Just realized you guys have the same windless we have!! We are really curious to try in "action". Do you like it? Ohh and Marocco was one of the best food I have ever eat!! Duca
@@RiggingDoctor Everyone keep telling us to get an electric one but I won't do it before at least trying to get used to the one we already have for a little while. After that I might change my mind. hehehehehe
My big concern with electric windless is they can’t pull the boat up to the anchor. If there is a lot of wind and waves, you have to use the motor to help it and then they can still overheat under heavy use. This manual windlass has pulled the boat all the way up to the anchor in 35 knots of wind. It was really hard work and really slow but it did it never complained! On another occasion, our anchor chain fouled an old mooring anchor that was covered in anchors. The windlass pulled the whole assembly up to boat and allowed us to free our chain from the monstrosity. The mooring anchor has to be a few hundred pounds and the only reason we were able to save our anchor was because of this windlass. If you keep it greased, it will always work and that is an incredible safety feature that you won’t find on an electric windlass!
I hope you both are doing well and being safe. Austria is a gorgeous country! Give the lockdown a few weeks and hopefully we should start to see some improvements and possibly limited border openings.
Thank you for another amazing video and taking us along for the ride! A word popped into my head as I watched you sail into Africa - Brave!. It takes guts to live your dreams and carry them out and you both are doing it!! And we get to watch. You guys are awesome! Can't wait to see Africa.
I enjoyed watching the video, but kept thinking about you two "trapped" in Austria the whole time. I hope you're doing well and able to ward off the boredom from having to stay put. Seems everyone's plans and activities have come to a screeching halt and on hold the world over. I'm looking forward to your next video as you explore Morocco. That's one place I haven't been to, but I have been to ports and shipyards in West Africa and East Africa as a Port Engineer. I've also sailed in and out of ports in South Africa back in 1982. Those were all interesting experiences and have provided me with some great "sea stories."😀
Back in the early 80's I spent a lot of time all around Valencia (absolutely loved Benidorm) and down to Gibraltar. Made a few trips to Morocco... Tangier was pretty cool, Rabat just because and Casablanca. I mean How can you not go to Casablanca when your that close.
What happened to seeing 23 countries in 6 days? Great sail to Africa and no problems. Good to hear you like the transponder, and feel safe with it. Now time for new food, oh yes.
Thames Street Oysters will be here waiting for you! lol I have been to most of the places you are visiting (by air) and I have enjoyed this walk down memory lane while self quarantining. Plus you are a B-more couple. Love, love, love.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video, as I do all of your videos. I'm hoping to see an update soon as to your status in real time. Take care my sweet friends...
We are safe and warm in a house and there is an oven so I have been baking :) If you check out the stories on the UA-cam app on your phone you can see some of the things we have baked!
More sailing, yeah! Herby gets sick on the water, LOLOLOL! Can hardley believe it! Loved the slow sail and the sunset! The coastal lights at night, I miss that myself! Looks like a great marina and the food looked delicious. So what dish were you eating? And the name of the Marina for my log book! Hey, that's an idea for when you do get back to the boat, sharing someognook entries. Just a thought. Loved the video and the scene! Thanks for sharing!😁👍
Hope You are doing fine-in Austria! Like Your calm approach to sailing. Are You never charged up? Marine traffic shows a spot as a place to anchor in the middle of Atlantic -Banco del Hoyo, with a depth of 16-22 meters!
That might be the area we sailed through! We never know how much power we will need in the next port so we try to use as little as possible on the way so that we will have plenty of charge when we get there.
It’s attached directly to the shank with a shackle (no swivel, but I plan on getting a swivel soon). The anchor is too big for the bow so it pulls up alongside the chain stopper and is tied in place with Dyneema. To launch the anchor, I simply untie it and let it roll out of the bow roller.
Being anchored there for a few weeks and having the boat spin around with the current hock led the shackle. That’s actually why I want to put a swivel on it.
Thanks for the recommendation. Swivels are the weak point in an anchor rode and I didn’t have one to avoid said weakness. Hockling the shackle can snap something and is much more likely to happen than the rare swivel failure! I’ll see about getting a Mantus one!
Yeah, that’s why Maddie was talking about Halloween. From there we sailed to Gibraltar, into the Mediterranean, and went on a little road trip as far as Austria when the virus hit. We are editing the videos but they only go public once a week.
I usually buy them in a previous port so that I have the flag already when I arrive; I just wasn’t able to get the Morocco flag in Spain. When we left the US we had flags for the Bahamas, Bermuda, and Portugal (Azores). When we left Portugal we had flags for Spain. When we stopped in Gibraltar, we bought flags for the next several countries we will be visiting.
