Solo Woman Sailing an Old Wooden Catamaran - Kiana Weltzien | SSS Podcast Episode 1
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- Kiana Weltzien, now 26 years old, is a seasoned solo female sailor with thousands of nautical miles and multiple transatlantic crossings under the keels of her 40-foot-old Wharram catamaran, Mara Noka. This badass wild woman does what many would declare unimaginable on a near-daily basis. In the past year, she has completed a boat refit, filmed a documentary with her non-profit, Women and the Wind, and completed two Atlantic crossings both solo and with crew. We discuss all this plus more on today's episode!
TOPICS: solo female sailing, rebuilding a boat, sailing alone vs with crew, listening to your heart and following your dreams, taking calculated risks while at sea, crossing the equator, women and the wind, why choosing a Wharram Catamaran was right for us.
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KIANA'S LINKS:
whereskiana.com
womenandthewind.com
Speaking as an old man I have to say that your philosophy is spot on and your attitude to life is inspiring.
You go girls! 👍🤗👍🤗😃
Thank you so much 💓
So glad you have Kiana on your channel. This woman is me 50 years ago. I’m now “an old man who doesn’t sail anymore”. I live on my boat, and I certainly could if I had to. I sailed a Tiki Wharram from San Diego to Panama in ‘69-70. At that point I became pretty much a “pirate” in the sense that Kiana refers to. Not really, but yeah…I never went back to being in a “conventional job”. I started working on large tuna seiners, and got my merchant marine engineer’s license. I learned Spanish and many other disciplines as I worked and traveled the world. Then she and you speak of chasing money. I so relate. Jimmy Buffett in A Pirate Looks at 40 describes how it’s time to stop wishing. It’s time to go fishing. I’m down to rock bottom again. There’s plenty more to the story, but I’ll spare ya. Except for this: in 1992 I was on the winning team for the America’s Cup, America 3. In 1995 we defended the cup with an all female crew. I’d like to think that even as an old white guy, I relate so much to you 2 ladies. Carry on. BTW. we sailed to Panama with no motor, no radio, a $15 plastic sextant and 2 charts.
⛵️“Just a few friends…just a few friends”🍹
1995 Americas cup was won by New Zealand against an entirely male US crew
@@unhippy1 That’s correct. Yes, it was won by Black Magic of New Zealand. The ladies of America Cubed who were defending the Cup won by America Cubed in 1992, were replaced at the end, by Dennis Connor and an all male crew on the Young America boat. Not a great end to a valiant effort, but actually the beginning of an exciting new era in sailing in ultra-fast cats that foil. Thanks for refreshing my memory.
I came across Kiara’s Atlantic Crossing vid and really enjoyed it so I looked for more and came across this video and your channel. I’ve got to say this was a fantastic conversation and very inspiring whether it’s sailing of just pursuing whatever dream folks may have. I’m definitely going to check out more of your channel and your coming adventures.
Safe Travels 🧭 :)
Thank you for bringing and producing this video. I have been following you during your journey rebuilding your boat. I know a little about that type of journey as I have built a tiki 21, many years ago. I think that it is so worthwhile and I applaud you for carrying on. I have been a fan of Wharram's for a long time, primarily for the reasons Kiana Weltzien pointed out, that they are so safe and simple to build and repair. The tiki had very little gear that had to be purchased as most every thing I built. The lashings make super strong attachment of the cross beams. I know from listening to you that you will be successful and be at sea soon. Fair winds and determination to you.
Kiana has the best sailing videos, not many but really really good. Makes you think what do you really need to go out sailing.
I find it amazing the amount of views and subscribers Kiana has got after only 2 videos.
It's something that most people spend years to achieve.
Really a delightful and insightful conversation, thank you for sharing it.
The point that Kiana makes about being present and building memories even in the moments of struggle and frustration is a wonderful perspective, it reminds me of the pithy way a good friend and I described our philosophy during our college years: “Life sucks! More, please!”
I’m looking forward to more episodes and to see how your adventure unfolds.
l always dreamed of a wharram cat but never had the balls to buy one . Nevertheless l spend a lot of my livetime sailing and travelling . Girls you are the future, love from an old sea hippy ✌️
Always a pleasure to hear from Kiana. I grew up sailing wharrams great boats esp the classics.
Very educational discussion between two people who chased their dreams !!
Among the many things, you also talk about the risks of going out there on the big oceans, well, crossing a road has its risks too.
Taking a plane has risks, even staying home has its risks. What do we do when we want to cross a busy road? We minimalize the risks,
by looking carefully at the situation around us before crossing that road, just like we will do before crossing an ocean..
If you want to chase your dreams, make yourself feel confident about facing the possible risks, whatever your dreams are !
Man, she restored the old catamaran by herself !!! shes amazing and lovelly !!!
Wow. Great interview. Great questions and great answers. Amazing advice. Thanks to both of you for this.
You both have amazing stories! Just keep doing what you're both doing and good luck to you! A great conversation!
Love the content - definitely a refreshing change from every other sailing channel on CZcams. Keep up the good work!
