Don't forget "Philosophy of sailing: offshore in search of the universe". I listened to that one when I had a fever and my bed seemed to roll like a Sailboat in the Pacific!
New to the subscription, but prior to, watched several of your videos such as trip to Hawaii. During one of your eloquent moments of self reflection, you suggested we should all live our lives without regrets. Not to wonder why, for not having done, what was within our grasp to do. At a few months away from being 70, I just bought a clean repowered 32 Sabre. I'm getting her and me ready to sail to the Florida Keyes from Mobile Bay. Thanks for the inspiration. Your command of the English language and inflections are enjoyable. Look forward to seeing many more videos. All advice is welcome.
Thank goodness! It has been too long since there was a new video! We sailors in the North East rely on your enviable year round sailing videos to get us through these frustratingly sailless winters.😊
Watching your videos I’m inspired by your abilities and tenacity especially at your age where most wouldn’t get out of their recliners if the house was on fire. Sailing provides us with sweet moments of solitude and sanity while challenging us in ways we never knew we needed or wanted. Solving these issues (or monitoring them) is truly a lesson for life. Keep going as long as you can and please, always take us with you. You challenge us to be better humans in many ways. Peace my friend.
So good to see your videos, always looking forward to the well narrated contend, great sailing knowledge with great philosophy, patient educational and great music, thank you Christian
Thanks Christian! Don't know if it is your vernacular, thought process, or delivery, but always find your videos soothing to the soul. You do for sailing what a blueberry muffin does for a cup of coffee.
When in doubt, do nothing. Monitor. Very profound, just like this old adage: "You see a lot of foolish sailors and you see a lot of older sailors, but you seldom see any older, foolish sailors." Bravo Christian!
Dear Mr. Williams, I love your videos. I learned how to sail from an "Old Man" on the Great Lakes. I was on his racing crew for 7 years. After I moved away, he continued racing until he was 88 and finally moved on to the great downwind leg in the sky when he was 93. He was a great lover of literature, the arts, and jazz. Every winter, we would trek to the boat yard, sit in the cabin while it rained outside, checking all the deck fittings for leaks. We had a small FM radio and would listen to "Dick Buckley's Archives of Jazz" on NPR (or maybe it was the local Chicago affiliate). When I hear Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, or the other jazz greats of the past, I think of those days. Thank you for your videos, your great taste in music, and your poetic love of being at sea.
Wise and delightful narration thank you so much. The end of your video when you’re reading letters shows you how important our freedoms are in America and how lucky we are to live in America as long as our freedom stands strong.
Always enjoy your musings. 6 degrees in Chicago now. Working on making and checking off my launch list to get through our long winter. Thank you for the vicarious January sail!
Just found you channel yestarday and already went through half the videos. Even told my mom about you and how cool you are. I would love to do what you do but don't know the first thing about sailing.
I had the same varnished grab rails with minor rot. So I grabbed a heat gun, removed the varnish, sanded to a smooth finish, then epoxied them, let it get tacky, then applied varnish. The will never get water in them and they looked fantastic. Minimal maintenance
Hi Christian, Once again thank you for sharing your adventure. And I like the fact that the winter has set out to improve on it's previous behavior. Sometimes it is sucessful and sometimes not. But then again, what can we do? Take care and we will see you on the flip flop.
Thank you. Marvellous to see you out in the sunshine. When you eventually remove the grab rails and redo them, you might consider a product named Woodskin. It is, as I understand it, part varnish, part oil , and therefore penetrates. I have had some success with it. Best wishes from grey chilly England.
I have had good long term results on teak by stripping and sanding to 180, acitone wipe down , 2 coats MAS epoxy (in 1 day) which fills the grain and then sand down to 220 ( don’t sand through) then Bristol 2 part varnish. You can get 3 coats varnish in a day with NO sanding between coats Do 6 to 8 coats Bristol varnish is now owned by MAS epoxy Cheers
Same here in Milwaukee. I feel bad for my Ericson 27 freezing to death at the boat yard. A nice warm sail out of South Shore would brighten my spirits so much right now.
I had to bight the bullet this winter, took my grab rails off the boat completely. They're now home in the basement workshop ready to be stripped, sanded, and varnished (~5 coats of Minwax Helmsman Spar). Just looked too ruddy and worn and had some varnish on the non-skid to clean up.....went right by the tape.
