A Very Difficult Decision | Sailing France Ep 112
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- Опубліковано 17 бер 2020
- Sailing & living on a boat means that you have to be flexible with your plans.
Unfortunately it can be really tough when you have your heart set on a course of action then Fate intervenes, and a huge change of plan is required.
While we had planned to sail some of the Worlds best cruising grounds, it wasn't going to be. In this episode we find ourselves facing a huge dilemma as our weather window starts to close.
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The best part of the video is just about half way through when Nick is describing how the throttle is not engaging the prop when it should be and the advertisement for "Ruby Rose is for Sale" pops up. It was perfect!
I'd like to see how many more videos Nick can interject the phrase "clutch cones" in the future. With all the fear that's going on in the world, I'm using "clutch cones" as my drinking phrase. You almost got me through a half of a fifth of Gosling. "Clutch Cones" for everyone!!
Well mate she has a rebuilt gear box! Something any “for sale” yacht should mention 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Now where is that clutch cone?
@@sailingrubyrose The best selling point was how ridiculously clean the engine compartment was at the point of breakdown. I'm used to going down into the engine room/compartment and seeing coolant spraying over everything or smoke/fire/sparks shooting across the bay. Nice job.
I love you guys, I watch several couples sailing but you two are the best, great video editing skills, music and just the right touch of personalities mingling that make it a joy to watch (and considerable envy), so wishing you the best of everything and I know you'll do the best you can.!!
Love you guys and hope the fix went well and you are smooth sailing again for you journey back to the UK
So glad to see that 100K sitting below your name finally. It is well deserved. Congratulations and best of luck moving forward. I’m extremely happy for you both and your future plans. 👍😊
Hi, sorry for your troubles I’m sure it must be frustrating but boy I find the whole diagnosing and problem solving fascinating 🤓🤓🤓. Thanks for another great video and the glimpse into sailing life that isn’t sunshine and roses 👍👍👍.
Wow, great diagnosis Nick, great decision, live life one day at a time, a lesson for us all. Be safe...one love ✌
Can't wait to see your tour of the Northern coast of France.
I've just discovered you guys, and thoroughly enjoying your adventures. It's certainly making me think about moving on my plans. Looking forward to seeing what happens around your decisions on a catamaran. Thanks.
I love the opening of your video. It is very inviting and very impactful. The length is perfect. Most are so long I fast-forward past them. Good job!
Thank you son much
You always have to do whats best for you, hell we are just tag along's and happy to watch. Hope you two find a way to get back together rather than 10,000 miles apart. Stay safe.
Good decision and great musicians. I had a 1937 Kelvin K3 on a 48’ wooden boat which had huge cone clutches one for forward and one for reverse. There was always a sledgehammer handy in the engine room to bash the coupling as driving in forward gear for any length of time made it almost impossible to get it out of gear. Not what you want when entering a port.... Andy UK
A few weeks skipping around the south of France ---------- doesn't sound too bad to me.
Stay safe you two and keep having fun.
its such a pleasure to hear from you guys. I care about you both. i am Art in W Tn, of the USA..Best regards
Loved it! You are wonderful at sharing your ups and downs. What a great life you are living! Fair winds from Montreal, 🇨🇦
Thanks so much!
Great stuff folks this is a great video for cruisers , thanks so much xxxx
Love the honesty of this video 👍
Beautiful video. Thank you. It’s nice to see France by the water and a picture of beer. Cheers. Almost there! Only 2 thousand to go!
Glad you enjoyed it!
You got to do what you got to do 😎👌👍🏻
Go with the flow. 👍👍👍
hindsight being 20/20, but maybe a 2 way radio to communicate back and forth. My inlaws used that system parking their 30 foot camper trailer (caravan). I was anticipating this episode. love these mechanical episodes.
Be safe, thank you for sharing.
Thank you, I will
Love those guys singing at the end!!
they are amazing musicians
Congrats on 100 k subscribers ! Cheers and be safe !
You hit 100k!!! Congratulations you guys deserve it!
perfect sailing weather
Another great episode guys. Best thing about being a "cruiser" you can set your own schedule and change it on the fly!! Fair winds and following seas Ruby Rose !!
