ep65 - Sailing Virgin Gorda part 1 - Sailing BVI - Hallberg-Rassy 54 Cloudy Bay - Mar 2019

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  • @DaveSunderland
    @DaveSunderland 3 роки тому +1

    Paradise indeed. And good guide to boot.

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      Thanks for the comment Dave. Glad you enjoyed it.

  • @mosca3289
    @mosca3289 3 роки тому +2

    There are cruisers and then there are elegant cruisers. Such a dream, thanks Cloudy.

  • @CDhunt
    @CDhunt 3 роки тому +1

    Man that’s so said seeing virgin gorda ripped to shreds. Especially the Bitter End

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      Yes, pretty bad. But not unespected in the part of the world.

  • @tearsinthesun799
    @tearsinthesun799 3 роки тому +4

    There’s nothing better than cloudy captain and bunny, thank you so much and all stay safe.....

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому +1

      Hmmm looks like you are getting to know us Todd! Thanks for the comment.

  • @dancundiff3316
    @dancundiff3316 2 роки тому +1

    Really great photography, reference points . The inset as before pics were amazing, and a little hear breaking. Irma was rough on our SW Florida home, now we await Ian, who is following the path of the destructive hurricane Charlie. Going to be along day.

  • @davidmiller2179
    @davidmiller2179 3 роки тому +1

    A beautiful boat slicing through the water!

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      Yap .. and we love filming her doing her stuff. Although on this video she was somewhat gentle.

  • @michaeldobson8859
    @michaeldobson8859 3 роки тому +1

    The nicest water and weather in any of your videos. I want clean clear water 💦!

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      I was looking that the chocolate brown Chesapeak water yesterday and thinking the same, Micheal. I dont even wnat to put the boat into it!

  • @peterconway6565
    @peterconway6565 3 роки тому +1

    And in HERE! Is the person cooking......'Ello!'. I adore you guys, you have no idea.

  • @spirostathopoulos1346
    @spirostathopoulos1346 3 роки тому +4

    Beautiful video!
    I like how you always turn and admire Cloudy Bay as you dingy away.

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому +1

      Spiro, we need to make sure she is going to behave herself! Like leaving a dog, you have to give them a good hard stare when you go. Then all is OK :)

  • @dalecharlesphoto
    @dalecharlesphoto 3 роки тому

    OMG OIL NUT BAY!!! Am on their website now, holy shhhh... lol Easily one of the best resorts I have seen in your vids. Great coverage and videography here, aerials.. what a sail!! wow wow wow

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      Yeah it was really nice Dale. Surprised they let a couple of tramps like us in - but I did specially put a shirt on for the occasion, and Oana of course was looking delightful as usual.

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому +1

      hahaha, that's exactly what I though when I saw that resort from the drone... hence we had to go and investigate from up-close. :) Definitely one of our fav episodes this one.

  • @DDixon3121
    @DDixon3121 3 роки тому +1

    Another excellent video with tons of information for someone who hasn't been there yet. Thank you!

  • @sjgreene785
    @sjgreene785 3 роки тому +1

    That is pure heaven on earth!

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      Yep, pretty nice. But did you watch the video from the week before, Episode 64 - Anegada? Now that's heaven!

  • @rickdaniel8478
    @rickdaniel8478 3 роки тому +2

    You sailors Rock !
    Great videos, thanks for sharing 😍
    Sail on mates !

  • @sebastianurban8151
    @sebastianurban8151 3 роки тому +2

    Excelente!!!! Muy hermoso!!! Los felicito!!!

  • @nortonmolly
    @nortonmolly 3 роки тому

    Very nice footage and commentary thanks👍

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      Glad you enjoyed it, Andrew. Not always sure narration helps but I think maybe it does.

  • @bobrose7900
    @bobrose7900 3 роки тому +1

    Another great sailing video from a previous time... bloody Covid! Hurricanes are a known risk, so why built a house on top of that rock! Surprising how well many properties survived in the sheltered bays - there's a moral to that. Did I detect a slightly under inflated dinghy? And who's complaining about 5 knots! Still, we may get out this weekend... fingers crossed. Can't wait to see you boat back in the water. Well done Glen and Ouana.

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      Thanks Bob ... yes we can't wait to be out again. But not till Oct I think.

