Bahamas Bound - Sailing Uma [Step 43]
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2016
- The day that we've worked so hard for is finally here. WE REALLY ARE LEAVING THE STATES! it's not a dream anymore, it's our reality! We are also finally able to share some updates on Uma's little copper bumm :)
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Thank you for posting and update on the bottom epoxy and copper paint mixture.
Here's a tip I recently learned myself. When removing a motor from the water, you should not let the power head get below the lower unit because water can roll downhill, and it's possible for that water to pool inside the engine causing corrosion.
great update. A TIP, to avoid a dirty anchor chain, a few days before you leave, just let out some more scope, and the section of the chain that is in the water column, will be on the ground, and the abrasion with the ground will clean it for you. Usually it is just the section of chain that is between the waterline and the ground is what gets dirty, so just letting out more scope, equal to the water depth solves the problem! Hope it helps!
+Dinghy Ride Nice tip! We"ll be sure to try it out next time.
loved this episode!!!
Thanks guys! Looks like you down in the Keys now? What do your plans look like for this next year?
+Sailing Uma we are heading for the Bahamas in October. Hopefully we will catch up with you.
You mean you are not staying for fantasy fest??
Mark Blackmon bb
Well done with your copper bottom! Actually looked like the sanded bit worked really well! Must have been hard work sanding all that bottom whilst snorkelling!
Very cool. Great video!
love the fact you guys actually tack instead of motoring
Me too... Most sailing of any of the channels we watch. But having an electric motor makes it less attractive to motor and having a monohull you can get closer to the wind right?
I watched to the very end and I say this with love...y'all ain't right.
Thank you for the copper bottom update.
what I really love is you sail! Sail! and Sail! some more, no motoring....
good hearing from you again I also live in outside of Atlanta
This Canadian is Impressed Team UMA. Respect your team work, without complaint(s)!
I got weirdly nostalgic with the recap. I just binged those episodes yesterday
Riley from LaVagabond got little tiny crabs in his ears for not wearing ear plugs while scraping the bottom.
I don't know if that's relevant everywhere but keep a watch out for that.
Nice job, can't wait for your next video.
I was thinking the same thing. Thats why professionals suite up.
and Elayna got Ciguatera from eating barracuda!
No - turned out that was chikungunya from mosquitos.
Love those wooden plates!
me too
Hi Sailing Uma! Love your videos!
I'm proud of you guys , Excited !!!
Great vid guys! Love you mucho! Ur a great couple and admire all the hard work you have put into your boat. You've come a long way and should be proud of yourselves!
Good update! Glad you made it across the GS so easy!
You two are Great! Best of luck on your journey, looking forward to more awesome videos!
Great vídeo , i enjoyed seeing how coper works on boats. Tks
Rui and Lena
Well done, and thanks for all the hard work in testing the bottom coat!
recently started watching! we love you guys! Hope we get to see you out there!!
Thanks for the update on your bottom paint!
You are doing it! Congrats guys! You've gone a long way from Atlanta, GA to where you are today! So nice to see you two finally out there. Stay and be safe and happy sailing. Can't wait to see where this adventure takes you!
Great video guys! Safe travels!
Awesome. Cant wait to see the crystal clear waters. Fair Winds
love the dance moves!
Started watching you from episode 1 now last week, tempting to jump right into 2020 to see how you are now but must see all the others first :-) Enjoy me with coffee, biscuits and Sailing Uma after work every day. Greetings from Norway
I'm getting up to here from episode 1 about 2 weeks ago. ;-)
Just started from episode 1, 3 days ago
You might want to check - I think they're in the North Sea Now (might be close to Norway!)
@@tomriley5790 Thanks :-)
I started watching this two days ago........ I have a bunch of free time because I don’t have a girlfriend and all my friends are hanging out with their girlfriends
BEST ending EVEEERRRR!!!!... so far 😏 Atlanta is my hometown. 😜 I LOVE you two so much!!! 💞
Exciting stuff, guys. Enjoy your epic journey, I look forward to following along :)
I like your enthusiasm and I look forward to your Video clips..I hope to see you floating near British Columbia, a sailors paradise
Great episode, looking forward to some Caribbean adventures !!!
