Tonga Part 2: Tropical Waters, Royal Caves and Ukulele Serenades || COUCHSAILORS Sailing Journal #23

[@COUCHSAILORS]

In case you missed part 1! kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZuUgYmDat2WhaM

[@johnlord7854]

Great to see you will be back on the boat soon :) Looking forward to more video's from you two ! Katie and I enjoyed meeting Jose in the Bay of Islands - gutted we didn't get to see you :( Hope we get to see you soon :) Regards, John.

[@ramonsellaresmont3599]

felicitaciones un buen vídeo este tiempo os extrañado mucho me alegra veros de nuevo saludos

[@COUCHSAILORS]

Gracias, Ramon! Pobre Gina ha estado trabajando a tope pero ya volveremos a publicar un video por semana

[@natemcdaniel2139]

Good to see you back. Once cruising is in your blood, kinda hard to give it up!

[@COUCHSAILORS]

Nate McDaniel it's obsessive...

[@natemcdaniel2139]

Dreams of the wind are hard to let go, once you have had them. Sailing is a rare chance at freedom in an increasingly unfree world. A friend of mine put it, "I am SURE that heaven has salty air!"

[@robertburnett1970]

Most beautiful smile on KZbin.😁

[@Laters3]

Amazing videos

[@txcobra96]

Aye Dios Mio.. Dat GINA

[@COUCHSAILORS]

Blushing!

[@bikinguy14]

4:25 that is hilarious and awesome all at the same time!

[@COUCHSAILORS]

The only reason she stopped dancing is because as I was filming I realized we were about to hit a reef, then we went back to serious mode real fast! haha

[@COUCHSAILORS]

You mean I stopped dancing because I *realized* you were filming!!! - Gina

[@grandmothjohn4315]

I'm looking forward to more of your adventures and wish you both well. Gina, were you able to secure some work while you were back in SF?

[@peternorton7665]

Always love your videos ......my favorite channel ...Gina 13:17 and onward was needed ...to stitch everything together....thank you Gina for that explanation

[@COUCHSAILORS]

Thank you Pedro!! That means a lot :) We're super glad you've stuck around despite the absence! Now that I'll be back to boat life (but this time with wifi!), I'll be able to work on more videos again!

[@kaneater1]

Enjoyed your dance

[@kevinwhiteson1962]

I fully remember that cave with bat shit everywhere and that scary channel entrance. shoot it was 1991.Then i spent the next 15 years cruising and surfing in fiji. looking foreward to youre fiji stuff. love that place.

[@COUCHSAILORS]

Whaaaaat!? Have you read Barbarian Days? I just finished it! Awesome to hear about the surf in Fiji from years past. We'd be keen to hear any tips you have :)

[@kevinwhiteson1962]

is barbarian days about using live people to be crushed instead of coconut trees to launch there 100 foot canoes? or offering the victim of canabilism a bite of his arm they were about to eat? i read that one. fiji is amazing and as a surfer in the mamanuthas you have tavarua and namotu islands with world class surfing. everyone knows that. but the yasawa islands are pretty amazing cruising too.no surf. musket cove 25 years ago was just a shack with 12 bungalows. and a yacht club. it was magic. today there are probobly 600 bungalows on this island now. i hear its still cruiser friendly. my favorite island get away was called navandra about 30miles sail from musket in the mamanutha. waya is close by and also a nice place so much has changed over the years . i left because of it. but i miss it.

[@kevinwhiteson1962]

tips. its been 10 years . my best tip would be to stay during cyclone season.its nice in fiji year round.there is a mangrove in lautoka you can enter and ride out any size storm easily.or musket cove might still offer yachts staying over protection inside there inner cyclone hole. also vuda point marina has proven its a hurricane hole too. i would not cruuse yasawa in cyclone season but mamanutha is close enough to mangrove protection. lautoka was better than nadi. you need a few seasons to cruise fiji. it took me about 15.

[@kevinwhiteson1962]

tips the northern club in lautoka for a beer at the pool or a game of tennis.lautoka hotel for pizza mamas pizza in nadi. gopals for indian musket cove pig on spit night at least 1 time 25 years ago it was 5 bucks. i bet its 75 now.

[@COUCHSAILORS]

Kevin Whiteson if we end up staying in Fiji during cyclone season I'm going to go ahead and tell you you just planted the seed for that idea. I don't think we can leave this place!

[@sentimental7167]

13:00 cool band! Keep it up! Nice to see you back!

[@COUCHSAILORS]

They're doing a world tour so you might get to see them live! ;)

[@sentimental7167]

COUCHSAILORS Sailing Videos - I'm not scared 😎 Fair winds!

[@svgitana2499]

First, lol I'm at home painting perfect excuse to stop take a beer break and enjoy your video!! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@COUCHSAILORS]

Haha awesome! Have another beer for us ;)

[@svgitana2499]

COUCHSAILORS Sailing Videos have more fresh tuna for me please 😎

[@mcriser]

I would have been first but it was only in 360p, no use watching that lol. I love your simple and honest story telling.

[@COUCHSAILORS]

Thank you! That means a lot!

[@tentimes4]

Did I just see you place a radar reflector directly in front of your radar? Nice job on the rest of the video.

[@COUCHSAILORS]

Jason Masters no, its right behind it thankfully!

[@bayareablues2255]

Nooooooooo. Not a ukulele! :-) Great to see another video from you. And you're back in SF. You just walked past a Basque restaurant I eat at!

[@COUCHSAILORS]

Hahaha yeah, my passion for karaoke combined with my very obvious musical talents are a terror for anyone around. Haha. I'm in SF until the weekend :) Then I head back to Fiji!

[@emilyshmemily3]

What kind of camera are you using for your vlog in San Francisco at the end? The quality looked really good! Can't wait to see more videos.

[@graeme-sailingskeptic]

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[@COUCHSAILORS]

Thanks for watching!

[@jdlambert8]

Hi, the Instagram link on your KZbin homepage (toward the upper right, inside the bottom right corner of the "channel art") has a typo with a couple of extra characters that prevent it from working correctly. Cheers.

[@COUCHSAILORS]

John Lambert thanks for pointing it out! Fix now! Our handle is @couchsailors and that's where we'll be posting daily updates :)

[@csranch2000]

Noticed that you have a Yamaha dingy engine. Have you had any problems with it or problems getting parts where you have been compared to Mercury engines seen on a few boats that are in the video. I am in the market for a new dingy tiller engine and wanted to know your recommendation. Mercury or Yamaha. Charles

[@COUCHSAILORS]

Yamaha hands down. Everywhere we've been we've been able to find replacement parts relatively easily as most of the fishermen use them (in Mexico, French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Tonga, Fiji....you name it). Any problems we've had have either been user error or just general maintenance ;)

[@COUCHSAILORS]

Just carry one of these around and if you run into any issues, you swap it out and you can deal with fixing it later, usually the only issues involve cleaning the carb with carb cleaner and patience amzn.to/2tuWOU7

[@va7dgp]

KZbin has the greatest Ukelele video. I use it to play alone so being in SF it was good opportunity to practice NOT

[@theislandpackrat]

Great video! just one question, What did you do with the money your mom gave you? Oh for singing lessons!

[@thewinematcher]