I appreciate your honesty. I am fairly new to sailing and have a new Tartan and have made many mistakes as well as had many problems. So great videos. You keep it real.
Thanks for all that you do. You have kept me inspired to try living on a sail boat even though I had to sell the one I bought at auction before even getting it seaworthy. I'd rather learn from your mistakes than my own, but I'd also rather learn from someone who has just learned it themselves rather than someone who's done it for 40 yrs and knows everything. Those folks don't remember what it's like to be new and to figure how things work best for themselves. I enjoy creative problem solving and it sounds like that's what you do a lot. Hope you make it home safe to Canada, but manage to get back on the water and back to the Caribbean soon.
After Canada I will leave Port and never come back until I complete a full circumnavigation. My sail to the Bahamas and back was a test run. To see if this is really for me. It is. I've learned so much! Now to apply that to a real Ocean crossing world cruising yatch... it takes a certain type of individual to be put here and live thru each day. With the right sailboat anything is possible. You will have hard days and question why your put here. Eventually you get used to it and it's all you know. I can't be on land more than a week now. It's an addiction. I know what I have to do now and how to do it. The next phase is at hand and is just the beginning.. Thanks for the kind words mate. I hope we cross paths out there one day and have sundowners.. Thanks for being here with me online..
Wow it's now 18:00 in the evening and I've been watching your channel since 07:00 this morning..... Awesome content I love the honesty about sailing and boat life...I personally agree with you about carrying a knife on you at all times...I can not tell how many times it has saved me or someone else's life... Great content keep it up Regards from South Africa 🇿🇦
@@sailingEV888 Im in Cape Town sailing is ok here but it can get wild very quickly I have been to Skeleton Cost but was on a motoryaught way out at sea but I hear it wild especially at certain time of the year
Since your last video we have taken the boat off the Pleasure Craft licence and registered in the Large Vessel Catagory. Just waitng for the mailed copy. If it was not for your last video we would have been screwed. Thanks again!!! Keep the videos coming!
Yeah, lived 7 years on a 52 footer, ferrous cement schooner mid cockpit. My father built it, he is Dutch, say no more.... Marine life cannot be described. Just do it, fyi, not easy, but nothing good in life is. You will create the best freindships of your life with a boat! Boaters are amazing.❤
thank you for posting. i am a pilot and i always like to watch the mistakes that happens. you learn from them. this may save some ones life. i hope to be a full time sailor someday, well im on a 5 year plan. just bought a 1977 p23 sloop. i know nothing about sailing i am planning on learning with this boat until i know for sure this is want i want to do. then thinking of selling everything and buying a 37 sloop to be my home.
I'd go bigger if your already a mariner. Go 42 or even 47. 36 foot boats just get tossed around in medium seas. A big vessel of 20 tons is needed to do any serious sailing! At a minimum 40 ft. 2 masts is a bonus. A big diesel engine to boot to power through tides. Do NOT BUY A 36.. waste of time. A real world cruising vessel is over 40 ft.. the question is can you single hand it? Anything fiberglass and under 40 feet is a coastal cruiser ment to pop over to the Bahamas. Don't make the mistake. If you want to sail around the world get a 40+ heavy ystch with big sails and engine.. no bleach bottle beats.. contact me on FB before buying a tiny coastal cruiser. Watse of time..
I'm glad you are ok! All sailors make mistakes. I have taken the ASA classes and sail on my boat but I watch your channel (and others) to learn from your mistakes so that I dont repeat them. I will add that a serrated blade is important; many cheap rigging knives are useless for cutting lines. Keep posting...
Mike, it’s the Minister- great video… I appreciate the transparency… you are doing a great service. You’re a very good educator. Now that God spared you, what are you going to do with your life? Hint from the pros, There is a knife in every cockpit, and one on every boom vang.
Great video! Your not an idiot! All these armchair sailors should listen close. Been sailing for 50 years..your teaching everybody good shit.. listen close.
Means everything to me to read this comment... I hope to see you out there one days and have sundowners and tell stories about our life as real Mariners. We live in anchorages on Oceans and in marinas all over the world!!!
In the past year I've seen a case of an experienced🇬🇧 sailor with a crew get thrown from an open cockpit by a stray or rogue wave ....he wasn't wearing a life jacket. 😬 The other is somewhat similar to yours where under load a sheet whisked someone into the air and over board .. it can shake you like a Jack Russell with a rat 🐀.. and throw you yards away from the boat.. in a calm warm sea you might stand a chance with someone else aboard otherwise the out look isnt good especially at night or in a squall. Yatchs that requires you to go forward to handle sails especially to reef them are problematic because sooner or later you will get caught out - literally.
