Arriving To Pago Pago - American Samoa by Sailboat! [Ep. 164]

[@Urluk47]

I always love watching you two sail. Great run! Unlike most channels, you both are very good at sailing and I am learning a lot from you. But the look of pure joy on your faces when you sail is always a such a treat. The bird was pretty good but not the real star of this channel...Roxy!

[@HopeOfJoe]

OMG 😱, has it been 5 years already ⁉️ 25,000 km…..that’s a ton of cruising. Excellent episode guys. Lots of sailing excitement and a bit of nature as well 👍🏻 Love to know how to cook bread in a Dutch Oven pot. “Everyone needs a Kate!” See you next time. ✨🌊💨⛵️🏝️👙🌞✨

[@davidmontgomery1016]

That looked like fun. I recognized the grin on your face, Kate. I enjoy the episodes where you are visiting new places but I love the episodes showing getting to those new places. Thank you for not glossing over the sailing.

[@mikestevens9455]

Sailors gonna SAIL !!! What a run.

[@FernandoOliveira-oy4gy]

Great sailing, and it was amazing seeing the bird so calm while close to y’all. Even the bird knows how nice y’all are. Nice episode. Thanks for sharing y’all’s experience with us.

[@SailingSweetRuca]

Always nice to read your comments :)

[@danpoczynek]

I can’t thank you enough, I see the harness and ropes on Roxie. Our 4 boxer boys are our whole lives and we ( my wife and I ) love to see other folks do everything they can do to protect their pets.

[@donmorgan8980]

Great post... as always. Thanks for sharing. Please give Roxy a hug.

[@edkleinstuber2119]

absolutely rocking that red one piece! great video as always.

[@marshallc3]

That bird would make and excellent archetype of a scary storm trooper. I am really glad to see you putting on your vests. They are helpful. Any new or especially old sailors get an amazingly comfortable life preserver and wear it.

[@dhamma58]

When I saw the white water hitting the camera at the bow it was just admiring the trust in the plastic fantastic usual mounts over the briny deep...very nice footage and editing all the way through this trip, by the way!

[@SailingSweetRuca]

Haha you and me both! It survived... this time. Hope it was worth the risk!

[@rodneysmith9100]

your smile showes how muck you are loving that sail

[@WillN2Go1]

Good video. I saw someone else's video saying American Samoa was a pain clearing in. I'm always a bit wary of seabirds. I just give them space, don't pick up feathers... bird flu in the Pacific Flyway along the west coast of California where I sail and paddle. A cormorant once tried to climb into my lap in my kayak. Kind of freaky. A woman at West Marine explained, 'young birds, tuckered out,' (just as you guys surmised). (For 2 years seagulls used to regularly try to poop on my head in my kayak off Long Beach, CA. I think someone in a kayak did something mean. Before and since none of this.) Getting off the dock into the wind? After participating in this a few times on a cat, my wish list is for a big flat fender. I was just crew trying to hold the fender in place. The round ones would just squeeze and roll out. On my boat maybe I should try using that dense orange MOB pad. Just thinking out loud. I have a bow thruster so 8 knots blowing me against a dock, no problem. 20 knots? You did great.

[@hjaa9737]

That is super cool guys! That is my home! I am from the village of Amouli the East side of the island. So grateful that you guys were able to spend some time there with wondeful people and their hospitality. God speed to the next destination.

[@Life-Dreaming]

Great video - Roxy is too cute‼️ The sailing was awesome. Stay safe and have fun. Enjoy your FREEDOM and remember to VOTE‼️ 💙🇺🇸💚👍😇

[@thomasmoffatt]

The bird was a Brown Noddy or Anous stolidus. Partial white eye ring separates it from Black Noddy, a similar species. Colonized all the world’s tropical seas, but usually travels less than 150 km from land. Raises only one chick at a time.

[@nancygladieux7598]

Great job on this video. Lots of action. I even liked your stowaway with the webbed feet. I hope you can get some great great drone footage of the American Samoas.

[@rainfinger]

Great video!

[@SailingSweetRuca]

Thanks!

[@richardfoote7723]

Thanks for the great swell shots from low on the bow.