You don’t speak sailing. Both of you speak the language of wisdom through experience. So great! 🥰
"Why don't you just burn it all down?" I know this phrase! I organise salvation and renovation of old (like 150+ years) log cabins in our mountains and some people just don't fathom that you can't build an old house or ship. They have no idea about the soul of them.
This were the best 52 minutes today , thank you both 🎆
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!!! 🥰
@@shesailssolo
Say hi to Mark …Wilding sailing he’s on a quest for a new boat and he’s been looking at Wharrams to buy.
Great Interview 👍👍👍
So good "to survive at sea" " don't listen to other people" gold.
Great podcast and guest, looking forward to new episodes. Thanks!
Just go sailing... is a great mantra to get us through the b.s.
Nice interview. Nice boats. Fair winds and all the best on your adventures !
Amazing interview! ❤❤❤. A boat yard sounds like "Type 2" fun.
two worlds collide!! I love both of y'alls videos :,) Dreaming of owning a boat soon, just savingggg and savinggg and I LOVED THIS conversation. And all the thoughtful questions and answers. thank you
Thank you so much for the kind words! Saving is key! Budget is my number one stress right now, which is no fun. Good luck with your boat search! And please feel free to reach out if you ever have questions or just need a friend!
@@shesailssolo thank you so much for that open invite, I will probably take you up on that!!!! :D booooo moneyyy haha it's so annoying but it will all be worth it :)))
What a beautiful story interview ❤️
⛵️ Amazing sailing romantic story , I never missed all the episodes. Greetings from beautiful tropical paradise island and romantic island Kauai. I am sailor too ,love to be alone on the ocean for very long of voyages. Thank you so much for sharing. Absolutely remarkable solo sailing ⛵️ 🌇
Love ur work ❤❤❤
27:37 About walking along the sides of a boat.
27:45 Kiana: "I think that's super dangerous. I think it's very very dangerous"
I agree, 6 week ago, I became a MOB - inside the harbor. It was one of the club boats, a L23. The reason it's so dangerous is that when one has to go to the foredeck/cockpit -- one has to pass the stays - *outside* of the boat. and to top it up, no guardrail at all, and the width of side-deck is the width of a foot, i.e. 10 cm, about 4 inch!
Sua história é incrível !!!!!
Obrigado !!!!
Too bad youre hatin on old men so much lol. Im stoked for you guys so much and Ive been watching you Kiana and your journeys. Ive sailed from childhood. Im a carpenter and have built boats for a living. Up on the PNW now. A proud Wharram Tiki owner now and getting her ready for a round of the pacific. Nice to hear you guys! So exciting for all of us.
She doesn't hate old men.
Watch the video again.
you go gurls! I've sailed... mostly solo... most dangers are on land... driving cars is way more dangerous! Also, I found that fear mostly lies in your thoughts about what could happen versus what actually happens at sea... unless you got you're seasons wrong.. .When you're in the moment you just do what you have to do and it's actually exhilarating... go!!!
I am a ships electrician and help out quite a lot of my neighbors. Most are not that technical but some know all a bout rigging for example or others help out as crew when I sail. Nice boating community, where every one has some sort of talent to offer. Lately there are few boats with single girls on the dock. They are obviously struggling with dark, cold, and unheated boats during winter, lugging water for over a mile... Somehow they need to do it all by them self, having a man help seems like cheating. No one in the community is excepted. It breaks my heart.... I am an electrician because my *grand mother* , born 15 November 1903, *was an electrician* , and a dammed good one!
I feel like it can be a hard balance. I try to take and ask for help when I need it because it makes a world of difference. However, sometimes I'm reluctant to ask for it because of what I feel like I owe or the fact that sometimes the fact I've received help overshadows all the work I've done by myself.
@@shesailssolo It is not that I ask for help, I get help offered. When I arrived in a new to me boat yard last year my neighbor came round for a chat. We talked about the work I was planning to do, and one of the tasks was finding a welder to close the truholes of the old toilet from before I installed a composting toilet. He turned out to be a welder in need of some electrical work. Perfect match and we learn a lot from each other. And just talking on the dock about the work at hand can bring creative solutions you did not think of your self. Female's below 35 seem to have this notion that it is a good idea to shut out 50 of humanity, while we, older men, have a lot of respect for any one who is able to get a boat and a free life at such an early age. 2 of the 3 girls are now selling the boat after ~3 years of hardship... So sad. We really would have like them to succeed.
Awesome people 🙂
It is a great talk… I admire both of you - and love the movies of Kiana as well as the way Regan is going to the pain of the repairs of her boat…
I have a Wharram Tiki 38… in the Philippines… ANd doing repairs and upgrades there… Getting my surprises from her like a broken Dingi ramp, broken rudders and rott here and there…
I do have my experience with the “Macho-Sailors” who try to scare you as well.. I guess Kia has the right perspective… Additionally they also want to show you “look Howe great I am.. I can ride this wild horse….”
I cant believe someone told her to burn her boat, that thing is an absolute work of art!
