EP35 - SOLO Sailing & ANCHORING at Cat Harbor CATALINA | Dec 9, 2023

[@BrianYapleOfficial]

Your videos keep getting better man, keep it up!

[@sailingsole]

Right on. Thanks. I really appreciate that. Cheers!

[@michaelmello9510]

Great video

[@sailingsole]

Thanks Michael

[@retired1822]

Too cool. Went in summer of ‘14, 9 days. Hope to get back some time. Be Safe!😊

[@sailingsole]

Thanks, much appreciated! 🤙🏼

[@GabrielBarcelo-b7n]

great video,

[@sailingsole]

Thanks Gabriel 🤙🏼

[@wonderboy6511]

Awesome video and soundtrack, as always Andy. The boat looks great and you’re sailing with confidence. Based on your choice of helm seats, I’m guessing that you have a musical history. Would be great to spend a segment talking about your experiences in that realm.

[@sailingsole]

Thanks bro. What’s your name by the way? YT just says WonderBoy. Anyway, yes, I’ve been a drummer for 30+ years and I mess around with all other instruments. I’ve got some stuff on iTunes if you care to hear it. Look up “Sir Madam, Crooked Teeth”. Strange band name I know but there’s a story behind that, the singer was in an all girl band called The Madams when they disbanded and I joined her for a two piece rock band and we called it Sir Madam. Anyway, that was in a past life haha!

[@wonderboy6511]

Hi Andy, I’m James. We met at the most recent LB Boat Auction. Enjoyed chatting with you guys.

[@mynamesmitch9470]

What up from AZ

[@sailingsole]

Wassup from CALI!!!! 🤙🏼

[@jlvrpos]

Salud!!!

[@sailingsole]

🍻 🤙🏼

[@benkanobe7500]

Beautiful recording of your trip, even whales!!! Thank you for sharing your adventure. Question: Now that you have lived with your handheld for a while, if you lost it would you replace it with the exact same thing or something different? What would you purchase and why? I don't have a handheld (sailing, I have one for my plane) yet and don't want to purchase the wrong one.

[@sailingsole]

Thanks. That’s a great question about the handheld(s) and my answer is a NO to both. I would not buy these again. My standalone handheld is a Cobra MR HH350 FLT; it’s alright but I think there are better options near the same price. My installed main VHF is a Standard Horizon GX 2400B with AIS and NMEA2000 which is great and I love it. The wireless handheld requires a special WIFI antenna (SCU-30 / which is complete crap). The transmission range of this SCU-30 antenna is very short, maybe 10 feet. The antenna is at my nav desk which is near the companionway and it disconnects in my cockpit. The actual RAM4 wireless handheld is very nice but I would highly recommend the wired version (RAM3 I think) over the RAM4 simply because the SCU-30 sucks so bad. Features are great but the range is almost unusable. I hope this helps! Cheers!

[@bobbrown9158]

Never sailed to Cat Harbor, always looked at it from the other direction. Amazing how different the terrain is. Cool video Andy thanks.

[@sailingsole]

Yeah the island looks different on the back side. More rugged and I assume much better fishing based on the number of fishing boats. Thanks for watching Bob, cheers! 🤙🏼

[@keeldragger]

That Mantus didn't budge with those 20kt winds. Nice anchoring, bro. Check your Raymarine autopilot for deadband or similar settings. I had to do some fine tuning on my autopilot to tone down the S-curves.

[@sailingsole]

Thanks bro. Yeah, I haven’t gotten I to the settings to learn the autopilot like I should’ve by now. I need to tune it up. I’ve never heard of deadband so I’ll look I to that. 👊🏼

[@keeldragger]

@@sailingsole not sure if Raymaine uses the term 'deadband'. See if you have a 'response' setting. That's what I tweaked on my ST6002

[@DruRoland]

We have to install that same autopilot on our Catalina 30. Any good recommendations!?!?

[@joshuareece5045]

Is that a new dinghy? Takacat?

[@sailingsole]

That’s Marks new dinghy. Yes, Takacat 👍🏼

[@gatecrasher1970]

what is scope? and how do you get good mobile phone signal do you use wifi calling?

[@sailingsole]

Good questions… SCOPE is the length of anchor chain and rope (aka “rode”) that you put out or “pay out” to keep your boat from dragging while resting at anchor. 5:1 scope or better yet 7:1 scope are said to be the best. You calculate your SCOPE based on the depth of water that you are anchoring in, for instance… Here’s an example with easy numbers. If you are anchoring in 10 feet of water; for 5:1 scope, you would put out 50 feet of rode. 5:1 is 10 feet x 5 = 50). So you have 50 feet of “scope” out. I was anchored in ~42’ of water x 5 = 210 feet of rode. I only had around 190’ paid out after i let more out in the middle of the night. Again, scope is the length of your anchor chain and/or rope (“rode” in nautical terms) that you have paid out. Did I confuse you or help? 😆🤙🏼 Cheers!

[@sailingsole]

As for mobile phone signal; you don’t get a good signal if you are far from the signal towers. My T-Mobile home internet box would loose signal eventually but it had a weak signal in Cat Harbor on Catalina Island. Cheers!

[@gatecrasher1970]

sounds good will write that down@@sailingsole

[@gatecrasher1970]

so in england we have what we call wifi calling so you could use starlink for phone calls?@@sailingsole

[@wonderboy6511]

Maybe Santa will bring you a cell signal booster. Were you on the naughty or the nice list?