Sailing thru Fjords in Search of Hot Springs! Wild Remote Sailing Adventure | A&J Sailing S3Ep7

Exploring far reaching fjords & remote anchorages of the Inside Passage charting a course North to Alaska (slowly), we're a Canadian Aussie duo documenting an adventure-based alternative life off-grid on a small 'no-frills' sailboat, Uintah. No refrigeration, no auto-pilot, hauling our anchor up by hand & adventuring off the beaten path with the purpose of living a more sustainable, self-sufficient life connected to nature.
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[@barberamcisaac1633]

So proud of you Ally. That’s an awesome stern tie ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Awe thank you. That was a pretty memorable anchorage✨

[@davidnichols147]

Truly beautiful scenery, loved taking this sail in the fjord of British Columbia. Your photography and editing is wonderful.

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Thank you!!! It's difficult to do this place any justice! But sailing here was a dream and going back thru the footage to make these videos has been really enjoyable. So happy to hear you loved this one, cheers!

[@barberamcisaac1633]

The food hmmmmha! So beautiful!

[@chrismillison9137]

Hi you two, I just found you...... how cool! I'm an old man wooden boat sailor with 72 years of cruising the Islands and Puget Sound. Very nice show, very nice. Good balance of everything and you don't have background music that is blasted back and forth. It's nice to see "boaters" like you and not just boat owners. Cruising off season as you do with no itinerary is similar to the 60's. Oh if you could have experienced the 60's, when boaters passed each other and there so few you would go out of your way to wave. I'm currently restoring a young but sadly neglected by situation not choice a Gaff rigged 21' Atkin Sharpshooter. It was built in Port Townsend in '94. First owner sailed it to Juneau and back to Anacortes singlehanded when he was in his 40's ? and the boat sat idle on it's trailer since '99. I purchased it last year for a cosmetic only restoration, if you're still around next maybe we'll cross paths. My son is up there Gulf Island Cruising frequently, I have referred him to your site. If you are around the Anacortes area I have a couple items that came with my boat I will never need, easy come easy go if you are in need: New condition LifeSling in the fiberglass box (never mounted) and a Danforth anchor new in the box good for a spare not to replace what you have. My wife and I have bought the farm literally moved an hour from Anacortes up the No Cascade Hwy. son too (we're burried in friends boats for winter). Anacortes lost it's adventuresome feel where we raised our children and always in the marine field, I'm a self professed wood boatwright. My wife Candi too, we were both raised in parallel lives on wood boats on the Columbia. My Son is a partner in a very busy boat building business in Bellingham now producing popular PacNW Sportfish boats. And I'm retired sittin' on the farm cruising vicariously through you and waiting for spring so I can break out the sandpaper so I can have a "Re-launching' in summer. Well keep it up, I haven't seen them all yet. Here's a KZbin question: when a video says 1 month ago is that from posting time and does it change with time? I'm having a bit of a challenge keeping them in order? I'm rambling, let me know on the LifeSling and maybe we could meet up somewhere. Cheers, Chris Lyman, WA Discover on KZbin "Sailing Kate Louise" Big dinghy criusing down in Australia. Big fun

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Hi Chris! Nice to meet you, glad you've been enjoying the show! Awesome you're a wooden boat guy! Immense respect for the craft, dedication and hard work it takes to maintain one of those! Beautiful ships, we've always wanted to visit Port Townsend! Might be a while before we will get to sail there ourselves since we're heading North, but maybe a road trip is in order in the near future! Thank you for offering us those items, very generous :) What an amazing childhood growing up on wooden boats on the Columbia, far out!! Happy to hear farm life is suiting you just as well these days. We look forward to having our own 'farmy' homestead one day! Agreed, the 60's & 70's would have suited us very well! Although we're we've been cruising recently we hardly seen a soul so when we did we certainly did go out of our way to say hello! You may have found your answer already but when a video says "1 month ago' it should mean posting time so yes it would change with time. we've recently started adding the date our videos we're filmed in the video description if you're interested to know that! If you'd like to watch the videos in order with ease we've created playlists for each season - just need to head over to our channel page, click the tab on the top that says 'Playlists' and away you go. Hope that helps! Cheers and chat soon! A&J

[@tomelerding1399]

Scenery like that makes you feel so small! Thanks for taking us along to a place 99% of us will never experience in person.

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Agreed, very sublime. Thank you for coming along with us!

[@gregsage1605]

I sailed the same waters in 2017 and 2018. I'm really enjoying your experience. One year I was in my foul weather gear the whole trip. The second year I had your weather. Great experience! Thank you for sharing.

