Passage to Panama in a Nordhavn 56 - Ep. 21
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- fter taking possession of the new to us Nordhavn 56 Motorsailer and getting her all ready to go, we leave the dock in Florida and head south toward the Panama Canal. Our plan was do go from Tampa Florida to Colon Panama, a distance of roughly 1200 nautical miles in one long passage - weather allowing.
We did make it all on once passage and try to share the experience in this video.
The strangest thing that happened on this passage is that we got boarded by people that were likely Nicaraguan military, although they did not behave at all as if they had professional military training. They would not let us take down our sails, rammed into the side of our boat several times, and shook us down for “gifts” before finally leaving. They were basically thugs with uniforms - some might even say pirates. We managed to capture on video the incredibly crazy maneuvers of the boat operator and the boarding party when they finally left.
There are images of killing fish so for anyone who doesn’t want to see it - please skip ahead. Sections as follows:
Fishing 4:04
Nicaragua Military Boarding 7:01
Sailing 10:05
Boat Problems 12:13
Boat Life 14:47
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Some day I will have a Nordhaven 56MS and it sure is a treat to have you sharing this with us....Can’t wait ⛵️
Glad you and the crew came out unscathed from the unnerving boarding with nothing but a memory/war story of your adventure.
Coleen West in the beginning of the video it was explained that Cassidy did not go with them.
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Hi I know this is an old video but I thought you might be interested I have a Robert BB passagemaker 56 made of timber. This is what the Nordhavn 57 was based on. I love you boat and enjoy watching your videos. I'm currently cruising south east Asia hope to see you on the ocean someday.
Really glad to see how you put the caught fish out of its misery!
It is not unusual to have pirates in Nicaragua, just recently there was an incident that pirates boarded a sail boat. We had an experience with our Nordhavn 40 also along the coast in Nicaragua a few years ago, boats that circled around our boat at about 5 or 6 pm it was almost dark and it was unpleasant, we locked our doors etc. and after a while they left. But at times you can expect a situation like that to happen. Enjoy your trip, after that never had a problem again.
Ran a power boat down to the Canal about a month ago, was intercepted in about the same location, fired some warning shots at them, and they hauled ass....they were NOT officials...
If I'm running a sailboat, I usually run through The Bahamas, then go between Cuba and The DR, much better wind direction.... Now that you have a sailboat...think best wind direction, not rhumb line, unless you need to get there... Fair Winds!!!
Chris Agree Its a dangerous world out there on high Sea’s, once you leave G7 nations safety ect. Its a US flagged ship,recommend he has Springfield AR-15 auto rifle + 2 Hand Gun on-board etc, locked in captains locker for emergencies ! with 2 keys required to unlock ( Captain and Firstmate / Wife when on-board ) or second key Captain does not have on trigger locks ( or vise versa )! ( shark on fishing line etc, not always Human issues. ). The ship is US soil or as you choose based on registry, I ... Read now many countries not allowed to have even registered guns onboard? If in their waters, but bottom line is Ship is US registry so onboard US laws, no mater where she sails, hope that is still the case if International Law expert can advise, thanks. czcams.com/video/Tg_G5llE5Bo/video.html. also can’t get deported even without valid passport if you stay on The Boat ! US soil any panama officer etc, no jurisdiction, also question for Lawyer :)
Dude, are you for real)) hahaha)) what weapons do you carry on your boat)) Water gun))
@@ICA509 Some boats do carry rifles, it's a pretty good item to have, especially if you're in dangerous waters.
@@squishyflop5046 it's obvious, that some carry guns, especially from North America. Don't think I'm against guns)) I'm myself kinda a gun persone. But it's not the smartest idea to have firearms onboard, especially if you go to Europe, I already explained why. It's not just that I made up)) I've heard it from sailors. Anyway, all the best
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P.S. And the guy that left a comment before you, something like: "...I fired the warning shots..." I'm sure you're pretty smart individual to realise that's BS))
Well that was a little more exciting than watching you replace zincs in a drysuit.
Good job ,I would like to have been on that trip, you guys made it look fun
Great video.
Nice job with the boarding, good thing you had a crew, or things might not have gone so well. Good area to avoid in the future with so much instability around the region.
Looks like y'all had fun for most of the trip with good fishing. No cleaning table attached to the rails?
Fair winds, be safe out there.
Great job...Thanks for sharing...
Excellent video, thanks.
This 56MS is a fascinating vessel. Could you do a "systems" walkaround, like the stuffing box, that variable propeller, motor, oil change system, fuel filters, changing over fuel tank, water maker, stuff like that. Your videos are amazing and the first of their kind. GREAT JOB!
awesome trip ,Looks like you guys had a Blast
I have to say I really love everybody's positive attitude. No matter what happened nobody let it ruin the trip. You guys adapted and overcame anyting the boat or mother nature thrown at you. I look forward to seeing your video of you going through the canal. I'm hoping next year to finally make that trip myself.
