Cruising Past vs. Present
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- Hi guys, In this vid we discuss what we think was better cruising in the past or present....Hope you enjoy the vid and please don't forget to leave a comment, thumb up👍, subscribe if your not already and click on the 🔔 to receive notifications whenever we put out a new vid. If you're interested in supporting our channel you can do so here:)) ❤️ It's greatly appreciated ❤ By becoming a Patron you'll have access to our entire video library!! / sailingemeraldsteel or www.paypal.com... Intro song by Jules. Anyone interested can check out full version here. • #69 Sailing/Cruising S... All other music comes from the UA-cam free music catalog and is performed by Dan Lebowitz
I spent about 25 years Living aboard and cruising the Caribbean, I am retired in Dominican Republic for many years already, I Like all Your Videos, and this one also reminds Me of the Good Old Days. Thank You,⛵
Thank you for a great 2023 and wishing you Happy Hollidays. See you in 24
Merry Christmas Jules and Susan your travels are riveting Fair winds !!
So much has changed in so many ways, on land or at sea, over the last 30 years! It is wonderful to see you two happily on the water! Wishing you both a Blessed and Merry Christmas and a New Year of adventure!
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Merry Christmas! Thanks for the now and then review.
👍👍👍 THANK YOU !!! Have a great Xmas and a happy New Year. Al the very best and hope for a " PEACEFUL NEW YEAR" !!! Cheers from British Columbia !!!
Thank you so much for documenting this history of when Americans were free. I feel sad for younger generations. They will never experience what it’s like to live with freedom. They will never have the opportunity to try and do so many of the things we not only enjoyed but took for granted. They live as tax cattle, expected to consume and produce as much as possible. Having to pay more and more for land and waterways they can use less and less. Every year there’s more “public “land that we pay for that’s off limits to the public. What’s scary to me is every previous generation has complained about the loss of freedom for the next. Being a constant downward trend, where does this end? Although I think America is still a great country. I think we’re becoming more and more like the places where people like yourself escaped from. This downward trend being global, I fear there’ll be nowhere left to escape to. I’m sorry about leaving such a negative comment. Especially since all of your videos are so uplifting. I just can’t bury my head in the sand any longer. One of the best things about sailing is being on the open ocean. Away from all of the politics and bureaucratic nonsense,controversies,scandals and red tape. But eventually we all have to return to port. I just hope my home port will be a safe harbor in the future.
96th subscriber/neighbor LIKE; 257th view about to set sail... cheers from your island fan.
"Sting Ray Point"... but you know that. Thought you might mention getting prepared for some stormy weather that's been forecast to hit us here soon.
Be careful out there. God bless you and Merry Christmas.
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, great episode for reality on the bay.. YES many people try to anchor in Glorietta Bay @17' deep with 18' of rode and wonder why the drag with the tide...
Jules, you have a pleasing manner and voice. You remind me of my favorite uncle, now passed.
You might mention to people about your early videos where you spoke about the early days. Working on shore when you could. You doing electrical work and susan waitressing.
Glad to hear from you guys . Happy Holidays ❤.
Thanks for sharing. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.😊
Enjoyed, thanks for sharing you vast knowledge with us!
Thanks for sharing
Interesting topic.
Sometime this Spring, my Florida marina is going to undergo a complete rebuild. I had to pay for a year in advance for 2024 or lose my "slip". I have to move Intuition for three months. So, at almost 80, I going to retrace my old route through the Bahamas and and hopefully enjoy my exile. Hope I can still find those anchorages!
as always a real sailing channel, cheers
Nice to See that you two are doing well! Sad to say that times for cruisers and sailors have become a difficult task. I grew up on San Diego Bay, having the privilege of living in Point Loma with access to the bay fo 31 years with a view of Shelter Island. I saw the writing in the wall in 1978 and decided to go exploring, made lots of babies and travelled and cruises a lot. Oh to think about the Good OLD days. Hope you two are keeping your bellies Warm and comfy! God Bless and Keep you Always! Have a Great Christmas and enjoy each day and breathe Freedom, That's becoming more difficult too, Rules regulations and lots of things that not too long ago were simple. These Days, Not So Much. Fair winds keep smiling and Thank you
Hi S&J. The only way I've found these days to cheaply build, maintain, and store a boat in southern California or similarly large metropolitan areas in the US is to buy a small piece of rural land for about $5-10k, build the boat there, and truck the boat back and forth between the ocean and land for annual maintenance or long-term storage. This is easier with a small catamaran or trailer-sailer monohull, which can sit flat on the ground and ride in a flatbed trailer. The largest UHaul truck that doesn't require a commercial driver's license is 26ft long, so a boat larger than that might require hiring a semi-truck driver. In California, residentially zoned land is usually closer to the ocean, but usually can't be legally camped upon (i.e., living in the boat on land). There are agriculturally zoned or unincorporated lands that allow camping, but they're usually far from the ocean and require a higher price (because the minimum lot size is larger, like 5-10 acres, or some unincorporated lands have high property taxes). Hope this helps somebody.
Thanks Merry Christmas Happy New Year
Great videos!
