The Neverending Sail to Tahanea WHS E84

[@SailingSeaDreamofClyde]

Your videos are my favorite of all the videos of KZbin. Keep up the great work!

[@jimo5564]

I enjoyed your video. Thank you. I anchored in Tahanea in 1990. What a wonderful place. No navigation stuff in those days. Have a great trip.

[@jacobpmatthews6470]

You’re probably the coolest person I don’t know.

[@BillChild2njoy]

I'm laying in my bunk or berth in my apartment that's one of 5 in an old Maine shipbuilders house on the Damariscotta and got a mental thrill thinking of you turning in on the open sea.. on the exact (?) opposite side of the Earth. Morning here in real my time and night in your time when that segment of the video was made.

[@tidelinetoalpine]

Due to me having a crappy internet connection out in the backwoods your never ending sail took me 30+ minutes to watch 😆 very appropriate for this video.

[@WindHippieSailing]

Haha the neverending download

[@secondprize]

"There're a lot of sharks here." "First thing I'm going to do is dive my chain." !!!

[@SailingCorina]

I sure wish I would have bought a smaller, older boat instead of putting most of my money into the sailboat. Then I could have spent more than 3 years traveling before I had to sell it and go back home. If the call of the sea ever gets me to return then I have learned this lesson. The bigger the boat (42') the more money they think you have the more people will charge you.

[@WindHippieSailing]

That's exactly why I went tiny. Id rather be out here sailing and living more simply than working at home. But now you know! I hope you get back out here

[@skyrise4827]

You're not the only one. Been working on mine for nearly 6 years.. Now has everything that I will probably never use.

[@joerobilotta2199]

One of the bravest people I watch.

[@sailingonabudget]

I love sailing at night...it adds a new level to the feeling of adventure. Even though I'm still in home waters, it has a completely different vibe. Wonderful video ! 👍

[@WindHippieSailing]

Night sailing is totally different! So magical

[@sailingonabudget]

@@WindHippieSailing Magical is a perfect description 👌

[@BrookePalmer]

OOooooo ginger in coffee, gotta try that one. Love a stovetop coffee maker!

[@fortsmith8200]

Excellent seamanship at work, lovely to watch, thank you.

[@debdoyle119]

Thanks for the Navionics tip

[@southerntexashomestead5028]

Really nice music, very relaxing. You are a good person and need to feed your soul with something good not disturbing SMU. Take care. S/V Cork ~

[@TheEdge92]

Nice! You know what? You're right next to the filming location of the movie "Six Days, Seven Nights"(Harrison Ford) Tepoto Sud! :)

[@trevorpoll3933]

Thank you for your awesome video. You are inspiring.

[@craignicolson8342]

I think what you are doing is amazing. I wish that I had done something like that when I was younger. Wish you fair winds and following seas. Craig British Columbia Canada

[@klouism1]

Thank you for the video. Stay well and happy ⛵

[@theresedignard4267]

Nice to see your video appear on my feed. Though I have your channel set for all items, they rarely show up. Sending a virtual hug and safe passage,

[@Trevwhitesailing]

I love your attitude and how you have embraced the simplicity of sailing. Far more refreshing than the blowhards who may own an expensive yacht but are chained to a pen trying to pay for it. You are living your best life👍

[@tmacbees902]

beautiful. well done.

[@CruisingDarkWind]

Thank you for all of your uploads, appreciate the work that goes into them. We are heading to FP next week, hope to retrace this exact voyage in mid March. Thanks for showing the way.

[@WindHippieSailing]

Oh wow! You're going to have so much fun! Good luck on your passage!

[@slowtony2]

Grueling tack sequence when I think you were hoping for at least one four-hour run. Despite the tiredness, something magical seems to be going on when do a solo passage. It feels as if just you, your boat and the sea recharges your spiritual batteries. Thanks for sharing your special time.

