Sailing Vancouver Island: Living Off the Sea in British Columbia's Broughton Islands (Episode 32)
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- Hello and welcome back to our video series detailing our 2 month circumnavigation of Vancouver Island.
This episode has us exploring British Columbia's famed Broughton Archipelago. We spend our time there fishing, prawning, and exploring hidden anchorages as well as Sullivan Bay Marina.
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Music:
"Smokies"- Barefoot Jerries
"This songs for you"- El Michels Affair
"Mercury's Odyssey"- The Olympians
It is a beautiful area. We used to sail up there and you bring back a lot of good memories.
Man...what a haul ! Great episode guys...
Seriously so delicious. Nothing better than fresh prawn!
Great video, thanks for sharing. Beautiful place to travel. I traveled all the Canada 🇨🇦 from 1997 to 2000 incredible memories. Long time living in the garden island 🏝of Kauai
Cool, I've never tried prawn fishing Raleigh Passage/Deep Bluff, I'll be sure to set some traps there this year.
Great video. Those dolphins were rad. Awesome!
Thanks for the comment! Appreciate ya watching the video!
Awesome video We are preparing to sail around the world as husband wife and cat! :) We are currently sailing around the Channel Islands, California :) Cheers and Fair Winds!
Thank you so much! You guys have great videos too! Appreciate ya watching! Cheers.
@@CruisingMaya well dang thanks! We have liked what we have seen on your channel this far and can't wait for more. keep up the good work!
Love how you keep calling the prawns shrimp... very very different creatures and fishing styles. Also looks like you guys were very close to the daily limit of 125 prawns per day. And if dfo sees a trap without your markings on the floats they will take them. If the catch you with unmarked floats it's a fine. Just a heads up. Great video. I love cruising BC. I'll check out more videos from you guys.
Ya know, I never knew there was a difference. So, just to be clear, there's no shrimp in the PNW or are there both shrimp and prawn in our waters?
Glad you enjoyed the video- our editing and filming gets better in our more recent videos so I encourage you to check those out. Thanks for your comment and for watching!
@@CruisingMaya will check that out. And yes we do have shrimp but only certain times of year. They swim in the midwaters and are usually caught by drag net. Definitely not as nice of meat as our spot prawns. But still good lol.
I think Disco wants to snack on the drone.... sweet video! I need to get there.
That would be a pricey dog toy! Thanks for watching and commenting. We love the Broughtons- definitely worth the trip up there!
Just discovered your videos…. Love you guys…. Your adventure is my dream to do…. Keep sailing and be safe.
Glad you found us! We are here to tell you that IT IS POSSIBLE! And that it's worth the effort!
Thanks for the comment and for watching!
Inspiring.
:-)
how often you guys dock?
Is it possible to anchor most of time and save on marina fees?
@@TheRajmoney Great question! Here's some data from our 63 day trip circumnavigation of Vancouver Island. We were at a marina 12 of those nights, which is once every 5 days. However, most of those nights at marina were 2 nights in a row, with roughly 10 days in between marina visits. We spent $406 USD on marinas for that trip, which was 14% of the total trip cost (about $2800 USD).
We will make a financial video about our Vancouver Island trip once we finish editing the trip's footage. Thanks for watching and please don't hesitate to ask any further questions!
Great video as always! So cool to see the fishing and shellfishing
Thanks so much! This is just the very start of the fishing we did. Lots more fishing in the next few videos of the trip. Appreciate you watching! 🍻
Another great video!!
Cant wait to watch the final leg around the Van Island
This is so well done!! I've been slacking and need to get caught up on your videos! Inspiring stuff you guys.
Thank you so much and thanks for watching!
We should have another video out sometime this week!
I worked at Sullivan Bay for a few years back when the old man (Pat) ran the place. I had a blast.
What a great place- a little floating neighborhood. We had a really fun group happy hour there.
I just found your channel, so have been busy watching the videos and up-voting them all. I sailed to many of the same places 20 years ago, back before video was common. Your videos are great reminders of what it was/is like (including the similar problems on the way). Thanks so much for posting them, I know it takes a lot of time!
Thank you very much for the kind comment! We are so happy to be able to share our experiences- even better that you can relive some of your memories. Thank you again for the comment and for watching!
