Out of Africa - finding paradise | Ep108

[@svfairisle]

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[@larswetterstrom7209]

I like your lack of fear to be in such a different environment as Africa. Thanks for this!

[@smulismuli7976]

You guys are more adventurous than most of the younger cruisers...just shows that age is just a number. Enjoyed the episode keep it up and good luck for the crossing!

[@stevehampson3361]

Great video 👍

[@beverlyaslett7871]

Wanderlust. Off the beaten track. As soon as you said the name KuntaKinte I remembered Roots. I’m that old. The dolphins were amazing. I’ve never seen those of that size. Terrific drone work on this video. One of the things I love about your channel is to see the partnership between you and Steve. Both of you so hardworking and such a good sense of humor to sustain you when the going isn’t smooth. I am sailing with you in my mind and cannot wait to hear of your safe crossing. You have prepared the boat well and fair isle is made for the blue ocean. Bon voyage Judy and Steve.

[@judyaslett6209]

Thank you so much for that 😊

[@AndoCommando1000]

I just noticed, who is flying the drone to film you falling into the surf on your dinghy when you go on shore? Does your drone have a temporary autopilot mode?

[@svfairisle]

No I launched it from the dinghy and then left it to hover looking at the part of the beach we were aiming for. The zoom is is done in the edit as I filmed in 4K. I did have to worry about getting the controller swamped as we faffed about landing the dinghy though!

[@ivorolandmolenbeek1771]

self rising flour recipe 500 gr AP flour 30 gr baking powder 7 gr salt

[@judyaslett6209]

Thank you!

[@Marcel-J]

Again a really nice video. Thanks for showing us your travels 🙏🏻

[@utt1229]

Didn't think your camera work could get any better,but it just did.

[@michaelwake5600]

Did laugh at the you falling in out of the dingy, then both running around like kids in the surf. Another great Video

[@Graygramma]

history that must not be forgotten. And your support of the community is admirable. Not sure I could eat a local chicken! Thank you for sharing.

[@judyaslett6209]

When in Rome….The fish on Boa Vista was divine

[@avidviewer1]

Thanks so much for all your content (always fascinating, entertaining and educational) and the very best of luck for the crossing! 🤗

[@reb4898]

You two are wonderful at capturing the feel of where ever you dock…I love the history lesson. Fair winds…Thanks for the video

[@christ8173]

Good luck on your crossing (from 'sunny' Eastbourne)!

[@DjiMavicMini58]

Fantastic you portray the surroundings extremely well Loved your film excellent Have a nice trip always watching

[@njbaskipper]

Good Afternoon Mr. Steve and Mrs. The videos from Gambia are very good, all the dust you saw comes from the Sahara, as for fishing I am going to recommend some lures, DO NOT use feathered lures, use these: 1 Jointed Shad Rapala. Runs 4 - 15 ft deep. 2. Shad Rap runs 4-15 ft. 3. DT (dive-to) runs 4-20 ft. They all have a long tongue, that's the detail. You will arrive in the Caribbean on an exceptional date, without many people and with an ideal temperature. There your adventure will be formidable, the Lesser and Greater Antilles. Now, from Central America I recommend Panama, its separate archipelagos, one to E San Blas and the other to W Bocas del Toro. In the first you will have the grocery store, even a bakery. Good luck and blessings. ⛵

[@svfairisle]

Thanks for the info, much appreciated

[@yvonnekneeshaw2784]

MARVELLOUS history shared … appreciate always… 🇨🇦 ❤

[@gerhardvanwaltsleben8944]

Lekker man lekker 🇿🇦

[@MaShcode]

Seeing James island is so strange. We read about it in our grade school curriculum some fifty years ago. Scary then as it is now. Imagined it was much, much bigger. When I hear Cape Verde I always think of Horace Silver’s, Cape Verdean Blues. Worth a listen.

[@termotka]

I was just thinking about you today 🙂 wondering when the next episode will be uploaded and here you are! Reading my mind. Thank you not only for this video but for your whole channel, simply love it 🥰

[@judyaslett6209]

We upload episodes every other Thursday. Sometimes we 5:16 have extra videos (technical eg) in between…

[@gpk7683]

You are unique in that you’re not just about sailing but you add exploring the local area as well. And your professionalism is clearly on display. More please

[@jasonmcintosh2632]

Great video. This is just the stuff my wife wants to do. Fair winds.