❤Thank you for this video! While many of us have read, and dream about replicating, the classic cruising books, the realities of today make that nearly impossible. Some advice from folks, who not only did it, but are still doing it is really helpful!
Take good care!
Merry late Christmas and happy new years also
Again thanks!
Great video
Oh yes I did love the bay of islands
When I moved aboard and started cruising 35 years ago I knew I was too late to be first at anything. But over time it has become clear I have seen many lasts. Now moorings and permits would exceed my entire budgets of the past. The only 2 solutions I've found are to sail less traveled places or seasons.
Thanks for the perspective. Glad you both got the opportunity to live your dreams!
Merry Christmas!!
I wonder if lower maintenance glass boats and shorter stays in travelled areas would help. Absolutely amazing what a life you have lived. I just received your video after a long pause.
Legends!!
May you both have a very Happy Christmas and New Year. You are weathering the changes well! Love and best wishes from Ireland.
best channel on you tube merry xmass guys xx
You two are a Special couple..❤❤
Another great episode guys!! 👍
Wonderful video.... good times, at the time we were all considered ladies and gentlemen...some with money others not so much. Money was a triviality, rather it was how you behaved. Up until fairly recently the Harbor patrol was generally not part of the "professional" police departments and in my view were better people. Certainty far more skilled and as I recall actually actively involved and helpful. I hope we can work toward implementing things that have proven to work.
Good to hear your story. Things sure have changed. Lots of people figure that a boat is a good escape plan if things get too bad in the world but it seems boats are becoming more regulated every day. What some people went through in 2020 on boats was pretty bad. Around Vancouver Island is still not too bad if you stay away from the big cities.
Merry Christmas Emerald Steel have safe & healthy New Year and thank you for sharing your most interesting life on the ocean .
It looked like I was the first to give you a thumbs up. Usually I'm somewhere about the ten thousandth.
i liked it just fine
Santa cruz island. I know there nothing there but good place to be/feel free
Just windy, preaching to the choir i'm sure
Eric - Santa Barbara
How is your tree mast holding up? It's beautiful!
❤ feliz navidad ❤
Thanks for sharing your video Jules and Susie and a very Merry Christmas and all the very best in the NEW YEAR to you and your loved ones..stay safe.
Everything seems to have changed in our lives. And the pandemic perhaps has had the biggest impact ----- everything is much more expensive. Making ends meet is a challenge for many-- and so dreams are harder to achieve. Will a millennial have a path into the cruising lifestyle? I suppose where there is a will there is a way- perhaps not an easy one. But I have a sense that for Jules and yourself building and launching your boat was no walk in the park even those many years ago. You shared some stories about that many episodes ago! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Thanks, Fred! Same to you❤️❤️
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year I hope you guys are having a good one
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Ha still dragging in NZ , Mainly the gin boats Merry Xmas
Cruised Europe and Caribbean, Bahamas all through the ‘80’s and early ‘90’s…..now on my cat in the Bahamas. WOW, has it changed…not just the regulations but the experience of the “sailors”, particularly on large catamarans…..lots of disposable money out there for the “We did the RV thing, now we are doing the boating thing.” Sailors. Never heard of the Hiscocks, Sterling Haydon, or any of the old school cruisers, and don’t care. Sad…but times change. Say….how about a galley/ cooking episode again?, thanks, Andrew
I just wish I was old enough to do such a thing. The modern technology has changed everything too. How I would love to sail the world like Slocum and the old timers had it
@@izaacbanks3337 If you are not old enough now, you will be one day. Keep dreaming and keep your focus on the dream. Good luck to you!
Today is very different from the times when,to get most places,you had to use a sextant. I still have my Hiscocks books,autographed by him in English Harbour, Antigua. Merry Christmas to all.
Make some pork, dumplings and sauerkraut!
JIM ❤
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I remember back when we used to laugh at the bureaucracy of the Europeans where, 'if it wasn't stamped 10 times, it just wasn't stamped'. Now we are they. Fortunately, I did most of my long distant cruising in the 70's & 80's.
Thankfully, BC is much less restricted, so far, with the exception of Vancouver Harbour. Even there I think you can get 14 day permits. Merry Christmas!
Yes Ed, When we anchored in False Creek, Vancouver we had a 2 week permit, which was so great. Everywhere else we anchored without a permit. That's why we love Canada....and her people❤️❤️🙂🙂
I think the problem is with numbers. There are just too many people doing it these days. One or two cruising yachts anchred in a bay? Not much of a problem. Three dozen? Now that becomes a problem.
I once thought of doing this once I retired. Now, Raynoud's syndrome has made me leary of gettin the least bit chilled. I lose the feeling in my fingers first.
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San Diego harbor Police, my memory's, as a young sub sailor of point loma ,traveling along harbor drive i was passed by a harbor unit ,my 20 year old brain said I could go as fast as him ,wrong answer recruit ,he slowed down pulled me over ticket result, in the mid 80s time
So what are the regs. for the mooring and cost if you could let us know thank you
You can come back to Canada..and have unlimited deep😂water Anchorage