Really appreciate and love your 4K footage. It looks glorious on my screen! Some great editing and cuts in this video! Loved the bridge bits in particular!
The image of the night sky at 12:12 brings back memories from the days we'd bring our 30 footer out near Ship Island (off Mississippi coast) and anchor out for the night. I was around 7 or so. We'd lay on the bow and look up into the sky. There were so many visible stars that you could get lost in all the wonder of it. Something about the tranquil night sky at sea is so mesmerizing! I'm 42 now. And have been longing recently to purchase something similar to what you have. Thank you guys for the great videos and the inspiration you have given to people such as myself.
Not to mention how nice the music is not so loud and transitions nicely to your narration. Great videos thank you for taking the time to share your adventures with us.
Came across you channel about two weeks ago, you and Lyn are doing what I always wanted to do. But at 68 looks like I get to do it through your videos. Enjoy all of them and safe travles.
Thanks for sharing. We love Savannah and Charleston area have to both several times on vacation. Hope you are having fun. Always look forward to the next video.
Hi Ed & Lyn. Just wanted to say I really enjoy your videos. Was wondering how you were doing after the last video and the issues you were facing with the bearing. Glad to see your back on your way south. What your doing with your boat and lifestyle is exactly what I want to do when I get back from overseas. Safe travels. Looking forward to your next update. Enjoy!!
Hi Guys. Love watching all of you're travels. My wife and I miss doing this now as we are older and retired. look forward to watching you're next videos. Capt. Bruce
When I was moving the Cheoy Lee 61 TO Mexico I was boarded in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. It was obviously a training exercise and it ended well but cost me about a half hour.
I had to slow to 3 knots. When you cruise at 8 knots and there is a current you are working against it makes a difference. Keep the vids coming. It brings back many memories of taking boats to Florida and Annapolis over the years.
Great video guys. Belgium has the best beers period. A beer for every occasion just like the French have a wine for every occasion. It's common to have a bar in European malls, it helps to take the pain away from shopping! Safe travels and I look forwards to your next video.
You think it is lucky to live in a little house that bobs up and down, breaks, needs expensive repairs, has tiny washrooms, needs space heaters not to freeze, where you have to pump out your own poop with a hose, etc.? It's only a rich man's thing if you have a regular house to live in and the boat is only a distraction. But if you have to live 365 days like that, you are one little accident away from being homeless. It's basically a step up from a motor home, which itself is only one step up from a trailer park.
Yall started out right where I live, Morehead city! Awesome little town and the people here are friendly no matter what. Portside lost all their docks in Florence but hopefully they'll be rebuilt the next time yall come around
That is a shame. Portside was in the process of repairing some docks damaged by the previous hurricane when I was there. The people who work there are very nice. I am posting another video of us at that marina tomorrow.
Great stuff I guess I'm late finding your videos but it's good stuff. Also Morehead City is my home town and I actually live a few miles from were you saw the helicopter at core creek. I unload my boat out there. Hopefully one day I'll get to record you guys passing by. What an AWESOME and AMAZING life you live. Very Beautiful!
Do you have a video explaining your first time cruising down the east coast? You look so confident at the helm of such a big boat. It would be nice to know you were once also a beginner who never did it before!
Yes. Our first trip started in Ft Lauderdale, where we bought the boat. We filmed us bringing it back to Philly. I believe it starts with this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HDIerQxHo6o.html
Did I see correctly that your VHF aerials were in the horizontal position? I noticed you had some trouble hearing the bridge operator. Most VHF FM operations (such as marine VHF) take place with the antennas in the vertical position. Being vertical or horizontal affects the polarization of the radio waves. Just like when you wear polarized sunglasses you may look at a tinted window and it appears opaque but turn your head to the side and it becomes clear. Same with radio waves.
Yes, they were horizonal. We do that because we can get under several of the bridges in that area if we keep the antennas down. In fact, some bridges have signs that say they will fine you if the only reason you requested an opening is because you did not put your antennas down. We have found that we get quite good reception on channel 13 with them down, but channel 9 is terrible. Unfortunately, bridges south of NC use channel 9, so we usually do not hail until we are within 100-200 yards.
Just joined your channel and I enjoyed this video. I am curious why you had not traveled at night more? Does your Radar have the alarm system so it would alarm and wake you should a boat or other obstacle block your planned route? My husband and I are thinking seriously about early retirement, buying a yacht and do some traveling. We love the water and I can think of nothing that is as soothing as hearing the water hit the hull. Have you anchored overnight with no land insight yet? Thank you for publishing your travels, beautiful and educational, well done Captain's.
