Motoring a Sailboat through America's most dangerous waters: The ICW
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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In previous videos, we searched for our perfect boat. Just a few weeks ago in mid-February, we found her. This week we're on our 1976 Tayana 37 (CT37) Taiwanese build designed by Robert Perry. She boasts a teak deck, roomy quarters, and needs a lot of work, and the projects have begun! sirenwilliams@thesirenslog.com
This week, we're headed south on the ICW in Florida, exploring a little spoil island around Stuart, playing with hermit crabs and letting Bentley run. We’ll continue on, making our way down to Peanut Island in West Palm Beach. We're traveling with large dog, a small tender, an iffy outboard, and our rigging can not be sailed.
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Mr. Bentley, he is a very intelligent dog and at the same time a mischievous dog, he crosses, he lies down, he wants to drive, he wants to dive, he escapes and he is always among you, never on the side or in a corner.
What a beautiful dog this Bentley is. 💡👌
Thanks! Yeah he’s our favorite little asshole.
@@TheSirensLog At any moment a migrant parakeet brings you on board 🤣🤣
Or a migrant pigeon? Will that work? lol stay tuned and find out. 😂
Don’t forget to add the hight of the bow above water to the depth for anchoring ratios,ie 10’ +3’ at 10:1 is 130’ of chain.
We do!
ALOHA guys glad you got a boat nice videos
Thanks for watching!!!
I feel ya on those bridges 🙄. Peanut Island was too congested for me, and the power boaters in the area were idiots. I kept going south to a very nice anchorage just south of the Royal Park Bridge in downtown West Palm. Hopefully your radio issues got taken care of.
I think that’s where we were initially going but ended up going where we did so Bentley could get off on peanut island. It didn’t look like there was anywhere for us to get off in that other anchorage. It turned out alright! Definitely busy but not that bad just for a night.
Excellent video today , the music was especially good. I love Bentley ❤too
Thank you so much!!!
On my sailboat I had a handheld radio also we used it on the dinky and the boat it was very good , I could get the Coast Guard and the weather and other boats up to 5 miles away even more at times , purchase a handheld radio get to have .
Yeah we need to buy a handheld, but add it to the list! We will have one before crossing the gulf though.
You've got all the right pieces to become a great sailing channel... Already on my top list .. best wishes and........................Cheers.
Thank you so much!!! We appreciate that
The bit with the hermit crabs was my favorite part. You and I would have fun hanging together I can tell 😅
Hahaha YES!!! We’re thinking about spending the summer in the keys. If you guys decide to come down, let me know!!!
Peanut island is a fantastic party spot, Sunday is best
Well we prefer the peace and quiet but it was a nice place to take Bentley and it wasn’t that busy over there. But yeah I’ve seen videos of that place packed!!
Lovely monologues 👍....keep smiling ...regards from the UK
Thank you so much! 😊
I always point into the current and or wind when holding station waiting for a bridge to open. That way you have steering, way easier than trying to back into the current.
That’s a solid point but way easier said than done for a lot of these tight spaces on the ICW. There were a lot of moments where we couldn’t have turned around to avoid hitting the bridge if we’d needed to, or at least not without yelling at other boats to please move out of the way so we could. Down a lot of the ICW in that area, it’s very tight, and very shallow on both sides and the channel is super thin and turning around in it is already a sketchy thing so we didn’t see that as a great option. Not in this area at least! We found it easier to adjust speed to arrive just a minute before the opening but inevitably you’re always gonna have that one time or that one bridge that opens a couple minutes late and there’s no way to turn around. 🤷♀️ We’re finally out of there now! Haha woohoo!
Look and I are finally getting to watch this
Good good!! Thank you!!! 😊
Enjoyed this video! Regular events in everyday boat life!
Haha yep! Thanks!!
Well done on the bridge openings! The timing looks like the starting of a sailboat race.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Great video...
