Sailing back to San Diego | Ep 344 | Sailing Catalpa II

[@maminals2137]

Welcome back to the U S of A! Love to keep ya Mates!!

[@dirk3730]

As a US citizen and veteran who has been following your families adventures for years, thank you all by the way, you all are absolutely amazing and an inspiration for everyone. Just wishing you would mirror your content on to Rumble so our family can watch your adventures there. KZbin is terrible as you all know. Not sure if they demonitized you at any point, but after years of following your channel I do know that they blocked all comments on your channel which absolutely killed your growth at the height of your popularity. Rumble won't do that to you and there is only the big four sailing channels there. I'd really rather watch your content there. I'll keep watching on KZbin if that's where you all are but I personally don't care for KZbin. Cheers and hopefully you guys will fix what's needed and be off again.

[@mckaysondeck]

I love watching your boating adventures. Most people wont understand the back and forth of outfitting a new boat.

[@SailingCatalpa]

thanks yeah Its a lot of work

[@billkaroly]

Back in the USA!

[@rickdaniel8478]

Great videos Be sure to have complete set of total mosquito screens ( very fine mesh ) ready before you go to Sea of Cortez. Nats, mosquitos and bees. Lots of cabin fans needed. Cheers Sail on 😊

[@davidh3194]

Glad you made it back to San Diego.

[@SUDDSCREW]

Thanks!

[@SailingCatalpa]

Cheers mate

[@markbernier8434]

Just FYI the us border with Canada is roughly three times as long as the us border with Mexico.

[@darrencoile]

The better way to put it is they went through the busiest border crossing in the world.

[@donzie13]

Looks like you passed some of our other KZbinrs leaving South in their homemade old style sail boat. That was cool . Welcome to America!

[@stephengreen9540]

Hello to my favorite Australian family

[@stevenplancich6449]

Gosh…What a pain with border crossings…At least ya weren’t “Detained”😜 Continue to Stay Safe & Enjoy😎

[@stanlamborn6796]

Welcome back.

[@dalltm]

welcome back!

[@jingergaer610]

I see your at A9, we have been in and out dodging the storms , Honey Badger. Would love to meet and chat. I can tell you how to utilize your days allowance here especially to the max with all these small craft advisory days and extra permits.

[@jingergaer610]

and tell y'all a few other free anchorages you can use here in southern CA We had to leave MX too due to TIP so came back for season. Learned a lot last time here and meeting everyone in-between

[@SailingCatalpa]

Sounds good thanks

[@grakkerful]

How did you pass on the churros!!?

[@stanlamborn6796]

No kidding!! I almost knock the tv over trying to get me one. 😂😂

[@SailingCatalpa]

we didn't we ate some 😜

[@Lana_Warwick]

Going back was mentioned multiple times, only saying "few things we need to get. Curious what the advantage is, as I always believed Mexico would be far cheaper vs the States, similar to Aus vs Indo (or NZ).

[@SailingCatalpa]

Yeah it's cheaper for certain things but for boat parts and ordering things online its a lot more challenging and expensive. just like Indo you can't get things easily cost of living is cheaper but fixing a boat its definitely not cheaper. labour would be most likely but we are all about DIY 😜

[@andrewchristopher7138]

Hi

[@1sheinz]

With your new battery's DO NOT WORRY about the charge level being 20-75% most of the time, this is their happy place and your charge controllers will pump the most solar into the batt's , and the same for the altenators.. Once you get to 75% the solar will not charge to the max amperage that they would if the battery's are more like 60% or less. I have had lithium, yes the same ones, since 2012 , and they get to 100% maybe twice a year, but they continuously are 80-40% and even lower if there is 2 weeks of poor sunlight. THEY STILL have 90% of there useful capacity after 11 YEARS of continuouisly using them every day. I di build my own from grade A Chinese cells and HAVE NO BMS other than a high and low cut off for charging or inverter use. When lithium is used for solar applications there is just not enough current going in or out that the cells imballance. As long as they are all parrelled and top ballanced, then built into your voltage structure they CAN NOT UNBALLANCE. It is only in vehicle use with DC high speed chargers that an unballance can happen.

[@lenardfavell810]

Longest international border is the Canadian U.S border 😊

[@lahoozer6694]

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[@mikehortin9964]

I'm wondering what visa you got entering USA on foot? Wouldn't leaving to collect the vessel cancel the visa?

[@grancitodos7318]

People miss use the word visa. They got an I 94 multiple entry card under the visa waiver scheme, for participating countries, which likely allows them 3 months, but the bastards gave me 7 days one time. Incidentally, visas are normally valid for 10 years, and don't get cancelled by leaving the country. They do not allow you to stay in the country for 10 years, they can just be used for entry during that time period.

[@ronjohnson9690]

And which one of you will master the Spanish language first?

[@donj2744]

👍

[@robertthompson9455]

You didn't buy cheros from the street vendor at the border ?...Bummer, they are great !...

[@SailingCatalpa]

yeah we did 😁

[@randylinn502]

Don't forget to get that KFC when you get back into San Diego!!! PUKE!!!

[@barryholiday8998]

It’s crazy how difficult the US makes it for tourists meanwhile thousands simply walk across the border everyday without a visa and have no issues.

[@sailingadventuress5489]

Seriously? Do you know how hard the desert is on people? And Border Patrol is really tough too…

[@barryholiday8998]

@@sailingadventuress5489 but your point doesn’t negate the fact that people are allowed to simply walk across the border with impunity. There are literally over 15 million non citizens living in the US today. They simply walked across the border or flew in on a plane with a tourist visa. They are allowed to drive, go to school, use hospitals, etc without any fear of deportation. However, for visitors to practically any other country in the world every immigration law needs to be followed to a T. Just look at what Mexico does to people who overstay their visa. Watch any sailing YT channel and see how carefully they need to follow immigration rules when they go to different countries. I’m very sympathetic to migrants and if I was in their position I would likely do the same thing. I actually provided help to 3 young migrant men from Guatemala who crossed the border in Arizona last winter and came walking up to my campsite in the middle of the desert on blm land looking for help. I gave them food and water and let them use my cell phone to call one of their cousins in the US who asked me to let them stay with me while he sent someone to pick them up. They were with me for 6+ hours. If I didn’t help them the next town in the direction they were walking was literally 24 hours away. They had no food or water.

[@sailingadventuress5489]

@@barryholiday8998 impunity and desperation make strange bedfellows

[@lahoozer6694]

The checked you for kilos and bricks? Yankees always suspecting drug runners.. :/

[@MikeHarrison3266]

The whole world is going from Mexico to the US so you should have no problems, at least you are getting a visa.

[@grancitodos7318]

No, they could not get one, they got entry permission, being Australian, they should have a better command of English, and not call an entry card, a visa. But, northern Australia.

[@The_Riddler21]

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