Waiting out the hurricane in Annapolis, new dinghy and reefing setup

We wait out the hurricane on a mooring in Annapolis. Explore stuff on shore and get some projects done.
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[@swamperdog4558]

Good times. I've sailed twice out of Annapolis. Once on a Gulfstar 40 with a captain and some friends. We sailed all around the Bay for a week. The other time was on a J/24 with a friend and his father. I didn't know much at the time but learned later that his dad was a world class Lightning and J/24 sailor. His name was Don Delorme. Thanks for bringing back fond memories!

[@liamlong7673]

Those posts are unmarked fishing nets. During the Annapolis Newport race two years ago we went through one at like 14 knots and just punched through in the middle of the night. Super annoying if you get it snagged on your keel or something. They really should be lit but they aren't.

[@samholmessailing]

Yeah i bet i could have just plowed over it now that i know what it was but it was the surprise of it that really got me. At the time i though i was heading toward solid pilings.

[@oaklandmax]

Dam.

[@bradkuether3561]

Yes, the Chesapeake at night has all sorts of things that can get you..... The nets ARE supposed to be lit. At the very least up to date charts mark their general location. But that doesn't help a lot of times. The upper bay is a bit more civil. Shallower, but civil.

[@blacksand357]

This sailing video has it all, tubing, flying, hiking, dining, parts shopping and engineering, and a hurricane just to round it out, Keep them coming, best armchair sailing videos on the tube.

[@twhatmough]

I use navionics but really like predictwind (worth the paid)- able to adjust sail routes and tracks automatically based on weather conditions and also I use anchor pro for an alarm when on anchor- uses gps and sets a threshold that alarms if your anchor drags. especially in middle of night.

[@kjc9trader491]

1:40 - Did I hear Zoe call the pilot "Dad"?... Nice!....

[@lindsayfoley6460]

Absolutely amazing how nice other sailors/boaters are ... thanks for the vid safe travels until the next one 😁

[@samholmessailing]

It’s a great community to be a part of.

[@omgitzsteg]

"Haha suckers, you guys are gonna be late for work!"

[@MyMlorenzo]

Glad you enjoyed Shipwright. That’s where I keep my boat. If you’re ever back there and need anything please reach out!!

[@samholmessailing]

You bet!

[@grandmajosephine383]

Not funny. I was on that bridge waiting.

[@GigaBrowser]

Fantastic ingenuity, especially with your diy tiller. You teach some valuable lessons, just like in your LA to Hawaii video I just watched. You have lived an incredible journey

[@samholmessailing]

Thanks!

[@davidgadbury1832]

I really enjoy seeing you making upgrades to your boat and kind of MacGyvering things and also explaining what things do what.

[@magdakaniewski]

I use a sawed off golf club as a tiller extension. Cheap and durable.

[@richardbohlingsr3490]

I like your choice for the dingy. I will take up less room on deck when at sea.

[@davidc6510]

Great adventure Sam and Zoey - keep on sailing and having fun! Thanks for sharing!

[@hodadyou]

We've been using the MarineWays ap with good luck. Have switched to Navtronics to give it a go.

[@adam8642]

I use Navionics and i am very happy with it. I like how users can update obstructions etc if they find something. I am thinking of trying OpenCPN on the laptop.

[@samholmessailing]

I really like how there are reviews of all the anchorages now.

[@danieloliver20]

Gotta love your little Red Achilles, it will do you well... I have one with a wood transom, it's tough as nails!

[@samholmessailing]

Nice. Mines been great so far.

[@joedwyer2313]

I like Navionics but I've also used C-Map and it's very user friendly and has a good UI/UX design.

[@williamcoulter8282]

Annapolis is fantastic! I enjoy watching your videos with quick, do-it yourself, no frills projects. Very helpful and informative. Thanks!

[@TheRealSasquatch]

Great idea for the tiller extension.

[@davidfecak9569]

Sam, if ever near Wildwood Crest, NJ (see Cape May) please let me know. Shower, meal/beers, 2mi Landing Marina. I have contacts there and can coordinate slip! Dave 😊 The catharsis I get from your channel is priceless, bud.