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Awe that’s amazing! So glad you’re enjoying, and that you’ve experienced the magic first hand! Haha ☔️ Summer weather on a bi-annual schedule, I hope we luck out with some sunshine this year!

[@nickransom9769]

Lovely video, you guys do an excellent job of capturing the beauty and stunning scenery. Thank you

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Thank you so much!! Really glad you enjoyed it, cheers!

[@markgibbs6512]

Hej guys. Loving your films, so chilled and easy to watch. Love the mix of sailing, nature and activities. 🙌

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Hi Mark! Thanks for that, so glad to hear you’re enjoying the mix!

[@dirk3730]

Absolutely beautiful country and sailing❤

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Breathtaking landscapes out here! Such serene sailing that day, thank you for watching!

[@markroth9827]

Classic NW sailing. Just beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Our pleasure! Thanks for tuning in! Hope you’re having a great Sunday :)

[@meestahwah]

These kind of ancorages are what my PNW cruising dreams are made of!! Thanks for taking us along ❤

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Agreed! totally worth the stern tie efforts, one of the more awesome ones for sure👌🏽Thanks for joining us!

[@israfelmarkpafford8049]

Stay safe and keep on adventuring, loved your video this week !

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Thanks so much! Really glad you enjoyed this one

[@user-wn2zh1pf5v]

Awesome video! Love watching your videos every week!

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Thank you!! So glad you’re enjoying them, cheers!

[@patrickfalter4487]

Congrats on a great sail, just beautiful

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Thanks Patrick! Glad you enjoyed it

[@JasonsNWAdventures]

Love this episode! Watched it as I was sailing up the Tacoma Narrows under light wind and broken fog.

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Watching sailing while sailing, very meta👌🏽 Love it! Haha so glad you enjoyed it. Sounds like you’re having yourself a very peaceful sail

[@wastinson]

Thanks!

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Thank you so much for your support & generosity to help keep the production going. That really means a lot 🙏🏽

[@mv.alibiii4685]

Good job Allison!!! You guys always make it look easy even though I know truely that it's a lot of work at times !!! 😂 Keep up the good work!!! Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy ❤ From a old dude from Pender Harbour 😎👍🇨🇦

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Awe, thank you so much! Words of encouragement are a much needed thing this time of year! Hope you’re doing well neighbor! Thank you so much for being here 🤍

[@mv.alibiii4685]

You never have to thank me, just be you !!! And I will always have a bottle of Jameson on hand in case we run across each other somewhere on the west coast of our perfect landscape. Just an old dude from Pender Harbour BC 🇨🇦

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

We look forward to that! You're awesome, cheers mate!@@mv.alibiii4685

[@kenotoole4658]

Tip for the preventer - You should tie it much further outboard on the boom than you have at the moment. A boat in our club had tied it in the middle just like you and when the boat accidently gybed the boom broke in half at the point where you have tied it. Great videos... from Ireland and hoping to sail in the Pacific NW some day.

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Hey Ken! Thanks for checking out our channel, we’d love to sail off the coast of Ireland one day! I’ve heard of booms/poles breaking in such a way before. We’ve been using 8-ply braided nylon for our preventer line, this allows for plenty of stretch in the preventer line and reduces shock loading in the boom. But we're looking to rig up a more permanent & robust system to reduce stress on single points. Thanks for the tip! Hope you make it out to the PNW one day, it’s one helluva beautiful cruising ground!

[@johnrumbles3068]

Absolutely stunning!!!!! the scenery and wildlife is incredible, and your eye for that perfect shot, be it by handheld or drone cameras is superb. What a way to live a life!!!!!! magical.

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Thanks so much John!! It’s been fun to fly the drone more this szn. We feel our camera work hardly does this place any real justice! The landscape & wildlife is really incredible

[@tanyasoroka3314]

Excellent video. Thank you!

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Thank you, really glad you enjoyed it!

[@EasyStreetGarage]

Great adventure today, thanks.

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Glad you enjoyed it, cheers!

[@user-ln8fu2lx3x]

Love that north country .My Uncle Took the family to Expo 86 on his Carson Tours bus from Warspite and Edmonton Alberta .We went from Port Hardy to Prince Rupert on The Queen of The North . In 2005 the same tour company operated by a different driver i had an incredible trip to the Queen Charlotte Islands ,,now Haida Gwaii . Helicopter trip to Skadans was awesome .

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Awesome! We’re really looking forward to continuing North & checking it all out! Haida Gwaii is def on the list!

[@user-fl9on3ku1c]

Never saw Burke Channel that calm!