Brilliantl
Kiana vc é um exemplo de mulher guerreira, esplêndida e fascinante em toda a sua trajetória de vida . Um exemplo de mulher perseverante a ser seguido pelo mundo . Deus te abençoe grandemente 🙌🙏✋ e sempre ! Vá e vença...kiana !!!
Kiana how is your English and Spanish so fluent?
Well as one "old man" (I like to think of myself of young, but I don't think you would !), I would be more than happy to set sail with you as a woman skipper & on your 40 year old wooden cat. The Wharram philosophy is awesome & love your interpretation - never can you have too much rope & spare everything, including a spare tree trunk. Awesome - keep it simple, keep it repairable, inside your own skills and means. Perfect ! Enjoy & keep posting, loving the videos & know you will both be amazing !
👍👍👍
Mulher e coragem m apaixonei 📿🇧🇷👑📿
Киана бесподобно прекрасна!!!
Massa 👏👏
Kiana Ты лучше всех!!!
Estou apaixonado por essa garota...que história maravilhosa. Empolgante...
Inspiradora....
Vc é linda de varias maneiras....
Parabéns mesmo 😍
sounds like she was on ontong java
Achei um máximo tenho muita vontade de fazer isso também porém igual a você nunca aprendi velejar
Kiana is amazing and inspiring. Only comment re liferafts - may be needed in case of 🔥. Otherwise, Wharrams are pretty indestructible :)
I prefer life *boat* because a life raft is *not* build for moving.
Moreover, if you're a liveaboard and use the life boat as a tender/dinghy you are testing it every day. That's not going to happen with a life raft - so one is unfamiliar with something when you need it the most.
45:11 ❤
34:44 the only thing I’d like to say is that I believe true love lasts forever…
where's the wooden catamaran??? I was interested to see it
Very good. Want pics of the cat
Kiana is the female version of "Artur of the sword in the rock"
Love u
888
The double speak that Kiana has about safety is curious to me. On the one hand she talks about the fact that a lot of people, particularly men, try to discourage her to do it because it's not safe, because they wouldn't want to do it, blah blah blah, so she puts on her woman hat and says "they're afraid, I'm not afraid, I'm gonna do it and show them" ; and on the other hand she lists all the reasons why she picked probably the safest boat on the market, then has some reactions like "they don't think about safety !!1!"…
Uh… yes they do. There's a reason why they did try to talk you out of doing it in the first place. It's because they thought about it. You had to sail until you started having problems and breakages to realize that you needed a spare everything. It's a strange lack of foresight I'll be honest.
Now, this is a nice adventure, very respectable, yet still completely crazy, but I'm not going to be one to tell anyone to not do it, so congratz on that. I might do it myself one day, and I already have an idea of who in my life will try to talk me out of it.
Kiana is right about people is exaggerating something because they hadn't experienced it.
I and some guys sail in Beaufort 9 to 10 - in the right conditions - based on the boat who is used. An e.g. long, super-heavy full keel blue water/ocean boat is good for the sailing in Beaufort 9 to 10.
Note it's in familiar water: We sail there 95+ % of any season.
-The bigest inspiration that you cause, is this way to see thigs with a open mind! Most people never reach the point to make decisions out of the box. Mainly to understand money as a tool , that you can achieve your goals , without the wole kit!
Oiiie kiana
Sou uma mulher trans de 52 anos e gostaria de fazer isso hoje tenho tempo porém não tenho dinheiro
Why do you have to include mean-spirited comments towards “old men who don’t sail anymore” or say things like “why would I let a man on my boat because they’d become the captain.” Ruins your good story IMHO.
Dealing with mean-spirited comments and over reaching authority is an extremely common experience for women who sail. Overcoming that pushback is part of our stories. While it may not be a pretty package, I've personally been told multiple times on dates from men who have never sailed before that I would be "a great first mate" or that I'll "probably die at sea if I'm all alone out there." Many more have questioned my capability and knowledge. I've had men sail on my boat that have been great, and others that overstepped and talked to me like a young child only to discover that I did indeed know how my own boat was set up. As women, these are things we are constantly aware and reminded of. That's why our sassy comments are included. Not all men who sail act like that, but enough do to make it noticeable.
@@shesailssolo The irony in his comment is not lost on me. If that offends or ruins it for HIM imagine being a woman. I'm a guy and I have caught myself on more than one occasion mansplaining something and it's videos like these that remind me to show respect.
@@shesailssolowhat makes you think men who sail don’t have to listen to the same drivel ? There is an element of danger that’s the attraction, those who don’t get it will always be the naysayer.
To make it part of your belittle men agenda speaks volumes.
@redreuben5260 Look, there are many men that I love and respect. I hold space for all of those men to sit down and have a conversation about what they went through, but they also have the humility and respect to hold space for me. Every single one of them had to deal with naysayers, but in a very different capacity than I have had to. There is nothing about the "danger" of sailing that I feel attracted to, and I make extraordinarily cautious decisions because of it. Since this video was filmed, I sailed south with both men and women. Every woman has respected my decisions pertaining to the safety of my vessel... only a few men have. I've even had men jump overboard after I said not to just to "test me." So, yes, I am WAY more cautious about the men I bring aboard.