Sailing East Matagorda Bay on a Windrider 17, high winds and angry water.

[@wow.sailor.]

I am from South Africa, and am planning to build myself a cat like yours ,over to learn from you

[@ZiggyLavengood]

Welcome Aboard!

[@kevinmack-7pqc988]

Hello Ziggy, I enjoy your videos. This one was my favorite for some reason, maybe it was because of the joy of misery element that goes with sailing. I am interested in doing some boating/camping in the Matagorda Bay area (Sunday Beach). I was wondering if I could pick your brain through friendly correspondence about boating in that area.

[@ZiggyLavengood]

no problem, ask away!

[@TomKirkman1]

The thing about these tough voyages, is that they tend to be the ones you'll remember the longest.

[@ZiggyLavengood]

You gotta earn it....

[@stephenwilkinson8396]

Awesome Ziggy. Great Adventure

[@MC-xw6vm]

Looks like your guest could use a windshield. I use one on SF bay, besides protecting your sailingmate it keeps water out of your bilge. Thanks for the videos amigo! 😎

[@ZiggyLavengood]

Yeah. And I have one we didn't use. I shouldn't have gone out into the bay. If I had stayed in the ICW, we would have been dry. The wind drove every little spray right into our faces.

[@eomvlf]

Ziggy vídeo its a Very good

[@ZiggyLavengood]

Thank you

[@tilenjeraj2684]

Years ago I was sailing in Croatia, Njivice with Elan 425 laser like sailing boat. Lousy rainy weather, strong winds 30kmh… it was 🤩 .

[@mikeb2777]

Any way we can get a close up of the motor mount set up? Thanks for the great vids!

[@ZiggyLavengood]

I'm in Tennessee tight now, but when I get back to Houston in a few days I'll hook you up with a pic.

[@mikeb2777]

@@ZiggyLavengood That's great thanks!

[@mark3249]

Looks fun. I saw a barge with an excavator on deck yesterday going north on the ICW behind Surfside, TX. I wonder if it was the same barge.

[@geraldblaney8252]

great stuff, from my comfortable chair

[@ZiggyLavengood]

With risk comes reward....

[@2jtipton]

Awesome!

[@ZiggyLavengood]

Thanks! How's Houston treating you?

[@2jtipton]

It’s been going well. Kind of glad to not be in a Communist state. How about you? You here for good?

[@ZiggyLavengood]

@@2jtipton yup, taking care of my mother, she is in a nursing home now but I'm in charge of her so we are here for the duration, gladly.

[@JReed305]

"and regretted it" lol

[@graememckenzie2107]

Backseat is always drier than the poor soul up front ! Nice of him to provide crew weight though !

[@ZiggyLavengood]

Poor guy.... he was soaked.... I felt bad for him. I should've stayed in the ICW.....

[@sailingyemaya9781]

How long does it take to set up a wind rider 17 ?

[@ZiggyLavengood]

About half an hour. Longer in the Texas sun.

[@wahme]

Looks like you bastards had a good ol' time!

[@ZiggyLavengood]

Wet and wild!

[@ts3871]

What size Suzuki OB are you running on your -17?

[@ZiggyLavengood]

2.5hp. Tried a suzuki 4hp at 1st but it was way too big.

[@WillAllen22]

Ziggy - what VHF handheld are you using? Do you recommend it? Does it have GPS built in for MOB and DCS?

[@ZiggyLavengood]

I have a small Standard Horizon. No GPS in it. I also carry a Garmin Inreach for an emergency. As far as man overboard features, now that I've downsized to the Windrider I'm almost always solo sailing so a MOB system is not as important as it was on my 34 fter.. I have a MOB feature on my main GPS too. Although a GPS in the radio would be nice as redundancy as long as it didn't effect the battery life. I think the biggest thing I will be looking 4 on my next radio in USB charging capability. The cradle system worked for me in the Great Lakes fresh water but here on the Texas coast the salt water environment is hard on the contacts. Thus I have to keep the cradle packed away taking up storage space. When small boat camping for days every bit of space counts. Zig