Michael, you seem to be your own worst enemy. 5 years sailing and I don’t see you learning much. What sailor sees a huge storm like that approaching and says hey let’s raise the Genoa?? Anyone that’s been in a storm like that would reduce sail. Not increase it. Also as previously noted two heavy shackles swinging over head will do nothing but knock some sense into you. That being said we love your videos, keep them coming!!!
I’m right there with you . I’m on my boat as I watch this . Yeah we screw up all the time when sailing . Just get into a routine but things happen it’s life , that’s why we do it . Live it love it .
Well said mate!! When sailing things are great then all of a sudden there not! Be prepared. Think things through in the moment when things go wrong. The right decision could change the outcome in moments.. Thanks for commenting!!
My recommendation is to have a Boye Sheepsfoot on the belt. The blunt tip keeps you from stabbing yourself and the serrated blade stays sharp foreverrrrrrrr… they ain’t cheap but some things are a “buy once cry once” type of thing. This is one of them.
I hear you, I have about 3k miles under my keel and trust me I have made some bone head mistakes. What I learned was to slow down my brain when I get into trouble and solve it in my mind then go at it. In your case not sure what I would’ve done first. I make soft shackles to pass time on passage and I would have grabbed one. I always have a knife on me, yesterday a crewman borrowed mine to do something and left with it. He called and offered to come back but I said no problem, went to nav station and un boxed the spare then ordered another pair of them for the drawer! Enjoy the trip up, I did it in April/ may again this year the food was good and I found stops at shrimp boat docks got me tons of shrimp and cheap parts and fuel.
I bought a knife for this reason when i had my first sailboat, and i never carried it with me ! From tomorrow, i will make sure to have it with me every time i sail !!
What would I have done if a sheet parted. Roll the sail up using the other sheet to tension it. The when the sail was under control tie the parted sheet on with a bowline as a temporary measure until you could replace the sheet. Also throw the shackles in the bin. Never attach a sheet to a genoa with a shackle. Always tie or splice them to the sail. I guess I am an armchair sailor right now since I haven't had the boat (Allied 36 ketch) out since yesterday. My wife is now a passenger so I am always single handing now days. As far as getting the line off your leg goes, unwrap it using the unloaded side. One thing I have learned in my 60 years of sailing is never rush.
It does seem like a good idea to use a shackle for your genoa sheets, however a way better idea is to use a bowline. Bowlines are free, they do not rattle around, with a sufficient tail, they will not get undone, especially when they are attached to a furling genoa for months or years. I tape all of my shackles because they do catch on thngs and release on their own.
I'm going to refer to my Chapman's sailing handbook and try that tomorrow first thing! These comments mean everything to me! Thanks for taking the time! I may include this in a future video.. cheers mate..
100%. Never use a shackle to attach a genoa sheet. A shackle can be deadly if you have to go forward to deal with a flogging sail and the shackle hits you in the head. Just the ring in the clew is bad enough. Personally I don't like bowlines and use a continuous line with a brummel spliced eye at the clew. It doesn't hang up on shrouds like bowlines do. Incidentally, I never carry a knife, but I have only been sailing for 60 years so what do I know.
My favorite part of your videos is how you tell us you rely on ad revenue but then you get combative with your viewers. I think you secretly love the drama. 😂
I'm a drama king.. no doubt about it. I hope I'm making my point and saving lives.. kegs and boats. When your out there completely Fu$#t and leg caught its a big deal! No drama there just truth. I hope you see it for what it is..
Making mistakes = learning, and sometimes the lessons come very swiftly. If you aren't making mistakes, it's because you aren't doing anything...period. Hey man, live and learn every day. Don't ever be afraid or ashamed of home schooling yourself. Experiences are the chapters in the book called knowledge. You need to always fly a fresh Canadian flag....Lesson, pack spares...lol. Chin up, chest out...no room for self-doubt.
You are a true digital crew member and apart of this adventure! Everytime you think of the channel know that a wave just broke over EV's bow in your name!!
I was stuck midships into the wind with the auto pilot holding. However it only held for a minute of so in those conditions and went a beam to the wind! I was stuck!!
I have MASSIVE PLANS! However this time I'm not going to announce them on the internet until they happen. I learned that lesson hard! It's the reason this channel exists! Be careful what you wish for!😅😅
@sailingEV888 seriously dude, id love to do what you are doing. I wish it were easier financially for you though. That's the one thing that stops me at the moment... that and my wifey. Please please be careful. Sometimes watching your videos are like watching a train wreck is slow motion. Good luck to you man.
