This is becoming one of my favorite yachting channels. Judging from the rapidly increasing subscriber count, it seems i am not alone. Well deserved, keep up the great work Captain Q. and Randy!
@@YachtHunters im looking and have a variable base subset of categories.. and would like your input! I have started a spread sheet for comparisons.. Now adding front load fridge haha.. that upgrade Will happen to what ever i end up with.
Never been sailing in my life but like a lot of dreamers I always wanted to live on a sailboat. I've been watching the Tube for years learning about boats but just discovered you guys a week ago. You are the best! I love watching, I learn so much and you are both charming and relatable. Thank You!!!
So glad I found your channel. RU-vid has been a wonderful way for me to continue getting my sailing fix the last decade(s?). Cheoy Lees were among the first makes I ever heard of and have been at the top of my list since the 60s. It's so encouraging to see you finding these great prices on great boats. Always planned for my home to turn into a boat when I retired but ended up retiring with back and knee problems and set aside the dream. Your channel almost makes me reconsider my lifelong dream.
I just found your channel and can't tell you how much I enjoy the videos, the subtle humor the incredible knowledge and even the funny graphics. It's a well spent 20-30 minutes, now make some more :-)
This may be the first monohull that has made me consider ditching the idea of a more expensive catamaran. Easily one of the best thought out boats I have ever seen.
Captain Q, I just discovered your channel a couple days and I absolutely love your videos. They not only have insightful reviews of the boats, but I'm learning more about the concepts and terminology of sailing with every video. My only complaint is that I'm now addicted to watching the videos, at the expense of the paperwork I'm supposed to be doing, and I'm going to need an intervention! I think the other thing that makes your videos appeal to me is that you and Randy seem like genuinely nice guys. I'm hoping to purchase a sailboat someday...with any luck, before the point I'm too old to climb onboard! I live in Massachusetts, so maybe we'll run into each other sometime (hopefully, not when we're in sailboats!).
my daughter happen to visit and i did a cold read on the initial paragraph above the fold so to speak and she sucked her breath in waiting for the other shoe to fall and then i "read More" and she and i both cracked up ...she swore i made it up thanks for our note and the levity that came from it
WOW!!! THATS TERRIFIC NEW S i HOPE EVERY ONE READS THIS AND WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR WHERE YOU ARE AND WHAT YOUR ITINERARY IS ETC i THINK SHE WILL BE TERIFFIC FOR YOU A LOT TO RECOMEND THE BOAT... BUT PLEASE KEEP US UPDATED
@@raivkka4313 well ours is a sloop and a Cheoy Lee 41' which is slightly different than the offshore. She sails like a dream. We have footage on our channel :)
Just started binge watching your channel. Love the humor between both of you. Love the pop up definitions and explanations of boating terms I may not have heard before. It’s an educational experience with a few laughs.
This is a bittersweet channel for me. I love the woodwork and craftsmanship that goes into these boats but since my wife doesn't like the water all I can do is look. I can't afford to keep an RV and a boat too. Keep the good stuff coming I really do enjoy the tours.
I love this Choy Lee 41 Offshore! If I wasn't in the UK I think I would have had a survey done and got my cheque book out. It's the perfect yacht for me, big enough for the family but easy enough to sail singlehanded. Boy! I want this boat.
Hey! We live aboard a Cheoy Lee 41 (similar to the Offshore) happy to connect and answer any questions you have. She is actually pretty easy to single hand! :)
@@sailingavocet Thank you, The boat in Maine isn't ready for an ocean crossing and I got a costing of around £18,000 to have the yacht shipped over. So I guess I'll need to look closer to home :)
Love this boat! I saw a 50'Choey Lee Motorsailer for sale over 40 years ago and was allowed to board her and check it out. It was the boat that got me interested in sailing because I realized at that moment that I would be able to live on a manageable size boat. She was beautiful and had the same round seating but larger all in teak with a table in the center in the elevated parlor. Thank you for showing me another Choey Lee that I could easily live on. They do make beautiful boats.
This is my favorite boat CQ has reviewed so far. I think the Sitka spars are organically pretty and will probably outlast me. She’s a good candidate for electrification off the grid. I like how CQ says she hasn’t been around the world, yet. I.want.this.boat! 😊 😊 😊
Cool to see you guys made it...too bad this is out of your budget, its a beauty. I've sailed on one before with a girlfriend and it was so easy to handle and she moves through the water so well.
