Don't rush getting catching up. I have a feeling that you are making better videos because you have a longer time frame to work with. If you haven't considered it, one thing that I think all Sailing Channels could benefit from is yearly recap videos for those of us that come late to the party. I love your videos. Thank you.
Another great video, you gotta love how Pierce feels sad when you keep a fish you caught. He is standing over both of you, probably wishing the fish gets loose. Good hearted boy.
Thank you for explaining and breaking down your reasoning for sailing certain ways! it helps me as a novice sailor. Great job with the videos! Our family is watching 1 every week. Take care and may the four winds blow you safely along your way!
Again I must sound like a broken record but I really enjoy watching- the decisions the views and the commentary. Thank you so much for sharing the experience. Louis
You definitely convinced me to choose a performance cat instead of a floating condo (I was looking at Privilege). Still have to work out the WAF (wife approval factor) though ;-). You are very inspiring. Best regards from Spain.
Good choice! When the time is right, call the nice people at Outremer and get a tour of their yard in France. And bring your wife! When Elizabeth first stepped aboard Archer she was sold (although I never took her on a Privilege! :)
Love your boat , looks like good fun for the whole family. I get sad when the fish gotta die too. Be safe .....trying to help the algorithm....how do you sleep on passage? You looked tired by the second day ....
Did you try and throw out a lure? Maybe they are more of a trophy fish. Can you imagine trying to cut that thing up to eat, if you could? It would be like a bloody massacre occurred on your boat. Kids would be traumatized for life.
What a lovely passage ,and the stories of your son where are we (oh yes he forgot lol on passage ),.The tuna got away ,the mystery of the plastic clip and the best Mickey Mouse pancakes
Such good video content. You are excellent at it and it is amazing you do not have 10x the subscribers. I feel like I am part of a small group of lucky viewers "in the know".
Great videos and anxiously await the next. Feel good that you and Elizabeth wear harnesses most of the time handling the sails. It makes me feel safe and know that your great crew will be safe as well.
I came to your channel recently. and wish you a million subscribers. Thank you for sharing. Hello from a New Zealander, stuck in London, England. Good luck : - )
Going back and watching some older videos. I'm in love with Archer and started looking at Outremer after watching your review of it.. but ooof.. they are expensive - even the older ones. Probably too much so for me.
Love the channel you are sharing.. I guess speed is good when a family with kids "wants to get there" and i appreciate a good Captain takes safety and working the boat to its best is commendable I bet you and the kids have like I did on sailing vacations with my dad and mom had to learn how to enjoy the windless days.. flopping sails sucks . But when there's just enough to keep em full.. even on a glassy sea it's cool how we all learned how to siesta and enjoy every thing about it as we do with a howling wind and rail to the water. Something to learn from and enjoy on any or most days.
Great video !. I'm always scared to take a nap while under passage. I'm assuming you were as well when first starting out. I guess you learn to trust the instruments..just "scary". Thanks for sharing
Your son waking up not knowing where he was felt so familiar. My five year old does that in his bedroom and often sleep walks. Not sure what to do about kids sleepwalking on a boat someday!
That part you found... dunno about you but when ever I put things together right out of the pack (Male thing, never read instructions) I always end up with a few screws left over...... maybe those screws weren't put in that part you found.... lol
@7:00 why did I think of wakeboarding behind the boat and I can't wake board 🤣🤣 @10:00 who needs trx when you have fish 🤣🤣 @15:50 good show mate and I'm singing the song "mickey mouse"
Right choice - keep going , They (Lows) can come from any where at this time of the year , Very unpredictable .Tonga's inner harbour is good shelter but not the best place to be , NZ safest - Fairwinds .
I would have stopped for an over night-er ... 🌙 ...that looked 👌 like a good spot for a swim and some sundowners .......🙃🍺😊 Fairwinds from the @captain'schair
Thanks again, and by the way great video at Multi hull Central, I have been surprised that you dont have gen set!! Wow... loved it! Doesnt this not gives you many limitations as water maker, ar cond and so on?. Great video!! Thanks!!!
The battery technology today is amazing, so we can get by just on solar. We make water daily and don’t run our AC unless we are in a marina. It’s a great set up.
HI, how do you organize the night shifts ? you only do them ? I saw that when its quiet you do 30 minutes sleep but when it's not quiet ? great video, love all the sailing part.
You and me both! We were so curious to see if the caretakers would still be living there during cyclone season - and to have the entire island to ourselves! Would any other cruisers still be there? Would the sea-life be even crazier than normal? We were so curious we almost sailed in just to see!