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

A rare calm day on in the notorious Burke! Still one of our favorite sailing days, just perfect!

[@user-fl9on3ku1c]

It looked great! It was always riding the waves coming from Namu to BCoola

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

@user-fl9on3ku1c we had a spicey time beating out of there one afternoon from Tallheo to Eucott😅

[@user-fl9on3ku1c]

I remember travelling Burke in the 60s as a kid, and it seemed to take forever at 8 knots. Name to Bella C.

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Its a long run for sure! As an adult I bet you would appreciate every minute of it. So stunning!

[@user-fl9on3ku1c]

Grew up in that area. Went to Eucott quite a few times. In the 1960s. From O ran Falls.

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Very cool! What a n amazing area to have grown up in! We enjoyed Eucott, such a beautiful spot. Let us know what you think about our videos re Ocean Falls :)

[@bradvansteinburg2962]

You guys make it worth watching as we travel with you, thanks. Took the ferry from Bella Coola to Port Hardy, 24 hours, well worth the stops. 2007.

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Glad you’re enjoying the vids! It’s a beautiful trip up to Bella Coola, happy you got to experience that for yourself :)

[@netteypatch]

Have you thought about making a cookbook for sailing?? The food always looks so good!

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Yes! Allison is actually a Nutritionist & has been aspiring to blend her passions for food, nutrition & sailing. Should we encourage her to do this?! What do we think?

[@cindym2369]

Absolutely!

[@netteypatch]

@@AllisonandJamesSailing I'ld put that publication in the ships' library!

[@powellkwd40]

I love your videos. Great camera work. The drone shots are amazing. Thanks for explaining your stern tie. I've never seen or done that. I hope I can do this on my little boat someday.

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Thanks mate, we’re really trying to improve our filming this season! Glad you enjoyed the stern tying saga, give it a go sometime! we’ve been thinking about putting together an episode about some of the odd anchoring situations we’ve encountered while sailing the central coast and going through the specifics of how we manage each situation. Let us know if you think that’s a episode you’d be interested in watching!

[@powellkwd40]

@@AllisonandJamesSailing Since I don't have very much experience I try to learn what I can from these videos while enjoying the adventure vicariously. I have a 25 ft Oday and its in good shape but it's hard for me to get time away so I just take it out for a couple hours here and there in nice weather. Better than nothing.

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

@@powellkwd40 Fantastic! We consider ourselves to be learning as well but it's awesome to hear that folks are learning from our experiences! It wouldn't be an adventure if we knew it all! Good on you for getting out on yours whenever you can squeeze in the hours! That's exactly how we started out :)

[@francinegolbeck3116]

Amazing nice video, our anchoring techniques are identical, we had a 600 foot stern line, an oversized Danforth anchor that barely fit in the anchor locker and a 9 Kg CQR spare anchor, most of the time we stern tied and were always super safe.

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Awesome!! Great techniques to learn & adopt if you want to explore the better anchorages here in the PNW! Our next video is about exactly that :)

[@haydenwatson7987]

This past year I have added a preventer into my standard rigging on my C30 and it is really nice for downing work. I have a line that is the length of the boom with a snap shackle on the forward end that is stored by threading it through the main sheet bails and clips to a loop on the mast. To use it, I have a line that runs up to my foredeck cleat and then back to the snap shackle on the preventer. It is really nice to not worry about accidental jibes.

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

That sounds like a great set up Hayden! It feels so much more secure running down wind with a preventer rigged. We’ve been using some spare sheets rigged from the boom centre through a block at the top of the starboard and port toe rail and then back to a cleat in the cockpit, we find having it setup tho way makes it really easy to control the mainsail while running down wind

[@haydenwatson7987]

@@AllisonandJamesSailing Your setup sounds like what I used to do but I got to thinking about the forces on the blocks and anchor points if I got hit with an accidental jibe and even a little slop in the lines. The toe rail is designed to handle a lot of loads parallel to the track, but it is much weaker if the loading perpendicular (side or up). Attaching to one of the main sheet bails also puts a tremendous amount of stress a single point on the boom. The main sheet attaches to three points and pulled downward on the strong axis of the boom. By attaching a preventor to one of those bails, you are asking one point to do the work of three and the load is along the weak axis. By using a line to the topping lift bail on the end of the boom and leading it forward to a block on a bow cleat, all loads are greatly reduced and in alignment with the strength axis of each component. Now when I jibe, I leave the preventer on, and the sail just inverts but the boom does not move at all. I then ease the preventer and gently move the boom across until the traveler takes up the load and then trim it as needed.