Vos vidéos sont toujours des plus intéressantes.
Very interesting..... thanks
what A dream! congrats!
I so enjoy your videos you guys! Keep up the good work!
I’m anew viewer but your amazing vidoes automatically gained a new subscriber binge watch from the beginning 3 days in and still in love 😍
Looks like fun and a lot of work
Just wanted to say I am enjoying the videos. It is nice seeing motivated people living their dreams.
Thanks! Glad you like them.
Great episode! :D
Great to see you cut the dock lines! Looking forward to your videos from rarely cruised places like Haiti.
Very Nice... Thank you.!
Respect !!!
Loved the way you sailed all the way out of Miami no motor
Inspiring! Just catching up on these vids. (I have been sanding bottom paint like a mad man!)
Thanks for the update! I was actually very curious about how your experimental copper/epoxy bottom treatment was holding up. Looks like there's no such thing as a maintenance free part of the boat ;)
Just awesome!
+Empty Nest Sailing Just thanks! :)
Love your videos, just got a Irwin 34 that needs a lot of work. Your videos inspired me to take on the challenge. Thank you!
+Thomas Brawley that is so great :) We wish you the best of luck on your journey !
great video,guys looks like exciting times are in your future,rair winds and following seas,,,paul
Catching the dinner got an automatic thumbs up.
Awesome videos guys! We love it! It's perfect as we're about to follow your footsteps...or wake I guess...soon! We can't wait and we hope to meet you both along the way! Brittany & Jeremiah
Thats great! What does your planned route look like?
+Sailing Uma same as yours...leaving from Miami but we're going to check in. Either headed to Bimini or most likely Nassau. Then cruising the Bahamas for a few months before continuing south.
+Sailing Uma oh and don't feel bad. That crap grows no matter what! Our dingy was almost attached to the bottom after three weeks! Lol.
Awwww great seeing you guys again, and on the move no less! Very excited for you guys. Pity about the copper bottom, I was also very interested to see how it would hold up. Like the bay in Miami, the bay I have my boat is like that and in the summer time I have to give her a good scrape every 2 weeks. Warmer waters certainly don't help either. It's amazing how much those little buggers will slow you down. You can also hear the water makes a different sound against the hull, which gets to me like a leaky faucet does. Being a tiller steered boat, I can feel the current of the water off the keel. If that's dirty with barnacles I can feel it against the rudder when sailing. Look forward to your next videos!!!
Yes, we could "feel" the growth as soon as we left the bay and started really sailing. It's been over an month now since we scraped her last, and no barnacle growth yet. Just a little slimy stuff. O well, while we're in the Caribbean, we really don't mind cleaning her every once in a while.
Oh I hear you there. It's almost therapeutic, cleaning the hull in warm water, aside from the fact that you need to breath once in awhile. It's the winter months which I dread.....
Dory is the coolest dingy i have seen so far. So fast to store.
merry Christmas to you
I'm obsessed! XD
thumbs up love the video guys
I just saw chapter 12, which clarifies many of my doubts, I thought to do the same as you, again thanks
Great video as usual guys :-)I've got the " expensive " version of Coppercoat on my boat and for me it works but does need regular cleaning. The epoxy resin they supply to mix the copper with is water soluble until cured and I'm guessing probably slightly soluble after cure - so exposes fresh copper over time. Your idea to slightly abrade yours to expose the copper should work, maybe with a 3Ms scourer or similar.
+Chris Foote Yes, it's definitely an experiment. But one we're happy to make. Perhaps next time, we'll go with coppercoat so we have something to compare it to.
Nice into!
Hello from the Bahamas. I found you from Atticus Project
Loved that you made it to the Bahamas. Nervous about no lifelines - Stay safe! Love the vids!