Thank you for this video once again. I've been following you for a couple years now and love how passionate you talk about sailing. Greetings from a Dutch skipper.
Great title. From the position of my professional career that I reached only by sitting on the rhetorical shoulders of his life of dogged, unfailing painting and varnishing, I asked how he faced the long lonely hours of daily boredom with his brushes, that I couldn't face for just two days. He told me he did it because his family needed him to, because he could and in his mind, while doing it, he could contemplate and re-muse on any subject and go to any place he chose. This was how an uneducated man was able to explain to an educated one, the reasons that so many things were as they were. He'd quietly worked things out as he pushed me up. I miss him.
Thank you for your videos. We’ve lived aboard our C-36 Mk2 for 7 yrs…. Channels like yours inspire me to keep the dream alive and keep sailing. I layo in lax a lot and would enjoy meeting you, one experienced sailor to a wanna be. Happy crossing capt
I keep a small magnet on my toolbox. i moved it to the tool that i'm using so i don't feel responsable for the death of fairies. i enjoy your channel like an old friend.
I'm a Tech Sergeant in USAF and I work on avionics. I know the pain of dropping small screws and washers in crappy spots. P.S. I'm going to start using the "a ferry will die if you drop that" line on my airman
You have given me courage to go on! Am not alone! I had left my boat sitting on the hard too long and now fixing everything. Put new electric bilge pump, replaced my whale gusher with exactly the same model and mine was 43 years old! (bought it on Amazon). Todays project is trying to fix my RM69 toilet and Jabsco Par water pressure pump. I saw your manual pumps and reminded me that I need to tighten their screws. The list goes on. But it is one thing at a time, dont fight it, enjoy it, would you be rather sitting on a couch?
I liked your last words in this video. I believe I know what you were referring to. When in doubt monitor. 😁 Stay cool Christian, people like you are fewer and fewer these days and we need you as long as you wanna stay. 🙂
Enjoy all your videos. Just finished “The Philosophy of Sailing” loved every word. Wonderful story of a journey across the sea. I felt I was on it, too.
When in doubt do nothing just monitor,… very wise as usual…. I like the concept of bounded rationality,… where the options are limited by the circumstances (environment), … I guess I would pull out the tank if about to take a passage compared to when wintering the boat 😜
It was good to see you posted a new video! Excellent as usual, well narrated with a suggestion for the philosophy of life at the end. I will allow myself a comment or two. Surely you know the trick for water ingress stains under varnish, if you sand the area to bare wood applying acetone removes the stain or at the very least will reduce it. For the green felt, perhaps glue-it under the caddy so the caddy then glides nicely on the varnished table. I like that caddy idea so much that I think I will build myself one, with the obligatory pipe holder. 🙂 Thank you for a great video.
I'm of the same ilk as it comes to the handrails. I'd rather continue periodic maintenance and keep my Alberg 30 looking like the 1977 vessel that she is than letting it grey. I followed the same course as you on this one. Happy.
You forgot to fix up one of your culinary delights in the galley. That image of you eating SPAM out of the can with relish is burned into my mind for the rest of my life…👍🏾✌🏾
Great video. Monitoring is one of my favorite pastimes. I have had cutting slots in my mainsail cover for my lazy jacks on my list for 8 years. Having them lift the sides of the sail cover is REALLY unsightly! If I adopt your solution, I can cross it off my list. However, when ever I do store the lazy jacks to the mast, the small Harken bullet blocks bang against the mast. Where/how do you store your lazy jacks when you are at the dock? Thanks, Ron
I don't have blocks on the lazy jacks, Spectra line slips easily enough through thimbles alone. When not deployed, the lazyjacks are tensioned to run along the boom under the sail cover.
You have written and narrated some of my favorite audiobooks!
Like which?
@@obiwanfisher537 "Alone Together"
Don't forget "Philosophy of sailing: offshore in search of the universe". I listened to that one when I had a fever and my bed seemed to roll like a Sailboat in the Pacific!
My first book by Christian was the Ted Turner biography, read by me about 30 years ago. Still a solid read, it holds up.
Your living my dream , if you have another Hawaii trip planned and want a 67 year old handyman cook (nothing fancy. Lol )fisherman , hitchhiker,
When in doubt, do nothing. Monitor. - Christian Williams, 2023.
