***** Ahoy Obelix! Thanks Dahlke, I saw in your video that it got too windy for your diesel heater and that you had to switch to you electric heater. The same thing happens to us occasionally when it gets really windy with our wood stove, where the smoke from the wood stove fills the cabin.. :( Good luck with the carpet installation. I think a carpet is much nicer than a wood floor when living aboard in the winter!
Ahoy Paragon! :) Even the wood-burning stove at my house has on rare occasions had issues with backdraft. It doesn't seem like it's possible to entirely prevent it. Are you heating the boat primarily using the wood-burning stove? :) I hope you guys can keep warm over there in Ireland :) I'll be fitting the carpet myself this weekend. The carpet guy turned out to be way too expensive. Very excited to see how much of a difference it's going to make :)
***** Here in the marina we've been using an electric heater/air conditioner unit (flagshipmarine.com/selfcontained.html) that's running off of shore power. But usually in the evening we like to shut that off and use the wood burning stove which is much nicer, but more work to keep going and then clean. If we don't have shore power, then we use a hydronic boiler which uses a little bit of diesel and electricity to heat the cabin. It has the added benefit of making hot water for showers. The boiler also has a heat exchanger on the engine so that when we're underway and running the engine we can convert the engine waste heat to cabin heat. (itrheat.com/products/hurricane-heating-systems/models/hurricane-ii-combi/) We mention the diesel boiler/heat exchanger in our next episode! :) Congratulations on getting your new HELLA fan! I was surprised to see that pinkish color. I have several white HELLA fans that are all as white as paper. The are awesome to have when it's really hot in the cabin. But they do attract dust and when they get really dirty I usually use an old toothbrush with bleach soap to clean them.
DrakeParagon's Real Cruising Life Thank you so much for your in-depth answer Drake :) Very interesting :) Seems like an awesome setup! I was very surprised by the color of that Hella fan too. I have one of their cheaper fans and that one is white-white and not that sort of strange pink-white color. Thanks for the tip about the toothbrush and bleach :) I'm sure that will come in handy :)
I like how you give all the information. I'm someone who has never sailed before but has always had an interest. Learning and looking to buy my first boat. I appreciate all of your videos.
Drake; Thanks for sharing your bridge encounter. I did the same thing last year bring my newly purchased Catalina 30 back from the Hingham shipyard marina up to the Great bay marina in Newington NH. It was my second day on the boat and I had forgotten how strong the current was on the Piscataqa river in Portsmouth NH. I had the exact same plan as you and ended up with the exact same results. Thank God for the Coast Guard, they were there in an instant and escorted and assisted me in getting to my slip. A great lesson learned but, I never once thought of hanging it up.
I love the story, good reminder for all of us to check bridge heights. I'm looking forward visiting New York again in a couple of years aboard Maverick my Chrysler C26.
Maverick Sailing The Chrysler C26 looks like a lot of fun to sail. Really roomy inside, drop down centerboard, tiller, trailer. Good luck with the restoration project!
Didn't know there were so many interesting abandoned places in NYC. Did a google search after you where talking about that hospital. Makes me want to go to New York! Looking forward to the next episode. Clear Skies!
SY JollyDodger Thanks SY JollyDodger, we saw many abandoned buildings when we anchored off of City Island in the Bronx in our next episode. Happy sailing,
Hey Drake and Monique! I was wondering how you manage such a good sound quality where most other youtubers just end up with some noisy wind cacophony. Your voices are always pretty good to understand. Keep up the good work. Greetings from Germany!
Really liked your story about almost losing your mast. We all make mistakes, and hopefully learn from them. You did and drove on. Getting a bigger boat, and a bigger dream and continue to push on. I salute you in that. Many would give up, declare themselves unfit and be angry about it for a long time to come. I had a 40 foot Endeavour Center cockpit, that I purchased as a retirement boat and a project. While working on it, in the water... (a mistake for sure) she sunk due to electrolysis on a head thru hull, and while I should have had her totaled by the insurance company, I did not, and lived to regret it. I no longer have her, but she sailed on with another. For a few years I gave up my dream, but now, 3 years from retirement, it is back, with a vengeance, and I am looking for that next boat to go to distant shores. The Westsail 43 and the Morgan 38 are at the top of the list, with the Westsail being the contender atm... but I will not purchase her until I am done with work, as I have neither the time or extra money now. As we both know a boat can be a hole in the water that you throw money into... and the only way imo to make it work is to live aboard full time. So I wait, but the days move fast, and May 2020 is right around the corner. Till then I will follow you, and others, to keep the dream alive. Fair winds.
