Trouble at the Top of my Mast and Black Pearl Farms! WHS E79

[@tomntube]

good back up wind indicator: tie pieces of yarn, string, (back in the day we used tape from broken cassettes..) to a shroud on both sides. Easy reference without having to crane your neck to look up

[@MichaelJones-xl7qj]

A lot of people don’t know about your family. How your parents sailed around the world in 25 foot sailboat having you children in different countries along the way. So please tell us the story. The last article I read was the family bought a steel hulled boat and was heading to the arctic.

[@wcscully]

So . . . I've watched every episode since you departed Maine. Your video content and editing have improved tremendously over the last two years; great job! The drone was a game changer, so thank your parents again. This pearl factory episide was fascinating, thank you! My future cruising plans had only been FL to PR, through La Caribe, to Grenada. I've enjoyed Barry's channel for a long time; Ran is superb, but it is YOU, Holly Martin, who have inspired me with confidence that I too can cross the Pacific as a one day solo sailor, with my two Australian Shepherds as crew. I have the will, the money and the desire. Just need a few more things in life to be handled and I will put my plan into action. Thank you, Wind Hippie. Fair winds and safe seas. Bill

[@perhennung]

How wonderful your father and mother are visiting you. They must be proud of you!

[@m0r9an000]

Love seeing the true Maine flag at 6:35!!

[@wayneholman5649]

You have a great family holly be great company all pretty relaxed people cheers Australia

[@petersmith6508]

Probably a big Gull trying to roost on it.

[@fatasford]

Rock n roll lady your so brave 👍🌺

[@billwoodrome3882]

Coolest stuff on the pearls.

[@ianallan2337]

The Windex is ace. If only my neck would still work...

[@sigvardc]

Nice job Dad !! Glad you got to vist with your parents .

[@williamturner1517]

JB Weld is my best friend!!

[@oldmadandkiwi]

Your so polite when you're parents are around lol they rock 😜

[@roryvonbrutt7302]

Absolutely living the dream ‼️®™️ 👏👏

[@stevenlarratt3638]

Love peace and harmony to all from my yacht in Cornwall !

[@treeman2685]

Awesome maine flag and number one fix .🤙🤙

[@youtubeuser1052]

Another good material to have is thermoplastic. You can either buy fresh stuff (e.g. Instamorph) or recycle certain types of waste plastic. You just put it in hot water and it becomes endlessly moldable at a temperature that is almost but not quite hot enough to burn your fingers. It can be dyed whatever color you want and when it cools it is quite hard and strong. But if you need to change it later you can just heat it back up and reshape it.

[@edwarddavis6022]

You made a pretty interesting video thank you for sharing

[@sallyb3]

Great informative video Bout the pearls, thxz,

[@brucerhodes8197]

Been enjoying seeing your mom again and getting to know your dad a little bit... Glad that you all didn't let the rain ruin your day, and we all got to learn something about pearl "farming"...

[@wayneb7100]

Holly this is a great video.

[@JJ-yh4nd]

Love your channel Holly, and I love that your parents had you and your sibs while sailing if that was the case. We are grandparents and parents, who live aboard our sailboat. She is a 30’, 1963 Ben Seaborn, Seafair 2. It was hard watching the oyster farm stuff. I felt sad for them. In general though, your videos, and YOU, rock, from what I can see! Judi

[@mariediao]

Felt the same way! Those poor oysters 😢

[@carlamerritt490]

You have such AWESOME parents! ❤

[@WindHippieSailing]

Thanks!!!

[@jbrat1967]

You look great. Healthy and amazing. 👍👍

[@christip20]

That was great visiting the Pearl/Oyster place. Your parents, what can I say? They seem to be the same age as YOU! They’re definitely a testament to the sailing lifestyle being healthy......I know they must be glad to see that you’re thriving!

[@BubbaWarbucks]

If it doesn't include duct tape and JB Weld, it's not an official repair

[@omegaseamaster1550]

and of course you have to hold your tongue in just the right way so that the JB Weld cures correctly;)

[@johngriffiths118]

Amateurs, use furry string for a top job

[@geckert8096]

Nice vid Holly😎

[@crazymiket1970]

Super!

[@MarkWYoung-ky4uc]

Hi Captain Holly! I loved your Dad's repair job. As mine used to say "you can't do nothing with education". Until next time, I hope you and your family have a very Merry Christmas and sail on Captain, sail on! 🐬🐬🐬🐬🏝⛵😎👍👍

[@WindHippieSailing]

Haha true words!!

