Beaching our 45 ft Boat (1st Time Ever. Great Idea...) 

Hi everyone! Sorry for the delayed release (usually I try to get a video out every fortnight on Saturday). In any case I hope you enjoyed this one, we had a lot fun (or at least "fun") beaching the boat. Check out the aluminum prints that I'm offering at art.alluringarctic.com , this print run is only available until the end of the year! Thanks for watching!

Don’t ever regret your vid’s or the release time, this is a real hard core channel about the genuine sailing experience 👌🏽

There is no other channel that makes us feel as if we are (almost) as close as you both are in just about everything you do. Your camerwork, drone footage and commentaries are without peer. Thank you. Best.

When tall ships ruled the seas it was very common to beach them for repair, especially ships of the line, they would beach to repair the hull damage incurred in battle. You are following in your ancestors footsteps, beaching is a valuable skill. Keep up the fine work as you take us along on your wonderful odyssey. 😊

Your knowledge, skills and experience are incredible. Your cruising choices are so much more exciting than the typical sailing through the tropics. Choosing cold weather destinations is so daunting yet so different. Your artwork is equally impressive.

Awesome episode. Being able to beach her makes life so much easier and saves you a lot of money.

This was most interesting and something as a landlubber I had no idea that beaching the boat intentionally was possible and relatively safe. I hope you never have to do it an emergency for repairs. Safe sailing guys.

As a rule of thumb to determine the correct pitch of the propeller: Check the maximum rpm of the engine with the gear in neutral (or get it from the manual). Then do the same while driving the boat full throttle in calm seas. The latter rpm should be a little below the former.

Wow! I just learned a lot about centerboard boats. I thought the primary advantage was to reduce draft, but I never considered downwind surfing and control. Thank you for the education. I'm slowly coming to realize why you wanted to buy this specific boat. I really enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work!

Hi, this was a fascinating episode. I love your explanation of how, why, when, where, and the maintenance items you service, test, clean, and grease. It worked perfectly. The time lapse was awesome. My worry was bears coming for a visit. Thanks for sharing your team brilliance. ❤

Wow! All the work and filmed too! You two are so fun to watch!

Best sailing channel of adventure ever! Cheers from Canada!

Your boat is like a surfboard surfing down waves. Very cool

Outstanding job beaching your boat! Interesting centerboard info and seeing the underside of your yacht. 👍

Genuine content that makes me feel close to you, almost on the boat with you. Great honest work!

Really interesting to see how beached the boat and were able to see the underside. Thanks so much for sharing. 😊

Well done you two! no simple easy thing, yet now you know you're ready if you must. The AK coast is relentless unforgiving and endlessly beautiful, thank you for bringing that beauty down here.

given the tough conditions all around thanks for including the very interesting and informative detailed video and comments !

Very interesting video. I really enjoy when you take us along and tell us all about what you are doing. Beaching the boat was cool. Glad your boat is holding up so well. I

You two are so intrepid.😮 when I was 14, I worked at a summer camp and learned to sail a 32' boat, taking kids out on to Lake Champlain in NY. That was fun! But THIS is several magnitudes above! So much knowledge (that I never learned). That's why I so enjoy your vids.

Awesome bay you found , great job beaching her. Merry Christmas to you both 🎄

Excellent demonstration of skills and knowledge. A lot of variables to take into consideration and anxieties to keep under control. Good job, anf glad the wolves and bears left you alone.

The vertical piece that is bolted to the stern keel area is called a ‘strut’. It hold the cutlass bearing and your prop shaft goes through the cutlas bearing. It’s very important that you do not damage the strut as they are a pain in the ass to replace and expensive. I have a 31 foot sloop with a busted strut right now and to make matters worse the bolts that attach the strut to the hull are terminating under the fuel tank which means to replace it we have to have one custom manufactured to fit our vessel, then the motor will have to come out so we can get at the fuel tank, remove the fuel tank to get at those bolts that hold the strut in place. Of course the prop shaft and propellor have to come off also and a new cutlass bearing has to be fitting in the new strut. Seriously a pain in the ass to deal with. We really enjoy your segments and are impressed with your sense of adventure, youthful energy, calm demeanour and the quality of your video including the amazing drone footage you get to help illustrate your journey and to inform and entertain your audience. Keep up the good work, fair winds and flat water to you my friends and do pop in and say hello when next you are in Ganges, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada. xox.

