OUR FIRST TIME SAILING OUR 47FT KETCH | PAGO PAGO HARBOR, AMERICAN SAMOA | SOUTH PACIFIC SAILING
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- WE ARE FINALLY TAKING OUR SAILBOAT OUT!
It was a long time coming (9 months since we bought the boat and 6 months since we moved on), but we finally felt like our 47-foot Skookum Tradewinds Ketch was ready for a sea trial.
The preparations were intense. Over the past months, we've been replacing and updated electrical systems and navigation systems, resealing leaking decks and port holes, and figuring out how to live aboard a sailboat. To get ready to take her out, we then had to transition from floating home to sea worthy sailboat. We had to make sure everything was either stored away or secured and that we were all mentally ready to take our house into the middle of the south pacific ocean.
But we did it!! With the help of our friends, Mike and Tami, we sailed our boat for the very first time! It was exhilarating and fun and a complete success.
We're so grateful to everyone who have helped us reach this point and to all of you for cheering us on along the way.
Fa'afetai Tele Lava
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00:00- Introduction
02:14- Transition from Home to Sailboat
03:15- Casting Off
03:47- Expectations
04:01- Motoring Out of Pago Pago Harbor
04:31- Our Plan
06:21- Hoisting the Main Sail
07:13- We're Sailing
09:11- Turning Around
12:04- Seasick
12:46- Heading Back Home
14:04- Dropping the Sail
15:22- Docking in Pago Pago Harbor
16:07- Tofa Soifua
OMG this is such a dream!! I'm Samoan & was born & raised in the mainland. I never lived in Samoa before but watching your videos make me want to move out there so bad!! My dream is to own a sailboat & my boyfriend has always talked about living in a boat one day. This video is giving me so many positive vibes I love every second of it. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful life with us!!
Having grown up with sailboats...just a bit of vocab: Port=Left; Starboard=Right. When you are getting ready to turn and adjust the sail to the other side of the boat, just prior call out, "Stand by to come about" so everyone is aware and don't get bonked in the head, and then as you make the move once again call out "coming about."
Your children are going to be so much better off being raised there with parents like ya'll (we live on a little farm in the South). God Bless.
Thank you for s great video. Lots of teak decking to caulk. I used black Sikaflex self leveling sealant. Clean out the old caulk. Use masking tape to cover the deck surface. Push the caulk ahead in order to press it down. Use a rubber gloved finger to press it in. Pull the tape once the caulk skins over but before it hardens. Let dry and you are done.
We’ve been systematically going through and replacing old, cracking caulk, but I’ve never heard the tip to push the caulk ahead. Great tip!
Congratulations amigos! The headsail is necessary for balance as well as control while ‘tacking’. It’s actually more difficult to sail without the headsail. The Mizzen is useful when sailing close to the wind...you always raise the sails stern to bow...so Mizzen first...with the Mizzen sheeted in the sail will act like a weather cock and keep the boat pointed toward the wind, making the raising and lowering of the mainsail easy even if the motor is off...very useful leaving anchor under sail. Don’t be afraid to raise your sails...the boat is designed for their integrated use.
Thanks for this!
Hooray!!! I was just wondering if you were feeling your boat was seaworthy yet, and low and behold, look at you! I love Kip's oh so accurate assessment of what to expect - waves and waves and waves. 😀
Haha, perfect timing! And yes, Kip was spot on- nothing but waves out there 🌊
13:06 What a spectacular scenery. With Nate in the frame, i almost can feel how proud he has come with his family. All the wonders and beautiful things the island of Samoa can offer is an spectacular experience. Im a full blood Samoan and i still haven't planted a foot in Samoa. This is definitely a bucket list to complete. Many warm wishes and blessings AmSamFam Great!! Video. I can truly tell there is so much to be proud of. AmSamFam Samoa at heart family
What a beautiful way to put it ❤️ Keep it on your bucket list. Hopefully you’ll be able to make it out here someday soon 🤞
Wish you all the best and enjoy your adventure! You should be out there often and explore and film different places. More and more people will watch and subscribe to your YT Channel!
We’re taking baby steps, but yes, that’s the goal 😊
I love my Am Sam Fam!!!!! God bless yall!!! You guys are American Samoa's gem...You bring a lot of joy and and a great sense of adventure to those who watch yall videos..Faafetai lava....Btw, i love the book ...Awesome...It was so good to finally have met you today Melinda...Yall are the reason why i go to Cheat Day...lol..I found out about Cheat Day through yall video...Please send my love to your beautiful family..
This is my second favorite video of yours (its going to take A LOT to be better than the one where Kip spits out the ceremonial drink!). I have been fortunate not to have ever lived more than 4 miles from the South Carolina coast-I was even born in an ocean view hospital-but I have never manned a sail boat. How blessed is your family to go from freezing in Idaho to LIVING on a sailboat, I am impressed and more than a little envious. Happy New Year, and because of y'all, American Samoa is now on my bucket list.
