We sailed into covid EP3 (Arborek, Deer Island, Hoga Island), Aircraft Chemtrails, Sinking Ships ...

[@robertorzech8922]

I am so glad you're back with another video of Impi ! Cheers I can't wait to watch it ! Wow What a fabulous song Fly Impi Fly ! It gave me the goose bumps all over ! And what a wonderful memorial for Moose He was such a happy dog ! You and your wife are incredible people !Thank you so much for sharing !

[@paulkopp3634]

Such a pleasure to see another one of your fantastic and informative videos reminding us not only of the Oceans beauty and diversity but of the unimaginable power of wind and water .Fantastic to see the efforts to understand conserve and rebuild the reef structures .We need so much more, let’s hope the present generation and their children can repair some of the damage we’ve caused to our planet over the last 150 years . Safe journey .

[@DangarMarine]

Great video guys, it was fantastic to catch up again. :)

[@CatamaranImpi]

Cheers Stuart - awesome spending time with you as always 🙌

[@zzzxxzzz3248]

Thanks for sharing !

[@peterstarkey1360]

Magnificent, Brilliant, & much , much , more 👍such a pleasure.....cheers

[@CatamaranImpi]

Cheers Peter 🍻

[@RS-co1ln]

I really enjoy watching your adventures.

[@tlowe2502]

Hey guys, great to see y'all, we've missed ya. Great video thanks, very interesting. Remembering Moose always hits a soft spot, then someone always starts chopping onions. Thanks again, stay safe, we love y'all ❤ 👍👍🐾

[@CatamaranImpi]

Awesome to hear from you again my friend 👌 Wear sunglasses when chopping onions 😂 Yep - we obviously still feel very sad about the loss of Moose

[@philipheileson9720]

You guys are awesome and we really appreciate what you do for the sailing community and especially for the 440 community. We bought a 440 partly due the the info you have put out and just completed 1 year and over 5000 miles living on board with our family. We just went through the Panama canal and will be heading across the Pacific next year. If we ever meet, you have at least a case of beer coming from me. Side note, we were hanging out with a mutual friend and he speaks very highly of you. Excellent video, loved every minute.

[@CatamaranImpi]

Wow Phillip that’s so awesome 🙌 Well mate - I hope we get to share some beers at a beautiful anchorage someday 🤗 Thanks for the nice words - very much appreciated 👌

[@Mr1Spring]

Very nice!. Thanks for the upload. Stay awsome!

[@CatamaranImpi]

Thank you 🙏

[@robertcolvin3182]

Good morning, Impi. Just caught this video and am again reminded of the hours of fascination and pleasure watching your incredible journey. Good on you for all the things you do to make this planet a better place. Its been a crazy couple of years so to be able just to sit back and enjoy watching beautiful and sometimes challenging chapters in your lives gives a few minutes of respite. Thanks as always for sharing. Hope your days a great!

[@CatamaranImpi]

Hi Robert - it’s a pleasure to hear from you again and thank you for the great comment . I’m pleased we can share something that has value in this world of ups and downs and it sure has been a crazy couple of years for us all. Let’s hope the madness ends and we can all get back to being who we want to be 🙏 Sorry we don’t share regularly but we also have our challenges in life and we find time escapes us but we do try to share for those who haven’t been able to live their dream of sailing the oceans …. Cheers my friend and take care 🤗

[@t-rex-sail]

Great video, thank you🙏

[@jeffreydelgado1079]

Great video! Never heard of downdrafts before - thanks for sharing.

[@CatamaranImpi]

Hey Jeffrey - yeah how interesting is that aye 👌 We’ve been careful of them when diving through passes in the Tuamotus as we know divers have lost their lives this way and we’re warned but we never got to speak to someone as experienced as Rowan before so we thought it deserved a share. Cheers my friend 👍

[@livecam1508]

Great video guys.Love from Ballito ,South Africa.Have a good time.

[@CatamaranImpi]

Cheers guys 🍻 - Balito bringing back many happy memories in younger days 🤗

[@curbstomp3126]

Zingaro shows sea state from cabin windows. It's the best I've seen so far.

