The Cape Cod Canal | #44 | DrakeParagon Sailing Season 2

Transiting the Cape Cod Canal in Massachusetts from an anchorage in Onset. Please share this video and, as always, we'd love to hear from you in the comment sections.
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SPECIAL THANKS
Arthur J. Montana
Carl, Sharon, & Joshua Stephenson
James Bruno
Jonarde Raab
Jonathanoasis
Jørgen Poulsen
Joshua O. Jones
Kacey Cramer
Laurie Knowlton & Phil Roberts
Peter Manktelow
Rick Slaugh
Stuart L & Calista Q
Terry Rose
Terry Scott
Tommy & Jodi Jinks
Anonymous
MUSIC
Hoedown by Jason Shaw (CC-BY 3.0)
Battle of Wits by Jewelbeat
Fanny Power by Sláinte (CC-BY 3.0)
New Day For All by Jewelbeat
American Spirit by Jewelbeat
Breathing New Life by Jewelbeat
Mars (Bonus) by Stellardrone (CC-BY 3.0)
Knock by Josh Woodward (CC-BY 3.0)
Britches Full of Stitches. Munster Bank. Bill Sullivan’s (The A Polkas) by Sláinte (CC-BY 3.0)
PHOTOS
Cape Cod Canal - Railroad bridge by JPO at en.wikipedia (CC-BY)
Buzzards Bay Railroad Bridge, Ma by John Phelan (CC-BY)
Cape Cod Canal - Bourne Bridge by JPO at en.wikipedia (CC-BY)
Sagamore Bridge 03 by Andrew Bossi (CC-BY)
Cape Cod Canal East End Aerial by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (PD)
Filmed on location in The Cape Cod Canal, Massachusetts
© 2015 Drake Roberts
THANK YOU FOR SAILING WITH US!
#CapeCodCanal #sailing #NewEngland

[@richardglenn777]

Your videos are just about the best I have seen and way more informative than most. I really enjoy them. Good music, some laughs with Mo... Just great! Thank you.

[@enerzise3161]

Been checking for two days. Yay more videos. I had to edit to add this for you because you were traumatized once. When I was about in first grade, we lived in a early 1900's built home. One with those heavy solid wood doors. So one day I was playing outside in the side yard and the side door was opened so the older siblings and mom could keep an eye and ear out for us smaller ones playing outside (we had a fenced yard). I notice the door is about half shut and is moving back and forth so I walk over and ask, "Is anyone moving the door?". I hear nothing so I step a few paces closer and ask the same thing. No answer. I stand there for maybe a minute and walk up to the door and ask again but there was no answer. I lean over and start to look inside to see if anyone was behind the door and the door was kicked shut on my head. Right across my temples. I remember throwing up on the floor and looking at the grain of the wood. I tried to catch my balance as I backed out away from the door. Everything was spinning and I could not seem to stop throwing up. I wanted to sit down but I had this feeling if I did, I was going to die. I grew up with 11 siblings, 5 brothers and six sisters. One of my older brothers who was into martial arts was slightly kicking the door and someone told him to stop or shut the door. So he decided to kick it shut. Anyways, I survived and pleaded with my parents not to punish him because he was horrified he did that and he did not know I was on the other side of the door. The TV was playing in the living room which is why he did not hear me and I did not hear him or whoever was talking to him. Ok! So in fifth grade I was playing catcher in a baseball game. I did not want to but the teacher and other kids said I should not be afraid and to face my fears. Anyways, a big guy nicknamed Paul Bunion got up to bat and swung one handed, which was very wide. The end of the bat caught me in the side of the head. I woke up about 4 hours later. They had carried me into the auditorium and laid me on top of some desks behind the back stage curtains. The Janitor found me and woke me up. Nice old black man. He seamed surprised they would not call me an ambulance. He prayed for me. I went home with a throbbing head. On the next school day I was able to attend, the kids said I kept throwing up and staggering in circles but they said I did not pass out. Now some years later when I was 18, it was on my 18th birthday, I was studying Kung Fu and was talking to another student. We were just talking and one of the Instructors was demonstrating what we call a Triple Staff. I was hot and sweaty because I had just demonstrated the use of several weapons. So this other student was standing very close to me and I was stepping back and he would step forward. This went on for a minute or so, us two taking alternating paces. All of a sudden he got this surprised look on his face as he looked over my shoulder. As I turned I could hear it coming and by instinct I started to duck and put my hand up to block. It caught my finger tips and was deflected up away from my throat, but it caught me in the face and shattered my nose. I mean it was pushed into my face. Everyone was trying to touch me, but I kept telling them to stop. When I looked up, someone else started throwing up instead of me for a change. I started laughing and they looked at me like I was very strange. You see I was laughing because it was not me throwing up, it was someone who did not get hit in the head. Someone ran to get a towel but I had stood and calmed myself. I started meditating and by the time they got back, I had the bleeding stopped. After about ten minutes of meditating, I was walking around in no pain and made what was my first and only trip to the hospital for a head injury. After waiting for a half hour or so , they told me they could not do anything for me and sent me home. A family member who is a lawyer contacted a friend who did plastic surgery. He did the surgery for free. It cost me for anesthesia and the Doc and his staff worked pro bono. I turned 49 on the 21st to most people but I am much younger as I knock off a year each birthday now. Each of those instances, I can remember mistreating someone I should not have. I apologized but it seams an apology is not good enough sometimes. So now I am thoughtful of others feeling and how I treat people. I suffered a lot of school of hard knocks growing up but it all stopped after I gave up martial arts and stopped butting into other peoples business. May you be safe and have fair winds.