At the end of the video did they bring you your fuel? Or is that just their version of a gas station on the water.
Look forward to watching your next adventure.
PS did you fix your air conditioning? The reason I'm asking is that normally no air conditioners drain to the pan except when there's an issue with their main drain hose that comes directly out of the compressor. I'm not sure what system you have but I do know on all of my boats and RVs that's how it works just like the one in your house. What you are doing is perfect as long as you keep it clear. I know it's a pain in the butt but it's better than sweating and dealing with humidity every morning when you wake up. Again good luck to you.
+david frank - we came in to Panama in the dark at night aonwe goes up to the fuel dock in Shalter Bay marina m til the next morning. Figured we’d fill up the tanks while we were there. Instead of land based tanks line we are used to seeing in the US they have fuel in a big metal boat.
We have reconfigured the AC drain so that it can drain from the pan while heeled and not overflow but it’s still kind of a work in progress. Fishing the hose is not exactly easy.
You will likely discover more about this boat/systems when heeling over for prolonged periods or back and forth. The DELOS video from last week showed an engine cooling pump failure r/t an airlock forming while heeling.
Stay Safe! And Love to Cassidy. "Just burnin Diesel" . Headed to the mountains in north Georgia in the next month for 3 or more months thereafter to find a forever home.
Just bought a home in Blue Ridge, GA. It’s a great location!
Most Marine AC units will shut down with high heat cut outs from air in the Sea chest Strainer etc. You did enjoy Sailing though? Could reduce Main and get same speed but more comfort!
Great video 👏
Go Grand DAD! Safe journeys out there...
Very interesting, thanks for posting!! =]
You guys made really good time.
Pretty disgusting that you were harassed and shaken down near Honduras....sad.
And my god what a fabulous boat!
I liked the sailing part. Saves a ton of money. How are you liking sailing and the cost savings?
I am looking so forward to seeing how much you like this boat and how much you use the sails or engines. There is a lot of lean, are you used to that and will the family be good with that? Thank you for sharing this with us.
billy allen - we were healed over a kid for the passage as we were on a bad point of sail for days on end and trying to maximize assist from the sails with the wind forward of the beam. Hoping that it’s not a common thing.
There are some differences between the boats for sure and we will continue to get more performance data from this boat. So far though we really line her.
You mean, heel? ;)
You can tell they are government employees. When people think navy they see a USA NAVY sailor in there minds. Countries like that don’t have $ they’ll use the same boat they took from a guy last week.
The people are poor they get a gun a uniform and that’s about it. Sucks but that’s what they have to work with. I was happy to see your wife and dotter did not go. What do you use for protection when you have the family on with you? Awesome videos🤟🏾 stay safe out there and keep living the dream 🤟🏾
Aaaahaaa - that lean though! I have to say I loved you guys on your last boat but there's just that little something more about seeing you healed over! Wacky stuff, those guys boarding you.
Such a beautiful boat! I was surprised at how much she healed over and created some issues with your ac drainage. There are no stabilizers on her? The boarding by those "army" fellows looked pretty sketchy and must have put your crew alert while they were aboard. So many crazy countries out there that you just cannot be too careful. Was Cassidy with you on this leg? Didn't see her in any of the shots.
She was not aboard.
Edward Gant - we were sailing on the same tack for days but the AC drainage issue is a design flaw and would have happened in 5 minutes heeled over.
No fin stabilizers - the sails are the stabilizers on this boat!
Great video. How do you think the fuel burn compares with a Nordhavn 50?
+David Harris - I imagine not much different. The 56 is a heavier boat but without stabilizers there is less drag. We don’t really have enough data in varying conditions to comment intelligently yet though.
Trebadation in voice or excitement? Maybe both I would be water tight doors blue water enjoy! Probably good four young guys in Nicaragua? Could have been different
Did you notify US Coast Guard or anything like that. Bet that was super unpleasant having them board...glad you had the extra crew. Awesome video 📹!
Indeed. When it first became apparent that there was no way to keep them from boarding I grabbed an epirb from our ditch bag and had it ready to manually light off. I also sent Jen a note with our satellite communicator to call the coast guard if she didn't hear from us in an hour - and they took longer than that so she called the coast guyard and they said that they are taking the incident seriously.
One frustrating thing - is these bandits were very proud of the fact that the "Estados Unidos" donated their 38 foot Boston Whaler with 3 outboards. Doesn't make me too happy that the US government is providing tools to foreign governments to harass US citizens abroad.
@@CassidysSailingTrawler The insignia says they were navy. Where you 12 miles off Nicaragua?
