I appreciate the true reality of your journey. I found this channel while researching the Great Loop, and your transparency has opened my eyes to many things that I would not have thought about before I was into it. Thanks for sharing and safe travels.
Hi there! You are living my dream of a solo run at the Great Loop in about 10 years from now! So thank you so much for posting your journey. Thank you also for including mistakes and misfortunes along the way, these lessons are incredibly valuable for someone like me and may very well save me a ton of heartache down the road. Don't let anyone discourage you, people like me really value your videos, we need the inspiration and the leapfrog on the learning curve is invaluable. Good luck out there, stay safe, and keep the content coming!!!!
RELAX! The Watch Officers on Stockholm and Andrea Doria screwed up. I KNOW! I was part of the rescue of 1,600+ people from the Doria before she sank! Thanks for keeping real and honest.
No judgements here. I like it when people show everything. I think that's the greatest way for us newbies to learn before doing. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us!
There are 100s of Great Loop videos showing all the beautiful sights, very few are willing to show the "real" aspects. Glad we subscribed and will be sure to continue to watch all your videos! Thank you for an honest video sir
I love the channel oddly enough when I heard of the great loop and started to look for videos of it u had just posted your first one so been following every since and I love the fact that u have decided to keep it real because your absolutely right no one is perfect and $hit happens to everyone be safe keep the videos coming glad it all worked out
two types of boaters, those who have run aground and those who will. Good catch. Makes me wonder, what do you do to take a bathroom break? Anchor? I ran from Titusville to Savanah single handed on a 44 ft boat. I would wait for an open area, with no other boats around. With heading hold and slow pace, I would run below with my navionics running on my phone. Only had to do that twice.
Not sure the lesson was learned. You must keep an adequate watch at all times. The autopilot issue wouldn’t have mattered if he’d been keeping watch. Also he tied the line incorrectly to the dock at the fish restaurant. Either he just wants to bumble through and eventually end up on the network news or actually realise he’s in over his head and get some decent instruction from a licensed captain and learn all the things he doesn’t know
shit happens, disaster averted, lesson learned. no worries. I just copied and paste what the IRON guy wrote below, was the perfect response. Now for my 2 cents, I wish you would have filmed inside that seafood restaurant at the end including what you ordered for dinner Keep the videos coming
Anyone who runs around in boats makes mistakes. I absently-mindedly went a little bit too close to shore on a route I have done dozens of time and clipped two lower units on my outboards. A very expensive mistake! I don't blame you for focusing on killing green-head flies -- those things BITE like a steam shovel. Enjoyed the video.
I had a guy forget to hit the resume-route button on an offshore delivery. 3 hours later, at change of watch, we discovered that we were 25 MILES off course, and 20 miles into the gulf stream. Fighting the gulf stream added two days to the trip. You'd think the systems would be smart enough to start beeping at you after a few minutes or something.
We have been watching your videos for day one and would like to see you succeed, but you have to remember you are new at this so have some patience with yourself and enjoy the experience. Thanks to you we are enjoying your videos. Cheers LadyD
I have more than once ran a ground because I was distracted. Never under power, usually while drift-fishing. But it still a heck of a feeling to be tying a fishing line, hear a noise look up an see the bank right beside you.
The videos are getting A LOT better. I appreciate the honesty and allowing us to share your trip with you. I have been on the water for 35+ years and I have had my share of almost fuckups, as well as a few true fuckups. Hell I have even sunk a boat and spent 6.5 hours swimming in the ocean before being rescued by a charter boat. You are in my neighborhood, literally. I have spent 1000s of hours in and around Morehead City and have eaten a many of meal at Sanitary but didn't realize they allowed overnight docking. Have a safe trip and I will keep you in my thoughts and keep watching your videos. You are making a trip that I plan on being able to make in another 10 years, hopefully.
Thank you for showing the true things that can happen. We are just installing our auto pilot and will be getting used to it prior to starting our loop in 2026. Thanks for keeping it real and will be following your journey.
Good catch on the near grounding! One tip on electrifying the horse flies--I've found if you push the button on the electric tennis racket and then very very slowly bring it up under the horse flies on the bimini trapping them between the racket and the bimini, they almost always fly into the racket and get smoked. Swinging at them almost never works in my experience. Loving your videos!