[@holodeckdragon8876]

Love your courage!!! Shine on! xox

[@Nizchka61]

llove your videos and your way of making your way through problems! great work! beautiful human, keep going with good winds on your journeys

[@jojacobs305]

The gods of wind hippies are with you the gekko gods are helping you to sneak silently through the pass ❤️

[@MikeBanks2003]

If you can get a small plastic box under the shaft seal end, and make a lip of plastic from a bit of split PVC or some other plastic pipe or some epoxy resin, a small bilge pump and float switch in the box will collect that water and put it over the side. If you have to go ashore to do a quick fix of the seal, hemp rope greased with graphite mixed with beeswax and wound on to the shaft in the opposite direction to which the shaft rotates and pushed down not to tightly into the stuffing box will reduce the leak. I would not stop it entirely because that leak is part of the cooling and lubricating of the seal. Those seals are supposed to drip a tad--but not THAT much water. In an emergency, shoe lace leather or a bit of well-greased leather belt leather will do instead of the hemp or cotton caulking mixed with graphite and water pump grease or candle-wax but water pump grease mixed with graphite or leather greased up in the same way will get you to a port safely. The important bit is GRAPHITE. You might even get away with graphite winch grease at a pinch. If I was to do it at sea, I would slip overboard and try to wrap some plastic around the end where the shaft enters the stern tube, so that when I take the end off the stuffing box and remove the contents (some of which you might be able to re-use with extra grease) the sea will not rush in and make it too hard to work. Once the shaft is sealed, you then remove the plastic so that the cutlass bearing again gets plenty of water. If you have not done it before, start engine and begin the final tightening of the stuffing box, Tighten a bit, let it settle, tighten a bit more, then a little more, and so on until flow is all but a drip every fr ew seconds. That is it. No more until it has run for some time. Lotsa luck.

[@navigator902]

You are so self evolved, and your doubt and mental concern while navigating, so shared for all who navigate small sensitive yachts... those who sail with muscle engines, somehow do not concern themselves with unnoticeable effects on tonnage. Of course those size ships do not navigate on shallows as most cruisers who sail these waters... Very refreshing process goes on seen in your minds evaluation of the confusion awareness brings... Good Luck, be safe, says a fellow navigator.

[@vanessavandervalk1084]

Great update and beautiful scenery 😍🙌💖

[@michelefrost4338]

Get on girlie! Hope to see you out there one day ❤️

[@RockDocNeal]

I am Soooo jealous! I've been dreaming of doing what you are now accomplishing for many years and it looks like it will probably never happen. If you ever need a first mate to help out with every task on the boat that you don't want to do, just let me know and I'll be on the first flight to the Pacific! 😁

[@udovdh]

Nice episode, THANKS!

[@jimbowhowha]

If you bandage around your stern tube with an old bike inner tube & some zip ties it will stop the leak, fair winds

[@lukemaas6747]

"it's a trip being me (you)". You should be an astronaut!

[@grantmcraven]

The stern gland has two nuts and tightening either will stop the water flow. A big plumbers wrench works best. Probably only needs a quarter turn, Over time the nuts undo a little. The design is to allow an occasional drip of water in to lubricates. But the drip can become a flood.

[@WindHippieSailing]

Yes it works until it doesn't

[@DarceeVorndran]

Hollie - you yawn, and I yawn - even if it is a year to a year and a half later!

[@chuckhillier4153]

Another nice one. Thanks. Stay awesome. Maple sap is starting to flow here in Maine.

[@WindHippieSailing]

Ahhh miss that maine maple syrup

[@georgepeat5269iearth]

The islands are awesome diversions, but full marks(I know getting full marks is not the point) for your sea travels at night with sunrises& sunsets. Good Health& sailing always.

[@eleanor.m.freitas]

OoooOoh. Ginger in your coffee o.O is that really a thing!?? I am afraid to try it, but maybe i should give a try! Love your content Holly, even when It's featuring "tired holly' After a long night of tacking 😄

[@sierrafoothillphotography]

I love Stiff by Mary Roach. Such a good read! Safe travels.

