Ep044 Atlantic Crossing Boat Prep...an endless list!
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- After arriving in Newport, RI we continue with the seemingly endless list of jobs to get done before our imminent Atlantic crossing. It seemed like all work and no play for far too long, so we escaped to the Islands for some much needed R'n'R....
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Once again this video has been filmed in 4K but will show as grainy until UA-cam finishes the buffering process!! This is a common problem with 4K footage :( it should look nice and crisp when UA-cam finally sorts it out! Thanks for watching, Nicki and Ben.
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These systems are not ready yet for 4K.. Adaptive streaming is not helping either..Ever tried to render your 4K raw video shoots in 1080 after final post work is done..I noticed that videos recorded in 4K come out way better in 1080p over 1080p initial recording..I love the "story line" you create in post production..I know currently you are safe and well back in the UK (Topsham, I guess) Keep up the good work..
VHF/UHF radio signals might play havoc in the receive mode because the attenuation caused by the surrounding frequencies and the array of stays of the rigging..
I know you are living your real life again back in the UK, and that your lives aren’t just for my entertainment, but I have to say, I really have enjoyed your videos. Your forthrightness and joy for life are very refreshing. Some of the best videos I think are on your channel.
“I’m comfortable”. Said nobody ever on a sailboat. :))
My next one will have a captains chair in the cockpit.
Your videos are excellent! Thanks for inspiring!
Same as a lot of people who comment I watch quite a few sailing channels but must admit I really like you two .proper sound couple ✌🏻
really enjoy the casual way you communicate (talk ) with each other the subjects you cover are very interesting with all the issues that need to be resolved before a crossing...just a boat in the big pond
Thanks for the ride along with you.
I love watching the way you both work together. Great fun. Awesome cockpit. The healed over sailing into the sun shot was cool, and the galley shots made me hungry for soup!
Love your videos. Can't wait to see the next one. Wishing you both all the best!!!
Welcome back you two! Let the good times roll!!
Always love joining Nicki and Ben aboard Bora Bora. Until the next time...Cheers!
Hi. Maybe some moves will lead to the solution. Try this:
1- Check for cable continuity and short circuit by: a- disconnect the antenna and in its place short the cable with some conductor; b- position the shorted cable in the same position in the mast as if it worked properly; c- with a multimeter in the ohms lower scale position connect the two leads to the other plug, one in the central pin the other in the outer mesh (the attaching ring).
The reading should be near 0 (zero) meaning the cable is not sectioned (both the core and the mesh) and is ok in that position in the mast. If there is no reading (infinite ohms) it means the cable is broken somewhere. As you mentioned you are using a solid core cable, maybe one bend has a very small radius or there is some stress section (usually a pass thru in a bulkhead) and the core is broken. It is difficult to fix it as you may think but you can try to find where the core is broken by bending and stretching it to the next point of contact with the boat and checking the multimeter when it reads 0 (zero).
2- Check for cable short circuit by: a- disconnect the short you set before; b- position the shorted cable in the same position in the mast as if it worked properly; c- with a multimeter in the ohms lower scale position connect the two leads to the other plug, one in the central pin the other in the outer mesh (the attaching ring).
The multimeter it should read nothing (infinite ohms) as the two leads where apart. If there is a reading not 0 (zero) it means the cable is shorted in the working position and you should check the place prone to stress as I mentioned before.
3- If the cable is ok the problem is in the antenna or in the connection to the antenna. Sometimes the core of the cable brokens near the connector but the two pieces make contact if the cable is not pulled apart. You can check if it is the case by pulling out the core of the cable with a small pliers. Or the female connector (at the base of the antenna) has the central wire socket too open. Check it and if it is the case try to close the diameter carefully.
Check the antenna for internal loose components by shaking and taping it in your hands. If you feel there are some loose components.
Note: If you do not have a multimeter use a 1.5 v battery and a small 1.5 v. In lieu of the reading 0 (zero) you will have the bulb ON and in lieu of the infinite ohms you will have a OFF bulb. The components will be series connected (bat+; bulb; mesh cable; shunt (the other connector); core cable; bat-)
After this quite long bla-bla I hope you fix the problem. This kind of “sometimes happens, other times don’t” are a headache specially when you do need the equipment and are short of resources to fix it. I really hope you manage the situation in the best way. Nice pics and nice people you two.
That's an awesome how to comment, thanks for your time to type. Unfortunately my good multimeter died in the Bahamas and being tight on funds I bought cheaper one in the U.S.. the dam thing had no continuity test and I swear the ohm test was faulty on it. So I didn't full trust it. I did the battery thing instead and that told me the cable was good, but as soon as I reassemble everything, no joy. If we had just moved to a new location before I started pulling things apart we could have saved a lot of heart ache. Ah well, That's life!
