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[@davidstiglitz4341]

Melissa, your early morning stroll and coffee was so peaceful. Lovely.

[@SailingMelody]

Glad you enjoyed it too 🥰

[@dcdow180]

I don’t often hear sailors saying “ this is gorgeous “ with no wind, and no sails up, we hate it with the engine on

[@shelleyrichards9028]

I loved your morning walk with Ollie!, what a delightful town!

[@69spook]

Great melanconic music at the end too. 👌

[@SailingMelody]

It's a gorgeous place! Good coffee too!

[@jeffw.6821]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. You were just sailing, not fixing anything.

[@jonathanscott550]

Andy I agree this seemed like the best sail yet. I am sure you'll have more of these and better ones as well. Melissa coffee shop with all the fresh morning bakery items I am surprised you did not have a fresh croissant or bagel with your morning brew. This seems like a real lovely easy going spot. Jack maybe this little village would be a great spot for you to explore it's history and put it in video. Cheers you guys looking forward to next video

[@jayben00]

When you’re out in nature 24/7 embrace all of the kinds of weather, seas, tides, wind it deals you; it’s all part of the mosaic in which we reside and it’s ridiculous to resist/complain about it.

[@clairepapadatos1116]

Wow! Absolutely fabulous vlog! Thank you ❤❤❤❤

[@davideve6947]

Love the footage really shows what a beautiful boat she is. Fair winds.👍

[@SailingMelody]

Thanks 👍

[@frankdillon6127]

no doubt the 360 is wonderful and versatile.

[@SailingMelody]

Great is it!

[@StevenCopeland-co2xt]

Man to man, Andy, you look much younger clean shaven. You look healthier, you were a worry over the last few weeks.

[@SailingMelody]

Thank you 😊

[@jamesvanian5524]

What a beautiful place to visit and such calm seas. This would be my kind of sailing. Thoroughly enjoyed this vlog. Cheered me up. Keep well and safe. James.

[@SailingMelody]

Glad we cheered you up!!!

[@MrSychnant]

Unforunatly calm seas never make a sailor..

[@SailingMelody]

@@MrSychnant true. We’ve had our fair share of rough passages

[@carltontweedle5724]

I was the boat boy at the yacht club in Fowey, in the 70s my grandad run the club. Best time of my life.

[@gordonroberts5227]

Great episode guys i really enjoyed it so good to see her under sail with the drone. You are a lovely part of the country. Good luck Melissa with the new channel looking forward to it.

[@haydenwatson7987]

I loved the sailing shots. Totally champagne sailing. I agree that the best solution for the hydro vane would be a shorter boom. The mizzen would not need to be shortened quite as much as the boom because you only need a few inches beyond the sail. When using the whisker pole, I like to rig it with fore and aft guys so that the end is fixed in place by the topping lift and the fore/aft guys. Then the sheet is passed through the jaw and the sail is pulled out from the furler to the pole end. When you need to put it away, just furl the sail and then deal with the pole. This keeps it much more stable.

[@Turleyswheels]

andy’s turning into a boy racer lol what a great day for you guys it really looked fantastic dreamy it was so nice well done dreams can come true love the channel and see you all progress so nicely really is something too see ❤you

[@heatherrawls6015]

Love to hear the water rush past the hull

[@stefanshelenko4487]

The camera is worth it. Love the mapped voyage as well.🎉🎉❤

[@vanagoncaravelle8585]

This channel should be “MOTORING”MELODY coastal cruisers.

[@SailingMelody]

🤣 I think we had the motor on for about 30mins in 6 hours.

[@whitneylake2107]

Absolutely delightful !

[@SailingMelody]

🥰

[@petegraham1458]

Nice sail, ice to see everyone enjoying the trip!

[@richardhoward2295]

Omg ! That boat sails well Thats a proper sailing boat..ha! Lucky you!

[@AndyUK-Corrival]

Beautiful episode guys. She goes well when fully powered up as I’d expect. Imagine a full Hank in Genoa with a low clew! Andy UK

[@nigelmorgan3449]

Yes a fantastic video very easy to watch

[@SailingMelody]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@billfisher3226]

Absolutely lovely

[@pmacgowan]

Its so nice for you guys to be enjoying your boat that is really sailing :-)

[@solskengroupllp2758]

Zipping along in this episode! Cut the mizzen! The Hydro-vane makes life easy. Cinematic delight with Melisa's video ending.

[@MaShcode]

I hit Like before watching because I was 982 and wanted positive algorithmic affirmation.

