Ep52 | Sailing with a following wind

We had a fantastic week sailing around the Greek islands with five other KZbin sailing channels. I hope you find this video as exciting as we found the trip.
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[@Outrageousconduct]

Another fantastic video BEST sailing channel on KZbin

[@HopeOfJoe]

Great episode guys ‼️ 👍 Niiiiiice fotos of the group. ✨🌊🌬⛵️🏝👙🌞✨

[@mrpmessina]

Brilliant video as per usual. Lovely scenery and great presentation. Thank you so much.

[@RiggingDoctor]

Loved the video almost as much as we loved spending time with you! What an amazing experience for all of us. Thanks for sharing it so beautifully!

[@gavingrantham136]

Been following Sailing Lady Africa and they fitted Dyneema rigging to their Dean 365 Cat - check them out.

[@svfairisle]

Thanks guys

[@mytube47113]

Thanks Fair Isle. Great video. FYI Free Range Sailing rerigged with Dynema and explained the process then sailed the Southern Ocean from Hobart to Perth across the Great Australian Bight.

[@davescott1491]

Wonderful indeed. Thank you!

[@JoshPostVlogs]

Awesome video!! Great memories with you both! ⛵️🏛🌅

[@svfairisle]

Thanks Josh, we are currently sailing to Turkey, sailing conditions not so great so you picked a good week

[@DougVarble]

Nice thanks

[@trevhedges]

Cheers guys!

[@nickwilkinson2501]

once again another great film to sit back and enjoy. Loved it.

[@JayPerrypersonal]

You mentioned going further west, Israeli was amazing to sail to and winter for us in 2017 / 2018. Not much sailing as no real anchorages, but we got a spot in Tel-Aviv marina. Amazing country to explore. Definitely recommend.

[@Bumsonaboat]

What an excellent video Steve and Judy!! Such great memories and the ending is totally hilarious 😅 you two are an inspiration.

[@svfairisle]

Thanks for being such good sports it was an honour to meet you both and I really hope we get a chance to sail together again.

[@fgansell]

Great and lively video. Thank You

[@DavidHigh75]

I really enjoy your video's and the adventure. Perfect! Technical and Adventurist!

[@7drobin]

This is a real fun episode with some of my favourite travellers featured in it. Can't wait for the following episode(s). Thank you.

[@TheBeggFamily]

Great video! Must be good to meet up with so many fans!

[@ABeriault]

Great work Fair Isle

[@tomriley5790]

Thanks found some good channels to follow!

[@hughdowling9267]

Well done Steve and Judy. Loved it. What a great group of sailors. H

[@C_C_SEA]

✨🏆✨Gorgeous offerings! Go well, and enjoy. Looking fwd to your 🇹🇷 chapters 🌬💨⛵🌊

[@miketcq8]

Cool to have all the channels on your boat.... can't wait for next weeks edition. Fair winds

[@danielmcneil3004]

Thank you Judy and Steve for this latest video with fellow cruisers. Discovered your site just over a year ago and I love your style of sailing/cruising and Fair Isle is my kind of boat. Having spent about 30 years crewing on a traditional 40’ wooden schooner, I recognize and appreciate the benefits of a full keel boat for cruising. Your videos and commentary are top notch and I always look forward to your next post. Stay safe and well in Turkey. Cheers, Dan. 😀✌️⛵️🇨🇦

[@SailingABSea]

Ant & Cid arrived at Finike today, they spoke highly of you. We're all going out to the Turkish Republic Day celebrations tomorrow night.

[@judyaslett6209]

Great! we hope to make to Turkey by the weekend. Have a good time

[@bobrose7900]

I love the Rigging Doctor and am now a convert to Dyneema for rigging...all except for the jib furler as mentioned (I think). For me the lack of corrosion, light weight and UV resistance are a win win, you just need to pump the mast up in cold climates! Great video, friends and sailing, it's what it's all about.

[@1240enzo]

See my comment above, there is no issue Re using dyneema for your forestay and still being able to having a furling jib/Genoa. It works just fine. Check out Free Range Sailing. They did a video on this where they completely Re-rigged their 30ft boat with dyneema.

[@bobrose7900]

@@1240enzo Thanks David. I don't know that I could afford to have it all don't at once but something to plan for. I'll look into the video mentioned and I'll be interested to see where they sourced theiy material.

[@RiggingDoctor]

We viewed it as a race as well 😎

[@seethelittlethings]

I was just filming and enjoyed complaining about how we're not closer to the rocks.