Well said!
Very interesting video, I watched it through because my brother just has this problem on his boat based in Antigua, so useful info.Thanks
Beautiful ending,
On to season 5,excellent decision
Love you both and be safe above all❤️❤️❤️!
they are great
Mmmmm.....more french food, wine and beer? That was a tough decision. :-) Looking forward to season 5!
For me something is a little funny: I heard from many couples they have a pair of walky talkies (PMR). The US people call them "marriage saver". With that you would have a much more easy conversation down the stairs and around th corner.
But your decision: great!
WOW, the musicians at the end of your video were excellent!! 🇳🇱🎤🎼💙😊
The best!
Good decision! As an old pilot and fairly new sailor, I subscribe to the idea that weather is the deciding factor. Being "stuck" in La Rochelle is not a bad outcome. I look forward to the Brittany videos...my favorite part of France!
an amazing part of france
OMG Those buskers were great!
American Bluegrass from the 60s in France. Gotta Love it.
Well for what it is worth I am thankful to see more of La Rochelle. Spent this winter doing some genealogy and have found that my maternal grandfather came from Quebec, Canada, and his family emigrated to Canada from La Rochelle during the early 1700's.
I seriously doubt I will ever be able to travel there, so your images of the area are of great interest to me. Thanks for taking the time to document life there. Yoru skills with the camera when it comes to sharing the day to day life in the places you visit are second to none.
Been a subscriber for some time and I look forward to notifications from your channel, I hope you are both weathering the current world situation well. I hope Terysa was able to get a flight to reunite with you Nick, watched your livestream the other day and it would drive me nuts to be separated from my other half at a time like this.
Cheers my friend. Terysa decided while I was sleeping last night to get on a plane. It’s meant to be one of the last out of Australia and so the impetuous lady should be en route back to London. Hopefully I’ll see her tomorrow (before she has to be quarantined).
I know that anchorage! 20 years ago we anchored there during our honeymoon. I still remember the sunburn
I also remember this series of gales. We were halfway to Jersey and turned around
Ruby Rose was so kind to have this problem in a location that has the most technical support possible
..Hi, la belle de Gabut, le port de plaisance, et la visite du vieux port..plutôt un bon souvenir....Et vous revoir vous promenant sur le port, alors que nous sommes en quarantaine,çà fait du bien au moral...Bye bye à bientôt...
A bientot mon ami
Edge of the seat perfection.
Well it was good that cone clutch assembly failed where it did, So technically you were unluckily very lucky!
Good episode guys.
Always a silver lining my friend
well done through some sticky points. good decision to stay--you'll know when to leave and what to do!
we hope so mate
La Rochelle looks very pretty, makes me think there could be worse places to be stuck.
Better to find you have a problem some place safe, than at sea.
We had the same problem once as well. No forward and only reverse. We were leaving Maloolabar in Australia and near the entrance. We reversed back to our birth for about quarter of a mile. The difficult bit was we were a long keel yacht! Fortunately we were a double ender so it did not look to bad going backwards. Had to adjust the clutch cone. Watch what the mechanic does to adjust your clutch cone it is very easy that i learnt how to do it after watching the mechanic. Takes about 10 minutes. Another thing i learnt from a wise old fisherman is that many gear box problems are caused by having the wrong oil in them. Literally change the oil to the correct spec and most of your problems go away. It is very common for the wrong oil to be in the box.
Fab show.....been 'binge watching!!
Terry's very pacient!!.....lovely bum too!😂
Didn't realise the amount of hard work involved 😫😫.....great couple!!!
Hope things work out for you two.
Wow Nick - I am no sailor (just a
happy healthy lady Swiss pensioner - 68 😀😀), but I am
highly impressed by your boat
knowledge. Great guy with a fab
partner. All the best and bless you.
awww thank you so much.