I thought that boats build before 1985 are normally exempt from VAT ? Can someone confirm? And Gibraltar, the Channel Islands, Isle of Man are in EU territory but not a part of the EU and its tax system.
Yes and no. If the boat existed “in EU waters” before 1985, then it is exempt. But if it leaves for two years, it looses the VAT paid status and owes it again. Also, a boat that paid VAT that leaves for two years will owe VAT again upon return to the EU. It’s a very efficient money grab!
This video was filmed in October (but of a delay between filming and publishing). The boat is currently in Spain and we are trapped in Austria! You can see it in action here: ua-cam.com/video/dPhW-bSXBrQ/v-deo.html
I can’t imagine how awful it is to get food poisoning while you’re sailing. Ugh. I wonder what it’s like to look back at this when you’re editing later and forced to remember it! Know you are now trapped in Austria...hope you stay safe
It’s actually really fun to relive these experiences through editing. The bad times are especially interesting because it’s something that I know we overcame. There have only been a few moments during our travels that were very difficult to relive and release to the public.
Too bad no one will buy an ocean crossed boat for at least 100k! If that were the case, I would start crossing oceans on every boat yard Freebie out there 😂🤣
Slippery Elm Bark Powder is a great remedy for any and all digestive related conditions. Not only that - it is a whole herb grown in Nature; has no side effects and it doesn't even taste bad - kind of like a mild maple syrup.
@@RiggingDoctor Have a great time in Tangier and visit the American Legation Center it is our country's first foreign embassy. Morocco was the first country to recognize U.S. independence. Also the cave of Hercules. From an American of Moroccan descent. (Obviously after this corona pandemic dies out).
These videos are quite delayed in their release and we have already left! I so wish that we had gone to the two places you recommended. We explored the old city of Tangier pretty extensively and went to Chefchaouen, which were both amazing.
Food poisoning? Yeah. From Herbie Jerky. The food, culture, language. Everything is different from you’re experience? YOU NEVER BEEN TO AFRICA. YOU HAVE ZERO EXPERIENCE. Who’s Herbie? Your lover? Becalmed? Who speaks that language these days?
We eat Herby Jerky all the time; it’s delicious. The food poisoning was from the kabob place. Herby has been to Morocco before. Herby is my husband. Becalmed is a sailing word that has probably fallen out of use since everyone motors when the winds get light. Being how we have an electric motor with very limited range, we do not have the luxury of motoring for miles on end when the wind dies down and we are then “becalmed”.
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Enjoy Morocco... I was there about 25 years ago..such an interesting place. -Rebecca
*_ BUT Patrick & Rebecca you have to admit that Morocco is more Arabic than African.... the cultures are like Chawk & Cheese! _*
Thanks for that! I needed a break from the other news!
Hope you 2 feel better. Glad to see you sailing again
Just realized you guys have the same windless we have!! We are really curious to try in "action". Do you like it? Ohh and Marocco was one of the best food I have ever eat!! Duca
The food was AMAZING!!! I could eat it every day. It’s a good windless, but it’s a lot of work to hand-crank all that chain!
@@RiggingDoctor Everyone keep telling us to get an electric one but I won't do it before at least trying to get used to the one we already have for a little while. After that I might change my mind. hehehehehe
My big concern with electric windless is they can’t pull the boat up to the anchor. If there is a lot of wind and waves, you have to use the motor to help it and then they can still overheat under heavy use.
This manual windlass has pulled the boat all the way up to the anchor in 35 knots of wind. It was really hard work and really slow but it did it never complained!
On another occasion, our anchor chain fouled an old mooring anchor that was covered in anchors. The windlass pulled the whole assembly up to boat and allowed us to free our chain from the monstrosity. The mooring anchor has to be a few hundred pounds and the only reason we were able to save our anchor was because of this windlass.
If you keep it greased, it will always work and that is an incredible safety feature that you won’t find on an electric windlass!
@@RiggingDoctor I have a Lewmar electric windlass which is a PITA! What make is your manual one?
Hello travelers.
Wondering where you are at these days.
We are in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Hi guys, thanks for the new video.
I hope you both are doing well and being safe. Austria is a gorgeous country! Give the lockdown a few weeks and hopefully we should start to see some improvements and possibly limited border openings.
As soon as it’s safe, we will start making our way back to the boat :)
@@RiggingDoctor You will! ❤
Thank you for another amazing video and taking us along for the ride! A word popped into my head as I watched you sail into Africa - Brave!. It takes guts to live your dreams and carry them out and you both are doing it!! And we get to watch. You guys are awesome! Can't wait to see Africa.