This was the first opportunity we had to travel at night. Last year we were too nervous learning the boat. I do not know if our radar has an alarm. In any case, we would not travel at night without someone on watch. We have anchored over night many times, but always inland, on the ICW, rivers and sounds. Never in the ocean or out of sight of land. Although we are not officially retired, we have never regretted buying the yacht and traveling. Life is short, and not guaranteed.
Definitely do not want to run on auto pilot and relying on radar alarm, even if it had AIS, without somebody at the helm. My friends are anchored out 30 miles offshore in the golf and will run over by a sport fishing boat at 1 AM in the morning. Luckily no one was seriously injured but their 31’ boat was a total loss. Enjoying your videos, have you ever considered doing the Great Loop. Your air draft is probably to high though (max is 19’1”).
Nothing. We passed everything. The only issue was we did not have an original copy of the registration on board. They let me email them a photo of it later and did not issue a ticket.
I went to press the like button for a very cool video and I noticed the count was exactly triple sixes....so I'm glad to be the 667th like to get you out of Satan's count there. Enjoyed the video and very nice boat BTW.
Sorry, somehow I missed your message. Yes, we have dropped a trawling line, but have not had much luck. I think 10 knots is too fast, but going slower drives me nuts. One of these days we will make a serious effort.
There is a davit (crane) on the flybridge and it is used to raise and lower the tender. We typically travel at 10 knots. Top speed is around 17 knots. We hold 800 gallons of fuel and get 0.7 miles per gallon, so our range is approximately 560 nautical miles, or 615 land miles.
Savannah is my favorite city. The squares are magnificent. If you have time, read " Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." It captures the mood and flavor of Savannah. Greetings from Allentown, PA and now Spring Hill FL. Was the transient dockage free?
Can you show then USCG vessel registration from the website. You can search by vessel name, but it's not the same as the certificate: it just shows the owner name and hull #. Wonder if they'd accept that in a pinch.
They let us email them a copy. Their headquarters could not find it in their records but we had proof. It was only "re-registered" a couple weeks earlier so we think their system was just not up to date.
VHF Reception while calling for the first bridge opening was 2x2, at that distance it should of been crystal clear, it looks from the video that your antenna(s) is/was in the folded down position. You'll want those as vertical (UP) as possible, reception and transmitting will improve 100 fold, additionally your SWR (standing wave ratio) will be through the roof while transmitting folded down, and WILL subsequently lead to eventually burning out the finals in the radio.
We usually have the antennas down on the ICW to get under bridges. Some bridges threaten to fine you if you request an opening just because of antennas. For that reason we usually do not hail until we are very close. We find that the reception is much better on Channel 13 (bridges north of S.C) then on channel 9 (bridges south of N.C)
Good Morning all. When you are settled in cruising how are those Detroits on fuel? Something along the line of 10 knots and 12 gph or 6 each? Just curious. Be safe and have fun! Thank you.
The captain and guests got to go to the Sanitary Restaurant while I stayed on the boat. Maybe it was punishment for smacking the dockmaster in the face with a few coils of very stiff rope! he was not amused. 1980.
How did the bike(s) handle riding on the bow? Was it/we're they uncovered the whole time? Did you do anything special (chain grease) to help protect things during the trip? How did you get them on and off the boat? Thanks in advance.
They held up well. They were uncovered and we did not do anything special. The chains needed to be oiled every time we used them and they left some rust stains on the deck that needed to be cleaned. They are cheap bikes, so we figured if they last just one season it would be fine. Lyn lifts them over the side and hands them down to me. They are not very eavy.
Just a suggestion, when tossing the lines to a dock attendant, coil the line and hold on to a bite of the line until the attendant grabs it in case they miss and you have to pull it back onboard. That way you do not have to scramble to get ahold of the line again.
... having traveled a lot of the ICW ... I like to get off shore ... and tough out the weather. Too many sandbars, bridges, fog ... and expensive props, shafts and rudders to bounce off the bottom ... I like deep water better ...
We passed everything but I did not have an original copy of the USCG Documentation with me - only a digital copy. It was because, although I re-registered in March, they did not mail me the Docs until after I left home on May 1st. They agreed and forgave the ticket after I wrote them a letter.