New to the subscription, but prior to, watched several of your videos such as trip to Hawaii. During one of your eloquent moments of self reflection, you suggested we should all live our lives without regrets. Not to wonder why, for not having done, what was within our grasp to do. At a few months away from being 70, I just bought a clean repowered 32 Sabre. I'm getting her and me ready to sail to the Florida Keyes from Mobile Bay. Thanks for the inspiration. Your command of the English language and inflections are enjoyable. Look forward to seeing many more videos. All advice is welcome.
Thank goodness! It has been too long since there was a new video! We sailors in the North East rely on your enviable year round sailing videos to get us through these frustratingly sailless winters.😊
Watching your videos I’m inspired by your abilities and tenacity especially at your age where most wouldn’t get out of their recliners if the house was on fire. Sailing provides us with sweet moments of solitude and sanity while challenging us in ways we never knew we needed or wanted. Solving these issues (or monitoring them) is truly a lesson for life. Keep going as long as you can and please, always take us with you. You challenge us to be better humans in many ways. Peace my friend.
I love the passion you have for sailing. That thrill is infectious and I am driven to discover It!
So good to see your videos, always looking forward to the well narrated contend, great sailing knowledge with great philosophy, patient educational and great music, thank you Christian
Thanks Christian! Don't know if it is your vernacular, thought process, or delivery, but always find your videos soothing to the soul. You do for sailing what a blueberry muffin does for a cup of coffee.
I have never sailed a boat and ran into this channel recently by chance. It’s entertaining and amazing how much this guy knows about this hobby.
Watching Christian’s video, as always, is an injection of hope into my soul. Thank you !
The best sailing channel out there! A true sailing legend and inspiration. ❤
Another fine episode of sailing, maintenance tips, and sheer poetry just by the words that he uses. Thank you Christian Williams.
You and Sven Yrvind are my favorite sailing channels.
Same as ;) good taste
Another excellent video. Thanks for sharing, again….
Above all......u're informative and entertaining....
When in doubt, do nothing. Monitor. Very profound, just like this old adage: "You see a lot of foolish sailors and you see a lot of older sailors, but you seldom see any older, foolish sailors." Bravo Christian!
Dear Mr. Williams, I love your videos. I learned how to sail from an "Old Man" on the Great Lakes. I was on his racing crew for 7 years. After I moved away, he continued racing until he was 88 and finally moved on to the great downwind leg in the sky when he was 93. He was a great lover of literature, the arts, and jazz. Every winter, we would trek to the boat yard, sit in the cabin while it rained outside, checking all the deck fittings for leaks. We had a small FM radio and would listen to "Dick Buckley's Archives of Jazz" on NPR (or maybe it was the local Chicago affiliate). When I hear Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, or the other jazz greats of the past, I think of those days. Thank you for your videos, your great taste in music, and your poetic love of being at sea.
Love this guy so much!! Thank you for the new video, Christian!
Thank you for your great content!! Small screws: put some grease or other sticky stuff on the screwhead to stick it to the screwdriver..
Wise and delightful narration thank you so much. The end of your video when you’re reading letters shows you how important our freedoms are in America and how lucky we are to live in America as long as our freedom stands strong.
Always enjoy your musings. 6 degrees in Chicago now. Working on making and checking off my launch list to get through our long winter. Thank you for the vicarious January sail!
Good to see you are still sailing, Christian! (I count boat maintenanc a part of it)
You are a gem to humanity
Fair winds sailor, great vlog, ..again!
Just what I needed. My moment of zen
Happy Winter Christian! Watching this gets me so revved for the upcoming sailing season here in New Hampshire... Thank you sir.
An excellent time to sail to Hawaii and back , again , Please.
That had to be one of his best ones I keep going back to it 👍
It’s your turn to go Carl and Glenn.
@@YourMom777-x3x I sure would love to. Maybe one day
I needed that. Thank you, Christian
Cheers to longer days, much love from the Chesapeake Bay.
And as if by magic, Christians video appears and the world is a better place, thank you Christian!
Great post my friend. Stay strong, free, happy and healthy. 🌞 🌴 ⛵️
Great episode! Loved it. I learn so much from watching your videos. "When in doubt, do nothing but monitor."
