That's very kind of you, thank you ☺️

Gorgeous looking HR on your channel - congratulations 😊 Most jealous. Right now I'm DREAMING of being too hot again.

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@theoddvoyage wow. means you loved it. i learned to sail at uni. without doubt one of the best memories i have. the sounds. smells. the power of the wind. unpredictability. wet. dry. salt everywhere. Stay very safe on your next voyage. 🙏

Thank you - I'm glad it helped. It does seem like a lot to get your head around. Good luck with all the planning!

Thank you. A long long time ago we drove a small campervan across the US and down to Guatemala. We used to dream of being in an RV 😊

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The cost is about the same as keeping a boat in your home marina, and sailing it a couple of weeks every summer. But I guess add 30% for increased marina costs, increased insurance costs and accelerated wear and tear for offshore. We work for a living, so time spent away from work doing this instead is probably an additional cost - it took up something like 70 days at sea over two years

The insurance aspect is almost worth a very brief video by itself! If only I understood it. This is only going to be relevant for UK-registered vessels. But long story short, I ended up with a broker at topsailinsurance.com who did all the legwork, and they ultimately arranged most of the legs for me with admiralyacht.com. I guess I could have contacted Admiral directly, knowing this, but there was a huge advantage in having that named person at Topsail who was aware of the whole plan and helped chop and change things as we went. As I understand it, a lot of website requests we all fill in end just up with the same very limited set of underwriters who probably get tired of saying no, so having a human on the inside who knows the system seems well worth the admin fee they charge. I should have mentioned it in this video, but it would have been good to start the hunt 6 months before departure, to avoid the rising sense of panic.

Thanks @chopper3lw. The last leg is here with considerably less brevity: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKrLp2msZt14d80

Ah, Chesapeake Bay. Now there's a place to live 😊

Making it short was surprisingly hard! 😊

Thanks Laurent! The ignition key jammed in the 'start' position one night, and I didn't notice for a while. So the starter motor ran on while the engine was running, and cooked itself.

That's a generous lot of thumbs, thank you

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Hi Peter! I've flip-flopped between VMG and VMC but currently it's VMC in this beta. There is some sailing opinion that VMG should only refer to progress relative to the direction of the true wind. And so instead we should all be saying "Velocity Made Good on Course" - so VMC - when we're talking about closing on a waypoint of some kind. I had never thought about the distinction until someone mentioned it to me this year. :)

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Thank you. The problem is that having done this one it's become kind of addictive now...

@@theoddvoyage I sail mostly on the Baltic sea. A lot of it is in bad weather and in cold. I used to say that I'm never doing this again coming home. Then 2 days pass and I want to get back to sailing.

@SCBiscuit13 All the pictures I see of the Baltic on the internet show blue skies and beaches. That's probably why you keep going back out! 😊

@@theoddvoyage Advertising vs reality I guess. Expensive marinas, choppy waves and there are two modes. No wind or 6B+ and nothing in between :D

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Fair winds @t3chnoArt

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Dear Sir, Your business is important to us. I am taking steps now, personally, to remedy this regrettable situation. Yours etc

I've had a hunt around on Selden but it's not obvious to me. I'd need to look for a stamp on it next time I'm up the mast

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@ I was planning on fabricating new spreader mounts for my Baba 30 but if Selden sells a mount id just do that

The tiller handle is one of these: www.osculati.com/en/11649-m-023886/friend-tiller-extension and it comes with two hooks, one for each side. There's a little spring in the hooks so they fold flat when you're not using them. For some reason they're not terribly common. If there's a downside, the convenient twist-to-telescope action of the handle also works against you if you naturally twist your grip when doing something like tacking. I'd still buy it again though.

It kind of stops you fooling yourself :)

@B_Ruphe It's a great question. I think at the heart of it, winter weather in the northern part of the North Atlantic just can be severe - so there's a greater probability of high winds and therefore also rough seas. And there's less daylight. But to counter that, once you get later into the summer, the hurricane season further south can also spin off remnants that affect the north. For example, "Ernesto" hit Bermuda in August this year as a Category 1 hurricane. So if you want to play the odds, it does seem best to sneak across in between winter and mid-summer. Our end-of-April crossing here is maybe a little early. I see May & June are recommended. The whole thing is a dice roll though - you can never be sure what you'll actually get!

@@theoddvoyage Thank you for the interesting explanation. If I ever had the courage to do it at all, I would be timing it for the quietest and safest season and route. The unpredictably of weather and sea at any time certainly must add an element of adventure/ scariness.

I really need to do that. Reason enough to cross again, surely?

Ah yes, that'll be the amazing @SailingIntoOblivion

Thanks Matthew!

Thanks Brandon

They seemed okay 🤞

@@keithandrew4985 we had a cushion pressed up against one of our few remaining non-led lights. It melted the light fitting into a black blob and burned a hole in the cushion

@theoddvoyage wow, the littlest things have the potential to cause the biggest problems. Every day's a school day! Safe travels.

Lisbon! A great city worth returning to

Thanks Marcus

Thanks Nick! The app is looking good. I still need more Android testers before release (Google have a minimum testing threshold I need to jump over).

Glad you enjoyed it