@@CassidysSailingTrawler Glad you are all safe. Upsetting to say the least that all happened. Well safe travels! Can't wait to see more.
We were over 60 miles off the mainland. There are a lot of islands in that area so. It sure if that extends their jurisdiction out to where we were transiting.
Rifles, no life jackets, banged up rub rails.....that's what happens when you send the Army to sea.
Yeah, In the Ocean isn't the same as on the ground))
9:36 They aren’t Navy they are Drug Interdiction
Curious do you all put your fuel through a filter? From what I understand most do when not getting fuel in big countries for a reason. : ) peace
That’s some scary stuff 🥵. Miss the 40’ ?
Not getting notifications FYI. Nicaraguan boat courtesy of Homeland security
George Mulligan - that’s what it appears. They were very happy to tell us the boat was donated by “Eatados Unidos”. Doesn’t make me happy that we are giving questionable 3rd world dictatorships tools to harass US citizens abroad.
Miracle those guys are alive if that's how they board.
Gosh... when I watched this video on its release I was thinking you guys had a scary experience... That point was brought close to home in the last couple of days with a news item here in my country of New Zealand about a NZ chap being killed in Panama. (www.stuff.co.nz/national/112462012/pirates-kill-new-zealand-man-leave-woman-and-child-injured-in-panama). The article is headlined as "pirates" but when you read it, the actual event was really an armed robbery as it occurred on a boat moored in a Marina... I timely reminder to be very vigilant in this part of the world!
+Heath Wells - we’ve been following that story. Absolutely tragic and such a waste of human life. People with nothing to lose are some of the scariest and most dangerous people in the world.
How have you taking to healing and the different motion of a sailboat.....
Sailing Vessel Freedom - the extreme heel is not fun. Hoping that we spend more time on more pleasant points of sail when we are not tied to a schedule.
The motion of this boat in a head sea is so much more pleasant and soft than our Nordhavn 40. I attribute a lot of that to the extra waterline length and displacement but we didn’t experience any of the pounding that we used to get in the 40 with only 35 feet of waterline.
Why didn't you just leave the condensate drain open? I love your sign-off person, very unique.
Richard Bedard - we did leave it open most of the time - really just rigged the valve in the end of the hose so we could get an idea of the volume of water condensing.
1.8mpg? Doesn't that equal a trawler at trawler-speed?
+S Newland - we had current and wind against us the whole time so that must have had a lot to do with it. I’m optimistic that the economy is better in most other conditions. Plus we were running the generator 24:7.
So far on the pacific side is the canal we are seeing fuel burn under 2gph at 8 knots pure motoring so way better than what we were seeing on the passage from Florida.
@@CassidysSailingTrawler, thanks for the reply. This is going to be a great case study of sail vs trawler costs. Thanks for sharing now and in the future. Fair winds!
Look minute 4:21 its Wood or only reflector in the water
Good question - that is a big floating patch of sea grass. We were constantly clearing that stuff out of the jigs that we were trolling behind the boat to catch fish on this passage.
@@CassidysSailingTrawler Ohh thanks 😊😊😊👍👍👍
What is the average fuel consumption per hour? I mean in general. Thanks
All over the place. Depends on our speed and how much the sails are helping. Sometimes as low as 1 gallon per hour. Sometimes as high as 6.
What's the plan folks?
We need the ongoing updates as its too hard to go back and find out
Ed Smith - Point taken. We will keep posting updates in each video. The current plan is to get the boat to Ensenada, Mexico for hurricane season.
@@CassidysSailingTrawler Best wishes mate! Hope you can arrive at Hervey Bay one day and tour the Great Barrier Reef
That lean angle while underway....wau
Isn't it extremely uncomfortable ?
It can be. That is a reason some people buy multi hull vessels like a catamaran.
Also this boat doesn't have a traditional sail boats keel and they had the sails all the way out. Reefing the sails some would reduce the listing.
Open. The windows your. At sea
Originally I was interested in a fishing yacht but then I decided I didn't want to be limited where I could take the boat and straight motor yacht seemed a bit impractical for me but I'm not much of a sailor; does anyone know if someone makes a Motor Sailor that's rigged for fishing?
Gil Harrison - you probably won't find anything rigged specifically for fishing without a custom boat, but this boat is surprisingly fishable. The cockpit is large and we can easily troll with 5 rods. The only downside is the tubing the ties the back stay into the rear corners of the boat get in the way while fighting fish but we have learned to manage with it.
How does that radar work with the dighny in front of. It
Bayard Taylor the radar punches right through the dinghy. It doesn’t affect it at all.
I spent 34 years in the service, 19 years as a federal agent.
We once had some of the Somalia pirates in our custody and they were mean.
In your video, the guy in the Army fatigues seemed to know how to off-board and board a boat, but the the guy in blue, unless he was a Navy boot recruit, he was a land lubber.