@ghostflier520 mostly single handing seems that way. Just they way it us out here with out a huge budget. Plus youtube videos are entertainment. Don't forget that. I'm illustrating points.. very dramatically to get the point across. Hope you enjoyed them..
Hey shit happens. You do your best and that is all you can do. I am new to this as well so I will make my fair share of mistakes... Thanks to you this will NOT be one of them or so I hope. Happy you are OK. Hell you could have been yanked right off the boat for that matter.
I've always wondered why this happens! It's very pronounced in the Bahamas! We are just specs on a vast ocean I guess the key is to visualize the mass of air and water from the surface to the sky above! Nothing is ever for certain out here. Pure majic to see it in person!!
In Palm Beach? Yes just next to the superyatch marina is a sailing club and public walkway and beach. You can tie up there. You can leave your garbage there too if it's in a contractor garbage bag. If not you will be fined. There is a grocery store and liquor store KFC ect. Bit sketchy in that part of town with cracked out prostitutes and the like so only go ashore during the day..
50 years of ocean racing in South Florida. Your first mistake is using a carabiner to attach the sheet to the sail. Having been beaned by a bow line on a Genoa, all I had was a headache. A carabiner would have killed me. Tie that sheet on with a bow line
This video is 45 days in the past mate. I was reducing sail using the engine and Genoa only with 40% furled out. I have a 150 that goes 5 feet past my mast at 100%. That caribeaner got caught around the forid mast stay because it was reduced... Thanks for commenting..
When the carabiner caught the rigging, why didn’t you just go into irons to relieve the tension? Why leave the helm to grab a saw, then go on deck (during a microburst) and saw the carabiner? Maybe I’m not understanding the situation. Seems like you could have just steered into the wind a bit.
Agree that a knife can come handy … but.., thus set up is not up to par according to European standards ( I know your Canadian ) that rope should not be on the deck at that point. Lead it further aft and then to a winch/cockpit. Then that couldn’t happen. We have a similar set up and the ropes go aft until they cross at a point where you can never walk and then to a winch. Clipping yourself to a shroud does not work, you need a dedicated safety line ( railing wire or such attached to deck e we it’s done slack) in the length of the boat, you clip on to that in the cockpit and stay secure all the way to the bow. So you can run away forward or backwards. Just my five cents… stay safe
I have a clip in the safety line I use in bad weather. In my opinion, it's a hindrance. It just gets in your way. I'm confident I will not fall off in most conditions. If it's really bad, then I clip in. As for the sheet, it does run to a winch in the cockpit. I could use the traveler track, which had a block and roller, and move it further aft. I find where it is us best for the most efficient for this Genoa. Some out there swear clipping in is the best safest way to go. I disagree. Will it be my death one day in the future? Maybe but for now it's how I work th3 deck on EV. What I need is a whole new vessel built to EU standards. That I agree with..
We have a knife at the cockpit. Little dramatic but I wouldn’t have cut the sheet. The sail and the sheet that was attached to it would have acted as a whip and could have hurt you more
If people aren't paying your bills or they're not sleeping with you then their opinions are just that their opinions. Ignore the negative people. I know it's not easy to ignore them but you need to. I wish people could learn that they don't have to say everything out loud. I see all kinds of things on all kinds of channels that maybe I disagree with but what's the point of criticizing them. Who knows if I was in the same position maybe I would have done the same thing. By the way I found your channel because you're a solo sailor.
I'm just a self critical person. Always trying to better my self. When investing so much into the videos the only real feedback you get is in the comment section... Thank you for your kind words mate!!
clearance to leave? whats that about? now your going to face a canadian winter? 🤯 i grew up in minn. i could not afford to heat a place to sleep there with todays costs,
Well it's not that simple. Behind the scenes here there is alot going on. I live on this boat. She needs a full haulout and refit. After 3 years of sailing in the USA my plan is to finish my trip to the Bahamas. Return home to Canada and get into a bigger better sailboat. This sailboat may already be in the Pacific or in the EU. I have until December 15th before I must leave the USA. The Canal to lake Ontario where my home is and where I can tear this boat apart and refit it or sell her as is a get into a bigger better newer more capable world cruising sailboat. I've been sailing for a year now. I'm low on funds. I can come up with funds very quickly in Canada. I can't let the cat out of the bag here in this comment but the moment I return to my home port this channel is not over. The next time I leave my home port I'm never coming back. I will complete a circumnavigation. This boat is not the right boat to do that. She is under powered. Needs a new engine. Needs her chain plates reworked. Needs new rigging. Bottom job and hull repairs. New electrical system. New batteries. New floor. New dingy. My Davit's need to be repaired. I need to take the mast down and replace the haylards.. so much needs to be done. I can't just pull into a marina get hauled out hee in the USA. It's way more cost effective to do this in Canada. A 36 foot bleach bottle sailboat is great for coastal cruising but is not a world cruising yatch. I need a 45 or 50 ft sailboat with a huge engine to power through tides. This boat is a disaster after 5000nm! This channel is just beginning Rusty. Look up a down Easter 40. That's the vessel I need!
