What a pleasure to keep watching you all these years !! You know your sailing stuff. And that professional filming crew following you around is the best 😉 !
If I had to choose a RU-vid couple to be caught in "sporty" conditions with, it would be you two. Your boat handling capabilities, communication skills, and the way you work together, keep you sailing like a well oiled machine. Your racing background definitely shows.
Great example of a couple making teamwork work effortlessly. It is a joy to see you two sailing the world together in unison. Enjoy your sailing life. Thanks for the inspiration. We are learning after 50 years together ourselves. You guys are the real deal!
Out of all the sailing videos I watch you guys are without a doubt the best. Im so impressed when you take in or put out different sails how organized and good you are as a team. You remind me of a well oiled machine and it's more then obvious you have done this so many times you know what the other person is going to do with no communication and perfect perfection . Im impressed every time I watch you two working in perfect unison with each other. Im sure you have bumpy times in your marriage but from what ive seen is a loving ,caring marriage that most people only dream about having. Coming from a man who's been married to the same wonderful woman for over 50 years I can honestly say you two young people have got it right and never let anything take that away from you . Its rare and you are both blessed to have each other. God bless you both with good health and a life time of happiness togeather.
Amy & Matt look so awesome when they're sailing, swapping sides, winding & winching stuff, it's great to watch. At the end of the video the spray's made Matt's hair look like a rock star's & Amy so cool, almost nonchalant, at the wheel in her black & red waterproofs!
watching you guys reminds me of the 4 stages of learning - without doubt you have nailed stage 4 in your sailing, your filming and the way you are doing this journey together. “Unconscious competence”. I love my fortnightly dose of Florence.
LOL, Funny isn't it, when sailing and you see others sailing a secret race starts from no where. Thanks for taking me to Skye last time in England we didn't have enough time to visit as I really wanted to visit Eilean Donan Castle, as that was this homestead that we live in as kids in Australia.
I found that the whole coast down to Portree is inundated by lobster pots. I was once trapped in Portree by strong southerlies. I made a break for it and was hammered by 40 knots screaming down from the Red Cuillins. I had to take it on the nose until I was able to turn east around the south end of Raasay and headed to Plockton for some peace and quiet! Bill
Finally, some anchorage weather I can identify with. My worst passage was Vancouver Canada to Hawaii on a 55 ft steel pilothouse cutter. The wind indicator broke at 73 knots. Accurate, no way to tell.
The flora and fauna are spectacular during your hike, and the drone footage was exceptional. Learning to watch the clouds and interrupt what they are telling you. 👏 Thanks for sharing.
What a fabulous video, you’ve truly captured this summer sailing in Scotland. The highs and lows of days onboard in bad weather. The anxiety of leaving the boat to go ashore and the beautiful places. We loved Plokton just a wonderful place and great restaurants too. Everyone said this summer was a bad one and you’ve captured that perfectly. The relative ease to travel 20 miles to a safe harbour tends to dictate your journey and we certainly found amazing places we had no plan to go too. Well done.
Good on yah to have those bikes. We love ours. But when we bought our bikes they came with 1 7/8" tires. We found them very hard to pedal. So I switched them for 2" tires and now the bikes are easy to pedal. I can easily pedal 2 or 3 gears higher. Have a nice trip.
Thanks as always for this excellent video, as always it’s peerless on YT. .. your nonchalance, obviously gained through thousands of miles of sailing, when faced with the sort of weather that would have me running for the nearest harbour is truly inspiring !
From the start of this channel, it was obvious that the two of you are experienced sailors, Now you are experienced (and talented) documentary makers.❤
So glad to see you got a Calor 4.5kg Cylinder. Calor withdrew them in Feb 2023 and The Westerly Owners along with Moody Owners, the Narrow Boat Owners, the Crusing Association and others fought like crazy to get Calor to reverse their decision and we won!