[@CombatDoc54]

Great job Sam. You've come a long ways.

[@kwaitefuni9152]

Cool update!

[@jcjn-cx7tl]

glad to see your vids again . Hope you best of luck -land dweller

[@MrA1582000]

I really like Aqua Maps. Esp. like the up to date Army Core of Engineers depth surveys

[@luisyaquian4639]

Awesome video. Brought back many memories specially brought a huge smile when you visited Ruth Chicks in Annapolis! Our favorite breakfast place. Keep the videos coming.

[@dougalexander2962]

Cool that you put the lightening behind you and visited the sites we see: We keep our boat at Deale, live near Harpers Ferry, hiked the AT, fished the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers, visited Naval Academy (and watched Navy play football), visit Annapolis especially boat shows, know the pilings well and Bacon Sails and Marine is the best. Next time let me know - there's more.

[@stevengross4113]

So cool. I have my boat a Shipwright and you caught it in this video. Whish I knew you were there. Nice vids and best of luck Sam.

[@jlsinchina]

You have an engineer's mind. Enjoy your videos.

[@jonathanmansell5129]

Thanks for the video caption.

[@williamwirick886]

Nice haul at the consignment shop! Sage travels.

[@picklefingers6477]

Looks like Zoe knows how to make a good cream pie.

[@jarradjames5868]

I use to guide white water trips down that run for river and trail outfitters. Harper's ferry is a cool little area. I want to get back down there and fly my drone around down there.

[@bake162]

Good score on the dinghy

[@Sr89hot]

You don’t need a military ID. You do need a Real ID or a passport, or birth certificate to get on to the Academy grounds. Some places are off limits, but the chapel and dining hall are usually open.

[@dbentley2195]

Cool little dingy.

[@Yeaitstemp]

Awesome as always and i would be a kid in a candy store in that place lol

[@kevinskwirz9120]

Got some nice second hand sails from bacon. Now that I've seen your video I want to go down there and check it out.

[@samholmessailing]

Its an awesome place for a sailor.

[@PaytonHetherinton]

loved the video as always🤙🏼

[@vxnova1]

Great video

[@rons9197]

Achilles make great boats used them in Colorado white water rafting. Get a patch kit and a spray skirt and she should last a long time!

[@Baba58803]

If u ever go back to bears den go to the other side of that mountain and go to bear chase brewery. Beautiful views of land from high above the mountain and sometimes your able to see D.C.

[@alexflynn2009]

I love Annapolis not just because I live there but I love sailing

[@MOMO-mx4vr]

Brah, the C and D can be tepid, hot sticky and full of mosquitoes in the evening and night, good luck, really enjoyed following your trip, i sail out of Kent narrows so you were right in my neighborhood, cheers

[@trippontwowheels]

Hey Sam!

[@VonBluesman]

You might think about naming your new dingy Little Al or Al or Allen, after the guy that gave it to you. You always seem so cool, calm, and collected, laid back, chill kind of guy. I always enjoy your videos and really appreciate you being a down to earth type of person. No major overrated drama on your videos and that’s a great thing. Take care and stay safe. Treat Zoe real kind or never ride in that plane again. LOL 😂 Just kidding with ya’ll. LOL 😂

[@samholmessailing]

I named the dinghy lingonberry because i have a theme of boats named after swedish foods.

[@blacksand357]

@@samholmessailing Ohhh, I see now, that explains the "Inlagd Sill"...

[@pauldionne2884]

Welcome to Maine Sam & Zoe! Notice you have a jacket on now - you made it just in time for the last gasp of summer. Nights getting chilly now. Stay safe and enjoy the area. Labor-Day weekend looks like perfect weather for exploring.

[@ethandurrett3950]

This was Maryland and Virginia

[@pauldionne2884]

@@ethandurrett3950 That's really wierd. I would have made that comment on the storming the forts or oyster farming videos. Not sure how it ended up on this one. Maybe beer had something to do with it!

[@mcformica]

And Bacon Sails rocks!

[@DanielTroyer]

I almost smashed into those poles while transiting the bay at night as well. Came out of nowhere like a forest in the water. So crazy!

