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Great to have you back in the captains chair! When I started watching your videos years ago it made me appreciate my role as a captain more and enjoy the journey, not just getting to anchor and relaxing. Also made me make more of a point to delegating tasks to my crew instead of trying to do everything myself. Thank you Tristan!

I'm glad to see you back in the captains chair. I like that you focus on the technical aspects of the yacht you are on. That is what I like to see & hear.

I find these more technical type videos more fascinating compared to the glamour type stuff. Keep both coming though! Even the most mundane stuff, in your opinion, is very exciting for the viewer. Examples of what I would like to see is stuff like how watches or duty shifts are done by the crew, timekeeping and how clocks are used on a vessel as you move through time zones etc.

Glad you’re back. I would be interested in a recap of how you got to this ship? Where is your wife? Being this is a private boat, what limitations are you going to have in your videos?

This is so exciting having this channel back....its been awhile😊

Glad you are back! ⚜️ Many thanks and huge respect to the owner for allowing us inside!

Love seeing the inner workings... the down & dirty "how it works" stuff!

It’s good to see u are leaning new things and shows that even sitting in the captain’s chair u still have to know how ur yacht works not just sitting down and being the boss . Good to see u back, looking forward to more of the vlogs

Love the boat tours especially the tech areas. So educational.

I'm enjoying these room by room deep dives with all of the equipment!

So pleased to see back onboard as captain after many moons! Cheers, Bruce

Who would have guessed that a video about a chain locker could be so interesting. Probably a great place to hide if you are in trouble with the captain lol 😂. Really good video Tristan. Looking forward to the next one and following your adventures.

In depth tour of an anchor locker. Love it. That’s a heap ton of chain.

Definitely the content we were missing on YT!

I've always learned that when an anchor winch rotates around the horizontal axis, it's a windlass, but when they rotate around the vertical axis like the ones on this ship, they are called capstans.

So glad to see you back in the big chair, enjoy.

It is so nice to see youu again being where you belong, managering SuperYacht.

Great to have you back in the Saddle Tristen 🎉

Way cool, love seeing these nerdy bits of a yacht.

Congratulations on the new job and with such a great boat. It's good that I kept subscribing to you, now I like the content again. You are living my dream. I am so happy for you!

Now this is what I subscribed for all those years ago!!

I did live in Vanuatu so that might be why the ship's name rings a bell, but I think I also repaired her in Mexico, probably electrical or systems. I did repairs on quite a few large boats in PV. Glad that you have an interesting itinerary.

She looks well found and a proper little ship. 👍🏽

Looking forward to the engine room! Nice to see you back captaining a super yacht. Peace ✌️

Having an ally hull, hope you've got loads of Duralac Green mixed metal bedding compound for those jobs where a simple screw is needed. Great stuff on deck.

Very informative and surprisingly interesting! Quite good to see that you know your trade and are a true professional, not just a pretty boy celebrity living the glamour lifestyle we usually only get to see. The owner must be happy to have you. I looked at Espirito Santo for a live aboard world tourer, especially of the Pacific. Good boat! Enjoy! Cheers from Oz.

Refreshing that you are not interested in baffling us with BS - if you don’t know ,you don’t know . I’ve quickly subscribed to!

Great to see you back on the water Tristan. A tip for exposed Aluminium brightwork is Mothers Aluminium polish . Just awesome and leaves a protective film as well . The bonus is that it is easy to use as well. Cheers Ade.

Love your new chapter and the introduction to the new boat.

Great to see you at the helm again, and you seem quite happy which is all that matters. Love your videos, please keep them coming

Love seeing this level of detail! Keep it up, man. Can't wait for the next one.

Good to see behind the glamour 🎉🎉🎉

Your last video had to many comments I couldn't get a word in edge wise😂 I'm so happy for you to be back on a yacht, looking forward to your adventures.

Interesting way of showing the boat. Really enjoyable. I have not seen other people do it this way! Well done

I know you said in the last video, this vessel is private (not for charter)... We should be very thankful her owner is willing to allow you to show the details like this. Many wouldn't be.