  • @michaeldobson8859
    @michaeldobson8859 3 роки тому +1

    Wow, terrible to see the wrath of a large hurricane and how it erases the surface of the earth. Only the concrete structures are left, stripped of their wooden uppers and lush landscaping. Hopefully by now they have made more progress and are opening activities.

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      This was almost 18 months after Irma. But I think places are starting to open up again. Certainly the charter fleet was back up and running. But not sure how that is post Covid.

  • @richardwagner4443
    @richardwagner4443 3 роки тому +1

    Very, very nice, the explanations and drone flights are excellent, I hope there will be many more such reports.

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      Thanks for the compliment, Richard. We were wondering if the explanations added to the video or not, so your kind comment is nice feedback for us. Yes, more to come each Friday ... while we still have material to edit.

  • @music-man
    @music-man 3 роки тому +1

    Hey Glen. Richard must have rebuilt his house as it was struck by fire a few years back and Kate Winslet was in the house with her mum and if i am not mistaken he helped everyone get out of the house. I used to shop at the first record store he had on New oxford street in 1970 and it was upstairs. He was there everyday selling records. cheers man. xxx

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      Thanks Andy. I was'nt aware of the fire. Given what Kate Winslet did to the Titanic I'm surprised he let her anywhere near his beautiful home!

    • @music-man
      @music-man 3 роки тому

      @@SailCloudyBay Lol hahah. Cheers man. best to you both x Me and the wife are off to Hawaii.

  • @bayanicustodio3998
    @bayanicustodio3998 3 роки тому +4

    You two are so good.... I will be so looking forward to you two sailing after this pandemic slows down to let you two go sailing again. 👍🙂

  • @31pu
    @31pu 3 роки тому +2

    keep the videos coming! you're living one of my dreams and i imagine myself doing the things you are. especially like your maintenance videos!

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      Thanks for the nice comment. Yes, the maintenance videos always seem the most popular

  • @Mr.Alia63
    @Mr.Alia63 3 роки тому +4

    Magnificent drone work. It's amazing when you return to Cloudy after leaving her for one day or two, it's like going home

  • @ps4peace
    @ps4peace 3 роки тому

    Thank you once again for a stunning video!!!

  • @rayrussell2735
    @rayrussell2735 3 роки тому +1

    Amazing drone footage..

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      Thanks Ray .... We did seem to have the drone out quite a lot in that period.

  • @dreadnoughtb3364
    @dreadnoughtb3364 3 роки тому +1

    That water WOW 👍

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому +1

      It was kind of nice eh. But this was before we went to the Bahamas .... that water beats 'em all.

  • @Kamabushi999
    @Kamabushi999 2 роки тому +1

    In one of your videos
    Oana says
    we hope the dingy will be here when we return
    Now that is biatch!
    lol
    Also you left Cloudy 3 days unattended
    I could not enjoy anything under those conditions
    kudos to you
    It was the Saba Island trip on ferry I think.

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  2 роки тому

      Jake, we’ll dingoes and outboards often get stolen in the Caribbean. We had our outboard stolen in Puerto Rio.
      And yes it was SAba. But we had a neighbour look over the boat while we were away.

  • @mcd22630
    @mcd22630 3 роки тому +1

    I was surprised to see the two of you slumming it in Oil Nut Bay. ;-) I spent a week sailing around the BVI in 2016. Saddened me to see the devastation Irma brought to the islands.

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому +1

      Yeah we were a bit out of place there! But nice to see how the other half live ... when they are not working!

  • @lookituff1622
    @lookituff1622 3 роки тому +1

    wonderful!

  • @jeffhapke
    @jeffhapke 3 роки тому +1

    Love watching that gorgeous machine slice the blue. Will you be back to her in 2021?

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      I'm back with the boat now Jeff, doing maintenance. We plan to launch in the fall of 2021 and get going again.

  • @petertorrey4080
    @petertorrey4080 3 роки тому +1

    Speaking of the "Baths"....was working on a corporate yacht( Gallant Lady) and several of our guests almost drowned. I was in the water with them at the time....my panic was real..lol. Besides that...the Virgins are beautiful. I will certainly NEVER forget the Baths.