Wow!!!
Congratulations, baby steps!
That’s right 🤙
Congratulations guys! Awesome achievement to reach this point!
Thank you ❤️
Just catching your channel. Nice boat guys, she will be a great home on the sea. It would help to have some battens in the mainsail and also tie the clew of the main down to the boom with a loop of line to stop it ripping out if the wind gets up. Look forward to more from you guys. The little fella clearly is well into the boat and sailing. Andy UK
Congrats!!!!!! you can use a raspberry pi for a chart plotter or a backup for a chart plotter.
I’ve been looking into this. It’s pretty interesting!
It bad time for you guys to enjoy your boat good on you
“Anchors away!”🌊🌊🌊⛵️⚓️…I have to say, This was very exciting to watch! You know I think of the writers, Margret Mead, Thor Heyerdahl, the famous Robert Louis Stevens, artist Vincent Van Gogh… of course many other discoverers who sailed the ocean to open their eyes to all the possibilities life offers and the courageous desire to seek and appreciate… today watching your family do what you do best, travel, discover, learn all that’s out there, live, life! To feel that and then go and DO, was so exciting to watch! Thank you for sharing all of your dreams and experiences of life in Samoa with us and showing us how it can be done! A great example to our youth and inspiring for us ole fogies!😉
Beautiful to see all of you out in the open sea!
“E leai se mea e sili atu I lo lou aiga”
Thank you! It felt pretty surreal, finally being out there on our own boat after all the months of working and years of dreaming❤️ We love sharing our experiences, so we’re glad you’ve enjoyed watching them!
Awesome 👌 👏 👍
I hope you guys enjoy to
Amsamoa have fun.
Thanks 🤙
You have a nice sail boat uce 👍👊🤩
Good for you all. Super cool.
Wow congratulations🙌🤙
Thanks! 🎉
Awesome!!!!
We had many sail boats anchored in Fagasa Bay back in the days from a couple of days to more than a month. You guys should consider that once the boat is up and running. But I would wait till around summer since the water at this time of the year near the northern part of Tutuila is usually rough and choppy.
So glad y'all are living your dream
So good to see home I swear😭💛thank you & sailing look so good !! What a great moment !
Congrats on your exciting new adventures!
Happy New Year 2022!
This is awesome!!!
Congrats Happy new year. Awesome job taking your boat out. Nice and peaceful. Great videos.❤️❤️
Awesome 👏🏽 happy new year ❣️
That was amazing, hats off to Capt Kip❤
What an adventure! So exciting !
Wow, congratulations guys! This is awesome and we are excited to see where she takes you next!
Good job guys GB keep learning 👍.
Living your dream!
Congratulations guys on your 1st sailing trip! ♥️♥️♥️🍾 your children must be loving this!!!
Awesome!
Safe travels guys 🙏much love from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺🇼🇸
Gotta start somewhere and you did a fantastic job!!
Thank you 😊
HAPPY BLESSED NEW YEAR
Nice boat happy safe new year to you and family stay safe😁
Wonderful! I can't wait for your first voyage to another island. Great job, everyone!
How awesome AMSAM FAM♥️♥️♥️
that is so cool. Congrats. peaceful and nice.
Congratulations captain....good job 👏
About to come back home here in April. My wife told me about your family and I just subscribed
Awesome! Safe travels!!
Congrats guys. I miss the days my parents would take us sailing. Happy times
Wow! Very impressive. Great job, on your 1st sailing out. Great experience. You worked hard for it. Loved this video, Happy New Year.
Congratulations AmSamFam on your first sea trial...Woot...Woot!!
How Awesome! 🤗 Your boat is stretching out her sails on the 🌊!!! Super happy for you guys!! Much ❤️ You guys are doing a fantastic job. ❤️ the music choice!! 🥂🥂🥂Happy 2022!! 🥂🥂🥂🥂🇦🇸
WOW and YAY! what an awesome experience! CONGRATULATIONS on making your first sailing and what an awesome experience for the kiddos as well, when you guys were making the turn I noticed a little island in the far distance is that connected to the main island or was that an actual island, love everything about this video you guys are on your way to more sailing adventures WHOOP WHOOP!👏👏👏
Yes, it felt so good to finally get our boat out and use it for what it was made for ⛵️ That was indeed an island, Aunu’u. It’s just off the southeast tip of Tutuila.
i bet that felt amazing. congrats and blessings for the new year!
Yes it was!! Happy New Year 🎉
Nicely done, maiden voyage was short, but successful. Congrats on you first outing.
Your son is right , go far away from the island... lol 🤩🤗😂
Awesome job! I knew you guys could do it. I'm happy for you guys!
Thank you!!
Beautiful family, great job. Happy New years.
Thanks! And Happy New Year to you ❤️
Wow good on you AMSAMfamily good luck enjoy the ride guy’s god be with you fā 👋🇦🇸🇼🇸
Thank you 🙏
By far my favorite video! Congrats.