Hi Bob, I'm so sorry to hear about your Endeavour sinking. But it's great to hear that the dream is back! If you have any questions about the Westsail boats please feel free to ask me anything in the comments anywhere... Fair winds! Here's to 2020!!!
I agree on the sound quality. Sailing videos are fun, but almost always unwatchable due to the horrible wind noise. Yours are great! If you get the chance, a "behind the scenes" video showing your equipment and methods would be awesome. As would an in depth deck/cabin tour of Paragon like the one you did on Fellowship.
mdboatbum Hi mdboatbum, thanks! The amount of video footage that we have just sitting on the shelf waiting for us to edit is a little overwhelming at times, but I think there's a tour in there somewhere. We are occasionally publishing real time updates, outtakes, deleted scenes, bloopers, and other behind the scenes stuff on our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/DrakeParagon
febails Thanks for sailing with us febails. I hope you enjoy our upcoming episodes of sailing through Long Islands Sound, Buzzard's Bay, the Cape Cod Canal, and all of the places we visit on our way to Boston. And from there we go offshore to Nova Scotia!
Drake, "the biggest mistake you've ever made////learned through experience" Thank you for what you do my friend. Information is sometimes better than the actual experience--in my view. Again, Thank You for these vids.
Thanks Ivan! We recently arrived in Kinsale, Ireland and have settled down here for the winter for repairs and renovations to Paragon and to work on editing our Season 2 episodes. Since this video was filmed, we sailed over 7000 nautical miles and voyaged through Long Island Sound, Buzzards Bay, Newport, Block Island, through the Cape Cod Canal to Boston, Gloucester, offshore to Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, a then a big voyage to Greenland where we spent 2 months exploring the southwest coast before transiting the magnificent Prins Christian Sund. From there we went offshore to Reykjavík, Iceland where we settled over last winter to produce the episodes of Season 1. After a total of 9 months in Iceland we sailed on to the Faroe Islands where the people are descendant of the Vikings and we called that most wonderful country home for 3 months and made many friends before sailing on to Scotland and Ireland. Our plans are to finish editing Season 2 here in Ireland, and to complete all of the planning and preparations for pushing off in the Spring. We plan to sail back to Faroe, Iceland, and then the east of coast of Greenland, and we're really excited about using our aerial filming drone to film bird cliffs, volcanoes, and icebergs. It will be an exciting year! Thanks for sailing with us,
Typical Hell's Gate tide current. I don't settle down until I'm 200 miles out. I hate the traffic, ANY traffic. I don't want to see ANYTHING on my AIS or my radar at all. Mo does a good narration. I wonder if the emergency generators are still at that hospital? Be a great find for the copper hunters.
brings back memories from playing GTA4 on my PS3 the helicopter landing that chinese looking place near brooklyn bridge and that sugar refinery and that abandoned hospital was where the big drug deal went down if i remember correctly
Love this stuff. As someone who has been there and done that this is a real as it gets. When the Staten Island ferry blows its horn you damn well better get the hell out of its way or it'll back right over your little boat. As for Hell's Gate - meh. In the days before reliable power, sure, it was an issue. But we never had a problem on our little 26' with its 8hp Yamy.
may i just say first, i just really love all your videos, this one i think what i liked about it is this one was just a little bit different, is the way you guys did this video going up the river going against the tide and the story with it is just awesome, and it seemed like you had fun doing it !
i almost hit a bridge ...creeped up to one and decided i was around 2 ft to tall .... cranked the outboard in reverse only to find the clamp gave way and allowed the outboard to roar out of the water and the current was fast taking me into the bridge ...full panik stations i managed to grab the side and hook a rope round a post inches before hitting .... i always check the height long before now lol :)
bkbball22 +Sebastian Krebs Hi bkbbail22 and Sebastian, we always try to use some kind of microphone "dead cat" to minimize the wind noise. If you do a google image search for "microphone dead cat" you'll see what we're using.
I laughed out loud at Mo's hope that others won't need such a convincing lesson. I could just hear my ex wife. Where i work "Lessons learned" is a buzz phrase but in my experience it's not that simple. I've had lot's of lessons... the learning is less certain. Even so, the lessons you share are essential to what's so engaging about your videos.