Also if you watch the last 3 videos I was detained by the CBP. They denied my cruising permit and told me I need to register my boat in Florida pay taxes on it or leave ASAP. I'm gone already. Limping back to my home port. I've learned so much being out here. Now I know what I really need. A bigger better more capable yatch that does 8 knots. Can accommodate crew. Has a full shower. Has storage for all my camera equipment.. the list goes on. EV isca great boat but not for doing a circumnavigation. We need a ketch rigged 50 foot world cruiser. Thus will take some effort... and time. I will document this journey here on my channel..
as an american i apologize for the dredfull way you were treated like a criminal, did anyone say sorry to you for such uncalled for behavior? i am embaressed and out raged, while the borders open and they welcome millions of drug smuggleing unknows keep us all up to speed on your big plans,
You should know better than to listen to the doomer children trolling YT. I Enjoy your channel. I never stop learning to sail. Its awesome. Learned to keep a knife on my person for a different reason but still applies. Keep Sailing and be careful in Communist Canada! Feel bad for you guys
Michael. Your comment in this video (Bone head Boater Of The Week ) Should be the name of this channel. I've watched all your videos and will continue to watch as this is a funny comedy sailing channel that people watch and scratch their heads. Keep up the great work.
... 😂.. a bit of a drama queen arent we now... your videos are always good for a laugh. No idea how you've made it this far, guess it's true, God watches out for fools and drunks😂😂
@dboboc yeah, it's the next generation hobo. But atleast it does provide entertainment. Atleast this one actually does have a profession, last off season was just a rough one for him. Personally, I think he should have taken this season and worked on his boat instead of the back and forth to the Bahamas. After he came back to Florida and found his boat flooded, I couldn't believe he took it out without actually getting it ready.
I believe my Dad has been buddying and learning from you! This has always been his dream, so thank you! You’ve earned a subscriber and a fan!
@@stephaniewright7743 hello!! Welcome aboard. Your Dad is a good man!
Thanks for sharing. I’m glad you’re okay. Love your videos. Safe sailing captain cheers 🍻
You got yourself out of trouble, well done! Keep going 😁
I appreciate your honesty. I am fairly new to sailing and have a new Tartan and have made many mistakes as well as had many problems. So great videos. You keep it real.
Thanks for all that you do. You have kept me inspired to try living on a sail boat even though I had to sell the one I bought at auction before even getting it seaworthy. I'd rather learn from your mistakes than my own, but I'd also rather learn from someone who has just learned it themselves rather than someone who's done it for 40 yrs and knows everything. Those folks don't remember what it's like to be new and to figure how things work best for themselves. I enjoy creative problem solving and it sounds like that's what you do a lot. Hope you make it home safe to Canada, but manage to get back on the water and back to the Caribbean soon.
After Canada I will leave Port and never come back until I complete a full circumnavigation. My sail to the Bahamas and back was a test run. To see if this is really for me. It is. I've learned so much! Now to apply that to a real Ocean crossing world cruising yatch... it takes a certain type of individual to be put here and live thru each day. With the right sailboat anything is possible. You will have hard days and question why your put here. Eventually you get used to it and it's all you know. I can't be on land more than a week now. It's an addiction. I know what I have to do now and how to do it. The next phase is at hand and is just the beginning.. Thanks for the kind words mate. I hope we cross paths out there one day and have sundowners.. Thanks for being here with me online..
Wow it's now 18:00 in the evening and I've been watching your channel since 07:00 this morning.....
Awesome content I love the honesty about sailing and boat life...I personally agree with you about carrying a knife on you at all times...I can not tell how many times it has saved me or someone else's life...
Great content keep it up
Regards from South Africa 🇿🇦
Are ypu in Cape Town? Its my must go destination. I plan on spending a summer there in during my cicumnavigation..
