Off the Beaten Path, Sailing Down East Maine in the Fall (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep 77)

[@esmith1771]

Awesome as always! So nice to see Nugs with her favourite "uncle and auntie" !!

[@barbaralane9825]

So beautifully filmed and edited. I could almost feel the softness of the moss and the serenity in that last anchorage.

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Thank you very much! It was such an awesome forest!

[@kalkudah]

Wonderful captures of the enveloping fog, the rich colors in the forest, and the rocky shoreline in the sun. Thank you for taking us Down East with you.

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Glad you enjoyed it! It's a special part of the world for sure!

[@maureenb7399]

Such a zen like video calico skies! 👍

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Thanks! Glad the feel of the place came through!

[@bobbutt2000]

Delos is lucky to have you as their buddy boat. They need to talk about you more to get you some subs. Collaboration is in order!!!

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Help a brother out! 😂We have learned so much from Brian and Kazza about filming and video making, it's really helped us improve! We are glad to have each other 🤓; it's been a pleasure to cruise together this past year with more adventures planned this spring.

[@RAEckart22]

Borrowing a baby (Sierra) is a guaranteed ratings bonanza. Let's face it, that baby is starring in multiple KZbin channels.

[@benjaminspencer6507]

Bill looks like a natural, carrying Nugget!! Hint,hint!!!!

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

🙃

[@olemanjim1415]

You did a wonderful job of capturing the raw, ruggedness of Maine. How rough it must have been to navigate in that fog before electronics. Those islands and coastlines are just beautiful. Thank you for a wonderful episode!

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Thanks Jim 😍Glad you enjoyed it!

[@eleanor4482]

Such a unique kind of beauty. Time to head south to some warmth.

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Gorgeous spot! Yep we are in south Florida in real time :)

[@eleanor4482]

@@CalicoSkiesSailing Excellent. So much snow and cold in the Northeast. Stay safe and enjoy.

[@JimMeredithSD]

Great video, thanks

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!

[@billhall9881]

nicely shot, much better audio

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Thanks 😀

[@gordonsutton3681]

Wow, what a journey. I started following you a few weeks ago at the first episode and have just finished 77. Its been wonderful following your travels and noting how you have grown up in the filming and editing. Real good stuff, can't wait for 78.

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Thanks so much for the kinda words 😍; We've learned a lot more about filming/editing as we've gone on, kinda hard to watch the beginning episodes sometimes 🤓.

[@johnhaywood6358]

Great video. Thank you for sharing

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Our pleasure!

[@stevelambert7496]

Nice video very beautiful

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Thanks :)

[@larryschlosser2385]

I'm glad to see that place hasn't changed much since I cruised there in 1975 in an Albin 26. Thank you for bring back many pleasant memories of time's gone by. Smooth sailing and fare winds.

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Albin 26, cool boat! Crazy not much has changed since 1975!

[@sailingarista]

Thank you for a cool episode! Cant believe you don’t have more subscribers! Keep showing the upgrades, my Sabre 36 needs to go South from Lake Ontario!

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Thanks for watching! It's hard to grow a sailing channel these days but have been growing consistently :) We are now adding air con and a new victron inverter 🤪, just when we thought we escaped boat projects for a bit. We plan to spend the hurricane season in the Rio Dulce, air con will make life so much better, especially now that we spend so much time on the computers editing.

[@TheWyndrunner159]

1. how do you heat your boat? 2. Bill looks like he has the hang of nugget, maybe you should add to your crew!!

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

We have a 4kw Planar diesel heater installed. We added it when we wintered over in Portugal. It does a fantastic job! We love little nugget!

[@darshanpatel5932]

Nicely captured video and the background music fits perfectly well. It must be very quiet at that island as Bill was talking softly so as not to disturb the peace. 😊

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Our favorite cruising destinations are def more off the beaten path. Something so peaceful about being in the middle of nowhere with a well equipped boat. We found our groove in Maine as we got further east we got. Makes sense bc Nova Scotia is on of our favorites :)

[@ColinWetherelt]

Lot's of "Confetti" - and yea. You captured it as well as any camera could. Love the feel of your vibe. Great way to unfold a story.

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Thanks for that :)

[@nickwebster1473]

Awesome video, thank you!!!

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Glad you liked it!

[@joecucch8261]

I'm not a huge Lobster fan but living in east central Florida for the last thirty something years makes me long for the huge blue claw crabs we used to catch in the Chesapeake Bay. Yeah I know we have blue claw crabs here but the water quality in the Indian river lagoon makes them tasty like crap. Happy times until June you two !!

