Nice to see how you two are doing, the boat is great, just curious about how the solar panels are coping with the amount of water over them, keep up the good work.

Excellent 24 hour run. Too bad that sea state makes it necessary to reef down. Thanks for the weather briefing and video of the conditions.

Looking good guys. Keep us informed. Will you be making a hard dodger for spirit during your refit??

Cheers gardy always a good watch

MOCO 60 style cockpit on the upgrade list to keep the cockpit dry as you power through the waves :)

Flying fish... no1 bait for trolling ❤

Wow... it's flying ❤😂😂

good move reefing, once you've had a chance to go right over all the chain plates, standing rig, mast and boom, then you can see what she can do.

She wants to go fast 😊

So she's nearly twice as fast as the monohulls. Sounds about right. And in much greater comfort and stability. Looking great! Thanks for sharing!

Are running into Bundaberg ?

Jas after my cruise I'll be straight back out to sea until mid Feb. Will U still be in Brissy then?

Im visiting new cal on a cruise early Jan so looks like U will hit Aus by then.

Nice vid mate! Great to see her galloping along.

so good thanks for the updates.

Bon voyage! So far looks magic

Are you planning on not stopping in New Caledonia because of weather, personal schedules, or other reasons? This looks like your wettest day of the voyage. Have you developed more confidence in the rigging to allow for a heavier foot on the accelerator? Perhaps Spirit XL smells the barn and insists on a full gallop home.

No need to go any faster. She’s comfortable and balanced with the reduced sail and eating up the miles. Leave the Jules Verne attempts to the thrill seekers and continue to enjoy the beauty of a well designed and well sailed boat captained by a capable and competent skipper who makes sensible decisions which we all benefit from. Cheers!

Thanks for bring us along on your voyages. Maybe you can give us a little clue to your planed upgrades.

Hey guys, so excited to have you back home, safe travels.

Looking great a very quick ride….. I’m enjoying this whole trip.. keep safe

Hey there Spirit. I’m an ex-sailmaker, here in California, was essentially born aboard a 40ft Piver Victress tri 54 yrs ago, and so I love your channel. Been following you since the trip down under, from New England, of the “old” Spirit. Can’t wait to see what mods/upgrades you make to the ‘new’ boat, to make it as new and Bitch’n as possible!! I foresee 25 - 30 knots of rip’n fun reaching races!!!! So looking forward to that, and you future adventures.

Love the updates. Keep am coming mates! Moving along well. Apparent wind sailing! Smart to back off a bit and stay drier. Also a little easier on boat and crew. Such a great boat! :) A rare classic. It does feel like you're getting more comfortable with her too. Keeper! Wow she sails well!

Boat's just galloping along, lucked out on the sea state and wind

Vendee globe guys will be passing by your port side make sure to wave at them <3

Thanks guys, beautiful video as always. Ciao SV Merlin

It's so beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Spirit! Merlin

Really good overview. I agree with you concerning gated systems. That is a manufacturer trying to harvest as much money as they can... Open CPN will dominate in time because cruisers know what works... On the ocean, marketing and brand management means nothing... Experience and word of mouth is the best marketing...

amazing, you're both looking fit and well!

Amazing... how many sailing channels all comment about how happy the island people are... yet they are poor..... hmmm..... money, is it happiness.... or another control.. no money..yet happy and giving.... 😂❤😂

Nature can provide all our needs, we just need to work together and learn to share... push back on greed ❤❤❤

Nice video mate

Nice vid Jas. Where are U sailing into J when to hit Aus?

Thanks for the tour of the Yasawas. Beautiful video footage. What did your Dad catch?

Awesome! Thanks for sharing 👍

Allegedly, back in the late 50s early 60s, the Yasawas were very welcoming to the male sailors. I say, allegedly, because I did read it in a "Boys Own" book. And I believe everything I read. 😂 Thanks for sharing. Atb.

Have orca app and the orca core has 9 axis compass, a 10Hz ROT heading compass and only that at the big 5 like raymarine cost you 850Euro while orca core cost 550Euro. Needed to upgrade the compass to get 10hz ROT heading for Doppler and Marpa radar functions. Orca have already remote monitoring and soon will have also a remote control anchor watch. The core also connects to your radar and raymarine and B&G already works, rest will come soon and this you can also not do with a tablet alone. Its quite open and will also be partly open source. Definitly the best value for money. Orca is like old steve jobs intuative simple design. Their sailing insyruments are top notch, much info to get a good sailtrim. OpenCPN user interface is pita like a dentist visit and you need to be a computer geek setting all up. Orca core pluged in, started app and all was there including full support of my old S2G raymarine autopilot out of the box. The steering via apple watch when eg single handing is also genius. There is much more then you think. I bought orca as cheapest 9 axis compass with rot heading for doppler and marpa, you get worldwide charts for 1 year too and it went from a planed backup to my leading system. They don't lock you in, you can use any IOS or andriod device, even android TV works to get it on the big TV in the salon for eg route planning. Even they have navigation tablet they sell all is open. And will get more over time. And yes you have to keep your business up with some money and orca subscription for all is very reasonable. I run i sailor always in parallel and partly navionics.

Do you have isailor connect to the autopilot and working? Have all but cannot get the autopilot working.

You were talking about using earbuds. I wish I could but I have to use clunky headphones as my ears ache if I stick anything in them.

So good,I think I would fry my brain trying to learn all of this.I guess I would pick it up eventually.Best wishes 🙂

Noforeignland is awesome, as a small boatyard owner in Kenya and we cruise a bit we have put a bunch of info onto our town that is useful to other people to decide if they even want to visit.

There's a story about a motorcyclist in South Africa that had an accident with that same Garmin. Hit SOS and only received a message the next day in hospital from the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) saying they couldn't help, and no one from Garmin support replied for two months. Not good. I know the GGR require the YB3 Handheld Tracker which also uses the Iridium network.

You were doing great until the anchor alarm. However, you did read the room correctly and only one eye closed. You did a great job of giving an enjoyable tour while keeping it moving. Cheers!

Nice one Jase,

This is fantastic!!! thank you. I will be studying this for quite a while-- just downloaded isailor, they charged $19.99 for the charts which seems to be a subscription but I'll go in and turn it off so that I don't get the updates which is what I think the fee is for. I also worked on a whole of the privacy settings in there as well... Phil

hey thanks so much for the insight to your electronics, really appreciate it. May I as which temperature probes you use for your system?

playback speed 1.3x 👌

Jason, I could use your help downloading grib files on Weather 4D. What is the best way to communicate? Awesome video. There are a lot of people sailing with unlimited budgets and all the latest gear. I respect the miles you guys have sailed and the quality of your seamanship on what appears to be a much more reasonable budget. Thanks for sharing your adventure.

Another great video guy. Really love and get a lot out of your channel. Appreciate your work, big fan.