ED, Lyn and mystery person aboard the Triton. Driving in the dark- Hummm did you designate a Radar technician to monitor for objects afloat. I guess it's an adventure with some excitement. Keep it safe out there !!!. God Bless...
Nope. All they said was they thought they introduced him in a previous video but there is nothing. I think I heard Ray or Raymond in this one but my hearing is so bad that I can't be sure.
Maybe he / she is going through a sex change operation. I heard of a lot of things in my day. Oh well; Anonymous it is !!!. if I have time I may backtrack to ease my curiosity, for me no hurry. Peace my Friend.
I renewed my registration a few weeks prior to leaving for the trip but the new registration did not physically arrive before we left. The ticket is for not having a physical copy on board.
Not having the current documentation certificate on board. I renewed two months before we left by the cert to not arrive before we left. They let me email a copy and forgave the ticket. Otherwise, we passed the inspection.
Yes, both my compasses have air in them. Not sure if there is a spot to add water or not. I mainly use my digital compasses, however, they still seem to work fine.
In theory only the dampening of the swing and tilt of the compass card is affected by low oil (not water), no magnetic impact. There is usually a screw in the base of the compass. You have to take it out, put the fill hole to the top and fill until the air is out.
Hi to you guys I have to make a cuestion, your friend that is with you on this episode is her name Katherine? Like your video's please let them coming Al the best for 2019
Thanks. We are glad you like the channel. We are working on the audio. We have a new mic which works great but it is not always available when we need it. And sometimes we are just lazy.
Active Captain has a comment about the bridge under construction south of the Surf City Swing Bridge - "A project to replace this bridge with a high-rise curving to the south is underway, with construction scheduled to begin in 2017. For more information see www.ncdot.gov/projects/topsailislandbridge
So far no citation. Perhaps they are letting us go. We passed everything but we did not have a physical copy of the documentation on board because we had not received it before we left on the trip. We had last years though.
In the UK it’s against the law to sell a boat with any kind of power without an automatic fog horn. Any reason why you didn’t use your fog horn in the fog it’s a navigational law in this country also
No ticket, just a routine safety check. We did not have our orginal registration papers with us so they gave us a warning for that but forgave the ticket.
Enjoyable video... I was trying to catch why you'll get a ticket... was it for not displaying registration properly or expired or something? We're heading out July 20, and it's much cheaper to learn from your mistakes than do it on my own! (Of course, I'll make mistakes, too, and be sharing hoping to prevent someone else from doing the same). Wakemeadventures.com watching your videos gets us so excited to get back out to sea.
We are glad you enjoyed the video. I renewed my registration a few weeks prior to leaving for the trip but the new registration did not physically arrive before we left. The ticket is for not having a physical copy on board. Although, they never sent the ticket, so maybe they are cutting me a break. The Great Loop will be a great adventure. I look forward to your posts. Unfortunately, we cannot do the loop because of the 19 foot bridge in Chicago.
Trying Not To Sink hopefully they'd give a break on that. I'm a retired cop and we had a term for those kind of lame tickets - chickens*** tickets. I'd always give a warning on those.
New subscribers would you please talk about for some one with zero boating experience that is thinking about living on board is there a school to teach me how to drive and navigate or do you just buy something and learn n the fly. Thanks Tony
I believe I have discussed how we started in a couple different videos. I know I mention it briefly in our intro video on the You Tube Channel. In short, we had absolutely zero experience when we bought our first boat 5 years ago. It was a 40 foot Carver. We had the boat delivered to our marina in early April, when the marina was almost empty. I learned by practicing for a couple days in the empty marina and then we just went for it. Within a week of owning the boat we took it to Annapolis. Not long after we cruised to Martha's Vineyards. You can see these trips in our first 10 videos.
Whew... That 250 million dollar yacht is over 300 feet long and has an indoor tennis court... At that point, why even have a boat? Lol you'd need a massive crew, and I can't imagine she feels very nautical... If I ever became a billionaire I'd at most get a 100 or so foot Nordhavn or Pershing, or both, lol one for cruising and distance, one for fun. and just drive the damn things myself. That's the whole point of a boat... To do boat stuff... Granted, it's beautiful to look at.. But it's a floating mansion more than a boat or ship any way you look at it.
It's common thing and I'm certainly guilty of it as well. But watching vlogs here on the YT, I've noticed it a lot. Great channel by the way. Might have to buy a boat myself one day. :)