[@gavinwehlburg8084]

Hi Bret and Anna, thank you so much for the fantastic and informative video. Very pleasing to see the work being done on the reef regeneration and the follow up success pictures. We can’t carry on as we have been and vital to our future. Good on Mars for their generosity and focus. Must confess, more than happy to support eating their chocolate bars. Safe travels. Kind regards Gavin

[@CatamaranImpi]

Hi Gavin - awesome comment thank you! I have to smile at your comment about eating Mars bars - exactly what Ana said 😂 Take care and hope the rest of the week is a good one for you

[@travelfriends.]

You have such beautiful travel adventures :) Inspiration planning my travels from Davao in Philippines to Bali in Indonesia passing through best locations on a way.

[@markaoslo5653]

09:30 - I don't know anyone's particular sense of humor here; more-so, that I believe, Stu has a pretty good one. There's much to delve into, with regards to _"contrails" (condensation-trails), "chemtrails," and "cloud-seeding"_ - We can forget all of that for a moment, and just consider that creating an area of sizable shade, is going to cool said area, and affect the air currents (it happens every dawn and dusk; particularly on clear-air days) - so, condensation, particularly with added particles (such as spent jet-fuel, like diesel, and kerosene, soot, and other, natural occurring), will do just that - never-mind further, the wake, created by these large aircraft. Now, we add the travel frequency, and concentration of these large jet-aircraft, in specific routes (jet, airways, IIRC) - they're going to make _some_ disturbance. (especially, at intersecting points). The problems we have, never-minding conspiracies, and their counter-parts, is that with the _"correlation does not equal causation"_ principle; the order and context is not necessarily, what's been observed - in other words, what if, the conditions preceding the storm, are the very same, that makes these _"trails",_ far more noticeable, and longer lasting... The one thing that I notice omitted, in these sorts of accounts, is the barometric pressure (and trend) - humidity, temperature, AND pressure, combine to make, the whole, being greater than the sum, of it's parts. Then we could go into the follies of witnesses, and their reports... we see what we believe, far more than what the contextual facts were. I'm only here because Stu @Danger Marine , posted a link that I followed - I intend, only respect. As you were, cheers-

[@CatamaranImpi]

Thanks for the great comment and details you got into Marka - its great to see different opinions and we’ve always been people to listen to every view point and we certainly are not trying to convince anyone of anything here - we love to learn 👍 and we love to share 🤗. What you may find interesting is that the weather forecasts were for mild and stable conditions. We were meant to be motoring across a pond and carried a lot of diesel because of it. On the other hand we are sailing in a location that is ‘out of season’ so one can expect stronger currents and changes in weather. It’s quite something to be there for real and feel the threat of being exposed - we never get to film the really wild stuff because at that moment we’re in survival mode. The only reason I mentioned the planes and trails is because the story our friend shared with us came back to us at that moment and it did make us wonder. We appreciate your detailed thoughts - very interesting . When we sailed through the Singapore straits with lots of lightening it was interesting how we were told by our insurers that they were not happy to insure boys there because the heavy traffic and plumes of diesel soot (with metallic content) creates conditions ideal for lightening storms . Very interesting topics Cheers and thanks for engaging - Stuart is a great mate and pleased you took time to drop in and drop a comment thorough his channel. Cheers mate - we appreciate it 🍻

[@markaoslo5653]

@@CatamaranImpi - Succinctly; right back, at you! We seem to have quite compatible tendencies for learning, and the appreciation for examining things, anew; and outside of that which we've historically thought, or believed. I, initially, failed to offer my own flexibility, in such things; and (without rewatching the video, for this time), your editing, may've shaped the presentation, of a conviction, about the planes causing the storm. (subject to my own interpretation, of course.) My sincere apologies for any error, on my part. I'm pleased to sort of, make your acquaintance; more-so, that you gave such a thoughtful, articulated, and well considered reply! Any friend of Stuart's, is likely worth my attention, and greater consideration. Keep the 'pointy-side,' up!Thank you, greatly, cheers- _** I'll look into your channel more, as time permits._ 👍

[@markaoslo5653]

@@CatamaranImpi - p.s. I'm somewhat in a _'needful'_ mood; if you are so-inclined, a ❤, on my original comment, would be neat! lol 😉 Cheers-

[@CatamaranImpi]

@@markaoslo5653 ahh mate - all good aye 👍 We know how it goes with good and not so good days 😅 - today we had quite a few things go wrong but it’s all part of living and growing I guess 😊 Take care Marka - hope it’s a great weekend for you 🍻

[@shanealberts414]

Hi guys awesome episode…. Safe travels 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@CatamaranImpi]

Hey Shane - thanks mate 👍 Take care 🤗

[@patrickcoleman3]

Gooday mate another great video, you can do no wrong it seems, by the way do you guys surf? great surfing to be had in Indo. There`s a couple of other Utubers around that area Sailing Catalpa and Sailing Nandji. have you bumped into them yet. I still watch the fantastic footage of you guys crossing Bass Strait awesome. I have never heard of Chem Trails Vapour trails yeah they go back to B17 Bombers in ww2. Cheers mate.

