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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- A spell of light winds and pleasant weather obliges me to break out the sextant for a few sun LOP's. I also talk about my new Garmin inReach-mini, which I now use for obtaining offshore weather. For more information on celestial navigation, see my two previous videos:
Celestial nav part 1: • And a star to steer he...
Celestial nav part 2: • And a star to steer he...
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MUSIC: LaDiDa Land-- Kevin Boothby
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Kevin well done pal the sextant will always get you home your a rock&roll sailor
enjoy your adventures and greetings from the old country Ireland
Slainte
I’ve been watching your videos and it helped me decide to head back to my house in the Key’s, stock and load my boat up and set off. I just left my house in So Cal and I’m on my way to Lower sugarloaf key with the goal of setting off ASAP and being on my sunreef for the next two or so months.
If you ever need a place to dock in the keys you’re welcome to use my property.
Thanks mate, good to hear that you will be outbound soon!
You are just one hellava cool guy. Love your channel and lifestyle. Keep 'em coming ...
Whaling on a Strat in the middle of the deep blue sea just me and my guitar as I navigate by the stars on my way to the Keys to do as I please.....
Ya mon ..
Kevin you are the best sailing channel going! Would love to see you playing the intro to that song.
That's the toughest part of the song, believe it or not ...
@@howtosailoceans1423 Yes Sir, I kinda figured that.
Kevin i went to look at my frozen sailboat and then your video popped up. No need to say anything else. Loved the drone shots and the sat info cheers mate.
Stay warm up there George. If' it's any consolation, we're about to get several days of howling winds down here in the Keys ...
@@howtosailoceans1423 xaxaxaxa i will take that anyday tonight -19 Celsius brrrr take care care.
A bit of everything, best video to date! Keep em coming!
Thanks for stopping by, Jennifer.
She sure looks nice under full sail , a beautiful boat to be sure. Carry on skipper !!!
Kevin: You get my Sailor of the Year award. So patient with what the Atlantic has thrown at you this ugly November season and yet your journey to the Keys is within your control and skills. in You are an inspiration for every sailor young or old that perseverance is a virtue! All The Best, God BlessYou with smooth following seas.
Wow, do you take mentorship? But Seriously, you are the coolest, honest and the most skilled sailor on youtube. I see myself enjoying the same freedom in a few years. Cheers!!!
Another informative video. Thanks for sharing your experience with the Inreach. Good to know.
Can't go wrong with AC/DC.
You are doing great kid!
Great video, good information to boot. Rock on !
Magical shots at the end! Absolutely in love ...
Cool to see other people sailing by the stars!
The sun tells you where you are and the stars tell you where you are going :)
I am a celestial navigator, and I have no idea what that means. There’s no difference between the sun and the stars in terms of telling your location, unless you might mean a noon sight???
BobbieGWhiz I do a noon site to find my position, and at night I don’t look at the compass because I look at the stars instead. I keep Polaris at the same position relative to the boat and I know I’m on course.
Great job Kevin......all traps and boats ashore here.....stay safe....Stott
As allways it is with delight to see this Channel .... i miss all the Sun You have in your part of the World....here it is rain and 5 degrees 😏
Greetings Kevin, from 44 degrees 35' 30" North, 67 degrees 51' 45" West! Thanks for the update - I've been contemplating the purchase of a Garmin In-Reach Mini, and I hope you'll give us an update later on, once you've had a chance to use it for a longer period of time. I have to replace my sextant as well - all I had was a cheap plastic one and it was trashed while in storage when we moved to Maine (although it worked reasonably well prior to that). I only learned to take sun sights and figure noon position - never got into star sights. I'm a bit envious of you at the moment. I wish I was heading to the Keys too - just started snowing a couple of hours ago. Looking forward to your next video! Have a very Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, mate!
Getting a noon site just one mile off is terrific! Very good job.
As to weather, I now have an Iridium Go with Predict Wind Offshore and it works great but is not inexpensive, $700 for the unit and $52 to $110 per month depending on how much data one wants. Of course another alternative is an SSB with SailMail to get GRIB Charts. There the initial cost is even more but the operating cost is quite a bit less at $275 per year. There are lots of options now depending on ones needs and budget.