As many have said - incredible and inspiring. So few Canadian’s are connected or want to be connected to our beautiful North. Thank you for opportunity for us to be part of your virtual crew as you make your way through the Northwest passage. And glad to see that H/H has signed up for sponsorship. Helly Hansen, while proudly Norwegian, is owned by Canadian Tire! What an opportunity, for a brand that is part of the Canadian culture, to support your important project. Bravo! From a snowy cabin in Quebec

That was very educational for me. I've been boating for 40 years. I have a 30 ft SeaRay powerboat, but one of my best friends is a sailor and used to live in his 40 ft Bristol. Best of luck to you guys on your adventure.

As a well past it Sailor, this edition was not only enjoyable but brought back memories of good seamanship from our travels. fair winds and safe passage to you both.

So refreshing to see you both embracing the area you are in. Sailing for real! Adventure for real! Well done.

Amazing You Can Beach Your Boat Without Much Fear! Very Nice! 😉👍

That's a very adaptable boat. It should work well in the NW Passage. Good luck over the winter. Merry Christmas!

I found your video very intense and exciting. It brings back memories. The word “beaching“ (“échouage“ in French) has a broader meaning, close to “grounding“, which is often associated with shipwreck. So, when you do this maeuver, there's a kind of anxiety that doesn't leave you until you manage to get back out to sea !

Well done…you have prepared and it’s obvious…you are in an environment that has challenged explorers for centuries…Mother Nature at her finest…great video…be safe

Another excellent video, thank you. Having an integrated keel on mine, it's very interesting to see yours with the centreboard being able to beach. Well done!

Excellent production please value your output it is very professional And definitely one of my favourite RU-vid channels Wishing you all the best and seasons greetings

Great to be able to do that. A good way to check the bottom and to know you can do it in an emergancy

gratz on the successful beaching. This was a great episode to watch.

I just wanted to comment that it looks like you have a great 1st mate! Always working

Schön euer Unterwasserschiff zu sehen. Und eure Instandsetzungsarbeit zu zeigen. Handctaft...workt... Meerjungfrau..... ❤❤❤❤ Sailing like.........🎉❤

Welcome everyone to the Fourth Annual Sailing Channel Awards! First, a big thanks to all of our favorite Sailing Channels who helped us vicariously crew along with you as you sail around the globe. Second, thanks to all who voted and either viewed the videos or even became patreons to help keep the content coming! With that said, our Top Award for Best Adventure Sailing Off the Beaten Path goes to Alluring Arctic Sailing. Congrats on the great ideas, whether rescuing stranded boaters on freezing arctic beaches, skiing virgin Alaskan mountains while gently alerting Karhu, Karhuuuuu, beaching your own boat, or catching all sorts of fish for dinner, your filming is utterly fascinating! Please keep at it and we will keep watching.

Super cool stuff man! I am from United States, Minnesota to be exact and it gets really cold here as well, my dad sailed when I was younger. I always have loved the water.

Love to see an intelligent finnish young couple enjoying the life 100%. I think you're very smart!

Lume is such a perfect adventure boat and you have both done an amazing job bringing her back from the brink of abandonment. I guess skiing/snowboarding will be next on your list with winter setting in. Amazing footage and great to learn about your experience with the 2 centreboards configuration. Thanks for your efforts putting together this informative and interesting RU-vid channel.

My present boat has a centerboard. I found out, if you are in a warmer environment, you really want to lift and lower it regularly or the marine growth starts forming in the cavity pretty quick. Once that happens, it may not lift ( or lower ) when you need it to. In my case, with it raised the bottom of my boat looks like a Whale belly, and unless you brace it up it will roll onto one side similar to a full keeled boat. Just not as much. I basically raise it to explore where other boats can't, with my 2 foot draft.

I am surprised you don't keep the daggerboard low enough to protect the rudder. Keep up the great work!

I like designs that enable lower cost of ownership. Every design has pluses and minuses for different sailing conditions, but helping to keep your wallet in the plus status is always a good thing.

I used aluminum anodes for a recent few cycles, typically needing to replace them after 6-9 months. I keep my boat in Sinclair Inlet on the Puget Sound. There is significant sea life due to regular currents and lots of nutrients. The aluminum anodes would become completely covered by barnacles in a few months, particularly in early summer. Concerned that corrosion protection was being compromised, I switched back to zinc on my last cycle. No barnacles, but no zinc remained after 4 months.