Are you going to put out current footage? Just curious to know what you are doing now and where you are during COVID times. Enjoy watching your family.
Yes, we are still filming and plan to catch up to "today" within about three months time. Just a lot of footage (great footage) to go through! And since the main reason for these videos is for us to remember our trip, we want to release them all. Thanks for watching!
On a reach, no, not really. We typically put down the windward board (when out at sea cruising). If we really need to point close hauled then we put both down.
I think the mystery part fall would be driving me crazy. Great video. Does anyone have any advice to where I should start learning how to read weather. I'm 1 year from my retirement. Boat shopping now. Thanks for any help
Start looking at Windy (the app) in you’re area. It’s free and it takes some getting used to. Play around with the different layers of data too. Very interesting (wind gusts, Rainfall, isotherms). Good luck!
Just watched the walk-through you did for the SEAbbaticals channel, and I have questions: You said you don’t use much fuel, so do you use fuel stabilizer? How necessary is fuel stabilizer? Is fuel stabilizer more important in the tropics?
G'day, Sailing Vessel Archer, Captain, Mate, & crew. The question of the day, albeit way back then, and notwithstanding the covid scamdemic about to rain on your parade, what's the hurry? I mean I am intrigued that as a would-be cruiser my self if only the travel restrictions way back then and continuing had not continuously rained on my own parade finding a boat to buy, and yourselves as cruisers who are wanting to revisit the places that you enjoyed first time around, why the rush to get to ENZed, the end of the 'road' last time around? I imagine that the answer may well reveal itself in due course, 'scuse the pun, but patience never was one of my virtues!
Hey Gypzy, thanks for the question! We covered it a bit in our previous video, but the main issue was that because of our repair we were stuck in the Cyclone Zone. We needed to get our boat east (into the weakening trade winds) to the Gambier islands, or west (with the trades) to New Zealand or Australia. Only in those places would our insurance coverage stay to protect our asset - and would we feel safe cruising with kids. It killed us to sail off from Paradise, but it was also the wet season, and so we sailed to New Zealand. Crazy, right!?
@@TheSailingFamily Ahuh, I hear what you are saying, and of course that was 12 months ago and its easy to be wise after the fact. I actually live in that environment in Oz and so am a bit blaze about the proverbial "wet season". To that end, I "had a dream", if I can quote 'someone', back in 1981 when I was a cattle farmer, or rancher in your lingo--I was only 31 then--and had this burning desire to sail the world, and in 1983 after subdividing and selling my property I went to contract on a Miller-designed--Ben Lexcen's name before he changed it--48 foot centre cockpit cutter-rigged sloop, a relatively fast boat for a cruiser, with which I had grand designs to 'outrun/retreat' from any cyclones that came my way. I never got the chance as I was offered an interest in a boutique merchant bank--I was an accountant by profession--following deregulation of the Australian financial industry, and exercised a condition in the contract to absolve it and the rest is history. With satellite weather forecasting these days and a fast cat under you I was thinking that you could deal with the imminent threat of cyclone expeditiously. Then again, in terms of risk management with a family on board I am sure that was not an option that you would be too keen to take. C'est la vie! I look forward to continuing to follow your journey. Cheers for now.
We have to admit this was just an "add milk" style product we bought in French Polynesia. It's so easy on a boat! But to get that golden brown color we grease the pan and then wipe off the excess before pouring it. It helps!!!
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It is so refreshing to see content that is family friendly, fun and interesting. Mahalo!
Thanks for watching!!!
Seriously love you guys I love that you don’t fake talk to the camera just natural filming love it
Nothing fake. Nothing scripted. We might lack a "story" sometimes other than getting there, but it's real!
@@TheSailingFamily Keep it up as you have us entertained with your real family, Love it and very much loving your videos.
Don't rush getting catching up. I have a feeling that you are making better videos because you have a longer time frame to work with. If you haven't considered it, one thing that I think all Sailing Channels could benefit from is yearly recap videos for those of us that come late to the party. I love your videos. Thank you.
Great idea! We might borrow that one. :)
I like that your videos are 20 min, the longer the better.
How can you guys only have 56k subs? Need to put the word out there!
I know! best sailing channel out there! Seth and Riley are sailors at heart. I love it!
They must be more than 56K
@@TheSailingFamily Subed because of Paulo's comment!
@@shangyu2599 Thank you Shang and Paulo!
Another great video, you gotta love how Pierce feels sad when you keep a fish you caught. He is standing over both of you, probably wishing the fish gets loose. Good hearted boy.
Thank you for explaining and breaking down your reasoning for sailing certain ways! it helps me as a novice sailor. Great job with the videos! Our family is watching 1 every week. Take care and may the four winds blow you safely along your way!
