First Sail With Our Hydrovane Wind Vane & A Beautiful Irish Anchorage | DrakeParagon Sailing

[@cawfeedawg]

Great seeing you two underway again! ❤

[@elgordo6883]

This was my first sailing channel quite a few years ago. It still is one of my favorites. I always enjoy your travels and episodes. Thanks for bringing us along!!

[@UUBrahman]

Such a peaceful video - like a meditation.

[@wizardmix]

Your videos always bring me joy! I wish you both a very happy and healthy 2024!!! My goodness, have I been watching you for 10 years? No... I refuse to believe it's been that long...

[@christopherpeterson1400]

You both look very happy and healthy .... nice to see

[@RobbsHomemadeLife]

That grill is cool, I am happy to see the self-steering vane working.

[@drakeParagon]

Me too!

[@ArcticSeaCamel]

Catching slowly your recent videos. Been missing them a little ❤️ Your Greenland tour was great and one of the first vlogs I watched. Appreciate all the effort you put into these! Cheers!

[@johnryan2193]

Be happy and always stay positive, I know the sailing life can be very demanding. Great video

[@joewalker2089]

Been loving your content over the years, thx for sharing...

[@mdboatbum]

Thanks for this! You really captured the giddy anticipation of heading off for parts unknown. Really fun to watch.

[@drakeParagon]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@MikeSantis]

Life on anchor. Fantastic!

[@seabound1350]

Beautiful episode 🙏

[@sonic505050]

Another awesome video!

[@pete9501]

Absolutely, good to see what solar achieves in other yachts at our latitude. We were getting 2kW each day back in September if we could keep the panels facing south.

[@stallion78]

Glad you guys are uploading more. Congrats on your hydro vane project. And yeah that is a interesting little grill. I would like to see a Paragons favorite stuff video.

[@drakeParagon]

Thanks! Will do!

[@DobDog151]

I have a BioLite stove, with the grill. Never thought about cooking in the cockpit of my boat. May give that a go this coming season. Cheers!

[@SailorMartinF]

So cool that you anchored in Portacloy Beach, I share my time between the US and Ireland and have a little cottage not 10 minutes from there. Had my first sailboat in Oriental many years ago and was tickled to see Paul, Mark and many others on your channel back when you refitted Paragon. I guess the world is a small place if you focus on the the sailing community. Thanks for your videos, continue to enjoy your adventures and always .. fair winds and following seas.

[@drakeParagon]

Oh wow! Small world. :) :) :)

[@waynehanley72]

Glad that you both are over COVID (except for the lingering after effects). I hope you got to visit the EIRE marker at the head of the bay! Those were put up during WWII so that aircraft could see that they had entered neutral territory.

[@gregfawcett5152]

Nice...

[@anthonyrstrawbridge]

It's amazing how those panels just keep on giving. My favorite cheap batteries are timeusbpower ✌🏻👶🏻🚬

[@WavedancerWesterlyfulmar]

Irish channel here. Normally based on east coast. I learned to sail in Bantry Bay. Learned windsurfing in Clew bay.

[@sdrc92126]

I was good up until the end. Now I'm hungry

[@lorihutchinson9485]

Great thumbnail.

[@drakeParagon]

Mo is way better at making thumbnails than me. 😊

[@kenlynch6332]

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[@svdellajean253]

Hi Drake and Monique. I know you have a nice new Hydro Vane, but curious if you’ve tried “sheet to tiller” steering modified to “sheet to wheel”? Great video thanks for posting.

[@drakeParagon]

I've never tried sheet to tiller/wheel steering. I wonder if that would work on a 20 ton full keel Westsail 42.. A long time ago on my Westail 32, I broke my Aries wind vane with 600 nautical miles to go enroute from Beautfort, North Carolina to St. Martin. I didn't have an electric autopilot at the time. Luckily, we were sailing up wind for most of the remaining trip, and I was able to get the boat to self steer for the most part by: - getting on course under sail with both headsail out and mainsail up - locking the rudder in place - adjusting the sails to stay on course by: ---bringing in the main to make the boat head up into the wind ---letting the main out to make the boat turn away from the wind ---bringing the headsail in to make the boat bear off away from the wind ---letting the headsail out make the boat head up into the wind I found that by occasionally adjusting the sails I was able to keep the boat on course for long periods without adjustment. But this only works when you're going upwind.

[@cpobyrne1]

You didn't say but it looks like Portacloy bay, beautiful spot on the North Co. Mayo coast. ~~~ _/) ~~~~ --|--}

[@drakeParagon]

Yes, that’s Portacloy! What a beautiful anchorage. We loved that we could hear the sound of the waves coming up on the beach and also the sheep all around. We had a wonderful, restful stay, which was just what we needed. We didn’t even go ashore for several days before we got a great weather window to sail direct to Dingle.

[@MrMilothedog]

How is your solar set-up? Do you have (MPPT?) controllers on each solar panel?

[@drakeParagon]

Yes, we have 5 Blue Sky Energy Solar Boost 3024 controllers. Each one is connected to up to 3 panels. www.amazon.com/Blue-Sky-Energy-SB3024DiL-Controller/dp/B007SNLRD6

[@jim4109]

Drake what was the app you were using to help you set markers and measure 200 feet?

[@drakeParagon]

We've been using the Wärtsilä iSailor iOS app for all of our navigation for years. I think it's a fantastic. When we were sailing in Svalbard in 2018, I was using both the Navionics app and also iSailor app on my iPhone. But found that I couldn't enter waypoints with latitudes that far north in either one of them. I wrote to both companies, asking if there was anyway to fix this. I never heard back from Navionics, but the developers of iSailor wrote back to me right away, saying that they would fix it. A week later they wrote back to me again when they released an update with that functionality working. apps.apple.com/us/app/wärtsilä-isailor/id398456162

[@From_Refugee_To_Yacht_Owner]

I have installed on my boat as well however I haven’t had a chance to try it. How was the first time experience using it?

[@drakeParagon]

So far it's been steering great. I'm not crazy about how much the whole thing vibrates when the rudder's in the water and the boat's under power, so I think I might add a custom brace on the top to hold it more steady. I'm looking forward to when we've sailed with it enough to make a good usage demo and review video. Hopefully soon!

[@From_Refugee_To_Yacht_Owner]

@@drakeParagon I will be looking forward for the next video. And thanks for sharing your insights. Take care.

[@MrChrisHobday]

What did the wind Lodi to you?

[@drakeParagon]

Lodi?

[@TimErickson-oc6sd]

Ok I like to grill the onion a bit I like the greasy burger that grilled onions bring .

[@lorenzoward946]

Your anchor chain needs re-zinching urgently

[@SvGemstar]

G'day From Australia. I have an new channel, SV Gemstar. I bought an lager boat for at lest two people to live on and go sailing whenever we want to go sailing. The boat i bought is an Colombia 27. I have named SV Gemstar. I bought the boat on the 3rd of Jan and began to live on it from the 18th of Jan. I have resubscribeb to your channel. I have a few projects to do and will do an intro soon. Gered liveaboard on, SV Gemstar.