beautiful but again, with our draft we were very limited.
@@sailingladyaquitaine Ahhhh, didn't realise that. Thanks
I am the captain on or vessel and I'm in charge. (My wife said I can say that). Vacuum pack bags for your clothes when you leave the boat. They work a treat. Sail Safe Guys, Ant & Cid xx
Bless you....hahaha! Along with most men on OUR ships, we love to let you think and feel that lol.
We did use vacuum bags, but a couple of them eventually let the air in, which caused mold. Most of the stuff we vacuumed was fine though.
Thanks for the support ❤️🥰⛵🐾
Oh no! Boats do get moldy especially when unoccupied. But she's still beautiful. Travel does take it out of you. Oh, I was just going to suggest industrial strength vinegar, at least 30%. But you're way ahead of me.
Yes, we did use vinegar before we left a couple of times, but there was still quite a bit of mould. I suppose I should think myself lucky that I did use the vinegar because what on earth would it have looked like if I hadn't have used it 🥰⛵🐾
Steve is showing more T&A than a vagabon video lol Put your trousers on Tarzan!
@@SailingSaltwaterLanai_New 🤣🤣🤣 I love my Tarzan lol
With the sink - our "trinket/strainer" can be removed. Perhaps yours will unscrew? I like how you redefined my understanding of "UA-cam Shorts" 😉
You are right, we could just change that part but what I didn't show is that in the other sink there are holes in the actual bottom so we can't use that one at all. It's odd, the sink has always been a bit of an issue. We think before our time someone had used it to clean engine parts or something that you shouldn't do in a sink, as it is very pitted and where its pitted holes have appeared. I love the sink too because of its depth, its great for gutting fish in haha! 🥰⛵🐾
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First comment haha! Thanks for watching ❤️🥰⛵🐾
you can replace just the drain part of the sink.
Yes we could but what we didn't show was the awful state of the other sink where there are holes in the main sink too. Thank you for watching and your comment 🥰⛵🐾
I’m the captain on our boat and Hubby lets me make the decisions until he doesn’t agree and then we are a democracy, of course all problems are my fault as I’m the captain…. at least that what he would like to think…. 🤪 coming back to Cordelia in that state would have been heartbreaking but I know you’ll both have her spic and span in no time. Steve might wear out a few pairs of pants in the process.
It was heartbreaking seeing Cordelia as she was when we first arrived, however we are gradually slowly getting her back together. It has also allowed us to see her in a different light and realise that we need so much major work that we are looking at where we can haul out next year to do that work.
The pants are definitely coming out, all shades too hahaha! ❤️🥰⛵🐾
Leaving a boat in the tropics for hurricane/cyclone/typhoon season is always like this or many times even worse. Its one reason I prefer to sail out of the storm area. I would rather do two weeks sailing than two weeks cleaning mould. And thats not allowing for insect, rodent and even human intruders.
This is the first year we have left her and the longest we have ever left her. We did what we thought we should do when decommissioning her and perhaps it would have been even worse had we not done those things. It had made us reconsider what we are doing and where we are going, going forward. Thank you for watching and commenting, we really appreciate it 🥰⛵🐾
@@SailingSVCordelia many UA-camrs leave boats in the storm area for storm season, or even worse stay on board. As a cruiser and delivery skipper of 40 years experience I have seen this strategy go wrong so many times. At best it's alot of work as you have found out. As this Caribbean storm season has illustrated, the forecasting of tropical storms is very unreliable and any "safe" harbour which has more than a few boats sheltering will be unsafe in severe weather due to inadequate gear or inadequate practices. Just look at what happened in Cariacou this year.
@@deerfootnz We very nearly left our boat in Carriacou, it was that we couldn't eadily fly out with a pet to the UK that we decided not. The damage everywhere this year is devastating.
We are thinking Aruba next summer sovthat we can stay on over the winter period to do sone major boat jobs. Cordelia needs it desperately 😫
@@SailingSVCordelia None of the islands is absolutely safe. Just because they haven't had a hurricane doesn't mean they won't get one. My personal preference is to go to Panama or the Chesapeake bay. Even Trinidad has had 10 deadly storms in the past. I remember talking to the late Don Street in the mid eighties who advocated for Bahia Honda as a safe hurricane hole. A couple of years later it was hit with the loss of I think 300+ boats. Don then decided that nowhere was safe and I agree with him. Luperon has some advocates, but I wouldn't even consider it. If a storm hit then it would be carnage. Panama is safe, Chesapeake Bay is safe.
Our first frost last night
OMG what a nightmare. You should have worn masks not to breathe in spores
You are right, we should have work masks, although it is so hot I'm not sure we would have survived for long haha!
Hope you're not getting too cold there ❤️🥰⛵🐾
@@SailingSVCordelia currently in France 13.5c, due 18c tomorrow maybe 22c. Got ferry from Roslare to Cherbourg last night. I drove 3 hours on wrong side of the road at night and convinced John a hotel for the night would be prudent instead of another 45 minutes drive, try find wave dancer in the dark in the yard, set up ladder& find who knows what after 3 months away. Making a fresh start in the morning when we can see what we have to do
@@WavedancerWesterlyfulmar I thought you'd driven on the wrong side when I first read this then I understood what you meant 🤣🤣. We know all about find boats in the dark. At least the weather is not too cold.
Background music.
It's hard to listen to you when the music is also playing.
Just talk like your talking to someone in person and forget about the theatrical mumbo jumbo
We are sorry you couldn't hear us but thank you for watching and hope you enjoyed it anyway 🥰⛵🐾