Your finding the wild raspberries reminded me of a time when my young family and I used to go exploring around our island, There are places where old communities planted these shrubs around their places of residence. There was broken down structures showing evidence of habitation but the clincher was raspberries growing in abundance nearby. Just tasting these fruits was like stepping back in time and they were so intensely tasty but very, very small in size'
Your videos are getting better and better every time, I can’t help thinking every time that you might send them to the BBC or something…… Beautiful scenery shots!
Hi, it is always a pleasure watching your channel especially the hard sailing shots,a well oiled team moving about the boat ,i love the fold up bike idea it is a pity that there isn’t a fold up trailer being made to load you stores into.I remember in 1976 flying from Grimsby(UK)to Plockton in December in a light aircraft and i was amazed to see Palm trees and the weather was so mild and balmy.Looking forward to seeing your next video.Cheers,Roly🇬🇧.
You're up high so it will be more windy and also you've got a funnel effect with all those high rock formations. Once again, as you now well know - this year has been the most abysmal for about a decade - we had no heat wave to speak of, at all. I was away twice in good weather (as I can predict the weather) but it lasted just long enough to see me through on both occasions. So, you guys - Scotland looks so much better in the sun (and that's all I've ever seen in Scotland) but you guys have done really well under the conditions, this year.
I watch a few sailing channels and as a Scot I'm always a bit amused about what they consider to be windy conditions! You're done a good job navigating here and good on you for being careful.
I am amazed at how much this looks like Monument Valley in Northern Arizona, except it’s green and there’s the ocean. Monument Valley many years ago was part of an inland sea so I think it may have looked like Skye at some point. God I need to get over to Britain soon. Thanks for the amazing video, cheers!
I just love this coast. And how great to see sailors short tacking instead of always motoring out of harbours (of which I’m also usually guilty). But what a shame you couldn’t get into Acairsaid Mohr on Rona. Fabulous anchorage in all weathers. How cute is Portree. I hope you get to Tobermory, with even more brightly painted buildings lining the harbour. Fun fact about Plockton is that it was where the wonderful TV series Hamish Macbeth was filmed.
Matt, commenting on the weather, looks up, qualifies, “good weather”, looking at a storm coming. The weather of the Scottish Hebrides must be miserable…sorry. Enjoyed the expert sailing demonstration…thanks. Love, love, love wild raspberries. Glad you had some relatively good weather, for a little while, SHEESH…wind blowing 30k against the tide/current, looking for shelter. Thanks for the videos … from an old vet, in the US, hills of east Tennessee.
Spectacular doesn't come close to describing this video. Excellent work folks! RU-vid's wall to wall adverts are very intrusive though. 5 adverts every 4 minutes.
You two are the best. Recommend you to minimize the background music. At least I prefer the original surroundings sounds. Including the nice rpm or the dingy engine.
Got a sailing question… hope someone knows… When they wanted to put up the storm jib, how could they do that with a furling staysail? Would a little bit of staysail not have done the same thing?
I don't know their exact gear but there is an option to attach a storm sail over the roller furling and hoist with a spare halyard. Gale Sail is one trade name. Probably on RU-vid somewhere.
I realize tying up to a mooring ball ,but to be able to be able to relax a little and get some proper rest wouldnt it be better to pay for a safe mooring ball then worry about dragging or the bad weather.
It depends on how much you trust the mooring. Generally they are well maintained in Scotland but our experience across the world still makes us prefer our spade anchor most of the time.
Brilliant Video! What sort of furler do you have on the staysail? I see that you can fold the staysail in towards the mast so you can tack the genoa. I'm looking at a 46' cutter rigged boat that has the staysail set up to fold into a bag an it's a very clunky system. Cheers Phil
Great episode, but that's nothing different. I have 2 comments/questions:so many scenes looked dark. Is it a new camera/settings? I kept waiting for the "Skye" song. It would have been so perfect.
I have never had to hank on a storm jib with a roller furling forestay. It must be a bit complicated as you did nothing to set the storm jib while underway. Your comment would be appreciated.