[@robtuck5011]

360 looks good,

[@shirleynoble-x4s]

Thank you! We really enjoyed your walk around Fowey😊

[@kevinmartin3859]

Cornwall has some lovely inlets worth visiting to relax away from the rest of the UK another world your living your dream as a family doing you good Andy a beautiful sail to fowey 😊😊

[@malcolmwillis6450]

Fowey just a lovely place to visit. Regards your Hydrovane installation, cut the mizzen boom down don't extend the mounts on the Hydrovane that would increase the loading on your transom connection.

[@andrewthomasfinney752]

Having now seen the Ocean Melody crew out doing what their ultimate goal was to get under sail, it seems the trials and tribulations trying to get Steel Melody up and running seem a far distant memory. Happy days all around and I am enjoying the sailing and particularly the camera work and presentation. Well done you lot and Carry On and Keep Sailing.

[@fishing-fiend]

I was taught how to sail in the 80s at Fowey sailing school in a Wayfarer.. happy times

[@trevhedges]

Thanks guys!

[@Sircraig7963]

G'day Crew,, Cool vid ,as always. Moring ,and putting the kettle on after a day at sail with the family , what more could you want . Respect....!

[@SailingMelody]

Cheers Trev me old mate. How’s things going

[@Sluf7]

Looks like a lot of fun ya enjoying it.😅 Andy take some vitamin B1 should help settle sea sickness.😮 She certainly gets along alright looks good doing it.😂 That cockpit canopy has surely made the boat a lot more usable. Keep at it now.😅

[@jaygarden7011]

Looks an interesting place 😄 the good old trent class lifeboat. Hope you are all keeping well

[@rossalyntownsend9535]

Things ate looking good well done ❤

[@ianpaulgamble2002]

Rocking it now guys, brilliant

[@cherjohnson5807]

Just thinking back on some of your road bumps, here you are sailing like pros Beautiful scenery‼️♥️

[@claudemailloux]

I like Foyl (?), especially at night. Have you caught a fish since the departure? The fish is free... You have to catch it.😅😊😊😊

[@SailingMelody]

We haven't caught one big enough to keep and eat yet.

[@SteveHaxell]

Fowey, yep lovely place, grandparents lived there for years, always nice to visit.

[@claudemailloux]

To catch a fish is 1: Ask the people of the place to found a good fisherman 2-3 is better.2: Ask what kind of fish is good to fish 3: How to catch them.4 Wth the lures or lives fish or with both. 5: what kind of rod and the what kind of line and length with the what kind of reel. 6: 2or 3 kind of fish 7: Most important Not go and buy everything is suggested. Begin with what you have and slowly but surely you buy bait lures like plastic worm and how to install with what of hook but the is good for short time .

[@ianelwell8000]

Great episode, Melody starting to stretch her legs and show you how capable she is, the further you travel, the more comfortable and confident you will be with her and yourselves

[@nigelmorgan3449]

Hi Andy the drone would a good thing to teach Jack how to use it would give him something to learn about

[@SailingMelody]

Definitely he has flown on land we will do that a bit more before the sea.

[@hugobouckaert1813]

Wonderful, I have been to Fowey, and yes, I mispronounced it too in the beginning! Arrived by sailboat in the late afternoon and had a couple of pints of guinness in a real old typical British pub in the evening. It looks like Fowey hasn't changed one bit. Nice to see it again. By the way, I have a Hydrovane exactly like yours and it is the most wonderful shipmate on board! Much better than an autopilot. If you can make it work with your mizzen, you will see that once you have your sails set up, it really keeps you on course very well.

[@simonwoods3827]

Andy Try thick cut marmalade on dry toast no butter works a treat for seasickness... Please try it and post a response if it works for you it never fails for me

[@bishopkinlyside8477]

Hi guys, with the whisker poll, you should try wing on wing you’ll get a bit more speed out of it anyway the only way you learn these things is do it be like Nike just do it Cliff from Australia

[@Chr.U.Cas1622]

Dear Melissa and Ollie. 👍👌👏 Oh WOW, this was definitely a nice morning stroll. Calm and peaceful. Because I saw that cute Ollie always tried to see where you are heading, please kindly allow me to ask something: He jas grown a lot already. Wouldn't it be better to carry him on your back with his head facing forward now? So it would be easy for him to see where you are going and point at things he finds interesting. No offense, only asking. Best regards, luck and especially health to all of you.