I have watched many looper videos. For some reason, yours caught my eye. We have a boat and live on the loop, in Canada. I'm deciding whether or not to continue subscribing, as you are very new to YT videos, it seems. Including videos with the good and bad is what people want to see. And anyone who hasn't had a close call like that has never been on a bigger boat. If we keep watching, you'll have to look us up when you get to Peterborough Ontario. We know the Canada part of the loop very well. Safe travels, Mark from Peterborough.
I’m sure we’ve all taken our eyes off the boat , e.g let’s look at navionics on the iPad, head down, and it’s surprising how quickly one is not where one imagines one is. What got me is how clean your Bimini looks , I would not squash a fly on that beatiful fabric
How did you like the Sanitary Fish Market? I am from NC and have eaten there many, many times. As a kid when we would go to the beach Sanitary Fish Market was a special treat.
Good job avoiding an unexpected landfall. Thanks for sharing your real experiences with us. Would still love to catch you on HF if you get set up. 73 de NO3U, Otto
Mistakes are made by everyone. Lesson learned, move on! You'll continue to get better with the videos the more you film and edit. Thank you for posting the mishap and keeping it "real". Look forward to the next video!
For every mistake that you learn from you will save thousands of similar mistakes in the future, so if you treat mistakes as learning opportunities that yield rapid improvements you should be excited by them. But if you treat them as bad things, you will make yourself and others miserable, and you won’t grow. Ray Dalio
Sh!t happens to everyone. Most of those that feel like bashing you [and others] for it haven't been around long enough to know what real sh!t is. They'll learn eventually. Keep the props turning and the cameras rolling. =)
How did you know the bridge would be closing in 2 days? Were you able to radio ahead, or is there a resource that provides you with that information? Glad you avoided crashing the boat. Continue to keep it real and ignore the haters, those of us who want to do the loop will enjoy seeing what really happens.
Like your videos. We all have made misstakes driving a boat. don't let it get to you. have you tried using the voice commands on your GOPRO. I use ming all the time. It keeps your hands free. Try it.
Glad you caught yourself there...when traveling how do you know when or if bridges or locks will be closed about your route? is it listed on the nav unit? thanks
Great honest video, they are the best ones. We don't need the sugar-coated ones. Hard to learn from perfect ones. BTY how much is the dock if you don't use the restaurant?
Your first couple videos caused me concern but I thought your confidence level and ability to control your vessel would improve quickly in a very short time. I'm not so sure you're best off continuing solo. If you have a friend who can give you a hand for a week or two it might be beneficial. As long as you are not a risk to the safety of others, keep going. If you reach a point that you feel you are placing others at risk, stop. Good luck!
I’ve given you a jab before, I commend you for leaving the mistakes in. the least that could have happened is you beach the boat, the worst would have been if you still had your back to the shore and it stopped fast. Could have really got hurt.
I appreciate the true reality of your journey. I found this channel while researching the Great Loop, and your transparency has opened my eyes to many things that I would not have thought about before I was into it. Thanks for sharing and safe travels.
Hi there! You are living my dream of a solo run at the Great Loop in about 10 years from now! So thank you so much for posting your journey. Thank you also for including mistakes and misfortunes along the way, these lessons are incredibly valuable for someone like me and may very well save me a ton of heartache down the road. Don't let anyone discourage you, people like me really value your videos, we need the inspiration and the leapfrog on the learning curve is invaluable. Good luck out there, stay safe, and keep the content coming!!!!
RELAX! The Watch Officers on Stockholm and Andrea Doria screwed up. I KNOW! I was part of the rescue of 1,600+ people from the Doria before she sank! Thanks for keeping real and honest.
No judgements here. I like it when people show everything. I think that's the greatest way for us newbies to learn before doing. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us!
I think you're awesome and brave and courageous and funny! You do you and live and learn. We're all learning with you! Great video! 😅
There are 100s of Great Loop videos showing all the beautiful sights, very few are willing to show the "real" aspects. Glad we subscribed and will be sure to continue to watch all your videos! Thank you for an honest video sir
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for leaving in the mistakes. Helps me and my wife learn for our loop in about 10 years. You're awesome, and I hope you are having fun.
