Sailing 500 Miles to Key West and Back
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- The beginning of our most difficult 500 mile sailing trip that would push us and our 28' sailboat to the limit. Giant waves, high winds and no sleep catch up with us.
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This video was one of the best watches on YT, real sailing by regular people. Thanks for bringing us along
“We’re sleepy and confused”. That’s great! Keep being real. It’s why I’m subscribing.
I'd happy to see this episode post up partly because it's entertaining, but also because the weather was rough and seeing this video means that you made it home alive!
But we almost didn't make it.... which you'll see in the part where we come back. ThankS!
this was great. Cant wait for part 2. I like your videos because they are much more representative of average people and what their experiences are likely to be if they venture out like this. You do a great job of describing experiences like this too. Usually they have many difficulties coupled with rewards you can only get by moving ahead despite the difficulty and discomfort. And it only makes the reward that much better. You guys make a great team.
Thanks... wait until you see the way back.. there was a 48' sailing cat plowing its nose into the waves next to us way out there and he was really pitching, and here we were doing like 7-9knots next to him.. it was mind-bending. We got knocked over and lost everything we needed.
The sailing videos where their biggest dilemma is, "Do we write a check for the 48 Lagoon, or just make do and rough it with the 46 Lagoon?" are just not interesting to me. I like people who are having to figure out a way to make their dream come true.
@@ralphholiman7401 100% me too
@@ralphholiman7401 " rough it with the 46 Lagoon".. that's funny. I guess you're right. That's why I liked Sam Holmes (the crazy and not scared of anything is fun) and also Josh Post when he used to sail.
I too got seasick on my first offshore sail in 1982 (St Pete to Isla Mujeres). I got a bit sick again when I went out shark fishing in Isla Mujeres with some local fishermen. Don't like drugs and stuff, so I just fed the fish. Didn't get sick on the way back. Haven't been seasick since. Hang in there. : )
You are so blessed to have your wife on board with you and your dreams. I too have that honor. Fair winds!
Finally catching up with this series. Wanted to thank you for all the replies to others' comments, interesting read.
Not easy is a small boat, which tend to be so easily thrown about. Kudos for the great effort.
Thx for the date of your trip. Puts things in context. I wish others included this info.
Your best video yet!! I really got the feeling of being along for the ride including the omg seasickness, the hours of boredom, and the feeling of accomplishment watching the sunrise to start your second day of sailing. This was better than any Sam Holmes video, you two are much more relatable! Cant wait for the next episode with the big waves
Better than Sam Holmes?LOL! Thanks! I'll take that, but I still love watching (and laughing at) Same Holmes... and during my trip, I wanted a Sam Holmes mirror for when I was laying down in the cockpit.
I’ll give you the mirror but don’t ever sail to the Bahamas on a 16’ Hobie cat with a hole in one hull. Keep up the great work, like I said before you two are absolutely more relatable…thank you!!
Great video! Loved how you captured it top to bottom, and really appreciate your candidness about the voyage as your doing it. I feel like a lot of sailors wont talk about seasickness or discomfort - and for me I get seasick and am uncomfortable every time I make a passage. It's just reality, so thanks for showing that alongside all of the glory and beauty. Pro-Tip: Ditch the Bananas!!! Bananas are bad luck! Take it or leave it, but I am a strictly "no bananas" guy when it comes to any passage.
Wow, watching this video helped me to gain even better understanding of what sailing on a multi-day trip is like. I was surprised by the music and directing. Great job. Love and LIght. Hope to watch part 2.
I love it!! I have been waiting for this video to come out!!! I love the honesty, and how you tell it how it is. Enjoy the adventure.
Thanks! Just wait until you see the trip back, it was insane!
Great video showing the not so glamorous side of sailing. Well done from your neighbor to the north in NPR.
Thanks! Yes, this wasn't a glamorous sail... just a long hard sail. That's the gamble with sailing on a schedule.
Awesome I have been waiting for this for a long time!!!! Thanks!
That was awesome. Can't wait for part 2. You two are inspirational. Thanks for all the great content.
It's terrific seeing you two sailing with wind. It takes a couple of days to get in the groove of offshore passages. Anxiety was up, so you probably couldn't start a book. I love to read on my passages. Thanks for the videos.