[@bluenapalm123]

I'm on my 5th video of your channel and just noticed Puerto de la Duquesa!! Been there a few times, wifes' family knows the owner(s) of the Italitan restaurant you were eating at. :) Watching you around the Carribean thinking you're far away from where I am, then see Duquesa ha..

[@svfairisle]

You'll see it again in Season 5 when we go there again when we leave the Med. It's a nice place.

[@RAEckart22]

If you freeze the video at 1:56 as Judy says "Cape Verdes", you will see two humans approximately where the Cape Verde Islands are in relation to Africa which is a darker silhouette of sand on the right 2/3 of the video frame.

[@ooweesaler]

Love it. ❤️ we have just been sailing Thailand landing on surf beaches. You need crew on the bow on way in jumping off. Crew on the bow on the way out with single paddle sculling out pulling boat straight. 👌

[@svfairisle]

We'll give that a go

[@hughburgess4168]

Outstanding. Such a different environment. And the island brought the slave trade to reality. ⛵️

[@DennisMacdonald-r7d]

Beautiful place tyvm

[@G.J..Journeys]

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing 👍

[@PaulBKal]

00:15 Scimus naviculus. We know boats! 😇🤓 And 23:25!

[@robertw.1499]

Seeing you on that island, the place where so much suffering was part of the daily life, I couldn't help thinking of AR, Augmented Reality. There will come a time when such places will have an AR tour that will bring home the savagery of days gone by, hopefully. I say hopefully as such realistic experiences might make us think twice about how we live our lives. Your channel has long gone past the point of being a KZbin channel. It's now Fair Isle Documentary 👍

[@judyaslett6209]

Thank you! Very nice comment

[@dougmarder]

All that Saharan dust is supposedly what mitigated our North Atlantic hurricane season. So, thanks for bringing it with you. ;) Don't forget to complete your "Roots" storyline when you get back to Annapolis and visit the Alex Haley monument.

[@judyaslett6209]

Good point we will do!

[@mralexdenny]

fabulous video, loved it-- What design is your lovely vessel?

[@judyaslett6209]

Hans Christian 48T

[@deemacvee1]

Oh Steve. We had a laugh. Shades of Felix Unger. 😂

[@grafos8896]

Hi, apologies I'm a bit behind but catching up. I've watched from the beginning again and currently upto ep.89. I've just watched you skipping around the deck in the sun with bare feet. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's buckled a toe around a deck fitted or crunched one off a winch. Have yous come across any reasonable open summer footwear for moving around the deck that you would recommend? Many thanks Gra

[@judyaslett6209]

I have some deck shoes from Aleader. But mostly we go barefoot 😊

[@grafos8896]

@@judyaslett6209 great thank you. Good luck on your crossing 🤞👍

[@Christian-wm5bq]

your voice is perfect for news reporting

[@FrankE.Cromer]

It’s bringing back memories! Had a great sail between The Gambia and Cape Verde. We entered Praia early in the morning. Toured the southern islands including Pogo and Brava before heading north to Mindelo another great sail. Did you cross over to Santo Antao, beautiful island.

[@svfairisle]

Sadly Praia has a lot of violent crime now. A British sailor we met in The Gambia was boarded at night and robbed at knife point(one was stabbed) We had every intention of visiting Santa Antao but in the end we had a good weather window and just wanted to get sailing so missed it out. Looked lovely sailing past!

[@iainlyall6475]

in Trinidad, you need to visit Pitch Lake. i asked sail life if they had gone, but for some reason they had missed it :-((

[@svfairisle]

Thanks for the tip

[@df7838]

I love watching your channel and all the adventures you go on. By far the best sailing channel on KZbin!! As far as the atlantic trip, i hope you both have a safe sail and im looking forward to the next episode. Id be perfe tly happy just watching a typical ocean passge 'day in the life' type of thing. Thanks for great content as always

[@judyaslett6209]

Thank you!

