ep26 - Sailing Antigua to USA - Hallberg-Rassy 54 Cloudy Bay - Jun 2018 

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks for the compliments Linda. Yes, we don’t do made up drama or T&A videos. The vids we make are for our memories, and anyone who wants to enjoy real sailing and boat life.

Thank you for watching :) This is our favorite video yet!

Thanks for the nice comment

Thanks for the nice comment. We are glad you enjoyed the video

Yes, all going ahead for being out again this fall.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks Mike, we like the peace of sailing and aim to portray all the action like it really is.

John, it was a nice way to go in that we avoided Atlantic swell. The seas were so calm, and blue. Other option was to sail Bermuda then West, but we will be doing that (in reverse) in November. And, we wanted to see the US coast south of Chesapeake. The only way to do that is sailing North. South bound is all uphill ( both wind and gulf stream ). Good luck on your trip. If you are low enough, you can of course do the inland waterways. We were too tall sadly.

Thank you, John. We did have our fair share of choppy bits, on other passage, mostly between the windward islands. In the videos of sailing in Grenada, St. Vincent, Dominica to Les Saints, etc

But where is the St Augustin thing ?

Pierre, we posted St.Augustine & Savannah today. We are a bit behind with the editing , we'll do our best to catch up these days, as now we seem to be able to get good internet too. Thanks for watching :)

Thank you for your kind words, Pierre :)

We looked closely at the Moody 54DS too. Very interesting layout. Loads of space and stowage, and that Saloon really is a deck saloon with great views and access just like a modern cat catamaran. But we bought HR as we think it will be tougher for Oceans where we will voyage alone ( not in rally ) plus Glen has always fantasies about owning an HR. If we were only cruising in Med or Caribbean, the DS54 would have been right up there for choice.

Glad you enjoyed it :)

Jan, you are very welcome. We have lots of other vids on our You Tube channel: “sail cloudy bay”. Stay safe wherever you are.

Hi Tony, St.Augustine video was just posted on our channel. Hope you will enjoy it :)

Yep ... we LOVE to sail and sail hard and fast. Hope that comes through in our videos.

Did you try and get to know the ppl as well while out there

Thanks Dale. Yes the Antigua to USA was a good one. You may have seen that we just published another one of Antigua. It sure is a beautiful island to be sailing around. Where are you from in New England. We loved it up there this year ....

Sail Cloudy Bay from Boston, Portsmouth NH and Kennebunk Maine. Really enjoyed your passages there as I am landlocked in Northern California and home sick! Enjoying your channel very much. Love the presentation and good cheer.

Steve. Thanks for the comment :) “bye-Jove”? You’ve got to be British! We are just about to publish Bermuda to Antigua .... LOTS of sailing in that one too. And USA to Bermuda is already there on our channel. Posted about 2 weeks ago. Glad you enjoyed sailing along with us.

dzb good idea, for some maybe. But not us. We are not posting videos to share our personal lives. Lots of other Channels out there for that kind of thing. These videos are for our memories and for friends and family to see what we are doing. Not really a TV show for general public. Hope you understand.

@@SailCloudyBay Absolutely, and it's probably just how I'd do it as well.

Thanks Sean for the very nice comment. Dehler are also very solidly built quality yachts. We've done quite a bit since this video. You may like to have a look at our channel for others if you liked this one. For instance we just finished uploading Bermuda to Antigua which was also great sailing.

Definitely will Glen. Terrific x

Thanks for the tips!

Not sure we understand why you suggest reduce the resolution. Can you please explain?

Because 45 minutes uses a lot of data at home

Thanks for the comment Richard. We are 1/2 way through doing an internal tour of the boat. Watch this space!

Cloudy Bay is the boat name. 54 is the length in feet. HR is the manufacturer in Sweden: Halberg Rassy. As for the general type of boat is would be called: a sailing sloop.

Try getting someone to wobble your chair around as you watch it! Anyway, jokes aside, seasickness is a horrible thing. So we are happy that you can enjoy our sailing like you do.

Hi there. Thanks for the comment. We didnt want blood and guts on the video as we diced up the Mahi Mahi ... but to explain, we gutted it, chopped off head and tail then the remaining body was cut in half to provide to very big meals. What you saw on the BBQ was one of those halves. Some people just fillet, but we dont want to lose any of that meat that gets thrown with the bones.

Rick, good idea on the bloopers! Unfortunately one of the joys of completing a video is deleting all the raw files and clearing the hard disk .... so bloopers go with that. Actually we don’t have many to be honest. If we have funny ones we would likely include in actual video anyway :)

Rick, good idea on the bloopers! Unfortunately one of the joys of completing a video is deleting all the raw files and clearing the hard disk .... so bloopers go with that. Actually we don’t have many to be honest. If we have funny ones we would likely include in actual video anyway :)

Donald, in general we always have a preventer whenever the wind is aft of the beam. This video passage is so long ago now I really cant remember that particular time. Certainly no reason for us not to have had it). Since that time, we've had a couple of scary wind shifts that have forced a surprise gybe and preventer has saved the day, so the practice is really enforced on us now. Our preventer goes from end of boom to the forecleats. I also plan to get a boom brake, so the force of any accidental (or normal) gybe is suppressed.

DJI Mavic. An amazing piece of engineering.

Hmm are you sure? I’ve always flown both courtesy and q-flags on entry. And as far as I can see this what everybody else does too. Once cleared we remove the q-flags. But you could be right .... I was wrong, ..... once .... I think !