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Thanks for that! You're right, definitely more robust and reduces stress on single points. We'll look to setup something more permanent/similar. Thanks again!

[@Sailingbc]

I think you may have been experiencing katabatic winds going up the Fjord. I didn't know about them until we got our asses kicked going around Brooks Peninsula last summer. On the south side, close to shore, which should have been protected from the prevailing NW and then some other inlets on the west coast. It is a phenomena where gravity pulls higher cool dense air down a mountain slope to less dense warmer air. We experienced over 35kt winds in what should have been, very protected areas and the closer to land and the slope, the stronger they were.

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Hi @Sailingbc ! We experienced the opposite of that which is known as 'Anabatic' winds. An inflow is when air from the water is flowing into the inlets, fjords and valleys. In summer in fair weather, the daytime solar heating of the land and the mountains combines to create sea-breezes and anabatic winds that flow from the cool water toward the warmer land as an inflow. Katabatic winds are scary stuff, sounds like you experienced a decent one! Definitely wise to be informed about these winds sailing around these parts..

[@wastinson]

You've probably been asked this already (and I'm too lazy to try to find it in the many comments...sorry) but why the different sail numbers on main and jib, please? Did you scrounge the jib from another boat? Still just loving your footage and looking forward to your next season, whenever and wherever that might be. Thanks.

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

We’ve actually never been asked this before! All the sails were flying ‘came with’ the boat when we bought it. We think the main was purchased second hand by the previous owner because it’s in much better condition than the jib. The jib is likely much older (a few owners ago) - we found a receipt for it stamped 1996 in Washington. The boat also came with some hank on sails (from long ago) and a spinnaker we’ve never flown (we need a new whisker pole). So that’s they story of the sails! We need to upgrade badly, and are currently in discussion with a few sail lofts

[@wastinson]

That makes sense; the jib does indeed look older than the main. Good luck with the refit. BTW, it's a spinnaker pole that you're after I think. A whisker pole, which is much shorter, is generally used for flying the jib, not for a spinnaker.@@AllisonandJamesSailing

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

@wastinson yes oops, that what we meant. Thank you!

[@vincelafore4281]

Hi guys. Great videos. I seen 1 video where you make your own home brew. I do also and wondered about which brew to make and what yeast. What are you brewing? I guess for yeast I would bring some S05, 04 and kviek. All dried yeast, if legal in Canada not sure about hops. Once again not sure if it's legal. I'm into kegging, not bottling cause of the conditioning time. What's your favorite home brew?

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

You’ve got a keen eye! Yes we also homebrew, mostly making all grain saison, pale ales and IPA’s. All the dried yeasts (and liquid yeast) are legal in Canada as well as hops. We’re thinking about getting into kegging as the bottling gets a bit laborious! Probably our favourite brew we’ve made would be a Trappist style ale with Brett, it aged very nicely in bottles for 18th!

[@vincelafore4281]

@@AllisonandJamesSailing can I suggest keg land oxebar PET kegs. They are dirt cheap. You can get the tap head and keg condition with your priming sugar. The downfall of these kegs is cleaning but if you rinse them right away and get ur favorite cleaner in them it's not bad. My favorite at the moment, lol, is a simple citra, mosaic pale ale. I've been using Voss Kviek which tastes really good if you can get the fermentation temps up there. Will be brewing this again today using 1318. Cheers guys. Benn binge watching all of your inside passage videos. I'm in Sandpoint Idaho and one of my bucket lists is to boat to SE Alaska. Lol. I just need a boat, time and a little extra money.. it's in the planning stage

[@markhoene9984]

When wing on wing do you use a perventor?

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

We sure do, we rig dual lines running from the centre of the boom to the port and starboard toe rail and back to our secondary winches. Makes it very easy for us to control the main and prevent accident gybes while sailing dead down wind.

[@johncarter7304]

Hi, James and Alison. Just saying…Your boom would thank you for putting a strop near it’s end, and tying it off there to prevent a gybe. Enormous stress will be taken off it’s centre where an unexpected fickle gust could snap like a biscuit.@@AllisonandJamesSailing

[@lecaton5973]

Great video, beautiful! SV BROOKLYN

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed! Cheers!

[@bradvansteinburg2962]

Thanks guys , very nice, watch MV Skookum and Freedom , now another boat to add with pleasent people.

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed, happy to be added to that list, cheers!

[@HarryStucklermendotcom]

Very well done. Cheers from Thailand. SV Resilience. Harry

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Thank you!! Awesome to have you tuning in from Thailand, very cool. Cheers Harry!