Hello & welcome! Our LifeFourPointZero has us sailing to new and exciting places 6 months of the year and other outdoor activities for the other 6. We purposely started framing how to create a meaningful and fulfilling life as we launched our children into their adult lives. We encourage others hitting this point in their lives to think about shaping their own LifeFourPointZero as they watch ours evolve! Most content is from our sailing adventures along the US northeast, the Great Lakes of US/Canada, the Mediterranean Sea and more recently the waters of Northern Europe. We love history, geology, experiencing the local culture and becoming better sailers. We'll share all of this in the hope that it interests you as well. We hope you enjoy and we always welcome your comments and feedback!
Hello my dear friends, such an amazing episode. Thanks for sharing with us. I have a question if you could answer.... do you need to pay in every marina? is there always a guest spots where to park the boat? Anyway, thanks again. Cheers from Canary Islands
One of my favorite traveling channel on sea sailboat, with the top quality of filming equipments. Shot scenery so crystalline beautiful! From southwest desert US
You are very welcome! Where in the Canary Islands are you? Although our current videos are about our last couple weeks in Norway, our boat is currently in Gran Canaria!
The main reason for the upper walkway on the lift bridges is to allow for a way for people to cross the canal should the bridge become inoperable and be required to be secured in the raised position to allow water traffic to continue.
@@Oops-IMeantToDoThat nope - red lights on your boat are on your port side. You might be thinking of ‘red, right, return’? It’s true that In the US, you keep the red bouys on your right as you return to a harbor. However, this is not the case for the world over! All of our time in Europe we have had to think ‘Green, Right, Return’. Snubber - our ‘storm’ snubber is for heavy winds/seas but not a full gale or hurricane … clearly those situations would call for much longer or, frankly, hauling your boat out of the water. When we say ‘storm’, we are not using the British/beaufort scale nomenclature. Cleats - yes, symmetrical along centerline but our boat has our anchor chain channel off-set from the center. We expected each person to be able to see what we did for our specific boat and then adjust to their own specs.
Thanks for y our effort it is appreciated. I have the old Raymarine Chart Potter C95, on my boat, it looks the same as yours but it is not touch screen. I have just connected everything between Nav table and Cockpit helm. I never used it before as navigation has been with paper charts, also as i have been too busy to learn or set it up the plotters and software charts. Your tutorial is helpful, as I could not find much on the C95 chart plotter tutorals. SV Skoiern IV
Excellent detail here …. How much chain and line should I have of each for a 37 foot 20000 lbs swift trawler; average anchoring at calm mooring spot max 50 feet deep
We are not as familiar with trawlers and how much windage pressure they place on the anchor so I am not really comfortable giving advice on that … any other power boaters who could chime in? ?
How did you attach the zippers to the sides of the flexible solar panels. We tried contact cement (with tons of supportive testimonials we read on the Internet) and they stripped right off with a minimum of effort after allowing the cement to cure for a week. Any alternatives you used? Thanks.
You multiply the number of rows you will weave by the length of rug you will create then add a multiplication of the number of poles times the width of the rug then add a buffer of a yard or two to compensate for the curves of the weave.
Thank You for sharing such beautifull sites. I've been following your videos since you bought Sea Rose. I look forward for your next videos and I'm anxious to see you crossing the Atlantic. Congratulations and fair winds
if you want to make a selfie don't waste your time standing in line. Just stand next to the line and wait for the first selfietaker from the line to switch places, there a brief moment with no one behind you. Or you can block out the people behind you with your body by carefully positioning your camera. It makes no difference.
Another super video, thanks for sharing. I was going to comment on the northern Norway part, but Stein already did. Looking forward to see your footage from the rest of your trip. 😊
Thanks for visiting and for all your pictures and kind words. You have probably already figured it out but the pipes and construction site you saw is a fish farm on land. Collecting seawater from the depths outside the islands. The salmon on growing tanks are placed on land in controlled environments to protect against disease and parasites, which is a challenge for the fish farms you can see in the fjords..
Oh - thanks so much for letting us know what that all was. We did not figure it out but now that you explain, it makes sense. We loved our visit to your amazing islands … what a special place.
No, this is not Northern Norway, not even close. 😊 Otherwise, very nice video from the coast in southern Norway. Greetings from Southern Norway, Vestland county.
Thanks for correcting me! I could have sworn I read that Stad was the dividing line between north and south but I just did more research and of course you are correct! I assure you, we do eventually make it to the true north Norway!
thanks LFPZ - nice piece - we're planning to go through Kiel and sail to Vlieland this Sunday, then take the canals down to Amsterdam. Mike & Jayne LoonsLace
Thanks for watching our video! Enjoy the canal. We created a video or two on our time in the Netherland canals too that you might find helpful. Enjoy - that is a beautiful area. Remind us where you intend to end this season?
we are Swedes and we sail most of the summers around Åland . i can say that the sauna "Bastu" at Rodhamn is one of the very best in the Baltic . your lucky you stopped there :D
Your report of the ascent is the closest to the actual slog and sufferfest this hike is. Videos show the lovely boardwalk as if it's a prominent part of the hike. In fact, boardwalk or trail is only about 1/2km of the 4 1/2km route. The rest are huge steps, unevenly stone pathed path, and bare rocky slopes. The look of those at the top is 'oh boy, I did it...but now i have to get down again.' It is rated a modern hike...yes, moderate for 6'2" Norwegians. Glad we did it, but felt the info is understated. You reported it more accurately
Thanks, Lisa - I agree that many of the trail ratings in Norway tend to understate the difficulty but once you know that, you just have to adjust your expectations. I think long, strenuous hikes are such a part of the Norwegian culture that their trail rating takes that into account. I agree with you on the height of the steps! I (Karen) am 5’ 2” tall and at the end of the day ascending and descending a trail like this, my hip flexors are screaming at me!
We lived on our sailboat for many winters. I don’t remember how many anchor balls I cut off. Loosing a dingy prop at night was not my fun….. nobody needs to know where you dropped the hook!!
Thanks for another wonderful veie of my home country. Part of my family are from Sognefjorden, not the place you visited, but it's great seeing parts of it that i haven't seen either. And a big cred to you two. Makes me so happy to see you use you life jackets while sailing. Good example for us watching your journey. So many my and your age in Norway don't use them. Sadly many drowns each year😢 I think specially motorboat people think they are safe. Really good to see you use them even in calm weather ❤
Thanks for the comment and for watching. Yes, we see lots of people forego the life jackets but especially in these cold waters, we feel they are necessary.
