Hey guys!!! You probably already know now that the big grocery store is about 8/10 kms east of town in a small town that starts with a H . I used to go there back when I was Prospecting in the area!!! ❤ from a old dude from Pender Harbour BC.
Yes we were lucky enough to get to use a vehicle for a few hours to explore and stocked up at that store, they had ice! 🙏🏽Drove hwy 20 to Tweedsmuir Park, wow is that area ever stunning! Wonder how much it has changed from the years you were prospecting up there?! still seems fairly quiet..
Search beautiful scenery you guys. Sailors really are resilient aren’t they? I think they have to be. You are certainly no exception. Sending love from LIZ in California🤟🏻💜😎⛵️🐬🇺🇸
The scenery up here is so surreal! I think sea faring definitely brings out the self-sufficiency in all of us! Thanks so much for your kind words & support Liz, you're awesome!
When we had a city tour of Prince Rupert on the bus tour they said there is no fore shore so big ships could come right in and dock ,Guss its the same were you were .My favorite month love watching the storms .
Yes the inlets here are 'ironbound' the term used by early mariners to describe the rocky cliffs that plunge straight down into the ocean. There aren't a lot of places up here to drop the hook! Those thunderstorms are pretty well a daily afternoon occurrence up here we learned.. we spent 8 hours beating upwind to only make it a few miles on the way out 😅
Absolutely stunning, when sailing these BC coast Inlets we also were always ready to reef and many times put on a smaller head sail. We travelled up and down the Agamemnon Channel to Harmony Islands, up and down Jarves Inlet, had lunch at the Backeddy Pub in Egmond, dared / dodged the Sechelt Rapids at slack tide and went dwn to the Lighthouse Pub and dock at Sechelt.......reminiscing with tears, P&F
Sounds like a beautiful trip!! Agamemnon channel was one of our first overnight trips! We bought Uintah in French creek and spent the first year exploring the strait of Georgia, beautiful sailing down in that neck of the woods!
You’re NZ passage probably prepared you a little better for the gusts? Still can’t get over how beautiful that coastline is. You’re music selection is also superb. Love you guys ♥️♥️♥️
Yes definitely! That Tasman crossing levelled us up tremendously. The coastline here has got to be some of the best! Here's another nudge to take Landfall up to Alaska! Hope you're enjoying your time back in Canada! Lotsa love!
Thank you! James has really come along with his drone cinematography this szn, he's having fun with it! Glad you enjoyed seeing Bella Coola! Have you been? It is such a beautiful place, we wish we stayed longer and filmed more of it!
Gotta love mountain weather with awesome spectacular scenery. Good to hear no one go hurt when the gust came up, more experience. Thanks for sharing, see you next week.
Thanks mate, it's totally worth the trek! We ended up spending the better part of the Summer up here, Tallheo hot springs was unreal! Hope you get to check it out one day soon! hah yeh, It's probably time to invest in some new sails..
Always enjoy your videos from the comfort of my desk in my cozy little cottage in the Mainline of Philadelphia. At eighty, it's all I have left...lol. -Curt
Hi Curt! Makes us happy to hear you're enjoying our videos, it's really awesome to get to share them with you all the way over there! We're currently shacked up in a little cottage as well here in Alert Bay. Enjoying some cozy time on land by the fire, cheers mate!
Just a little thought for both of you. When you are talking to camera it is nice for us on the receiving end if we can see your eyes, but your shades prevent that. Just when you are on camera.
Fantastic episode. Your videography, editing and story telling is getting better with each new episode. What drone are you flying and which camera/s are you using?
Awe, thanks so much for that! We’re still flying a Mavic Mini (sailing shots) and the Mavic Air 2 (when we’re not moving). Our other camera gear needs some serious upgrading.. currently filming on an old Cannon Rebel T7i, they don’t make them anymore, and two GoPro 8’s
Thank you for sharing that with me @@AllisonandJamesSailing What you are putting together with what you have is wonderful. Those two drones may be considered "dated" by some but based on your videos they are doing an excellent job for you. There's no rush to upgrade imo. As to vlogging I am taking a long hard look at the DJI Osmo Pocket 3. As a follow up question: do you shoot in auto or d-log and add colour grading. sharpness and contrast during editing? I am putting together a 3 camera "arsenal" to help document my upcoming bucket list (I'm 62yrs old) adventures on Jasmine, my 32ft Samson C-Mist rigged as a junk rig sloop beginning here in Durban and Richards Bay, South Africa..
