SAILING FROM HAWAII TO FRENCH POLYNESIA: 23.5 DAYS AT SEA

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@pontoonrob7948 10 ай бұрын

You guys remind me of when i was young. I just found your channel. Glad you are doing it. I just sold my business and all i own and will be adventuring again shortly. I am fortunate to retire at 50. Enjoy it while you are young.

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

Congrats on retiring! I’m excited for your new adventures in life!

@joeltippens2473 10 ай бұрын

What a gift, Pirate Sassafras- thank you! So many favorite moments, had to watch twice! I am so looking forward to your upcoming GGR video updates! I dig your spirit and creativity!

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

Yay! Thank you so much for sailing along!

@SV-Mig 10 ай бұрын

Love your videos! Beautiful spirit and attitude towards the ocean and life in general. Thanks for taking the time to share it with us!

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching them!

@brucehartnett8709 10 ай бұрын

Great passage!! With Great Crew!! Thanks for sharing all yr adventures. Cheers!

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

Yay! I’m glad you enjoyed it!

@scottwilson7835 10 ай бұрын

You're good to Juniper, so she is good to souls on board 😊 Great sharing the adventures with us 🌊💧👍❤️

@josephkelley8634 10 ай бұрын

One of the best that I have watched.

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for watching!

@jimgarvin9159 9 ай бұрын

Congratulations on your Passage. And y’all did an amazing job working together. Oh I almost forgot HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! You will love it there in the French Polynesia.

@scottwilson7835 8 ай бұрын

Love your content, and each of your videos are unique and happily different. You Go Girl!!🎶😎⛵✌️

@toddfouts 10 ай бұрын

Can’t love this enough! An amazing journey, and the creative way you produced the video makes the narrative even more intimate and compelling. Thanks for sharing and I look forward to more voyages!

@SVSaltWife 9 ай бұрын

Having done that trip before I completely understand what you’ve just gone through. Hang in there, it gets better

@pontoonrob7948 10 ай бұрын

I do enjoy the longer videos...the 20 min ones from other channels leave one wanting more

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

Yay! I’m glad you like the longer length.

@DarceeVorndran 10 ай бұрын

Sassafras - you are a complete and utter JOY to watch (and a pisser to boot!) and mermen - y'all ain't bad yourselves not to mention easy on the eyes - Darcee

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

Awe thank you so much for sailing along with us Darcee!

@mountainwest3444 10 ай бұрын

Very Nice Video. Good Editing. Loved the N 0.00.000 shot,, obviously proved you were at the equator. These were good times that will be remembered forever by all the crew. Today is Dec 30,,,,,,, Happy New Year.

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

Yay! Thank you for watching!

@royfitzsimmons6226 10 ай бұрын

WOW, What a fun video thank you sooooooo much.

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching and sailing along with me! ❤

@henriaboukrat579 9 ай бұрын

Oh no! and did you stay on board? I guess you did but found out later that you could have squeezed yourself out (not sure if it is the right english expression) without troubles as polynesian coast guard are not US coast guards. Thank you to have put together the video of the crossing. Good that all of you three got on together so well. I imagine the highlight of the smell of a fresh loaf of bread coming out from the oven. Bravo, you have done it!!!!...from these islands my prefered one is Huahine but i think from your personnality and your taste, you will like most Bora Bora....you even look like this island. Let's see....after the repairs.

@wildernessofwaves 9 ай бұрын

You are so right! I loved Bora Bora! More videos coming soon :) oh and we may or may not have snuck out of the boat haha

@Marques-wh4eo 9 ай бұрын

I was enjoying the ride until the bananas went overboard! Location of leak, NOT WASTING YOUR BANANAS, will ensure a safe passage!

@DarceeVorndran 10 ай бұрын

All of you are TROOPERS

@mjcooke2sailingmostly 10 ай бұрын

Bananas a new one on me. A good achievment and a great feeling when you arrive. Happy New Year.

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

Thank you! Happy New year to you too!!! ❤

@deekay911 9 ай бұрын

Nice job! We sailed from Kaui to Fiji two years ago and it was a fantastic trip. Not sure we could have made the easting you needed in our cat.

@johnnya9001 10 ай бұрын

Looks like you were hard on the wind for nearly the entire trip. I thought it was supposed to be a downwind run. You guys are tough. Cheers.

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

Hi! Thanks for watching. Yea, the sail from Hawaii to French Polynesia is not a downwind trip. You have to make a lot of easting before the equator, only then can you fall off the wind but not by much only down to a beam :)

@michaelrobinson8915 4 ай бұрын

Love the live music...bendiciones...m

@rcameronbryce186 10 ай бұрын

Well done! Onward to the next great adventure! The GGR awaits.

