Sail Life - Hello Netherlands ⛵ & new VHF handset (Garmin GHS 11i)
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- čas přidán 25. 09. 2021
- After being stuck in Borkum (a small German island) for most of the week we finally make it to the outskirts of Amsterdam
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I don't think I have ever seen two people who are more perfect for each other than you two.....So cute. Been following Sail Life since the first video.
Don't worry about the people complaining about your upload time. You don't owe them anything.
I'm suing.
*Rebuilds sailboat*.... motors all the way to the UK! lol I love it.
Binge watching and the layout and the shower and so much more is for DIY excellent! Also when you say Eva's name you can hear that she is your beloved!!! We wish all your sails to be wonderful!
It's so nice to see you underway, the transition from DIY-only videos to recording your passages has been seamless, and still qualifies as edutainment. Good luck and I look forward to your coming adventures.
"There goes my dream of getting scurvy like a real sailor" really truly made me do a spit take. Thank you for that hahaha
This and Tally Ho, makes my day. Cheers!
By far this is the best DIY channel on CZcams! Both of you look so happy. I can hardly wait to watch your sailing adventures.
Fair winds and calm seas. And a hearty thank you for your efforts.
Oh the Schengen shuffle! You know that you can leave Schengen area and be a vessel in transit? Provided you anchor and do not go ashore. But, your pretty short of protected anchorages on your route. If you need and help or information on the UK from Dover to the Scilly isles along the uk south coast we can help out with marina's anchorages and local knowledge etc. This was our stomping ground for 30 + years. Happy to help you out. Sail Safe Guys, Ant, Cid & the pooch crew.
That weather forecast looked great for a westerly course right now - go for it.
When you finally get the shower working don't forget to conserve water by showering together. Very important on a long cruise (lol). I was afraid earlier that you weren't able to make a video because you were in transit but it finally appeared. You never fail us Mads. Thank you for the update Mads and Ava. Looking forward to seeing more of your trip to England.
Showering together is always a good idea! Saves water and stimulates closeness also...
:-D
And you have an easy way to get your back scrubbed.
And if the boat gets suddenly jolted by a wave, you have something softer to land on than just the wall. Well.. one of you does, anyway! 😁
I was getting worried about the video. Better late than none. I liked the new intro.
I'd rather have no video.
@@tomypreach seriously? Just stop..
Athena is looking magnificent. Fair winds when you both make your crossing over the North Sea and through the English Channel. A warm welcome to you guys when you come alongside in the UK.
time to replace your companion way trim and doors :) Love seeing Athena on the water! Have a great week!
New Country Ritual is adorable
Any progress is good progress. Coms at the steering station is always ideal, glad you got it sorted out before you headed to real big water.
The U. S. Navy had "WD 40" developed for use to eliminate moisture build-up on their fleet of ships, therefore reducing RUST. It has some forty to sixty uses, depending on who you talk to. We use it for EVERYTHING! It's an aerosol can. Spray it on the port interiors and wipe off any excess, (leave the film.) It works on mirrors too. FYI, its name comes from the government contract, "Water Displacement 40." Yes, the fortieth attempt worked!"
Checking in from Boston, Massachusetts. Love following your adventures!
Good luck getting your extension Eva .
Getting close to 100k subscribers! Great series I have followed from the beginning.
Hi Nice to see you and Ava starting to enjoy your fruits of your labour over the last 5 odd years. Cheers Ian New Zealand
Hey it’s great to see you finally sailing this dang thing. Enjoy the uk and all future adventures!
I've been working on my Cal 2-46 for the past 6 years, tackling many of the same projects you two did aboard Athena. Seeing you leave the dock and make way fills me with the excitement that maybe one day I'll do the same. :) Fair winds!
Athena's looking good!! 👍👍
It still doesn't feel real to me that you're actually on the move! I love how this channel is going to transition. I know have two sailing/traveling channels I love! You and Drake (of course). Fair winds and following seas!