[@samholmessailing]

For real!

[@bradkuether3561]

It's a shame you blew right through the Chesapeake. There are so many cool places to explore here and go aground! :) If we had known you were coming, when you did, we had an open "paid for" slip in our marina. Oh well you guys got a plan and not a lot of time before you have to head back.

[@samholmessailing]

Im sure we missed a lot of cool spots but we could only fit in to much to make in to maine by September.

[@Daywalkr]

That dinghy is rad

[@sailingwithsaskia6835]

Probably good to put a grip on the end of your tiller extension too. Slippery suckers at the wrong moments otherwise :)

[@thandle]

I just boat a sailboat, realizing everything added boat or marine grade in their name cost four times more expensive. I love your diy projects.

[@karlschmitt6231]

I"m sitting on the beach in seaside park NJ waiting for you to pass by !

[@tronalpha9137]

G'day Sam. I live in Australia in queensland, Hervey bay. Hervey bay is the whale watching center in queensland. worth a visit. I use navionics all the time on my tablet and i merge the app with another app called boatbeacon. boatbeacon is like ais, it use google maps and can merge into navionics and runs in the background. Gerard.

[@joshdewolf6409]

It would be real cool if you sailed up north into the Narragansett bay towards Newport and Bristol in Rhode Island.

[@sailingcitrinesunset4065]

Nice video

[@giantELF]

After days on a boat, first stop ashore....tubing. Dig it.

[@natemacdonald6711]

I would say hello, but we Mids are locked away inside USNA. Fair winds!

[@lisaschumph7000]

We love navionics

[@rangepro]

5 stars!!!

[@danceswithcarsdc]

We went in to Nappy land from a little south of there, many decades ago. 19' daysailer in by city dock, dwarf dinghies like, but other times bare boat charters (rent) for holidays cruising getting away. Middies could have drilled y'all on Hawaii and other boating, had prepped for it, invited by naval sailing club, for instance... Might have bicycled from Arlington to say hi but gone already. Fast Food Lobster, some of what I remember from Maine. Like crabs are around here (no biggie white table cloth stuff)...

[@aardvarkmindshank]

More holes!

[@AMS937AMS]

oh wow you were close to where i’m from

[@daneulekowski929]

Great video Sam. Tell Zoe she looks like Hayley Williams from Paramore, and I think you look like Carl Edwards from Nascar.

[@cameronmahaffey3798]

Navionics is my favorite too. To me it’s better than aquamaps

[@johnpray9049]

Hello from Edgecomb, next town inland from Boothbay. Looking forward to seeing videos of you in the area. Hope you sail by the Pemaquid Lighthouse and get it on video:)

[@samholmessailing]

Ill try to sail by there

[@johnpray9049]

@@samholmessailing I have a sixth edition Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast book you can have if you want. I could drop it off to you after work if you are still in the Midcoast area.

[@gw8278]

"Haha suckers, you're gonna be late....." hahaha!

[@kman-mi7su]

I wish I knew you were in Annapolis when you were. I live in Fairfax VA which isn't far from there. There's a really good steakhouse on the other side of that bridge I would've treated you and Zoe to dinner (without me LOL) as thanks for all your hard work putting out these videos. I hiked Harper's Ferry last weekend and did a portion of the AT going thru VA, W. Va, and MD, beautiful isn't it?

[@michaeltaniwha]

I use OpenCPN with RNC charts on a Samsung tablet. I personally don’t like ENC charts.

[@andrewswain8940]

Navionics is by far the best app for navigation

[@mmolnar001]

Make your way over to the Wooden boat School in Brooklin ME

[@kimberlyb5512]

First draw bridge? Are you new to sailing?? You seem so experienced and knowledgeable 👏👏

[@bravescatz]

Plumbing PVC will get brittle in the sun very quick. Furniture grade is tougher and last longer.

[@danielkoehn3209]

Sorry, but that’s not the case. PVC pipe last years in the southern sun. 😀

[@bravescatz]

@@danielkoehn3209 using it in dog agility I have seen it become brittle and when a dog knocks a bar it splinter and cut the dog. Now only use furniture grade.