Thanks Ron, yes I had looked at Iridium and decided that it is rather pricey for me. Also, you can go month-by-month with InReach, suspend service when you are not using it, which can save quite a bit. I only saw minimum of one-year contracts with Predict Wind.
Thank you, Kevin. A good video and very informative as always.
Congrats Kevin !
Jamin at sea...great tune..fair winds
Ahhh. ..acca dacca 👍
Neptune smiled my friend..all the best mate...
At least your guitar will not tell you I'm tired and don't want to play now. 8-) Good on you keeping up with your sextant. It's good to know you have it to fall back on if you have too, and your skills are sharp enough to trust.
Congrats on 10K!
Congratulations on your 10 k subscriber mark. It's definitely well deserved. Merry Christmas Kevin
That was the perfect outro with the smooth jazz guitar and golden sunset. Happy 10K.
Nice guitar playing my friend
Thanks, Kevin...
⛵️ thank you ⛵️
Super! Merry Christmas my friend!
Hello nice video looking for the next. Merry Christmas saludos
Thanks for the great how to sail videos, I would like to see one on how to find a good anchorage I've seen how you set anchor but not really what you do to find a new spot!
Always a pleasure! thumbed
U da best!
Aye m8, Man talking about contrasts - that adrenaline chords and melody compared to slapping main boom.
Nice tunes 🎶 That celestial calculator - must be somewhere to find a spreadsheet for the same stuff?
I know there are App's working more or less correct, but an ordinary spreadsheet calculation would be as good.
Rockin' in the Free World!
Thanks for the great entertainment !!
Thanks for stopping by, Beth.
Great video as always and Im sure Ritchie Blackmore would approve of the guitar look. Hey maybe you could do a whole video on your recording set up and amp for some of us music guys, and gals? Stay safe out there man see ya.
I did a vid on recording music some time ago, but perhaps it needs an update since so much has changed since then!
Welcome to reality of ocean sailing, I was beginning to think I was the only one in that situation on passages.
Malcolm Young would get a kick out of it!
💪😎👍🎸❤️
🎶“Thunderstruck” kinda day🤣🎵
Thunder struck!
that was am
azing . came aboard for a bit . daydreams given rigging :)
Rock out with your sail out
n/⛵
W O W . . . An Old TANDY hand computer 😱😳🤭🤔. 7:10
I Han one something like that back in 1987... it was to Advanced for me even back then
I had to have someone smarter than me to program it with a Weight & Ballance program for the
B-727 we were flying for UPS back before they were allowed to operate their own planes ✈️... they wanted it
Done in 3 minutes or less🤭😤👎. Over in the EMERY system it didn’t mater... UPS. Natzys
THUNDERSTRUCK \m/
Do you let the sails “slat” like that for all the time with no wind? Isn’t that rough on the sail cloth?
You could take them down, but then the boat would roll gunwale to gunwale. Tying a reef in the main helps reduce the slatting, but there's not much you can do beyond that.
Slowly catching up on your channel after discovering it a couple weeks ago. Very enjoyable! I notice that you don’t have a bimini. Apologies if you have already addressed this in a video - but what do you do to keep from being crisped?
@@guinneach Hide out below, most of the time. There's also sunscreen.
Hope you are in safe harbor by Christmas.
I am on a mooring now, though now without some recent adventures ...Merry Christmas, Dana.
@@howtosailoceans1423 - Merry Christmas, and we look forward to hearing more of your adventures.
I enjoy your channel. One day can you briefly describe your rigging?
How accurate have you found the weather from the inreach to be?
I found them to be good on wind direction but horribly off on wind speed!
Better with PredictWind using the PWE or ECMWF models, but it depends on your location -- and it will cost you.
I do miss the ships bell sounding , would be a nice "intro "
I hope you're not actually consuming those corn flakes! We'd like to see you be an old sailor.
I miss sextamt
Friggin' marvelous. Does that calculator perform the function of sight reduction tables? I bought a Davis "training" sextant. I want to learn how to use it.