@@StormSignal no sweat! It's stressful starting out and buying the gear! Honestly we just bought some lower end stuff and went for it. Actually before that we practiced a lot shooting shorts on our iphones.. If you're just starting out you don't need the latest and greatest. Probably best to start simple and learn from there. We're pretty happy with the drones.. the DSLR is definitely the one that we will be upgrading - we can't film in d-log on it so our color grading options are limited. But we do color grade in post in Adobe Premier the best we can. If vlogging mostly, what we have, and what you are looking at, is perfectly fine. A GoPro is also super handy when you need to be hands free, just want to let the camera 'roll', when your out adventuring or if it's wet/rainy. You can also vlog with them. Many channels film exclusively on GoPros (you can buy good mics for them)! Hope this is helpful! Let us know if you have any other questions. Sounds like a really awesome adventure you're planning!!
Thank you again @@AllisonandJamesSailing The Beast (my Canon 70D that I acquired back in 2013) and its array of lenses will be coming with me whatever else I decide to add to the team. This primarily for photography work and because for that I need nothing more fancy and have become both familiar and proficient especially in landscapes, sunsets and wildlife. I wish you both fair winds and continued adventure and wonder. I shall continue to be enthralled by each new episode you release I am certain.
"Lintah" is a Catalina 30, right? How do you like your Rocna 15 anchor? Ever wished for a bigger one or a different type? We want to take our VdS 33 a bit more off the beaten course these upcoming seasons and our old CQR will just have to become our second anchor. Shopping time! thx. a.
Yes a Catalina 30. We love the Rocna! Def haven't wish for a bigger one when hauling it up! haha It's been working really well for us, super happy with it. Awesome! Highly recommend getting off the beaten path, it's amazing around these parts!
My life started on the BC float camps back in 1949 where travel by boat was our mode of transportation. Now for the last few years I have been searching for you - people exploring the BC coast. Thanks !
Wow that's so neat!! Love reading/chatting with folks about the history of this coast and imagining what it would have been like back then, so interesting!
Mine started in Ocean Falls...spent a lot of time on the water, people my parents knew in float camps. Boating was so different then. We had nothing...ie radio, depth sounder, just tide book and charts. Lots of windy rough days. Don’t miss that.
Alluring Arctic Sailing are in the same(ish) area but sailed through a lot in the middle of winter. Not my idea of fun. Would love to sail in that area.
Yes they sailed BC pretty quick on their way to Alaska. They’re much further North and transiting thru the Northwest Passage, inspiring! Their boat is built for it! We’ve also been heading North to Alaska however much more slowly, exploring remote anchorages and far reaching fjords along the way. It’s an incredible area with so much to see! We think it’s one of the best cruising grounds out there 🤫
@@AllisonandJamesSailing your content is making me want to go there… for sure. Their’s was interesting but didn’t make me want to go there more than I already did… unlike your content which has made the desire to go and explore for myself even stronger.
Thank you, so glad you enjoyed it! The next few episodes coming up are definitely our favorite that we've created so far! Yes, its a smalelr size Yamaha, perfect for the boat! James is a pretty skilled guitar player, i wish i could say the same for myself, but I dabble! You?
@@AllisonandJamesSailing OK. Looking forward to those episodes. And....would love to hear James play. Myself I am a player and guitar-collector. I will not mention all of them. Let's talk acoustics. In short, all are Takamines with cedar tops. Simply love that sound. Whenever I go, it is never without my trusty (and small) Taka EF 261 SAN.
@@gertboerman3666 beautiful!! You & James would get along great. He had quite the collection before we downsize to the Airstream and then the boat.. Always thought it would be cool if we recorded our own music for the vids, maybe one day :)
So, a question, not a criticism, with preamble: Everything I've read and studied, especially in the PCOC course, urges that we wear our PFDs at all times. Now, I certainly understand that for a cruiser and liveaboard, that's unrealistic, but wouldn't you agree that it should be made a habit to wear them while underway, while on deck, and especially in unpredictable weather/sea state? It seems to me that I never see youtubers wearing their life jackets. It concerns me.