So Wise , Thank You . I agree It is good to see you back in you're true habitat . Thank You for the tour of in my opinion a very neglected area , yet very important Gear and the place to put it . A fine example of the care and detail nesseccary to have a proper operating yacht .

Cool tour, love the indepth detail only a captain can give, more more more

Very interesting. Tristan, you actually got it right. I totally agree with you! Your anchor chain is the anchor, and the hook is the device that is suppose to prevent your anchor from slipping. Your boat "rides"" on the chain, not the hook. That is why we use the formula of <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="65">1:5</a>.

Glad to see you back in your natural habitat.

I subscribed to your channel earlier today after watching your previous video. Amusingly this latest video premiers shortly after I finished a call negotiating to purchase 6 - 10 tons of 40mm studlink anchor chain from a scrapped vessel in Cape Town.

Great episode! Great to see more new content! Thanks for sharing! 👍👍

So glad your back !! Here is my "tip" for maintaining aluminum at sea, corrosion control activities never end, and all the technical training you can get really helps make the best use of the time spent on preventative maintenance. Love your videos and especially the all the engineering spaces. To me these ships are works of art in engineering and all it entails. The mechanical spaces with all the E/Gs Power conditioners, load banks and UPS systems, I could go on and on but you get the idea.

You make some very interesting videos, thank you! Please continue with it.

I'm sorry but I have to say it again, I had missed that intro. I know it word for word as if it's my vlog. LOVE IT.

Glad to see you back in action, always enjoyed your videos

Hey, that was really cool. Good to see you on a boat again that’s for sure. I had an aluminum motorsailer for 14 years. Wish I still had it. Oh well.

As everyone has previously said, glad to see you back in the roll of captain of a yacht again. Great below the deck look around video. Take care keep those videos coming.

As a land lubber, I am almost totally ignorant about everything on the water. I hope you are going to continue with this level of detail all the way to the stern.

Great video Tristan! Boson store certainly looks like should be on a bigger vessel, she is clearly very capable and built for adventure!

Tips and tricks for aluminum. Highly polished aluminum keeps the pores metal free of corrosion causing contaminants. Though it does require allot of polishing and re-polishing again and again. Might be easier to paint it with a good industrial coating to both seal and protect.

Welcome back,truly looking forward to your next adventures!

my god I love watching your video's they give so much information and like this one you show us things that most people aren't going to show and you make it very interesting :) I wish I had the money for a superyacht I'd love to have you as my captain :)

This is just lovely. I started watching your channel back in the early days when my 15 year old daughter was telling me that she wanted to be a deckie. She’s now just turned 21 , got her yacht master and working on a boat as a deckie. Love your channel when you’re a captain and great to see you back on board. Where’s Givinia (I know that’s totally the wrong spelling) and what happened to the previous business plan?

Great to have you back!

Welcome back, captain. That's a really spacious bos'n locker, never have enough room. My experience with aluminum, steel hull/aluminum superstructure, was on much larger ship without expansion joints. Take an aluminum can and start twisting it, eventually it will tear and split. (Yes, this happened, not fun.) With stabilizers that should minimize the chances, but something to look for during yard/upkeep periods.

What you know about the guts of a yacht is incredible!!!!

Educational as always. Looking forward to the next one.

Wow, I only have 200lb of chain. Love the tour!

I have missed this content so much!

Very interesting and educational. Thank You!

She's an old boat, and old boats are a challenge . This will be good to watch 😊😊

thanks for sharing your new yacht G

Interesting video. Would have like to know where the water line was

Sailed on an aluminium yacht a few times. Had to be careful where the pull tabs on the beer cans ended up...LOL. Thanks for the tour,,,

Awol was a lovely boat, but she was of a design much in fashion with wealthy owners wanting an economically viable asset to play with. This vessel is clearly owned by someone with a passion for serious passage making, and the review of the forepeak and chain locker clearly shows the difference between the ethos of each boat and what is expected of them. I'm sure we'll be seeing more of the same.