[@Juan-qb1ss]

Otro bonito video. Que bien se os ve. Buena proa

[@HopeOfJoe]

Yippee ki yi ya 🎉🎉🎉 Sailing cowgirl at the helm 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@thesophiagibson]

brilliant episode guys... your boat ( and you guys) rock. We were sailing in the Firth of Lorne Scotland today and doing 11 knots in tidal flows... our boat generally only does 5

[@SailingSweetRuca]

Sounds like a good rip!

[@chefjono]

Good going guys!

[@dww0013]

Great video guys, wow you are living the dream. I know it’s not easy out there but your boat is amazing and you’re seeing some amazing places and things! Thanks for sharing them! All the best David

[@SailingSweetRuca]

Thanks David! All the best to you also!

[@peterb4620]

Amazing sailing. We really like it when you explain you sail plan. Fair winds P&J

[@fredflintstone8664]

Simple method that would probably have worked neatly in the situation at 15:30, even without waiting for a lull in quite strong winds (I have used it in gusts up to 35kts or so): Take a stern line from the seaward cleat to a point aft of the stern on shore (and back of course). Engage engine forward with rudder midships to put tension on that line, remove all other lines, rudder away from the dock to turn the bow out, eventually correcting a bit if the stern gets too close. That way you can turn the bow out until you feel comfortable to slip the line and motor away.

[@SailingSweetRuca]

Right on 👍 that’s almost exactly what we did here.

[@robertscranton8293]

Beautiful in so many ways.

[@nealchristensen1793]

Flying along at a good rate of speed great fun !

[@alberttross7348]

Thanks for giving my cousin a ride and letting him rest. He partied a little too hard the night before. Hope he made it home. 😁

[@SailingSweetRuca]

Hahaha! Love it! We gave your cuz a good ride 😀 We also wonder if he ever made it back to land?

[@tiochio8476]

That’s a new Roxy friend!! Poor bird is exhausted!!

[@jamesyoung3998]

Rocking and rolling into Pago. Cool

[@LondonCarnaval]

By far the BEST sailing channel in KZbin and my favourite of all. I wish you all the very BEST of LUCK 🙏👌👍💪💯💝

[@SailingSweetRuca]

The biggest compliment. Humbly grateful :)

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

Thank you.

[@stubby2822]

Coffee time. And watch the video.

[@rimasmeleshyus9486]

Great video .I sailed ⛵️ from SanFrancisco ,California to Pago Pago Samoa island 🏝 in 2015 none stop with my 24 footer sailboat ⛵️ It was amaxing voyage. Samoa is beautiful island .I never forget .Thank you and wish you of good luck . I m ready soon to sail this summer from Valparaiso to Robinson Crusoe island solo .

[@christophergoodwin-qo7tg]

What make was your vessel?

[@TheSWRProject]

Well done Guys... :) Keep safe... :)

[@MrRourk]

What to watch instead of the debate tonight :)

[@SailingSweetRuca]

Hmmm. 🤔 sailing, or politics? Sailing it is 😃

[@stubby2822]

Sailing Sweet Ruca

[@tiochio8476]

👏👏👍👍 Thanks for sharing!

[@SailingSweetRuca]

Thank you too!

[@FranklinGray]

Yeah, I didn't time it right and came in 4 hours after sundown. It was a bit nerve racking but I was able to see a bit with my West Marine binoculars. Luckily the harbor was mostly empty so I have plenty of room to drop the hook and go to sleep. Wife was 5 month pregnant at the time and it was her first sail offshore and she was scared most of the time. I'll never forget the look on her face when she woke up in the cockpit the first morning to see 10' swell coming from the stern. She had a lot of family there that she hadn't seen in a long time so she was glad we finally made it...finally to her, it was just a 2.5 day trip up from Tonga.

[@rickharem5788]

I am new to your videos and I love your work. I have been to Pago Pago in 1994 on the way to Tonga. Beautiful!

[@MICHAELMEREDITHSR]

Kate 'yer' *Truly* crewman #1, & not too hard on the eyes, right skipper‽ 🙏🦉

[@azhiaziamnohiah897]

We need to know your bread recipe for that specific pan! Omg that looked amazing😮

[@sailingbraveheart]

Great video thanks for sharing your adventures here too.

[@SailingQueenJane]

woot! Great footage!

