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[@challenger2ultralightadventure]

Having a little garden on board must be heaven sent! Next time Frik is walking around in his birthday suit, it would be hilarious if you place a fig leaf over his naughty bits, and a little devil on his shoulder just for fun. Cheers from Winnipeg.

[@SailingSisu]

😜😜😜 great idea!!! Will remember in future videos for sure

[@laki74]

Seeing Frik in all of his glory made my day.

[@SailingSisu]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@brownnoise357]

Nice growing setup there. my mother loved cooking with Basil and Margoram, and always has a nice herb garden. Thinking about it, you could always make a nice fertiliser from Seaweed, put loads of it into a netting bag, and hang it up to wash all of the Salt out, then let it dry and powder it, could even do a foliar feed as well, as seaweed contains a bit of pretty much everything a plant needs, and what I used to do with hydroponic growing was feed with a balanced NPK feed, alternating with Seaweed feeds, and fuits, vegetables, etc, etc, always did well. if there's a freshwater stream or river on an Island, you can always peg net bags of Seaweed in them to flush the salt Out, and they can dry out really fast which makes them easy to powder. Same with seashells from the beach, wash the salt off, crush them, and add to the compost or whatever growing medium. I mostly used Straw Bale Hydroponics, and heritage seeds to grow with, to avoid having to buy Hybrid stuff which generally lack flavour. plus you get your own seeds to go on with. To me, so called "Organic Growing" is a Scam that totally misses the point, that was brought in after the whole Self Sufficiency nonsense blew up in everyones face. All my Smallholding Self Sufficiency Neighbours ended up losing everything, and tbh, it was painful to watch happening. You Can't feed the World with Organic Growing, or Serfdom growing practices either. Anyway soap box grumbling session over. I've only just caught up with this episode, as it's been bloody freezing here, so the Arthritis has really kicked in. So best wishes, Fair Winds, and Safe Travels. Bob in Wales. 🤔👍✨️✨️✨️⛵️❤️

[@SailingSisu]

Thanks, Bob! Appreciate the tip on seaweed fertilizer - great idea for a natural boost. Your experience with hydroponics and heritage seeds is valuable. Stay warm in Wales, and here's to fair winds and safe travels for you too! 🌱⛵

[@trevhedges]

Very cool, love the little garden..

[@SailingSisu]

Thank you Trev!!! Those tomatoes are amazing . . .

[@SailingFridaafWisby]

What a thunderstorm. Thanks for the video and the inspiration

[@SailingSisu]

Thank YOU for watching, it is greatly appreciated. Fair Winds guys⛵

[@trevhedges]

19:25 thanks for thinking of me .. 😂

[@SailingSisu]

Always Trev!!!! Your input and dedication on YTSC means so much, greatly appreciated!!!!!!

[@mikeferguson2828]

I found that a dyneema cover stitched over the region where your halyard goes near pulleys and through the mast helps with chafe

[@SailingSisu]

Dyneema sleeves do work. The catch is to identify the chafe points.

[@highoctanehome]

So sorry about your Genoa. Any day ours could fail. Well done resolving the issue!

[@SailingSisu]

Always good to have patchy stuff on board, it has helped us before as well. Thanks for watching guys, fair winds

[@SVTrinityTube]

Great videos guys we are newbie sailors and love looking at fellows sailors and get some tips and inspiration. Fair winds and safe travels from The Trinity Crew

[@SailingSisu]

Hey Trinity crew, thanks for watching. Glad we can bring something to the sailing community. Fair winds guys ⛵👍

[@jimmydaniel1127]

Putting wat to much pressure on them lines when ur furling in

[@SailingSisu]

Thank you for the observations Jimmy!! Much appreciated

In today's world there should never be "unexpected" storms. That's what radar is for.

[@SailingSisu]

Oh, but 24nm is the range of our radar...not much! And then some storms develop right in front of you, very typical of local Thunderstorms, really. In the last five years/32,000nm, we experienced a couple of real bad ones while watching radar and six different weather models, and still the TS was unpredicted. But the real question is, did you miss the "quotes" 🤔 because in the video we do mention that we are in hurricane season in hurricane zone and we did see the storm coming with our own eyes... 😁

[@WillN2Go1]

Terrific storm video. Best garden on the seven seas. Spanish Wells is great. What do they say? 20,000 spiny lobster pots, not a single float to tangle your prop or rudders. They do it all by GPS and diving. I don't mind the $2/Gigabyte for Starlink. What I do mind is all the mysterious nonsense my iPhone and sites do that suck up data that you don't know about until it costs you $150 extra. Starlink when I got back to California charged me $150 for the Roaming Plan, okay. But then an extra $25/month for Roaming. Did that for four months. In the middle of that I complained (under a different category because nothing like that was on the list) Then "Oops. You're right we're sorry. Here's your $25 back." What about the rest? I guess someone has to pay for Twitter.

[@SailingSisu]

We should perhaps make a technical video on how to minimize data on phones and laptops :-D but what we did was, we subscribed to Starlink Mobile - Regional and only when we know we will be offshore and needs weather info, then we will enable "Mobile Priority". And when we enable Mobile Priority, we will only download weather. No Facebook, no KZbin. We will do WhatsApp with family and friends, but nothing that would involve downloading pictures or video. And we do monitor the data usage to ensure that something is not eating data behind the scenes :-)