Cruising the Outer Hebrides (Sailing Free Spirit)

[@davidmeeson4332]

Thanks

[@sailing-freespirit]

Thank you so much! 🙏😁

[@captlarry-3525]

If this lovely young woman is writing the commentary, she has a great future ahead of her. Not only is this intelligent and well informed, it is well photographed and edited. Well poised to be the next Lynn Pardee.

[@sailing-freespirit]

Thank you! I do write the commentary, as well as the filming and editing. What a lovely compliment ! 😊

[@Div3r]

My favourite way to have scallops is with black pudding and mushy peas only Scottish black pudding the English stuff is bogging. To enhance the flavour of the mushy peas add two teaspoons of mint sauce (Colemans) and around two teaspoons of white vinegar. Serve with small boiled potatoes and salad. The orange bits you discarded @ 15:30 you can eat some people refer to it as the foot others the roe either way it's edible.

[@ymk8355]

Sea Kelp Lasagne.. Wow!!! I must try that one day. Great informative videos about sailing life. I like that you show yourselves foraging and tell us about the species you encounter in the wild.

[@andrewthompson2380]

Love seeing all the places I sailed to over 34 years taking groups now a landlubber😩

[@stephenconway4976]

A beautiful life, a wonderful film. HNY.

[@sligeach]

Lovely video again.👍👍👍👍👍♥️

[@ewanmacleod3819]

I Live and work at sea in Uist. Nice to see it in a video! Don't think I seen yous anywhere but if ever yous visit again there will be fresh caught seafood from my boat any time yous want ☺️

[@sailing-freespirit]

Thank you! That’s a very lovely offer, unfortunately we’re not in Scotland anymore, we’ve just sailed to Norway! Wish you all the best 😃

[@Alastair510]

you threw away the coral! That's the best bit!

[@atuanderson]

Another lovely video. Thank you.

[@KnutHaglePadle]

Thank you for sharing! Wish you a happy new year!

[@BigBloke_LittleBoat]

This is brilliant!

[@happyafloatsailingpodcast5772]

Wizard pool awesome! Lasagne recipe please!🙂

[@sailing-freespirit]

For the recipe, simply replace pasta with kelp! But highly recommend the ‘Seaweed Cookbook’ by the Cornish seaweed company for inspiration and delicious recipes! 👌

[@happyafloatsailingpodcast5772]

@@sailing-freespirit Thank you, does the kelp need any soaking or is it just a quick rinse?

[@sailing-freespirit]

@@happyafloatsailingpodcast5772 as you saw in the video, it was brought to the boil first (turns it green!) in freshwater (removes some of the saltiness and reduces the iodine content a bit).

[@WebbedFootage]

Great film as always! Happy New Year!

[@sailing-freespirit]

Thank you! Happy New Year, hope you have a good one! :)

[@allandoyle1809]

Happy New Year guys!

[@sailing-freespirit]

And to you! :)

[@patrickgirardin9076]

hI from France; yours videos are great ! tell me please what is your boat ?I have a Jeannneau Mélody ! merci

[@sailing-freespirit]

Thank you 😊. She is a steel Koopmans 39 with a full length keel.

[@Wayfarer4Christ]

Wonderful video once again! Be blessed!! Please add a link to your Patron site :)

[@sailing-freespirit]

Thank you so much! :) There was a link at the end of the film, but it's now in the video description as well. And here it is again :www.patreon.com/user/about?u=84491705 :)

[@Wayfarer4Christ]

@@sailing-freespirit - Done! :)

[@willmcneill3108]

Thanks for these videos. What speed were the gusts that were in danger of taking your kayaks? More generally, at what wind speeds do you try to find anchor? And at what speeds would you worry about the anchor failing? As a novice sailor, it's hard to imagine relaxing in these conditions!

[@sailing-freespirit]

Thanks for watching. The violent but short lived gusts, coming off the mountain, were probably well in excess of 40kts. If you seek out a sheltered anchorage with good holding, and if you have good ground tackle and boat attachment points, suitable for your length and weight of vessel, you should be able to sit at anchor in 60kts+. A well designed anchor like our Spade, if well set, will bury itself deeper rather than pop out and bounce, when it’s holding capacity is exceeded - so you have time to react. The problem often comes when the wind direction changes dramatically, again, a well designed anchor that will not come out when resetting is the ideal (we love our Spade). As for relaxing....in high winds, don’t ever become complacent.

[@willmcneill3108]

@@sailing-freespirit Thanks so much for the reply! Glad to see you can manage to relax, even if you remain uncomplacent!

[@maurizioferrario1949]

Wonderful!! What time of the year was it?

[@sailing-freespirit]

It was a cold and windy July 2022.

[@davidmeeson4332]

Add a thanks button and I will make a donation from time to time. Love your videos.

[@sailing-freespirit]

Thank you! I think I’ve added a super thanks button now but I can’t be sure, I’m very new to this so I don’t quite understand how it works 😉😂

[@paulb1794]

👍🦘

[@davidwarnes5158]

Rather than fish farms , ban all fishing for 5 years , let nature have a go, other places in the world fish to eat , we don't,