Love the video's and the story but lifelines are something we never get answers on although it has been commented on many times.. :-)
It's commented on because they're doing something abnormal, not something unsafe. People attack anything that's abnormal.
You'd be hard pressed to find lifelines that actually earn their namesake - every stanchion I've put my hand on could be substantially damaged by that hand.
They're absurd devices.
Centerline jacklines are the closest to "safe" you get offshore.
Thanks rob. Appreciate your thoughts.
Great Vid M8s! I've suggested it to many Cruisers, that is (weather and water permitting) doing weekly or bimonthly careening by diving the keel and wiping the hull. Hopefully you would not give the critters a chance to establish themselves and become a problem. For the fishing, I just had a brainpoot about putting the fish waste into a mesh bag and hanging it over the side like a chum bag. Well in either case, Fair Winds and Following Seas M8s.
Great video! Safe travels folks... I noticed your wearing the more manly baseball cap, even curved the bill hillbilly style! I knew you had it in ya! Cheers :)
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Fantastic video. We all struggle with barnacles and bottom paint! Great to see another sailing vessel who's removed the life lines. I get flack about it, but they were in the way and I doubt would actually work. Thanks for sharing your fun and hard work!
No problem. Yes traditional "life lines" on production boats are totally useless!!! Good for tying crap onto, but thats about it. A full SS rail on the other hand might actually safe you life and give you a solid hold bow to stern. We maybe welding some up while we're here in Haiti. We'll see.
Thanks for your response. Never thought of going SS all the way! You both are inspiring!
I love this video ! You two are great 👍 did you taking a sailing class before you set off ? Thanks 😊🐬
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for 5:46 not just tossing the barracuda over-board. There have been so many people that have criticised me when I say some thing about not wasting but eating barracuda's, by claiming all of the ills that comes with eating them.
You know, as I was watching this video, I realised that I always have a smile on my face enjoying what you two have and are doing... so again, thank you.
Very nice explanation on copper bottom. Congrats on your ability and desire to try and test uncommon things. Looks like it really works for you, especially the part you have sanded :) Happy sailing! Maybe we will see each other in the Bahamas one day ;)
+Sailing JAEKA Thanks. YEA it would be nice to meet you guys.
I'm waiting to hear from you October 11th
Nice channel! Subscribed..
Great video guys, but be real careful with what fish you eat. You lucked out that you didn't get ciguatera with that barracuda. It's a good idea to invest in a fish identification book for the Caribbean that tells you what is safe and what to avoid. Ciguatera can wreck your world.
Yes you're right all predatory reef fish pose a threat, but it's also known that of those certain ones pose a higher risk and barracudas top that list. There's also known guidelines out there for size cut offs for when a fish poses a higher risk. I'm just trying to help them out, not create an argument. Cruising World has talked about it several times, and this book is carried by many cruisers, even shows up on other popular vlogs: www.amazon.com/Cruisers-Handbook-Fishing-Scott-Bannerot/dp/0071427880
it didn't look over over 2.7 kg / 6 lbs I have eated small barracuda, avoid those over 2 feet.
The likelihood that I would ever contract ciguatera is absolutely nil but I'm nevertheless interested to learn about something I'd previously never heard of (we don't have tropical fish in England). Thank you for that informative post.
We are I think caught up. lolol 2knotts slower makes a difference when trying to out run following waves on the stern.
+claris drouet Congtats! You won a free hug. Estimated delivery May 1/2017 - May 1/2020
you both hard work, but worth
Hey guys, just a thought but if you're wearing your glasses when up on deck, especially when you're underway, you might wanna secure your glasses when wearing them so they don't end up in the sea and potentially lost. I don't wear them myself, but my father used to and when I saw "the old man" leaning over the side admiring the clarity of the water there, the memory of my dad doing the same waiting for a fish I was in the process of catching, coming to the surface, returned to me. Needless to say what should have been a great day turned sour when his glasses were lost over the side and it set him in a bad mood for the duration of the whole weekend before he could go buy some more. The cost of those didn't do a lot for his mood for the first part of the week either, lol.