Hi Scott, Yes, we did when crossing the Atlantic. We didn't have a good downwind kite then, plus the squalls just kept coming, so dual head sail was safer. Take a look at the video - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7tBPNAOdEKE.html

Chill Cafe Music 2017 (1 Hour Mix) by Featured Artist ALJOSHA KONSTANTY (AK).mp3

thx!

8ft or 2.5metres

Very good point. We were doing it for consistency. But now realise that by doing so we are missing out on putting "catchy" titles that could get more attention. We will change for future videos

We use medical alcohol. Just a squirt in the gills acts very quickly. A bang on the head can get very messy, plus unpleasant for fellow crew to see.

@@SailCloudyBay Well as long as it was not good drinking rum! ;-) What kinda pirates would be be, eh matey? Yar!

medical alcohol. They die painlessly and happy!

Its by Aljosha Konstanty, track 4

@@SailCloudyBay Thanks a lot :)

It’s the pole that takes the time Paul, it’s huge and on the rolling deck.... for the boom, with the retainers led aft, that part is pretty quick. If we had Linette’s racing crew on board, where we didn’t mind anyone falling off, we could gybe in seconds!

I can imagine after chartering that 51 last month gybeing a boat that size is not something that happen going quickly with only two on board, you must have had plenty of practice by now you make it look son simple , keep the videos and blog coming

Why rush? She's an expensive machine. Slowly and carefully means less chance of damage or worse - injury to her humans

Paul, yes we do, but sadly only family and friends so far. But there are websites that offer crew positions and even some organizations that offer such an experience, paid of course. Where are you based?

Well, just roughly we always think of 1 nm as 2 Km. Thank you for the correction

Yes, wew know, its bad .... and we have to edit out even more when wind noise. But now we are in the USA we have purchased some "fluffy cats" and stuck over the various microphones. Still waiting for a windy day to test

@@SailCloudyBay don't think "fluffy cats" will solve the sound issues... Sorry

Hi James. Thanks for watching. We bought Cloudy Bay 2 years ago. She was 8 years old then but hardly used. Yes Oana is indeed Romanian but we live in Romania. She has not emigrated anywhere. We don’t discuss politics much other than that we are both upset with the direction each of our countries are going: Britain with Brexit and Romania with THE most corrupt government ever - literally stripping the country of any chance to prosper. We are happy not to hear too much news!

Oana is from Bucharest in Romania. That is our home town.

Interesting. On bimini we were chased by a pack of dogs on a road and one bit Oanas ankle. The owner came out his house and called off the dogs then promptly told us to “FO and go back to where we came from” and that we were “not welcome here” Nice people indeed

Woww did you tell them what you was doin there and not just coming there but that's crazy I know alot of west Indian ppl to

Nope, but she has a brother if you are interested :)

You mean the place called GenOVA??? The real (Italian) name of Genoa is Genova... just like Rome is really Roma. Milan is Milano, etc. You do know that the English invented English right?

But Americans made it universally acceptable. And then Australians strangled it about the same time that the South African were giving it a second helping of German. So while you're argument that your ancestors started the language has some merit, the actual truth is that it was invented by a combination of cultures who were not technically English. Also, that argument might hold more water if I didn't know that the BBC actually pronounces the place name for Genoa correctly (even though they've gone completely out of their way to mispronounce Barack Obama for the last 10 year (berrick Ahb amah).) I suppose what I'm saying is, the sail is a Genoa (Jen oh ah). Not a Genoa (ja noah). So now that you know the correct way to say it, if you continue to say it incorrectly, you're doing it out of spite. And the language gods have no love for the spiteful. :)

The American's didn't make it "universally acceptable". Genoa was in wide use in the Royal Navy which until the second world war was the pre-eminent navy in the world - eclipsing even the US Navy - certainly all throughout the sailing ship histories. The English were around South Africa nearly 200 years before the Americans even existed... and btw, it wasn't the Germans who gave them a second helping, it was the Dutch. My ancestors were Scottish and only picked up English in the late 1700's.. and as a Canadian, I have a bit of old English as well as "American" spellings and pronunciations Eh! The American English changed with Webster's dictionary in the early 1800's when Noah Webster decided to "simplify" it getting rid of traditional spellings for words like centre, honour, and metre for center, honor and meter. Americans call junior officers "Lew Tennants" instead of the original Lef Tennant" even though the spelling didn't change (Lieutenant). There are literally 500 years of history behind that one. You might also want to talk to the Italians about how to properly pronounce Genoa... :-). There are nearly a billion English speaking people in the world... and a big part of the charm is the different pronunciations (and even spellings) of different words. I think the world would be a much less interesting place if we all talked like people from the Bronx, even if it is pretty colourful.

I'm not interested in how the Italians pronounce the English form of a place name. In fact, I'm not much interested in this conversation anymore. I'm pretty sure you know what I mean and you're being purposefully obtuse because you want to argue about stuff. The difference between the dutch and the Germans matters mostly to the dutch and almost not at all to the Germans and completely not at all to me. My Scottish, English, German and middle European lineage doesn't care in the least. A Genoa sail is pronounced Jen oh ah. You know it. I know it. Everybody knows it.

I don't give a shit about how YOU pronounce something... but I do give a shit when you insist that the rest of us pronounce it YOUR way... You are the one being obtuse. Typical ugly American response.

Not quite sure what to make of your comment Andre. Whether I should read it as abusive or not. It certainly doesn't read nicely :(

Sorry, we dont understand you comment.

This rig is too big for a simple rope and block type vang. Plus this vang also hold UP the boom as well as pulling it down