[@tarekhamid3882]

Hello Judy and Steve Many thanks for your time and effort for a hi quality… and educational video. Looking forward to be (virtually) on board your Atlantic crossing. Wishing a safe sail… and fair winds. If you have a minute, perhaps you could clarify a “mystery”! What as the gizmo clipped on Steve’s cap’s visor? Looks like a camera. Is it? To shoot videos?

[@judyaslett6209]

Yes it’s a camera. We like the POV shots it gets

[@svfairisle]

I showed it in one of the Camera 101 videos a while back, it’s the insta Go2, I think the one I showed might have been the original. Handy little cameras for video, the Go2 is particularly good

[@PaulGabow]

Greetings from Russia) I’ve been your subscriber for a long time, I don’t remember when I started. Now I saw on the splash screen that it’s already the sixth season. I’m a little surprised that so much time has passed) I envy you with good envy, I still have to go to work. and how long have I been a subscriber...) I wish you all the best) PS: I’m really writing down your advice on gadgets) I’ve already bought a boat, I just can’t swim yet, work won’t let me. but I will swim and use your advice

[@w.r.bouwman5354]

👍

[@tjpenton]

Can you do a video about what type of insurance you have? Considering you're moving constantly, that must affect your policy range, etc. Would love to hear about the specifics of the policy and how often you need to change it. Cheers!

[@svfairisle]

We’ve mentioned it in a few episodes, if we find a good system we will do a specific video but at the moment things aren’t good, we don’t have insurance for the crossing we are on. No one would insure us unless we took two extra crew!

[@tjpenton]

Wow! Well please take care on the crossing.@@svfairisle

[@joeltatham5673]

Where did you check in at the Cape Verde Islands? Thanks, what a great episode.

[@svfairisle]

We didn't want to check in an Prias as there are reports of violent crime there, so we aimed to do it in Mindelo. however we arrived on Friday evening and were told that the office wouldn't be open until Monday. As we left on Monday we never checked in!

[@joeltatham5673]

@@svfairisle makes sense! I’m following in your boat wake in June/ November this year so researching! Thanks again 👍

[@tubeyerself2]

Steve, in regards to the compression post problems you recently had. Is there a possibility that you could share the source of the Hans Christian structural drawings. I'm looking at a HC 38 Mk ll that has similar compression damage, except the post is incorporated into a bulkhead wall. Resulting in more than just lifting the sole of cabin.. Thanks, Joachim.

[@SandyCurrie865]

Very interesting to see and learn some of the history. Thank you! A photo/video question - are you using an Insta360 for most of you video work both on deck and while snorkeling? Does it auto focus and how do you know what your filming as it doesn’t have a viewfinder or screen for you to watch as you shoot.

[@svfairisle]

I use a mixture of cameras but yes the insta RS mainly for walking-talking type shots and the X3 or 1inch version of instas 360 twin lens cameras for a lot of action stuff and diving. All these small cameras are auto focus but in good light pretty much everything will be in focus as they have small chips and wide angle lenses (have you watched the camera 101 series I did? It give a lot of this information) As far as knowing what you are filming the true 360 cameras film everything! So you pick your framing in post and the standard lenses are wide so you get use to knowing what’s in frame quite quickly. I also shoot in 4K so I have some wiggle room in post to reframe as the timeline is HD (1920x1080)

[@DeanColegate]

Great episode as usual :) Just a thought on your passage from Gambia to Cape Verde. You were going at great pace but because you were beam-on it was pretty uncomfortable for a 3 day trip. Could you have considered heaving-to for an hour or so to prepare and eat meals as some sort of respite?

[@svfairisle]

Yes certainly. it's a tactic we've used before, not so much for cooking as we usually just resort to the freeze! but if there say something that needs working on in the engine room I would definitely heave to while working.

