Love watching Fair Isle’s full keel and heft making short work of besting upwind. I think you are one of the few UA-camrs who do make proper little films. Bravo!
Many thanks Steve and Judy for the time and effort--despite the nasty conditions--to put together a memorable--and so “insensitively” to say--entertaining video. WAS MOST WORRIED AS YOU SLOGGED THRU THE STORM ABOUT THE DINGHY FLYING OFF THE FOREDECK ! Glad you are safe.
Good to see the boat handling these rough conditions with ease. The rain has been no joke this year . Just starting to get better here in Linton / San Blas
Hey, always happy to see you come up on my subscriptions! You say in the video, sorry, film, that you don't want to have to round up in those conditions and I would love an explanation as to why not. Also it seems like you had quite a bit of not one but two head sails out and I wondered why not bring them in a bit unless you have found that to be the balance point for that combination of direction, wind and main....Anyway, cheers.
Fair Isle is such a great blue water boat. Can go to windward in a high sea. Can reef without rounding up. Just what you need in a storm out of nowhere
Trying to shelter from the rain under a palm frond reminds me of our trip to the Philippines over Christmas and New Year. The rainy season was supposed to be over but we got a lot of rain and ended up swimming in the rain, albeit on some great beaches.
Wow wow wow! What a solid sailboat.. -- QUESTION -- We were listening to this guy from "Kraken" Yachts (not sure if you know them) , who was discussing the bayesian sailboat sinking. He seemed to suggest that their sailboat wouldn't have sunk in that storm. Do you think that your awesome sailboat would have stayed afloat in a Bayesian type storm? It just seems so solid and your dodger looks perfect during rought weather. One thing I don't get... kinda surprised that you guys left the bathroom window open during that storm. I notice so many youtube sailors get caught like that with wet beds etc. due to an open overhead hatch window or something. What gives? Is it just so sudden a storm? I am not a sailor but I would like to think that when it starts raining that I would go arouond the inside and close all the windows yet so many youtubers forget this.
We have a 30ton sailboat with a very deep entry bow pretty full keel. When i tell people I like sailing to weather they think i am crazy because they have plumb bow/flat bottom boats that pound and shake your teeth in 3ft seas. Besides heeling over I actually prefer sailing to weather over downwind as i hate how the boat wanders on and off course as you come off/down a wave. It overworks the auto pilot and has me on edge waiting for it to fail and crash gybe. Fair Isle handled that like a champ!!! I am OCD about hatches and portholes but i know one day i will forget one and end up just like that!!!!
Yes it's true, downwind sailing is overrated with our boats, but I have to say the 600nm passage we've just done to get all the way up to Grand Cayman bashing straight to weather gets to be a pita! Let just sail with the wind on the beam from now on!
@Rainmaker60LM Maybe Michael Davey thought the same before his GGR entry, Dreamcatcher, was embayed and driven on to a lee shore in Tasman Bay at the same time as a racing fleet of flat bottomed, slamming race boats managed to beat their way to safety.
Difficult to know what happened with Michael, he needed to avoid the shore on the other tack, no idea why he tried to make it as he was. Maybe that's the difference between a very tired single handed sailor and a race crew?
Love your channel & have been watching for a while now. My fiancé & I own a 42’ Whitby. We will be selling our house within the next year & becoming full-time cruisers. We love learning your tips & tricks! There’s something on your boat my better half would love to get for ours but we can’t find it. Could you please tell us where you bought that bendable lounge chair in your cockpit? Thank you & fair winds
Ha! yes they are amazing. They are called 'Comfort seat' and they are made in Holland. We actually bought our first two (small ones) off friends in Cartagena Spain 5 years ago because they had too many. We showed them in a video saying how much we liked them and contacted us and asked if we would like to try the big 'lounger' version. That chair transformed our lives on board so we bought another one.
Yes Dick Beaumont who runs Kraken has become a good friend of ours, he make probably the most seaworthy cruising boat at the moment (if you can afford a new yacht!) The problem with the Bayesian was down flooding in a knockdown. It's not something that would have troubled Fair Isle, or to be fair most decent yachts. It's incredible that Perini Navi could build such a sub standard yacht, there will be big changes to in the industry off the back of it I think. As far as the port hole is concerned it's a problem of sailing in the tropics. In high latitudes you close everything, why wouldn't you? Here it gets stiflingly hot below if everything is closed and we need to sleep below, so we open what we can when we think it's okay to do so. sudden squalls like this one catch you out every time.
Hey have a good sail. Tips are that you must check in with your boat (and do it in the day or you will get covered in cement dust like we did)!! And then head to the north. Eagle beach. Much nicer than the town and there's a good supermarket and snorkeling, can get rolly though and the constant jetski's will annoy you after a while! So we flitted between the anchorages. Go right up to Arashi beach in the NW corner if the swell is playing ball.