You are getting better all the time...Thanks for sharing...
So great. I watch every week. Love the videos. I never comment but giving you one to help with the algorithm.
Awesome! Thank you for watching! (and helping the Algorithm). :)
Again I must sound like a broken record but I really enjoy watching- the decisions the views and the commentary. Thank you so much for sharing the experience. Louis
Our pleasure!
You definitely convinced me to choose a performance cat instead of a floating condo (I was looking at Privilege). Still have to work out the WAF (wife approval factor) though ;-). You are very inspiring. Best regards from Spain.
Good choice! When the time is right, call the nice people at Outremer and get a tour of their yard in France. And bring your wife! When Elizabeth first stepped aboard Archer she was sold (although I never took her on a Privilege! :)
Love your boat , looks like good fun for the whole family. I get sad when the fish gotta die too. Be safe .....trying to help the algorithm....how do you sleep on passage? You looked tired by the second day ....
I probably was. We did a video recently about it. I think its this one: ua-cam.com/video/oL1LGCuStlw/v-deo.html
Wow! Thanks for sharing your adventures with us. Safe travels.
Thanks for watching!
Dream fishing day!
I really enjoy your vids, and I've never sailed. Keep them coming.
Glad you like them!
It is a logical decision to go on . Use the weather window when you have one . Stay safe and fair winds .
🌈⛵️😃 I tell you what Wonderful Dad and husband sailor and Cook 😳🇺🇸🇦🇺😃👍
Love your wonderful adventure.🍺😃🦋🌈⛵️
Good job Dad
You definitely know how to sail.
That Blue Marlin was huge!
He was a big sucker!
Did you try and throw out a lure? Maybe they are more of a trophy fish. Can you imagine trying to cut that thing up to eat, if you could? It would be like a bloody massacre occurred on your boat. Kids would be traumatized for life.
So Happy to see you guys back
On the Regular
Every Tuesday at 8am Pacific!!! Two more videos in the can and working on New Zealand now... Thanks for watching!
What a lovely passage ,and the stories of your son where are we (oh yes he forgot lol on passage ),.The tuna got away ,the mystery of the plastic clip and the best Mickey Mouse pancakes
Such good video content. You are excellent at it and it is amazing you do not have 10x the subscribers. I feel like I am part of a small group of lucky viewers "in the know".
Love hearing your Sailing explanations of how the trip is going!
Nice video - that part looks like it might have been from the top of the forestay, but you probably know what it's for by now.
You got it!
Great videos and anxiously await the next. Feel good that you and Elizabeth wear harnesses most of the time handling the sails. It makes me feel safe and know that your great crew will be safe as well.
Very knowledgeable sailors! Inspiring young family, thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Absolutely love your channel, thank you for sharing
One of the top sailing channels. Thank for sharing.
Wow, thanks! Glad you are enjoying them.
Well thanks for your videos, I love them and always waiting for the next one... just be safe and happy all the time..... best regards from Iceland...
Thank you very much!
I came to your channel recently. and wish you a million subscribers. Thank you for sharing. Hello from a New Zealander, stuck in London, England. Good luck : - )
Best channel on UA-cam! Keep up the great work!
Wow, thanks!
Going back and watching some older videos. I'm in love with Archer and started looking at Outremer after watching your review of it.. but ooof.. they are expensive - even the older ones. Probably too much so for me.
Love the channel you are sharing.. I guess speed is good when a family with kids "wants to get there" and i appreciate a good Captain takes safety and working the boat to its best is commendable I bet you and the kids have like I did on sailing vacations with my dad and mom had to learn how to enjoy the windless days.. flopping sails sucks .
But when there's just enough to keep em full.. even on a glassy sea it's cool how we all learned how to siesta and enjoy every thing about it as we do with a howling wind and rail to the water. Something to learn from and enjoy on any or most days.
glad you are out sailing again with a boat thats all fine.Safe journey ,even if this is more than a year ago.
I’m thinking this channel is more than a year behind. You will get a lot more subs if you get caught up.
We’re trying! Should be all caught up in three months.
Great video !. I'm always scared to take a nap while under passage. I'm assuming you were as well when first starting out. I guess you learn to trust the instruments..just "scary". Thanks for sharing
Exhaustion eventually takes over and you get okay with it! :)
Looked like a marlin for sure.
Great episode guys, thanks for this weeks adventure. Fair winds and following seas Archer.
Your son waking up not knowing where he was felt so familiar. My five year old does that in his bedroom and often sleep walks. Not sure what to do about kids sleepwalking on a boat someday!
Door alarms just like in a house.