Oh hell . I am sorry but we were screaming with laughter. When you ask Teresa to “push it till
It ticks over” ...... by now we would have been divorced and at least one of us would have been overboard . ..... we are huge fans and love watching your videos. Our plan is to go sailing in two years. Our biggest challenge is keeping married 😂😂😂😂 we both got such a giggle . Well done . Love your boat
Yes my friend, communication on a boat is a challenge. Did you see the tree frog episode?
That took communication to a new level. Oh and it’s before the cussing ban, so it’s more NSFW or kids.
Wicked gearbox..Oil level does this if you have a hydronic clutch . It’s a safety item no reverse but you wil have a forward.
Great time to buy. She's got a brand new cutch clone.
It is so much fun to see you in a port where I have been too
its amazing
Good to see you got it fixed. A Yanmar engineer fixed our Volvo. When he saw how much the required part cost, he said he would make the part for less than half that, and he did. The engineer in Bundaberg said he would repair our alternator mount the very next day, first thing etc... I'm still waiting for him to turn up, that was in 2016.
A very wise decision guys. Sometimes fate is telling you what you need to do. Cracking version of that Old Crow Medicine Show classic at the end 👌
Rex Waldron. Really so beautiful decision as like U 😀
Good decision, we were sat in Weymouth also going nowhere along with dozens of other yachts and it didn't get much better either. We crawled back to the Solent and made plans for this year instead. But we did get up to Wareham, were fins fear to tread :-)
The weather was bloody awful. Here’s to 2020............ oh 🤣🤣🤣
Speaking French ! Wow! You just raised two notches on my ,, liked" scale !!!!
awww thanks mate. Appreciate the kind words
Yeah, I admit I was impressed, too. And his French is rather good.
Situations like these you definitely need two-way headsets to communicate. This can lead to miscommunication, causing injuries when one person down below has a tight grip on the shifter tightening up a bolt while the person above turns the key or engage the gears by mistake. Just a thought.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Loved this episode. Loved it, loved it, loved it. Sometimes bad luck is good luck in disguise. Such good decisions taken here. Loved the way Nick pegged the engine problem right away. Things really worked out all around. Happy for you. This was a great video to watch. Thanks very much for the upload. Muchos gracias, as they could say in Coober Pedy if they were Polish.
Clutch cones, must be a cream for that!
bahahaha. probably mate
Big congrats on reaching 100k!
Congrats on your 100K Subs! Yay!! (from Seattle, WA)
Almost there mate
nice video thanks
Great Music !!!!
Best line...”Everyone wants to be a captain until they have to do captain’s stuff “. Haha. So true.
Until a prune stone jams the macerator pump!
@@philgray1023 Dental floss, f@$k!#& dental floss. (No, they weren't invited again.)
@@philgray1023 Ha ha. Been there - almost, it was a fig stone and the whole crew swore they detested figs.
Captains shit. I believe
Nice.
The mechanicals suggest...
1. Great justification for hull cameras
2. Great justification for genset, batteries, and brushless electric motor.
3. Great reason for inter com.
They are selling the boat and moving on. A boat in this price range would dive considerably in price if it had non standard modifications. Electric motors, no problem we have an electric propulsion specialist right here in Sydney (600 miles away). I use a waterproof camera on a stick. Does a good job of prop inspections, but the bloody Wifi doesn't work underwater. I was particularly interested in a boat that came standard with a genset for the air conditioning. The owner, a man of considerable means, had had it removed. Because the friggin thing had broken down time and time again and the repairs were horrendously expensive and needed parts shipped from Italy. He thought the manufacturers should be jailed for wasting the earth's valuable resources to create that confection of mechanical disasters. I had an intercom, but the woman next door kept answering it. Seriously! I put it in the charity shop.
Well the tongue had a few twist and turns ,what the future will bring no one knows but it will finish at some point be good everyone and stay inside ,in Spain (canaryislands) we are ok but others arent as fortunate thinking of everyone
Great videos. I have a suggestion for a technical tuesday video. You did a video some time ago on how to sail faster. I watch a lot of sailing videos and everyone has a bunch of different sail configurations. Can you do a video explaining what each sail does and under what conditions do you use them in. For example: code 0, main sail, genoa, headsail, jib, gennaker, etc. For the first time the other day I heard a caption mention a code D. Thanks guys you rock. Fair winds and smooth seas.