@@sailingsvborabora8712 Back again… What is the make and model of the antenna? Maybe I can find something useful in the net then I will convey to you. If the antenna is the active one ( with elaborate circuitry to boost the radio signal ) then the cable will carry two circuits: radio signal and DC for the electronic circuitry. The continuity is crucial for the DC supply. If the inner contact of the antenna plug is faulty, then no DC then no RF signal in and out. With the antenna in you hand, check if there is some friction between a short lenght of the inner copper wire and the hole in the middle of the antenna plug ( alt.you can use a sewing needle of the same gauge of the wire). If there is no friction, then you have no contact between the two plugs (m&f). If it is the case then you can bend very slightly the copper wire of the antenna cable (m. plug) and connect to the antenna (f. plug). Good luck and fair winds!
Finally up to date 😀😀😀 Fantastic inspirational journey :))))
She really is a beautiful boat.
Thank you for another enjoyable vid.
I hope you enjoyed your visit to southern New England (my home waters).
Pumpkin soup, my wife would make an absolutely divine pumpkin soup and adding fresh single cream.
Like a visit to old friends. My favorite sailing couple. Grew up in the ‘60s sailing from Block Island to Boothbay iHarbor in Maine. Know these waters like the back of my hand. Lovely video.
Hey Ben. Re the curving tacks in the channel. Most likely it is the wind. It slows over land due to friction, causing BOTH a speed and direction gradient. So heading into wind in the channel, a yacht will see a 'lift' in the wind on both tacks, and can take advantage appearing to go closer to the wind near the land. By example, this can be quite pronounced on the French side of the channel. Best regards from the Hamble... :)
Cracking content/editing. Thumbs up...
So glad your back! Missed you guys.
Excellent Video very informative and the reality of setting up a voyage thank you
Nice to see Bora Bora comfortably tied up on the canal by The Turf pub in Exeter today!
I realy like your boat. This is one of the best boat i have seen and I like it more than Amel. A Victory 40 is like a dreamboat for me.
Always enjoy 😊 your sailing ⛵️ videos! 😀⛵️😘 Mike from Missouri
Your channel is wonderful! You should visit our little harbor... Sakonnet... if you find yourselves “stuck” in Newport again. Waves enormous yesterday here in Little Compton. Wondering when you will cross?
thank you for another nice video, i'm looking forward for the crossing part.
Great video, someone else also had RF problems in a busy anchorage, can't for the life of me remember who though. Greetings out of South Africa
Check the antenna itself, could be water in it or cold solder joint that allows it to work in certain positions and not in others
You think of taking your sat phone hook it up to another boats sat phone connection that way you know the phone is good and you can work from there. Keep up the great work safe sailing
Where are you off to next? Ty for the video.
Across the Atlantic to the Azores! New video coming today 😃
as always , the boat is looking great
Welcome back, nice to see you both again.
I usually find passage prep takes longer than hoped. Our joke is, the most dangerous thing to hear during boat work is “While I’m here, I will .... (scope creep)
The boat is looking ship shape. 👍👍👍
love your videos,had the same problem with iridium go,turned out to be the antenna.
Like the chair, nice one. The boat was drawing shark fins on the plotter, must have known where it was.😄
lucky guy..he has a nice lady who cooks a good meal an sews!
now that iam lookin..boat looks like ol timer..way old.
Great vlog guys .... Fanx for caring n sharing
Fair winds
:-D
Since your making the Atlantic crossing, I assume that means the end of Bora Bora in the near future?
Why do you mount the iridium up high. The satellite it's talking to is thousands of miles up in space. What difference could mounting it 40 feet higher above the boat possibly make ? Cheers , love your videos.
I had read radar can interfere with it, so that's why I put it above to start with. I now know it's only a problem if it's at the same level. Fair winds and good sat signal.
@@sailingsvborabora8712 I read that cheap LED anchor lights are a big source of interference also . If it isn't one thing , then it's another.
OK. I’ve let it simmer and a dynamic bridle can be achieved quite simply using mostly equipment we already have on most boats. It entails a pulley fore and aft, a long anchor strength rope, and an anchor winch with a capstan ( I am going to have to upgrade my winch to try this out). In the worst case a current is causing the boat to lay square onto a swell. To defeat this you want a line of equal length from the stern to a shackle somewhere along the anchor chain and then to the bow to form an equalateral triangle with the apex being the anchor chain and the base being the boat length. Now if the stern line and the bow lines pass through a pulley at each end and the base is a line running along the deck joining the lines into a continuous loop but the line also has a few turns around the capstan (disengage the gypsy), then the angle of the boat to the swell and the tensioned anchor line can be manipulated with an existing winch on the boat. Add some electronics (and several relays to operate the winch) and the adjustment can be achieved automatically. Yes there are some obvious flaws and things that might not work so neatly all the time. I’ll put this up in several places (with a prize) to see if some can make it work (or definitely not). The winning prize is,.....you get to take several cans of bear out of the fridge and have a quiet celebratory booze binge.
