Sail-ing /'sāliNG/ noun- The Action of Doing Boatwork in Exotic Places | Episode 146

Erica ends up flying home to Colorado unexpectedly, leaving me to sail and anchor the boat by myself for ten days. While alone aboard I take the time to finish (and start) some projects that I had been putting off for a while.
I outline how I set up our water collection system, as well as rebuilding our headsail furler, which is one of the toughest projects I have encountered yet!
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[@billjeffery2419]

Erica,sorry for the loss of your grandmother. Warren your a brave man doing a repair over water just saying🙃good job.

[@williamarblaster4220]

Bravo on the perseverance Warren, glad you got it done. Sorry for your loss Erica

[@BohemianBeatster]

So very sorry to hear about Erica's grandmother passing away at 100 years plus. What an adventurous life she must of had. I trust you will have some quality time in Colorado with family and friends, and be all refreshed when you return to you floating home. Stay groovy and stay safe.

[@randalladdison537]

Hey i'm sorry for Erica's loss. I pray for GOD to comfort her. I like your inventiveness on the anchor windlass. You should patent that. They should come with the boat with that on them. Your ideas will be remembered i hope when i ever get me another sailboat. And thank you for the update and showing us what you did with the water system to clean the rainwater. Awesome

[@bjornschoon3751]

Sorry for your loss Erica!! All the best to you and your family!

[@kptbillburkett8735]

First!So Sorry for ya'lls loss. I was very lucky in my life to have my Grandparents around into my late Fifties. I learned so much from thim. And of course all the Fun too. So again So Sorry. Now! Trick No# 5. When you work on the Roller furling again, take a Umbrella and open it up and place it under your work spot there. That way when something falls like Bearings, bolts, screws, etcetra, It will Catch most if not all of those parts. Oooo and tools! So you don't lose thim. Ok! Thank you for this week's video. I know it was a hard one to make. So Thank you again. And until next week, Aloha from your friends on the Big Island🏝 of Hawaii 🏞🍹🍻

[@darrinmazur2624]

Bro! That was genius! McGyver!! Great trouble shooting!! Boom!!! Best video yet! Cheers from Mazatlan!

[@ericpelletier9291]

Great job Warren! Erica sorry for your loss…

[@davidowens3822]

Good Job! Boat skills and knowledge for years to come!

[@GMC75]

Man, you're great, you're good at anything !! It's a pleasure to see you working.

[@davel9130]

So sorry for the loss, but what a long life! It's the people in our lives that make it worth living. I'm sure that you have a lot of great memories and hopefully those will help get you through. The furler looks one of those things that's easy to do on a bench with all the specialized tools. It's like you're trying to rebuild a transmission without taking it out of the car. I would try the same thing, but probably be less successful.

[@WEsail]

Haha what a GREAT analogy haha

[@Boody523]

Way to stay with it, wow. Well deserved beer. I hope Ericka had a good visit all considering

[@catamaranladyl4667]

Super boulot et beaucoup d'ingéniosité. Respect. 💪💪👍👍👌

[@Kat.Sanders]

Erica so sorry for your loss! And Warren you crack me up how you was jumping on the sail to fold it up I guess , your certainly a mister fix it lol

[@simongear3940]

Sorry for your loss Erica. Great work Warren on all those fixes. Beer well deserved!

[@WEsail]

Thanks much!!

[@luisemayoral314]

Hi Erika Im sorry for your lost we will pray for your heart that your creator gives you the strength to bear this loss!

[@Muratshayev]

I'm glad that I'm not the only one in the engineering struggle with mechanisms) As always informative. Thanks! )

[@xtransam9970]

Sorry for your loss, we all have loss love ones and good friends during this two years

[@shreksswamp9001]

You need to patent that chain spreading device Mate. Such a great idea!

[@HeidiandFranny]

Brilliant solutions! Love the chain scatter drum and the pump for the rain water. Killer. Sorry the furler was a PITA. Maybe some Corrosion X for those rings? I bought (finally) a good set of ring pliers. I don't use them often, but when you need them... Erica, so sorry about your grandmother. But, 100 years! Something to be joyful about :) Take care and safe travels! F

[@WEsail]

So true, thanks you guys!!

[@ЮрийШипицын-ж9м]

You are a pionneer... SUPER...

[@jamesearly2587]

Epic idea to keep the anchor chain from pyramiding inside the locker! Hundreds of sailors are going to steal that idea. 😎

[@WEsail]

Haha I hope so!!

