We are Iain and Brioni, a couple from Scotland who have decided to sell everything, buy a boat and go where the wind takes us.
We are the proud winners of the award for Best Emerging RU-vid Channel 2023 and we share weekly episodes of our sailing travels around the world every Sunday. Living on a budget means we get creative about making our own repairs and we aim to explore the most remote parts of this beautiful world we call our home.
We’re adventurous, tenacious and always up for a laugh. You can read more about us on our website www.red-seas.com and subscribe to our channel to follow the adventure.
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Ah yeah, we decided that we wanted an mppt for each panel rather than pairing them up. This was because the shading from the boom and rigging is likely to land over one or more panels at any time of day. By having each panel on its own controller, we don’t drag down a perfectly good panel when its partner would be shaded. Not Al that common a practice and it has its drawbacks but everything is a compromise of course. These are 75/15’s to match our 135w rated panels.
I was just chatting with coworker that I’d prefer to dive with 700 sharks than spend time with a dozen + people. Love your adventures. Donate for a Dream
Yay! I'm all caught up now. Took about 2 weeks to watch all the episodes but have had a great time following you guys. Looking forward to future adventures and boat upgrades. One of the best sailing channels on youtube for sure. Great attitudes and good people. I can tell how much work you put into these episodes and greatly appreciate it. It's inspiring me to want to become a sailor one day myself. Also, if anyone is looking property to buy or or have some to sell in the New Bern/Oriental NC Area-*One of the best sailing areas in the world*, I'm only about an hour away and would be glad to help.
Cheers! I think we should start selling computer keyboards for all the coffee that has been spat on them from our little videos 😂 pleased we could put a smile on your face today 😊
As it happens, we have cleaned those rust marks since this video. The bolts and washers are stainless 316 but they still show rust after many years of hard sailing. 😊
You Two are hilarious and actually sound and look better than the people who call themselves “Journalist’s”! This is Great & just what we all needed! 😂
I mean that is truly concerning isn’t it!?! A guy with a piece of paper taped on to look like a tie and a girl in the one and only formal looking top she has could be considered on par with professional news. 😨 Happy we could put a smile on your face today 😊
Congratulations on 10k subscribers. I knew you'd make it. Im happy to have been along for most of your vlogs. Way to go. 100k is going to be right around the corner. I'd love to get dropped off on that beach. What a beautiful place. You guys need to get an extra one of those scrubbers so you can whip that bottom twice as quick.
Mate! Thank you for being part of the adventure. It’s been a long ride but can’t wait to see what happens next. Just think. If everyone shared with one other person, we would be 20k already! 😂
And we are working up to buying a second scrubber. We have some really fun ideas in the works around hull cleaning but it will take a while to show I think.
I know it's difficult on the ocean, but be very conscious of your vitamin A intake. Many seafoods are high in vitamin A, you seem to eat a lot of dairy-(ice cream), pizza-(dairy, tomatoes, pork), carrots and things that are also really high in vitamin A/retinoic acid. This will eat and weaken your teeth and bones *plus* it causes sunburn as it's broken down in the skin by UVA into the most toxic retinoic acid forms. My mom who is a 73 year old red head, has been doing a low vitamin A diet for several years and can stay outside all day now without burning. The diet is loosely based upon the muscle meat carnivore diet with soluble fiber added basically and many carnivores will tell you they no longer sun burn either. The carnivores claim lack of sun burn on eliminating seed oils, (polyunsaturated fats break down into toxic aldehydes) but seed oils also concentrate carotenoids/vit A as well. A basic low vit A diet and what I follow is meat (preferably no pork), rice, white potatoes, apples, bananas, oatmeal/barley/quinoa, sourdough/organic bread, egg whites, "white" corn, basically fruits/veggies with white insides/low carotenoids. If you want to research it more look up "Nutrition Detective" on youtube. He has 2-4 hours livestreams every week. I have been low vit A for 5 years at 48 and best health of my life. It's great that you don't drink as that helps because other toxins go through the same ALDH (aldehyde dehydrogenase) detox cycle-alcohol-acetaldehyde, retinol/vit A-retinaldehyde, polyunsaturated fats-malondialdehyde(causes hair loss).
I think we should clarify, we talk about dairy so much as we rarely ever get to enjoy it. Icecream can cost $80 for a tub here and milk is all UHT or powdered. So it’s really just the longing for a treat that you are having to put up with every so often. 😂 We do our best to keep a good diet but living on the water and so far from any provisions, we do have to compromise sometimes. Still, plenty of fish and vitamin D for us 😃 ☀️ ⛵️
@@RedSeas That's great. Sun does help break it all down albeit with the sunburn side effect lol. Through our research we believe scurvy for sailors was basically just vitamin A toxicity for example (vitamin C just slows the detox process to avoid damage). Of course, most sailors drank beer on board since they didn't have water makers back then and that contributed to the problems as I listed in my first comment about aldehydes. I know Bri is always worried about fresh vegetables but it's really not that important for health and can actually be detrimental as the carotenoids (brightly colored ones) add more vit A load to your already heavy vit A seafood intake. Eat your seafood with plenty of soluble fiber of some kind to help absorb the excess retinol from the fish, some oysters for zinc and you should be golden. I've been enjoying your series from the beginning the past few weeks. Looks like I will have them all caught up by the weekend!
Don't you have a network storage on board for movies, music and podcasts? I'm collecting movies and music since several years for exactly that reason... You also need a security copy of the video data. Hope there's at least one in Scotland with your family...