Tell me what its like to sail there! Have you been to the skeleton coast?
@@sailingEV888 Im in Cape Town sailing is ok here but it can get wild very quickly
I have been to Skeleton Cost but was on a motoryaught way out at sea but I hear it wild especially at certain time of the year
I'm hoping to buy a sailboat and do the Caribbean and Sea of Cortez and hopefully circumnavigate
Since your last video we have taken the boat off the Pleasure Craft licence and registered in the Large Vessel Catagory. Just waitng for the mailed copy.
If it was not for your last video we would have been screwed.
Thanks again!!!
Keep the videos coming!
Makes all this worth it to help another sailor. Don't forget about your Dtops sticker, radio station license, call sign and official number!!
Yeah, lived 7 years on a 52 footer, ferrous cement schooner mid cockpit. My father built it, he is Dutch, say no more.... Marine life cannot be described. Just do it, fyi, not easy, but nothing good in life is. You will create the best freindships of your life with a boat! Boaters are amazing.❤
So true!! Freedom is possible out here!!
thank you for posting. i am a pilot and i always like to watch the mistakes that happens. you learn from them. this may save some ones life. i hope to be a full time sailor someday, well im on a 5 year plan. just bought a 1977 p23 sloop. i know nothing about sailing i am planning on learning with this boat until i know for sure this is want i want to do. then thinking of selling everything and buying a 37 sloop to be my home.
I'd go bigger if your already a mariner. Go 42 or even 47. 36 foot boats just get tossed around in medium seas. A big vessel of 20 tons is needed to do any serious sailing! At a minimum 40 ft. 2 masts is a bonus. A big diesel engine to boot to power through tides. Do NOT BUY A 36.. waste of time. A real world cruising vessel is over 40 ft.. the question is can you single hand it? Anything fiberglass and under 40 feet is a coastal cruiser ment to pop over to the Bahamas. Don't make the mistake. If you want to sail around the world get a 40+ heavy ystch with big sails and engine.. no bleach bottle beats.. contact me on FB before buying a tiny coastal cruiser. Watse of time..
I'm glad you are ok! All sailors make mistakes. I have taken the ASA classes and sail on my boat but I watch your channel (and others) to learn from your mistakes so that I dont repeat them. I will add that a serrated blade is important; many cheap rigging knives are useless for cutting lines. Keep posting...
Mike, it’s the Minister- great video… I appreciate the transparency… you are doing a great service. You’re a very good educator. Now that God spared you, what are you going to do with your life? Hint from the pros, There is a knife in every cockpit, and one on every boom vang.
Thanks for being a honest sailor
Great video! Your not an idiot! All these armchair sailors should listen close. Been sailing for 50 years..your teaching everybody good shit.. listen close.
Means everything to me to read this comment... I hope to see you out there one days and have sundowners and tell stories about our life as real Mariners. We live in anchorages on Oceans and in marinas all over the world!!!
Sage advice from real world experience, that makes up for any errors. Thanks.
In the past year I've seen a case of an experienced🇬🇧 sailor with a crew get thrown from an open cockpit by a stray or rogue wave ....he wasn't wearing a life jacket. 😬
The other is somewhat similar to yours where under load a sheet whisked someone into the air and over board .. it can shake you like a Jack Russell with a rat 🐀.. and throw you yards away from the boat.. in a calm warm sea you might stand a chance with someone else aboard otherwise the out look isnt good especially at night or in a squall.
Yatchs that requires you to go forward to handle sails especially to reef them are problematic because sooner or later you will get caught out - literally.
Thanks for telling the truth it helps nobody is perfect
Michael, you seem to be your own worst enemy. 5 years sailing and I don’t see you learning much. What sailor sees a huge storm like that approaching and says hey let’s raise the Genoa?? Anyone that’s been in a storm like that would reduce sail. Not increase it. Also as previously noted two heavy shackles swinging over head will do nothing but knock some sense into you. That being said we love your videos, keep them coming!!!
I’m right there with you . I’m on my boat as I watch this . Yeah we screw up all the time when sailing . Just get into a routine but things happen it’s life , that’s why we do it . Live it love it .
Well said mate!! When sailing things are great then all of a sudden there not! Be prepared. Think things through in the moment when things go wrong. The right decision could change the outcome in moments.. Thanks for commenting!!
My recommendation is to have a Boye Sheepsfoot on the belt. The blunt tip keeps you from stabbing yourself and the serrated blade stays sharp foreverrrrrrrr… they ain’t cheap but some things are a “buy once cry once” type of thing. This is one of them.