Glad you enjoyed it
You can do a ‘radio check’ call on the radio . People love to tell you where they are and what strength they hear you.
You probably forgot you can do that!
Cheers Warren
No we just did it multiple times and gave up. lol
…but then it would work in front of the bridges so… 🤷♀️
@@TheSirensLog some of the hand helps are surprisingly short range , I’ve never had much Success with them . Vhf is line of sight so somthing might block it? The also low and high power setting , they are annoying radios!
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@@Cheers_WarrenYeah, Hal had noticed the watts were quite low on the channels, but we’re going to dig into it.
@@TheSirensLog typically like 2w/10w or 5/25. But if you use high power to close you get weird distortion!
Another fun video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent Vid you guys!! Safe travels!!
Thank you!!!🙏🏼
You might want to check the antenna connectors and cable for loose or corroded connection. UV and Salty conditions degrade them. How old is the cable ??
We’re not even sure but we’re gonna have to check it. It’s not loose, I’ve been up the mast twice now and I didn’t see obvious corrosion but I also wasn’t looking for that specifically.
UA-cam is creepy what pops up in your feed but sometimes it works great. Just watched Siren's SlipIn swimsuit video from six years ago. Very cool line of swimwear. Cheers.
Hahahah Ohh man that’s old. Thanks for watching though!!
Great video! Keep going!
Thank you! Will do!
Antennas are a common failure. High winds will break the wire inside it easily. We used to keep them low on our nav mast just so we could get to them easier. Because they were going fail lol. Best solution was to use four of them, one on each quadrant around the base of the pole (6” pipe pole) and we would mouse them off on the top with fiberglass clamps to keep them from flexing in the wind. Worked great and we rode out at least two named storms every season. They lasted a whole two years in that configuration!
Hahaha Dammit yeah. Well Hal wants it above the mast because he says we will get better range that way, and moving it lower will cut that in half. 🤷♀️ Our antenna “appears” unbroken on the exterior, but who knows. I’ve been up there a couple times and I’ve seen it but Hal hasn’t been up there yet. It’s a 3’ antenna, though. Definitely a pain, adding height to us.
@@TheSirensLog we need to make a mount that is retractable for sailing boats that use the intercostal waterway. I have a design in my mind that is very simple. The material used, used to be a little expensive. But, it would add two more lines up the mast and a small cat head at the base. That way you could have a top mounted antenna that could be retractable to your height at the mast top only. Then you could use a 6’ antenna and not having to worry about the extra height. It’ll still transmit and receive retracted, it’ll be linear instead of radial though. That’s why I would recommend a front mounted position. You are usually hailing a bridge off your bow anyway.
@@TheSirensLog The radio station below was working still though. Probably the coax connection on the back of the topside radio had some corrosion. He’s right about the range with the hight. But, that being said, a handheld will still go out to 5 miles on high power, at 3’ above sea level.
@@jeremybarrow2455 I think he checked the connections but I’ll be sure. That one down below “works” but you can only barely hear what they’re saying back. If there was ANY more noise I wouldn’t be able to make out a word. I’m just hoping we don’t have to replace the whole unit.
@@TheSirensLog oh! That’s definitely a coax and potentially the antenna for that problem. Below deck transmits and the topside one receives. Make sure to use dielectric grease when you replace them. I don’t recommend heat shrink over the connections just because it tends to keep moisture in rather than keeping it out.
Giday, check the antenna connection, the actual metal to metal and the ground wire. Really liked the music.
Thanks! Yeah Hal’s been messing with it. He also found something with the wattage of that channel? I think his verdict was that something was still wrong but… ehhhh. We will figure it out before we cross the gulf!
10:38 Bentley, “I didn’t do that!!!”
lol He’s terrible 🤣
Get yourselves a handheld VHF, it’s good redundancy and you can take it with you in the dinghy in case you run into trouble
That’s the plan! We’d just realized it wasn’t working properly at this time.