[@catspaw3815]

What a great group. Josh and Herbie really know their stuff. Thanks, Steve and Judy

[@1962gms]

Great to see you having fun with a bunch of people. It is nice to get a chance to meet up with like minded people and just relax. And then you get the chance to sail on your own again - perfect mix and they all seem like nice people. Enjoy the trip to Turkey!

[@judyaslett6209]

Thank you Gary. It was an honour to be asked to join them and it certainly gave us a different perspective. I’m looking forward to crossing the atlantic now which we plan to do in a couple of years.

[@mslcreative]

Really enjoyed your video thank you

[@cliffterpher]

Really wanted to see Judy and Steve jump off the spreaders! Great video. "It's always a race when you have 2 yachts"!

[@Outrageousconduct]

I'd give a few shillings to see that

[@svfairisle]

@@Outrageousconduct not gonna happen!

[@Outrageousconduct]

@@svfairisle Roflamo !!!

[@JamieBowenSailingPlymouthUK]

Free Range Sailing has Dyneema rigging. Lots on their channel covering their rigging refit in Tasmania.

[@chuckduzzie8529]

You sneaky Bums….. showing up on another channel that I watch.

[@SVBlownAway]

Enjoy Turkey !

[@dellybel1979]

Your intro theme tune reminds me of “wish you were here” with Judith Chalmers (not sure that’s the right name, but I’m sure you know what I mean).

[@ianwhyte4654]

Hi Steve & Judy, great video realy enjoyed it. In Turkey the eye is there to ward off eviel and most houses have it by the front entrance. The rock you were trying to identify looks like basalt which is a volcanic rock which would explain the air bubbles.

[@svfairisle]

Arh, yes should have guessed basalt from the green and rapid cooling for the bubbles

[@SEAMASTERHELLAS]

Hey guys. The blue eye is to prevent every priceless things from the evil eye. In Greece they hang the blue eye to the new born babies, the horses and outside of the houses. Any way you can see them hanging from anything that the owner feels that must be protected from the evil eye. This is a very old tradition.

[@oceanictranquility7782]

Hi, It's the camaraderie that gets to you. It's so good to see places I'm not gonna see. Just a quick note. Pascal and Troy (Free Range Sailing) have had the dynema standing rigging for around 2 years now, it seems to stretch abit in the beginning but soon settles down. Bit expensive now but it will come down in price........hopefully. Thanks for the vid, Best David

[@svfairisle]

Sailors always have good camaraderie I think. It's one of the joys of being out here.

[@sailabouts]

Enjoyed Joel’s insight on creating creative life stories. Great life tenant - lest we should be forget sometimes … thanks buddy

[@stanleysteamcar]

Nice video on beautiful Greece, thank you. It's good to see you all together. The 'evil eye' beads are where the expression 'giving someone the evil eye' or 'evil glare' comes from. Plukky from Sailing into Freedom also uses DUX and made his own from scratch including pre-stretching and two different slices. Interesting videos

[@svfairisle]

Ahh yes ‘giving someone the evil eye’ that makes sense. You do wonder why having them as a gift to give to a friend would be a good idea though! Didn’t know about Plucky, happy he’s managed to keep a boat afloat long enough to change the rigging😬

[@rimasmeleshyus9486]

Beautiful sailing ⛵❤

[@WelshVilliageDad]

Lovely as all ways.

[@svfairisle]

Thanks Darren

[@bodywood]

Hi just want to say that jumping or diving from the spreaders seems like a fun idea but it is incredibly dangerous. I remember years ago during a becalmed summer race there was some larking about. I didn't see it happen but a guy who did this didn't quite travel far enough. You can imagine the injury. Not sure if he slipped or his push off, pushed the mast away. We did see the Solent coastguard helicopter come to take him away. Gives me shivers just thinking about. Stay safe.

[@iainmacdonald1170]

Perhaps not the cleverest thing to do to your spreaders either....

[@seethelittlethings]

What a great summary of last week! Thank you for this :) You real-time pros.. @bums , I’m a bit disappointed that Joel chose the lower spreader. Just saying.

[@judyaslett6209]

It’s a long way up! Great to meet you and good luck on your crossing. We’ll follow you in a couple of years.

[@seethelittlethings]

@@judyaslett6209 Thank you, likewise 😊 We'll be waiting!

[@SVImpavidus]

A good mix. Something for everyone. Dyneema is interesting. We recently changed our platform brace lines to it. Easy to work with but quite hard inflexible after stretching out the splices. Sail Safe Guys, Ant, Cid & the pooch crew.