Good luck with Ava’s Schengen extension!
Tip for the rocking absorbers: try it with bicycle tire tubes. Fold it, one knot in the rope one end, twist the rope around the tube several times, knot at the other end, ready. Good Journey!
Wow, Ava, great taste! I love me some Malcolm Gladwell. Isn't he a fabulous narrator?
Hi Mads! So good to see you sailing again. Don't put too much effort in eating all these healthy grapes and bananas. To effectively prevent scurvy each of you would have to eat 2 kg of grapes or 1 kg of bananas daily. This means you will have to provision 8 kg of grapes if you plan to do an overnight sail. :)
So nice to see you under way!
I love the new combination of DIY and cruising. All the issues may never stop happening, that’s what cruising is like.
Hey Mads. Re all the German-only text in the museum, Google's Translate app can use your phone's camera to translate signs in real time, right on your screen. *VERY* handy!
I was so excited when you said you were headed to Vlieland. But I was gutted when you left so quickly. It's such a shame, it is *BY FAR* the best island in the world, by a huge margin. It's such a shame, I really hope you'll be going back some day...
I so appreciate the extra effort you put into maintaining your video uploads in the midst of all you have going on!
Approach to Vlieland is tricky and very narrow! Stay to the starboord side while entering (helps with the current). The most inner part of the marina gets quite shallow so check your maps where in the marina you can and cannot go. Welcome to holland :)
Phew, just managed to get my SL fix before going to bed. Welcome to the world of power yachting with auxiliary sails! I think I've gone through more "dinosaur squeezings" this year than I have the last two put together!
Just a tip on snatching mooring lines. I have used old climbing rope as a second line. This has lots of stretch and by using different lengths you can “tune” the spring. It’s cheap and you can get it in long lengths and use it as a long line as well, although it’s a bit stretchy for that.
Well well well. Look who showed up. I have been wanting for you since 8 a clock. And I have school in the morning. 😅
Ah, I believe this is the vicinity of the setting for "The Riddle of the Sands", a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers
Best part of every sunday
I think the most of us will be honored if Eva is allowed to stay longer in our Schengen area. Enjoy your journey!
Oh GLORIOUS motoring.
Good to see you out sailing. The camera placement at 15:05 was really cool.
So happy to see you guys out on the water! I have been a fan since the beginning! We moved aboard our own yaght Tecumseh V in August in Croatia. We are also playing the 90 day game down here with extensions and all that good stuff!
So good to see your adventures begin.
Very cool seeing you use all the toys you've installed!
So nice to see you sailing. Looking forward to next week.
Welkome to the Netherlands! How nice that the journey so far is going wel! Following you with interest! Keep up the good spirit!
Welcome, Mads and Eva, to the land of my ancestors. Great to see Athena underway.
The harbour near Amsterdam is Ijmuiden. Since I live in Amsterdam but am Norwegian, I can “translate” the letters of that place into something useful. The letter combo “ij” is pronounced as “ei” is Scandinavian languages, thus pronounced “æi”. The letter combo “ui” is like the Scandinavian “au” sound, thus pronounced “æu”. That means the whole word in Scandinavian phonetics is: Æimæuden.
Amazing ..
.. translation of Danish to Scandinavian in phonetics explained in English... 🐱 ...
The boat is so lovely. So pleased for you both that you are travelling well.
You are doing greta Sail Life!
Almost as much fun as following the DIY for the last few years!
If I may offer a few suggestions:
a) Slow down the talking heads, you sound more like news casters than fun loving sailors...!
b) Add more B-Roll with quiet voice over so we can actually see where you are....not only the fancy sailer clothes you are wearing
c) Add more simple B-Roll with the environnement sounds, water, sails, clouds, wind, other boats etc....!
Go safely friends!
Cheers
Well done, its great to see you both out there.
Welcome in Holland, good to have you here!
So exciting I feel like it’s been a diy adventure and now a travel adventure !