Such a great video. Thanks for posting. That shot beginning at 8:25 is most impressive.
Thank you! The whole drone flight super fun to fly. Simoom Sound is an epic place!
Here on the east coast, We call that first one ‘Sculpin’ , and we always throw those back....
Great videos.
Try them sometime! Great white meat. Appreciate you watching our videos- new video coming out sometime this week. Stay tuned!
Cruising Maya Never, they are just too ugly to eat!
Edward Finn cabazon is a different species than sculpin
No matter what you call it, that fish is still ugly!
So good.
Thank you for the comment and for watching! We appreciate it!
So Cal is a long way to go to get to where you are, but it looks like it might be worth it! The running tides look a little scary.
I have a pudgy too but found it rows just as well as the outboard can push the little displacement hull. I was happy to ditch the little coffee-grinder.
BTW, Removing the heat exchanger is a job you hope you never have to do. It would be different if the engine was out on a work bench someplace and you could see and get to all the bolts. As it sits, you may end-up removing bulkheads and attached woodwork before you're through. They must install those sailboat engines with a shoehorn? I didn't but I will next time (I hope next time never comes.)
We're leaving for SoCal here in about 2 weeks! Portland pudgy and all!
Weve had to remove the heat exchanger TWICE now! Woof! Not my favorite job, but thankfully we have a little bit of space to work with.
Thanks for your comment and for watching!
@@CruisingMaya As a serious cruiser, is the engine impeller really a source of constant worry and maintenance? I'm only a seasonal Sunday sailor and have never experienced a failed impeller, although I had one replaced once on the engine mechanic's recommendation. He removed a perfectly good impeller and replaced it with a new one.
lovely
Wonderful videos, so down to earth
Thanks for watching! 😀
Cruising Maya we live on whidbey and we are doing the inside passage next year so this really made it seem possible
@@joanne5234 that's awesome to hear you've got a trip north planned! It's totally doable! All you have to do is show up to the rapids on time and don't have a rushed schedule. The Broughtons are an amazing and HUGE. Full of great anchorages and abundant wildlife. Go for it!
Loving it guys :)
Thank you!
I used to live in alert bay, and take a boat to get to school in Port McNeill every day. You could catch ghost shrimp with your hands right off the dock they were standing on 😂.
No way! That's awesome you grew up on the Northern end of Van Isle! Honestly, the prawns up there are probably my favorite seafood... you can't beat it! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mmmm Crab & Garlic Butter,... You may or may not know, But Dungeness crab love Chicken, Raw or Cooked (but Raw is better bait), so save your Chicken backs
When we crab down here in the states we use chicken and Turkey. Works great!
We sailed our boat down from BC to Mexico two years ago. Gosh, how we miss the BC seafood (Oysters especially).
Oh interesting! How was that trip? We were gonna make that trip this summer, but COVID had other plans for us.... Thanks for watching and commenting- we appreciate it!
@@CruisingMaya Different phases: (i) We trucked to Santa Barbara (as we had left it too late in the season) but the people we know who did t said it is serious sailing (big waves) but OK if you pick the right days/season; (ii) The California piece was great (lots of funky harbors and lovely coastal towns, spaced a neat distance from each other); (iii) The Baja Pennisular was 800NM of downwind sailing (only two anchorages on route) but quite the experience; (iv) The Sea of Cortez is fabulous (lots of lovely anchorages in a desert setting but not many towns; (v) The Mexico mainland coast north of PV is OK but not special; (vi) The "dry" Tropical "Gold Coast" Mexico is fabulous - wonderful weather, some great anchorages; (vii) we are now in the "wet" Tropical portion (close to the Central American border) has big distances between anchorages but is very special. Gettting back up is a different proposition - most go via Hawaii rather than back up the coast. We are, instead, going to keep heading south to Panama and decide there where next to head. But as i said earlier - the BC Coast is easily the best coast of them all (if you can take the winter weather).
definately gonna make one of those live wells. dave n sarah enjoyed the video. trying to convince them to get on youtube to follow you guys.
The diy livewell is so handy! Just be sure to put a wet rag over the crab while you are sailing.
Thanks for sharing with D+S. I wish they would make videos- you know they would be top notch!