New subscriber just the best yacht tours I have found on u tube. Full of in depth knowledge .a real privilege to be here. Also the obvious respect affection and enjoyment Randy has for you and these tours is almost palatable .
Next to a Hans Christian, a Cheoy Lee is probably the prettiest boat out there. Wooden spars? Are you kidding me? How beautiful is that? Just needs a traditional Wheel to replace that steel with and you are ready to buy a parrot. Seriously though, look at the shape that boat is in. Rifles, guitars , cabins or boats, you have to admire a good piece of wood. How cool is that layout?
I love all the wood.... as long as somebody else is maintaining it. A friend of mine used to do commissioning of Cheoy Lee's when they were brought to SoCal.
Always loved the Cheoy Lee. Certified by Lloyds of London. Great boat after you address the deadlights, teak deck, and encapsulated keel. Classic lines
The more time one spends maintaining his boat the better he will know it and on that dark stormy night when you hear a strange sound or find water over cabin floor boards you will be able to diagnose the issue and sail safely on...
Grew up around Cheoy Lee's in the 1960's, first big sailboat I ever went on. Francis Forbes at Graves Boatyard in Marblehead sold them, he use to let local "yard rats" like me go out with him on sold boats checking them over before handing off to the new owner, Stunning woodwork and great to sail, .
Glad to see you looking over a big well-kept Cheoy Lee. When I was still just "window shopping" for a first sailboat I was entirely smitten with a 42' Luders-designed one nearby. Of course, it was WAY too much boat and money and needful of far too much costly TLC for the likes of me, but that infatuation felt real. Apart from the woodwork, it was the old timey clipper ship style and particularly those damned belaying pins that really got to me. I later even mulled over taking on a similar but smaller 36 footer in even more dire need of care being offered for free up in New England, but ended up with a far more sensible MacGregor 26X hybrid "power-sailor", which I adore despite the disparagement of the breed by "real sailors with bowlines in their pubes", and later adopted a pretty little "rescue dog" Com-Pac 16, bought for a buck, which had been more or less abandoned in the same state park boat lot I kept the Mac in. I just felt sorry for it being utterly neglected and covered in vines. Now that I think about it, that little pocket cruiser Com-Pac has something "salty" and Cheoy Lee-esque about it. So, I guess one's first love persists and all that...
Ok, old sailor here, 35,000 nautical miles solo. Observations about this boat, first it is old school design Wich is absolutely gorgeous. I have never seen a more beautiful boat. The cockpit is small as it should be, if you ever take a wave on board you don't want a large cockpit to fill with tons of water. I don't like a ketch, just too much rigging overhead to deal with. They do balance well, and often you can steer the boat with the mizzen alone. A ketch is a poor sailor going to weather, a sloop can often get to nearly 40 degrees from the wind but a ketch will be good to get sixty. I'm not kidding here, I talked to lots of sailors with ketches and they all said the same. The anchor is too small and is the wrong type. The CQR can hold in some conditions but they don't reset well and often don't dig in at all. It is also too small, that boat would be much better with a modern anchor such as a Rocna, and weigh about fifty pound for peacefully sleeping on the hook. Last, the color works fine in northern latitudes but would be extremely hot in the tropics. Just what I see...
This is probably my ideal boat. Been eyeing this post all week, so I’m delighted to see this video drive the point home. What a absolutely brilliant boat.
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flattery will get you anywhere. Seriously we haven't resolved a secure approach to contacting our subscribers or vice versa .. But stay tuned thank you again
thank you we were really happy to come across this one ...I have known about them since the year they came out bu never got aboard...This was a really nice surprise in so many ways thank you for your note
Great video captain , keep them coming. I am sailing the pacific coast of Mexico on my pacific sea craft and I am getting lots of ideas from all your videos.
I absolutely love my Cheoy Lee 38 Offshore designed by Ray Richards. As far as the wood maintenance, one has to have pride in their vessel and, when you have a Cheoy Lee that is such a gem, it makes the maintenance enjoyable.