Yes we met them in Bocas, they spoke highly of San Andres and they spent a lot of time there. Maybe it was the terrible weather, but we couldnt find much to like.
Don't you feel stupid when you find a port open ... and you can't blame the guests. I guess we'll have to watch the next episode to get a starlink update. Happy safe New Year!
It's difficult in really hot weather because you want to keep things cool enough that you can sleep below. In colder climes everything gets tightly shut at sea but here we get caught out all the time thinking we are safe with a port hole or hatch... until were not!
Creepy lookin' meme...almost looks AI generated...back in the day "photoshopped". This channel should be on what it tries to emulate...The BBC...pseudo 80's travel programme.
Love watching Fair Isle’s full keel and heft making short work of besting upwind. I think you are one of the few UA-camrs who do make proper little films. Bravo!
What a fabulous yacht! Terrific film. You two do such a wonderful job of putting the audience into the scene. Absolutely lovely. Thanks for sharing!!!
As a racing sailor of 40 years, I never had any time for mast mounted winches. Watching you reef was a lightbulb moment. 👍 Thank you for educating me.
Many thanks Steve and Judy for the time and effort--despite the nasty conditions--to put together a memorable--and so “insensitively” to say--entertaining video. WAS MOST WORRIED AS YOU SLOGGED THRU THE STORM ABOUT THE DINGHY FLYING OFF THE FOREDECK !
Glad you are safe.
Off wind reefing! Bravo! Fantastic Gale footage!
Love the sailing. Gives true perspective to the people who have only fantasies about sailing the world. Keep it up and hold fast. We're loving it.
Superb filming & music combination - exciting- thanks!!
Wishing you sunny days.
The best video yet. Dramatic and funny :)
You two kids look like you’re having fun.😊
Good to see the boat handling these rough conditions with ease. The rain has been no joke this year . Just starting to get better here in Linton / San Blas
I'm sure your Cheoylee does just as well. Have been on the pods off shore in Linton? they're quite something.
Wonderful video, you two are the real deal!👍👍
Loved it. It’s been freezing here.
What a wonderful episode. 🙂Interesting to watch the motion of FIsle upwind in that sea very different from our Ben Oc 40.
Hey, always happy to see you come up on my subscriptions! You say in the video, sorry, film, that you don't want to have to round up in those conditions and I would love an explanation as to why not. Also it seems like you had quite a bit of not one but two head sails out and I wondered why not bring them in a bit unless you have found that to be the balance point for that combination of direction, wind and main....Anyway, cheers.
Great filming during the storm ,shame that the weather hasn’t been better for you
Loved to have been there..what a boat and equally good crew...and class mixing of Audio and Video
Fair Isle is such a great blue water boat. Can go to windward in a high sea. Can reef without rounding up. Just what you need in a storm out of nowhere
Another great video. I think every Caribbean cat would be running for cover in those conditions.
Great sailing! Love the Action Replay of the blow hole😂
Great watch as ever. Enjoy!
Fair Isle handled that weather really well, would have been better if some one had shut a hatch. HAHAHA
I knew I should have made a left turn in Albuquerque!😂
Good episode. I look forward to your next one with predict wind.
Fair Isle looking terrific in that storm.
Trying to shelter from the rain under a palm frond reminds me of our trip to the Philippines over Christmas and New Year. The rainy season was supposed to be over but we got a lot of rain and ended up swimming in the rain, albeit on some great beaches.
Thanks, and I thought I was the only sailor who could forget to close porthole windows.
So funny Judy.😂😂😂
thanks nice film!
Epic 💦
Wow wow wow! What a solid sailboat.. -- QUESTION -- We were listening to this guy from "Kraken" Yachts (not sure if you know them) , who was discussing the bayesian sailboat sinking. He seemed to suggest that their sailboat wouldn't have sunk in that storm. Do you think that your awesome sailboat would have stayed afloat in a Bayesian type storm? It just seems so solid and your dodger looks perfect during rought weather. One thing I don't get... kinda surprised that you guys left the bathroom window open during that storm. I notice so many youtube sailors get caught like that with wet beds etc. due to an open overhead hatch window or something. What gives? Is it just so sudden a storm? I am not a sailor but I would like to think that when it starts raining that I would go arouond the inside and close all the windows yet so many youtubers forget this.
We have a 30ton sailboat with a very deep entry bow pretty full keel. When i tell people I like sailing to weather they think i am crazy because they have plumb bow/flat bottom boats that pound and shake your teeth in 3ft seas. Besides heeling over I actually prefer sailing to weather over downwind as i hate how the boat wanders on and off course as you come off/down a wave. It overworks the auto pilot and has me on edge waiting for it to fail and crash gybe. Fair Isle handled that like a champ!!! I am OCD about hatches and portholes but i know one day i will forget one and end up just like that!!!!