Sailing in the Arctic in the winter. Classic. Greetings from Thailand.

Fantastic to learn some new things about the boat. Thanks for taking the time to do the videos.

You are a really good instructor, I'm learning so much. It's great when I see another video coming in. Keep up the good work and congratulations on a very successful beaching!

Easily the best yachting video on RU-vid.

its the most original thing I have seen done as sailors and skiers. you really push the limits!

Love your video's😊 , so down to earth and just so practical to learn from your experience's👍.

the word that you were seeking was 'skeg' - sternward projection, and for your boat, from which the propeller shaft protrudes.

You could actually be THE luckiest man in the world to be doing all this with smart beautiful Sohvi!!

Best sailing content on YT.

Great job, well thought through 😊 Love your channel❤

Probably the best video of yours yet! Different, entertaining, informative, and actually exciting, despite your measured, calm commentary!!😊 Well done for a good beaching. Don't ever worry about 'delaying' a video release, I doubt there's any pressure from viewers, simply 'cos your videos are so good! And it's your life, we're like voyeurs looking in for a while. 😊

Being able to beaching like that is really cool. 😊

Merry Christmas guys, bloody brilliant as usual. Santa wears shorts here in Australia.

Real interesting episode. Hopefully you can figure out what is going on with the propeller performance. Favorite of all the sailing channels I watch. Soon I will have the print of Lumi at dock at De Courcy Island, British Columbia. A Christmas present to myself. Happy Holidays wherever you guys are.

Great job beaching the boat. Textbook! I didn’t know you had a rear daggerboard but it makes sense. And to be able to pull the centerboard up sailing downwind really does help while surfing 🏄 down the waves downwind! Good job working the tides. They can vary up to 25’ here in Juneau during the spring king tides. Before you said how you were going to do it, I was saying it out loud to you while watching the video! I had a 20’ sailboat with a retractable keel and beached it often in places I knew were mostly sand. A friend has a remote cabin and there’s a great beach close by and I’d beach this boat on an incoming tide, run up and check his cabin, then get back onboard and back out of the bay! Not only did the keel retract but the rudder would flip up (mounted on the stern) and still be in the water but above the bottom of the boat. Plus the outboard motor mount allowed me to pull the engine mostly up but still have the prop and water intakes below the water line. I once ran aground up the Taku River but just jumped overboard and pushed the boat off the sandbar! With the keel and other things up, it would go in about a foot of water! Cool idea about the bottom being somewhat flat on your boat. She was made to beach, which is a good idea of you have issues below the waterline and are in an emergency. I didn’t know about aluminum anodes. We only have zinc ones in town but I might try finding them online this winter. I haul my Catalina 27 out this coming springs to replace the flax in the stuffing box and replace the cutlass bearing, and will do bottom paint and zincs, so I might switch to aluminum if I can find them. Good episode guys! Enjoyed it very much. If you come back thru SE Alaska, come visit Juneau and I’ll play host!

I love this adventure. I’m dying to try it with my Southerly 135. I’ve been thinking of fitting a couple of power winches to my transom area for both dynamic bridles and pulling off when beached.

i have been watching youtube a long time you are the first time i have subscribed to anyone but you guys are amazing good luck on your travels!!!!!!

Great Job, Guys!! Very educational. And, for sure, you guys go places where no one else does. Someday when I grow up and have enough money……

absolutely great content.. I subscribed. I will say I love your methodical approach to things, coupled with patience... excellent

A great update for Alluring Arctic Juho. Thanks for sharing.

You guys are great, excellent production quality, I love learning from your channel❤ How resiliant you are, and being such a seasoned artic sailor I'm allways amazed, you are most generous and wise. Blessings love n light from Denver, Colorado

Great episode! We use to beach my Uncle John's 36ft Crocker Schooner every August in Maine to clean the bottom, tying alongside the granite rifraff and using that to steady her hull. Merry Christmas!

So very impressed Juno , yall make us locals look like wimps. Hardcore professionalism. Hol fas

Nicely beached, great planning ahead. I’m used to it. I live on the Bristol Channel in the UK. Tidal range is 12.3 meters at Bristol second highest in the world. We often sail bilge keel boats to take the ground.

Only two Finns will be up for this. Great videos. Keep them coming. Great shots.