[@stephenmahoney9531]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@bill8784]

Lovely to see our favourite other place on earth in the form of Greece and its islands. Bit worried to see your dinghy towed behind your lovely yacht,

[@svfairisle]

You're right to be worried, we flipped it a couple of days ago in a very unexpected 40knot blast. No damage done though apart from loosing the oars. Best intentions of always putting it o deck but complacency / laziness gets to us all!

[@bill8784]

@@svfairisle Glad you recovered. I was concerned because I think you lost the last one and had to wait to get your preferred replacement. Your comment about having your displacement hull giving you a pleasant passage emphasised what a lovely comfortable yacht you have.

[@svfairisle]

Yes we do at least have two lines on it now when we tow. And yes Fair Isle comes into her own on those sorts of passages, the crew on the other boat didnt have such a nice sail & said the boat became difficult to steer in the following sea. I did think they would come roaring past us though with their much longer water line length, it's only usually on heavy weather upwind legs we beat other boats as the sort of slamming you get with modern boats means you really can't push them too much, Fair Isle just goes through waves with zero slamming

[@mrmarcocecchi74]

7:30 these are the "eyes of Madonna" and bring good luck...but you can't buy it for yourself (otherwise brings bad luck)...you got to buy it and give it as a gift to someone. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazar_(amulet)

[@jvodan]

sailing into freedom has dynema rigging

[@davidclarke7728]

They only recommend changing steel after ten years , but there are many boats with steel many years older then this , but it needs to be regularly checked for condition

[@gerhardvanwaltsleben8944]

Lekker man lekker

[@willmwaura88]

I’m just here for Judy’s narration skills

[@judyaslett6209]

Thank you! Pictures are great too though

[@razisn]

I enjoyed this. Thank you. Maybe the word you were looking for was sedimentary rock? That one maybe some sort of psammite.

[@svfairisle]

No, I'm no geologist, but none of them were sedimetrty rocks. I think the green rock was basalt, if it was then the the air bubbles would be from veery quick cooling.

[@pmnfernando]

granite is igneous rock, marble is metamorphic, the one that looked like coral seemed to be a sedimentary one, it did appeared grainy but i might be wrong.

[@mikeringrose8227]

Hi, My wife and I love your videos and we are about to buy a boat. I was interested to learn that you are wintering in Turkey. How do you overcome Turkey's 90 day rule? Regards Mike

[@svfairisle]

You can apply for temporary residency in Turkey which gives you a year. Several people we know have done this for multiple years. Turkey has been like this for years having never been Schengen so they are very used to long term tourists and make it easy.

[@1240enzo]

Just a really quick point, and if I understood correctly regarding the comment made that if you use dyneema for your forestay you can’t have a furling headsail, this actually is incorrect. It is perfectly ok to have a furling headsail rather than having to hank on. If your not aware of the channel, I would recommend you have a good look at the Australian couple (Free Range Sailing) who completely re-rigged their 30ft boat with dyneema, and they have a furling headsail, and there have been no issues with this. As to the cost of re-rigging with dyneema it’s basically the same as using stainless steel wire, but does have the advantage as you noted of being able to carry spare rigging. Regarding the lifespan, yes the riggers out here seem to think it should last between 10-20 yrs. The real question at this time is how the marine insurers view dyneema over stainless steel rigging. As I understand it, they will insure a boat with dyneema rigging but there is some concerns from some insurers. Such a lovely lot of islands you were sailing around in this latest film 😁.

[@svfairisle]

That’s interesting, I’ll have a look at Free range sailing, would be interested to see how they’re managing roller reefing on a dyneema forestay the only system I’ve ever come across for a furling headstay on dyneema is the lightweight one from Coligio which does mount on dyneema but can’t be reefed, it’s either in or out, so no good for a cruising boat

[@svfairisle]

I just watched free range sailings boat tour, they have a dyneema rigging but kept a steel forestay. Where have you seen roller reefing on dyneema? I would be interested

[@razisn]

That is the Church of the Ascension, Orthodox Episcopal seat while the other one is the Church of St. George, Catholic Episcopal seat. The Cyclades in general and Syros in particular still have a mix of Orthodox and Catholic population which is unique in Greece.

[@shreksswamp9001]

You should check in with Troy and Pascale of Free Range Sailing. They have recently fitted a full dyneema rigging to their small boat and are currently on the west coast of Australia.

[@svfairisle]

Yes someone else told me about them. They don't have full dyneema though, they retained their wire fore-stay so they could have roller reefing.