Hi Basil, thanks for your comment, it lends to a good discussion. On less stable, smaller size crafts PFD’s are highly encouraged. But when moving around on larger boats, that you live and work on 24/7 I guess it becomes a bit of a different story. The general rule of thumb in the sailing world, especially when offshore is ‘don’t fall overboard’ because in those situations a PFD won’t save you. Knowing that, ppl argue PFD’s give folks a false sense of security. All of which is why you don’t see folks wearing them on other channels. Solo sailors? No chance they’re wearing one. But here coastal cruising a PFD has a chance of actually helping you. So agreed it doesn’t hurt to wear one when weather gets rough or when going forward on deck in those conditions. But of course with that comes practicing drills to enable one to single handedly turn the boat around and get back to the other person before the cold sets in. Strong currents and tides here adds more complexity. And these places are very remote so no one is coming by to scoop you up. I guess the scary reality always remains that if you fall in you’re as good as dead. We appreciate your concern, thank you. Would love to hear other folks weigh in!
@@AllisonandJamesSailing That's a really good perspective. Thanks a lot. So, I've been overboard once, when I was much younger and stronger, and I was wearing a life vest. I was good at sculling and treading, but even with the vest, just being in the water and dealing with waves and breating, plus a bit of .... panic?... well it was pretty tiring. It took about 10 minutes for my fam to get the boat back around to me safely and another 5 to get me on board. That 15 minutes felt like an hour. I'm not sure how that'd turned out without a vest. Granted that was ages ago and my memory of it all is pretty foggy. On the other hand I've swum a VERY long distance in pretty cold water and had no problem at all. So.... there's that. I guess I'd "feel" safer if I thought that a vest could buy me more time in the water for my wife to get turned around and help me. I dunno. You mentioned practice turning around solo. Do you do drills? If so, do you have a 'best time' in good conditions? Curious to see that on film :) Ok, so then, what about harness & lifelines? ** Just to further complicate things ;)
@basildraws wow, you’ve actually lived the overboard experience. Thank you for sharing that, it’s really great insight. So glad you’re family was able to maneuver the boat in time and get you back onboard safely🙏🏽 Sounds like in that situation it mostly definitely aided in saving your life/bought you more time. The part that stands out for me in that story is how many people helped get you back onboard. This season we didn’t have an autopilot, in a ‘James overboard’ scenario even if he was wearing a PFD , me single handing the boat and being able to lift him up and out of the water (if he’s fatigued and unable to assist) would be next to impossible - lending to the ‘don’t fall overboard hard rule’. We’ve practiced with overboard ‘items’, boxes and such, but never with a real human. We’ve watched 59 degrees North practice real man overboard drills and would love to participate in something like that hands on. But again in that situation there’s a team of folks assisting. Tragically, just a few weeks before we sailed up Burke channel, two kayakers were heading to Tallheo Hot springs from Bella Coola and the wind picked up - one capsized. Wearing a PFD, didn’t make it to shore, and died. Heartbreaking. Harness and jacklines would be good to have onboard (we have lifelines but wouldn’t necessarily trust them). We clipped in on the Tasman crossing but that was more in case of rogue waves washing over the cockpit- which isn’t something to worry about here in the inside passage. Coastal cruising boats generally don’t have jacklines, but we would look to install if we were going offshore regularly, especially sailing at night (can’t see the waves)
@@AllisonandJamesSailing That is a tragic story. Shocking to think one can take good precautions and still have such a low survivability chance. I guess it's a more complex and nuanced issue than it appears at first blush.
This is why we've got PFD harnesses. I won't say that we're religious about wearing them, but at a certain point the risk becomes sufficiently emergent that it would be better to put them on while we have nothing else to worry about. Wearing flotation is a small and affordable first step. And from there it's not a big second step to clip on to the jacklines, should conditions warrant. Just clip on. It's all part of gearing up for heavier weather. Our jacklines are led over the coachroof, so that while we're on on the short 1m tether it's strictly not possible to fall past the rail at any point. On the foredeck, a switch to the longer 2m tether would allow us to stand upright and climb freely around the entire area. It would be possible to go OB but not to become fully immersed, not that getting back aboard would be much fun. It's a relatively risky position, but I can't see a way to avoid it. And, if the extra range of movement is urgently needed, I want the option of the longer tether.