I hear you, I have about 3k miles under my keel and trust me I have made some bone head mistakes. What I learned was to slow down my brain when I get into trouble and solve it in my mind then go at it. In your case not sure what I would’ve done first. I make soft shackles to pass time on passage and I would have grabbed one. I always have a knife on me, yesterday a crewman borrowed mine to do something and left with it. He called and offered to come back but I said no problem, went to nav station and un boxed the spare then ordered another pair of them for the drawer! Enjoy the trip up, I did it in April/ may again this year the food was good and I found stops at shrimp boat docks got me tons of shrimp and cheap parts and fuel.
Thanks for commenting mate I hope to see you out there one day for sundowners!!
Thank you for sharing good advice
You are so welcome
Good on you brother Fair winds and following seas
Cheers brother and fellow sailor!!
I bought a knife for this reason when i had my first sailboat, and i never carried it with me ! From tomorrow, i will make sure to have it with me every time i sail !!
Reminded me to sharpen the one I carry.
What would I have done if a sheet parted. Roll the sail up using the other sheet to tension it. The when the sail was under control tie the parted sheet on with a bowline as a temporary measure until you could replace the sheet. Also throw the shackles in the bin. Never attach a sheet to a genoa with a shackle. Always tie or splice them to the sail. I guess I am an armchair sailor right now since I haven't had the boat (Allied 36 ketch) out since yesterday. My wife is now a passenger so I am always single handing now days. As far as getting the line off your leg goes, unwrap it using the unloaded side. One thing I have learned in my 60 years of sailing is never rush.
I wonder if the unloaded side was free to run? Often not.
It does seem like a good idea to use a shackle for your genoa sheets, however a way better idea is to use a bowline. Bowlines are free, they do not rattle around, with a sufficient tail, they will not get undone, especially when they are attached to a furling genoa for months or years.
I tape all of my shackles because they do catch on thngs and release on their own.
I'm going to refer to my Chapman's sailing handbook and try that tomorrow first thing! These comments mean everything to me! Thanks for taking the time! I may include this in a future video.. cheers mate..
100%. Never use a shackle to attach a genoa sheet. A shackle can be deadly if you have to go forward to deal with a flogging sail and the shackle hits you in the head. Just the ring in the clew is bad enough. Personally I don't like bowlines and use a continuous line with a brummel spliced eye at the clew. It doesn't hang up on shrouds like bowlines do. Incidentally, I never carry a knife, but I have only been sailing for 60 years so what do I know.
@@todddunn945 I would bet sailingEV bought the boat with this already in place
@@rb239rtr He should have changed it then.
Bro, glad you're ok Mike.
I'm trying to narrow down who you are! Mr forest explorer is so JY!! Let me in on the mystery!!
My favorite part of your videos is how you tell us you rely on ad revenue but then you get combative with your viewers. I think you secretly love the drama. 😂
I'm a drama king.. no doubt about it. I hope I'm making my point and saving lives.. kegs and boats. When your out there completely Fu$#t and leg caught its a big deal! No drama there just truth. I hope you see it for what it is..
@@sailingEV888 I keep coming back, Michael, so you’re doing something right.
Making mistakes = learning, and sometimes the lessons come very swiftly. If you aren't making mistakes, it's because you aren't doing anything...period. Hey man, live and learn every day. Don't ever be afraid or ashamed of home schooling yourself.
Experiences are the chapters in the book called knowledge. You need to always fly a fresh Canadian flag....Lesson, pack spares...lol. Chin up, chest out...no room for self-doubt.
Funny I'm flying a HUGE CANADIAN flag brand new as we speak! Like minds mate!!
Having gone from 0 to s6 35, I am now a contributor, so avast there matey, sail on!
You are a true digital crew member and apart of this adventure! Everytime you think of the channel know that a wave just broke over EV's bow in your name!!
Save a sailors leg hit that like button for digital crew!!
Could you not have gone into the irons to take wind pressure off the shackle? Thanks for the video
I was stuck midships into the wind with the auto pilot holding. However it only held for a minute of so in those conditions and went a beam to the wind! I was stuck!!
Are you heading back to the Bahamas next season or taking the season off?
I have MASSIVE PLANS! However this time I'm not going to announce them on the internet until they happen. I learned that lesson hard! It's the reason this channel exists! Be careful what you wish for!😅😅
You do what I wish I could.
Live like a homeless guy? That's hilarious
A true digital nomad.. living free on Oceans anchorages and marinas all over the world!!
