E33: Solo Sailing from Maine to North Carolina in November on a 27 foot sloop
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The guitar song is '5 foot 2' played by my dad.
This is a throw-back video to the month I spent sailing from Maine to North Carolina in November of 2018. I am currently in Panama and getting ready for a solo Pacific crossing.
I am a 28-year-old female solo sailor beginning my circumnavigation. My boat is a 27-foot-long sloop named Gecko. Follow me on my journey as I learn about heavy weather sailing, the trials of being solo, and my adventures in paradise. Follow my bi-weekly blog on : windhippie.com
Thanks for watching and subscribing! You guys are the best!
Yes, you're brave. Yes you're knowledgeable. Yes, you're engaging. But you're also hilarious!
She not only braves the oceans but she also has both the heart and the mind in the right place and she can sing, sing, sing!!! What great a voice!
You are awesome! My dream is to circumnavigate in about 10 years. You have so much courage to this at such a young age. Follow your dreams...never let someone tell you that you can’t do something!
Thankyouthankyou :)
Hi Holly, can you do a video about your time spent in Antartica.
I bless you Holly with joy, peace, love and abundance in your life. I bless your YT Channel and all that follow you.
I am blessed now too?!? SCORE!!!!!! Thank you Happy Texan :-)
I am still on the floor (with laughter) about 'what you get with a fire in the gym" :-))))))))
Very nice Holly. Thanks for the update. Incredible capabilities you have. I'm am looking forward to the next episodes.
I love your adventures great video nice to listening the weather incredible adventure
Wow Hollie what a voice. Enjoyed the vlog. Looking forward to the next and especially the Panama Canal crossing.
Love your bubbly attitude Thanks for sharing
You are the "Edith Piaf" of voyaging sailors!
Love the Monitor Wind Vane. Good gear!
I really like your humor but realized your sister is even more crazy. The two you really make a team! Sounds like your whole family is awesome. Keep up the good work! Enjoy watching you and your experiences.
Thank you for sharing your adventures with all of us. As much anxiety as I've had about getting out there myself, seeing you get through being new at going to sea gives me more confidence that I can do it without the comfort of having a captain to rely on. Fair winds as you head to the most magical place. I worked on a tall ship in Vanuatu for six months, and loved it.
Ok, you got me to laugh with the White Beans, lol
Sweet! I just happened to read your piece in Cruising World and this popped up in my CZcams feed, super cool. Great spirit, great work in this whole endeavor.
Nice job, Holly! Thank you!
Great to see you at the helm again!
"Helm" being a figure of speech. I know you have a tiller. =)
This is a great video. Ty. Loved see NYC and the sound of that Siren made it so real.
Great video Holly! We still have 8 weeks or so until we launch on Lake Ontario so these videos keep our spirits high. Well done, you are a superb sailor.
This is so interestinting to go back to. You are so different now in such a short space of time (apart from the Dad jokes...) Such a fascinating contrast.
realy enjoy your videos, always great sense of humour, thanks
all right you're back.....
Fantastic, Keep them coming :)
Love your videos! More please!
I'm so happy you made this video. This video is so cool. You are so funny.
You are amazing! First sunset under way... You inspire, some day we will sail like you!
Dude!! You are awesome!!
Glad to hear you made it through to the other side safely.
FYI, kill is a Dutch word for stream, so you were near the great stream. I live a block away and have no clue were that stream would be.
yay dad again!
Just love your channel and spirit. Im hooked
Congrats on the pacific. Can't wait to see the videos. Stay safe. Lots of love from Oklahoma.
Thanks!
love this gal, showing them how its done.... Subscribed
Spectacular!!
What a great series to watch! I had no idea how much you did to the boat by yourself and what a great Dad who helped you with the more difficult carpentry.
Yep he's the best dad :)
Fantastic video. Love ur videos! Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺. 🍷🍷🍷
So good to see you😍
You now have another subscriber 👍⛵️⚓️
Warren s/y Legend
cheers great video !!
Well seems like a sporty start. :)
Your log book - one year many years ago now, I bought Christmas cards with that as the front!