[@chuckhillier4153]

Can relate. Last spring, while at our mooring in Casco Bay, Maine, our windex was attacked by an osprey looking for nest making material. Bent one the two angled windex tabs all out of shape in the fly-by grabbing attempt. Another nice video. Thanks.

[@WindHippieSailing]

Oh my gosh! That's crazy

[@mazroey]

Amazing

[@viking8889]

Yeah I think I would order a replacement wind vane just in case

[@danielmcneil3004]

Hi Holly. Very nice that your parents could visit and spend some time with you 👍 Thanks for sharing . Cheers, and stay safe. Dan ⛵️✌️🇨🇦

[@SamuelKTennis]

[10:10] Why does the water look all pebbly (he asks from his dry apartment in SUNNY South Florida (it rained twice today, that I noticed!)). Thank you very much Holly, I feel you are the very best of the Sailing Channels and keep dropping hints to WATCH YOUR STUFF AND MASH THE LIKE BUTTON on my weekly "It's the Weekend!" email blast. Many others are good. Yours is great. I wish I could do more but hopefully you receive a few followers.

[@sandaysunday7997]

That was very interesting. Thank you!😊💕

[@klouism1]

Thanks for the video.

[@TodChristianson]

I used to look at my Windex all the time, but I haven't use it much recently. I prefer using some telltales on the shrouds. The Windex does tell you the true wind direction, but getting the apparent wind from the telltales is arguably more important, and you don't lose sight of your sails while you are looking up and burning your retinas out and getting a kink in your neck. Also the wind at the top of your mast is not necessarily the same as lower down on your sail.

[@oaklandmax]

I thought that I didnt rely on my windex until it broke, and then I realized how much I like to have it available, in addition to telltails, and just feeling the wind direction on deck.

[@stephenburnage7687]

I used to rely on my Windex until I installed a Dodger and Bimini! Must add some tell tails, lower down.

[@georgepeat5269iearth]

thank you, belief is doing it. it is a wonderful life. carry on around the next island.

[@jefffletcher8209]

Keep vlogging and sailing! Love your sailboat.

[@dbharrold]

I only have a windex, no electronics, my ears tell me which way its blowing :-)

[@underthetornado]

Glad you're having a good parent visit. Must be hard sailing in all that rain.

[@WindHippieSailing]

But so much drinking water!

[@jiefflerenard1228]

Love your videos, each one is a new adventure,thank you for sharing ! BTW:JBWeld being kind of dry is not a good epoxy glue . using it as a mass or cassing builder was a good idea.For anything more demanding epoxy and cloth would be the choice with JB as a finish eventually

[@sailingcitrinesunset4065]

Nice video

[@robertnixon3816]

Good fix on your wind vane! That JB Weld is good stuff! Interesting about the pearls. Thats quite a process! I would be more than interested to hear more about your mom and dads adventures. I can see where you get your spirit from!

[@fxpthl]

What a treat to have all that time with your parents! Hope that Dads repair held!

[@roryvonbrutt7302]

absolutely living the dream ‼️®™️ 👏👏

[@edm9704]

My favorite glue is E6000. It is made in U.S. and is available in hardware stores, Walmart, craft stores, maybe drug or grocery stores. It is waterproof. Sticks to plastic, glass, cloth, paper, wood, metal. Slightly rubbery when dry, which means it does not get brittle, crack or break.Thin layers might dry enough in 10 minutes. Big jobs with gobs of glue can take several hours to be really firm - then 2 days to be really tough. I use it on furniture, shoes, plastic anything.

[@jodyssey9921]

I haven't heard of that one, going to have to get some. I don't have a favorite glue, I have favorite glues. No one adhesive is suitable for everything but that one you mentioned sounds like it will fill a niche I haven't yet filled to my satisfaction.

[@jannesmitt]

I think the windex fix is awesome :)

[@Sircraig7963]

G'day Crew,, Hi Mum n Dad,, Cool to spend time with the parents , your looking really well ,slightly slimer, stay safe over Christmas n New Year .. Best wishes from Down Under

[@stevethurlow9059]

The only reason the base is nylon is to be able to remove just the windex, you could have threaded the aluminum rod

[@byterbit6236]

Several decades with my own sailboat, and have gone through several Windex's . For me also it's the single most useful instrument. Your dad’s fix looked great but there’s a lot of force exerted up there with rolling and pitching - couldn’t hurt to order a spare -

[@johnhaug1747]

I agree!