[@billiondollardan]

A 1200 mile passage? Dang, you sailors are a wild bunch

[@stubby2822]

That was entertaining lol. Don't poop or can't poop? Gotta wonder if that bird was the inspiration for the commercials. The smiles and laughter showed you all were in good spirits. Keep having fun and stay safe.

[@SailingSweetRuca]

Haha! Good morning from Pago Pago, American Samoa! 🤔 Those are the most annoying commercials ever! We always get a laugh out of them though.

[@kurtc6372]

Getting a little spooky with the waves hitting the anchor.

[@captainjimolchs]

They were not. The anchor was plowing into them.

[@markliptak2796]

Nice work casting off from that dock, nasty looking concrete!

[@SailingSweetRuca]

Those concrete docks are always intimidating!

[@Mr040764]

Bonjour Merci pour la vidéo. C’est un beau voyage que vous réalisez. Et avec prudence. A bientôt Voilier Girighiz 5🇫🇷

[@jamieblack9349]

Try using your swing lines. I do it on 130 sailing yachts no bow thrusters needed.

[@SailingSweetRuca]

We did use a spring here. Curtis has also helped a 100’+ yacht with no thrusters, fun stuff and all the principles work at scale!

[@deerfootnz]

You guys need to learn how to drive against a spring line for undocking against the wind : a standard method which works well.

[@SailingSweetRuca]

We used a stern spring here and backed down on it to pivot out. Lots of wind and current pinning to the dock. Enough to crush fenders on a jagged concrete wall with barnacles and protruding steel bolts and chains, so not much clearance at the stern and no room for error. Lines can snap, fenders can pop, bollards can break (especially in a lot of places we visit) the extra push is cheap insurance 😉. One of the reasons we love this boat is she is still in the size range where you can use a little 💪

[@deerfootnz]

@@SailingSweetRuca fair enough, I didn't see the spring and thought you just used muscle. In general I think you guys are pretty competent, certainly far better than the average KZbin sailing channel, most of whom 😱

[@SailingSweetRuca]

We probably should have described it better in the video, but sometimes details get skipped to meet editing deadlines. We agree the stern spring is a trick every sailor should have in their pocket.

[@deerfootnz]

​@@SailingSweetRucaactually most people use an after bow spring. The hull shape up there means you can push the boat at a bigger angle to the dock and then simply power off in reverse. If you single up the line you can flick it off or pull it through as you leave.

[@SailingSweetRuca]

That would have been a good way to go also, prop walks to port, so a bonus in that direction. There was a large ro-ro with its gate down directly behind us on the dock making reverse a high risk.

[@markduncan6690]

Somebody on this ship is Well and truly “Tucked Up”👩👩👩👩

[@해솔-v6m]

wow it's so cool Please make more dogs appear

[@joshuareece5045]

What's your secret for dealing with fatigue while sailing on a long passage? I just took an overnight trip to Catalina Island with friends, and we were all zonked.

[@SailingSweetRuca]

Hi Joshua. It comes with time & experience offshore. I remember being exhausted after overnight races, now that’s just a day sail. Getting sleep early and often is the trick, hard to do though when you are excited and adrenaline is flowing. It all slows down the more you do it and you get in the groove.

[@captainjimolchs]

--Motion and sounds lull me to sleep, in contrast to many a YT sailor. Any change will awaken me, sometimes even before the watch feels a need to call for help. Above decks, all that is needed is to monitor course and check traffic between short naps. AIS, GPS, and sometimes radar, with alarms simplify things. Kids today don't know how easy they have it! --One sailing couple, Hissock or Moitessier, set a 30 minute alarm. Whoever awakened would scan the horizon and reset the alarm. They claim that entire nights would pass that no alarm would sound. --As with any new activity, muscles need to adjust. First one resists, then goes with the flow, and ultimately sub-consciously anticipates, like Kate does when steering through the Furious Fifties. My worst difficulty happens ashore after the first sail of the season. The land starts rocking.

[@dreadpirateCarlos]

8.5 knots on just the jib isn't that a huge amount of weather helm? Stress on the autopilot?

[@dutchangle229]

Black bird wants to know what time the bar opens on this cruise.