Actually, the largest sugar refinery is and always will be the Tate and Lyle Factory on the River Thames, London. Perhaps you should sail up and see it for yourself. Majestic and in every way. I will act as your River Pilot..... Just saying like ;-)
Going to London and spending a winter at the St. Katharine Docks Marina is kind of a dream of ours and one we hope to do in the next couple of years. Perhaps we'll see you there! Hope you are well and staying safe. Take care ⚓-Monique
@@michaelcaton9358 That sounds lovely! We'd be delighted to have you over for a glass of cheer aboard Paragon. Right now the plan is up in the air, but we're *hoping to spend the winter in London in a year or two depending on how things pan out with the pandemic and travel restrictions. Definitely something to look forward to. ⚓-Monique
New subscriber here from Manitoba Canada and enjoying your travels! I had to look up that island with the abandoned hospital(?) on it and found this: twistedsifter.com/2013/06/abandoned-island-new-york-north-brother-island/ Really interesting. Safe travels Drake and Monique!
That would be cool. We're really excited about the aerial videos we're planning to film of the majestic bird cliffs in the Faroe Islands, the active volcano/lava flows in Iceland, and the biggest icebergs in Greenland. We'll be publishing them on our aerial channel ua-cam.com/users/ParagonSkies. It will be an exciting Summer!
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Yet another awesome video! Loved the story of your bridge encounter :) Eagerly awaiting the next episode. Stay warm :)
***** Ahoy Obelix! Thanks Dahlke, I saw in your video that it got too windy for your diesel heater and that you had to switch to you electric heater. The same thing happens to us occasionally when it gets really windy with our wood stove, where the smoke from the wood stove fills the cabin.. :( Good luck with the carpet installation. I think a carpet is much nicer than a wood floor when living aboard in the winter!
Ahoy Paragon! :) Even the wood-burning stove at my house has on rare occasions had issues with backdraft. It doesn't seem like it's possible to entirely prevent it. Are you heating the boat primarily using the wood-burning stove? :) I hope you guys can keep warm over there in Ireland :) I'll be fitting the carpet myself this weekend. The carpet guy turned out to be way too expensive. Very excited to see how much of a difference it's going to make :)
***** Here in the marina we've been using an electric heater/air conditioner unit (flagshipmarine.com/selfcontained.html) that's running off of shore power. But usually in the evening we like to shut that off and use the wood burning stove which is much nicer, but more work to keep going and then clean. If we don't have shore power, then we use a hydronic boiler which uses a little bit of diesel and electricity to heat the cabin. It has the added benefit of making hot water for showers. The boiler also has a heat exchanger on the engine so that when we're underway and running the engine we can convert the engine waste heat to cabin heat. (itrheat.com/products/hurricane-heating-systems/models/hurricane-ii-combi/) We mention the diesel boiler/heat exchanger in our next episode! :) Congratulations on getting your new HELLA fan! I was surprised to see that pinkish color. I have several white HELLA fans that are all as white as paper. The are awesome to have when it's really hot in the cabin. But they do attract dust and when they get really dirty I usually use an old toothbrush with bleach soap to clean them.
DrakeParagon's Real Cruising Life Thank you so much for your in-depth answer Drake :) Very interesting :) Seems like an awesome setup! I was very surprised by the color of that Hella fan too. I have one of their cheaper fans and that one is white-white and not that sort of strange pink-white color. Thanks for the tip about the toothbrush and bleach :) I'm sure that will come in handy :)
I like how you give all the information. I'm someone who has never sailed before but has always had an interest. Learning and looking to buy my first boat. I appreciate all of your videos.
Really enjoyed the video! Thanks for the tour along Hells Gate!
Drake;
Thanks for sharing your bridge encounter. I did the same thing last year bring my newly purchased Catalina 30 back from the Hingham shipyard marina up to the Great bay marina in Newington NH.
It was my second day on the boat and I had forgotten how strong the current was on the Piscataqa river in Portsmouth NH. I had the exact same plan as you and ended up with the exact same results. Thank God for the Coast Guard, they were there in an instant and escorted and assisted me in getting to my slip. A great lesson learned but, I never once thought of hanging it up.
Awesome again Drake. We love cruising with you guys...
***** Thanks JC! We always appreciate the feedback.
Xlent video. Thank You Drake and Moe. Valuable information... and it's like being there on the boat.
ClanOfStonemasons Thanks and welcome aboard! :) We're sailing through Long Island sound next.
I love the story, good reminder for all of us to check bridge heights. I'm looking forward visiting New York again in a couple of years aboard Maverick my Chrysler C26.
Maverick Sailing The Chrysler C26 looks like a lot of fun to sail. Really roomy inside, drop down centerboard, tiller, trailer. Good luck with the restoration project!
Thanks. I use to have fun sailing her on Lake Michigan in rough seas while everyone else on board would get seasick.
Great video Drake and Monique, appreciate learning from your experiences !!
Brett Kramer Thanks for sailing with us Brett!
