Solo Sailing to Africa - New Horizons

[@jamesreed9632]

Simplified video format works fine for me. Makes for a much more natural account of your experiences traveling with the boat than the over-glossed fantasy lifestyle videos so many other sailing and travel channels try for. Your commentary is also welcome. You’re pretty natural with speaking on camera and the result makes for a genuine and relaxing video. Good to see you back.

[@SailingYachtZora]

Thanks mate

[@medicdad]

Was pleased to see your video pop up on my feed. I see your Zora coin randomly as our cat seems to like playing with it…🤷‍♂️ Congratulations to you and Niamh on your Zora evolution (Nice mast!) and being engaged! Thanks for the update . Don’t care about extra editing if you don’t. It’s the content your followers are interested in. Fair winds Rhyse!

[@almath9987]

Thanks Rhys enjoyed the update. Happy to get a real update like this video every couple of months, appreciate your crusing on a budget AND you want to enjoy it and not feel a slave to the camera. KZbin shorts might suit you better now, H i am now at xxxxx post /video, would keep me happy. Great to see your progress, after all that hard work. Enjoy the voyage, very jealous . Enjoy 👍👏⛵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@SailingYachtZora]

Good to have you here old friend, it's nice to keep the long te viewers like you updated. You were all a huge part of this project

[@rssea814]

Your effort isn't wasted! The commentary on how you're approaching things is really helpful for those of us who are still quite new to sailing. Just as helpful as the build out was!

[@WatchingClosely301]

Thrilled to see you and Zora underway! Best wishes to you on your nuptials. Always welcome your videos in whatever format and frequency. Slainte!!!

[@mattevans-koch9353]

Great to see you back. You look a lot more relaxed. I agree with everyone below, the casual format works for me. If you aren't trying to make a living of YT then keep things simple, work at your own pace and share when you feel like it. Zora looks good and handles pretty well from what you could see on video. Congratulations on the upcoming wedding to Niamh. She is definitely a keeper. Take care both of you and have fun sailing.

[@SailingYachtZora]

Good to have you sir, I'm continuously surprised by how well the boat sails. She isn't fast but she's not slow either. And very comfortable when I sail her right

[@MarkSmith-rk3iv]

I do like how you are sharing ,, no music ,, perfect for me ... Keep doing what you are doing :-))

[@clairepapadatos1116]

Bloody brilliant, my darlings!❤

[@paul42592]

Good to see you're still sailing. Congrats on the nuptials. Once you guys are sailing fulltime and not remote working, maybe you will be able to find the time to update a little more often. Best of luck.

[@simonr6793]

Great to see you still sailing ⛵️ and I wish you both all the happiness in your upcoming wedding. Upon that note because of how long it's been between your video's I will just say congrats upon the birth of your new baby! You never know by the time you've got around to uploading another video you might have a new baby who mightbe almost 2yrs old. Hahaha 😆 😂 enjoy the sailing the both of youand as always guy's 💯% 👍 🇬🇧.

[@clairepapadatos1116]

As far as I'm concerned, I don't give a fudge! Just wonderful to hear that everything's ok! ❤❤

[@davecoz4227]

Welcome back. And 'shitting rain', I'm going to use that one!

[@SailingYachtZora]

Its all yours!

[@Stuwy2]

Brilliant to meet you in Tangier mate. Safe onward travels and fair winds

[@richardgrant6122]

Nice format, with plenty of sailing👍

[@gregg1753]

good to see you again Rhyse!

[@TheDigitalMermaid]

Dude! Welcome back!!

[@SailingYachtZora]

A left field release lol

[@TheDigitalMermaid]

@@SailingYachtZora Very yes! I was still laying in bed when I saw the notification and I was like "wait, dream?". lol

[@itsmedaveh5516]

Yes, I enjoyed the short video clips. Glad to see you back on KZbin.

[@SailingYachtZora]

I think we might do those more

[@nigelmorgan3449]

It’s great to see you back

[@peterhendry2154]

Welcome back! Missed you.

[@gman9945]

Congratulations! Good to see you guys bauk making some videos. I like the casual format!

[@pearse500]

Was missing the sailing adventure so good to see you back, my other sailing channels (Acorn to Arabella, Sampson Boat Co and The Duracell Project) have yet to get on the water so nice to see some on the water stuff. Short clip format is fine and no music is preferred....just the sound and sight of the sea 👍

[@robertpowell6892]

Good to see your still going. Good luck on the wedding if we don't see you before then, hope you both have a wonderful day. I like the laid back format, quick raw footage update whenever your on passage works for me.

[@alva35100]

Hi N and R, I have not seen any new videos lately and cannot get sound on old ones now. I will have to ask John what the score is. Hope all well maybe you have given up sailing waiting for wind. looking forward to news and the big sail. love you both and roll on the big day tying the knot. Nana

[@medickaisu]

Really good to hear from you after a long time. As long as you keep making them, I'll keep watching them.

[@thecivvie]

Nice to see you back and sailing. Thanks

[@joandonnelly9187]

Good to see another video and all is well. Might be a while before another, with the nuptials in between, so congrats and enjoy! Spotted Waxwing towards the end there. Following his solo journey too. Look forward to the next one when it happens!

[@SailingYachtZora]

Peter is a close mate of mine!

[@stevenharpervw]

Safe cruising man, from all of us back in Ireland 🇮🇪

[@nigelmorgan3449]

Where the Irish lass I’m glad your getting married she’s a keeper I’m so glad you back mate

[@SailingYachtZora]

Shell be home soon!