That Dolphin (Pacific White-Sided) riding your bow wave is considered good luck
I think you're right- certainly feel lucky just having had that experience!
I just found your videos.Hope you liked Canada ,and hope you come back.Maybe when my boats ready I'll see you out there.
Canada is an amazing country! We are so sad the border is shutdown now.... hoping for an early trip North next spring.... hopefully after we've got control of this virus. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Great video. If I can suggest in the future, you can use the fish head and guts from the cod you caught earlier in the crab trap instead of catching a fish to use as bait. Also in case you didn’t, please make sure to add a weight to the crab rope. It weighs the rope down so that none of it floats on the surface, which is an obvious hazard and if your rope gets cut up by a prop, you don’t get your traps back either, unless you go diving. Glad you are enjoying my back yard :)
Yes, great suggestions. We only used leaded line for our crab traps. Being boaters, we can fully appreciate not having floating line around that will foul props and cause problems. Thank you so much for watching and commenting! You have a beautiful country.
Hey, my husband and I are planning to circumnavigate Vancouver Island this spring/summer and we came across your channel. We met you guys in Port Townsend with the CohoHoho group at the rigging inspection. We're on Fern, our Island Packet 35. Can't wait to watch the rest of your trip.
Hi Melissa! Thank you for watching and commenting! We remember you guys from that outing. You'll have a great time on your trip around the island- there's so much to explore! We probably have another 4 or 5 videos of our circumnavigation trip so be sure to subscribe!
Can I ask how you found our channel? We are trying to grow our channel, but it's hard with so many other sailing vlogs out there- so we'd love to know how you found us.
Many thanks and please let us know if you have questions!
@@CruisingMaya Subscribed! Can't wait to see more. Are you guys still in the area? We'd love to meet up for a beer sometime and hear about your adventure and what's next. We found your channel by searching youtube for sailing videos around Vancouver Island and your video was near the top. So glad we found your channel!
@@melissahart5394 We are in Anacortes for the winter working full time in anticipation for an early Fall departure towards Mexico in 2010. We are totally down for a beer sometime!
And thanks for letting us know how you found us- glad to hear that the search bar is directing people towards us! Cheers!
Enjoy your trip! Great haul :)
Nothing better than fresh prawns! Thanks for the comment 😀
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Just found the channel keep it up!
Awesome- Thanks for the comment and for watching. Lots more videos to come.
Slacking on the vids...😁 one a week..!!
lol! This whole "working full time" thing is really cramping our style.
All good...hope to catch-up soon
Awesome video. What kind of fishing dinghy is that?
We like our fishing! The dinghy is a portland pudgy. Made of tough plastic- it's basically a tank. Works great in the PNW with all the rocky shores... we just drag the dinghy over rocks and we don't have to worry about a thing. Thanks for watching!
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Nice crab cam... how did you attach it to the trap?
We lashed a GoPro to the crab trap. Used some rubberized gear ties (which are so handy). Thanks for watching!
Great video... Can i ask..what model on dinghy do you have?
Our dinghy is a Portland Pudgy. It's been great for us!
Wow living the dream! What kind of drone do you use?
We absolutely love the Broughtons. Most beautiful!
This trip's drone shots were all shot with a DJI Spark. We have been very happy with it, although we are upgrading to the DJI Mini 2 soon.
Thanks for sharing your experiences. Wondering if you can tell me about your dinghy. What kind is it? What are the pros and cons compared to an inflatable? Where did you get it? Thanks.
The dinghy is a Portland Pudgy. Hard plastic tank of a dinghy- great for landing on rocky, barnacle covered shores.
We got ours off craigslist for $1500, but I think they generally cost more than $3k new. Only dow side is it cant take more than a 2.5hp outboard so the boat is slow. Rows ok!
Great video! Where was the lake that you swam in?
That was Huaskin Lake. We accessed it via Turnbull Cove. Thanks for watching!
Thank you!
just found your channel, love it and thinking of joining the ranks. Wondering if, in and around those secluded inlets you may have seen or heard anything unusual?
Thanks so much! Can't say we have heard anything too crazy. Still haven't seen bigfoot.... but that's only a matter of time :-)
You really really need to do something about controlling the volumes on these vids. I keep turning it up to hear someone talking then get blasted by the next scene.