[@1962gms]

A really interesting view of Africa that is rarely told on a Sailing Channel. I can see why you felt strange going to 'Kinta Kinte' Island. Watching Roots whilst I greet up was a major influence on how I am and how I feel. It clearly has its flaws, but it helped tell the story of Slavery to a whole new generation and to allow us to see it from a personal perspective and not only statistics. Well done for going there and fair winds from Mindelo ⛵

[@danknox9986]

That was a beautiful video. The swimming and drone shots were incredible. More than made up for all the dust! 😊

[@haydenwatson7987]

In the sallow water, why don't your row once you have sufficient depth to float. I have done that quite a few times.

[@svfairisle]

It might have been a better option, I usually do with just one aboard, but with both of us you risk bashing the other in the face!

[@haydenwatson7987]

@@svfairisle That has not been a problem on our inflatable. Given that I am typically driving the ding, I am in the stern and my wife is in the bow. for rowing, she sits on centerline on the bow tube, and I kneel on floor just in front of the outboard and face forward to row with a pushing stroke. That was I can see where I am going, and she is well clear of the oars. This also helps to keep the boat mostly flat so that no part is deeper than any other. If I touch bottom, I can typically bounce the dink back into deeper water with a bit of lifting effort from the oars. When I need to do this, I bring the handles more inboard that typical to give it much better mechanical advantage.

[@b.scottgould]

Hi Steve & Judy, I have a question about your E-Propulsion motor. I bought one last year for my little boat. I choose the short tail model only to discover later that there is also an extra-short tail model. Which one did you get?

[@svfairisle]

We have short, I think on the whole slightly to long is better than slightly too short as cavitation is more of an issue than extra drag

[@nigelcaughey2119]

Great video as usual. After watching the video I was looking for your link to Babbel but can’t find it. Any suggestions?

[@judyaslett6209]

We will put it in tomorrow. Apologies

[@nigelcaughey2119]

Many thanks Judy. Hope Steve and yourself get favourable winds and smooth sea enroute.

[@svfairisle]

Here is the link! go.babbel.com/t?bsc=usa-influ-eg-dt-1m&btp=default&KZbin&Influencer..Feb-2024..USA-TATAM..1200m60-yt-sailingfairisle-feb-2024 Happy learning.

[@Alex000113]

You both are so relaxed in those not-so-often visited ports ! Very interesting visiting the remains of the slave trade island, Im sure that red ensign was a dreadful sight in those days. Judy have you tried snorkelling with a small weight belt ? I think youd spend less effort getting down and enjoy it more. Always put it on the same way and practice a quick release. I think all couples have a love-hate relationship with the dinghy. Great seeing you skip through the water together ! Nice drone shots, curious how long you typically spend in post production putting these 'films' together as they are excellent ! Good luck on final prep for the crossing OutOfAfrica.

[@svfairisle]

Thanks Alex, glad you enjoy the films. Editing takes around 3 days, I usually spread that over the best part of a week with the rough cut getting done mostly as we go along, I then spend a morning making it work as a rough 30 mins, Judy looks through it & we might reorder things before she writes her script. I then lay the music, get the pacing right, do the colour grade and any transitions. We then film the top & tail and I add them and the front section, tiles and patron credits at the end, lay Judys voice over segments and do the sound mix… yes it all takes time!

[@nickwilkinson2501]

Another wonderful episode. I look forward to each of your films being ‘launched’ and I am never disappointed. Being a landlubber I cannot wait to share the ocean crossing. Take care xx

[@notrut]

The Kunta Kinteh island history I've just read elsewhere mentions the Portuguese, Italians, Lithuanians and Polish Slave involvement, and German Jacob Kettler ... long before the English.

[@judyaslett6209]

Yes the English were later. Lots of countries saw the island as strategic!

[@PaulBKal]

And it was the English who not only abolished slavery first but also used the massive force of their Royal Navy and diplomatically as global superpower of the day to stop others in the slave trade. It’s time for the English to stop beating themselves up about slavery, which was then pretty much a universal phenomenon.

[@billygrahamyachtsinc753]

S & J, can you show more of your restaurant experiences, plates and drinks please? And with their permission, your interaction with the servers and people in general. Regards,

[@notrut]

2:15 'For a few Euros you can buy a feast' ...but I thought the Gambian currency is the Dalasi ...? Adopted after Independence 5 decade ago ...