[@jpdj2715]

Nice episode. I'm not an ornithologist or amateur birder, but reverse lookup of that bird suggests it's a kind of "noddy". My first association was gannet and looking into a few genera it turns out that a few of them are - translated into English - called "stupid". That's because they have no innate fear of humans. These noddies can easily be picked up, even from their nest (wiki says). This takes the risk of having touched a sick bird away for 99%. They feed on fish and squid. And produce guano with a high nutrient fraction - could this etch the glass on the solar panels?

[@jean-louismoury4100]

Right, "Anous Stolidus"... Brown Noddi

[@jonstivers]

My friend in the merchant marine used to say watch was like, "seagull, lobster pot, headache..."

[@kylejazwiecki714]

Wow, what an incredible moment! 🐦✨ That bird landing on the sailboat is like something out of a movie. Nature never ceases to amaze me. Anyone else think this little guy might be the captain now? 😂⛵️

[@deerfootnz]

It's relatively common. It's happened to me a few times...

[@JosePedroEspinosa]

What a beautiful lady in her swimsuit at the helm!

[@barryscott6222]

"...can't wait to see what the rest of the Pacific has to offer". Hmm... well... mostly, wall to wall - F all. Ocean, ocean and more ocean. And then after sailing for a week... more ocean.

[@vuleydozkok9668]

💛💙💛

[@SailingSweetRuca]

Welcome aboard!

[@tahirsargin8236]

👏👏👏

[@egonkemp3512]

The Toaster Divers Of Pango Pango

[@njbaskipper]

7⭐ 🍻

[@jorgeperez7048]

👍👍👌

[@SailingSweetRuca]

🙏👍😀

[@Rittlesleo]

How do you keep your boat so clean?! We want to vote for the pizza party😂

[@SailingSweetRuca]

Hahahahaha! 😂😂😂😂 The Awlgrip paint is really good, and we just maintain it with their products and follow the instructions.

[@EastBay897]

🇦🇸🇦🇸🇺🇲🇺🇲🇼🇸🇼🇸💯👍🙏👀💪 I wished I would know you guys sailing to my " MOTU" of TUTUILA I would catch a ride with y'all LOL. enjoy 🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸👍

[@Darcee-p9o]

What happened to your stowaway?

[@SailingSweetRuca]

The wind picked up and we got closer to land. Eventually he or shew flew away as it was becoming more challenging to hold onto the boat. Hopefully they made it!

[@robertlaird6746]

How much does it cost you per year living this adventure?

[@JohnYoung-m4j]

Really enjoyed this video, and sorry about calling your dog him last time I now know it’s a she, just showing my age😂😂 looking forward to next time and those lovely views🥴🥴. 🇦🇺Jon

[@SailingSweetRuca]

Roxy is not offended! Neither are we. No worries Jon!

[@genegregory7097]

Buddy will drink some water in private if you'll leave him a little bowl on the coach roof!

[@martinjohnwotherspoon6244]

Or is he a Turn ( bird )

[@mrboyban]

I won't be able to do it on my own for 5 years. A bikini onboard is a must!

[@andybiddle4018]

Pago Pago is pronouced like Pango Pango because a g in Samoan is pronounced like ng.

[@SailingSweetRuca]

👍

[@jonstivers]

Why are you drifting with a reef in?

[@SailingSweetRuca]

You can find the answer in the previous episode here 🙂: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqitoJZqr6iYgaMsi=DC-HJudPPgAqDr4j

[@rickpyne]

I hate to be bearer of bad news, but if you are heading to Australia there is restrictions on bringing animals here

[@rickpyne]

Just wanted to add , Roxie is a much loved member of your family and I always wish you well, please do research on Quarantine restrictions in Australia, no one needs the problems . Look up when Johny Depp flew in Pistol and Boo two little terriers while filming Pirates of Caribbean in Australia

[@SailingSweetRuca]

Every dog boat knows the woes of Australia! Its no secret! Enjoy your dog free beaches and we will see you on the next lap! 😅

[@ottomondo1368]

Leave the poor bird alone.

[@theshyguitarist]

I agree totally. You know the guy threw it off. Always show respect to animal life. Karma’s a bitch,

[@jackechan1311]

[@SailingSweetRuca]

👋

[@samparker2828]

Thanks!

[@SailingSweetRuca]

Thanks so much for your support! This will be put to good use!

[@Mike-n9x4j]

Great Video!

[@TERRYMCG]

Leave the poor bird alone