Just found you channel yestarday and already went through half the videos. Even told my mom about you and how cool you are.
I would love to do what you do but don't know the first thing about sailing.
Best sailing videos on YT! An inspiration to all.
Great episode.
Just what the doctor ordered.
Good medicine to combat cabin fever..
It’s-10F here in Minnesota.
Yearning for Spring launch.
Thanks.
Thanks Christian for your advice and tips, Trip to yacht club looks like alot of fun !
Love seeing that Cal ‘34 whizz by you.
Thanks for the video. Love it!
👍Thanks Christian, aside from a little fresh water that is a nice clean bilge.
I had the same varnished grab rails with minor rot. So I grabbed a heat gun, removed the varnish, sanded to a smooth finish, then epoxied them, let it get tacky, then applied varnish. The will never get water in them and they looked fantastic. Minimal maintenance
Nothing from Nothing.. your opinion the greatest affordable live aboard in history.....🎉
Your humor, and candor is so refreshing, your videos have fed my soul. Thank you.
Thank you! Love your videos. I moved from L.A. 12 years ago - you just made me miss the winters very much. ;-)
Wonderful.. Your videos make me feel good. Cheers
Hi Christian,
Once again thank you for sharing your adventure.
And I like the fact that the winter has set out to improve on it's previous behavior. Sometimes it is sucessful and sometimes
not. But then again, what can we do?
Take care and we will see you on the flip flop.
When in doubt do nothing, monitor. Wise words indeed, ever thought of politics we could do with someone sensible in the UK
Thank you. Marvellous to see you out in the sunshine. When you eventually remove the grab rails and redo them, you might consider a product named Woodskin. It is, as I understand it, part varnish, part oil , and therefore penetrates. I have had some success with it. Best wishes from grey chilly England.
I have had good long term results on teak by stripping and sanding to 180, acitone wipe down , 2 coats MAS epoxy (in 1 day) which fills the grain and then sand down to 220 ( don’t sand through) then Bristol 2 part varnish. You can get 3 coats varnish in a day with NO sanding between coats Do 6 to 8 coats Bristol varnish is now owned by MAS epoxy Cheers
Minus 2° here in Wisconsin and the 17’ O’day Daysailer is parked till spring. Living vicariously through you.
Thank you for the respite.
Same here in Milwaukee. I feel bad for my Ericson 27 freezing to death at the boat yard. A nice warm sail out of South Shore would brighten my spirits so much right now.
Excellent choice of music 🙏🏽
I had to bight the bullet this winter, took my grab rails off the boat completely. They're now home in the basement workshop ready to be stripped, sanded, and varnished (~5 coats of Minwax Helmsman Spar). Just looked too ruddy and worn and had some varnish on the non-skid to clean up.....went right by the tape.
As always ... beautifully narrated Christian. Thank you for the quick restbit from life.
Hi Christian, hope you are doing well. Really enjoyed your content to date and thanks for your suggestions on music. Hope to see more of you soon!
Thank you for this video once again. I've been following you for a couple years now and love how passionate you talk about sailing. Greetings from a Dutch skipper.
Thanks for the sail!
Great title.
From the position of my professional career that I reached only by sitting on the rhetorical shoulders of his life of dogged, unfailing painting and varnishing, I asked how he faced the long lonely hours of daily boredom with his brushes, that I couldn't face for just two days.
He told me he did it because his family needed him to, because he could and in his mind, while doing it, he could contemplate and re-muse on any subject and go to any place he chose. This was how an uneducated man was able to explain to an educated one, the reasons that so many things were as they were.
He'd quietly worked things out as he pushed me up.
I miss him.
Happy New year, health and always fair winds....
Thank you for your videos. We’ve lived aboard our C-36 Mk2 for 7 yrs…. Channels like yours inspire me to keep the dream alive and keep sailing. I layo in lax a lot and would enjoy meeting you, one experienced sailor to a wanna be.
Happy crossing capt
That was wonderful to watch and listen as I sit in the basement on a cold minus 25 degree evening. Can wait for spring in Ontario Canada...
I keep a small magnet on my toolbox. i moved it to the tool that i'm using so i don't feel responsable for the death of fairies. i enjoy your channel like an old friend.