@sailingEV888 seriously dude, id love to do what you are doing. I wish it were easier financially for you though. That's the one thing that stops me at the moment... that and my wifey. Please please be careful. Sometimes watching your videos are like watching a train wreck is slow motion. Good luck to you man.
@ghostflier520 mostly single handing seems that way. Just they way it us out here with out a huge budget. Plus youtube videos are entertainment. Don't forget that. I'm illustrating points.. very dramatically to get the point across. Hope you enjoyed them..
Hey shit happens. You do your best and that is all you can do. I am new to this as well so I will make my fair share of mistakes... Thanks to you this will NOT be one of them or so I hope. Happy you are OK. Hell you could have been yanked right off the boat for that matter.
What is the name of that anchorage?
Not only carry a knife but make sure it is razor sharp at all times. Sailed the keys in 1988 in Boy Scouts Florida sea base. BE PREPARED!
Great video thanks
You can think of that air moving towards the storm like the water getting pulled into a wave, and then it dumps. And the air moves again.
I've always wondered why this happens! It's very pronounced in the Bahamas! We are just specs on a vast ocean I guess the key is to visualize the mass of air and water from the surface to the sky above! Nothing is ever for certain out here. Pure majic to see it in person!!
Read all the positive and negative comments, you’ll walk away being wiser. Just don’t let it get to you. Love your vids. Keep up the good work!
Thank you, I will
is there an easy dingy dock there?
In Palm Beach? Yes just next to the superyatch marina is a sailing club and public walkway and beach. You can tie up there. You can leave your garbage there too if it's in a contractor garbage bag. If not you will be fined. There is a grocery store and liquor store KFC ect. Bit sketchy in that part of town with cracked out prostitutes and the like so only go ashore during the day..
@@sailingEV888 Lake Sylvia?
That wasn't a rope....That was a sheet! Just kidding ;) wanted to get the first one in! Sail on brother
I said rope in the thumb nail to appeal to green horns.. it's always called a sheet on this vessel! Cheers mate thanks for commenting!!!!!😅😅
the hell out of florida lets go
In NC as I wrote this comment.. many many videos ahead! Nothing is ever for certain!!
The only “rope” on a boat is attached to the bell….
Haha. I knew the thumbnail spelling would trigger some old Salts!!! 🤣🤣🤣.. please note in the video I referred to it as a sheet mate..
50 years of ocean racing in South Florida. Your first mistake is using a carabiner to attach the sheet to the sail. Having been beaned by a bow line on a Genoa, all I had was a headache. A carabiner would have killed me. Tie that sheet on with a bow line
Noted! Other digital crew have also commented this suggestion! I'm going to try it on tomorrow's passage!
@@sailingEV888Maybe I'm too late. If it's a single line you can put a bite through the clew and pass the two ends through.
Still in Florida almost 2 months into the hurricane season? Also, something you didn’t cover. Reduce sail before the storm. You saw it coming…
This video is 45 days in the past mate. I was reducing sail using the engine and Genoa only with 40% furled out. I have a 150 that goes 5 feet past my mast at 100%. That caribeaner got caught around the forid mast stay because it was reduced... Thanks for commenting..
When the carabiner caught the rigging, why didn’t you just go into irons to relieve the tension? Why leave the helm to grab a saw, then go on deck (during a microburst) and saw the carabiner? Maybe I’m not understanding the situation. Seems like you could have just steered into the wind a bit.
Didn't you have a saw?
I did. But managed to loose after 5 terrifying minutes. A new sheet line would have cost a fortune. The pair I have are custom deallies..
Agree that a knife can come handy … but.., thus set up is not up to par according to European standards ( I know your Canadian ) that rope should not be on the deck at that point. Lead it further aft and then to a winch/cockpit. Then that couldn’t happen. We have a similar set up and the ropes go aft until they cross at a point where you can never walk and then to a winch. Clipping yourself to a shroud does not work, you need a dedicated safety line ( railing wire or such attached to deck e we it’s done slack) in the length of the boat, you clip on to that in the cockpit and stay secure all the way to the bow. So you can run away forward or backwards.
Just my five cents… stay safe
I have a clip in the safety line I use in bad weather. In my opinion, it's a hindrance. It just gets in your way. I'm confident I will not fall off in most conditions. If it's really bad, then I clip in. As for the sheet, it does run to a winch in the cockpit. I could use the traveler track, which had a block and roller, and move it further aft. I find where it is us best for the most efficient for this Genoa. Some out there swear clipping in is the best safest way to go. I disagree. Will it be my death one day in the future? Maybe but for now it's how I work th3 deck on EV. What I need is a whole new vessel built to EU standards. That I agree with..