[@CheersWarren]

Thanks for the catch up and sharing video. Always interested in how the boat is working out, how the choices you made worked out etc. Don’t feel like you have to talk to the camera all the time , turn the lense around And show us what you looking at too. ( that probably harder to do though) cheers warren

[@SailingYachtZora]

Nice to see you mate, glad.you like it

[@DoubleUThings]

Nice to see something from you again, Rhyse. And I totally understand you. If you have a "nomal" working life, KZbin videos just cost too much time. Greetingz from Tunisia, Wim

[@SailingYachtZora]

Good to hear from you mate

[@deantirmizi]

Great to see your vidoes again, was wondering where you had gone, safe travels man

[@phdconstructioncork]

Hi Rhys. Myself and Mairit worked on Zora with yourselves a few years back in Oldcourt. Great to see ye are sailing well. Was keeping an eye on ye on AIS but our paths didn't cross. We are up near Barcelona. Visited both Ceuta and Mililla last year and they are amazing. Good luck with all your plans. Stay safe. Sean

[@SailingYachtZora]

Good to hear from you mate, I just watched the video where we did the waterline a couple days ago. Sorry to have missed you

[@phdconstructioncork]

@@SailingYachtZora ah no prob. We cruised the Balearic Islands 5 weeks ago and had hoped to meet but ships in the night and all that. Anyway safe travels and hope your big day goes well. Sean

[@albatros1752]

Has been a long time ...... was wondering

[@rowanking2738]

Hey Man, welcome back. Interested in your thoughts on your barbour hauler/headsail sheeting solution. I've want to use that system on my next boat and wondered if there are drawbacks.

[@SailingYachtZora]

Its pretty good if not a bit more fiddly. A lot more leach control. Takes some figuring out and different trials etc. Mine isn't 100% yet but very close

[@vxnova1]

Welcome back

[@cliveramsbotty6077]

fantastic. on open seas. i had to keep reminding myself that you built the bloody thing.

[@SailingYachtZora]

I have to remind myself too 😂

[@rolandtb3]

Congrats on the wedding. As for the channel do what's best for you. Keep it short and tight. Include POI.

[@markarmitage8376]

Whaaaaaat!! No slow motion aspirational lifestyle segment involving freshly baked bread or tossing a feta and sun dried tomato salad? Thank goodness. Keep it simple Sir. It works well. Nice to see you're still sailing and look forward to the next video.

[@SailingYachtZora]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@dunneryak]

nice mike...lol...simple but effective....

[@jimmcinerney4866]

Well done to ye both, just wondering who did the interior woodwork, it looks nice

[@SailingYachtZora]

Ah some legend from Limerick, a famous boat builder

[@Dougalsdad01]

Welcome back Rhys, good to hear from you. Zora's looking good, love the half a fender on the outboard - lol. Congratulations ahead of getting married, I have to say you are punching well above your weight with Niamh - lol.

[@SailingYachtZora]

I don't know what she sees in me 😂

[@plankhopper]

Thanks for the video I noticed you use a thin line from the back stay to support the solar panel on the pushpit. Does the shading of the line on the panel cause any problems?

[@SailingYachtZora]

No problem so far mate, it gives me the chance to adjust the panels to the sun so I can get a pretty consistent output with some effort every hour or 2

[@epamanonda1]

Like it. 👍

[@roncanizares9966]

Very enjoyable video. A question: What is the navigation software that you use?

[@SailingYachtZora]

Its called Navionics, but I have an AIS overlay via a WiFi transponder

[@andersbrodje2958]

Every so often is just fine - make it work for you, it's your life. Being able to follow what you have achieved and what you do from time to time has been great and if you see it being possible to post in future would be nice, but life is for living not for producing videos that you do not feel like doing. I wish you fair winds and following seas and hope to see an update if and when you feel like it :-)

[@jimmcinerney4866]

😁😂, nice job,

[@FindingCloud]

tell me more about how rough it is and how you need a close reach

[@iainlyall6475]

'it's been a while'! BLOODY HELL!

[@darrencoile]

2 years!? Give yourself credit the last one was only 8 months 😉cheers and congratulations to you both if you don’t post again before the wedding.

[@tolgahasturk3247]

💙💙

[@scottdunlop7442]

Al-go-rythm

[@Nerd3927]

There are so many over produced, story telling channels out there. A pain for the producers to make every week and not that great to watch. This format is great. Just make a video when you have something to say and keep it real. Forget about music, natural audio with out talking is so much more pleasant. You could do some "slow TV" episodes too. Not much bother to make, a pleasure to have playing in the background and a lot of minutes view time. Just a better mic would be a good idea.

[@SailingYachtZora]

I think if I figured out how to use the mic properly it should be ok 😂

[@sailingmarie7097]

You don't need to do 30min vlogs... Do 7 or 8min vlogs, i don't know. Do small stuff and regularly Casey does it...why not...

[@SailingYachtZora]

Well casey is a genius and I'm an idiot with a camera 😂

[@clairepapadatos1116]

Fluff the music!😊 'Real live sounds' are much better 👌

[@deeryker]

Finally,,at the end of the vid,,, a ship,,,all the other ships in your script were just magments of your efigination..I have 250 vids on here,,,they are all very bad ,,I have that on good authority from my granny. But,,,there are at least 8 of my original unpublished songs which you can use for free,,, They are Yuki Song,,,the most beautiful love song ever written,,,, then Over The Rainbow,,,not the commoner garden shit as in Somewhere,,,,,then another love song,,,,Ugly Love,,,,then Mary at the Bar. then French Kisses.. enough for now,,,next time ye have free net listen,,,and use,,,no one can chase you for the lee saunce for the minkey

[@SailingYachtZora]

Thanks mate