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yes and yay! :)

@johnwilliams-ni8cn 7 ай бұрын

love you do not quit and keep going with joy in your heart, thank you, also liked pictures of jesus and paramahansa yoganada

@wildernessofwaves 7 ай бұрын

Yay! Thank you so much for sailing along with me! Comments like this inspire me to keep creating and sharing 💕

@ashley-tm1uk 9 ай бұрын

another great adventure olivia!…i still love you! how do you manage without a dodger?…that panda is really a sweet stout little yacht…good job to the capable crew…bungies on the fruit hammock…real aloe vera plant aboard for burns / …limes and jalapeños for ceviche…cilantro …i cried when bananas got tossed … epic video!…xo

@wildernessofwaves 9 ай бұрын

Awe! Thank you for watching and for all the hot tips! Yes to bungies in the hammocks! I have been using string to weave the tops closed but it ain’t working. Aloe! I wish! If I could get a plant to sit still and survive onboard I’d have a whole garden! Even at anchor mine die, but I promise I have a very green thumb on shore. Sorry about the bananas 😬

@ashley-tm1uk 9 ай бұрын

i shoulda known you have it all covered…but maybe i’ll send you a real banana hammock that i don’t wear anymore since getting arrested at a hotel for wearing …i didn’t know there was a front and back to these things … you know i still love you O!… A

@deborahdoyle6743 9 ай бұрын

Great job

@wildernessofwaves 9 ай бұрын

💕 thank you for sailing along!

@kimberlyonseastar 5 ай бұрын

I’m wishing I had my pendulum on board. Departing in two days, may go to the crystal store!

@michaelvanwinkle7919 9 ай бұрын

A Belated Happy Birthday!

@rcameronbryce186 10 ай бұрын

Just had a second look at this: thank you for turning film/video back into an artform again. Vestiges of that Maya Deren influence is still there, I'm expecting doo-wop to blindside me at any segue, the editing is tight and the color grading (are you doing that?) looks good. That NY accent -- oh my God -- it's not just the accent, it's that detached boredom nuance that only a New Yorker could recognize. And, oh yeah, the sailing thing was cool too!

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

Awe! Thank you for watching it again! Haha blindsided by doo-wop. I do the color grading in premiere pro. There is a lut that I use in there then i pump up the saturation and contrast, sometimes adding more black. Each clip takes me about 5 minutes max to fine tune color-wise, so it’s a bit time consuming, but I’m obsessed with color so in the end it’s worth it :)

@glenngray1201 10 ай бұрын

What he say !! 😂

@ColinMcIntyre-i5x 10 ай бұрын

Love watching your show and your cheerful attitude . Taking my first sailing trip with an employee that works for my brother from Sooke BC Canada to Maple Bay BC . Cold weather sailing but we will be dressed for it in March 2024 .When you know some one with a boat make friends . Self teaching myself by watching all thease sailing shows on youtube Take care girl and love your show .

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

Yay! I’m excited for you and your first trip! Have an amazing time and thank out so much for watching!

@ColinMcIntyre-i5x 10 ай бұрын

@@wildernessofwaves Been in 35 knots on a whale watching trip in 2002 with Prince of whales with green water covering the windows .Don't think we will push it that hard on the sail trip but we will rock. Going to have to work of Christmas and New years gluten and walk my as of as its like pulling a mussel lifting my legs over the station's Happy New Year .

@sartorst3376 6 ай бұрын

Cooool !

@disinfo2050 10 ай бұрын

The bananas overboard after listening to the crystal is so ....scary...

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

The crystal knows best

@delwoodkelp8590 10 ай бұрын

Enjoyed the video though in the beginning it said "destination" Tuamotus... I may have missed/skipped a few minutes of viewing. Did you decide to bypass those atolls or not get quite far enough East to swing by them? Back in 1977 I did Hilo to Marquesas, Tuamotus, and Tahiti.... Where do you go next? I'm always wondering, what do you do for navigation if you lose all electrics including radio and GPS? We had neither back then, but cracked open a step by step instruction book with forms to fill in. Plus we had very high quality sextants. Managed to find HIva Oa on the 23rd day. Having no bananas on board probably helped us. But also no cold beer... due to lack of power for a refrigerator. That sail was my first time ever on a sail boat...and my last time...but truly one of the best adventures of my life. Puts the oceans in perspective, something you don't get flying over them in jets, while watching a movie. Will subscribe to learn of the next destination.

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

Hi! We aborted the Tuamotus after there was the electrical fire so we ended up going direct to Papeete, but I did sail to the Tuamotus after I got things fixed in Tahiti. Apologies for not mentioning that in the video. I didn’t lose my electronics, but if I did I also have a sextant and now I am talking a second celestial navigation course

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

Ps- I’m glad you didn’t have any bad luck bananas out there!

@daveg4963 10 ай бұрын

Groovy

@DarceeVorndran 10 ай бұрын

Hi you 4! (Juniper counts too!) Safe passage XOXOXO Darcee

@saylaveenadmearedead 10 ай бұрын

I just luv you!!! I mean... what's not to luv???

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

Awe thank you so much for sailing along!

@jackhudkins542 2 ай бұрын

Love your Yogananda Krishna Christ PICS !!!!!! same here.

@dagreatbam 6 ай бұрын

Hahaha 😂 oh noooo not the bananas 😮I brought a banana flavored candy once on a trip in Oz and the captain could smell it and instantly told me to throw it away asap then blamed me that we didn’t catch fish cuz the fact it was banana flavored 😂

@wildernessofwaves 6 ай бұрын

😂 love that

@GeorgeRoach-y1n 10 ай бұрын

great video

@paulmiles6437 10 ай бұрын

Well Done!