[@SailingMelody]

Sometimes I carry him on my back but we like chatting as we walk along and that's easier on my front. Plus getting him on and off on my own is easier but now he is getting heavier he is often on my back 😊😊

[@Chr.U.Cas1622]

@@SailingMelody Thanks for replying and especially for giving a heart to my comment. As you know, I always and totally appreciate both very much. 2) That's what I meant: Too heavy and tall to carry him on front. Of course you can still chat with him. His mouth is even nearer to your ears when carried on your back. Soon he will be too heavy to be carried anyway. They grow sooo fast, sigh. Sincerely yours.

[@timevans8223]

Just loo,ING at your dinghy on the foredeck. Its worth rigging a line from the cleat on the mast forward of the dinghy so that a flapping genoa sheet, when you tack doesn't wrap around the outboard. Been there, done that. Very lucky not to do major damage to the outboard

[@jbrucepete]

Very nice video. Thank you so much! Bruce in Boise Idaho USA

[@StephenPenney-e5x]

Just love your voiceovers Melissa. Almost poetic even, could listen to you talking all night. Beautifully descriptive. Excellent episode, quite like the - camera on a stick. Seems strange not seeing the rod/pole thingy ? And yes, looking forward to Melissa’s new venture. Is that going to be a separate channel or attached to this one ?

[@SailingMelody]

Awh thanks It will be a separate channel, just nosing round boats.

[@rolandtb3]

Champagne sailing. A little indulgence. Me time.

[@jaygee5693]

A very enjoyable episode thanks, champagne sailing indeed. 🍾Ironically, I think I enjoyed Melissa's early morning walk with Ollie even more than I did the idyllic sailing. Beautifully shot and edited. Not a complaint, just a suggestion, as we can't see your wind speed and boat speed gauges, it would be nice to hear what those are a little more often. Eg, at 4:22 you talk about how the 4 hour trip will take you more like 6 hours "at this speed", but you don't let us in on what that speed is. I'm not pushing for frequent, regular telemetry updates, but when you do refer to your boat speed, remember we can't see it. Edit: Only a few minutes later in the video you tell us that you're doing 7 knots! Thanks! Ignore my diatribe if you like, I'll leave it up for the algorithm anyway.

[@rbeehner2]

I just realized you guys could, sail from the UK to a mile or so within my house. Sail across the pond to the St. Lawrence River (Seaway) to near Montreal, then head into and cross Lake Ontario. South of Toronto, take the Wellington Canal to Lake Erie but stop and enjoy Niagara Falls. From Buffalo NY, head East to Cleveland, and then head to Sandusky, Ohio. Here enjoy the Cedar Park Amusement Park, Sandusky, and Port Clinton, Ohio. North of there is Canada's beautiful Point Pelee. As you then head east, spend the night at Kelly's Island and Put-In-Bay to visit where America's Oliver H. Perry attacked Robert H. Barclay's British fleet in 1813. Continue east to the Maumee Bay at the extreme western end of Lake Erie and head up the Maumee River past Toledo, Ohio. You could, instead head north into the Detroit River to visit Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit where our two countries are building a new huge international suspension bridge. But if you head east to the confluence of the Maumee River, you will gentle glide by the green spaces on the shore lines of Downtown Toledo. A short haul further to just before the City of Maumee is the ramparts and park of the 1894 British Fort Maimi. I know Jack would love grounds of that Fort and it is located at the end of my street. Less than a mile further upriver in Perrysburg, Ohio on the other side of the River is the restored 1812 American Fort Meigs. While power boats do travel this far upriver, the draft is insufficient for sailboats your size to navigate. So, I don't expect to see the Melody crew any time soon, but it is physically possibility that you could sail here from where you are. You could even explore the amazing places around Michigan, like the Wisconsin Dells, all the way to Chicago and even down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. That adds another dimension to the possible places you could sail.

[@dmitripogosian5084]

Nice day trip :)

[@graemelewis2291]

i'd love to do this.

[@Chr.U.Cas1622]

Dear Sailing Melody family. 👍👌👏 This was quite a nice sailing trip. But please, Andy, be careful what you wish for. Because sailing along with almost no wind can't really be what you want to experience for the rest of your life. 😁 ;-) 😋😜👅😇😘 2) Hope that your sea sickness will vanish soon. Nothing worse than being at sea a lot and sailing to paradisiac places while being sea sick. Hope it's only caused by all the stress you had/have (psychosomatic). 3) Why is the small outboard motor so loud? Defective muffler or no muffler or caused by the microphone? As always: Thanks a lot for making explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards, luck and especially health to all involved people.

[@allenhughes867]

Hi there i have watched all your adventures from day one i wanted to ask if you ever treat the deck with some kind of oil-based preservative good luck to you all.