[@BelenfromLB]

Great to watch. H, you have a good film edited. Very nice

[@elizaandalisa]

Damn stuffing box leaking keep safe young lady Marty Australia

[@Stenn333]

Are you sure you need to change your whole stuffing box, or just the stuffing ? If you're still using the old style stuffing wrap, switch to the new, unburnable graphite stuffing that does not require keeping the stuffing box loose enough to drip...you can tighten it up till it doesn't drip and it never heats up. ⛵🙂

[@fredericbonnet3801]

Very good as usual !👏

[@paulchristopherriley7503]

pleasant to hear your casual utterance of 'weather helm'. it reminds me of a technique I use landing small airplanes. when on final with a cross wind I set the rudder to have the wind push me onto the runway. It is easier to correct if the wind does not help enough to simply steer back. do you do that and what would you call the process. Thanks Holly! Paul Riley

[@bryonensminger7462]

You better start considering pulling that boat onto the hard and stopping that leak before it gets to be more then you can handle some stormy night and the boat gives up the goast

[@russellclement2058]

Take care Holly ,,

[@sailingsvmutiny1762]

It's full of sharks here and only 30 feet deep to check the anchor... piece of cake!

[@tatman8240]

Excellent Man!

[@braithmiller]

Sailing in dark something I try to ovoid though often the most striking visual.

[@chrissullivan6908]

Omg miss You. xoxo!!!

[@macroscopes]

Go girl go!! I'm happy just to know that someone is living such beautiful, challenging life.

[@JP-lz3vk]

Time to deal with that stuffing box before it gets any worse...

[@DiabloSpearguns]

great video

[@maryc7830]

Thank you.

[@billturner1240]

Ha ha.. it's a trip being me sometimes... You are just like me at times... lol

[@SkyPilot54]

Inspiring

[@bertstreetsr5483]

Not an Ann Rice fan but if you see "Servant of the bones" definitely give it a read

[@coreywallace5953]

Holly have you every thought about or looked into getting MZarine Satellite internet to stay connected?

[@Kit2Canada]

“Red -Red home to bed” (as in your Port light) in UK, Europe, Australia etc, etc etc….

[@claudepostel1624]

alway superb

[@tiborkiss9186]

there is an app called repeat alarm - you just set the intervals.

[@WindHippieSailing]

Oo good to know! I'll look it up

[@jakeoddmonic2956]

Snow drifting is the best hehehehehe 🤘🤘🤘🍻🍻

[@alansailing1387]

LOL Red/green navigation marks - IALA-B - (red is on the port side leaving port) - Americas or where USA has a military base - Japan, Korea, Philippines. Everywhere else in the world is IALA-A - (red is on the port side when you are entering a port).

[@williamreeder3660]

Isn’t there a song in China that says the east is red? On the inter coastal rivers in Florida I think I remember the red markers are on the east so that line in the song helped me keep that straight. Thanks for a great video.

[@WindHippieSailing]

Haha I just try to stay between them

[@anthonybeck2384]

You are amazing ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

[@tonywrobleski5185]

Thanks

[@antondefense3325]

Holly, have you ever considered a hand casting circular net for obtaining fish?

[@newespadaoldjuan2537]

Are we sinking¿😮 is that a hole in the boat¿😢❤

[@JohnSavage1984]

I know this is an old post, but I've noticed you've fixed your recording quality. Yeah!

[@roryvonbrutt7302]

what a great girl‼️®™️ 👏👏

[@jarrodkurash8077]

Is there possibility of repairing the prop shaft gland where you are? I dont know about these things, but can it get rapidly worse?? As always i view your video as soon as I see it posted. Wonderful content! Great Job!!

[@cottagefarm3103]

It's normally a boat out of the water job.

[@WindHippieSailing]

I'm hauling out soon to replace it, and to do some other out of the water jobs to prep for sailing to new zealand this coming season

[@jarrodkurash8077]

So glad to hear that! Stay safe and have fun!

[@drugtalk101]

I want to come sailing with you so damn bad! Lol!

[@bryank4]

that was fun. i like.

[@rainfinger]

My wife's book is a good read, published by Austin Macauley of New York, literally a fictional story of sailing and adventure: "Seychelle and the Cannabis Yachties". I hope you will give it a try.

[@WindHippieSailing]

Sounds intriguing. Is it available as en ebook?

[@jeffmayart]

Great video Holly… how many watts of solar are you using now ?