Never had a garbanzo bean on my face!
Holly, you are freaking hilarious. That deadpan seal meat comment. 🤣
Basically just open up the foil and eat the whole thing lol, cool video! I am super stoked to be doing the same thing for myself very soon! Thank you for the content!
Looking good girl! Stay Safe!!
Exciting!!!
I love an independent girl, that has a big wide streak of adventure in her! You keep getting on with your bad self Holly. Be happy, be safe.
Grundens rain gear its commercial grade fishing gear, we use fishing the bering sea as long as you dont put it in the dry it will last a long time.
Agree!
You’re brave, you’re smart, you’re comical, and a very good singer. More please. Cheers
Awesome vid! Love your personality so much. Fair winds, maybe we will share an anchorage someday :)
Always sleep with your cloths at the foot of your bed when it's cold so they're already warm
omg you gave me chills when you sang la vie en rose
Lived on Cape Cod 11 years. AWESOME place!!
It's super scenic!
Thanks Holly nice vid
I am doing about the same preparing my Albina Vega 27 . Frome Den Helder Nederland planning to go Sud around Mai . Thanks I enjoy your post
Great video Holly , you have the most hilarious sailing channel on youtube , you always make me laughing , i think i'm gone be living longer becorse of you :) , greetings from Belgium (Europe)
Ah thanks :) what is life without some laughs
Awesome 👍👍
I'm a 31 year old with my husband we both a sailboat a year ago it's a 27 foot sailboat and we would love to sail from maine to south Carolina.
Awesome as always Holly! Hey, please do that Rose song and its entirety on some future video... I love it from the show How I Met Your Mother.... CZcams videos with no ads!! You rock girl God bless you!
Desde Argentina sigue asi dios te bendiga
Wonderfull video. Congratulation.
Fucking fearless!!! Capable too! You must really love the ocean and the sailing life!
great job
todays LOL- "these are really easy to eat (chocolate bar) basically you just open the foil and then eat the whole thing" hahah.
Whoa, what was the gob in Antartica? My dad was stationed there in 1964. Please be careful while sailing solo.
The best on YT
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Boy, if I had been following your adventures (that is, having known about you) back then, I would have met you in P-Town and shown you around (I live in N. Truro) XO - Darcee
Whales like to show off! Love your videos!
Great vlog Holly. I'm twice your age and just a just about to head off for some of those experiences. It helps a lots to watch your vidoes. I have a Monitor wind vane I have not used yet... I'll take your que and read something about how it works prior to leaving. Bill Norie who circumvented in the same model boat I have says the wind vane was his teacher on how to adjust the sail plan to balance it for "Monty" (the wind vane). You are super dooper trooper, keep enjoying.
Thanks! I love my monitor so much. It definitely forces me to keep the boat balanced really well. I think using one makes you a much more engaged sailor
@@WindHippieSailing Not important to you but since this is a public forum...I was more than just remiss in not saying Bill and Cathy Norie used the wind vane, they circumnavigated together! It's just Bill is the real talker.
Nice singing voice
You got guts Kiddo.
love you!
Wish I could like twice for the chickpea jokes lol
I would have likes your
courage as a woman!
Thanks for the video you give us
Panama? Best of luck!!!!
cheers to that!
16:57. Looks like North Cove in lower CT River, Old Saybrook?
Captain Holly I sure like that cat. Hope you didn't make him swim back to shore.LOL
I love that cat so much! I wanted to steal him, but I think he'd get too hot in the tropics with all that fur
Dam, missed this three days ago.
I love the garbanzo bean joke
Well done young Lady Theirs many a Sailing Club Salty Sea Dog wouldn't have managed that
These are my waters, Block Island and long Island sound.
Bring back the puns to the channel!
Nice video
Best video (you have repeat footage toward the end).
This one the best.. I always wish if i can sail all over world. Solo. Also , you're beautiful. Love from India ♥️
Hey, just curious are you planning on the Southeast passage?