[@jacksonyoung1468]

Like the video and it get's recommended to more people

[@williamriggs780]

Sam, sorry you missed on the Naval Academy, covid19 has the public tours and gift shop shut down for now.

[@alexandergooding4860]

Shannondoah river!? Like from the John Denver song!?

[@gpk7683]

Who were you flying with? Zoe’s dad? Do you ever get tire of living such a great life? Really like what you’re doing Sam.

[@samholmessailing]

Yeah. He’s an airplane mechanic

[@MirchiBoy]

👊

[@SpiralDiving]

Did you put any anti-corrosion gel (e.g. duralac) in the screw holes to stop electrolysis in your boom? (I could see that the old fitting had not been treated properly).

[@jamesgraves6567]

sam was that bacon sails i think there based there ive got my eye on a couple of used sails from them for my Aquarius A-23

[@samholmessailing]

Yup

[@bffaris]

What is the name of the marine store where you got the cheek blocks? I need to replace one on my boat and those are the exact ones. I hope they have more. Thanks for your videos and tour clever ideas.

[@samholmessailing]

Bacon sails. They’ve got plenty of them

[@MrBernie101]

Have just watched this video Sam (24/10/20) and in keeping with the other vids I've watched of yours, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Especially the bridge opening. My wife and I left Bristol UK in 2003 to sail to Greece and in leaving we too, needed a bridge swing. The sense of power you get of holding up the City's traffic system is immense, and when we heard that burst of laughter as you passed through the bridge, cracked us up !!!! Barnacle Bern SY Cadbri.

[@MrMichaelcurran]

Around the world in sixty seconds. this vid was fast. A trip to Ireland my be a better shot.

[@soulie13]

Seconded on the fishing weir thing. Not lit, but they are charted. Family has a boat at Herrington Harbor North, so we're well familiar with them.

[@Danndamannn]

🤙🤙

[@chuckmader9333]

I wish i would have found your videos a month ago - we live on a cove right off Spa creek. Would have loved to show you some of the downtown haunts. I'm glad you like the town and I love how your videos tell a story and demonstrate some maintenance.

[@kencarter3616]

I'm sure you know by now that sailing on the Chesapeake at night without local knowledge is not a good idea.

[@samholmessailing]

I made it through somehow 😉

[@martineyer5336]

ISailor used to be very good for Apple.

[@stefflus08]

Posts not marked in a chart? Unheard of, sounds like a vector chart zoom problem.

[@MattO109]

If you ever make your way to new york and need help with any projects or just want to help a new sailor get some experience maintaining a boat please let me know!

[@michaeltaniwha]

Sam is the tri reefing clutch you installed on your boom facing the wrong way by 180 degrees?

[@samholmessailing]

Nope it’s installed correct

[@rollinrock6696]

More Zoe please

[@robertottwell605]

Not afraid to DRILL!

[@sailingeden9866]

How do you like that high quality Harbor Freight tap and die set?

[@samholmessailing]

Not so good lol

[@sailingeden9866]

@@samholmessailing Thanks for the review. You should review everything you buy. It really helps us novice sailors. It might even attract some corporate sponsors.

[@shanec.7105]

You never bump your head into the fan?

[@samholmessailing]

Sometimes

[@oaklandmax]

You can use “community edits” on Navionics map to add unmarked hazards like those unlit and unmarked posts in the waterway. EDIT: it looks like those were temporary fishing posts, so not something you would add to the map.

[@mcformica]

Know that harbor well. Great video. Need to be very careful about hitting the fish traps (the posts that are coming up out of the water) and crab traps especially leaving Herring Bay.

[@kevocos]

I think you may have mounted that clutch block feeding the wrong direction into the winch?

[@samholmessailing]

Nope it’s installed correct

[@sailingwithsaskia6835]

its correct. Idea is to stop the line going aft unless the clutch is open. Good job Sam!

[@sellC1964]

Are you heading north to Bar Harbor too? Also, will Canada let you in because of the border restrictions?

[@samholmessailing]

Im planning to go up to bar Harbor

[@sellC1964]

@@samholmessailing I hope you can check out Arcadia National Park, and some of the other attractions.