+dgeorge852 - these guys were complete buffoons. I got the impression that someone went into a village and handed out some uniforms, rusty rifles,keys to a go-fast boat and said “you guys are now the military”.
The guy with the gun had zero situational awareness. He was often not protecting his weapon, put himself inside our cabin alone with the door closed where we could have easily overpowered him, etc.
Then the seamanship skills - non existent. Their rub rail on the whaler was hanging loose at the bow as if their normal protocol is to ram boats hard like they did us. We saw them siphoning gasoline from a 50 gallon drum by sucking on a hose. It would have all been comical if we were watching from afar and it wasn’t our boat.
@@CassidysSailingTrawler .
So glad your daughter wasn't on board.
Also glad they let you leave.
Did they "confiscate" anything?
Like a fuel transfer hand pump? LOL
@@CassidysSailingTrawler Be ready for allot more of that rest of your Trip, Especially in Mexico etc, lot of 'Hate" out there for "Trump USA" and your ship small crew easy target for some harassment / international payback attempts !? At least your Hull painted " Democrat Blue" and registered to Blue State :) Would do no better flying under Canadian Flag or other these days, so much isolationism / protectionism, World is acting like its 1914 all over again !
@@Bobo56Bear so your hull color and port of registry buys you safety due to the blue and red political colors of the US? You really believe that? That's the funniest thing I've heard today. But I haven't turned on CNN yet today..
Cassidy's Sailing Trawler so what did it cost you to get rid of them?
Respect the country's you visit, I am going to send this video to the Mexican Marines sow the next time your in Mexico they give you a really fucking good Time. Copy link
Juan Pablo Hernandez - we have nothing but respect for the countries that we travel through.
These guys that boarded our boat while wearing military costumes and carrying rifles were criminals and not only damaged our boat but stole property from us.
Why? Buy a motorsailor . Good luck hope you got a really good deal
Catamaran next.
I was interested until the vessel problems were air conditioning.
Question : what speeds did you reach? I hear the M/S can keep 12-14 knots
12-14 knots is probably a stretch. We still haven’t had winds for a real test of max speed sailing or motor sailing despite putting almost 5000 nautical miles under her keep so far. She will motor over 10 knots but that’s burning a lot of fuel.
Hi Dougal, I just sent you an email. Hope all is well. Paul
*you have better boat than Nicaragua! Now you pay!*
Unfortunately that may be true. Although they made a point to tell us that the “Estados Unidos” donated the go fast boat. Makes me feel great that my government is donating tools for use by 3rd world dictatorships to harass people on the high seas.
You make it seem like your daughter is there...is she?
ADVMotoLife - not on this specific passage but she rode through the canal with us and was along for most of the passages on the Pacific side of Central America and Mexico
seemed like your bald bearded friend was taunting the coastguards. Not a good idea, may be inadvertent, but i see that kind of behavior when i travel from some white Americans.
Johnny C - It was more like trying to bring some humor to a bad situation. We wanted to try to connect with them as humans to minimize the amount of damage they would do or stuff they would steal or worse. And we wanted to get them off of our boat as fast as possible.
Yes best to say little as possible in situations like that, especially when there is a language barrier !? ... captain very focused on requests from officers, rest of the crew mouse quite, unless asked question from Captain !?
When it's loud around you, place the camera close to you.
How can that happen to a crew of four/five big and fit americans who probably can handle guns much better than those nicaraguan mdfkrs. Don´t u guys travel with guns?
While tempting, international cruising with ANY guns on-board is dubious at-best, illegal in many ports including many US ports.
@@t.bunker2511 okkk i didnt know. thx for the answer. have a good one
Boarded by some dudes no big deal.
Disappointed in Nor haven quality after seeing this video.
Wayne McPhail - no boats are perfect. The air conditioning thing was definitely a design or manufacturing oversight but it’s a small thing and relatively easily addressed. Overall the quality of this boat is better than almost any production boat.
@@CassidysSailingTrawler What about the vacuum issue while heeled over? does that seem to be something that will be a recurring issue?
The camera lighting. Was horrible
Sorry guys but I get headache from your camerawork. 2-3 sec shaky scene followed by another 2-3 sec shaky scene...followed by another... You seem to like short shaky scenes ))) Buy a gimbal or mount the camera somewhere. Look how other sailors film and learn. I have always wondered how life on a motorsailer would be since nobody have....and now you have one. Why not try to catch the feeling how it is to live onboard. Longer scenes of everyday life-steady and slow camerawork. Dolphines we have seen everywhere.....not interesting. Nice boat you have in general ))
Hannu K - we actually do have gimbaled camera rigs and shoot with those more often than the straight handheld cameras. Definitely appreciate the feedback but I would also say it’s rare that I see much of the sailing videos out there stabilized.