We actually have a NAS drive for content and episode editing but we shut it down while on passage to protect the spinning disks. Hopefully some day we can upgrade to the new m2 ssd NAS system and add a few more Ah to the batteries so we can leave it on all the time.
Cheers for watching. We are always looking to have fun and I guess it’s stuff like this that really show how seriously we take things. Can’t wait for Annapolis for even more fun too
The company originally made a scrubber for cleaning swimming pools before designing this one for salt water so there’s no reason not to grab one. We have been using it all over the boat, inside and out. 😊
Wow, thank you! We have fun and figure we should just be ourselves. Hopefully everyone hits the share button every so often as that really helps us grow. We don’t do this to be famous but if we were able to get to sustainable that would be such a relief.
WTF? Who lost you on the dive? Didn’t I recognize Andy and Nilla? We’re here in Moorea waiting for a window back to the Tuamotus. Just bought a new SMB and looking to get it wet.
Haha well it’s important to point out that we weren’t diving with any dive companies so I’m not going to mention any names but I will say that you are correct 😂 How is it over in moorea? Surely a dive off the reef is a good start for that SMB. We have visions of getting over there soon enough. Perhaps we will cross paths soon enough.
We think so. It’s been super useful for us. We are in the Tuamotus of French Polynesia. You can check out some of our previous episodes if you want to see a bit more of them too. This weeks episode we are sailing on a quest to find a Black Pearl
"off grid" you clowns crack me up. Sailing is always "off grid". Ahe is hardly unvisited. Its one of the most visited atolls as its on the main track througj the Tuamotu. Try going to thr SE end of the archipelago, or to the Australs or Gambiers
Sounds like you, like us, have a love of travel. These days, the most common route through the Tuamotus takes folk through Raroia, Makemo, Fakarava and onwards to Tahiti. That said, more people summit Mount Everest each year than cross the pacific to visit the Tuamotus so perhaps everywhere in these archipelago’s are “remote” to most. 😃 In our time in Ahe, we clocked 2 other boats visiting and were informed that they had not seen many sailors at all this year. Still, perhaps it has seen more boats in the past.
We actually dropped the hook here in last weeks episode. It’s called Raraka. A rarely visited atoll most people sim for Fakarava and so it’s a little slice of isolated heaven
Hi guys, I always get excited when I see your videos come up I know it’s going to be a wonderful time. Just love your spirit and how much fun guys have together as husband and wife just so wonderful. Your amazing couple keep up the good work. Really love and appreciate you both Cliff from Logan City Queensland, Australia , and hopefully one day you’ll be down here in Australia in Queensland
Would you prefer digital controls for the engines, or old stuff. Old stuff you can fix with a hammer and a spanner and a bit of grease. If electric goes down the term goosed comes to mind.
Our Nanni engines are fully mechanical (no digital components about them) for that exact reason. Perhaps you are mixing this up with the additional digital monitoring we had added with Zora? The engines themselves and their ignition system is all analogue, diesel compression goodness, we just added the ability to see their data and set alerts for various aspects within Zora which integrates with most of the things we have onboard.
It’s hard to show on camera as we use a wider Len’s to be able to hold the camera and talk to it but this wasn’t the worst we’ve had to do. Most of the OBS rivals are under the water so it’s hard to show just how tight a squeeze these can be
I think I prefer the black pearls now. I don’t know why but, I kept thinking of rabbits, the black pearls they leave all over the place….. oat also ..🤣😂
Black Perl’s… That’s like black swans, you don’t realise they exist until you see one. Would love to see one, I never know tell you told me on this vid. You are educating a few of us ..👍🏼
Hey! Great to meet you and I hope you enjoy our little adventure. We have had the fun of reliving episodes from the very beginning with some other folk and it’s kind of crazy to think where we started and where we’ve been. Hope you have fun watching back thru. And thanks for finding us 😊
No way! We had started working on a Spotify playlist for fun but it’s super hard to keep up to date. We don’t always pick the obvious music compared to other sailing adventures but it makes us smile. So pleased you enjoy the tracks.
It’s a whole different world but so rewarding. Perhaps some day that dream can become a reality. Until then we will continue trying to share what it is actually like to life and travel on a sail boat.
I had the first built L47..... Had B&G I struments and Hercules auto pilot. Troubles were not coming from the fluxcompass. I. The ap box finally is split in two halfs ..... Two wires , orange I remember, their connectors were half burned, causing the problem. Had that several times. Was sailing solo with guests, how difficult it was that the ship was turning to starboard without reason. Took some time to discover the issue. Hope for you, it is the same error
Wow! The first L47. That’s so cool. You’ll know this boat better than anyone. We will have to check the wiring and hopefully find something like that. Thanks for the tip. I was starting to think the AP was just getting Alzheimer’s
great video guys, love that scrubber, do you guys have an amazon affiliate link? I'm landlocked in FL but order amazon stuff regularly, so if you have a link, I can help throw a few $ your way to support your channel. Congrats on getting 10K subs!
Thanks for checking it out. Unfortunately I don’t think it’s on Amazon quite yet. The link we provided is to their website directly but we are also able to arrange sales through the red seas store if that works? We are still cleaning up the shipping calculator but if you want to send us a message, we can work something out I’m sure. Really appreciate your support.
@@danielmclellan7762 Hey, here’s a full video showing how we use this Nomad to clean our hulls: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RD1rH7n4CSA.htmlsi=ydgaE4eyuVk8H1R2