[@tpower7382]

wow, very interesting, thanks for posting

[@rainfinger]

Your Dad looks familiar, perhaps meeting when we sailed through French Polynesia in the 1980s onboard our Dufour 35 "Applause".

[@WindHippieSailing]

Could be! They were there in the late 80s

[@JayZ..]

What happened to the fool from the Netherlands?

[@Themothershipsailing]

On behalf of the Dutch.. he was from Belgium..

[@williambunting803]

Another great video. Google superglue and baking soda. Apparently to affect repairs you can sprinkle baking soda onto a surface then ad super glue. The baking soda absorbs the super glue and kicks it off to harden. This way you can build up very hard material that you can file drive machine and tap. I have just added JB weld to my material list as it looks like a must have. Is the boat you folks are on the Grace that there is a 5 year old KZbin for?

[@WindHippieSailing]

Oh interesting idea! Ummm not sure but I don't think the Grace they're on has a KZbin. Buy maybe they were just trying to hide it from me,😜

[@thomascooley2749]

For plastic its stronger to use a hot iron and zip ties as filler I've even fixed radiator end caps doing that

[@oaklandmax]

JB Weld!

[@DougVarble]

Nice fish!

[@pauljamison3340]

I think you must be the first person in history to hit a tree with their sailboat!!!!! You kept that quiet!!! 😎😃❤️😀🤣

[@WindHippieSailing]

Haha yeah nothing like having your parents around to drag out the stories you try to forget 😜

[@nojtom]

Bananas on a boat! No wonder there are issues with equipment……

[@paratyshow]

Wow, first comment! Love your content, tks

[@johnhaug1747]

Taha'a, found it!

[@CapWalks1]

wow, your Dad is handy.

[@paulklebaum1682]

Being half German myself it appears that your dad may have some of that blood in him! If not he would still make a Jerry proud lol !👍😃

[@richardrichard508]

Great video. Shame about the sound quality because of background noise though.

[@SailingOTR]

Are you going to Huahine? There used to be a guy there who had a number of tame(?) eels that you could swim with and feed. These eels are huge, easily as big around as a persons thigh. A tip from Bernard Moitessier. To make cheap, durable and easy to install apparent wind indicators use black ribbon. Make them from about 1/2"~1" wide X 15"~18" long ribbon tied to the upper shrouds and backstay at a height that you can just reach from deck. A clove hitch and a couple of half hitches with a dab of Crazy Glue on the knot does the trick. I know it sounds weird but black ribbon can be seen quite easily at night. It is the method I have used on three boats and many thousands of miles sailing.

[@timothyjones6736]

That is wild hair on the old man

[@WindHippieSailing]

Wild hair/ wild human!

[@nickbradbury347]

I’m calling a Sasquatch in the distant family tree.

[@wildandbarefoot]

Why don't you list your patreon in descriptions?

[@bryank4]

i like.

[@jakeoddmonic2956]

Awsome 🍻🍻🤘🤘

[@Dutch1951x]

With all of you fixes you come up with we need to start calling you the "Redneck Salior"....lol

[@stephenmahoney9531]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@delukxy]

Do your parents leave "their" boat in the Islands for visits/holidays? Is it a Hans Christian? Great boats if it is.

[@willisgemutlich2608]

si si si muy importante pero that's not french, oie? dude your dad's shoulders and back are farreeging awesome. I've always wished I could grow sideburns. He out mans me 100% You probably out man me 98% I get 2% for the beard but I can't climb a mast like that.

[@ericcommarato7727]

You look just like your momma!

[@WindHippieSailing]

Thanks!!

[@rickstevens1479]

I know men like your dad , guys that can do everything and do it well guys that build custom homes or boats or whatever they put their craftsmen type hands to . Always a little jealous of these people, stuff comes so easy to them ...till I spent time with one of these renaissance men , turns out its hard work and a willingness to do what needs to do to get it done ..things don't come easy to them , they just make it look easy ....I sometimes worry about you , not any more you are a chip off the ol Yankee block ... peace.

[@willyum1208]

Moana!

[@fredziffle6843]

That fuel tank of yours still has shit in it and need to replace

[@Amicaner]

Why don't you sing as much any more? You have a wonderful voice!

[@onefodderunit]

Things are deteriorating here in the US. Steer free of places wanting to administer supposed health interventions/

[@ontheruntonowhere]

Happily vaxxed. 😊

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