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      Baths in the next episode Peter, for you to reminisce.
      Guests almost drown in the Baths? I wonder how that could happen. Maybe the crew got fed up with them!? :)

    • @petertorrey4080
      @petertorrey4080 3 роки тому +1

      @@SailCloudyBay We were anchored around the corner. The yacht was a 187 ft Fedship and we tendered the guests over in the tender ( a Tiara, lol) . They all wanted to swim to shore...about a hundred yards...without fins and few flotation devices...what could possibly go wrong? In retrospect...since everybody lived and prospered, hopefully, it was comical. In actuality....it was nightmarishly scary and irresponsible by the crew ( myself and others) Needless to say..I never get wet in open water without fins. It wasn't rough..but there was a good swell and the tide was going out. It's so easy to forget that, even know you are pretty much surrounded by some kind of land, it's ALL open ocean..basically. Especially Virgin Gorda...

  • @darren5472
    @darren5472 3 роки тому +1

    Another amazing video, the best views of the Caribbean I have ever seen. Looks like that trip needed some depth planning. What is the draft of Cloudy Bay? Would you trade her for a lifting keel boat or a catamaran?

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      Thanks for the compliment Darren. actually, really not too much of a problem for depths around the Caribbean. We are 8ft (2.5m draft) and never had a problem. Bahamas is the challenging area for depths. We did think about a lift keel when originally looking but now that we have cruised Bahamas (2020) with Cloudy Bay and got along OK, I'm glad we didn't get a swing keel. As for a catamaran, I'm afraid that's not proper sailing to me. And the motion in rough seas is not pleasant. Good for cocktails at anchor though. I guess that's why cats are so popular for charter these days.

    • @darren5472
      @darren5472 3 роки тому +1

      @@SailCloudyBay Thanks for the insights Glen. I would agree that there is nothing like the feeling of a mono hull healing and cutting through the water. So many cruisers use or convert to cats. Sailing to me is more about the journey than the destination. 😀

  • @sjgreene785
    @sjgreene785 3 роки тому +1

    FREEDOM!!

  • @paultennis9569
    @paultennis9569 3 роки тому +1

    How do you avoid hitting the coral it looks like its all around. Thanks for the video

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      It's all marked on the charts we have Paul. And GPS positioning is very accurate these days. But we do also look at the colour of the water (reef = differnent colour) and try to have the sun behind us. But yes, when you get the view from the drone, I do often think "Oooh that was close!"

  • @2299jsimon
    @2299jsimon 3 роки тому +1

    It's geat not to be on the clock... life is good.

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      Life was good indeed, John, in those pre-covid times.

  • @FighterFred
    @FighterFred 3 роки тому +1

    They should build the houses high up into the rocks. The very rich can afford to rebuild of course.

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому +1

      Fredrik, For the first few months, no one could get materials because the ports were all blocked. But yes, 1 year later it's clear the wealthier resorts and house owner are already rebuilt.

  • @frankiealas1
    @frankiealas1 3 місяці тому

    Ya man island life

  • @frankkreyssig7626
    @frankkreyssig7626 3 роки тому +1

    Cloudy Bay is calling............ she wants her mast back up! ❤️

  • @michaeldobson8859
    @michaeldobson8859 3 роки тому +1

    Why is it we boat owners always look back at the boat when we dingy off to somewhere? It’s like we left someone behind.

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      So true .... it's almost like "please still be there when we return..."

  • @hocndoc
    @hocndoc 3 роки тому +1

    Come visit! We're open to visitors. All our beaches are "Queen's land," open to the public, up to the green line.

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      Where?

    • @hocndoc
      @hocndoc 3 роки тому +1

      @@SailCloudyBay The British Virgin Islands.
      As of May 15th, those visitors who are vaccinated who enter the Territory need a test prior to arrival and on arrival. Quarantine only 24-36 hours, until the entry test comes back negative.

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому +1

      We might well be back again this winter Beverly.

  • @SteifWood
    @SteifWood 3 роки тому

    I have no idea why this channel popped up in my playlist. It's hard to find a more egocentric bragging display of "look what I have, you don't" than what you find @9:45.

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому

      I have no idea why it ended up on your playlist either - our videos are only supposed to be visible to people who understand and enjoy our sense of humor. I think you completely missed the joke in what I was saying.
      Anyway .... you made it to 9:45 minutes so the video couldnt have been all that bad?

    • @SteifWood
      @SteifWood 3 роки тому

      @@SailCloudyBay I fast forwarded and sorry I missed the "humor" .... didn't know Stupid Should Hurt.

  •  3 роки тому +2

    first?

    • @SailCloudyBay
      @SailCloudyBay  3 роки тому +1

      You are, YOU ARE!

    •  3 роки тому +2

      @@SailCloudyBay success!