Super informative and fun to see how you do it! I'm still a little afraid to beach my boat, especially since I'm alone. but I'm going to try it soon too!

Love it so much keep it up as always 💘

Well done! Excellent planning and work.

One of the best sailing channels on RU-vid.

Fantastic adventure, hooray for swing/retractable keels !

We run a boat repair shop at the PAF boatyard in Dillingham Alaska from April to October and have anther shop over in Naknek in the Silver Bay boat yard same time of year. I repair boats and we do spray foam insulation and ar the top in our field. To new shaft logs to bulhead replacement I can do it all if you ever need help up in thise areas feel free to reach out. I always love your relaxing ways and learn alot avout sailing. I live on my 32 ft Challenger Sailboat in Bellingham Wa during the winter. And i fix the fishing fleets boats up in Alaska during the summer and live on land lol I see bears about evry week at our house in Naknek. And a greatbplace for bird watching. Eagles galote lol. Keep up the infirmative videos. And if you ever find yourseles in Bellingham Washington or up in Naknek or Dillingham lets have dinner and chat? Cheers.

Actually i really enjoyed this video. And its satisfying to know that at any time you are able to do a hull check. Or worse, make a repair that would require a haul out. Now that you have learned how to beach you can drop anchor in places that most boats cant. Great to see how well things are holding up. Thanks for sharing this video it was a lot different than most of the videos available.

Thanks for being included in our event last eruptive .

I love those technique videos. Thank you 🙏🏽

Hardcore adventure sailing at its best. Thanks for who you are and what you do.

Thanks!

Hard core sailing . I take out my boat against steel piles with a concrete base . What ye can do with the lift keel is super . I was painting the bottom of my boat 2 weeks ago at 3.30am using the tides and my head lamp got my job done .it took 2 tides but I was solo. I had a barnacle bloom they came off easy. Thanks for sharing your adventures. Beautiful boat. Well done you two.

Loved the vid. When I was a kid we had a McGregor 25 SB and one of the nice things about it was that we could beach it and have fun swimming on sand bars due to it's centerboard. I agree though that if you have the ability to beach it. You could do so more often. Helps keep an eye on the bottom. Just beware of rocks.

Beautiful exercise, makes me want to be able to do the same when I get a boat

OMG I'm so jealous!! It's looks soooo Relaxing anchoring up in a bay in Alaska in the middle of a snow storm!!⛵🌨️

Great episode!

I enjoyed this episode. I have a 20 foot "pocket yacht" that has a retractable keel. I have never beached my boat, but it is fiberglass and the shores of the lakes where I sail are often 2-3 inch rocks, some bigger some smaller. So, I don't want to damage it. The lakes have no tide to work with either. But one thing I have done is sail toward shore with the keel part way up. When I get into shallow water the keel hits bottom and can be used as an anchor. When I want to leave I pull the keel up a bit and I will float free again.

It would be nice to do this when it's warmer. 😊

Lots of respect for you ; i enjoy your videos from the icey sailing . I hope you will be carefull sailing trough ice fileds ; once you are stuck , you have have a big problem ! Proud thaty you always find such good , inventive , solutions ( like with the drone ) Good luck and a safe journey

Very well thought out. Well done

Having a rear daggerboard also helps you to handle the center of lateral resistance. When you raise the centerboard it moves the center of lateral resistance aft, but if you have that aft daggerboard you can raise it too and move the center back forward and keep the sails balanced with the hull.

My first good look at you current boat, very nice looking! I know you and your gal worked diligently on it! Cheers!

Great drone shots and very interesting subject.

Wow, great vid. Interesting design feature of the Garcia. With the centreboard up sailing / surfing downwind your basically like a giant surfboard with the dagger board at the back. No extended keel to trip over (broach) when the speed gets up. Terrific. Being shallow draft like that opens up so many possibilities. It's like how the catamarans have that advantage too, but only one hull to worry about. Definately one of the best sailing channels out there.

Also being able to beach your boat will save a lot of money and stress of having it lifted out just to do normal maintenance like cleaning the bottom! Much love from the coast of Maine 🤙 ❤️

Never stop you guys are great! 🧸

I love this sort of video.

Awesome video. What great armageddon skills.

23:17... It's called a skeg 🙂 Great video, by the way. Such an interesting experience.

2 Vikings With guts of steel. Waiting for you two to have a few kids to give some gifts to the world.