[@powerelectronicsguyl306]

With dozens of 'tubers posting sailing and cruising vids nowadays, you guys are still the hands down best. You even manage to always find perfect background music to compliment a perfect day on Paragon as well as most interesting captions explaining the history of vessels and landmarks. You're also getting pretty entertaining with photoshop elements, although I was half expecting the hilarious rapid bridge raising and lowering to climax with an explosion or crashing into the canal (a cartoon someday?)! I believe you will win several awards for all this soon. Please keep your vids coming. Jack, aka powerelectronicsguy

[@georgemiller1251]

+Powerelectronicsguy L. I've really been digging the music lately as well. Sadly I'm now all caught up with Drake's videos so now I'm stuck waiting until he posts just like everybody else, these are awesome videos which I enjoy very much.

[@mb97355]

Welcome home! Beautiful videography of the canal. I've been over it many times but never on the water. The view from aloft was special. Thanks.

[@UweBehrendt]

Thanks ,i just cant get enough of the trip

[@MrKewlhanz]

really enjoy the soundtrack to your vids.

[@fishin4bogey]

My old stomping grounds!! We launched our sailboat out of Bardens Boatyard in Marion, MA. My dentist was just over the bridge in Sandwich! Thanks for another awesome video, guys!!

[@siegendarby3084]

You are truly living the good life my friend. Good for you and thank you for sharing it with us.

[@ClanOfStonemasons]

loved it...as usual. thanks again for the chart images and your decision making discussions.

[@keithh3463]

I really like your added information you provide with the ship!

[@jackhall6115]

Great video! I like the informational tidbits. Wish could sail east coast but stuck on the Left Coast. Thanks Again, Jack from Oceanside, Cal.

[@wizardmix]

The bridge effect reminds me of Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" love it.

[@JJOKEE]

Drake, Great Video, I keep my boat 22' O'Day, S/V Endless Summer moored at Phinneys Harbor in Buzzards Bay, close to the Southwestern end of the canal. I've been through the canal several times to sail in Plymouth Bay. The first bridge you came upon was the Railroad bridge and is typically lowered at about 7:00 pm each day for trains departing Cape Cod . Really enjoyed seeing your video of your transit through the canal. Great footnotes... John

[@wgkenney]

Loved the view from up on the mast, keep the great videos coming!

[@tedboender]

Drake, another epic video. I moved from Boston last year and miss sailing the harbor islands. Don't miss the winters, but the summers are awesome. Fair winds! Cheers, Ted

[@cecilbroom5652]

Thanks for the informational footnotes.

[@MichaelKallelisOn2Wheels]

Welcome to Massachusetts Bay Paragon !!! My home waters.

[@amyfaith2350]

Great music!