[@shreksswamp9001]

@@svfairisle Ah right, I thought they went full dyneema. Good point. Have you watched any of their videos? That little boat is so good in heavy seas.

[@svfairisle]

no, I'll check them out

[@914va]

Alllll righty now.

[@jonathanairey9123]

PS. Good to see that you have now arrived in Turkey. Looking to hear wether the paperwork was easier than Croatia!!

[@svfairisle]

Yes they were so laid back here we didn't even end up see the ports police until we'd been here a day! Checking out of Greece similarly easy & no-one seemed in the least concerned about how long we had been in schengen (I had one day left) but i think I could have been well over the 90 days and no would have checked or cared!

[@johnfoster3286]

Re joel and mast jumping .....for me Ive been doing it since mid 1980s BUT for me its just an adenalin rush, like being in the middle of a dry electrical storm (unintentionaly) after dark ( st georges channel ireland) with lightning stirking the sea on both sides of the yacht within i guess 1 mile. I look forward to the group chat.

[@andypag1071]

Wicker Island!

[@tomriley5790]

Those may not be air bubbles in the rock - you can get that effect where there are inclusions of a mineral that's water soluble and it then disolves out over time leaving the holes. Air bubbles don't necessarily make something a metamorphic rock either, for example pumice. Large ammounts of gas are produced as pressure falls during volcanic erruptions - if the gas can escape (silica poor magmas) you get a bubbling pool - like in hawaii, if the bubbles can't escape they get bigger and bigger until eventually you have bits of rock in combined bubbles and it then comes out very fast - giving you a plinian erruption like vesuvius or krakatoa. Sailing Freedom has dynema rigging I believe too.

[@svfairisle]

I think the green one was probably Basalt, so an igneous rock with the bubbles being there from fast cooling, but I'm sure you're right there are a lot of different explanations.

[@tomriley5790]

@@svfairisle it could be but basalt is usually darker and more uniform as it's formed from silica poor magma and the gas usually escapes (think hawaii, or the rocks on the west coast of scotland - giant's causeway etc.) at a guess if it's an igneous rock I'd suggest it could be Rhyolite (silica rich and fast cooling).

[@herbdesson6843]

Lady​ Africa​ also​ has​ dyneema.

[@jonathanairey9123]

Hi Steve. A question. In an earlier comment, I said we were (coincidentally) about 3 or 4 weeks behind you on a trip from Nidri/Vliho round to the Aegean. I am just back from Greece. Koroni, Kalamata, Kagio, Elephanosis, Monemvasia, Kyparissi etcetc. All excellent. And it was great to get your videos a few weeks ahead ofus. In a thunderstorm, yes there were a few, and boyoboy, they were violent, yes we lost the dingy. It was a rather good Highfield. So the question. Given the Alu keel of the Highfield, have you any concerns re the TrueKit, and its ability and ruggedness to beach onto pebbles etc in a typical Greek cove?? How scraped is it looking under its 'keels'??

[@svfairisle]

The TrueKit is well reinforced and although we've abused it mercilessly it's still going strong. Actually i've heard disturbing stories of the aluminium to Hypalon joint so that might be a bigger weak point than having an soft bottomed dinghy? Hard bottomed dinghys are nicer to ride in though I think, sitting in it rather than on it always feels safer, just to heavy for the way we use it.

[@jonathanairey9123]

@@svfairisle Steve, Many thanks for finding the time for a useful and considered reply. Good feedback. Thanks/Epharisto!!.

[@sailingcalmedbythesea7495]

What a fantastic episode. Some Greta sailing and videography.you guys really do a great job. Many thanks. I’m racking my brains trying to remember the classical piece of music at about 11.00 mins? Do you have the composer and tittle?

[@svfairisle]

It’s Vivalldi 4 seasons, can’t remember which one though

[@sailingcalmedbythesea7495]

@@svfairisle thank you. I had a feeling it was Vivaldii will have to listen to the entire suite! Looking forward to watching your adventures in Turkey. We have followed a few others this season in Turkey and it does look great. Fair winds and many thanks 🙏🏻

[@chrisweaverhaido2]

Actually, to solve a misunderstanding, according to Greek tradition blue eye beads are not supposed to harm but are given to someone as protection from the so called... evil eye.

[@davidmcneill8895]

Yes, they are there to distract the "evil eye" (Jinn and other evil creatures) from stealing the soul of the person who wears the blue eye bead. When we were young parents in Tunisia, it was common for strangers to want to pin them on our baby to protect him from Jinn and the like. The idea being the blue bead distracts the Jinn.

