How to Sail the Caribbean - Passage Planning with PredictWind
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Do you dream of sailing the Caribbean someday? Are you looking for your next tropical sailing destination?
Come along with us as we explore the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean and show our process for route planning. We show how we use the PredictWind app for weather forecasting and route planning to design a comfortable cruise in the Caribbean as we sail from St. Martin to Anguilla, St. Barts, Saba and then do a nightsail to the British Virgin Islands.
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This is my first exposure to Predict Wind. Looks super helpful!
Thank you sir!
Love the teaching you guys do. For me, I have three areas I'd love to sail to; the Caribbean/BVI, South Pacific, and the Maldives. Thanks or sharing!
Do you have passenger availability to South America for a Christian senior woman?
SV Delos sent me! So happy to have found the sailing video OGs! I'm doing a deep dive into your uploads now!
Welcome aboard CRS! We had so much fun filming with the Delos crew! They're great as I'm sure you know!
@@DistantShoresTV It's because of my sailing on Lake Simcoe with SGA that I found you and in turn found SV Delos. Ha! You are the Originals. You should invite the Delos Crew to the Boat show in January.
That's how I came across Distant Shores too. Enjoying the videos.
@@DistantShoresTV Thank you much! I just watched your series on cruising the French canals, which we loved! On DS2 or DS3, would you be able to navigate the English canal system and might you have plans to do so? How about further exploration of the French canal system? Thanks!
hahahaah Delos got me here as well
Just made it to mainland Europe on our way into the Mediterranean. Look forward to sailing in those waters in the next few years :)
Our cruising plans do include all of the Caribbean, thanks to the inspiration of you two. We are prepping our boat this year and will set out from Lake Erie either the fall of 2020 or 2021. We do hope to catch up with you two somewhere out there. Love these types of videos btw....the travel videos are good too, but these are way more helpful. Thanks for sharing.
How did people planned for passages before predicte wind, in 70's, 80's. I'm really fascinated by how technology has changed cruising.
We started our full-time cruising in the 80's and used to listen on the shortwave radio for weather forecasts. In 1990 we got a HAM radio and could speak with a forecaster in person :-)
We've booked a one week charter in the BVI next January - first time sailing in the Caribbean, so really looking forward to it!
I love your adventure, I found you when you were both with SV Delos , looking forward to seeing your episode from now on ⛵️🍷🍷⛵️🌈
Great video didn't know the three lights on a tugboat meant that they were towing
After two and a half months cruising Sweden, Denmark and Germany we put our boat on a container ship in The Netherlands (Eemshaven) bound for Baltimore. We are very interested in crossing from the east coast to the Caribbean in the fall of next year, 2020. Any thoughts on the organized rallies that make that trip would be greatly appreciated. BTW we have your DVD collection but need to go back to watch to see if you covered one of the Caribbean rallies in your videos. Thanks, Chris.
Can you explain why the St. Martin to St. Johns trip is upwind? @3:00 the screenshot shows 95 degrees true which is a beam reach. Maybe we need to adjust for apparent wind plus leeway so you need to point higher? I thought sailing up and down the Leeward Islands is typically on a beam reach due to the consistent easterly trade winds... Thanks!
Hello Sheryl and Paul
Thanks for the video.
One question, how do you download forecasts while offshore? Satellite internet?
Please advice. Best regards
We use an IridiumGo satellite system for offshore communications that connects to PredictWind for weather forecasting and routing. Very reliable.
@@DistantShoresTV thank you so much
I like watching the rough stuff at times it shows what the boat can do
Very cool Video! Can you say what the costs for the predict wind tool are? Do I pay monthly or annually? Greetings from Michael, the sailing doctor. we meet on boot 2018 :-)
Always enjoy your videos. The technology is amazing. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
BVI are fantastic
Great lay down of route planning and Saba in particular. Question: I'm assuming you are using upgraded services from Predict Wind for route planning, is that correct? I believe I currently have the "middle" account which has some features more than basic, but not all. Thanks!
Love your new boat 😍 Thank you for making good videos!
Terrible music
Thanks for the video. I've been to the Windward Islands on a chartered Lagoon 450F. The whole trip was a blast! :-)
Maybe I can do a tour around that area some time in the future, but no current plans. Planning to go sail in the Greek islands next year...