[@gustavokrause]

Nice place, good video and thanks for sharing!

[@mikinr1]

Love your videos

[@Wakeywhodat]

Well done Drake. I really like the music, the violin and the early Americana? Dunno, but it makes for an excellent background with your measured narration. Big chuckle when the bridge raised along with the sound effect.

[@hamptonroadspicker9219]

Great video as always guys!

[@MickScarborough]

As a kid I was never able to climb the mast steps high enough to touch the spreaders.

[@GFolmar84]

Regarding the solar panels, how do they handle heavier weather when they're attached to the lifelines or do you stow them all under your dinghy when you know you've got some weather coming? Love watching, hope I won't be too old by the time I get out there :-)

[@drakeParagon]

+GFolmar84 Hi GFolmar84, Thanks so much! When we go offshore we store 12 of the solar panels in the RIB dinghy, and leave 3 solar panel on the hard top over the cockpit. I made corner pieces out of starboard material that I use to stack the panels on top of each other in the dinghy.

[@itsmylifeanyways]

My Farther and love your videos My brother is a cadet at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy

[@myoriginalmusic6739]

very interesting to hear your views on wind or sun power

[@Spar19row]

You CAN find shelter from a West Wind in Boston Harbor; behind Worlds End, just up the Weir River in Hull. There are mooring balls there.

[@drakeParagon]

+William Nichols Thanks William. I never did check out World's End, but good to know. If possible we usually try our best to find free anchorage options before paying for mooring balls or marina slips.

[@SVSecondChance]

on a dead down wind run on my hunter i never used the main. with the swept back spreaders or is i like to say shredders. i would just use the 110 jib and it ran just fine. slow but no jibe problems and very peaceful.

[@passmeby9398]

Lovely

[@captainandthelady]

That's not Fred and Sally, that's Gertrude and Heathcliff. ( A "Red" Shelton skit from the 50's and 60's)

[@MrSmithToday]

Maybe we should have a fund raiser for the jib pole?

[@SVSecondChance]

hay Drake in a video you posted a few weeks back you pointed out a Kelly Peterson 44 so i started looking at them and might make a offer on one soon what is your opinion of them and is this a good boat to live on and cruse with. your talking about it in your video is what got me looking at them so i would like to see what you think... far winds and calm seas my friend.............

[@timothyblazer1749]

Hey drake..have you thought about VAWT wind turbines?

[@seansanders7126]

I noticed that you have some solar panels folded in. How do you have your charging system set up so that panels in the shade don't suck power away from the ones in the sun?

[@drakeParagon]

+Sean Sanders Hi Sean, We have 5 BlueSky Solar Boost 3024i MPPT charge controllers. Each one is connected to 3 panels, and they are all networked together which increases the efficiency. The charge controllers control amps in and prevent amps out. There is a display in the cabin which lets me see how many amps are coming in total, or from each controller individually. Great timing because I look at this a bit in our next episode S02E45: "Sailing from the Cape Cod Canal to Gloucester, MA" which will be available soon.

[@mikinr1]

Can't you just use same sort of harness to stop the wind generators from turning whenever you don't need them to generate power

[@drakeParagon]

+mikinr1 Hi mikinr1, yes, absolutely. I often did that. I'm really hoping to get another wind generator, but I'd like something that makes less noise than the AirX marine wind generators that I had before.

[@razzorbladz]

was just about to go to bed.......damit!

[@ROY-COLLEY]

Hi Drake ,You have 12 solar panels ?

[@drakeParagon]

+Roy Colley We have 15, 130 watt Kyocera solar panels. We store 12 of them in the dinghy when we go offshore, and the other 3 are permanently affixed to the hard top over the cockpit.

[@billbye1432]

how old is the cape cod canal?

[@momoparagon]

+bill bye The actual construction began in 1909, but it looks as though people were looking for a route through as early as the 17th century. I guess we all love a shortcut, eh?

[@billbye1432]

+momoparagon seems as tho i read somewhere that a pirate made his escape good in the the 17th century also thanks momo. love the pics of it anyway.

[@raykiii]

29.5 k gals. of fuel. There's a bill I wouldn't want to pay.