Welcome back..shit happens but we forgot that and move forward..👍
How true!
@@TheSailingFamily I like ur efforts in carrying on your journey..it take courage and passion.
That part you found... dunno about you but when ever I put things together right out of the pack (Male thing, never read instructions) I always end up with a few screws left over...... maybe those screws weren't put in that part you found.... lol
I think I would have stopped. Not often you get to that island and hay you are not on a schedule this is your life so enjoy it.
@7:00 why did I think of wakeboarding behind the boat and I can't wake board 🤣🤣
@10:00 who needs trx when you have fish 🤣🤣
@15:50 good show mate and I'm singing the song "mickey mouse"
Love the Notification sound and knowing that your videos are out stay safe love you guys
Keep on teaching me new things.
wonderful dad. Micky Mouse pancakes for the boys.
Amazing! Thank you!
Right choice - keep going , They (Lows) can come from any where at this time of the year , Very unpredictable .Tonga's inner harbour is good shelter but not the best place to be , NZ safest - Fairwinds .
Beautiful Family Fair Winds
You are so kind Thanks for watching!
That looks like it could be part of your further if you've got to self furling Sail on there
Best wishes guys.
I love to wach your channel, is so enjoyable. Thank you.
Glad you enjoy it!
Freaks me out, kids waking up confused like that.
Stay safe
Sorry, hit send too soon.. great video, and compelling story
I enjoy your channel!
Happy easter ya ´ ll 🥚🥰
I would have stopped for an over night-er ... 🌙 ...that looked 👌 like a good spot for a swim and some sundowners .......🙃🍺😊 Fairwinds from the @captain'schair
Oh, it killed us to move on.
This is very good easter entertainment..... I hope there is going to be a easter special from the sailing family comming soon :)
Great footage again 👍🏴
Love the vlog guys keep up the great work! :)
My kid is the same-even as a 16 year old. Has full on conversations in his sleep.
I can't wait to get my first sailboat.
It's the best!!!
@@TheSailingFamily I already got my son talked into it. lol
Beautiful 💕
So happy for you guys
Thanks again, and by the way great video at Multi hull Central, I have been surprised that you dont have gen set!! Wow... loved it! Doesnt this not gives you many limitations as water maker, ar cond and so on?. Great video!! Thanks!!!
The battery technology today is amazing, so we can get by just on solar. We make water daily and don’t run our AC unless we are in a marina. It’s a great set up.
great video and good decision to keep going!
There is a sailing channel with a 1960s era Morgan 45 that, coming out of the
I don’t know how you can sleep at night in the middle of pitch black, you must take some fantastic morning naps
It's kinda spooky, but you get used to it. It becomes normal!
Nice ~~ I needed a break carry-on
When do you sleep? It seems like you are always at the helm night and day.
We did a video about that, actually. Click here to watch!:
ua-cam.com/video/oL1LGCuStlw/v-deo.html
HI, how do you organize the night shifts ? you only do them ? I saw that when its quiet you do 30 minutes sleep but when it's not quiet ? great video, love all the sailing part.
We did a video about our night watch procedures. Click here to watch!:
ua-cam.com/video/oL1LGCuStlw/v-deo.html
Man, I was excited to see Suwarrow !
You and me both! We were so curious to see if the caretakers would still be living there during cyclone season - and to have the entire island to ourselves! Would any other cruisers still be there? Would the sea-life be even crazier than normal? We were so curious we almost sailed in just to see!
Thank you for sharing
Did you ever figured out what that part was for?
I think that'll have to wait until they get docked.
Mainstay on sail, it attaches at the top. :)
Always great videos!!!!!!
Glad you like them!
Are you going to put out current footage? Just curious to know what you are doing now and where you are during COVID times. Enjoy watching your family.
Up top are links to the current what and where. They are catching up to real times with their videos but I say to just enjoy the ride...
Their photos on their website are much closer to current if you want spoilers
Yes, we are still filming and plan to catch up to "today" within about three months time. Just a lot of footage (great footage) to go through! And since the main reason for these videos is for us to remember our trip, we want to release them all. Thanks for watching!
Do you need to have both dagger boards down to sail on a reach?
On a reach, no, not really. We typically put down the windward board (when out at sea cruising). If we really need to point close hauled then we put both down.
I would never have too much tuna.
I think the mystery part fall would be driving me crazy. Great video.
Does anyone have any advice to where I should start learning how to read weather. I'm 1 year from my retirement. Boat shopping now. Thanks for any help
Start looking at Windy (the app) in you’re area. It’s free and it takes some getting used to. Play around with the different layers of data too. Very interesting (wind gusts, Rainfall, isotherms). Good luck!