We’re learning all our lives or we’re dead. You learned something that day, take the gift and grin about it.
I love the channel oddly enough when I heard of the great loop and started to look for videos of it u had just posted your first one so been following every since and I love the fact that u have decided to keep it real because your absolutely right no one is perfect and $hit happens to everyone be safe keep the videos coming glad it all worked out
two types of boaters, those who have run aground and those who will. Good catch. Makes me wonder, what do you do to take a bathroom break? Anchor? I ran from Titusville to Savanah single handed on a 44 ft boat. I would wait for an open area, with no other boats around. With heading hold and slow pace, I would run below with my navionics running on my phone. Only had to do that twice.
Yea how do you handle bathroom breaks while underway??
shit happens, disaster averted, lesson learned. no worries.
Not sure the lesson was learned. You must keep an adequate watch at all times. The autopilot issue wouldn’t have mattered if he’d been keeping watch. Also he tied the line incorrectly to the dock at the fish restaurant. Either he just wants to bumble through and eventually end up on the network news or actually realise he’s in over his head and get some decent instruction from a licensed captain and learn all the things he doesn’t know
shit happens, disaster averted, lesson learned. no worries.
I just copied and paste what the IRON guy wrote below, was the perfect response.
Now for my 2 cents, I wish you would have filmed inside that seafood restaurant at the end including what you ordered for dinner
Keep the videos coming
Anyone who runs around in boats makes mistakes. I absently-mindedly went a little bit too close to shore on a route I have done dozens of time and clipped two lower units on my outboards. A very expensive mistake! I don't blame you for focusing on killing green-head flies -- those things BITE like a steam shovel. Enjoyed the video.
I had a guy forget to hit the resume-route button on an offshore delivery. 3 hours later, at change of watch, we discovered that we were 25 MILES off course, and 20 miles into the gulf stream. Fighting the gulf stream added two days to the trip.
You'd think the systems would be smart enough to start beeping at you after a few minutes or something.
We have been watching your videos for day one and would like to see you succeed, but you have to remember you are new at this so have some patience with yourself and enjoy the experience. Thanks to you we are enjoying your videos. Cheers LadyD
I have more than once ran a ground because I was distracted. Never under power, usually while drift-fishing. But it still a heck of a feeling to be tying a fishing line, hear a noise look up an see the bank right beside you.
The videos are getting A LOT better. I appreciate the honesty and allowing us to share your trip with you. I have been on the water for 35+ years and I have had my share of almost fuckups, as well as a few true fuckups. Hell I have even sunk a boat and spent 6.5 hours swimming in the ocean before being rescued by a charter boat.
You are in my neighborhood, literally. I have spent 1000s of hours in and around Morehead City and have eaten a many of meal at Sanitary but didn't realize they allowed overnight docking. Have a safe trip and I will keep you in my thoughts and keep watching your videos. You are making a trip that I plan on being able to make in another 10 years, hopefully.
Thank you for showing the true things that can happen. We are just installing our auto pilot and will be getting used to it prior to starting our loop in 2026. Thanks for keeping it real and will be following your journey.
Good catch on the near grounding! One tip on electrifying the horse flies--I've found if you push the button on the electric tennis racket and then very very slowly bring it up under the horse flies on the bimini trapping them between the racket and the bimini, they almost always fly into the racket and get smoked. Swinging at them almost never works in my experience. Loving your videos!
I have watched many looper videos. For some reason, yours caught my eye. We have a boat and live on the loop, in Canada. I'm deciding whether or not to continue subscribing, as you are very new to YT videos, it seems. Including videos with the good and bad is what people want to see. And anyone who hasn't had a close call like that has never been on a bigger boat. If we keep watching, you'll have to look us up when you get to Peterborough Ontario. We know the Canada part of the loop very well. Safe travels, Mark from Peterborough.
Thanks.
I’m sure we’ve all taken our eyes off the boat , e.g let’s look at navionics on the iPad, head down, and it’s surprising how quickly one is not where one imagines one is. What got me is how clean your Bimini looks , I would not squash a fly on that beatiful fabric
Really enjoying your videos. Appreciate your honesty on your travels. We all learn from our mistakes! Cheers
I appreciate your honesty. Similiar things happen to me all the time. I own a 17 ft sailboat on a lake, but also charter on the sea.
