3 HARSH REALITIES of SAILING in Paradise | Ep. 109

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3 HARSH REALITIES of SAILING in Paradise | Ep. 109
#boatlife #frenchpolynesia #livingonaboat
Sailing in a remote paradise comes with a price. Uncomfortable anchorages, difficult shore access, and sometimes BUGS. Soon we are heading to an even more remote island and we’re low on food so we want to re-provision and fuel up. But we’ve been told the anchorage at the main town nearby is HORRIBLE so we have another plan.
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TIMECODES
00:00-04:13 Sailing to the north side of Hiva Oa
04:14-09:19 A beautiful oasis
09:20-14:22 Looking for a road to town
14:23-24:09 Plan B - Atuona, Hiva Oa Main town

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Комментарии : 52

@Zcoop18 10 месяцев назад

I imagine full time sailing is hard work, so many things to consider. 🤯 Love seeing your adventures with sweet Yoda and appreciate you sharing your travels with us. ❤

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for watching and for your comment! Yoda is a handful and certainly adds excitement and fun to the adventures. 😊😊

@huldahovergaard1648 10 месяцев назад

You two are amazing, brave souls. Certainly admire your positive attitude!!

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

Thanks so much Mom!

@ByronPrice-bb5do 6 месяцев назад

Great mindset guys love your attitude to finding solutions while managing to respect each other!

@HarborsUnknown 6 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for your comment and for watching our videos 😊😊

@darrellpugh6186 10 месяцев назад

Very Good Videography and Narration. Thank You. Fair Winds 😎

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

Thank you Darrell!! 😊😊

@charliesimeon 10 месяцев назад

Guys, for info "pamplemousse" is literally French for "grapefruit"... the thick skin is simply caused by the soil type, (Nitrogen imbalance) and the taste is due to local soil, weather etc, otherwise its the same fruit as you'd have at home. Good video though, thanks for sharing.

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for the information and for watching our video!

@SailingOneLife 10 месяцев назад

Oh boy, we can relate to so much in this video! Ah, boat life!

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

😂😂 they joy of sailing! Thank you for watching

@marktaylor484 10 месяцев назад

Great teamwork, well done guy's...

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

Thanks so much Mark!

@shuzoskates 10 месяцев назад

I am impressed that you guys with 2 persons (with Yody) controlling and managing everything in such remote frontier. Even there’s some realities encountered, your video is very educational and impressive. As always very nice compilation of music and wonderful scenery! We are Always cheering you guys ❤

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

Thanks so much for your support Hiro! We truly appreciate it!!

@ZeroDot42 10 месяцев назад

Fantastic vids in beautiful places ,thank you for sharing ,looking at the starkness of some of the hills, you would think it was fully overgrown with vegetation ,that waterfall falling into the sea wow beautiful ..

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

Thank you! We're so glad you enjoyed the video!! This part of the island is lower altitude so it doesn't get as much moisture from the clouds and it's more exposed to the wind causing there to be less vegetation.

@firstlast1047 10 месяцев назад

I appreciate your description of the leeward side of the island. I experienced the same at St. Kitts in the Caribbean. Lush on the windward side. Dry and hot leeward. 0n the leeward side, we anchored, bow and stern, to account for the "catabolic" winds sweeping across the hills. I had no knowledge of the waves. We were anchored near a spit. That night, the waves wrapped around the anchorage. The waves would run PARALLEL to the shore. That night a confusion ensued with another nearby anchored boat... My fault. 😢

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

Mother Nature is so powerful! We always just do our best. 😊

@DYoung-vt8pq 8 месяцев назад

I hope U bought the bikes. They would soon pay for themselves. Safe travels ❤

@HarborsUnknown 8 месяцев назад

😂😂😂 unfortunately not and yes! You are correct, they would pay for themselves in short order. Buying stuff in French Polynesia is far from easy. Ordering form the US or NZ basically doubles the price between shipping and local tariffs. If you find a warranty issue there is no help, most warranty policies don’t include return shipping form abroad. We are looking for it here but have not found the right ones. 🥲

@jonglaser4468 10 месяцев назад

Great video..Can you imagine instead of a boat, your stuck in a small camper van?There are quite a few people that vlog from them on youtube.