Good video! Happy to see you embarking on your journey!
Exciting times aboard Athena! On the move. The weather’s been quite hit or miss with the Atlantic gales moving in. This September has been a lot more “lively” than most. Thank the gods for Windy and Ventusky. I hope Ava will be granted the visa extension, the hop from Calais to Dover or Ramsgate is pretty sweet, but watch the AIS and the wind farms. Not sure where you’ll head to in the UK but Southampton or the Bristol areas generally have the most “pleasant” weather this time of year. Fair winds, Godspeed
Even thought not everything is completed ...... you must have been doing some stellar work there Mads..... no reports of horrid breakages like I've seen on some sailing channels on their first ventures out with a new boat.
It’s hard to believe Eva has already been in Europe for nearly three months. We felt the drudgery of waiting for her along with you Mads. The boat looks phenomenal. I hope there’s some footage of the shower build that we might see at some point. We understand you were in a time crunch before Eva arrived.
Good luck with the Schengen application. Depending on that and the wind, Ijmuiden to Harwich might be your best bet for the crossing. Unless it's dead on the nose, you should be able to do it in 24 hours. Leave late morning and do the Dutch shipping lanes in the light. You won't see a lot of shipping in the middle. Leave the N Shipwash to port and make your approach inshore of Harwich Shipping Channel in the light. You stay north of all the shipping that goes to Rotterdam or Harwich. Tide is no issue. Once you get into Harwich you have the choice of four or five marinas or anchoring.
For this season I got a couple of Poly lines Storm X mooring lines. That's mooring lines with built-in flex so I don't need the large rubber compensators. Those lines have really been great this summer and saved us a lot of disturbed sleep on windy nights. I would recommend those lines to anyone.
Just wondering how the hinge on the extra spiffy DIY frig worked out.
Hey Mads and Ava it’s so good to see that after all those years of hard work, you now are getting to enjoy being together on Athena. I wonder Mads could you perhaps in time once you have lived aboard and travelled distance on the boat perhaps make a video regarding how well all the equipment and systems upgrades/installations have worked. Are they meeting your expectations and if not what problems you might have found or perhaps built differently into the boat.
If nothing else Athena is an absolute credit to both of you given how hard you worked on it over the past 5 years. Fair winds to you as you embark on this journey together.
Hello you two,
one question from my side: why dont you have a sprayhood and a cocpit tent? that would make life much more pleasent on boadr😃
Best regards Kai
So good. Can't wait for more.
I am so happy that you two are living the dream
Stellar storytelling. That is something that really stands out. Keep it up, guys.
👍🏻 heartwarming stuff guys!
So happy for your video uploads. Y’all look fantastic! Keep smiling and be safe!
Wow, what a difference to see you out at sea, finally! Let the adventures really begin, many congrats, Athena looks like a sturdy sailor, fair winds.
It's so awesome to see you guys transition into cruisers.
‘Cute bunny infestation’…..something I expect only you to say 😂 thank you for your vid’s, I have been enjoying them
So good to see you guys underway. Take care. Looking forward to the next one!👍
You guys are wonderful. My favourite sailing channel. Thanks!!
Welkom in my home country 😊😊
i hope you have a pleasant stay here 😊
I like the dark footage from early morning leaving the marina, although grainy it gives a sense of the atmosphere and conditions you were in.
So good to see you on the move. When you need to motor into a headwind, you might try letting out some of the jib and motor sailing. It gives you some more speed and smooths out the ride. I also do this when motoring into very strong headwinds, letting out maybe 6'-8' of the fib and sheeting it tight (almost to centerline) then falling off just far enough to fill it. It gives the extra power needed to punch through the waves instead of riding up and over them.
Thanks for the video. So happy to see you guys out sailing. Fingers crossed for Eva.