Interesting to understand the process decision making and how weather and mechanical issues effect life on a boat. My conclusion is that one should have a realistic outlook and be flexible. I think I would tend to have "summit fever" and end up bashing through head seas and end up miserable ..... Thanks guys.
cheers mate
Hey guys, this was at the time we spoke to you when we were in Falmouth trying to get to La Rochelle, we did leave with the 25kts you mention in your video, luckily for us it was in the right direction.
We reached as far as Brest, so we wintered there and wanted to head South towards La Rochelle last week (March 2020) but the virus soon put a stop to that and we hotfooted on a ferry back to the UK. Maybe bump into you along the French coast, not literally bump into though hehe. Stay safe
Stu of Dangar Marine is going through almost the same process you guys are going through now with the engine and propshaft adjusting.
Saw your live stream replay about the same time as Terysa 1/2 hr later probably - Melbourne. Hope you see each other soon. Hope this virus doesn't do too much to affect your plans in Greece. So I wish you ALL the best. (You don't need it, but the thoughts there.)
Cheers mate. Appreciate the happy thoughts
Great vid. The whole point of this cruising life choice, is to be able to say "sod it, lets go back there" There's an old (87) sailing salt here who tells the young ones, the only really dangerous thing on a boat is a schedule... He's right... Live long and be happy...
Well said Col !!
@@petehalford5425 Is that you Pete... you've obviously got good taste in sailing blogs... :)
Gave up watching La Vagabond when they didnt ditch Greta, mid Atlantic.
@@petehalford5425 no one gives a sh*t about global warming now... This virus has a two fold effect. The real people come to the fore and the blowhards get lost in the confusion...
I have just come from your exploring alternative's video, I love it and i have just subscribed without starting to watch a video
Awww thanks mate. Welcome to our channel
@@sailingrubyrose
There is no good place to have a casualty, but there surely are worse places!
Wait....Nick speaks French? PogChamp! 😳 as usual guys great video!
Hey I don’t know what happened because where in the middle of the mechanical repairs which I found interesting and then you were leaving the marina, obviously you got it sorted
Congratulations on 100k 🎉
I had this problem with an Yanmar SD50 saildrive. Reverse worked since the cone clutch engagement was down and helped by gravity. The forward part of cone clutch was pushed up so slipped easier. I was able to lap the cone clutch myself which fixed the problem. I then blew the oil seal between engine and saildrive so I ended up replacing it with an Sd60 drive which has plates for clutch rather the a cone setup.
Yeah lapping the cone was an option, but without a workshop and a new cone being €250 we were without much of an option
Stay safe,sane and continue the new world exploration planning. On On UBIQUE
Oh we will
That was a really good rendition of Darius Rucker's wagon wheel. Looked like a great day to be out.
Darius Rucker is a bad rendition of Old Crows Medicine Show Wagon Wheel
@@kentayres5434 There's always one.
I liked the duo. Good singers. And good choice on your part. There are worst things than La Rochelle. :) As you know now
Cheers Zarih, there are indeed worse things or places
That’s why a pair of walkie-talkies are always useful on a boat.
Guys! You know the beauty of your lifestyle is you can make your decisions according to the events around you. I hate that the season is ending but happy you guys have the ability to say so and that you care enough about your viewing community to share your reasoning with us.
Until our adventures cross, fair winds and full sails.
Jack and Billie
Love you English accent when you speak French !!!
You speak French very well btw
Before you opened the engine compartment I knew I would see the little gray ZF box. They are light, compact, inexpensive and have an expected service life of 500 hours. Great for a marina queen, not so much for a cruiser. Typically you get many hours of warning (tiny flecks in the fluid and delayed engaging).
I know, there is no room in the compartment to place a HD hydraulic transmission, so hopefully you ordered a second rebuild kit and buried it in a locker for next time.
Mine is only 18 years old, are you suggesting I might expect trouble sometime soon?