Glad you like it! It really is cool and she is good looking and has a smart split underbody which we didn't even touch upon (that part was under water) great boat
The suspenders remind me of the Red and green show. Thank you guys for sharing this. I've never sailed before, but I plan on it one day. This is a beautiful boat and I very much appreciate the camera work and the fascinating tour guide.
I had a pair like I wear today that I wore to death. I found the red and green pair I have now online and ordered them and put them on stared at them and I realized something was wrong. They were backwards so I’ve had to re-organize them to get the green matching the starboard side of the boat in the red on the port side. Later I discovered that the store that I got them from have had them made up for the red and green show in Canada So maybe they’ll make up a set now for Captain Kew with the proper colors on the proper side I’ll have to ask him or you can put an order in and demand it LOL thanks for your observation and your kind words
@@YachtHunters that would be great! and here's one for you with a REALLY unique layout. A little farther south than you usually go, but wow I'd love a close look at this lovely. www.yachtworld.com/boats/1984/alden-44-aft-cockpit-3536074/
I should add, my interest in the 37 comes from my dad having owned a 32 when I was a kid. We sailed that boat from scituate to Bermuda 2x when I was in my early teens. I can attest to the boat’s seaworthyness
Hey Captain Q! Just had to stop in and see what the people were saying about this awesome boat (since as mentioned before she is so close to our own!) It looks like this is preforming well. If you are ever in California please look us up, we would love to welcome you aboard!
Just got through your Hull restoration process and paint job. Really terrific and I have to admit your bullwork idea is a really good one especially for cruising long distances shorthanded and help keep you on board the boat and Clearwater off just that much faster. You guys have really done a terrific job with that and I look forward as I said before two following you along. Your restoration was really a master class event for those of usWho would love to be able to pick up a grinder and do a hull and so forth but time has passed us bye thanks again for saying hello and good luck and stay tuned
I don’t like the interior of most sailboats that I could afford but I like this one, engine access is great as long as you like doing work upside down, and I’m not sure if it could work to put some kind of dodger on that cockpit layout, great channel and I watch every video several times.
true... engine access will require some yoga training... we think you could have a clever sailmaker figure out a dodger solution.... we talk about this Cheoy Lee all the time... the design has really stuck with us
those spring struts on the cockpit locker lids are a bloody nuisance; you only have to brush against them to collapse them. gas struts, which I'll be installing this winter, are much mote positive and secure.
Thanks cptn your so on too it she is another amazing lady who can take you anywhere in style I've definitely got a thing for choy lee and the ct s spacious and lumbering but completely comfortable but the choy definitely looked like she would get your family anywhere quickly
Captain Q "you could put nine people up here...." Randy "I don't think I have nine friends" 🤣😅😃🥳🤪😛 Now that you have that stunning Scheel 45 I'll definitely be your sailing friend!!
Wow Captain Q! We love your spirit, and your knowledge on boats. You inspire us to go out there to finally take that step to buy a yacht and discover the world on the water. We do not know much about sailing. We get a lot of comments from our viewers that we do not know what we are getting ourselves into etc, and that is true.. But at the same time we are new to all of this, so we do not really know if we will succeed in going on with our story. Right now we are looking for at a Hunter 42 Passage. If the boat is in a good state, could you consider this boat being a blue water boat? Love Dirk & Maraya
research and read all you can about any boat you might consider . There were a number of unqiue features on the one we looked at and a few diversions from what we have been used to ...Survey survey
We were always wowed by the Choy Lees at boat shows back in the day. The teak decks were beautiful if you had the money to maintain them. Glad to see that the owner eventually removed the teak from the decks. Regardless, you’ll still need to spend a lot of time maintaining the wood on this boat or paying to have it done. She’s beautiful though.
Marvelous as usual Capt Q. I was able to check one of these out recently in a yard. Just wonderful. That huge mail saloon would be a blast to play games, have drinks with friends, etc. PS This channel is dangerous for me!! I’m tempted to make my dreams happen sooner. Might not be a bad thing..
Mate, yet another stunning boat - I'm a fan of two masts as well. Thankyou for the tour Captain Q, and, fun to see Randy is definitely coming up with some witty one liners as well - who would have guessed ?? Lol. (Good on ya Randy) See ya fellas. Alan from Australia