[@SVFresh2Salty]

Insta360 are awesome , we don’t use ours as much as we though we would but in your arsenal of shots I’d get one. It took us about 2 months to get used the boats motion whilst underway. I found coffee in the mornings on a sailing day is a very bad idea, even though I a good cup of coffee in the morning

[@minibigs5259]

Great vid. Go Pro for pieces to camera, 360 for action shots and B roll. Or....if you do a piece to the 360, nail it's eyeline as if it's a go pro otherwise at best it's a distorted view, or at worse you'll be Francis Bourgeois at Sea ⛵ 👽 All practice and good fun though 👌

[@mopedinthemalverns6661]

Great music Andy! The scenes at the end reminded me of the Wicker Man - the guitar had some of the devices used in the music of that film. Just me or did you do it on purpose? Either way it was really evocative and put a lump in my throat. You're great film-makers. Really great. Dave

[@ianbritton_UK]

Take a Kalms tablet for seasickness and eat ginger biscuits 🙂

[@davidrichardson5163]

Don't eat too many ginger biscuits, because when they decide to return they stick to the deck and take a lot of effort to shift!!

[@jameskiehm546]

Andy, I would get seasick if I was overdressed with foul weather gear. I would only wear foulies when I needed to.

[@Ibh111142]

A wee touch on the vang would help shape the main a bit better. Not too much take up slack. Tell tales needed on the leech 😊

[@SailingMelody]

😁 thanks for the tip looking back at the footage we agree

[@stefanshelenko4487]

7 knots are not shabby.😅

[@andrewcolquhoun4007]

Buckets

[@billrichardson2256]

👍

[@honephillips3840]

I meant to ask before Andy, but your sails today reminded me -- do you sail a ketch or a yawl?

[@SailingMelody]

She is a Yawl.

[@honephillips3840]

Thank you. Sometimes it's not easy to tell.

[@honephillips3840]

Thank you. Sometimes it's not easy to tell unless the boat's on the hard.

[@MrSychnant]

I can only think that you never looked at the video before you posted it, Unless your head is really that big 🙂

[@NevSau]

A question? What does the sail number mean on your main and in particular the letter T? My trailer-sailer had a T on the sail but your boat is not a trailer-sailer! Happy sailing Nick

[@peterschouten-ys8yr]

Hi, we last visited Fowey in 1982. Anchored up the river from town. The harbourmaster arrived very promptly to charge us £14. As we had local crew (from the Helford river) This was reduced to £7. The argument was that foreign boats (Dutch) had to pay more to the Prince of Wales who claims ownership. I wonder how that is now and what fortune you had to hand over for tying up to the dock for the night. Cheers Peter. (From sunny New Zealand)

[@dmitripogosian5084]

14 pounds in 82 was a serious money :)

[@StephenRogers-v4s]

Save up for a mizzen staysail as well

[@SailingMelody]

...........wait until next week's episode!!

[@StephenRogers-v4s]

@@SailingMelody you might also get a bit of flack for calling Polruan (where the shipyard is) Fowey. Fowey is west of the river, Polruan is on the east bank. 🤭

[@thunder1505]

Why not hinge the hydro so you could move it to shorten it? Not sure of specifics on exactly how because I was a fleet sailor in the US Navy and never sailed with the wind.

[@jackdale9249]

nice ! don't you have a spinaker ? i heard there are spinakers for the mizzen mast too? OK silly question , why is the main boom so short ? seems like you could have it longer add more sail area! Oh i just like speed! It's SO bloody cold in UK how do you stay warm on deck and in sailing ? maybe video of your gear ? i have ridden M/C for ages and i fancy a base of silk long underwear but i found electric clothing was the bomb ! and now w/ small high-powered lithium batteries you could go mobile if you needed to move about electric gear worked for the brave flyers in WW2 and is far advanced fr what they used! what do you think of folding electric bicycles for getting around when moored ? would still take up some room whilst stored i suppose!

[@SailingMelody]

Watch next week 😊 spinnakers all flying

[@dwaindibly945]

Eat an egg sarnie before you start sailing no sea sickness.

[@Davidcallard]

As an ex - pro photographer the camera gets a good pass from me! The lens is quite a strong wide - angle (W A) which for the most part produces a well corrected perspective from edge to edge with just one small exception; I noticed a small amount of W A distortion if shooting close - up (C U) from above the head and down the subject's body, when it is a little prone to a small amount of W A distortion, easily controlled by avoiding extreme C U shots if you want to avoid it. All things considered I have no reservations in recommending the camera.⁴