We each brough books and things to do and never touched them.. on the way back, thing went wrong as it was too much for the boat and us...the waves were just too big.... there was not only no reading, we even ignored hours of alarms going off inside because we could not even venture into the cabin at some point. Thank god we were down wind... sailing in 23 kn+ did 10.3kn on ONLY a double reefed main, if that's saying anything.
@Adventures In Paradise I feel you guys. I remember being in my first 35k blow on an offshore passage. You all did good.
This reminds me of when you initially meet someone and after a while you learn who they actually are… Bobby, I enjoy your content, good luck brother
My hat is off to both of you. You have a lot of stones to sail straight through. So tell me, did you discover how all of your senses are peaked, on full alert while sailing at night? Absolutely a great video!
When we got back and sat down in a chair in a house, we about lost it. Our brains can protect us from freaking out, but once the danger is over, it washes over you. We experienced great fear that I'll explain in the next video or two. It definitely makes you realize something.
fun to watch
Some discomfort and fear on your part make for interesting videos - LOL!! Thanks for sharing, I can't wait for Part 2!
I've been a viewer from day one, and the moment you mentioned this trip, I couldn't wait to see it. What about those waves!! Great video again!
Thanks for sticking with us!
What a cool adventure. Excited to see more.
Thank U
Great video. Can’t wait to see part 2. It’s nice to sea cruising from the perspective of first timers. Because like you said, the sailing channels on CZcams make it look glamorous and easy.
I think they either have time to wait for good weather or a larger, heavier boat to be on. Either way, nobody would want to be in the conditions we experienced on the way back...
Awesome, thanks for sharing! Love the candor about the experience.
I am glad to see that you are now benifiting from the bigger boat.
I just bought an pacific 747 24. The boat was moored on sydney harbour and i had to go out through sydney heads. On my owen so it was too difficult to film, but will be recomencing my trip to port stephens soon and will be able to film that.
Gerard.
Very brave to go out on the high seas. Even if its tough youll look back and it was worth it. Ive enjoyed a few of your videos keep it up and thankyou for the uploads.
Looks like you two had a great trip. Thanks for great videos and taking us along.
Great video. My wife and I have an O’Day 272 LE and are planning for a trip from Gulfport to Venice in the near future. This is helpful to see real life, not the sanitized CZcams sailing channel stuff.
Check out Cayo Casta state park... it's less than 100 miles and looks like a great place to visit. Look at it in the online Navionics chart and you'll see the anchorage. I'd like to go, but when I add up the days, it's too much time to take a week to go somewhere so close. That's sailing, I guess.
Looking good…keep up your steady pace!
Can’t wait for part 2!
Well done, good trip for lifting up your confidence! One rule for us, when alone on watch don't go to the foredeck. Enjoy and keep your episodes coming. Greetings from The Netherlands.
Great video….can’t wait for part 2. Those wave look massive…even on camera!
By far your best video so far! I agree with the other comments--your channel is one of the most….real…on CZcams. I’d be hurling over the rail if I were there, so I appreciate your honesty. It gives a landlubber hope that I could do that someday too!
EXCELLENT EPISODE! Thanks! We could have watched another hour... keep up the fantastic work! EPIC!
Great trip. Thanks for bringing us along! It’s still “winter” in New England, but can’t wait to get out in the water in a couple months!
Can’t wait for part 2. Watched this with my wife and we both feel bad for you seasickness. Glad you pushed through. My ASA 103 is in June in Myrtle Beach. Hope I don’t have waves like that!
Great episode! That looked like a blast. It was good to how the boat handled out there. It appears to ride pretty comfortable. Can't wait for the next episode.⛵
The trip there wasn't so bad but gets worse... just wait until the ride home and that will show you what this boat can handle.
@@AdventuresInParadise can't wait to hear your boat review.
Just came across your channel. I like the pure honest commentary as you progress on your trip. Looking forward to your next vid.
Great video and channel. Thanks to your channel and a couple of others, I took the ASA 101 course with 103 next month. I loved the class and could help myself. Bought a sailboat and have it slipped in Palm Harbor. Would love to pick your brain sometime about St Joseph Bay. Looking forward to the next video.