Beautiful footage. I love the Broughtons so much. Looking forward to the trip around the outside-we havent steeled ourselves to do that yet.
Thanks for the feedback. Will work on audio levels in upcoming videos. We are self taught video editors that are continuing to learn and improve.
@@CruisingMaya Always do the last pass using headphones...that's what I've figured out :-)
@@svneverforever I've never used headphones while editing- I think I will start. Do you know if "normalizing" audio will help to correct unbalanced audio levels?
@@CruisingMaya That will work but probably not the right tool with multiple audio sources/levels. Usually one of the visual audio meters is a good gauge - depends on your software. I tend to tweak each track by hand. And the headphones will really ensure you aren't all over the place.
Awesome, but please pinch your barbs when fishing in BC Canada. Not only does it ease in releasing undersized and restricted catch, it's the respectful and legal thing to do ;)
Right. We didn't realize that at the time- we have since corrected our ways.
@@CruisingMaya Good idea to familiarize yourself with the regulations required if you purchase a licence in other countries. Could get yourselves into a heap of trouble and have your boat and gear seized... Unlike our current governments and judicial system here, Canada fisheries is no joke :))
Great video. Would love to know the brand of your dingy and where you got it?
Thank you! The dinghy is a Portland Pudgy. We got ours from craigslist for about $1500. They run $3000+ new.
Great dinghy for landing on rocky shores.
ok, what did you use for bait in the prawn trap??
We used the standard "prawn bait" in pellet form you get from the fishing store. Since this video we've gotten a little more advanced by mixing in cat food and fish oils into the bag before we deploy. Absolutely delicious.... the prawn, not the prawn bait 😂
do you have website to see your route and the map?
We have a website at CruisingMaya.com but currently don't have a map showing all of our travels. I will try to get something like that put up- that's a good idea!
Hello guys! Nice videos! I'm a new subscriber.
What type of sailboat do you guys recommend the most for living in?
Something that I could live in, navigate, and its affordable.
Thanks and be safe!
Hello there! Thanks for watching!
Hard to say what boat is best for living aboard. Our boat (an Alberg 37) is skinny which reduces an already small amount of square footage. I would also say that having an easy way to get in and out of the cabin is important because you are go through that doorway A LOT! So pilothouse would work well I think. Wish I had a better answer for ya- please let us know if you have any other questions and thanks again for watching!
If you are going to live on board 12 months a year you definitely want some form of heating and many would also say a pilot house too. If you are only cruising during the summer months then a lot more options open up.
Why are you cleaning the prawns like that. Strange as we don't and we cook our crab whole. Just wondering....haven't seen it done like that.
I'm not sure! That's how our friend taught us so that's how we did it.
@CruisingMaya Fair enough but just easier to stem them whole, and pick apart after cooking. Same as crab. Either way they still taste great! Enjoyed you video. Safe travels.
Cool video, at what time (months) of the year was your trip?
Thank you! This part of the trip was mid July 2019.
How big is your sailboat? Orr should I say how big is a sailboat shall be before it is seaworthy enough to travel in an environment like you’re in.
Maya is 37'. You can do this trip in a smaller boat for sure- really it's about seaworthiness of the vessel. If you play it safe with weather you can comfortably go around Vancouver island no problem. Hope this helps 😀
what dinghy is that?
That is a portland pudgy. It's a great dinghy..... slow, but sturdy and stable.
Hope you guys don't starve with nothing to eat up there! Next time you get prawns ship them down to me and i'll test them and tell you if there good to eat or not.
It's hard work, but someone has to eat those prawn 😀
Yea! wish it was me. That was a great haul I used to do it by hand and remember getting none or maybe five. I made a drum from plywood with a handle thru it on both sides and could pull it up non stop. you could get one of those for rolling up hoses on will do the trick. and cheap.
Great use of the camera.
Thank you! We are total novices in terms of creating videos, but it's been a lot of fun to learn. Lots to improve on, but it's fun to see progress from our old videos. Thanks again!
if that was in the states it would be full of houses and people
Really a nice video, happy you could provide entertainment for the dolphins.
Quite the adventure!,
Thank you! Things really get adventurous on the West side of Van Isle. Appreciate your comment and viewership!