[@WindHippieSailing]

I have 140W now- more than I can usually even use!

[@teapot27]

Also we need to have a Tish update? You should do a "Tish special" maybe and lets see this much valued and loved cyber girl.Where is she from? Does her dad own a brewery? Single? Available maybe? the Mysterious goddess of WHS the questions are many and may the answers rise to us like Excalibur from the lake,OH Tish who are you????? 😀

[@WindHippieSailing]

Hahaha! I did a small piece on her at the end of one of my previous videos. She is indeed a goddess, which I guess makes my brother as god as she is married to him. Maybe we should do a questions for Tish mini ep?

[@teapot27]

Im pleased she is doing such a great job as i find your wanderings so inspirational.Your bro is a lucky guy having and awesome wife and such an adventurous sister im sure he must be proud as punch of you all though im sure he misses you too. Keep your sail trimmed and a fair wind my friend and keep on the adventure.x. #tishrocks

[@teapot27]

hi there from the uk,ive been following you since forever and look forward to you videos so much, do you have paper charts just in case shit goes bad with your electronics?

[@WindHippieSailing]

I do have paper charts, a handheld gps, and a sextant just in case

[@egnurevets]

Mary Roach is as funny as she is well-researched. I highly recommend Fuzz if you happen to run across it: human-animal encounters, or as the subtitle puts it, "When Nature Breaks the Law."

[@WindHippieSailing]

Ooo! I'll look it up! I really like her writing

[@michaelmuir7669]

Do you find it difficult to insure your boat for the international destinations?

[@onecimofruzzetti3621]

I am so happy you are safe love i love what you do i learn so mutch form you love thank you.

[@lionblack6023]

Just checking, have you disabled adverts on your channel ? coz I never see adverts when watching your vids.

[@newespadaoldjuan2537]

That would scare the bee Jesus out of me😅😊🙏

[@willisgemutlich2608]

I wish I could give you three thumbs up but I only have two, and "they" only let me use one, so... here you go... again on your own (bena nah dunna nah)

[@lynnkhosla6277]

Stiff is a GREAT book! I made me laugh out loud on the subway. She also wrote on on sex ...

[@dbentley2195]

Glad you made it kiddo. Stay safe ❤️👍🤙

[@johnclark972]

I've enjoyed your videos because of your braveness - being on the open ocean by yourself. They are exciting to watch. Lately, however, your videos have contained too much "rapid panning of your camera." This causes "motion sickness" for me and perhaps some of your viewers while watching. Can you be a bit more careful in the rapid movement of the camera when you film? This rapid camera movement somehow affects the eye/brain in some of us and causes the viewer to get nauseous, which spoils the watching of these wonderful videos.

[@homeless_snowboarder8225]

Do you just use a tablet for a chart plotter?

[@1KemosabeLarry]

I can't understand you when you say your boat make name. What is it? Danke

[@airedale06]

Her boat is Gecko. Sometimes she calls it Geck.

[@gymcoachdon]

Grinde 27

[@salpairadice]

You are doing great kid. Liked the piloting narration. Sal and Julie Cuciti Highland NY.

[@andreweppink4498]

That's a tiny vessel for really bad weather. Watch your weather Honey.

[@Iandental]

Port to Port when entering Port !

[@simonmoody2649]

IALA REGION B

[@Ramenscooter]

30ft? Oh my ears 👂!!

[@pdutube]

Watch owt faw da shocks lady!

[@raybetz7803]

If you put a large sponge in your bilge it will make short work of getting the water out.

[@Tapo3x]

First comment.. love from India 🇮🇳

[@navigator902]

When you yawned ... all who watched had the reflex come over them except the aliens from another planet, they did not yawn, Or did they???

[@jeffrandolf5673]

"Red Right Return" is not universal?

[@jessicakirchoff2536]

No

[@deeryker]

You have balls,,,,today is 19th July 2022,,have you uploaded since the Feb 21 2022 vid?

[@stephenmahoney9531]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@1KemosabeLarry]

What make is your boat? I like it, and won't understand it when you mention it in your intro?

[@gymcoachdon]

Grinde 27 I believe