Yes, though I'm not sure that they make them anymore. I think you can still get a Merlin, which is the same thing. Yes, you need only enter in shot time, sextant alt, assumed position, course, speed and whatever body you are shooting and the calculator does the rest.
I bought an amp for my bass with an eye to being a liveabord. Judging by this video I chose wisely. :D
how do you maintain low carb on boat without refrigeration.?.....my boat food was heavily pasta and rice based
I have an Isotherm cold plate in my icebox..
Love the channel. I’m wondering if you’ve ever run an asymmetrical, or gennaker on light days. Reasons not to?
Been thinking of purchasing just such a thing, but then I just say well, she does fine under working canvas most of the time, so ...
I notice that you don't clip in to a harness and jackline, and I didn't see you wearing the Inreach. Don't you worry about falling off? Especially since you're solo? The Inreach is small and waterproof. We keep ours inside our inflatable lifejackets, which we wear all the time when out of the cabin. That way, if one of us falls off and was not clipped in for some odd reason, the MOB can send his current GPS location to the Inreach of the person on the boat. That person can then plug the MOB GPS position into the chartplotter, and go back and retrieve the MOB.
We are not all created equally, nor do we develop skills equally. Kevin is obviously comfortable with his routines, has perfect proprioception (don't know what that means? look it up!) and can handle himself properly while on deck, and everywhere else on his ship. It's likely that most 'sailors' don't spend most every minute of their lives on board as he does. Try not to push your devout safety-sally attitude onto those who actually live. Else people may mistake you for a landlubber.
I had to look up proprioception! Sometimes I do wear a harness, especially out on the bowsprit, but so many times the clipping and un-clipping is to too much of a nuisance. I hadn't thought to wear the inReach, that is a good idea, eventhough it's probably still true that by the time any Search and Rescue reached me I would be already drowned.
@@howtosailoceans1423 A couple of thoughts:
(1) If you are wearing long pants, you can tie the cuffs in a knot or carry two zipties in a pocket, put the pants over you head, and slam them forward into the water. This will create pockets of air in each of the pants legs, and will usually keep you afloat for several minutes. Then just repeat the procedure. I learned this back in my life guard training. They made us do this successfully in the pool. Not sure it would be doable in rough seas.
(2) I've seen these small, inconspicuous belt life preservers. I think it was at West Marine? Amazon? They're not Coast Guard approved but they will keep you afloat long enough for the Garmin Inreach service to get someone to you...unless it's cold or rough seas in which case, sorry, game over.
What no crosstree, or Davis quadrant,diff could be sidereal time, perhaps the dolphins would like Dolphins Cry Live
Sadly no, but the sunsets are still there ...
Greetings Shipmate! Have you tried weather fax from SW broadcasts? Free software like fldigi works better the further out at sea you go, away from rf noise.
No, but I've heard that you can actually hold an audio interpreter up to SW computer broadcasts and it will interpret it into a weather forecast for you. Sounds amazing, I'm going to check out fldigi. Thanks for the tip.
Link your earphone socket to the mic input on a laptop with a 3.5mm male to male lead. Then you don’t have to listen to the fax screech!
Broadcast frequencies and times
Tune 2 kHz down from those listed when on USB
www.nws.noaa.gov/os/marine/rfax.pdf
Ahh, AC/DC and Thunderstruck 👏👏
Play some TNT for your Norwegian subscribers next time.
Fair winds ,,,/),,,,
I like the idea of your video but at the beginning the flapping of the sail was distracting and annoying. The cell phone video was not good enough to see what you were doing. I am a new viewer and I am only saying this to help you improve not to criticize. I think your channel has a lot of potential but could use more attention to how your viewer see your videos. I will keep watching. Maybe showing how you use the sexton would be nice too. The sunset was great!
marc he has a video dedicated to how to use the sextant.
Tuesday November 26, 2017? Lol
Did I say that? Ooops.
I really admire you sailing that nice boat without a motor. I always look forward to a new video. Thanks to
I get it that you are adding real conditions to your video but holy cow after 1:53 of hearing that banging and slating of sails I couldnt watch the rest of the video. take em down next time !
Congrats on 10K!
Thanks Bill, and thanks for following the channel!