I love these walk throughs

Hi Great to have you back. It was lonely. His your wife back on the ship?

Love it! keep this series up

Self leveling green or orange filler could be between or PR870 sealant aviation grade should help and ofc alodine for aliumonium+ primer

From owning a steel boat, coroosion is a big topic, and is quite harsh to understand. Stuff like isolation transformers, galvanic corosion and anodes is all quite hard to understand. As an exsampel depending on what type og water you sail in, you should chose diffrent anodes, zinc, alu or magnisium. Maybe a topic for you to make a video about with the engineer.

Love it very informative video Keep them coming please

Great video, thanks!

That was an interesting video. Thank you!

Thanks for sharing

The Port side Knot on the bitter end is not a Bowline! check it out!

I love these videos.

Welcome back!

Good to see you back as captain. One question, how is the anchor connected to the boat when in use, I guess it is not only connected to the bitter end line. Thanks.

welcome back!

Very interesting video, and that about "only" an anchor locker :p. Where is Gibernator by the way? Will she be part of the crew as well?

Question, do you drop both anchors? If so, do you have concerns about crossing the chains as the boat swings with the tide or wind?

Your back in the game Tristan about time you did some proper work 😂😂😂😂😂😂❤

Brilliant 👏🥰✌️

Great vid! That's a nice little space. You should fit out a bunk and let the deck boss live down there!

Hi Christian mate, is the internal aluminium hull coated to protect from salt water erosion because it looks like bare aluminium?

When she was sold to your new owner last August the vessel was in Australia. Where is she now? Were you responsible for moving her to the new location? If so, was that with a temporary crew and did you take her through the Panama Canal?

Hi Captain. As mentioned in the previous episode, I'm delighted to see you back in the wheelhouse. I think you have 500 gt license, so I was wondering how you decided on this particular yacht. I love it, but why not a bigger one like Loon? Is it because it's hard to find an owner who allows RU-vid'ing? Take care

She has a relatively high bow, which of course is super for seakeeping. But do you notice more than usual sensitivity in falling off the wind at anchor due to that high bow (causing her to ride from side to side)?

How does the new vessel compare with the formal AWOL in length and tonnage?

Do you have additional weight ballast for stability?

Great tour! And I have to ask, even though it is probably akin to asking "whose your favorite child" - overall, which is a better ship to command, this or AWOL? Thanks for the great tour. Both yachts are insanely interesting.

What’s screws can we use to hang more pictures when you’re home? Stainless or aluminium? ☺️😉

What type of cathodic protection is used on an aluminum hull?

For med mooring, might you have more occasion to use the bow thruster and the windlass at the same time?

Oh yes, the bitter end there’s a great Yacht spot bar in the Caribbean, the bitter end yacht club at any rate with regard to anchors. Yes, if the anchor was fled, you could detach it and let it go, but that’s not the point of a bitter end connection. . They almost found that out I think with the Dalli in Baltimore accident . The anchor can run away that is in dropping it if the brake system fails to pay it out at a steady pace, it will literally run through the anchoring system at such a high speed that it would be lost totally if we were not attached at the bitter end, that was the whole point of creating that last attachment. . I don’t think at the time that was set up. Anybody thought of letting the chain go completely on purpose because it had become fouled the bottom . I would never think of doing that at the very least I would haul in as much anchor chain as I could get to some point of vertical at least rescuing as much as chain as possible, and then just cut the chain using a cutting saw or a welder. Yes I lose some chain and I lose the anchor but chain is really expensive. Anchors are just a big hunk of iron and there’s plenty of spares around the world but chain is very very expensive. I’ll bet that chain you have there is $24 a foot. . Maybe much more I’m just an old sea dog and I remember prices of old lol .

Ow-loo-minnyum, same as me saws-pun.😁

Not letting coins drop into the bilges, apparently prevents undesirable electrolysis in aluminum hulls!

Can you actually see that this explorer yacht is more heavily and ruggedly built?

There is a lot of space and equipment in the windlass. Can not tell you how many times i see boaters anchoring “on top” of each other. When the wind shifts there will be damage.