[@CatamaranImpi]

Hi Patric and thank you 🙏 We did surf in our younger days but did not take the boards out in Indo although we marveled at the amazing waves in Mentawis . We have heard of these boats but did not hook up with them as we tend to hit the less travelled areas out of season so very few boats . That Bass Strait crossing was amazing - an experience we will never forget and hope to do again 👍 Cheers Patrick and thanks so much for engaging with us 🤗

[@flatflyeroz]

Ag so lekker om so baie Suid Afrikaners reg oor die wereld te sien. Ons ou nasie is maar albeit trekkers na groener weivelde. Groet julle uit Townsville in Noord Queensland.

[@CatamaranImpi]

Lekker by die see Nina 🙌🙌🙌 All the best in Queenstown, Northern Australia - we love Australia 👌🍷⛵️

[@tomlee7651]

That's sad. Long time no see. Hope you start putting out more videos again.

[@CatamaranImpi]

Hey Tom Lee - great to hear from you again my friend 👋 We are a bit slow with videos - not meaning to be slow but time just seems to escape us for being busy with the sailing life . We will try 🤗

[@BarracudaHawk]

Great video as usual, nice one guys, .. just made me wonder which make and weight of anchor you use ? Swivel too? Many thanks

[@CatamaranImpi]

Thanks 🙏 - we have a Rocna 33kg anchor without any swivel . The boat is rated for 25kg - we went with 33kg which has been great 👍 Cheers guys 🍻

[@BarracudaHawk]

@@CatamaranImpi thanks for the info. Appreciate it. Safe travels:)

[@MrCriticalMe]

Hey mate. I see Nahoa now also has bulkhead issues. Just wondering if you’ve had your bulkheads looked at? Seems like a notable % of Lagoons are suffering this issue

[@CatamaranImpi]

Hi mate 👋 One of the first things we did was to strengthen bulkheads when we purchased the boat new. This is because we found bulkhead issues on our previous Catana 471 developing and most catamarans will develop bulkhead issues that sail heavy seas. Bulkhead issues are not a Lagoon issue alone (although notably the 450 had a serious issue) but are a general issue with production catamarans. Ive recently been asked to look at Leopard Catamarans also with broken bulkheads, a privilege catamaran and an FP. It’s become more ‘known’ among sailors in recent times with owners now starting to check bulkheads where previously owners were oblivious to this. So 13 years ago when we purchased our 440 new we did some mods for heavy weather cruising and world sailing to our new boat. Some of what we did around the bulkhead is published on a blog we wrote . Some things to look at to prevent damaging bulkheads outside of heavy cruising is ‘rigging tension’ (rigging too tight pulls up the sides of the boat with a downward force through the mast), poor sailing habits (like sailing over powered especially surfing down waves into the back of waves ahead causes huge downward pressure through the mast and a prudent skipper would use engines in these conditions to assist powering the boat through these waves and protest the rigging forces, grounding a boat (ie hitting a reef or hitting a sand bank cause the boat to stop but inertia through the mast can break bulkheads), improper hauling out of a catamaran ( one of the worst culprits for breaking bulkheads is poor haul out) etc etc. I think Lagoon owners are particularly vigilant in checking bulkheads because of the 450 issue. Great comment and thanks for checking in with us about this 🙌👌

[@MrCriticalMe]

@@CatamaranImpi That is great news mate. I vaguely recall you mentioning in one of your videos that you were doing some work to reinforce the bulkheads but didn't recall the detail. I'm glad you had the foresight to do that work upfront and I hope hope more owners are made aware of this. Looking forward to your next video. Keep well mate.

