S3#30 Is Land sickness real? Atlantic Crossing Plus Portofino Design Walkthrough

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Join the Barefoot Doctors on the trans-Atlantic voyage as they approach St Helena and enjoy a few days of rest and land based exploration. We see spctacular vertical double rainbows on the way into St Helena, the Napoleon's house, tomb and life size model. We also see the worlds oldest living mammal, Jonathan, a 191 year old land tortoise!
We struggle up Jacobs Ladder after a huge English breakfast - that is 699 steps and 180m high vertical climb. We visit Boer cemetery with Paul Badenhorst's namesakes that died during this imprisonment of Boers during the war in 1901-1903....
We also take you through a walkthrough of the Portofino 52 design using a CAD program and share many of the unique internal features that the boat comes with....
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[@saildreamer]

Much the same as I remember St Helena from 50 years ago!!

[@barefootdoctorssailing8567]

Amazing - thanks for watching, Bruce!

[@Adam-ln1ny]

It's going to be interesting to see how you resolve the massive void behind the 2 door fridge/freezer. Looking forward to the build updates as it comes together.

[@barefootdoctorssailing8567]

Hi Adam, I did answer this before but is seems it did not load. The lower half of that space is the cabin and the space from waist up will be used for the Air Con system.

[@seawench555]

Oh Yeah, that was absolutely mind blowing stuff, what and episode, what an adventure. John u looked so much happier about 3mins after u put ur feet on solid ground, St Helena is such a treasure trove of history and herstory, incredibly tough and ruggard, with an energy, I'm sure u felt. The Barefoot Portofino Teasers, are great but I wonder if I put the vlog on fast forward, will the floating mansion get built and quicker, oh well it was a thought😭 Eli u look stunning as usual, with that twinkle Back in ur eyes.🤔 Thanks for sharing these beautiful, memorable moments in ur lives with us. ? Will subscribers get a chance to meet u and sail with u as well or just patrons. Because my Love for u both is Priceless 💖👣 oh and the boats too.🏳️‍🌈 be safe xx

[@barefootdoctorssailing8567]

I Karlene, great to hear from you again - we were worried because of the silence for all these weeks! Subscribers will get a chance to meet up with us in Dubai for sure but the sailing in Gocek is for Patreons (limited numbers...). If folk come to Dubai when the 52 is complete, I am sure we will take them all sailing though. We also have meet ups in different countries when we ware travelling so perhaps we will do one in Australia around Xmas this year when we are back...

[@MrJerobona]

Oh yes the earth sickness is just like the sea sickness! I never had seasickness but did get the Mal de débarquement!

[@barefootdoctorssailing8567]

Quite a common experience it seems!

[@GregHathorn]

John, great crossing! Met Neil in St Pete at same boat yard we are having our Leopard 42, SV Amore, provisioned. Just saying goodbye to Hurricane Idalia this morning. Tampa/St Pete dodged another one. BTW, if you have fixed docks, I highly recommend TideSlides! Amore road up and down on the slides beautifully.

[@barefootdoctorssailing8567]

Thanks for the info Greg and we were thinking about all you guys hunkering down AGAIN! I've never heard of TideSlides before - sounds excellent!

[@constantinealexandrakis]

Awesome video and tour of St. Helena. Thank you!

[@barefootdoctorssailing8567]

Glad you enjoyed it, Constantine!!

[@constantinealexandrakis]

You inspired me to take the day off to go sailing with my son. :)

[@MrJerobona]

Looks like "the rock" with Sean Connery! But this is my ancestor's big Rock... Mr.Bonaparte jailed by the Britz...

[@barefootdoctorssailing8567]

Exactly Jero!

[@robbbbbie12]

What a interesting place to visit. Not sure I’ll ever get the opportunity to travel to St Helena, so thanks for the tour!

[@barefootdoctorssailing8567]

Its a pleasure Robbie!

[@gatheraround2620]

It was interesting to see many places on St Helena and Jonathan again. I was last there in 1955 as a 5-year-old. It was just my mother and I. We did use Jacob's Ladder, but we went down. At the time, some locals would hook their arms and legs over the rails and slide down. At the time, they had me stand on Jonathan. He was around 120 then. I'm amazed that he's still alive. There were two companions at the time, both younger. I presume they have died.

[@barefootdoctorssailing8567]

Wow- very interesting! Yews there are no other tortoises there now so he is the only survivor and quite a tourist attraction! St Helena is bleak and awesome surviving ou there in the middle of the ocean....

[@juergenzenner4219]

In 15 years working on cruise ships, I’m luckily never been seasick but once, after a very raff Atlantic crossing, land sick for an hour.

