Paradise. Culebrita, Puerto Rico.❤

10:47 am Monday 4 November 2024. Thank you sir for sharing your knowledge, information about your sailboat to us. From Malaysia 🇲🇾. God bless you and your family Ameen

You got ripped off !

I don’t know what I would do without seeing an electrical box, your keys, and the water bottles you use for showering. It would be like someone wanting a tour of my home and me showing them where I decided to keep my pickles in the refrigerator.

Thanks for your creative and clear camera angles on the video. We have Yanmar 2017 SD-60 saildrives on our catamaran and the manual recommends an oil change every 250 hours or once a year - same as the oil change schedule on the main engines (4jh57). I use the same brand vacuum pump and it comes with enough extension tubes to place the pump on top of the engine making it comfortable to pump out all 2.8L in each saildrives. Even with using tape to seal the pump hose to the built in hose that goes to the bottom of the saildrive, it still sucks up a lot of air with the oil making it a far more tedious process that when vacuum pumping up the main engine 5.5l oil which is located on same side and about same level. But eventually all the oil comes out. It sure is much easier to change the saildrive oil on the dry which we do every 2 years. Yanmar recommends 15W40 long lasting premium oil for both the engine and the saildrive making it easier to purchase and manage.

Bought one because the price was unable to refuse. Lot of heavy work putting around 1200$ into it 1 sail was bad expecting to be 200$-400$... Trailer is a 7/10, but hay picked it up for 500$ sale get gawn fast is good. 23 foot pop top.

Great video I enjoyed viewing.

Where is the keel? Or does it not have one?

lovely boat, good down-to-earth comments. Achievement stuff. Subd

Looks great. Seem like nice down to earth people too. (Refreshing for you tube videos). I could watch you talking about used boats etc more. Thanks for the education. May I ask How much you spent on the boat fixing it up?

Thank You very much, I'm thinking of buying a TS, and am about to look at a Sonata 7, so this was a great and timely intro for me.

I see you're using SAE 90 there. I've been told that's not ideal but could be wrong on that.

Yanmar would tell you it needs changed every 15 minutes if they thought anyone would believe it

This is great thank you. For years I tried to find a book in the boating book shops that offered good places to visit with a trailer Sailer. There ain't any! This type of video could easily be made into a series for sale and give some indication of places to stop, stay with public moorings etc. Keep up the good work I'm watching and enjoying. Thanks again.

He’s quite the um ah um man?

Hope you and your family have a lot of good times on that boat. You certainly put a lot of work into it. Thanks for sharing. I learned a lot from your video.

Amazing boat!!!!! Covid tax it’s definitely worth more now! I’d absolutely love one……… especially at this price

Nice boat, do you still have it? Do you have any other videos?

18:00 that looked like it hurt 😉 Really enjoyed all the videos. What's next?

2:57 🐬🐬

Y'all, This is better than netflix. I'm bingeing. 🌴🌴🌊🌊🤿🤿

Hi sir

12:08 hoping for more footage of the reef like you say, leaving the go pro down, i found the no music no talking one first, but got sidetracked on the tours, loving it, thanks 🤿🤿🌊🌊🌴🌴🌴🌴

Thanks for the video. Why didnt you use the lower plug to get more than 1.3 liters out? There is a plug at the bottom, marked with a triangle ...

Thank you sir this was informational

Hi sir you’re amazing

Hiii sir

Very useful, thank you!

i’m your biggest fan ever

Hi uncle Dave you made cool videos

Thanks for the video. Are you still sailing?

Thanks for such a great video! We'd like to move to the area, and this video has just convinced me even more.😊

the reason i ask is becase you where staying in 1 spot an awful long time

where you scuba diving or did you just put sound to it nice video regardless

When you need permission from your government to go sailing then you don't have a free country

U have a good sense of humor

Very helpful - just in the process of buying a Sonata 6 - needs freshen up - now I know how to do it...

Nelson Bay, not Nelson’s Bay

Hi I have just come across your video of Melody Maker, the original owners where as you guessed roger and Shirley, they did indeed hail from Geelong, they moved up to the Lake Macquarie area in the late 80,s early 90,s they were active members of the Newcastle and Hunter Trailable Yacht Association who are based around the Styles point area on Lake Macquarie, they sold the boat some time ago and got involved with the volunteer coast guard at Swansea, from what I know of them they have moved to Tasmania and I have had no contact with them for years, the photo on your bulkhead was taken on a cruise to the Whitsundays, hope this helps some with the history of your Sonata 7, if you live in the Hunter area look up the NHTYA website and maybe turn up on a club cruise or race weekend, cheers Chris

Really nice boat - thanks for sharing! I hope your family enjoys it.

Such a great adventure!

We loved this video! Mum also loved hearing your mum talk on the video too. We like making sailing videos too - we came and sailed herons in Sydney at Easter this year. From Luca and Gene at kids afloat

This is brilliant, thank you. So much help to see how people organise their family in a boat!

Its called a "Toggle Pin" on the furler.. "Topping lift" holds up the boom at the "clew" end of the mainsail. . 🙂

great video mate.. cheers

love this