Our First Experience with Passes in the Dangerous Isles - Ep 34

[@johnrichardson9125]

Beautiful lagoon, just spectacular

[@trafalgar22a8]

Thank you for your 'motu' tutorial. That definitely defused my fear based ignorance and gave me confidence to go to such places. I sailed in the 1970s on paper charts only and avoided mid-ocean reefs. Frankly they scared me a lot.

[@waughthogwaugh3078]

Loving your sailing videos. Glum about you getting so close to home knowing that will be the end of em. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us.

[@sailingbacchushome944]

Thanks for watching!

[@clifflong1203]

A lovely sail with a proper English gentleman and his genteel lady! Brilliant mates!!💪👌

[@johnrichardson9125]

Glad you still have all those fingers.... wow

[@marilynmarsh9400]

Really enjoyed re-visiting the Marquesas and Fakarava with you - we spent 2 weeks on the freighter Aranui V there, Fakarava was our first stop.

[@sailingbacchushome944]

Glad we could take you back there, make sure you watch the next episode, it’s a goodie!

[@Mylifelovingit]

That is so true about a camera. The hills you climb look flatter, the waves look smaller but it still goes and adds 10 pounds to your figure.

[@tvonzweck]

Good info on the ingress /egress of the atols. Beautiful scenes.

[@zoukwe]

"A little on the touchy side" !! I'll say! I guess that's what living on a remote Pacific island does to you...

[@PacificSolo]

Another great episode! Thanks. One never grows tired of watching dolphins playfully swim along with a sailboat and you had so many !! And the mantra rays . . woah . . i never knew they had those vivid markings.. Enjoy your time in Paradise. Sending best wishes from Tokyo Bay where we are putting on double mooring lines for a typhoon this weekend.

[@sailingbacchushome944]

Thank you, and good luck for the typhoon. Make sure those lines have plenty of stretch!

[@tomwaite4594]

1st time viewer...what is the beautiful little pram you have on deck? Very nice

[@sailingbacchushome944]

She is an Eastport Nesting Pram from Chesapeake light craft. We have a full video on the making of her you can check it out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/haqnmnmZpt14jtU

[@tomwaite4594]

@@sailingbacchushome944 thanks...do you find CLC design a good one for all around dingy use? I'am looking for one to deck mount on my Union 36...

[@sailingbacchushome944]

We love her! You can just buy the designs or you can get all the pieces sent to you as a kit set.

[@tomwaite4594]

@@sailingbacchushome944 thanks...looks like this winter's project

[@davidrawles5732]

Have been Following you on Global marine traffic

[@charlesking617]

Hello from landlocked Canada!

[@billhanna8838]

Cold beer & a Bacon sarnie after a passage & a pass - Perfect . Well back to the lawns .Hows that electric outboard standing up ?

[@sailingbacchushome944]

The Torqeedo is still going well! I do enjoy rowing though, and it’s good exercise. We usually get the outboard out if its windy/choppy in the anchorage.

[@mikeparker3865]

was I the only one laughing every time you said "Fakarava" ? Here in Boston Fakar sounds like a different word. 🤐😋 I think you know what I mean. Almost home guys. I will be happy for you but sad for me. I love following your adventures!!!!!

[@edferculo8887]

Where have you two been ???? We were beginning to worry

[@sailingbacchushome944]

We're doing wonderfully well thanks, but wifi is scarcer than hens' teeth here! We're struggling to upload any new vids!

[@williamforbes8261]

Fab

[@janruschke7691]

Hey, great channel. Going through all your videos at the moment. In this one it seems you have a radar signal on your iPad. Is that a furuna wlan radar? If so can you recommend it?

[@sailingbacchushome944]

Not radar, AIS! It was very useful in busy shipping lanes. Ours was a Vesper Marine XB8000, which had a WiFi link to the iPad. We didn’t have true radar (would have liked it, but ran out of money!)

[@janruschke7691]

@@sailingbacchushome944 thanks for the info. Ok just an ais. I got mine as an overlay on navionics i would have thought you could do the same maybe not a few years ago. I got an Oceanis 331 so very similar to your boat and hope to cross the Atlantic next year. Wish I had a windsteering system like you had but I hope my autopilot won’t break until then.

[@bryanbadger6841]

G'day guys from somewhere in Nz. Well that wasn't too bad was it now. And yep the camera does make those standing waves look small. But in real life they're anything but small. So home for Christmas.?? ETA.?? Take care and stay safe.

[@sailingbacchushome944]

Yep, should be home by the end of November, all going to plan! Just getting ready to depart Bora Bora now. Thanks for watching!

[@bryanbadger6841]

@@sailingbacchushome944 no worries

[@jeffilott2467]

Hey Guys, quick question. What is that bit of downpipe for on your front spreader for ?

[@scottharriman9419]

On the starboard shroud? I think they said before that they use it as a camera mount.

[@mattthewanderer5029]

That's a bit too personal to ask in such an open forum! 😉

[@mattthewanderer5029]

Seriously though, yes Scott is bang on, it's for the camera to sit in, I think there's a bit of bungee to hold it in place, but I could just be making that bit up 🙄

[@alstyreshaddon2645]

where abouts in NZ are you headed for ? I would love to catchup there as I need a holiday after this virus stuff and I have only been to Auckland ( 17 times ) all the best , cheers Alister from Ballarat in Australia .

[@sailingbacchushome944]

Making landfall in Opua, in the beautiful Bay of Islands. Stay safe over there pal, sounds like VIC is having a hard time with Covid

[@mattthewanderer5029]

Asher....... 🤨 I am watching your channel for the matter of fact way you show what task, routes, plans, emotional states, generally sharing your adventures and also because you and dani are pretty cool...... So please, please for my sake stop saying fukarava, I just can't take it 😂🤣😂🤣😂you say It i piss my self, lose a minute, rewind what I miss, catch it again, lose 2 more minutes and repeat. I've literally added at least ten minutes viewing! 😉

[@sailingbacchushome944]

Sorry mate! It comes with other classic kiwi pronunciations like eating fush & chups after playing a good game of cruckit where I hit the ball for sux :)

[@williamforbes8261]

Hi hope your both keeping well when's the next vid coming out

[@sailingbacchushome944]

Tomorrow! Watch this space!

[@mickar15]

I got nervous watching you chop on that coconut, Please keep all your fingers, .

[@Sciolist]

It's a pretty careless way of cutting it

[@stonemartini1606]

'we're a little bit close' -- so why put anyone in the uncomfortable position to have to say anything? You already knew it was too close. Looks like there was plenty of area there but hard to say with just the camera angles and not being there. So what was the actual reason you felt that was a good spot to drop anchor? I'm not French.. just curious as to why that was your choice spot.

[@sailingbacchushome944]

Fair call - but it's quite difficult to predict exactly where you will sit once you've dropped the hook, and she's swung to the wind. In a tight anchorage, after you drop, you have to make a decision based on whether YOU feel comfortable about your proximity to your neighbours. At our closest point, we had approximately 1.5 boat lengths between us. My comfort levels might not match my neighbour's though, and if they differ, then the last boat to arrive needs to relocate - which is what we ended up doing. If he HAD been comfortable though, then I would have been happy to stay. Hope this clarifies! A