[@CatamaranImpi]

@@MrCriticalMe thanks buddy 🙌 I’m feeling very sorry for Nahoa with their kids onboard and seeing what’s happened to their boat - that really sucks … Someone mentioned to me they may have got stuck on a reef or hit a reef in Indonesia sometime back and perhaps they took some damage from that but I’m going on 3rd party info so not totally sure 🤔 . If that is the case it wouldn’t surprise me if the bulkheads took a knock but who knows. All it takes is for a catamaran to be placed ‘skewed on the ground’ for it to put force on bulkheads which is why we are like mother hens around our boat every time we haul the boat. Either way I truly hope they find a solution that’s affordable for them. For us we knew it would be best to take our new boat and strengthen everything up before anything shifted . We know production cats sail the world many times over but we also know they are more designed for charter so they need reinforcements for years of ocean sailing and even then every ten years one should stop and have everything gone through again with a major overhaul in mind . We took a 6 month gap during Covid to do exactly that and removed all panels etc etc to check the boat through. To detach personal feelings we actually appointed a surveyor to go through our boat and look for defects. We now know we’re good for years to come 👌. This is also why I shudder when I see the cheap monthly costs boat owners say they get by on. The old thought of 10% of the original boat value per year should be allocated to maintenance and repairs and living is in my opinion an accurate one . We’ve seen so many people loose their dreams because there comes a time when suddenly the boat demands that money that hasn’t been spent to be spent . This is why preventative maintenance is key to sailing and replacing stuff regularly, hauling and inspecting, digging deep for defects etc is important . There are two options, perhaps 3 - either keep replacing your craft and deal with all the warranty and early year issues or be the guy that stops and rebuilds from time to time making your boat stronger and stronger. One can have a custom boat built or buy one upwards of $3M but that’s for the privileged few and unfortunately resale is better on production builds than custom builds. The advantage of production builds is the massive community of owners who can share information. Buying used boats is an art if one wants to get it right. Knowing what the previous owner has done on the boat is all important because you could be buying another man’s troubles . Just some thoughts I thought may be worth sharing as you’ve put good effort into this comment to us … cheers mate 👌👋

[@onelayt]

theres need a year to explore every corner the paradise raja ampat

[@fishntools]

Ye has eyes, yet cannot see!

[@CatamaranImpi]

Yep - it was an eye opener 👌 Cheers mate 🍻

[@shanewalker2018]

Tradouw Pass, we had a house in Barrydale.

[@CatamaranImpi]

Beautiful part of the world

[@CatamaranImpi]

Beautiful part of the world

[@CatamaranImpi]

Beautiful part of the world

[@CatamaranImpi]

Beautiful part of the world

[@shanewalker2018]

@@CatamaranImpi I lived in Durban, now Edmonton, Alberta, CA

[@dancordellsailing]

This kind of ship disaster is due to "cargo liquefaction". "Cargo liquefaction occurs when dry bulk cargoes with high moisture content start to behave like liquids when the ship is moving. Such cargoes shift rapidly in the holds of a ship, resulting in free surface effect, making the ship unstable and potentially causing it to capsize" from the first result on google

[@Prayforwindandsurf]

Brent I see multiple contrails overhead every day from airliners - I love a good conspiracy theory but don’t see the seeding effect

[@CatamaranImpi]

Hey great Robert and very much appreciate your input here. We didn’t film everything because it got quite nasty out there but for sure - we are certainly not expert in this - it’s shared with a ‘question mark ‘ Cheers mate 🍻

[@mredinson3568]

Great video especially about diving safety. However I am not so sure about the cam-trail story. Jet trails obviously form due to condensation. Since burning jet fuel releases particles from the burning process- clouds my form around these particles (cloud condensation nuclei). Nevertheless your observations might have been pure coincidence. Scientists conducted real experiments before spraying salt solutions (Natrium/magnesium) onto clouds to make them rain using special planes but surely not commercial airlines.

[@CatamaranImpi]

Thank you Mr Edinson 🙏 and thanks for the comment. The ocean keeps us free and for sure our observations may have been coincidental to the weather at hand. Since we’ve been sailing years upon years we’ve learned to keep our minds open and learn what we can from nature and man … Cheers and again appreciate the comment 🍻

[@robertorzech8922]

There's nothing secret about chemical spaying from big tanker jets . That's been giong on for 40 years that I've known. They spend millions of taxpayers dollars thinking they are helping out with the weather. You can find them on the internet and see inside the tanker planes. It's very interesting.