Thanks so much
Suwarrow looks haunted.
Wow nice blue marlin
Be safe!
looks like the wife “decided to keep going” 😆
No one wanted to keep going!
@@TheSailingFamily Part of being a good cruising sailor is having the discipline to utilize a favorable weather window - correct choice.
Just watched the walk-through you did for the SEAbbaticals channel, and I have questions: You said you don’t use much fuel, so do you use fuel stabilizer? How necessary is fuel stabilizer? Is fuel stabilizer more important in the tropics?
We do use it. So it must be working as we have not had fuel issues. But not completely sure!
G'day, Sailing Vessel Archer, Captain, Mate, & crew. The question of the day, albeit way back then, and notwithstanding the covid scamdemic about to rain on your parade, what's the hurry? I mean I am intrigued that as a would-be cruiser my self if only the travel restrictions way back then and continuing had not continuously rained on my own parade finding a boat to buy, and yourselves as cruisers who are wanting to revisit the places that you enjoyed first time around, why the rush to get to ENZed, the end of the 'road' last time around?
I imagine that the answer may well reveal itself in due course, 'scuse the pun, but patience never was one of my virtues!
Hey Gypzy, thanks for the question! We covered it a bit in our previous video, but the main issue was that because of our repair we were stuck in the Cyclone Zone. We needed to get our boat east (into the weakening trade winds) to the Gambier islands, or west (with the trades) to New Zealand or Australia. Only in those places would our insurance coverage stay to protect our asset - and would we feel safe cruising with kids. It killed us to sail off from Paradise, but it was also the wet season, and so we sailed to New Zealand. Crazy, right!?
@@TheSailingFamily Ahuh, I hear what you are saying, and of course that was 12 months ago and its easy to be wise after the fact. I actually live in that environment in Oz and so am a bit blaze about the proverbial "wet season".
To that end, I "had a dream", if I can quote 'someone', back in 1981 when I was a cattle farmer, or rancher in your lingo--I was only 31 then--and had this burning desire to sail the world, and in 1983 after subdividing and selling my property I went to contract on a Miller-designed--Ben Lexcen's name before he changed it--48 foot centre cockpit cutter-rigged sloop, a relatively fast boat for a cruiser, with which I had grand designs to 'outrun/retreat' from any cyclones that came my way.
I never got the chance as I was offered an interest in a boutique merchant bank--I was an accountant by profession--following deregulation of the Australian financial industry, and exercised a condition in the contract to absolve it and the rest is history.
With satellite weather forecasting these days and a fast cat under you I was thinking that you could deal with the imminent threat of cyclone expeditiously. Then again, in terms of risk management with a family on board I am sure that was not an option that you would be too keen to take.
C'est la vie!
I look forward to continuing to follow your journey.
Cheers for now.
What would you do if you had a 1800 pound fish on your line?
Ha, I don't know! I have a feeling it would take all the line in a second. What a fish!
So this is before covid changed our lives 😔
Yes..it's Jan 2020 (or just after Christmas).
Noooo we need longer videos
When do we find out where that mystery part came from?????
Part 3! :)
Wait!! Where did that twenty minutes go?? That went by entirely too fast!! Ugh!
Good. We were a bit worried this was too long. Glad you liked it!
@@TheSailingFamily it really is as much about quality of content as it is about length of video. Your videos are never lacking.
good luck
If I had a dollar every time predict winds was wrong I would be the richest person on the planet, GOOD LUCK.
Yeah the decision to continue was made, but the body language said someone wasn't happy about it.
No one was happy about it. But it’s part of the deal. When you have a safe weather window you need to take it.
@@TheSailingFamily I understand, when the weather says go, you got to go.
@@satguy But you're right. E really wasn't happy about it. :)
@@TheSailingFamily Good luck, I was married long enough to know happy wife, happy life.
What's the pancake recipe guys ? ha
What is your pancake recipe? I'm useless at American pancakes and those looked great 😊
We have to admit this was just an "add milk" style product we bought in French Polynesia. It's so easy on a boat! But to get that golden brown color we grease the pan and then wipe off the excess before pouring it. It helps!!!
@@TheSailingFamily thanks. Suppose it was a random question on a sailing vid 😂😂
This happened well over a year ago, the horse has bolted.
We should be caught up in about three months time...
catamaran pancakes, yummy
Hmmm no narration from the little boys this time. I wonder why....
Their could be 100 guys in a sub rite under you using you for cover you never know😂😂😂😂🤣
Are you guys in nz
We were. Now in Oz!
@@TheSailingFamily 👍