ep61 - Sailing St. Maarten - Sailing St. Martin - Hallberg-Rassy 54 Cloudy Bay - Jan-Feb 2019
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- Sailing to the joint Dutch-French island of St. Maarten (St. Martin) where we stayed for 1 month, doing maintenance, attending a multihull regatta, exploring and trying kite-foiling.
After our short stay in St. Barts, s/v Cloudy Bay (Hallberg-Rassy 54) set sail to St. Maarten. First anchoring in Simpson Bay then moving into the inner lagoon for perfect shelter, easy access to shore and all the marine services that St. Maarten is famous for. While Oana took a 3-week break and flew back home to visit family, Glen did a lot of maintenance, including fixing the vang and gooseneck at FKG Rigging, having the fridges vacuumed, canvas work, adding stowage to the bilge and lots more. In between jobs there was some exciting racing on a 60ft Rapido trimaran in the St. Maarten multihull regatta. Later, taking Cloudy for a test sail, we passed several famous super yachts: The A, Obramavich’s Eclipse, David Getta’s Rising Sun and Steve Jobs’ Venus. Cloudy Bay was then re-anchored on the French side of the island in Marigot Bay. On Oana’s return we toured the island in our usual fashion, but in general found it very run down and uninspiring, especially the French side, which still looked like the hurricane hit it just yesterday. Finally, before we departed, we took the ferry over to the island of Saba … but that’s another video. 28 January - 26 February 2019
Been following your videos chronologically from about ep40. Followed you from Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, Long Island, New York, Delaware, Cheasapeake, Charleston and Savannah…Bermuda and round the Caribbean Islands to St Maarten and Saba.
They are a perfect guide for anyone following that has aspirations to follow. I am in awe of the quality of your presentations. They are simply beautiful. If you could bundle them as a package and sell them I feel that you could make a little money. You as a couple are delightful and great fun! Hat’s off to you both for living the life of your dreams. Inspirational! 🌹
Thank you!....just what I needed!....Cloudy Bay!
Thanks Luke ... more new ones to come, each Friday
Please note: This episode is from our 2019 Caribbean season, catching up from where we left off editing that year. There will be several more to come every Friday over the next few weeks, as we steadily cruise west from the Leewards to the Greater Antilles.
So happy to learn of more videos published weekly. Love your filming and your boat.
I love recalling the blogs you posted to now see the videos. 2019 seems forever ago, yet it is not. The events of the last year or so have played tricks on our minds lol. Seeing these videos are balm for the soul!!
Yes, it almost feels odd, as we edit them, to see "normal" life again!
Great Video! ♥️👍
Thank you!
Thanks for maps. Super!
Glad you like them!
You have a great sense of humor. I’d love to hear what you aren’t sharing. 👍👍
That would be classified :)
Yes..I remember that Vang lactating on your deck. Memories!
Yes, it was an annoying problem for a whole season that damned vang. But we got it sorted in the end. I think actually its a design issue on the seal. Its OK under pressure, but when the boom starts bouncing in heavy seas, the vang goes from compression to tension rapidly and the seal cannot coupe with the rapid pressure cycling.
Enjoying watching your trips again on Cloudy Bay and I hope your fitting out is going well.
Back to the boat in 2 weeks Matt. Cant wait.
OMGOSH, GLEN THANK YOU.....
I WAS GOING THROUGH WITHDRAWLS FROM the deficit of good sailing and good fun!!!
Love hanging with you guys (so to speak) but good stuff non the less. I am sure cloudy is WAY faster than that bath tub trimaran....
(No offence to the trimaran guys)
But cloudy gots the look, accomadations, as well as speedy if the right Captain is at the helm! Good day, MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS!
Yes Zeke, it was a good experience. But wouldn't replace Cloudy with a big piece of carbon fibre :)
We plan to have a new vids coming every Friday now .... for as long as we've got fresh material. So take a valium after watching the latest and hopefully that will last you 6 days till the next :)
Just now finished British Virgin Islands ..... we think these are going to be our best yet. Sorry for the supense !
Truly enjoyed watching your video for the first time it is amazing when you buy a sailing vessel or motor vessel that you were always making it better than what the manufacturer is with the heat shrink and different little goodies it just funny that they don't do this great video Vegas bill
Thanks Bill, yes, while the Hallberg Rassy is a fantistic boat, well built, I do still like to improve it where I can.
"A machine gun onboard", that made me laugh.
Maybe we should set it up for Pirates!
Cant believe the devastation that still exists! Great post
Yes, and we didn't really film the worst of it (didnt want to). In the bay there were still sunken boats everywhere. And 90% of yachts still afloat had no rig. Very sad
He sails, kite surfs, does repairs, edits videos and speaks perfect English! The man can do it all! 🤹🏻♂️
Yeah, English is a pretty tough language for the average Englishman to learn! For all the other easier languages (Romanian, French, Spanish, Italian, Portugese) I have Oana :)
@@SailCloudyBay Ahhhh but which one of you can speak fluent Australian ????
@@SailCloudyBay Oana ?
@@waynefederico9396 My wife .....
@@glenpeters955 Can Fluent and Australian be in the same sentence? :)
Cheers, Cloudy.
You're welcome. We are not too happy about this and the last video ... but the next ones get better we think.
Love going back to these videos when its -35 outside and 2 ft of snow on the ground.
How did the heat shrink on the hydraulic quick connects workout?
Really well. No corrosion since. Think I’ve undone and redone them a couple of times since then.
the owner of yacht A is not Abramovich. in general, it is strange to see her in the Caribbean. I thought that the owner does not sail further than the Mediterranean.
Greetings from Russia)
Paul, sorry .. you'll have to watch it again ... and retake the test again :)
what I said was, "ahead we have The A, and over here with Mr. Abramivich competeing with Eclipse". Abramovish's eclipse was off our starboard beam.
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Rick, I presume thats a like? :)
Thanks Cloudy Bay. I'll see you next time, or next week right. ?????
Yep next week Eric .... already got a few lined up. These last 2 are not our best .... but the next few ramp up to being some of our best, we think.
Hi Oana & Glen,
Thanks for another great video, I was wondering if all the restaurants in Grand Case were able to survive the hurricane.... When I sailed past there way back in the late 90's, there were all these big huge motor yachts all anchored off and we were told the owners were all at their favorite spots enjoying the best cuisine on the island and did you two venture there to eat?
Yes, we did have a night out there. I think the restaurants rebuilt pretty quickly. But the main town and particularly the area around the south was still in a very bad shape, particularly on the French side.
Delightful to see the normal world (as we used to know it) without all the present day SARS-CoV-2 hysteria.
Yes, it almost feels odd to see as we edit these videos from 2019
Can i ask what Is the flash you hoist , with the blue ensign ?( I have looked for it , bit coyld not find ) . Sorry if i missed ; you might have told somewhere .
Angelo, yes it's quite an unusual one. It's the British ensign of Gibraltar.
Thanks for anwering !!!
Are these reruns or extra footage? When do expect to upload 2021 sailing adventures?
This, the last video and the next few video are all from filming that we had not previously edited. So its new footage, from our 2019 season. It will take us all the way back up to USA as we again escape for the hurricane season. 2021 sailing adventures will start when we start sailing in 2021 .... not before :)
What is the draft of your HR54? Thanks.
Matt, fully laiden, its 8ft or 2.5m
@@SailCloudyBay Makes it quite interesting entering and departing HHN, no?
@@portfoliofotoz Oh yes ..... its always bouncy bouncy going in and out of there!
@@SailCloudyBay You'll be glad to know they were dredging today.