Ep 148 True Offshore Sailing | 420nm Adventure | BVI's to Grenada

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Sailing Yacht Talisman

Sailing Yacht Talisman

Күн бұрын

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@mrjbbarker1947
@mrjbbarker1947 Жыл бұрын
Great to see you again. Sailing. May the wind at your back be your own.
@SailingTalisman
@SailingTalisman Жыл бұрын
Thanks Gerald!
@steenkigerrider5340
@steenkigerrider5340 Жыл бұрын
Nothing is nicer than being on a yacht with some size and weight when blue water sailing.
@SailingTalisman
@SailingTalisman Жыл бұрын
Very true.
@dthelmcken420
@dthelmcken420 Жыл бұрын
Nice to see you again. Fair winds and smooth sailing __/))
@SailingTalisman
@SailingTalisman Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much.
@bobthesnobscotland2821
@bobthesnobscotland2821 Жыл бұрын
Cheers guys
@SailingTalisman
@SailingTalisman Жыл бұрын
Cheers Bob. Great hearing from you.
@robertlaird6746
@robertlaird6746 Жыл бұрын
I think it would be supper cool if some of these little islands would put a small train along the coast for people to go from one bar to the next and then back to the dinghy dock.
@SailingTalisman
@SailingTalisman Жыл бұрын
You know what? St Kitts actually has one. It's not a pub-tour train exactly, but they do have a narrow gauge sugar plantation tour train that runs all the way around the island. It's a vestige of their efforts to stay competitive during a period of consolidation in the sugar industry. In the end, it was all four naught as sugar beet production displaced natural cane sugar worldwide. But the train remains and I hope to go take the tour one of these days.
@robertlaird6746
@robertlaird6746 Жыл бұрын
@@SailingTalisman That's supper cool. When I finish building my boat, I'll for sure stop there and ride that train. Thanks for sharing. I had no idea that someone had done that. I'm just watching a video about it now. My favorite train that I've been on was the one at the Santa Barbara Zoo in CA. Train Mountain Railroad in OR also has some really cool trains.
@bbrcummins1984
@bbrcummins1984 Жыл бұрын
Living the dream with a beautiful woman by your side , doesn't get any better than that ✌️
@SailingTalisman
@SailingTalisman Жыл бұрын
Yes, I've got it good, no denying that. I should add that apart from being beautiful, she's also an excellent sailor!
@peebeedee6757
@peebeedee6757 Жыл бұрын
Passage making -- It's what owning a boat is all about and this episode a great fix for those of us who are now landlocked. Thanks for taking us on the trip and I think, shows in your enjoyment, that you made a good choice in going for Talisman after all that early searching.
@SailingTalisman
@SailingTalisman Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the kind words. Yes, this is what Talisman was made for, and she does it with grace and aplomb. There are faster boats out there, but for her size I'm happy with 7.5-8 knots. Much fast than that and things start getting scary.
@markmichell6552
@markmichell6552 Жыл бұрын
Hello guys. Just discovered your channel and enjoying a lazy Sunday binge watching all your adventures over the years. I have boat envy big time. Can you let me the make and model. Many thanks. Happy and safe sailing. Mark from UK
@SailingTalisman
@SailingTalisman Жыл бұрын
Hi Mark. Glad to hear you're enjoying our channel. As for your question, Talisman is a proper UK built Oyster 485. A true bluewater boat. She's almost 30 years old now (late 1994), but if you buy a new Oyster you'll largely get the same floor plan and kit. We love her and have done our best to bring her into the 21st century with all new electronics and other upgraded components.
@firstlast1047
@firstlast1047 Жыл бұрын
You are the first content provider I have seen doubling the dock lines back to the boat to facilitate undocking. I have often wonder, Why not?
@SailingTalisman
@SailingTalisman Жыл бұрын
I think a lot of people get used to having marina dockhands to help with lines. We like controlling the lines ourselves, even when dockhands are present. I can't tell you the number of times that I was springing off a dock line under power, and suddenly some guy on the dock uncleated me. The one piece of advice I always give skippers moving up the proficiency ladder is never to listen to dockhands yelling at you to do this or that. Tune them out. In the end, it's the skipper who has to make these decisions, and to the one these guys have never, and will never, dock a larger boat. They have literally no experience with what you're doing, and they think the same process you'd use with the marina dinghy will apply to a sailboat.