What an excellent adventure. Thanks for sharing it with us :)
I enjoyed watching the video, but kept thinking about you two "trapped" in Austria the whole time. I hope you're doing well and able to ward off the boredom from having to stay put. Seems everyone's plans and activities have come to a screeching halt and on hold the world over. I'm looking forward to your next video as you explore Morocco. That's one place I haven't been to, but I have been to ports and shipyards in West Africa and East Africa as a Port Engineer. I've also sailed in and out of ports in South Africa back in 1982. Those were all interesting experiences and have provided me with some great "sea stories."😀
We are doing well. Maddie has been editing like a boss! She is finishing Episode 36!!
Back in the early 80's I spent a lot of time all around Valencia (absolutely loved Benidorm) and down to Gibraltar. Made a few trips to Morocco... Tangier was pretty cool, Rabat just because and Casablanca. I mean How can you not go to Casablanca when your that close.
What happened to seeing 23 countries in 6 days? Great sail to Africa and no problems. Good to hear you like the transponder, and feel safe with it. Now time for new food, oh yes.
Hello from Baltimore. I hope you both are safe and well
Hello! Hope you’re staying safe too! Missing Baltimore right now...
Thames Street Oysters will be here waiting for you! lol I have been to most of the places you are visiting (by air) and I have enjoyed this walk down memory lane while self quarantining. Plus you are a B-more couple. Love, love, love.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video, as I do all of your videos. I'm hoping to see an update soon as to your status in real time. Take care my sweet friends...
We are safe and warm in a house and there is an oven so I have been baking :)
If you check out the stories on the UA-cam app on your phone you can see some of the things we have baked!
@@RiggingDoctor ok, glad to know you're in a house, safe and sound, baking goodies.
I know, being seasick is not funny! Again, wonderful to see you on the seas!
More sailing, yeah! Herby gets sick on the water, LOLOLOL! Can hardley believe it! Loved the slow sail and the sunset! The coastal lights at night, I miss that myself! Looks like a great marina and the food looked delicious. So what dish were you eating? And the name of the Marina for my log book! Hey, that's an idea for when you do get back to the boat, sharing someognook entries. Just a thought.
Loved the video and the scene! Thanks for sharing!😁👍
The marina is called Tanja Bay Marina and the fish is called Tagine :)
Thanks! And BE/STAY SAFE!!!🍻🇺🇸🙏🙏🙏🙏🌷
Hope You are doing fine-in Austria!
Like Your calm approach to sailing. Are You never charged up?
Marine traffic shows a spot as a place to anchor in the middle of Atlantic -Banco del Hoyo, with a depth of 16-22 meters!
That might be the area we sailed through!
We never know how much power we will need in the next port so we try to use as little as possible on the way so that we will have plenty of charge when we get there.
What the heck is with your anchor? Can you explain how your rode is attached to the shank?
It’s attached directly to the shank with a shackle (no swivel, but I plan on getting a swivel soon). The anchor is too big for the bow so it pulls up alongside the chain stopper and is tied in place with Dyneema.
To launch the anchor, I simply untie it and let it roll out of the bow roller.
Being anchored there for a few weeks and having the boat spin around with the current hock led the shackle. That’s actually why I want to put a swivel on it.
@@RiggingDoctor Go with the Mantus swivel. EZ PZ to install and so well engineered. You'll appreciate it, Herby.
Thanks for the recommendation. Swivels are the weak point in an anchor rode and I didn’t have one to avoid said weakness. Hockling the shackle can snap something and is much more likely to happen than the rare swivel failure!
I’ll see about getting a Mantus one!
Good vid ya'll, you have to be really careful about buying street food, but you know that now....lol.
Lesson learned 🤮
Maddie, my wife suffered from cold sores/fever blisters until a friend tipped her to “Lysine”. Taken daily, no more flare ups. Best wishes.
Thanks! I’ll look into it!
Hello holly crap seaway robbery. Saludos
Did you tape this last year in Oct.because today is 3/29/2020
Yeah, that’s why Maddie was talking about Halloween.
From there we sailed to Gibraltar, into the Mediterranean, and went on a little road trip as far as Austria when the virus hit.
We are editing the videos but they only go public once a week.
Hi RD! Do you travel with all the country flags for when you check in? Or do you buy a country flag when on land checking in?
I usually buy them in a previous port so that I have the flag already when I arrive; I just wasn’t able to get the Morocco flag in Spain.
When we left the US we had flags for the Bahamas, Bermuda, and Portugal (Azores).
When we left Portugal we had flags for Spain.