[@ianprice9005]

Warren you are a Mr Gadget really great ideas the anchor and the water valve 👌👍👍

[@WEsail]

Thanks Ian!!!

[@lordmarsgaming1935]

Sorry for your guys loss. You guys are inspiring me to buy a boat and sail. I retire soon and I want to do it while I’m still relatively young (34). Thank you for all you guys do.

[@WEsail]

Awesome you can do it!! Set small goals and concentrate on them, and the big ones will follow suit!

[@beauch1969]

Warren, you are a very motivated dude. I'm sure that many people would have given up much earlier and paid someone to do it. Maybe even me. lol. Sorry for your loss Erica.

[@WEsail]

Haha thanks Marc!! We both appreciate it man

[@dp5475]

Man that's a really clever anchor chain solution, great job bro

[@happycampers6701]

What you need is a pair of snap ring pliers, Starrett makes some good ones. I like the reversible kind, because they can be used for inner and outer snap rings. Good job on the task! Sorry bout Erica's Grandmother

[@WEsail]

Thanks for all that!

[@ffarag]

Erica, sorry for your Grand ma , my deepest sympathy ..stay strong ,

[@malicus01]

Guys i'm Really Sorry for Erica's lost, send her my conolences, hope you two will stay strong!! BOOOOOOOOY you better stop with that genius things that you doing on your boat, such a clever man!! Be safe guys, love Ya!

[@WEsail]

Haha well thanks you very much

[@GamalDahab]

Sorry for you loss Erica

[@alofns]

Sorry to hear about your grandmother. What a wonderfully long life tho.

[@WEsail]

Thanks Alan!! It was for sure

[@wellDunn1]

Love

[@charlespleisse1984]

You definitely earned that beer. was that a tube of Phil Wood grease? Great stuff, even for the marine enviroment!

[@stephenmahoney9531]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@barneyrubble5801]

Great demonstration of skills and creativity! Curious what you did prior to being a Colorado world sailor ...

[@anthonycook1406]

Looking to add a water catchment on our boat, and really like your design. Your anchor chain flaking device is pretty dang ingenious.

[@WEsail]

Hey thanks very much!! Have a close watch for one of our upcoming videos, probably two or three weeks out, total redesign of the flaker!

[@thorsten5610]

Ohh I am sorry regarding the Grandmum from Erica. And Warren you are a genius. Regards Thorsten

[@WEsail]

Well thank you very much

[@fieldb3]

I don’t know if you’ve given me the courage to try it on SV Eventually or convinced me I shouldn’t go anywhere near the furler. Can I fly you to Turkey to do our repair? Well done!! Sorry for your families loss but it sounds like a very successful life!!

[@Ryanrock2]

Warren,you are amazing. I think you can build or fix anything. You should have been a mechanical engineer. Sorry bout your grandmother Erica.

[@WEsail]

Hey thanks Ryan, we both appreciate it

[@ianprice9005]

Erica condolence to you and the family

[@californiakayaker]

Wow, that anchor chain jamming wood gadget fix is going into my playlist "sailing technology cruiser help" as its amazing. So many many people have that problem which is actually by too shallow of a chain locker,boat manufacturers saving money cutting corners.. I apologize, it will be at the bottom of the list until I go into it and organize it a bunch more. It is a huge playlist. It has some things on Furlers. It actually looks like you may be in trouble with that furler now. Comes apart like a hand grenade is what we repair people say ! They have bearings inside and are hit with salt water a lot, and I don't think there is an easy way to add marine grease to most of them. I also recommend a tension gauge for your system, as your changing it, and probably would like to get the rig back to its original tension ? Also, tension gauges show you when you experience changes that the cat might have bulkhead problems. Good Bulkheads are what will keep you alive on a Cat. Rotten ones will show with your rig changing, and other symptoms, and can cause the entire boat to "fail". And it can happen on any boat made by any manufacturer. Oh, and every boat owner should have a 6 piece set of crescent wrenches and a couple of torque magnifiers for the set ! And should store them in a plastic bag with oil inside of it. Possibly two of the "giant" crescent wrenches because they are great for rigging, torque magnifier for each one. I think you'll end up removing that furler regardless but I'm not to the end of the video yet.

[@californiakayaker]

An interesting video I found in my sailing technology playlist re profurl kzbin.info/www/bejne/eITZZ6eZec2kbas only one comment from 3 years ago.