Great video, will be glad when you guys can slow down and start enjoying the ports you pull into. Good luck on the extension. See you next week
Too bad you couldn’t enjoy Vlieland…I really checked the timing on the video to see “wait, did i miss it?!?” 😆 it’s my favourite island in the Netherlands: nature is a true gem and the food is great too! Looking forward to seeing more of your stories and who knows, perhaps you can get scurvy when you cross the Atlantic ;)
Keep up the great work. I never thought you would be sailing that boat this soon. You seem very happy now.
Wonderful video, guys! So impressed that you are uploading so consistently! Love to hear about the details of the places you're stopping.
Depending on the gap in your head door frame, you might be able to put a few layers of tape about where the latch striker plate will go and the friction from this tape "wedge" might just keep it closed.
Another day another project, this boat will have foils by the time you guys stop cruising
And that would look pretty daaang spiffy 😂❤️🤘🏻
Good to see you guys. I was worried I was going to miss an episode.
Cheers,
Jay 😃
Safe travels and blessings!
Good to see you both again. It has been fun to follow your progress on Marine Traffic. Ran ll is a little ahead of you.
Blessings to you both! Take care on your leg to the U.K.
Cheers to both of you! So happy to see you actually sailing :) I wasn't able to put our boat in the water this year so it's great to see you on the go! Bryan
Really nice video Mads and Ava.
A lot of sailors coming in from Netherlands, Germany etc seem to make for Ramsgate. I think the marina and town is a bit nicer than Dover, which is the next port one along. Plus the entrance to Dover can be a bit hairy and you have to be on the radio to port control all the time because of the ferry traffic.
Plus, last time I was in Ramsgate, there was another Warrior 38 - so Athena could possibly meet up with a friend.
Good luck with the visa.
So happy to to see you are on your way & doing well. You two are so good together. Love Ava’ s smile. Better than crossing my fingers I am lifting your request for an extension up in prayer. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Lynda and I love your "new country ritual"! You guys are entirely too cute. We hope to see you out on the hook some day.
Thanks for the Shirley Jackson recommendation! I’ve enjoyed several of her short stories and The Haunting of Hill House. I’m downloading it now.
Happy sailing. Stay healthy.
Great video guys, stay safe
Mads - It's great to finally see you on the water! Quick suggestion for dock line shock absorbers. Use double lines where one is small - like 1/4" - all three strand. Keep the smaller one a little tighter. The small line will take lots of shock and the larger will be the backup. I've done this for years and it works well. I see boats all the time with the rubber thingies broken. The springs like they use on RAN Sailing might be good but are probably a little pricy and a pain to store. Have Fun!!! Ron
That is really clever. I like stretchy nylon but worry about the breaking strain of lighter line. Great idea to back it up. Also, another idea is to try and get the load on the springs rather than the bow or stern lines as much as possible. Tight springs rather than tight bow and stern lines.
Such a pleasure to follow your videos... and good to see you've made it this far. Crossing fingers for good sailing weather so you can get to the UK safely and in due time.
Good to "see you" both again real trials and tribulations of sailing - great too watch. Good luck with getting to non Shengen UK
Welcome in Holland. Hope your stay will be great. For sure hope the visa issue can be resolved and you can have more time seeing our country.
When there is some swell when moored you can use longer mooringlines with a bit of extra slack. The length and weigtht will help.
LOL... I was yelling "Put the plug inside the cubby!" when you said you changed your location. One suggestion is to put the GHS in a Zip Loc baggie when not in use to keep it out of the weather. An hinged plexi door that is held closed with magnets with a slot for the GHS cable perhaps? So glad to see you "O Glorious Sailing" rather than "O Glorious Sanding." What a great series of shakedown cruises to get Athena ready for bluewater trips.
Glad and relieved to see 👀 a video 📹 today. I admit i was a bit worried. But thanks for this week's video 📹.
I can't wait tell you have finished most if not all your boat projects and give us a tour. Ok untell next week, Aloha from the Big Island 🏝 of Hawaii 🏝