[@barefootdoctorssailing8567]

Well done for never being seasick! In certain situations I can feel sick and it's amade worse with anxiety, closed space (eg working in cramped engine room) and foul smells (diesel, toilets, rotten food, other people vomiting). So I think it can happen to anyone with the right conditions but when you start to feel it, you can take steps to stop it....

[@terrykeever9422]

I get motion sickness easily. Was on a cruise on older cruise ship to Bahamas in early December. Took my mother and sister. Got really rough on the way back. Neither had ever had any motion sickness. I was ok until they got sick. When I went to get some sea sickness pills for them, there was a line as most of the crew was sick. Many said they had never been sick before.

[@ashleykerlin]

OMG ″Portofino1234″ on a post-it note stuck to the monitor! And on video. Like something straight out of movies…

[@barefootdoctorssailing8567]

Yes, we realised that and they changed their password....

[@juergenzenner4219]

I love the boat. So much small helpful details!!!

[@barefootdoctorssailing8567]

Us too, Juergen! In fact there are so many small details, it is hard to get them all into the videos so we are always dropping things off...

[@ianh2674]

Hi folks, really enjoyed the mixed content, St Helena looks an interesting place. Was never sea sick despite some very rough seas, but land sickness was very real. As Paul mentioned when taking a pee it was very noticeable. Boat design looks great.

[@barefootdoctorssailing8567]

Thanks for commenting Ian and confirming it for us!

[@mathewrowberry5859]

the boat looks amazing just out of curiousity the centre boards will they only have a 90 degree postion and 45 degree aswell just the 45 degree option would help for despelling weeds and will give you a bit more shallow draft and staying in control of the boat and also divert all seaweed and debre away from the props as same as McConaghy 60 also what type of anchor system you having a duel anchor system like shown on the cat 70 portifino that would look cool

[@barefootdoctorssailing8567]

Hi Matthew. The cnetreboard can be held at any angle you like - fully down, slightly angled back, 45* and almost fully up but with just a little bit for steerage / rudder protection, and any angle in between. It is driven by a motor so can be stopped at any point. The double anchor system is not being done for us because of weight and size of the boat - very thin hulls.

[@MrJerobona]

Napoleon's prison wasn't that bad! But my great gran father was part of the trip to get him back to France where he is now residing in the Invalides in Paris. We still have a celebration on the 5th of May every year!

[@barefootdoctorssailing8567]

Wow, Jero that is amazing that your father relocated the remains to France!!! Yes the "prison" was very pleasant and we were at his "prison" on Elba too that was equally luxurious! Living in luxury but he must have felt humiliated - shame!

[@brandtpoint]

Are you concerned about the noise with the engine bed being next to the engine room?

[@barefootdoctorssailing8567]

Hi Brandt, thanks for the interest and we are not worried about this as the engine rooms will be sound proofed and completely separate sealed rooms. Compare this to the boats that have the engine under the beds and you have to lift the mattress to access and service the engine....

[@dc1544]

I forget since I watch so many channels, are you going with Hybrid motors? I think you are.

[@barefootdoctorssailing8567]

We have not decided on that yet - still hoping for advances in the batteries to allow for longer duration/distance to make them effective...

[@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665]

​@@barefootdoctorssailing8567 It looks like the latest Na ion batteries are also solid state see the electric viking .. Meantime the development rate is going exponential at the moment.. But keep an eye on the Blade cells for the moment..

[@jtlissner3062]

I can attest to Mal de debarquement being very real. I have, touch wood, yet to suffer sea sickness (there is a sea for every stomach) but after a few days on board I have a very ordinary time back to land, particularly when lying down trying to sleep that first night. Nausea and sensation of surging. Not fun, good reason to stay aboard.

[@barefootdoctorssailing8567]

Thanks Jason forth comment and we agree with all those facts!

[@barryholiday8998]

Where is the engine in the owner’s hull?

[@orbiradio2465]

See 30:00 - Rendering is not perfect.

[@barefootdoctorssailing8567]

Hi Barry, yes in the CAD Raffa had cut the one engine wall off by mistake but the engine is just rear of the master cabin and in front of the sho0wer. Also if you go to the 2D plan when looking at the dive room, you will see the two hulls layouts there too.

[@barryholiday8998]

@@barefootdoctorssailing8567 will the engine in the owner’s hull have the same sort of access as the other?

[@MarketingStrategies28]

I gave up on that yacht company. After many email heard nothing. I see others in your comments with same problem. If their service is that bad i wouldn't trust their yachts. Let alone give them any money up front.

[@barefootdoctorssailing8567]

Shame, I know Raffaele was dealing with thousands of emails as a result of our videos - if you give me your email address and name, I can ask if the emails got through to him.

[@MarketingStrategies28]

@@barefootdoctorssailing8567 I sent to both addresses also