[@svfairisle]

They are more than happy to take Euros. We did get some Dalasi when we went into town though as it avoids some unfavourable exchange rates from some vendors!

[@gholhive]

It has been said many times, that history is written by the victor’s. One of my pastimes I enjoy is researching actual facts of our past. In todays world you will find, especially here in America that the so called slavery trades was nothing like it has been written. In fact there are many activists who would say that the black community of the American population are in fact indigenous peoples. Just food for thought

[@chungfromchina9307]

How do you sail at night? One of you has to be at the helm all the time rt?

[@svfairisle]

Someone is in watch at all times yes, we split it 3 hours, sometimes 4 if one of us needed a longer sleep and the other was fine. You can be fairly relaxed in the middle of the Atlantic, no ship came closer than 3 miles until yesterday as we approached Trinidad and we didn’t see a single yacht so AIS could really do the watching

[@MrJudgementday99]

It was a shame that whilst talking about the slave trade you didn’t emphasise the importance that Britain played in stopping the whole trade. Some 2500 sailors from the west African squadron died stopping the trade and there was a fair chance those cannon were used by the locals against the British because they wanted the trade to continue. Mandinka mansas grew rich by raiding neighboring kingdoms and taking captives to be sold as slaves. They also collected customs duties from the European slave traders. In 1808, the British outlawed the slave trade. It is a complex topic. On the one hand prior to the UK banning slavery it had happen for centuries, but by any modern standards it was an awful thing, on the other hand the UK should be proud as being the first country in the world to ban slavery, paying 25% of it’s GDP to stop it and surely saving hundreds of thousands from slavery, if not millions.

[@svfairisle]

Yes, a very good point. If we had time we would have gone to the fort in Banjul & told that story. James fort was decommissioned by the time we banned slavery, the forts in Banjul were used to stop slaver ships entering the river

[@fordyceeldred9409]

Interesting to see this vid during Black History Month

[@markbennett9787]

So good to hear someone promoting something really useful such as Babel rather than trying to get us to drink a weird green vitamin drink which is probably useless and unnecessary. You must be aware that some of your fellow sailing KZbinrs have gone down the multivitamin route, it’s so annoying because you can tell their hearts aren’t really in it when they’re extolling the benefits of the concoction.

[@svfairisle]

We did try the green stuff, more out of curiosity than anything else, it was surprisingly good! No idea if it makes you more healthy though!

[@ScotChef]

The island named after a fictional tv character was not the centre of that regions slave trade it was the embarkation point for slaves being shipped abroad, more of a trading post where africans and arabs could sell their slaves at good profit as the europeans where never equipped to actually take slaves from the mainland, a common misconception.

[@judyaslett6209]

Have you read “Roots”? I recommend. Not fiction.

[@svfairisle]

Kunta Kinta was very much real! The book & TV series Roots were dramatised of course, but the book was written by a descendent of Kunta Kinta who spent years researching the story and tracing his ancestors. He managed to trace him back to Jufureh so we know he was from that village, must have been taken early in the trade as you’re right slavers we’re working well inland, we even heard story’s of it in Burkino Faso when we were making a documentary there years ago.

[@MrJudgementday99]

Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. was a friend of Haley's, but, years after Haley's death, Gates acknowledged doubts about the author's claims: Most of us feel it's highly unlikely that Alex found the village whence his ancestors sprang. Roots is a work of the imagination rather than strict historical scholarship. It was an important event because it captured everyone's imagination.[31]

[@ScotChef]

Commented too early again lol the tribes surrounding that area where slavers so the fictional tv character was not from there he would have been from the interior basically coastal areas where fought for and won by the largest tribes who used their coasts as markets for selling slaves they had captured only the arabs visited the interior slave markets as they had long established colonies in north africa the fort you saw was mostly built by the british when they abolished slavery on the high seas and bribed spain and portugal with a small fortune (which britain only finished paying ten years ago) the guns where also there too fire on the durbhan slavers who refused to give up the profession they had followed for 2 thousand years give or take. 👍🏻

[@inveterateforeigner2780]

are you patrons to anyone?

[@svfairisle]

Yes