We have a knife at the cockpit. Little dramatic but I wouldn’t have cut the sheet. The sail and the sheet that was attached to it would have acted as a whip and could have hurt you more
Correct! hind sight is 20/20..
If people aren't paying your bills or they're not sleeping with you then their opinions are just that their opinions. Ignore the negative people. I know it's not easy to ignore them but you need to. I wish people could learn that they don't have to say everything out loud. I see all kinds of things on all kinds of channels that maybe I disagree with but what's the point of criticizing them. Who knows if I was in the same position maybe I would have done the same thing. By the way I found your channel because you're a solo sailor.
I'm just a self critical person. Always trying to better my self. When investing so much into the videos the only real feedback you get is in the comment section... Thank you for your kind words mate!!
Thanks captain Mike! Im buying a knife😊
clearance to leave? whats that about? now your going to face a canadian winter? 🤯 i grew up in minn. i could not afford to heat a place to sleep there with todays costs,
Well it's not that simple. Behind the scenes here there is alot going on. I live on this boat. She needs a full haulout and refit. After 3 years of sailing in the USA my plan is to finish my trip to the Bahamas. Return home to Canada and get into a bigger better sailboat. This sailboat may already be in the Pacific or in the EU. I have until December 15th before I must leave the USA. The Canal to lake Ontario where my home is and where I can tear this boat apart and refit it or sell her as is a get into a bigger better newer more capable world cruising sailboat. I've been sailing for a year now. I'm low on funds. I can come up with funds very quickly in Canada. I can't let the cat out of the bag here in this comment but the moment I return to my home port this channel is not over. The next time I leave my home port I'm never coming back. I will complete a circumnavigation. This boat is not the right boat to do that. She is under powered. Needs a new engine. Needs her chain plates reworked. Needs new rigging. Bottom job and hull repairs. New electrical system. New batteries. New floor. New dingy. My Davit's need to be repaired. I need to take the mast down and replace the haylards.. so much needs to be done. I can't just pull into a marina get hauled out hee in the USA. It's way more cost effective to do this in Canada. A 36 foot bleach bottle sailboat is great for coastal cruising but is not a world cruising yatch. I need a 45 or 50 ft sailboat with a huge engine to power through tides. This boat is a disaster after 5000nm! This channel is just beginning Rusty. Look up a down Easter 40. That's the vessel I need!
Also if you watch the last 3 videos I was detained by the CBP. They denied my cruising permit and told me I need to register my boat in Florida pay taxes on it or leave ASAP. I'm gone already. Limping back to my home port. I've learned so much being out here. Now I know what I really need. A bigger better more capable yatch that does 8 knots. Can accommodate crew. Has a full shower. Has storage for all my camera equipment.. the list goes on. EV isca great boat but not for doing a circumnavigation. We need a ketch rigged 50 foot world cruiser. Thus will take some effort... and time. I will document this journey here on my channel..
as an american i apologize for the dredfull way you were treated like a criminal, did anyone say sorry to you for such uncalled for behavior? i am embaressed and out raged, while the borders open and they welcome millions of drug smuggleing unknows keep us all up to speed on your big plans,
we always learn more from mistakes....
Beer?... did you get the Beer?
I can transmit how much being on the hard sucks, but you have a family channel.
Lobstermen attach a knife to their sholder strap , i saved my captian when I was a teenager with my sholder strap knife
You should know better than to listen to the doomer children trolling YT. I Enjoy your channel. I never stop learning to sail. Its awesome. Learned to keep a knife on my person for a different reason but still applies. Keep Sailing and be careful in Communist Canada! Feel bad for you guys
Michael.
Your comment in this video
(Bone head Boater Of The Week )
Should be the name of this channel.
I've watched all your videos and will continue to watch as this is a funny comedy sailing channel that people watch and scratch their heads.
Keep up the great work.
... 😂.. a bit of a drama queen arent we now... your videos are always good for a laugh. No idea how you've made it this far, guess it's true, God watches out for fools and drunks😂😂
And people like him want you to give them money so they never have to get a job and earn being able to live that lifestyle.
@dboboc yeah, it's the next generation hobo. But atleast it does provide entertainment. Atleast this one actually does have a profession, last off season was just a rough one for him. Personally, I think he should have taken this season and worked on his boat instead of the back and forth to the Bahamas. After he came back to Florida and found his boat flooded, I couldn't believe he took it out without actually getting it ready.