I'm a Tech Sergeant in USAF and I work on avionics. I know the pain of dropping small screws and washers in crappy spots. P.S. I'm going to start using the "a ferry will die if you drop that" line on my airman
Absolutely love your videos good sir! I’ll be monitoring things in life from now on before I deem them a fully fledged problem. 😉
Thank you.
You have given me courage to go on! Am not alone! I had left my boat sitting on the hard too long and now fixing everything. Put new electric bilge pump, replaced my whale gusher with exactly the same model and mine was 43 years old! (bought it on Amazon). Todays project is trying to fix my RM69 toilet and Jabsco Par water pressure pump. I saw your manual pumps and reminded me that I need to tighten their screws. The list goes on. But it is one thing at a time, dont fight it, enjoy it, would you be rather sitting on a couch?
Love your videos
Sail on, sir, sail on.
I liked your last words in this video. I believe I know what you were referring to. When in doubt monitor. 😁 Stay cool Christian, people like you are fewer and fewer these days and we need you as long as you wanna stay. 🙂
Love your videos buddy
😁😁💛 Thelonius.
🔥❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥 awesome ty!!!
You are totally awesome thank you so much
Excellent watch as always Christian. Cheers from the UK!
I missed this! thank you ;)
Enjoy all your videos. Just finished “The Philosophy of Sailing” loved every word. Wonderful story of a journey across the sea. I felt I was on it, too.
Love these videos. You are living the life
Just wow
The sped up bike footage is terrifying!
Sped up? No, that's just the way I roll....
this is amazing!!!
Thanks for sharing, enjoyed in Denmark.
I enjoy your videos so much .... thank you !
When in doubt do nothing just monitor,… very wise as usual…. I like the concept of bounded rationality,… where the options are limited by the circumstances (environment), … I guess I would pull out the tank if about to take a passage compared to when wintering the boat 😜
It was good to see you posted a new video! Excellent as usual, well narrated with a suggestion for the philosophy of life at the end.
I will allow myself a comment or two.
Surely you know the trick for water ingress stains under varnish, if you sand the area to bare wood applying acetone removes the stain or at the very least will reduce it.
For the green felt, perhaps glue-it under the caddy so the caddy then glides nicely on the varnished table.
I like that caddy idea so much that I think I will build myself one, with the obligatory pipe holder. 🙂
Thank you for a great video.
Oxalic acid to bleach wood, once all finish removed.
Good job
Oh, I can’t wait to watch it. I’m at work now but when I get home this evening thank you for posting.
Good to see you back sir.
Love your music selection.
I'm of the same ilk as it comes to the handrails. I'd rather continue periodic maintenance and keep my Alberg 30 looking like the 1977 vessel that she is than letting it grey. I followed the same course as you on this one. Happy.
Le Jazz a voile 💙 bon voyage and good luck sir
Ah…winter projects. Boat ownership, not unlike life, can be described as the process of managing decay. Sail-on!
Love your videos! Happy 2023🎉
Missing you sir. Hop all is well.
I agree on No felt decision. One spill and regret in spades (if you had glued it down).
How odd and distant is to hear Covid experiences from a couple years ago... Like a bad dream
(*) no fairies were harmed in the making of this episode
Keep believing!
If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Oh, that’s live in the life taking the electric bike to the boat yep
You forgot to fix up one of your culinary delights in the galley. That image of you eating SPAM out of the can with relish is burned into my mind for the rest of my life…👍🏾✌🏾
I didn't realize he was a celebrity, I thought he was a regular guy
Line the coffee holder with cork sheet.
Christian, is a new video coming soon? We love your work so much.
Yes, thanks, to be "Advanced Sailing Techniques ." Appreciate the patience.
Great video. Monitoring is one of my favorite pastimes. I have had cutting slots in my mainsail cover for my lazy jacks on my list for 8 years. Having them lift the sides of the sail cover is REALLY unsightly! If I adopt your solution, I can cross it off my list. However, when ever I do store the lazy jacks to the mast, the small Harken bullet blocks bang against the mast. Where/how do you store your lazy jacks when you are at the dock? Thanks, Ron
I don't have blocks on the lazy jacks, Spectra line slips easily enough through thimbles alone. When not deployed, the lazyjacks are tensioned to run along the boom under the sail cover.