Thanks, Tim!
Happy New Years Am Sam Fam...May the good lord continue to bless yall family..
Thank you. God bless you too ❤️
Well done guys I'm thinking of taking the same route as a live aboard on a 44ft ketch
Awesome! I’ll tell you this, everyone will try to talk you out of it, telling you all the reasons why it’s a bad idea, but but buying our boat and living in it for the past year and a half, we have no regrets. Yes, it takes money and yes, there are never ending projects, but that’s life. We’re having fun on our adventure and we love the freedom and sense of self-sustainability of living on our boat.
If you’ve done your homework and it feels right, we say go for it!
GREAT JOB! Thank you for sharing. I love the South Pacific! Your sailing ⛵️ was spectacular. Thrilled for your sailing adventures in 2022! Yes to sailing to Samoa, Tonga and more South Pacific islands for your family. ❤️ #highfive #greatsailing #2022 #AmericanSamoa
#happynewyear
Yes 🎉 We plan on taking many more sailing adventures in 2022 and beyond. 🙌
Y’all keep it up. Enjoy that first time sailing? Hope so. Love from Tonasket Washington
I miss back home so much
Hopefully you can make it back soon.
Bless bless ❤️
❤️
Awesome
Samoans pronunciation of p is a b sound ❤ also well done guys great vessels she’s beautiful
I wish you all the best. The Pacific Ocean is a really big place, dotted with lots of possible voyages like from Pago Pago to Apia and back.
We’ll heading over for a long weekend as soon as they start allowing sailboats to enter their port!
great job...
you should play some Gilligans Island theme behind the video..lol
Killer shirt bruh!
Nice
Your vessel looks larger than 47feet.. Congratulations on your maiden ..
Im wondering if you can use teak or Tung oil on your woodwork rather than getting caught up in the never ending faf of varnishing which the UV light cracks and flakes away without really protecting the wood underneath. 🤔 Oils soak in to depth and protect the fibres... They also shed water very quickly after application.
Wow amazing that's really cool Amsam.fam i hope you guys find moana motunui 😂 now that's what im talking about
We should challenge our kids, first one to spot it is the winner 😂
Where better to start than the Navigators Island
I was thinking about that as we were out there sailing ⛵️
Got her underway. Nice. You won't have to ever fly back to the states now with that.
Haha, Yeah, but instead of getting there in 8 hours, we’ll get there in 8 weeks 😄
@@AmSamFam sail on sail on Sailor
@@comm2531 maybe someday we’ll make that voyage.
@@AmSamFam that's a song you know. Sail on sail on sailor
Awesome job 👏 guys
Congratulations and Happy New Year. Just seeing your boat sail and knowing you guys through your channel, I feel like it’s gonna take a lot of training. Not only Nate but the whole family. Everyone’s gotta know to operate if it comes to any worst case scenarios. Other than that, it just looks beautiful seeing the boat out in the water. I don’t know if I missed it, but does the dingy have a name?
Yes, we still have a lot of practicing to do before we take on any big adventures! As Nate and I get more familiar and comfortable, we’ll start involving the kids in everything. We’re looking forward to being able to hand the controls over to them while we kick back and enjoy the ride 😉
The dinghy is our friends’ and it’s name is Wilson 🏐
Wilson!!! Wilson!! 😆 sorry that scene came to mind.... awesome job though guys... just beautiful how peaceful the water was. 😌
@@pfrtmarilyn 🤣 I know, right?!
As a new sub, may I ask what you folks do for a living
Talofa Malo lava! Like the channel. And cool boat
Tai lava!!
Talofa lava AmSamFam! First of all I like give thanks our Heavenly Father that your family and all families in the two Samoan island are well. I saw your umu video and sorry that it didn’t go the way it should but keep doing it and remember the island of samoa is and her people are happy people and quick to teach you or even help you in any way they can. But the most important things about making an umu make sure you have a lot of woods so it turn those rocks into red hot rocks not dark rocks. Oka! Nate😂
@@Lordship728 haha, yes, thank you for these tips! We tried again this year and went much better than the first 😄 We asked some locals to help teach us and I think we might even try again on our own next year 🤞
@@AmSamFam well done! Like the West 2 East video! I come from Am. Samoa from the Village of Auto. Manuia le aso 🙏❤️
@@AmSamFam The Village of Auto, water fall, the last house you pass by before the hike is my Aunty’s house The sene resident
What happened to the harbor master ? lol 🤩🤗 No respond ! Nice..
🤷🏻♀️😄
Yea easier to sail with the headsail up too,you need a new mainsail that one is flat and will never move you boat very fast
Malo so'le I bet is nice out there in samoa cheehoo
Oh, it’s incredible!
🤙🏽
can we charter your boat??
What’s cool odds that merits kids are going to know how to said when they’re older. Not alot of people, let alone kids, have that skill.
American Samoa is us colony?!!
US territory
You all don't even know how to sail???? Yet ...k I'll shut up.