Come on Bently, poo on pad man. It'll be fun 😆 As for those radio issues, maybe it's time to invest in a handheld for a backup? -- Jerry
It most definitely is!
OH and he’s using the pad now pretty good!! 😊
Loved the hermit crab sequence . Thank you for the adventures!
Hahah Thank you!!!
Be sure to post you trip from Boca Raton to Fort Lauderdale.
Yeaaaaaaaaah. So that. Hahaha 18 BRIDGES and I was going to make one episode of just that but with the engine and the radio calls and the loudness and everything, and the monotony, I kinda think I’m going to wrap that up in the beginning of the next episode and kinda skim through it. It’s just A LOT.
Hey guys, thank you for these videos. Its great having your perspective. I love the Tayana 37, its just beautiful. Could you tell us the $estimate for the standing rigging replacement for this boat?
Well… I’m not totally sure. I’m ballparking $15k for the rigging to have a rigger do it where we live BUT we have to completely remove the chain plates and get new ones fabricated and move them to the exterior which is a huge project, and if we get the bronze chain plates from Port Townsend Foundry, they’re a few thousand just to have fabricated. Nevermind whatever the cost is for us to do the work ourselves. I can’t even imagine the enormous cost to have to pay someone else to move those chain plates. We will likely do the rigging ourselves so for us it’s more about the cost of the rigging and I’m not even sure.
I have a question about dinghies... do you have to have registration on a dinghy? I've never seen registration numbers on any dinghy before. But, according to what I've read if it has a motor on it it does require registration.
Yep, you do. There used to be a law- something like if the motor was under 10 hp, you didn't have to register it, but they changed all that. Some people never put the numbers on, though. I'll be honest, I've had a number of these small tenders from other boats I've lived on, and I never put the numbers on, but I knew that where I was, I'd never get busted. However, the way we're traveling, we have to have them.
We did get stopped in Fort Lauderdale because at one point we were just running to the dumpster 100' away, and then spontaneously decided to cross the ICW to go somewhere, and got stopped and technically we had like 6 violations, but they charged us for 2, even though one of those was kinda lame because it was our registration sticker which we'd JUST bought but Hal dropped it in the water while trying to put it on. But we literally left with NOTHING- no lifejackets, no lights, nothing. We did get the numbers on the boat, but putting those things on an inflatable is like throwing uncooked pasta at the wall and expecting it to stick. A lot of cruisers cut little boards and paint the numbers on the boards and hands the boards from each side.
Were those 4 barnacles hermit crab decor or do you think it was camouflage. It really doesn't matter in the whole of things, but I thought I'd ask. Have a great time you two and keep the good stuff coming. Sorry I'm a little late this week, a family emergency but everyone is out of the hospital and doing fine and the perp is in jail on $2,000,000 cash bond. Life is looking up.
Dang!! Sorry to hear that! I truly hope that all gets straightened out and everyone is ok! 👍🏼
@@TheSirensLog Everyone is home and on h mend and the perp is in the local hoosegow on a $2,000,000 cash bond. I don't believe he is going anywhere for a few decades.
Adjust your gain on your radio !!!
It wasn’t that
I understand it sounds horrible for the video, but in real life, you can hear the bridges. If I adjusted the gain properly, we could t hear them a 100 yards away.
Not down in the boat! I could barely hear them at all!
Who does the music???
Hahah Well I do all the editing and I choose the music, but because of copyright laws, we are fairly limited on what music we can use. UA-cam has a library of music that is 100% legal to use in videos so I always just use whatever music is in that library.
@@TheSirensLogwould be better with no music
Good morning ☀️
Good Morning!!☀️
Hi guys, sometimes it’s better to have a handheld a spare one who is unfortunately you’ll rust gets into into aerials and allsorts of stuff , keep up the good work. Love the videos. Cliff from Australia.