@@philgray1023 It depends on the usage and hours. Hi rev long cruises run the overheat problem, accelerating plate breakdown (most don't come with a heat exchanger but ZF does make a cooler box that bolts to the side, redirect your raw water flow thru it between the raw pump and oil cooler). The other wear accelerator is gear thrashing hard forward then reverse in tight docking maneuvers. There are two good wear signs to watch for, delayed engagement when you put it in gear ( troubleshoot this from low fluid levels, which will also cause delayed engagement and when even lower, full slippage). The other wear sign is small black 'flecks' in the fluid when you check the level. This one means the plates are already crumbling. There are rebuild kits available for all their models, and it really isn't that complicated, but I have found rebuild kits are priced at 60-80% of the price of a drop in replacement. ZF's are light, relatively cheap and easy to fit in tight engine rooms, but if yours doesn't need a rebuild now, it will sooner or later. I repowered last year and used a PRM hydraulic on the new engine, but weight and space weren't an issue for me.
A nice closure song
Hope with current world events your decision to stay in France was the better choose though your probably doing fine in real time.😁
Well I assume that you have had the email from La Rochelle marina explaining that all recreational boating is suspended for some time. Our boat is also in La Rochelle and we were there do do some work this weekend and we heard about the boarders being closed so had to do a run up to Calais and get the ferry back home.
We have no idea when we will be back aboard Jigsaw and I guess you must now be in the same position.
Yes mate, I left on Friday as I felt the whole lockdown thing about to happen. We’ll be back as soon as we can but will sit tight here until this blows over.
First thing I would have checked. Is gearbox oil level. . Low oil will do what yours is doing that. . I'm a boat mechanic. On narrowboats. But they all use the same engines gearboxes.
Hey Nick, did they use a dial indicator to align the shafts via the clutch cone coupling? I have a lot of experience doing this type of work, and would feel very uncomfortable without this vital alignment tool regardless of the flexibility built into the coupling.
that gearbox and drive plate is almost identical to the one on my old 1988 Yanmar 2GM20, and Kanzaki KM2P gearbox, i thought it would be bigger
The clutch cone went on my saildrive, cost a fortune to fix, what with the haul-out fees, bench time. Etc.
I'm sorry your having those problems . My family is originally from La Rochelle. I'm so jelous ! I've never been
awww, come visit. it's amazing
An English band, playing in France, singing an American song. Wherever you go, we'll be with you.
They’re a pretty good duo. They never gave their name otherwise we would give them a shoutout!
Anyone in Liverpool know a couple of Ginger buskers who toured Europe last year? Share the word. Let’s see if we can track these guys down?
Can you say cone clutch slip 5 times fast?
*Edit*
Btw, you two are the best at the trouble shooting videos. I really like when cruisers take the time to show the process of troubleshooting and repairing on video.
Right decision. Ask SV Compromise :-) Sail Safe guys. Ant, Cid and the pooch crew.
Well...i guess better there then on the open sea.
Possible Due to the All the Stress Placed on it from WEEDS IN The CANAL ? Is it Heating Up with time ?
You ain't seen nothing gets muhaha. Should have stayed on the ship gl stay safe
I’m sitting here having just finished the video and the last minute just kind of stopped me. So many UA-cam channels with great camera work and editing skills. And you have that. But I think I’m figuring out that it’s more important to know what to film than how to film it. How many of us would walk past those guys singing and say “oh that’s only good for a quick ten second insert of life in La Rochelle” instead of, “With the right focus, the right merging of the setup to the song with a recap of where we are, and creative use of the soundtrack, that’d be an emotionally fulfilling and almost nostalgic ending to a video.”
Aww thanks Jennifer. We really wanted to show more of those two buskers as they were amazing, but it’s not their music and this platform can be funny on cover versions.
@@sailingrubyrose You've got Jennifer Lawrence critiquing you films now! Good stuff!! Sadly all our videos may be looking a bit more like the Hunger Games this season!
@@svfairisle Who knows which Jennifer Lawrence it might be. My good friend's wife is named Jennifer Lawrence.
Phew! You made it sound like something bad ;-) Enjoy!