That's a great explanation, and I think it should work. It's kinda an automated wind bride. I've used a wind bridal several times and it works really well just so long as the wind is consistent in relation to the swell. I hope someone proves you right. Then we can all sleep sweetly!
Great video.... how long do you think ... you will be sailing for...be careful around those old buildings...pls.
take him as ballast chief, great video guys
Great film, since I’m a guitar guy I was happy to see a couple clip of you playing, honestly you could do all the music yourself, great job!
A side note, love the hair cut :)
Great video. Thanks. How did you fix the antenna problem?
Fixed itself as soon as we moved to a quieter area! The problem, would you believe it, was being in such a busy port and RF interference was the only problem! Wasted a lot of time on that one 😣
@@sailingsvborabora8712 Thanks for the prompt reply. Happy sailing.
Particularly enjoyed watching you sail through waters I know so well. Its a little late now, but there is a great yellow covered book called Eldridges that provide excellent current charts for the waters around the cape and islands.
Marvelous. Keep 'em comin'!
Just went back and watched this old video. I miss your videos. There's not many really good sailing channels out there. Is there any chance you will start doing videos again? .
By the way how is the little one doing?
And i ofcourse hope you guys are doing good as well.
Best regards from Jarle
Will you you guys save up now your back in the uk and set of travelling in the boat again at some point?
Never say never but for the moment we've got a land based project in the pipeline 😁
@@sailingsvborabora8712 will you be sharing the new project with us followers?
@@sailingsvborabora8712 lemmi guess... House renovation?
re your aerial. check your ground wire as when you move it nearer to the deck it will inductively pick up a ground due to all the metal in and around the deck,
It turned out there wasn't a problem with the aerial..the problem was RF interference from being in a busy port! It worked fine as soon as we moved to a quieter anchorage...wasted a lot of time attempting to figure it out 😣
@@sailingsvborabora8712 Thats great Happy sailing,,
You were very close to the Naval war College lots of government stuff in that area.
Beautiful Sailing vessel !!
Hi Ben whatever happened to your Captain's Chair/Hammock I only saw it once, great idea though
You'll see it in the next video, it was a life saver having a comfy seat for our Atlantic crossing!
3rd time lucky ! Everybody seems to be crossing at the moment - is it THAT time of year
The video didn't seem grainy. I really enjoyed watching!!
Nice one
You folks will both still look great when you are in your seventies.
I'm wondering if you had a chance to explore "Fort Getty" in Jamestwon while you were there? It was an old fort to guard the entrance to the bay. It had rather large gun emplacements with a tunnel system when I used to go camping there as a youngster. Just out from the cliffs off the camp ground are some of the best quohog beds around but the waters to deep to clam by hand, you need diving gear to access it. I used to go clamming every morning sell them in town to the fish market and use the money to live at the campground all summer. It was a great life! That's a really wonderful area to visit! Lots of history!
Unfortunately not, but it sounds like you had some sweet summers there. Another time perhaps.
So you switched connecting cables, and the problem persisted. Did you use one of the suspect cables when you got full reception with the sat phone antenna? Because it seems the problem is the antenna itself, not the feed-line.
The problem was RF interference, worked perfectly once we left the busy port! We wasted much time on that one 🤦♀️
@@sailingsvborabora8712 Good! An rf tech could have sorted that out with a spectrum analyzer, but hey, whatever works.
Great vid ya'll.
OK all is right with the world again and I am smiling--I've spent time with my warm friends--who are always solving problems and having fun-- together
WTF????
@@isnoo1 I didn't line out those words. why would youtube do that?
I'm confused, are your videos going up at this year (2109) from last year sailing (2108)?
No, this is all from this summer, filmed in June 2019! We left the boat in Chesapeake Bay in June 2018 as we had to go back to England to earn some money, and it was there through the winter season until March 2019, so almost 9 months! Sorry for the confusion.
@@sailingsvborabora8712 Ah, I get it! Of course videos are posted sometimes a wee while after they have been filmed - no good internet connection mid Atlantic to upload! So now back where it all began!
Enjoyed the video although it would be good if people would stop commenting and saying of course in real time your back in England I like to follow the story on line.
Great guitar playing.
makes me want to dig our guitars out from the v berth
Hi Ben, I have the Raymarine E7 hybrid touch chartplotter, and looking to install an AIS transponder this winter. Did you install a separate antenna for the Vesper or use a splitter?
Hibthere, yes I installed it with a vesper marine splitter and it worked fine for years. we had problems in new York, due to local interference and I switched it to its own dedicated antenna, but the splitter wasn't the problem, when we moved to a quieter location everything returned to normal. The vesper marine ais is a great piece of kit. Enjoy. Fair winds.
where was the abandoned building exactly? we want to find it
After the return crossing do you have any plans for other sailing adventures.