Didn't know there were so many interesting abandoned places in NYC. Did a google search after you where talking about that hospital. Makes me want to go to New York! Looking forward to the next episode. Clear Skies!
SY JollyDodger Thanks SY JollyDodger, we saw many abandoned buildings when we anchored off of City Island in the Bronx in our next episode. Happy sailing,
Hey Drake and Monique! I was wondering how you manage such a good sound quality where most other youtubers just end up with some noisy wind cacophony. Your voices are always pretty good to understand. Keep up the good work. Greetings from Germany!
Awsome video!!!!! Please keep them coming!!!!
5985duck Thanks 5985duck, may I please ask, what do you like the most? We're working hard on the editing of the next episodes.
Great Video Drake and Monique. I always take something form your videos and hope I will be a better sailor for it. Loved the bridge story.
Great videos Drake and Monique! Looking forward to the next installment of your journey!
Thanks Sean, see you Tuesday!
Really liked your story about almost losing your mast. We all make mistakes, and hopefully learn from them. You did and drove on. Getting a bigger boat, and a bigger dream and continue to push on. I salute you in that. Many would give up, declare themselves unfit and be angry about it for a long time to come.
I had a 40 foot Endeavour Center cockpit, that I purchased as a retirement boat and a project. While working on it, in the water... (a mistake for sure) she sunk due to electrolysis on a head thru hull, and while I should have had her totaled by the insurance company, I did not, and lived to regret it. I no longer have her, but she sailed on with another. For a few years I gave up my dream, but now, 3 years from retirement, it is back, with a vengeance, and I am looking for that next boat to go to distant shores.
The Westsail 43 and the Morgan 38 are at the top of the list, with the Westsail being the contender atm... but I will not purchase her until I am done with work, as I have neither the time or extra money now. As we both know a boat can be a hole in the water that you throw money into... and the only way imo to make it work is to live aboard full time. So I wait, but the days move fast, and May 2020 is right around the corner. Till then I will follow you, and others, to keep the dream alive.
Fair winds.
Hi Bob, I'm so sorry to hear about your Endeavour sinking. But it's great to hear that the dream is back! If you have any questions about the Westsail boats please feel free to ask me anything in the comments anywhere... Fair winds! Here's to 2020!!!
Thank you Drake...
I agree on the sound quality. Sailing videos are fun, but almost always unwatchable due to the horrible wind noise. Yours are great! If you get the chance, a "behind the scenes" video showing your equipment and methods would be awesome. As would an in depth deck/cabin tour of Paragon like the one you did on Fellowship.
mdboatbum Hi mdboatbum, thanks! The amount of video footage that we have just sitting on the shelf waiting for us to edit is a little overwhelming at times, but I think there's a tour in there somewhere. We are occasionally publishing real time updates, outtakes, deleted scenes, bloopers, and other behind the scenes stuff on our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/DrakeParagon
Thanks for the trip through Hells Gate.
febails Thanks for sailing with us febails. I hope you enjoy our upcoming episodes of sailing through Long Islands Sound, Buzzard's Bay, the Cape Cod Canal, and all of the places we visit on our way to Boston. And from there we go offshore to Nova Scotia!
DrakeParagon's Real Cruising Life I look forward to Tuesday mornings...
Thanks for another good video.Hope you have a big year.And take us along.
Tom Kemble Thanks for sailing with us. :)
watching u from staten island! cool to see someone sail the same places i did.
What kind of clearance did you have going under the bridges?
Great vid as usual
Love all your videos
Jack Gray Thanks Jack, we appreciate the feedback. May I ask, what do like the most about them?
Drake, "the biggest mistake you've ever made////learned through experience" Thank you for what you do my friend. Information is sometimes better than the actual experience--in my view. Again, Thank You for these vids.
Drake, Where are you guys now?
this videos are from last year, right?
always great to watch your videos!!!
Thanks Ivan! We recently arrived in Kinsale, Ireland and have settled down here for the winter for repairs and renovations to Paragon and to work on editing our Season 2 episodes. Since this video was filmed, we sailed over 7000 nautical miles and voyaged through Long Island Sound, Buzzards Bay, Newport, Block Island, through the Cape Cod Canal to Boston, Gloucester, offshore to Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, a then a big voyage to Greenland where we spent 2 months exploring the southwest coast before transiting the magnificent Prins Christian Sund. From there we went offshore to Reykjavík, Iceland where we settled over last winter to produce the episodes of Season 1. After a total of 9 months in Iceland we sailed on to the Faroe Islands where the people are descendant of the Vikings and we called that most wonderful country home for 3 months and made many friends before sailing on to Scotland and Ireland. Our plans are to finish editing Season 2 here in Ireland, and to complete all of the planning and preparations for pushing off in the Spring. We plan to sail back to Faroe, Iceland, and then the east of coast of Greenland, and we're really excited about using our aerial filming drone to film bird cliffs, volcanoes, and icebergs. It will be an exciting year! Thanks for sailing with us,
Typical Hell's Gate tide current. I don't settle down until I'm 200 miles out. I hate the traffic, ANY traffic. I don't want to see ANYTHING on my AIS or my radar at all. Mo does a good narration. I wonder if the emergency generators are still at that hospital? Be a great find for the copper hunters.