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

We watch a few van-life channels, different vehicle, same life of adventure 😊😊💪💪❤️❤️

@guglielmomazza7718 10 месяцев назад

🔥

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

🙏🙏❤️❤️💪💪

@joseerazevedo 10 месяцев назад

Hi! Here in Brazil there's an amazing island called Ilhabela which has lots of mosquitoes that love people... What we do to get off alive and with minimal bites is to have vitamin B group suplements. Legend has it that that changes the "smell" of your skin to them and the don't choose you. Might sound weird, but it works for me, at least. Fair winds!

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for the very useful tip!! We will definitely try that! Mosquitoes are no fun!😊😊😊

@federicorio 10 месяцев назад

Borrachudos!!

@joseerazevedo 10 месяцев назад

@@HarborsUnknown Ooooops!! I just corrected the vitamin group: it's B! Not D. Look for some kind of "B complex" suplement. Sorry for the confusion!

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

Cool!! Vitamin B!

@charliesimeon 10 месяцев назад

@@joseerazevedo I concur Vitamin B is the one. I took Vit B (1000mg) pills once a day for two weeks before going in the Borneo Jungle and wasn't bitten once. It does indeed change your smell, but takes a while to kick in...

@gbsailing9436 10 месяцев назад

Beautiful places and great videos! So I'm wondering, do the locals have such a bad time with the bugs as well? Are they only prevalent on one side of the island? How long will you guys decided to stay here before moving on? I think you originally said 12months, is that still the plan? Are you able to pick up your new Auto steering ram here? Fair 💨 and following 🌊!

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

Thank you! I believe they have issues with the bugs as well but know more about avoiding them. When we returned a bit later to swim with our friends a local guy came in the water as well and we think he was saying the no-no's (no-see-ums) bite the first few people in the water. That was me and our three friends who all got eaten alive. We'll be in French Polynesia until probably next July. We did pick up our new ram and just installed it! Fingers crossed it works!

@gbsailing9436 10 месяцев назад

@@HarborsUnknown Fantastic news all round. I'm glad you've got the ram in and working.

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@ysesq 10 месяцев назад

if you get carbo model x ebikes they have no ferrous metal parts to rust.

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for the tip!

@davidgravlin6518 10 месяцев назад

Can you provide more info as to why you anchored out the dinghy? If I heard the audio correctly, you said that the shore is steep but I don't understand why that would motivate you to not simply drive the dinghy onto the shore and pull it out onto the beach?

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

We decided to anchor out because there was a decent size swell and it's quite heavy to pull up on shore. Also we flipped over in the dinghy when we were trying to go to shore in Escudo de Veraguas, Panama so now we're very cautious.

@ysesq 10 месяцев назад

would be nice to show sailing and tackling etc

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

The sails in this video were quite short but this video has a good bit of sailing ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2137kS9MO-8.html

@Peter_Herrman 10 месяцев назад

More drama! More drama!!!! :o) After watching Fabio huffing all that diesel and groceries, I'm tired. Is a collapsible cart not effective?

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

😂😂😂 we are not that smart!! Has the wheel been invented already?😂😂 we wish we had a collapsible cart

@Peter_Herrman 10 месяцев назад

Lol, it's not brain surgery! ;o) Just go buy a cart! ROFL

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

😂😂 Amazon prime not available 😂😂

@Pires1954 10 месяцев назад

Hi guys. You should by some Go Cycle

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

Interesting you say that, we’ve been thinking about getting bicycles, but we are dealing with storage issues. We are taking note of every time we say: “it would be nice to have a bike!”

@ZeroDot42 10 месяцев назад

Was the pool you guys swam in colder than the sea water ?

@HarborsUnknown 10 месяцев назад

Yes, the fresh water pool was at least 10 degrees F cooler than the sea water.