[@DeanColegate]

Very interesting episode, thanks Steve/Judy. So who’s idea was it for all these crews to meet up? How do you even know where anyone else really is? I’m pretty sure the latest Rigging Doctor video has them the other side of the Atlantic. So, as Fair Isle (and her crew) seem to enjoy good downwind sailing, surely you should head West and do a trade wind crossing?!?

[@svfairisle]

It was Andy from Ocean Cruisers podcasts that set it all up. He has interviewed us all and Rigging Doctor we’re saying they were upset they didn’t make it to Greece when they briefly came into the Med. Josh & Bums also wanted to visit Greece and STLT arnt shy in saying Greece is their favourite and better than everywhere else! So Andy came up with the idea of chartering a big yacht for them all. We just happened to be there, So Gate crashed! & yes we will hit the trades soon

[@jeremybentley820]

Well you did Ask? So how about Egypt and a sail as far up the Nile as possible, or a trip to the holy land and Isreal and then from there a trip that followes say Paul rout through the med. Or how about perhaps a trip to Tabrook and then follow battle grounds of the WW2. all the way to Morocco where Patton arrived. Any of those would be voyages woukd be a fascinating. Adventure.

[@judyaslett6209]

Wow food for thought thank you!

[@nickmerritt]

Interested in learning more about having two head sails out Steve. Why would you do it and on what sort of reach?

[@svfairisle]

True cutters have the mast a little further back that an equivalent sloop and two foresails. This is excellent for cruising short handed as all the sail areas are manageable size short handed. The boat the others were on for instance (a sloop) had a large electric winch and they said they could not have done without it. In fact they were using the other winch's as turning blocks to get lines on the electric one!. So the main is small enough to hoist by hand almost to the top (with the halyard at the mast) and the Yankee and staysail together give the sort of power you would get from a 120% Genoa. So going to wind we fly them both and get good power, anything aft of the beam and it's best to put away the staysail and just run on the yankee. It's also much more versatile in heavy weather as instead of a heavily reefed genoa that looses all its shape and has the effort a long way forward you have a staysail that can be fully out (on Fair Isle up to about 40 knots) with good shape and center of effort well inboard as it should be. Have a loom at the beginning of Episode 47 we show a bit of tacking with all sails on there.

[@nickmerritt]

@@svfairisle Thanks so much Steve, really appreciate you taking the time to come back to me. I’ll talk a look at the earlier episode. We are on a cat, but I was really interested in the dynamics of it.

[@ricardomoonbeam8530]

Free-range sailing have dyneema rigging.

[@maxflight777]

How do you cope with the 180 day Schengen rule ? I’m curious.

[@judyaslett6209]

We are going to Turkey!

[@vickychristopoulos8614]

They are against the evil eye and not bad luck or anything to do with luck but chasing away any bad intentions towards you....

[@georgekot6377]

I was hoping somebody would clear this up and save me doing all the typing :)

[@jmayuk]

As I understand it, the "evil eye" is bad energy, bad luck, bad omen cast onto someone and the reason you would wear the pendant is to ward it off should someone try to cast it onto you. In any rate, that is what I was told in Turkey when I asked a fisherman why they painted it onto their boats. So by inference, if you are warding off the evil eye by wearing the evil eye, then the evil eye that you are wearing can be seen to represent good luck to you. As clear as mud isn't it.

[@judyaslett6209]

That makes more sense than buying an ‘evil eye’ for no reason! Thanks. Lots of responses from Turkey so I will learn more there I’m sure

[@Lightw81]

9 out of 10 for your pronunciation of Cyclades. Not psy-klaids like some others!

[@jtomos]

8:38 - isn't that tufa?

[@KeithBaileyEsq]

"Everybody wants to be unique" I don't.

[@svfairisle]

Probably best to want to be unique since everybody is!

[@davidtilley2168]

I usually look forward to and enjoy Sailing Fair Isle videos as they form a perfect balance between travelogue and sail experience but the inclusion of the OTT Americans in so much of this episode made it less so. I'm afraid I will not be watching the "Group Chat"

[@svfairisle]

We knew the group chat wouldn't be for everyone, it's really only going to be of interest to people who follow several of the channels I expect, but it is a way of introducing other sailing channels to people. Maybe some of the viewers who want a bit more jumping from thee cross-trees will hook onto Bums on a Boat and some of the viewers looking for more of what we offer will find us. Thats the idea. Anyway, all of them we really nice people and we had a lot of fun making the films with them. We at least will be interested to see what how they tell the story of the trip in their videos.