Yes it's true, downwind sailing is overrated with our boats, but I have to say the 600nm passage we've just done to get all the way up to Grand Cayman bashing straight to weather gets to be a pita! Let just sail with the wind on the beam from now on!
@Rainmaker60LM
Maybe Michael Davey thought the same before his GGR entry, Dreamcatcher, was embayed and driven on to a lee shore in Tasman Bay at the same time as a racing fleet of flat bottomed, slamming race boats managed to beat their way to safety.
@ if you are trying to argue with me or insult me you’ll have to be more obvious I’m not that bright
Difficult to know what happened with Michael, he needed to avoid the shore on the other tack, no idea why he tried to make it as he was. Maybe that's the difference between a very tired single handed sailor and a race crew?
Good time to find deck leaks.
Dang! Definitely a bit of drowned rats vibe in this one!! 🌧🌧🌧 💦💦💦 🌊🌊🌊
Love your channel & have been watching for a while now. My fiancé & I own a 42’ Whitby. We will be selling our house within the next year & becoming full-time cruisers. We love learning your tips & tricks! There’s something on your boat my better half would love to get for ours but we can’t find it. Could you please tell us where you bought that bendable lounge chair in your cockpit? Thank you & fair winds
Ha! yes they are amazing. They are called 'Comfort seat' and they are made in Holland. We actually bought our first two (small ones) off friends in Cartagena Spain 5 years ago because they had too many. We showed them in a video saying how much we liked them and contacted us and asked if we would like to try the big 'lounger' version. That chair transformed our lives on board so we bought another one.
What were the wind and sea state conditions during the storm segment
Yes Dick Beaumont who runs Kraken has become a good friend of ours, he make probably the most seaworthy cruising boat at the moment (if you can afford a new yacht!) The problem with the Bayesian was down flooding in a knockdown. It's not something that would have troubled Fair Isle, or to be fair most decent yachts. It's incredible that Perini Navi could build such a sub standard yacht, there will be big changes to in the industry off the back of it I think.
As far as the port hole is concerned it's a problem of sailing in the tropics. In high latitudes you close everything, why wouldn't you? Here it gets stiflingly hot below if everything is closed and we need to sleep below, so we open what we can when we think it's okay to do so. sudden squalls like this one catch you out every time.
Another outstanding adventure and video.
Is that in Isomat mast and boom?
A pleasure to watch Fair Isle doing her thing. Of course she has a good crew 😊
Good job, sailing to Aruba next week. Any tips?
Hey have a good sail. Tips are that you must check in with your boat (and do it in the day or you will get covered in cement dust like we did)!! And then head to the north. Eagle beach. Much nicer than the town and there's a good supermarket and snorkeling, can get rolly though and the constant jetski's will annoy you after a while! So we flitted between the anchorages. Go right up to Arashi beach in the NW corner if the swell is playing ball.
You have a beautiful boat. What type and size is it?
Thank you. She is a Hans Christian 48T she is 46 foot long on deck 57 feet including the bow sprit
SSL and Captain Rick are somewhere close to you . I hope you meet up .
Yes we met them in Bocas, they spoke highly of San Andres and they spent a lot of time there. Maybe it was the terrible weather, but we couldnt find much to like.
The blowhole was great!
A very good video,I suppose that getting wet so many times makes it difficult to dry you clothes.
It does! Laundrettes are my favourite places
Don't you feel stupid when you find a port open ... and you can't blame the guests. I guess we'll have to watch the next episode to get a starlink update. Happy safe New Year!
It's difficult in really hot weather because you want to keep things cool enough that you can sleep below. In colder climes everything gets tightly shut at sea but here we get caught out all the time thinking we are safe with a port hole or hatch... until were not!
what is her freeboard? great footage!
Freeboard is how high the top sides are i.e. the distance from the waterline to the cap rail
Have you guys ever been sailing in the North Sea?
Yes I grew up sailing the East Coast and the first passage we had on Fair Isle was across the North Sea from The Netherlands
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Kind of you to give us a pic of blow hole 😅after that sail no wonder u missed New Year’s Eve. Happy 2025 🇨🇦 ❤
Judy...it's the 21st century, it's not film anymore!
I am encouraging the language to evolve!
@@judyaslett6209 😁
Creepy lookin' meme...almost looks AI generated...back in the day "photoshopped". This channel should be on what it tries to emulate...The BBC...pseudo 80's travel programme.
I'll get Judy to dig out her 80's flairs and perm her hair for the next one!