When you shut off the infernal engine at the end and then we could hear the peaceful sounds of the river, what a compelling moment! I can't wait until that engine is gone either.
Your editing is getting better and more creative with each video :) I love watching each leg and so much wish id been with you! The scenery on the canals is beautiful and I love that you're strolling through where I grew up😊
thank you for doing these videos! (and this is comin' from a non-boat-guy!!) i came for the battery building, stayed for the gettin'-the-boat-ready, have been FACINATED with the trip so far, and am super excited for the electric conversion! i also appreciate the longer length videos - helps the time pass here in Iraq... ;) been watchin' ya since Andy told us you decided to "test" out a t-class fuse!! LOL!!
after spending the whole nigtht with peaple I love and have not seen for between 5 and 30 years your video is the one I chose for calming down and getting back to normal. Be aware that You are blessed with a special kiind of sympathy grapping personality. I thank You very much for sharing Your adventures.
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Fantastic video! Great content as always, but it's clear you also put a lot of extra work into the editing. I appreciate the attention to detail. The maps are really helpful. I could always google places, but I'm not likely to stop a video and try to figure out exactly where you are. So it's helpful that put them into the video, especially when you showed the two different routes you might take. I also like the moving text (like where you added, "weee!"). And nice choice of music. Good traveling music. The way you played with time was perfect. You sped it up at the right times and then showed enough real time. Lots of good camera angles and views. Split screens, etc. There was a lot in this video, and it was done in a way that was pleasing to watch. Honestly, I might watch it again.
Thank you for the kind words, Charles! This was the most time I've put into editing a video, and I kinda knew it wasn't going to do well by youtube standards, but I am also really happy with how it turned out. So many good memories to revisit! The next video isn't quite so happy, and the video after that is "the bad day", but even so, it's been really fun to look back. The trip home was an experience of a lifetime, and I'm really happy others like you are enjoying it with me. ^_^
@@TheDigitalMermaid Good/bad, it's all part of the adventure. I'm glad you're sharing. And it's great to be proud of the result, regardless of what youtube thinks.
Thank you for sharing this leg of the journey. Wonderful that you can live the "dream". By the way, suggest you give some "Love" for the little diesel. Other than when you tried to feed her contaminated fuel, she has performed well for you given she knows her days are numbered. Looking forward to your next leg. Regards.
Yanmar's reputation is well earned... If I was ever in a position to be stuck with a diesel, it'd be a Yanmar if I could choose it. However, as reliable as that little engine is, everything related to fueling and cooling it is still suspect and unreliable, I am finding. That said, my engine will find a new home, so her days aren't numbered, just in my boat they are.
As wee young person in the earlier 60s I watched game shows. One of the many companies sponsoring the Price Is Right or Let's Make A Deal was Oneida. You pronounce it Oh - Need - Ah. I checked. According to Google the correct pronunciation is consistent with the German version of the ei vowel combination which is what I recalled from about six decades ago. Oh - Nye - Dah. Cheers.
@@TheDigitalMermaid Have you been to the city/county itself? Locals generally settle on a single production. (I grew up in Houston, Texas and I was astounded to learn that Houston street in NYC is pronounced like house.) Do you have statistics on statistics? I.e.. Are you corrected more for long o or long e? Any such observations should include geographical data to indicate if there is a trend.
@@curtislowe4577 I didn't make it to Oswego, so no, I've not been there. I originally said "Oh-sweh-go", and was corrected fairly often to "O-swee-go", so that's what I've settled on generally.
@@TheDigitalMermaid I just stumbled on the Oneida Community Christian Communist Free Live Cult of the second half of the 19th century. Freaky. But more to the point no one uses the long e pronunciation in any of the videos? Is the long e pronunciation a Canadian thing? There's a Canadian guitarist named Bachman. That is clearly a German surname. In Germany it would be Bock-mahn. Yet having grown up in Canada he pronounces it Back-men. Which gets back to my query on is there a clear geographical component to the people that insist the long e is correct? I was in England over a decade ago. It was truly eye (ear?) opening to hear correct English pronunciations of place names. The Brits have made entire syllables silent.
@@TheDigitalMermaid Sunglass clip ons and magnetic frames have come a long way. I have transition lenses that I love, but don’t think that would be ideal for when you go below deck.
Thanks, Derek! An unexpected benefit of sync'ing the GoPro and Canon for so long... Made sync'ing those clips up easier. It's crazy what I've learned over the last couple of years, it's really fun!
Very lucky that you didn’t blow the charger when starting, I have had multiple (non victron) chargers that I forgot that were connected and blew them clean out.
@@TheDigitalMermaid chargers are made to provide the rated current, when starting the battery voltage drops and currant peaks. When not properly protected (with for example inline choke that is installed in the charger) you can really easily blow the internal mosfets because of the extreme heat created by the large current. it this situation it wasn’t a problem but in won’t recommend to try to do it to mutch. Instead take a bit of time to charge the battery up and then disconnect the charger and then start the engine.
My charger was set to a max output of 15A, so even if the starter pulled more (which of course it did), the charger itself would still only have contributed only 15A to the starter. Are you saying other chargers push beyond their rated output capacity when an engine turns over?
Thanks for the though! I was trying to make the rest of the trip home into one video, making it the longest video I've edited so far. It got too long though, so with the input of my patrons, I decided to break it up into a few videos, rather than cutting content out. Hopefully the next two videos will be out a few days apart. Sorry for the long spell since the last one. :)
Always wanted to see the Erie Canel from the water. Driven that route many times. Is that "knock" forbearing "adventures" ahead? Staying tuned, same Mer-channel, same Mer-time.
Hi John! If you ever get the chance, you really must run the canal, it's quite the experience! No, the knock wasn't itself, but the "slowly getting louder" is...
@@TheDigitalMermaid - It's been on my list for quite a while. Purchasing our Catalina 310 with a diesel was a part of the plan. But I really want to have an electric drive as I do on my smaller boats but retaining the distance capacity found with the diesel. Waiting to see what your "knock" had developed into. Clifthangers can be exciting.
@@TheDigitalMermaid - Coast Guard? That was me in the early 1970s. But all my sea time was on the Governors Island Ferry off Manhattan. I was assigned to LORAN stations in Thailand and on Iwo Jima. Looking forward to the next chapters of your adventure. Knowing that you survived enough to post the videos helps keep the worrying under control since you are safe (although a few Loonies poorer).
@@jepomer Ah!! Iwo Jima is one of the places I really, really want to see someday! I know that getting permission to go there is hard, and I imagine a private vessel sailing there is even harder to get permission for. Such a pivotal part of 20th century history played out there. I imagine it must have felt fairly somber there, sometimes.
I know that will all the early major construction projects in North America, workers were treated like absolutely disposable tools. The beauty we enjoy today is built on many broken backs. :(
Yes! Nothing in the short term, really, but if you were moving from one to the other longer term, the things you worry about change. Electrics last longer around fresh water (less corrosion), but rot is a bigger concern because crap can live in fresh water (salt water kinda pickles your woods and stuff). You may want different bottom paints as well, given the different things that grow in fresh vs salt water.