How did you like the Sanitary Fish Market? I am from NC and have eaten there many, many times. As a kid when we would go to the beach Sanitary Fish Market was a special treat.
I enjoyed it, but was nothing to write home about.
Congratulations on your courage to keep the clip in and stay true to your objectives!! We should all applaud your action keep it up
We all make mistakes and if any haven’t they will. Great reflexes and I bet the heart was going 20 to the
Dozen……😂
Thanks for keeping it real …how does a 40 foot boat with 2 engines that weighs 25,000 lbs only draft 2.9!!
Most important question is: did you get the fly?!?! Glad everything worked out!!
Love the videos and honesty.
Good job avoiding an unexpected landfall. Thanks for sharing your real experiences with us. Would still love to catch you on HF if you get set up. 73 de NO3U, Otto
Consider yourself lucky. Camp lejeune is our home port and we have never seen that much action in 1 day.
Best one yet
👍👍👍👍👍
Mistakes are made by everyone. Lesson learned, move on! You'll continue to get better with the videos the more you film and edit. Thank you for posting the mishap and keeping it "real". Look forward to the next video!
Yes! Thank you!
For every mistake that you learn from you will save thousands of similar mistakes in the future, so if you treat mistakes as learning opportunities that yield rapid improvements you should be excited by them. But if you treat them as bad things, you will make yourself and others miserable, and you won’t grow. Ray Dalio
Sh!t happens to everyone. Most of those that feel like bashing you [and others] for it haven't been around long enough to know what real sh!t is. They'll learn eventually. Keep the props turning and the cameras rolling. =)
So true!
Not just ANY military base, that's where Marines are made (obviously Parris Island is wrong LOL). Glad you got to see it first hand. Stay safe buddy.
Jacksonville/Camp Lejeune is the best...place to get gonorrhea.
How did you know the bridge would be closing in 2 days? Were you able to radio ahead, or is there a resource that provides you with that information? Glad you avoided crashing the boat. Continue to keep it real and ignore the haters, those of us who want to do the loop will enjoy seeing what really happens.
I was wondering same thing
I’m a member of the AGLCA which keeps us “Loopers” informed of any Great Loop route closures.
Wouldn't navionics also have schedules shared by users?
@@Artist_Kevin sometimes.
Like your videos. We all have made misstakes driving a boat. don't let it get to you. have you tried using the voice commands on your GOPRO. I use ming all the time. It keeps your hands free. Try it.
lesson learned , have to watch, even with auto pilot
Did you add to the log the cost pf the new underware?
“Mile High Bay” you wish buddy 😂
I like the authenticity of your videos. Keep it up!
Also, something was off with the audio on this one.
Yep, the audio went wacko on my camera. I think I’ve got it cured for the next video.
Glad you caught yourself there...when traveling how do you know when or if bridges or locks will be closed about your route? is it listed on the nav unit? thanks
I’m a member of the AGLCA which keeps me informed of such matters.
Great honest video, they are the best ones. We don't need the sugar-coated ones. Hard to learn from perfect ones. BTY how much is the dock if you don't use the restaurant?
It’s my understanding that you have to eat in the restaurant to use their dock. Could be wrong.
Is this current ? Or was this done last summer?
It’s current. Only about 1 week behind.
Your first couple videos caused me concern but I thought your confidence level and ability to control your vessel would improve quickly in a very short time. I'm not so sure you're best off continuing solo. If you have a friend who can give you a hand for a week or two it might be beneficial. As long as you are not a risk to the safety of others, keep going. If you reach a point that you feel you are placing others at risk, stop. Good luck!
Hey, things happen. You have a long way to go and will probably make some mistakes. But that is all part of it. I wish you well.
I’ve given you a jab before, I commend you for leaving the mistakes in. the least that could have happened is you beach the boat, the worst would have been if you still had your back to the shore and it stopped fast. Could have really got hurt.
It was marsh land not hard shore. But still would have made a mess of my running gear.
Get a back brace
Your sound is terrible
I know. I think I’ve got it worked out for the next video. Let me know if it’s better.