[@jerrymiller276]

I grew up in Norfolk. We'd go crabbing fairly often using several different methods at different times. My favorite was putting a bushel basket in an innertube and anchoring in 12 to 18 ft of water then chasing them down along the bottom with mask, fins, snorkel, and a hand net. But I used to joke that crab was one food that you cold starve to death while eating them as fast as you possibly could. I really hated cracking blue crabs.

[@joecucch8261]

@@jerrymiller276 When I was a kid in New Jersey we used to go to Toms River and wade out in two feet of water with nets and a bushel basket in a inner tube and a flash light and catch them among the weeds. Yum !! Then in day time we would put a wire mesh in the inner tube and dig up piss clams with a shovel and use the wire mesh to wash out the sand. they were so sweet !!!

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Bill isn't the biggest seafood fan lol. We like Maine lobster better than spiny lobster tho :) We had blue crabs while we were in Annapolis, tasty!

[@jerrymiller276]

@@joecucch8261 Yeah, Good memories.

[@badcat4707]

Hi guys , I'm following Jerry's idea and adding a comment for the stats , But truthfully , I really enjoy all your videos ;-) Great filming Grace ;-)

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Thanks for that! Every comment helps :) Glad you are enjoying the videos!

[@jerrymiller276]

A comment for the statisics.

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Thanks! 🙃

[@badcat4707]

Good idea Jerry , and I just went down the line and clicked thumbs up on every comment , hopefully it'll mess with You Tubes algorithms and get them more views ?? Bill & Grace deserve a lot more subscribers ;-)

[@billpittore]

Hi guys, Where was that last anchorage where you filmed that lone lobster boat? I'm cruising Maine out of Portland next summer so building a list of places to hit. Thanks!

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

That anchorage was called "Cow's Yard", south side of Head Harbor Island. Pretty sweet area!

[@billpittore]

@@CalicoSkiesSailing Thanks!

[@dianabentley2619]

Does your boat have diesel stove heater or other heat source for cold weather sailing?

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Yep we have a Planar 4kw forced air diesel heater. It doesnt a great job and pumping dry hot air into the boat. We installed in when we wintered over in Portugal :)

[@Captin7Seas]

Enjoying the Maine adventure - especially since I am heading up that way soon. Leaving Seabrook Island 4/20 and will join the Salty Dawg down east rally departing Hampton 7/8. What guide books did ya’ll use - need to get at least one good one for anchorage and shore access info. Thanks, Scotty

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Cool! We used the Maine Coast by Taft, seemed to be the gold standard. We were able to borrow it from a friend.

[@roydenvickers]

Hey Calico Bill what boots you have on? 10:31

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Those are Duberry sea boots. They since lost their sole 😂

[@mayamachine]

Your in wabanaki waters... that's native territory friends.

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Cool! We were wondering!

[@DowneastThunderCreations]

Ah, you're still exploring "my backyard" in this video! "Enchanted forest?" Consider you are in the "land of Stephen King." Ayuh! Good idea to pay close attention to the charts (and get "local knowledge") because in addition to all the islands off the coast of Maine, there are many rock ledges just below the surface where you can't see them and don't know they are there. We call them "sunkers." Why? Because by the time you realize it's there, it has already "sunk her!"😂

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Def some creepy spot down east! Especially when the fog rolls in 🙃.. The rocks are no joke! Had to be very careful navigating around. I could't imagine being an ancient mariner in those waters!

[@billpittore]

@@CalicoSkiesSailing Speaking of ancient mariners, a good read is the book "Down East, An Illustrated History of Maritime Maine" by Lincoln Paine (2nd edition). The history of course goes back thousands of years but little is recorded until the Europeans started showing up around 1500. In a few years it will be 500 years since Verrazzano sailed through Maine waters.

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Sounds like a cool read!

[@michaelvanwinkle7919]

looks like you are now ready for an electric motor, since you have all the extra solar power.

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Ha maybe one day! I still like the range that the diesel offers offshore! :)

[@formhubfar]

Looking at Calico and Delos and many other sailing channels I follow, I also follow a sailing channel called (Finding Simon).., he has this illusion that he is building a catamaran to sail around the world where in fact all he is building is a house boat, the reason why I find it funny lately is that he just doubled his solar panels from 8 to 16.., 16 solar panels.., I was looking at some movie stars $40 million mansion today which had 12 solar panels on the roof.., 4 less than simon's catamaran.., I lost interest when he talked about building a sauna on the boat.

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Ha sailboat or floating power plants?! I think we are tapped out on solar panels but we are nicely keeping up with our power usage. We can even run our high draw A/C watermaker off the battery bank. After our experience getting locked down in the Ragged Islands we wanted to get away from needing gasoline for charging. We barely use our generator these days!

[@formhubfar]

@@CalicoSkiesSailing 16 solar panels!

[@CalicoSkiesSailing]

Dang! That’s absurd lol