Wool holly wool. You are from maine and know wool when wet will still keep you toasty. Woolie undies, socks, mitts and caps and you are good to go. WOOLRICH COMPANY. 💚🙋🏻♀️✌🌊⭐
Yep- wool and fleece are my two sidekicks
Where did you find this rare double ender Danish 27 footer? I want one!
Please write us a song called "Rain is bullets in my eyes". Thanks, Mike.
Haha! That'll be my first single
Congrats making it to the Pacific! are you planning sail the Sea of Cortez? I just help deliver a sailboat from San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico to San Diego. I now live in southern CA but use to live in Tucson, AZ. Believe it or not Tucson have a sailing club and our regattas are in San Carlos, so if are planning to head north into the sea I could run into you, sorry about any hull damage. The past couple of days I watch the past five years. Wishing you fair winds!
Oh cool! I'm actually planning on heading right out for French Polynesia. I need some more islands in my life :)
Best line in this vid....
"...... or if my rain pants leak?"
laughed pretty hard, been there too.
you know the difference between $40 rain gear ad $400 rain gear........ about 15 minutes before you're wet.... :-)
lol same
With the $40 rain gear, you can do your laundry while you're wearing it!
Always great to watch.im going to do this- you inspire so many.i have alot of questions I'd love to ask but dont want take up your time with stupid ones do you have an email?Scott.
hey holly! is there any particular reason why you decided to go against the “ultimate” flow of the gulf stream, from maine to NC, rather than shooting straight down, more towards bermuda, then have the easterlies mostly on your back for the last few days towards the caribbean? i’m estimating about 8 days to go from NY to the bahamas on this route (on the 28’ ranger i’ve been refitting for a few years now) and men are trying to discourage me. i am eternally grateful for the inspiration you bring to the world (especially to single ladies like me) with your laidback, low-budget, and brave-while-chill-to-the-max videos! cheers, fellow siren! 🌞🌬🌊⛵️🧜♀️
Hey Pauline. Yes there will always be people who tell you you can't do the things you're doikgy, but you totally can! I'm so excited for your trip! I sailed from Maine to NC because I had to leave my boat for the winter to do my last contract at work and if it was in Maine I would have been stuck until late spring.
@@WindHippieSailing thank yoooou! their reasoning is that if I stay 50 miles off the coast, if anything terrible happens, it would be easier to get rescued. That seems to be the only reasonable argument, though if cruisers went by that rule, nobody would be crossing oceans and having fabulous lives such as yours. I find it more dangerous and exponentially lengthy to be putzing in and out of the ICW on the way south, but I haven’t had much luck finding others making that same point online. it’d be nice to draw from others experience but also know that i’m not losing my mind with this plan. in 2020 i joined my ex on his tartan10 from ny to the bahamas. we took the miserable route 😅 and it took us 2 freaking months to get there! sure it was extra miserable because we left in November but I envision visiting some of those beautiful spots on my way back up north. i wonder how many small boats like ours quietly and safely make this passage south every year… thanks again for your reply 🤙🏼
How did you get the job in Antartica?! I want to work on a boat in Antartica :(
Where on BUZZARD'S ? Not Marion? Been there done that for three years! sdh T.A. '67
I think it was Marion actually! Super beautiful
Hey - been watching your channel for a while now - do you ever get sea sick and what do you do about iit - how long does it last ?
So far I haven't gotten seasick on my boat. But I keep seasick meds just in case. You never know!
@@WindHippieSailing thank you - i'm considering joining in on your lifestyle and touring the planet - lived on a sailboat 12 years sailing monthly and out to the farralone islands - never got seasick - but once on a friends Fuji 32 i didn't like the boats motion ( was sluggish ) it made my stomach a bit upset - anyway - been looking at alot of boats seeing where it all settles - not in a hurry - by next winter maybe a purchase will happen - From San Francisco here ------- big hello to you
@@johnsilveira6925 oh I used to work in Sam Francisco! I think you've nailed it- seasickness depends a lot on the boat. And the sea state, of course
Sencilla, alegre y sufrida. Toda una marinera. Are you a sailor girl.Thank you.
Tea bags are probably what is killing the seals
I live in Beaufort n.c. Yippie
Nice! Thats where I left from for Puerto Rico!