Hi love your video. What are the pros and cons of having a variable draft swing keel? Thankyou
I visited Saba in April 2017 and hiked to the top of Mt. Scenery on my 60th birthday. It was always a goal for me after viewing the island from St Martin 15 years prior where my wife and I vacationed. Thanks for the video!
Always enjoy your videos and the new boat is really beautiful. I am also from Ontario but live in the DR now and enjoying the Caribbean. I sailed out of Oakville all my life and then bought a big powerboat in Lauderdale which i took back to Lake Simcoe so i likely passed your place. Now I am back to sailing and your navigation tips and showing how well predict wind works is very valuable to me. Thanks and if you come this way let me know.
DS III what a dream boat.
I really appreciated you showing how to use PredictWind to a planner's best advantage. You answered several questions that I had previously on weather/route planning. Please keep the fantastic work and hope to cross wakes with you folks some day, someway.
Great topic to help out the Newbies, and those of us who just WISH they could spend time sailing. Thanks! I love to learn about the real nuts & bolts of learning to sail & travel by sea.
Its a amazing how you take time to break down the the point of sail and how the boat perform up wind.Always want to know what Saba island looks like thanks for sharing great Quality video it looks like you spend great effort in putting this together for us.
Thanks Jeff ❤️ glad you liked it. I hope you get to Saba someday. Cute as a button 🏝💗
Do you guys still do new episodes of your tv show? I see on your website latest is season 10 and that is 5(?) years old at least already. Or only youtube now?
Happy New Year :) Beautiful to see Saba. Cheers from PEI Canada, Bryan
Love your informative videos. Curious, what brand hat are you wearing?
Great Video! Thanks for all you provide...SV Delos led me to your channel and now you have gained another sub! Keep up the great work!
Thank you for the night video. Very interesting! Very helpful as we are planning to cruise and will be doing overnight legs.
Cheers guys, another excellent production, it sure bought back some very nice memories. Keep up the great work
So interesting… Did the barge that the small boat was towing show up on your radar?
id bet dollars to pesos you will have your most views ever and an explosion of new subs if you sail around and record little st james island.
im sure you know what the title should be lol
Why isn’t your boat registered Canadian?
I always enjoy your videos. I live vicariously through watching them.Love to know if you're still enjoying the Integralmarine generator replacement? Any problems or concerns thus far?
Thanks William🙏🏻 yes the Integral has been working fine. This is not strictly related but if we had it to do over we would probably look at using Lithium batteries with the Integral rather than regular Oddyssey which were recommended at the time.
Very relaxing.. Love the color of the water. So blue!
Thank you so very much,
Chris from Missouri
Draft 7.2 is good for carabian ?
7 foot 2" is an acceptable raft for exploring the Caribbean Islands. It is a little deep for the Bahamas but even in Bahamas you can enjoy a cruise to many of the best areas. Fair Winds !!
Wuhii, cant wait to sail BVI’s in October
Great video and information! Thanks!
Can't wait to see y'all in the South Pacific.
This is a great tutorial on how to travel the island by sale Love it guys thanks a lot
Thanks for the knowledge. Three lights on the top of the towing boat means its towing. Excellent. Thanks again.
See www.collisionregs.com/MSN1781.pdf page 17 (rule 24) :-)
For actual learning of the lights get a good book, though - this is really dry.
Would love to see Greenland and Iceland.
why the hell dont they light the barge
If the wind patterns are on the computer program, can the gps warn the captain when it's time to change the sail's position or even do it automatically thru remote control?
haha yes that's coming soon to a boat near you I'm sure! But seriously we can prepare for the need to change sails - perhaps being ready to reef at night when we see ba weather coming.
Nice, thanks!
Yay for Saba! My favorite island
how the pirates down there
No encounters in 30 years of cruising, Jeff. A good site to learn about instances of piracy around the world is on noonsite.com. Hope this helps.
@@DistantShoresTV Do you carry a rifle
I work with those weather models, and I would pay more attention to the predict wind models. Likely they may include Sea Surface Temperatures and are likely tuned for winds close to the surface. Generic Gribs are likely not tuned to such things and will be slightly less realistic. Also keep in mind any model beyond about 3 days is progressively unreliable.
Sorry but this ep. seems 1 long commercial for predictwind
Didn’t care for will check back in a couple months. Good luck guys
really, mike hunt?
Really and why would you care
Thanks for checking out our channel, Mike.