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

❤

@jamesyoung3998 9 ай бұрын

Good vid

@michaelmcnair1880 9 ай бұрын

Can i ask where you learned that pendulum work?

@wildernessofwaves 9 ай бұрын

Well I can’t remember exactly where I learned to do it, one of my mystical friends taught me. I was told recently that I do it slightly wrong because you are supposed to ask the pendulum to stop motion in between questions. But it really has guided me a lot. On the way to Hawaii I lost the use of my engine and was low on batteries so I couldn’t keep any of my systems on. Including my navigation lights, which were LED at the time. At night I would pray and then use the pendulum to ask if I needed to turn on my navigation lights. Every night it said no except for one night and that night I woke up to another vessel passing me within 1 NM. It was a no moon night and without the lights it could have been disastrous.

@SailingLittleGooseBC 10 ай бұрын

Hey Olivia wondering whats your technique to keeping your cast iron in good shape while on the boat?

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

Honestly they just stay in good condition, I use them, wash them with regular water, dry them immediately and stow them in a cabinet below the stove. The bottom of one has some rust spots but for the most part they are perfect!

@rski1036 9 ай бұрын

That generator is making so much noise I can't help thinking it's probably lacking a quality sound shield.

@wildernessofwaves 9 ай бұрын

Hi, thank you so much for watching! I don’t have a generator. I use the alternator on the engine to charge batteries when there isn’t enough sun for the solar. The engine is right under the companionway steps and it’s pretty loud when I’m close to it. I have some of the heat proof foam padding (not sure of technical name) on the walls surrounding it but could probably use some more

@wildernessofwaves 9 ай бұрын

@michaelrobinson8915 4 ай бұрын

Foul weather gear, nice...m

@hughburgess4168 8 ай бұрын

Just found your channel. Loved it…. loved the chatter and personality and humour and pendulum of Olivia. Loved the added chemistry of Silva and Josh! What a wonderful way to passage plan: swing s pendulum. I’m going to do that Excellent presentation. And not over the top! ⛵️

@wildernessofwaves 8 ай бұрын

Awe thank you so much for sailing along! I’m so happy you are digging the content. Pendulums are the best! I’ve got an amethyst one and a rose quartz one!

@hughburgess4168 8 ай бұрын

@@wildernessofwaves I have a gold one!

@MokuleiaVibes 10 ай бұрын

Where did Josh get his cool batik looking head wraps?

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

I think he got them on Oahu! I’ll ask,

@MokuleiaVibes 10 ай бұрын

@@wildernessofwaves please do! I live on North Shore, O’ahu and want some so bad!! Mahalos and Hau’oli Makahiki Hou!

@Sammyturtle 10 ай бұрын

>>>>> If you feel like you're going crazy it's probably bcuz U are sleep deprived. I would like to see the guys allow U to skip 1 or 2 shifts to make sure U can get enough sleep, otherwise, mistakes can be made, that could cost someone their life.

@wildernessofwaves 10 ай бұрын

This is the only crossing I did with crew, the rest have been solo (9k + NM alone), I got way more rest than ever before which was awesome! But agree maybe a schedule with shorter watches at night would be good!

@john-l2g8s 10 ай бұрын

hi olivia, john uk..love your channel

@waykiwayki 9 ай бұрын

Fun....total bucket of junk but it did it :)) Why couldn't you leave the boat till Monday? Some matrix customs garbage? Great vid :)) Better than all the glossy ego ones....felt psycadelic in places :)

@wildernessofwaves 9 ай бұрын

Yay, I am so happy you liked it! Well it’s because customs wasn’t open until Monday, so there we were, on land but still shackled to the boat. Thank you so much for sailing along!

@christopherhutchings9621 9 ай бұрын

It's RUM not wine, Y'all gonna piss off Neptune. Fair winds

@wildernessofwaves 9 ай бұрын

Considering Neptune’s origins i believe he loves wine because Romans didn’t drink rum or spirits, they drank wine or mead rather. The ancient offerings would have been closer to the wine I had vs rum

@christopherhutchings9621 9 ай бұрын

@@wildernessofwaves Well said! BUT tens of thousands of liters of wine sank to the bottom of the sea during and after the Hellinc wars. Barbary pirates turned rum as the offering, western countries followed. Remember Poseidon was the precursor of Neptune.... Like your ideas and channel 👍🇺🇸

@lisalisalisa7721 9 ай бұрын

May I ask what kind of boat this is? All I hear is diesel sounds.

@wildernessofwaves 9 ай бұрын

You did hear diesel sounds sometimes because i only had 200 watts of solar and on days when there wasn’t sun I had to use the alternator on the engine to charge the batteries. We also used the engine a couple of times to power the boat when there wasn’t wind, but that was rare as we had good winds most of the way. You can check out my sailing blog which chronicles my journey day by day if you want to know more of the nitty gritty.

@wildernessofwaves 9 ай бұрын

Also throughout the video I often say what the wind speed is at and how the sails are configured.