@firstlast1047
@firstlast1047 Жыл бұрын
@@SailingTalisman 😄😳 Well said!!
@nickjames1892
@nickjames1892 Жыл бұрын
That was a fantastic sail, Kevin, felt I was with you! Well done. Great to see Talisman stretching her legs.
@jayschafer5385
@jayschafer5385 Жыл бұрын
Nice episode! Kevin, when did you make this passage? Currently or earlier this year? Thanks. Jay
@SailingTalisman
@SailingTalisman Жыл бұрын
Thanks Nick. And that's the idea ... to let people get as close to the actual experience as possible. Folks complain about the wind and wave noise, but that's what it sounds like when you're out there.
@charlessmyth1339
@charlessmyth1339 Жыл бұрын
30:41 Hi Kevin and Wendy, looked like a great sail, glad to see you on KZbin after two months.
@SailingTalisman
@SailingTalisman Жыл бұрын
Hi Charles. We've been so busy that editing just didn't happen. But we have a large amount of unedited video still waiting for some spare time, so I'll see what I can do about getting some new episodes up.
@gregvee2930
@gregvee2930 Жыл бұрын
Hi guys, the footage of the Dolphins was spectacular! Thank you for sharing the sail. You sure got it together. Good job Captain!
@SailingTalisman
@SailingTalisman Жыл бұрын
Thanks Greg. It was a fun trip. And the dolphins were great. They're just so playful.
@dansraspberrypisoftwarecla1690
@dansraspberrypisoftwarecla1690 Жыл бұрын
So you are going to spend summer in Grenada? We will miss you up in the Chesapeake. We elected to go the other way left St Thomas May 10 and sailed 14 days landing in Beaufort NC (1497nm) due to storm around the cape. Hung out for a few days then went ICW up to bay. Back in our slip on the 30th. If you get the hunger got plenty room on Riparian to play around the bay.
@SailingTalisman
@SailingTalisman Жыл бұрын
Hi Dan. Thanks for the invite. We're back in Colorado having left Talisman on the hard in Antigua. Sounds like you had a nice trip up, although Talisman is way too deep a draft for the ICW these days. We're also not 100% sure of our air draft, which it turns out isn't that easy to check.
@dansraspberrypisoftwarecla1690
@dansraspberrypisoftwarecla1690 Жыл бұрын
@@SailingTalisman I am lucky with my small boat (tip to tail 42'), we only draw 5' and air 48+' and ICW is good for 6' and 65'. Calculating air is just a trig problem not to hard to get real close. I figured when I saw you went south you were going to keep her down there. Hope the season takes good care of her, the water temps we were seeing in the VI's and St Martin suggested a tough season for storms so we bugged out. Was a great ride up but in order to make time around 31 we skirted a storm to get the wind 35+ and 12' but it bought us speed and got us in before the storm made it to GS.
@allanmoore7790
@allanmoore7790 Жыл бұрын
@@SailingTalisman - Leaving the boat in Antigua on the hard, like last year, is a good choice. Sailing back and forth to the Chesapeake is way too much work.
@svsalserenity4375
@svsalserenity4375 Жыл бұрын
What a great sail. I could just do that , back and forth . Did you catch any fish ?
@SailingTalisman
@SailingTalisman Жыл бұрын
We caught 3 barracuda and 1 jack. The biggest of the three barracudas got attacked by another fish on the way in and was bleeding like crazy. By the time we got him unhooked and released, the transom of our boat looked like a murder scene. When we arrived in Grenada, the dockhands were laughing and pointing. I ended up unsure what they were thinking.
@svsalserenity4375
@svsalserenity4375 Жыл бұрын
@@SailingTalisman Damn Baracuda , shark probably took a bite . Thanks for the great video of your passage ,
@robertlaird6746
@robertlaird6746 Жыл бұрын
Have you thought about building a hard dodger. If so, what do you think of the pro's and con's of doing so?
@SailingTalisman
@SailingTalisman Жыл бұрын
No. Oysters don't have them and we want to keep the boat as stock as possible. Also, I should note that we really like the ability to drop our spray hood completely. Other designs have zippered, roll-up window glass, but even there you get reduced wind flow through the cockpit. You almost can't overstate the importance of fresh air flowing past you in the right conditions.
@robertlaird6746
@robertlaird6746 Жыл бұрын
@@SailingTalisman I guess the resale value would go down on your Oyster if you did that. I guess it depends on where you sail and what type of boat you have.
@abagailbrett2499
@abagailbrett2499 Жыл бұрын
Promo*SM
@SailingTalisman
@SailingTalisman 10 ай бұрын
Not paid. That's the distinction KZbin makes.
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