Wish you guys gave more info about your timing, when did you leave, how long did it take, what was your plot, etc.
Your GPS track shows quite a beat out of the channel in Stiltsville!
Yes sir. Tacked 43 times in an hour and a half. The wind wasn't blowing too hard, so it was more fun than work.
I'm sure u answered this already but why did you get rid of you life lines.... and so glad you showed some fishing
OH MAN! Pick 'em up anchor by hand? no winch?
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Great video. Does it mean that because the copper isn't oxidase mean you needed more copper in the mix?
I wish you would make a t-shirt with your compass logo😁
would still like to see a review of the solar oven you got
patience :)
Outstanding...where did y'all learn to sail..
+James Wampler With the local yacht club on monthy races, though many books, friends and a lot of trial and error sailing our own boat. There is still a lot for us to learn, but we learn something new everytime we sail.
Great girlpower at the beginning of this episode.
Did you not clear into to the Bahamas on arrival? Good luck on your adventure!
not this time around. we will come back in the beginning of next year and have plenty more time to explore the ins and outs :)
I love this channel!! Come on everyone let's get this to 1 MILLION subscribers!! Looks like I have a mission.
I see you were fighting scurvy out there... bunch of limey... :)
When I watch and listen to you two sitting together, its almost like your one person. Is that weird or what. lololol My husband and I kayak in a tandem and this is so like us. I feel sharing a sort or way of life completes the complete. If you know what I mean. Great vid
Thanks! Yes, it's true. Spending 24/7 with each other really strengthens our connection. Not many couples survive such conditions but we tend to thrive in it ;)
I am now watching the entire store of your videos and also sharing
Following the journey. Nice work on all the progress. Who's the artist playing at the 2:13 mark in this video? Thanks.
Tag me in please!
please, i live in spain,,3 questions, 1st, which formulates to use for the copper paint helmet?, And you use an electric motor as a general, and how do you recharge it?thanks
3 preguntas,1º, que formula usais para el casco de pintura de cobre?,,y usais un motor electrico como general,?y como lo recargais ? gracias
Did you ever consider mixing Cayenne pepper into your hull paint?
Cayenne pepper is meassured in scoville. Cayenne pepper has approx 30,000 - 50,000 scoville though there are other spices such as, Komodo
Dragon Chili Pepper that meassures 2,2 milions scoville
Personally I've seen a huge difference since I painted with Cayenne pepper mixture.
Safe travels !
You are both very persistent with the copper coat. Have cleaned both the hulls before on scuba.... You are both free diving . Wow
I wondering how the epoxy with copper mix with it would work. I would think that the epoxy would seal the copper inside it. Ablative Paint is a tried and proven way to deal with marine growth.
You forgot the last move of the Macarena!
I watched a video of yours where you plaited your anchor line to your chain , I can’t find the video . Can you help¿
Starting off is GREAT!!!
What did you use to "sand" Uma's bum???
It looked like drywall sanding screen material to me.
That is what I was thinking too.
sailing with open top window??? that could get tricky :D
Oh please don't leave your winch handles in place! If you have to, you can get folding handles, but the regular ones will cause you all kinds of trouble if you leave them.
Thanks, but we actually prefer to leave them in. We found it much easier to leave them in place than pull them off every time. And in 5 years, we never lost one.
@@SailingUma Glad you never lost one . . . though I thought I saw in one of your videos where you lost a winch handle for the main halyard. There are folding winch handles that can stay in place and flip open to use. My cousin had his ribs cracked by a winch handle left on when a gust caught the Genoa and snapped it loose.
Zoe and I are enjoying the videos.
Kika, I noticed your Haitian accent in your copper bottom explanation. Have you paid a visit to your home recently? My grandma always sounded more Norwegian when she'd just been on the phone with relatives!
haha yea, it happens. when I stop speaking english for a little while.
Do you have the same boat as us? It looks so similar! What type is yours? We have a 39 ft Pearson, built in 1969.
Pearson 36 1972.