When we stopped in Gibraltar, we bought flags for the next several countries we will be visiting.
I thought that boats build before 1985 are normally exempt from VAT ? Can someone confirm? And Gibraltar, the Channel Islands, Isle of Man are in EU territory but not a part of the EU and its tax system.
Yes and no.
If the boat existed “in EU waters” before 1985, then it is exempt. But if it leaves for two years, it looses the VAT paid status and owes it again. Also, a boat that paid VAT that leaves for two years will owe VAT again upon return to the EU.
It’s a very efficient money grab!
Former windsurfer from Baltimore? BABA says Hi!
He’s from Puerto Rico lol
💙
"Try our friends Jerky!!!"....cut to....."we're both so sick!"
Lol! That was some special editing. It was definitely the kabobs! We’ve been eating the jerky ever since
What does, "it sucks" mean?
Doesn't Spain have the virus pretty bad??? I would just keep sailing by there
This video was filmed in October (but of a delay between filming and publishing).
The boat is currently in Spain and we are trapped in Austria! You can see it in action here: ua-cam.com/video/dPhW-bSXBrQ/v-deo.html
One of your most used words while sailing "becalmed" just seems to be your luck!!!!
I do choose calm over storm when we plan a passage :)
I would rather sit in the cockpit and look at the horizon than hold on while hove to!
@@RiggingDoctor I would have to agree with you on that!!!
you know..there is a way ......to keep the boom from smaking left and rite...
I really hate setting up the preventer 😅
Morocco is in lockdown please respect that.
This was in October.
@@RiggingDoctor 10-4 stay safe sir.
I can’t imagine how awful it is to get food poisoning while you’re sailing. Ugh. I wonder what it’s like to look back at this when you’re editing later and forced to remember it!
Know you are now trapped in Austria...hope you stay safe
It’s actually really fun to relive these experiences through editing. The bad times are especially interesting because it’s something that I know we overcame. There have only been a few moments during our travels that were very difficult to relive and release to the public.
"If it crossed an ocean it's worth at least $100.000" If only. Too bad the VAT dosen't come with a residence visa.
Too bad no one will buy an ocean crossed boat for at least 100k!
If that were the case, I would start crossing oceans on every boat yard Freebie out there 😂🤣
:)
Drinking coco cola helps with a bad stomach
Unfortunately, I don’t drink soda 😓
Slippery Elm Bark Powder is a great remedy for any and all digestive related conditions. Not only that - it is a whole herb grown in Nature; has no side effects and it doesn't even taste bad - kind of like a mild maple syrup.
Does anyone outside North America acknowledges halloween?
It was starting in the Azores when we were there
Businesses have realized that it’s a great way to boost sales and therefore are adopting it
Portugal also does “Black Friday” type sales on our thanksgiving time, but the sales last for a week and they call it “Black Week”
Unfortunately yes.
Arrive in Morocco to try North African cuisine...eats at a Lebanese restaurant in Morocco...🤔
Lol! I know. But it was highly recommended to us and not touristy. Don’t worry, we’ll eat as much as we can later!
@@RiggingDoctor Have a great time in Tangier and visit the American Legation Center it is our country's first foreign embassy. Morocco was the first country to recognize U.S. independence. Also the cave of Hercules.
From an American of Moroccan descent.
(Obviously after this corona pandemic dies out).
These videos are quite delayed in their release and we have already left! I so wish that we had gone to the two places you recommended. We explored the old city of Tangier pretty extensively and went to Chefchaouen, which were both amazing.
I hope you stay in Europe this days, and not in Morocco
We are currently in Austria! (Real-time updates on Facebook)
Dont ya just love those taxes. When we think we have it bad, we just need to look at those real socialistic countries. Dang, thats highway robbery.
Haha! I wish that they would pay you the value they claim it to have if you don’t want to pay the taxes. See if they still think it’s worth 100k!
typical americans… expect everything but cry endlessly about having to pay for it.
Food poisoning? Yeah. From Herbie Jerky. The food, culture, language. Everything is different from you’re experience? YOU NEVER BEEN TO AFRICA. YOU HAVE ZERO EXPERIENCE. Who’s Herbie? Your lover? Becalmed? Who speaks that language these days?
What on earth are you talking about
We eat Herby Jerky all the time; it’s delicious.
The food poisoning was from the kabob place.
Herby has been to Morocco before.
Herby is my husband.
Becalmed is a sailing word that has probably fallen out of use since everyone motors when the winds get light. Being how we have an electric motor with very limited range, we do not have the luxury of motoring for miles on end when the wind dies down and we are then “becalmed”.