ep35 - Sailing Portsmouth NH to Gloucester & Cape Cod MA - Hallberg-Rassy 54 Cloudy Bay - Aug 2018

[@steveschwartz6138]

I was stationed at Fort Point in Portsmouth NH from 1991-1993. Your video brought back lots of memories.

[@SailCloudyBay]

Steve, glad the video sparked good memories for you.

[@SailingSVRose]

Great speed. Those lobster pots are everywhere.

[@petermcgill4230]

I've watched a lot of sailing videos. Yours are close to, if not, the best. They make me feel like I am part of the trip. A nice balance of sailing and exploring on land, and no awful music!!

[@SailCloudyBay]

Thank you for your kind comment, Peter :)

[@varietyyachtsvessels6769]

Only recently have my lovely wife Griselda and I began enjoying these truly remarkable videos. We love the freedom and carefree nature that only a nautical journey through crystal clear and blue tinted tropical waters can provide. No small consideration must be discounted concerning the loving marital relationship between this handsome, somewhat giddy, competent British sailboat captain and his lovely perpetually smiling Sputnik 2nd mate of a wife. Safe boating, and we look forward to a rendezvous with the two of you featuring oversized and over priced cocktails at your next port of call! Sincerely, Dennis

[@SailCloudyBay]

What a great comment! Thanks Dennis

[@steveholton4130]

Thank you so much for this Great Video! It is my favorite episode of all the hundreds I have watched from the dozens of You Tubers at sea. That is because it is the first I have seen where the adventurers sailed the New England coastal waters and visited Ports of Call familiar to me. WELCOME to New England! If your just passing through, Please, Come Again when you can spend much more time exploring the Land of the Pilgrims. It was no fluke that they came here400 years ago. I am a life long resident of Connecticut and in my 70 years voyage of life have become very well acquainted with the Atlantic coast from mid coast Maine to mid coast New Jersey. I can not imagine living anywhere out side of a 50 mile drive from this stretch of the Finest Coastline in the world. Today, I have subscribed to you channel and especially look forward to voyaging with you 2 to Bermuda which is still on my bucket list. Obviously, you, sir, are from Great Britain but the lady's speech eludes me. Is she, by chance, Dutch? Wishing you Fair breezes and Following Seas! ALL-A-TAUT-O sdh T.A. '67 in CT

[@SailCloudyBay]

thanks for that long and considered comment Steve. Oana is from Romania.

[@tomsimon1974]

Great video, for years I have wanted to visit Gloucester, it's a gorgeous fishing town

[@PhilDesmond]

Your videos are stellar and you are a master of the sea. Truly enjoying your adventure, thank you for sharing.

[@MrSILVIOCT]

Happy birthday and Good Winds!

[@عابرسبيل-و5ي1س]

Don't know if you have a video talking about when you started sailing and learning and choosing the boat. ? If not make one . Plzzzz. And again thanks for sharing.

[@SailCloudyBay]

That would be a looooong video. I started sailing as a teenager. As for how we chose the yacht I believe we have that described on our webpage: www.sailcloudybay.com It would be difficult to make a video of how we chose the boat. النعم ان

[@MOTORVESSELFREEDOM]

You do know Raymarine service I believe is in Portsmouth New Hampshire

[@SailCloudyBay]

Yep, that’s where we sent it. They had it fixed and back to us in 5 days!

[@douglasdeacon3234]

did you purchase Cloudy Bay new?

[@SailCloudyBay]

No, we purchased in 2016. She was new in 2018

[@darrylmcleman6456]

Keep an eye peeled for Wicked Tuna Gang!!!

[@michaelb.barnett2225]

Glenn & Oana: When you go to Martha's Vineyard, be sure you walk around Edgartown on water street and around the water. Absolutely beautiful place. Barney

[@SailCloudyBay]

It was indeed beautiful and we are editing that video now, as I write this :)

[@jwrappuhn71]

Good vid ya'll.

[@MOTORVESSELFREEDOM]

Go to Provincetown before going into canal......ton of whales and fun town

[@SailCloudyBay]

John, Sadly we missed this town. There were sooo many places we would have like to visit, but our time to short to get back south and across to Bermuda. The east coast USA has been a real eye opener for us. One could cruise here for years and never get bored! Maybe we come back next summer!

[@steveholton4130]

At least in New England, we call them Lobster POTS. The Lobster POT is at the water's surface connected by a long rope to the Lobster TRAP which rests on the water's floor. Because of the varying depth of the water, the connecting rope "line" can very long and very tough. Very few get cut by propellors but many get wound around propeller shafts and get cut by boaters who must dive to their shafts to free themselves.

[@BobbieGWhiz]

Nice video, but why would one not try to avoid hitting the lobster pot to avoid damage to all involved?

[@steveholton4130]

No Sane person Doesn't Avoid hitting the lobster pots but, believe me, It Is Much More Difficult than you can imagine. Boats can not change course as easily or quickly as an automobile. And even if the could, you have to see the pot before it leaves your line of sight. There is No Electronic gear that can see or sense them.

[@BobbieGWhiz]

steve holton Wasn’t he aiming for them and filming the collisions, and intentionally included these in his uploaded video?

[@steveholton4130]

No, I did not get that impression at all - I do NOT believe that to be the case but I could be mistaken.

[@terrygause29653]

You certainly can’t maneuver around them while hanging off the bow with a go pro camera. It was a dick move.

[@normand5847]

I think it is the English that get everywhere. :)

[@todloeffelholz5815]

You should not be hitting the lobster pot buoys

[@SailCloudyBay]

Ha ha thats funny. Its not like they sink! They are floats man! Either you are a Lobsterman or you haven't tried sailing in northern new England where there are literally millions of these floats. They even have the nerve to put them in shipping channels. Can you imagine how the sea bed must be littered with abandoned traps that ships have cut the float lines too. Even trying our hardest to avoid them we managed to hit one or 2. And one around the prop. Impossible to miss them all when its foggy. And really, they completely take the fun out of cruising up there.

[@PatriotCanadian]

I also hate the awful music.

[@SailCloudyBay]

An interesting comment considering there is zero music in the entire video :) .... or was that your point?

[@gunsmoke6230]

Explain the type of boat, length, logistics so on so forth please...we get it your super wealthy but we’re not learning a damn thing Brit !

[@SailCloudyBay]

Not sure where super wealthy comes from. Cloudy Bay is our only possession and her value is no more than an average house in the western world.... and decreasing!

[@gunsmoke6230]

She should invite a friend

[@SailCloudyBay]

why?

[@gunsmoke6230]

God play some music to listen too...

[@jamesihle7915]

No..lets hear nature

[@pierrehenrytrouslard7486]

Sometimes even god makes some mistakes! Ex: Brexit. With my bad French humor.