I have a Topclimber for going aloft by myself. I haven't had to do it for retrieving a halyard, but it would be easier, faster, and even potentially less risky than lowering the mast.

You'll see some glimpses of the cabin if you keep an eye out. But as my home for many years, that's my personal space and my interest in displaying it for viewing and judgment to the world for free on youtube is of little interest to me. I did add handrails to the ceiling over the settee which were invaluable. A Flicka moves alot and quicker than a bigger boat. They were added as handholds and as a way to add a lee net for sleeping on the settee. An alternative I came up with to a lee cloth. It worked great. An added advantage of this turned up. When I was standing up in front of the galley, and the boat unexpectedly rolled to starboard, the lee net caught my fall many times. sailingwithjosh.com/2022/03/22/the-resourceful-sailor-weaves-a-lee-net/ I devised a way to keep the dropboards in. sailingwithjosh.com/2024/02/27/the-resourceful-sailor-secured-sampaguitas-drop-boards/ I easily stored over three months of food using the ice box and liner storage spaces. The head was the simplest. Just a bucket and an old toilet seat. Like a home toilet, I put a little water in the bucket. I almost exclusively used it in the cockpit. Always rolly, always bracing with my hands, and sometimes wet with the spray coming aboard. But if it's going to spill or slosh, better in the cockpit than in the cabin. And much simpler and safer to dispose of. Once you're away from the US mainland, it's bucket and chuck it. It was always challenging to move anything liquid from down below in the cabin up to the cockpit. Whether a cup of tea, coffee, soup, or the bucket, spillage was a definite possibility. The movement was incredible.

@@sailingwithjosh5569 Thanks Josh. Very helpful insights. I use the settee to sleep as well. (Half body on settee, feet in V-berth). Understand not showing world your personal space. Will keep watching for sure! Keep on sailing..!! 🙏👍🏻

No gimbals. What you see there is downwind so we're rolling alot. But I managed without it gimballing just fine. I only used one deep pan to cook everything and kept the contents shallow. So cooking at 10-15 degrees was accomplished.

Roger that. Less is more.!

Which came first, the chicken or the yard!

@@jdalamo www.sailingwithjosh.com Nuts? It's a wet boat. It's a lively boat. 20 feet of living space at the dock becomes 10 feet on a proper voyage. I have water bladders and jugs. I used about 1/2 gallon per day. I had plenty, but it's heavy. Cooked every day. Propane stove, but no oven and no gimbals. Plenty of food.

under 30 is the way to do it...small as you can live comfortably on simply due to how costs exponentially increase in proportion to vessel size. From many of much more experienced sailor that the smaller sailboats ride up and down the stuff that beats bigger boats to death too, just make sure you have the capacities you need in tankage, stores, backups...have a great one

@@norml.hugh-mann great advice, I have my heart set on a contessa 26, but I'm keeping an open mind!

I think 36' or 10-11m is where the cost versus length really starts to rise, but it's also pretty dependent on how common of a make/model it is and its age.

The Rolly Tasker website will show you sail prices without having to start a discourse with a salesman, from the Co26 to the Co32 the price doubles. The same will go for rigging and paint ect. So it seems adding 2m roughly doubles everything. That being said, Josh's Flicka is 1/4 the price to refit or maintain than a 36 footer. You're right of course, after 36' the price is unobtainable to anyone save the '1%ers'

Raw, real footage.

Ha, I hear ya! On a small boat, everything is in a constant state of movement in so many ways. It takes just a minute to tidy up and about 15 seconds to explode again.

@@sailingwithjosh5569 have you got headroom on the PS20? must be close to 6'

@@newfiescreech7328 headroom is 5'11". I'm 5'10" if I'm not slouching.

In the trades? What’s the destination?

@@jdalamo This was going North from Marquesas.

@@danscoltock1180 Sail balance for the wind vane and less flopping in the seas.

Oh, you are not the only one. In this case it was about the butter though!

Not a propane outboard. Gasoline. T8 ran great but tilt and things were getting corroded. It was 105 lbs. Tahatsu is 61 lbs. A necessary change when then adding close to 50 lbs of steering vane. So T8 too much weight for little boat and it's transom was deforming from it. A Flicka squats hard when you stand in the cockpit. You just can't see it! Hobbyhorsing can be a problem too. Tahatsu runs great but less power. It's a sailing boat anyway. Outboards don't work in an open sea. They ventilate.

Probably a half knot to a knot. It depends on how quickly the wind is changing and how quick I am keeping up with the change. I don't really sail by numbers so I can't say for sure. Plus no real knot meter so I'm just trying to keep an average and sail by feel. So much energy is lost when the boat is jostling around it is nothing like sailing in the Salish Sea.

Thanks. It's just something to do. You don't get the more exciting times because you don't mess around with video when that comes. And it usually seems to be dark. Not that there has been very much of that.

Bottom paint, outboard bracket inspection and adjustment, bobstay inspection and adjustment, sink drain replacement, mast tang inspection. Windvane screw replacement. I think thats it, but my list is not in front of me. Nothing critical. Byt the inspection was worth it. The bobstay corrosion of the clevis pin was a surprise. That whole fitting was a huge clump of goose barnacles most of the passage.