[@californiakayaker]

Wow, this guy talks about (unfortunately not a "showing the process as he did it " video, but he describes what he had to do, is this your profurl ? kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4fWqoSMhtyLas0 Its really a shame that they don't have "zerts" so you can squirt more grease in isn't it.

[@californiakayaker]

And yes, very sorry about Erica's Grandmother. My Grandfather died at 50 or so and I was very young of course, and it was one of the most stressful things I have ever gone through, I think I might have been 14 ?

[@californiakayaker]

Wondering if one could , in an emergency, set up a hank up or hank on sail in this situation ? This is crazy !

[@WEsail]

Hey good morning!! Thanks for all that, we love hearing from you guys and really appreciate you taking the time to message us!! Cheers and thanks for all the info

[@doogl2331]

Erica sorry to hear about your mom. Warren I think you made the right call to persevere the way you did it. Taking he forestry off just sounded like a bad thing especially since you were alone with no help. Beside you now have yourself a custom set of needle nose pliers. 😉

[@WEsail]

Haha yep, so glad it all worked out!! Cheers and thanks for watching and commenting

[@dr.angelcabanmd]

dude you are the man.. hell of a job with that shit... I would have thrown that shit in the deepest part of the ocean..

[@jackfarmer3336]

We know your not complaining you are just venting. As they say work in exotic locations wish I was there it’s 37 here in Central texas Papajack

[@clarkkent772]

How did you not drop things in the water? With my luck I would have had to go swimming. Good job!

[@ttengineer404]

Did you seal up the joints with RTV or something so it would help keep moisture out?

[@earlashton1342]

New Zealand is open to cruisers. The Wynns are here and the old Sea Dog. They have done refits here and are currently touring the coast of NZ. Being that we are the largest boat owners in the world on a per capiter bases you won't have an issue with parts.

[@californiakayaker]

They were only open to folks who were going to do fairly massive refits and could almost prove that they would be spending a large amount of money on the refit, at least that was what GWTW's had to prove. I think Old Sea Dog got in before things changed.

[@donrichards7173]

Oz has been open for yachties for a few weeks but this video was probably filmed quite a while ago.

[@WEsail]

Very true

[@WEsail]

Hey thanks, just about to launch off from Mexico!!

[@Ninja_Sloth]

So sorry to hear about Erica's memaw passing at 100! What an amazing life. My condolences. My god mate, pull the boat into shallow water in case you do drop something into the drink. Well done with the repair...I would have grabbed the blowtorch about 9AM LOL You both should watch The Sailing Family and their experience in Bora Bora and the repairs they had done in Fiji, which were surprisingly top notch. They have an amazing CAT but took some heavy damage when their mooring line broke in Bora Bora and the CAT drifted away and smashed into a pier (moorings are Government controlled and argued about who was at fault). Thank god for the heroes in Fiji who repaired their boat. Here is the episode where their boat was damaged kzbin.info/www/bejne/in_WlWesZbSlbbs

[@WEsail]

Hi hi and thanks for commenting!! Ya I was VERY interested in those few episodes where all that went down, although I have seen nothing on the repairs or aftermath… I’ll look into it!! Cheers bud

[@cybercheco]

You can probably have those rings made by any machinist for not too much money in Puerto Vallarta

[@MK-gr9qz]

Can you guys do a video about preparations on the pacific yourney? Inkl agents, the hole lot..🤟

[@WEsail]

Absolutely!! Coming up

[@btrent9244]

Condolences for the passing of Erics’s grandmother.

[@tomhusted3304]

On 2 wholes in front of the dams put a screen on the wholes to stop leaf and big stuff don't clog your values

[@dp5475]

Bro, you need a snap ring plier set on board, should only be 20 bucks at Harbor Freight. I admire your ingenuity though

[@WEsail]

I really do!! That would have saved me SOOO much time!! Thanks man!!

[@clcsummerfild]

Paton the chane spreading device

[@curacao11]

:-)

[@clarkkent772]

How much $$ for another chain spreader? 😂🤣😂👍

[@WEsail]

Haha hey thanks!!!

[@walterwinn2842]

Watching that made me cringe, waiting for shit to fall into the water. Made my exhaust hole pucker.

[@WEsail]

Aaahahaha RIGHT!?

[@barbiewarner530]

i thought at 1 point warn was giving birth.rotfl

[@WEsail]

Haha