spencer marshall Interesting.. We'll researching for more info about that island for the next episode.
brings back memories from playing GTA4 on my PS3 the helicopter landing that chinese looking place near brooklyn bridge and that sugar refinery and that abandoned hospital was where the big drug deal went down if i remember correctly
Love this stuff. As someone who has been there and done that this is a real as it gets. When the Staten Island ferry blows its horn you damn well better get the hell out of its way or it'll back right over your little boat. As for Hell's Gate - meh. In the days before reliable power, sure, it was an issue. But we never had a problem on our little 26' with its 8hp Yamy.
i really enjoyed this video !
arron mitchell Thanks! May I ask, what did you like the most about it?
may i just say first, i just really love all your videos, this one i think what i liked about it is this one was just a little bit different, is the way you guys did this video going up the river going against the tide and the story with it is just awesome, and it seemed like you had fun doing it !
arron mitchell Thanks Arron, We're working hard on the next episodes and really appreciate your feedback. See you Tuesday!
o real good yea keep up the good work, always smooth sailing !
i almost hit a bridge ...creeped up to one and decided i was around 2 ft to tall .... cranked the outboard in reverse only to find the clamp gave way and allowed the outboard to roar out of the water and the current was fast taking me into the bridge ...full panik stations i managed to grab the side and hook a rope round a post inches before hitting .... i always check the height long before now lol :)
john b yikes!
I agree how do you manage the sound?
bkbball22 +Sebastian Krebs Hi bkbbail22 and Sebastian, we always try to use some kind of microphone "dead cat" to minimize the wind noise. If you do a google image search for "microphone dead cat" you'll see what we're using.
Should hit the level in cockpit that’ll automatically lower the mast to sail under any size bridge etc lol
I hope that's not Heart Island your looking at with the abandoned hospital, if it is you DON'T want to go there.....
Find out in the next episode.. :)
ua-cam.com/video/EpO4x8P7vCA/v-deo.html
if that is your worst mistake, not bad!!! u r lucky. the boat was still floating and nobody was hurt. just your pride? you can live with that.
I laughed out loud at Mo's hope that others won't need such a convincing lesson. I could just hear my ex wife. Where i work "Lessons learned" is a buzz phrase but in my experience it's not that simple. I've had lot's of lessons... the learning is less certain. Even so, the lessons you share are essential to what's so engaging about your videos.
Actually, the largest sugar refinery is and always will be the Tate and Lyle Factory on the River Thames, London. Perhaps you should sail up and see it for yourself. Majestic and in every way. I will act as your River Pilot..... Just saying like ;-)
Going to London and spending a winter at the St. Katharine Docks Marina is kind of a dream of ours and one we hope to do in the next couple of years. Perhaps we'll see you there! Hope you are well and staying safe. Take care ⚓-Monique
DrakeParagon That’s excellent. St Katherines is amazing. Would love to see your boat and I would be happy to show you around London?
@@michaelcaton9358 That sounds lovely! We'd be delighted to have you over for a glass of cheer aboard Paragon. Right now the plan is up in the air, but we're *hoping to spend the winter in London in a year or two depending on how things pan out with the pandemic and travel restrictions. Definitely something to look forward to. ⚓-Monique
I love Lee Scratch Perry
New subscriber here from Manitoba Canada and enjoying your travels! I had to look up that island with the abandoned hospital(?) on it and found this: twistedsifter.com/2013/06/abandoned-island-new-york-north-brother-island/ Really interesting. Safe travels Drake and Monique!
Next time, get out your copter and get some video inside and around that old, abandoned hospital. Nice video of the east side.
That would be cool. We're really excited about the aerial videos we're planning to film of the majestic bird cliffs in the Faroe Islands, the active volcano/lava flows in Iceland, and the biggest icebergs in Greenland. We'll be publishing them on our aerial channel ua-cam.com/users/ParagonSkies. It will be an exciting Summer!