Hi Bill. That's great! If you haven't boated much out in St. Joseph sound, I'd be happy to talk to you. Email us at the email in the contacts us area. Thanks for watching!
yeh when you are green especially sea sick, the weather can cause havoc on your confidence. years from now you guys will be doing long passages and you’ll look back and see this as child’s play. it really reminded me of my first solo passage from norfolk to ocean city via Atlantic and back home via Chesapeake bay. i was learning things i didn’t account for like how to truely rest, hove to at night alone, initially i found it so unnerving below. but anyways really enjoyed watching your journey. hope to see more in the future.
Great video. Can’t wait to run our ODay 28 down to the keys. A little longer trip for us from the panhandle but always worth it.
Your training at full sail defiantly shows in your filmmaking skills. Nice storytelling. The waves to come look pretty SERIOUS! I've been out in some monsters like that on the Atlantic side of Florida, in my dad's boat, and it can get a bit intimidating. It definitely makes you realize how small you are compared to the ocean.
BTW you are definitely Dan's son, LOL. Lots of plans and charts!
Thanks Justin! LOL... and the first boat I tossed cookies on was your dad's boat! Or at least fishing with your dad.
Glad I read the comments. I always have to decide if I should show the wife certain videos. She is terrified of sailing and if I am ever going to get her to learn to sail I need to make sure she has some confidence before she sees you get knocked down and says "Yep, never doing that!" You guys are brave and kind. In a way, you have already survived the worst thing that could happen.
Good plan. I once heard or read something about making sure your wife has good sailing experiences if you are to sail. I can say for sure Susy has had all the bad experiences we could have and then some. Some of this is due with where we sail... maybe a calm lake would be easier. Also as you mention, anything after this HAS to be easier, just wait until you see the "on the way back". Nothing will ever top that experience.
@@AdventuresInParadise Maybe I could put a plug in for a future episode, what you did right for Susy to sail? 😍
Try ginger root capsules, not the gel caps but the powdered ginger root capsules. They have always worked for me. You won’t feel quite normal but you won’t get sick. Good luck. Fair winds and following seas.
I start all of my days (that will include sailing in the Gulf) with ginger the night before, the morning of, ginger root tea while sailing, patch behind my ear, earplug... that's the norm for a short sailing day *IF* we know we will be in waves... and then if it's going south I wear a watch that shocks me and actually take pills for it... but by the second day I no longer need it... and on the way back i didn't need it... then we got home, and we then felt sick from being at home and not moving! As long as we walked around or moved we were fine but when we stopped we felt it. We only sailed for a week... Thanks!
@@AdventuresInParadise You are bringing back memories of my Navy days. When you are on a ship that is constantly rocking and rolling, the motion becomes part of your life. When back on land you are out of sorts for a bit because you on steady ground.
chummin the waters
Looks like it was a challenge but glad you pulled through! I had one sailing day on my catalina 25 keys trip between pompano and key biscayne where it was like the first 10 mins of the video; decent sized waves and I was tacking upwind for like 4h before the wind died down and I just motored the rest. The sneak peek is bigger than anything I've been in on this boat though. Looking forward to the next video.
We had to hand steer for nearly two days... once 11 hours at a time to avoid being turned on our side... thanks for watching. Those large waves came at us for 44 hours!
@@AdventuresInParadise yikes, glad there were 2 of you
Awesome video! I plan to do the same trip from St. Pete someday, but need to get more comfortable sailing in the Gulf. Fair winds and following seas!
Take if from me... don't go out if it's more than 15 knots, well, if you have a 50' boat go ahead... but all these yahoos who will say "I love sailing in 20 knots"... let them sail while you drink a beer at home. We were in 23 knots, and who gets good at sailing in that, because we never do it. I never want to sail at night again and never in more than 15 knots unless I have no choice.
@@AdventuresInParadise Thanks for the advice. I have a Hunter 27. Love your videos and appreciate all the content and work you put into them!
I might sleep in the day and be more alert at night. Not sure.
WOW being a fair weather sailor on a protected bay on Lake Erie I just can’t fathom being on a smallish boat in those conditions, in the first few minutes of the video I’m wondering if your companion way shouldn’t be all buttoned up especially when waves are crashing over the bow. Take care of you and yours my friend, cheers and good luck.