Only land based adventures for now 😌
I guess all good things must come to an end. I really appreciate the time and effort you have put into your videos along with the relaxed style no hype delivery and the great sound track. Have you been asked to guest speak at the Southampton boat show this year as I am sure you would get a great audience.
Fault finding. Equals testing. More than likely you’ve got more than one fault. Multiple breaks in the coaxial cable and a dodgy remote antenna. Easy for me to say sitting here in the comfort of my lounge chair.
Good to see a new video from you two.
Ben whats that song you play on the guitar?
It's from a song called Dead Head my mate Nathan wrote way back when we were in a band. We called ourselves Racing for Pink, weird name I know, but we were young. Sorry no trace of us on tinternet. We were on MySpace. That's how long ago it was. Ha!
@@sailingsvborabora8712 Intetesting, thanks Ben. It's a cool tune, fun to play.
Did you go to Jamestown Distributors? They do all things marine.
Unfortunately not, we were based further south off Newport, then at Jamestown on Conanicut Island (but a coincidence in the name)
Jamestown distributors is north of newport inland they are in an industrial park.
Nice boat. I like the way you use your own music sound track. No copyright infringements. :)
Ben always makes me think about the rolling anchorage problem, so I spent few moments reconsidering the problem. Consider this without getting bogged down in the mechanics of how to achieve it. An electronic device that can sense rolling, rolling direction, and pointing direction combined to determine an ideal pointing direction to the waves, and drive a winch of some kind to adjust the boats attitude auto helm fashion. This might involve a loop anchor line, and a motor drive pulley to achieve something like a dynamic bridle. That would require either wind, tide or current to keep some tension on the anchor chain, though. The winch may need to be submersible, but don’t let that be a problem for the purposes of evaluation. Thoughts from experience any one?
Like you I have pondered this in many a silly night. Without 2 anchors or a consistent wind some boats will always end up side on to the waves. Total bugger I know! Fair winds and calm anchorages.
Always interested in new ideas but this one sounds like it would use too much electricity.
directorstu Thanks for the feedback, directorstu. The proof is in the testing. The parameters here are how often does the boat need to reposition, by how much and how much energy is required to achieve the movement. The energy required is small, I am designing a test module based on a 100 watt motor (my boat doesn’t have a Capstan so a dedicated winch is required). The load on the motor is just the energy required to turn the boat slowly, plus rope and pulley drag. The repositioning frequency will be based on wind tide and currents. Of those the wind will vary the most. The other energy consumption factor is the roll tolerance of the crew. If the winch is being operated manually from inside the boat, it isn’t necessary to adjust for every shift, I expect there will be a 30 degree tolerance zone off square on to the swell where the roll is not sufficiently uncomfortable to require adjustment. Then there is the alternative, moving to a new anchorage with the energy cost of that. We’ll see. I’ll build the prototype unit and find an active cruising boat to test it with.
Aerial problems, think Ham Radio guys. I’m curious about Ben’s profession. I’m imagining project manager or civil engineer?
Yep. Builder/ project manager/plumber/carpenter/Jack of all trades. I do have a degree in industrial design and technology, but it was only a BA hons, so not a real qualification.
Sailing SV Bora Bora Thanks Ben. The real qualification is what you do with your knowledge. Industrial designers are Professional Generalists, with knowledge in many fields and a problem solving approach, and that is what I see in how you work on things. I am a product designer myself, in the process of moving from Australia to the Netherlands where our Southerly 135 is berthed. I have a website to promote an affordable housing solution www.cgrpt.com so bill@cgrpt.com if you ever want to talk products and design.
Brilliant
How do you get all that spring into your loaf?? Give a lesson on baking! Please.
What was the movie called that you are watching ?????
Wouldn't white lithium be a life saver to sail boats...
Was your endless list to port or starboard?
tide is lee bowing you. i.e. pushing you to windward
Ever listen to any JJ Cale?
Thanks for the content guys 🤙🏻
New radio? I remember a green telephone looking device 😁
Unfortunately that old school telephone style radio finally gave up the ghost 😌 we loved it, it was original to the boat (45 years)..."they don't make 'em like that anymore!"
Obrigado amigo e linda gatinha
🌈❤️💪😎
Parabéns linda princesa e amigo gatinha muinto linda
Sharks do not attack humans. Myth has been busted.
do what I did and others before all of this electronic voodoo, just go. your a bright young man and very capable, leave.
Yes but that particular passage without weather forecasting would be foolish, so we needed to make sure the Sat Phone was working before we left.
I'd like to marry both of you and your boat please.
Wouldn't be cheaper to buy a new boat?
😂🤣
It sometimes feels like that 😆