Yeah we do want do have at least one handheld on the boat, but we just bought the boat and we’ve bought SO many other things and it’s all a matter of just figuring out what’s most urgent and getting it. We figured at least one out of two would work when we left. They seemed to work in Daytona. Could be the antenna and Hal also played with the wattage or something and we’re figuring out if there’s a remedy for these but also looking at handhelds.
According to Emily and Clark's Adventure... it's always the cable not the antenna. Personally, I would also check the connectors for corrosion. You can buy the cable they recommend but I can't get it shipped across the boarder.
We’re gonna look at that, thanks!
Get a 102 inch antenna and you wont have to tune your radio.
Well Hal wants it at the top of the mast to get better range. We’re already pretty limited with the 3’ antenna! lol
Snakes on those islands, be careful……
I’ve never seen one out there or on any of the spoil islands in Brevard. That’s not to say there isn’t ever one, I’ve just spent a lot of time out there over the years, sometimes weeks at a time, and haven’t ever seen a snake.
Adjust the Squelch knob to quiet the white noise.
It wasn’t that
Like that theme background music vibe.
Thank you!! 🙏🏼
They make a product that uses an eye dropper, you put a few drops on the mat and the dog will smell it as the place to do its job. Forget the name of it, Pet shops should know.
Thanks! He’s actually taken to it now and is doing SO good!!! 😊
Another great show. Thank you.
Our pleasure!
I wish I knew when you were coming down the ICW we live in Port St Lucie and I would have liked to watch you going by, myself and my wife have been to Peanut Island and found conch's there! Did you know that there is a bunker on Peanut Island built for John f Kennedy when he was president because they had a house on Palm Beach and in case anything happens that's where he was supposed to hunker down!
Really! Wow we didn’t know that. Damn that would have been cool to check out!! Yeah we are a few weeks behind… but if you join our Patreon, you can see what we are doing and where we are in real time. You can join for free! There are paid levels where we give more info and do livestreams and stuff but you do get updates just being free too.
Very enjoyable episode as I relax on the back porch while it’s raining.
Awhhh how lovely that sounds. Thanks so much for being here again!
You should have a handheld as a back up
We should. We figured these would work- they do work! Just not as well as we thought. We have to work on that antenna and get a hand held.
@@TheSirensLog As stated above the wire is questionable b4 the antenna
@@TheSirensLog Sometimes just a small wire brush and connector/dielectric grease can fix the connections. Do both ends on each radio.
Thanks, yeah we’re gonna have to.
Y’all are my kind of people and you’re from my hometown! I’ve been wanting to buy a sailboat for sometime now and do exactly what yall are doing. But after watching yall , I think I’m 1 or 2 beers away from saying FT ! . I’m gonna wait until I’m a millionaire and buy new 😂 .. Loving the realness of reality of your videos . Y’all are doing great!
Hahahaha Hey I hate to tell ya but new boats always have a lot of problems too. We have new things on this boat right now we’re already replacing. It’s just a boat thing man!! 😂 Thanks for being here!
I know you’re trying to live a good life, But you are very pretty, and you don’t have to live with all these dramas!
Life isn’t necessarily easier because you’re pretty. lol 😂
You can be my radio man anytime; not you Hal.
lol
Love following along on y'all's adventure!
Thank you! Happy to have you!
Salve ragazzi, sempre interessanti i video che trasmettete !! buona navigazione ciaoo !!
Grassi!
put some sand on the mat
He’s actually using it really well now! But that’s a great idea!
I'm still learning about american culture. Mostly by watching standup comedy.
I'm not sure, but shouldn't the bearded dude tell some incest jokes once in a while?
Maybe stand up comedy isn’t where you should learn about American culture? Lol
American culture is a very broad term. It's like saying European culture. The USA is bigger than the EU and almost as big as Europe itself. With all that said, I am from Florida, not Alabama.
That's like saying you learned brain surgery from a handy 10 page booklet.
@@voodoodaddy574 😂
@@haltarpley9237 ok. Florida man.