We had it closed and latched during the worst of it, but for hours we didn't get any video due to the conditions. At one point, I asked my wife to go below and close it up all the way and rest, in case she was needed later and we did end up going over and getting the cockpit filled with water, none of it went into the cabin thankfully. Cheers from another fair weather sailor (from now on).
'I'm not like throwing up yet... a few seconds later (hours later), thought about having just the genoa up, but uhmm... I don't know I just threw up off the back' man oh man, that is my biggest concern. I've been watching you guys for a while now, dreaming to do the same - cruising the IC and eventually tooling around to the keys, but know we haven't been in anything big yet to know how my wife and I handle the chop. What was that sucker/lolly-pop you had around 12:50, was it a ginger sucker, did it work for sea sickness?
Following your footsteps and just got our first Catalina 22 to test out and dip our feet into the sailing world. Hoping we follow your success and see you in some remote anchorage one day!
There are different terms for throwing up over the side, such as "doing a technicolor "yawn, selling buicks, chumming, etc. I've been fortunate enough to never have been bothered with that sort of stomach problem and feel for anyone who has to put up with that. Kudos to you for not trying to hide it, another reason I've been with you from the start is your down to earth attitude and not ashamed to show your mistakes.
Yea, ginger pops, ginger tea, patch on my neck, special watch shocking my wrist, Bonine... none of it worked... after the day one I didn't need any of it, even in the insane waves you'll see on the trip back, I didn't throw up, but I did almost lose my marbles due to having to look at waves as large as we sailed in. Being sick sucks because you stop caring about anything and can't take care of things that need to be done or adjusted.
Howdy, I like your channel.. What are the clear plastic cylinder things you have hanging? One is up on the mast and another is on the port lifeline in the cockpit.. I've seen them on boat's and always wondered.
That's a solar inflatable light, you can get them on Amazon... they light the deck and we use it as a steaming and anchor light - lasts all night. Thanks for watching! As you'll see in a later episode, things get crazy and we lost it overboard. It's the same light, we just move it to the lifeline during the day so it's not hit by the Genoa as we gibe or tack.
Wonder if putting a reef in the sail would have helped.
You might notice we had the genoa refed for much of one of the days... but the main wasn't flapping since we can pull it in way tighter. It was the shifting wind that would shift from close, to too close. On the way home, we had 44 hours of a reefed mainsail only and saw 10.2 knots boat speed... just wait until you see it! Staying in the 7's and surfing in the 9's! On an O'day 28.
Been wonder where u were
Great video! What app were you using for heading and speed on your Apple Watch?
Thanks! The app is "Waterspeed" - it has to be running on your phone also.
You need to get a good cruising boat. Look at the comfort factor and capsize factor, your oday is not that great. But you are getting a good test of seamanship!
We're not cruising full time so that would not be a good fit for us. We need a light fast boat that's fun in 6-8 knots and simple to work on. Trips like this will be few and far between as we're people with regular jobs :-( but we do have a larger boat in our future! Last, this trip had unusual weather with 23 knots winds, something we would never venture out in usually. Just wait until you see the trip back! In 55 hours we saw one other sailboat on the water, if that's an indication. We met a guy in a 45-footer who told us he was going to wait it out... as we left!
O’Day’s are actually very good coastal cruising boats and the wide beam does them very well in rough waters.
Hello, can you tell me what marina you are docked at in Dunedin? I just bought a 34 ft sailboat and need a marina close to me
They only allow 32 in the 34' slips and there is a 5 year wait on the 50' slips. Try Anclote isles on the Anclote river. After that, all the other marinas on Anclote river. Pretty much everywhere has a year or two wait.
were you tied in most of the time when you departed?
I didn't realize that your traveler is in the cockpit? Was that a problem?
No. I think most of the time you hear it's a problem it's people who haven't had it there. Even when it's centered it's not a big deal and it's nice not having the main sheet at shoulder level... either way the sheet will be in the cockpit. Yes, harnessed in the whole time... imagine if you fell over and the other person was sleeping and woke up and you were gone. On the way back, the harnesses saved our lives.
Sorry I should watch the whole video before commenting...