No Patreon, No Ads, Just content for you to enjoy. We finally made it to s/v Northern Dancer V and here is our journey to get there and the boat tour! Alfy & Devlin
Wow Alfy & Devlin! What a beautiful vessel and one can tell the craftsmanship that went into building her. Now that's a world blue ocean cruiser if there was ever one ! I'm so happy for you both and with a craft like that, that has a soul, it will be a pleasure to wake up every morning on her. I'm so very excited for you both and if we're lucky enough, we can follow along and live a tiny bit vicariously through you brilliant films...... Thanks for sharing. 👍🇨🇦👍
Thank you so much Jack! We are very excited to get to know Northern Dancer V and continue exploring the BC coast and sharing that with you all! And who knows,,, we may end up crossing an ocean one day and get to meet you face to face! :)
Thank you and we are very excited to get back to living aboard full time again! I have dreamed of getting an HC for many years and still hard to believe we have had her for almost a year already. We have really enjoyed following your adventures on board Fair Isle! :)
Alpha and Devlin, congratulations on your Hans Christian acquisition! The transition from a coastal racer-cruiser to a true blue water cruiser will open the world to your adventures. All boats are compromises. What you lose in responsiveness in Moonshine will be made up in stable tracking in heavy weather, comfort, and storage. Whoever acquires Moonshine will receive a wonderfully maintained and improved sailboat ⛵️. The craftsmanship and meticulous maintenance skills which you have shared will transform a well maintained boat to a stunning boat in due time. I’m really looking forward to sharing in your new adventures thru the excellent production skills which you now possess. I appreciate that your channel focuses on sailing and lifestyle rather than debauchery as so many do. These may be great for click-bait and views, but to me they “sell their souls” to provide and unrealistic and unsustainable picture of the cruising life. (one man’s opinion) 😎👍
Thank you! We are very excited to get back on board our new home and begin our next chapter of cruising, exploring, upgrading and documenting it all! Thank you for your kind words on our genuine delivery of our content. You won't ever find clickbait stuff here, just a real view of what we do. :) Stay tuned and fair winds. :) Alfy & Devlin
Congratulations! She is a beautiful boat! I have missed you. Very happy you are back. Of course I will miss Moonshine, but understand the change. Good luck. Looking forward to more videos. SV BROOKLYN C&C 30.
You guys are back!!! I missed your videos a lot! Hope to see more videos, more often! I was waiting in line at a Canadian tire in South Burnaby, and in front of me was a lady living on a sailboat at the old marina you used to stay. She has a dog. She knows you from those times. I was so happy she and I were watching your videos. You are a local celebrity, looks like. So happy to see a new video from you; it means that you are well, and everything is ok.
We were glad we could get back to the coast to make this video for everyone. :) Small world when it comes to the sailing community! We will try our best to make some more videos and once we are back on the coast for good we will be able to make regular content again. :)
Missed you guys so much! Glad all is well. Congratulations on Northern Dancer V! She is beautiful. So good to see the joyous smile on your face as you got away from the dock. Welcome back!
Wow, what a stunning boat, and so much character! What a great find, and will be a big step up in comfort for off-grid living. Can't wait to see the new adventures, and thanks as always for sharing!
Congratulations! She is a beautiful ship. I love that classic look. The brass fittings and port holes, teak, woderful woodwork... Brings the feeling of that bygone era of tallships.
Hi from Catherine J HC 38- Montague Harbour. I am enjoying your videos and look forward to seeing new adventures. We’ll keep an eye out for you next summer. Welcome to the family.
Hello back and thank you from s/v Northern Dancer V. :). I said hello to you when I was on a mooring in Montague and you were at the park dock a month or so ago. We'll watch out for you as we continue to cruise around the area for the next little while. :)
Congrats on the new boat. She’s a beauty! Cutter rig, double ender, classic lines with wonderful craftsmanship throughout. Clearly she’s been looked after. I love the teak, but oh my the maintenance. You two will be very comfortable on this one. Enjoy!
Thank you! We are very excited to learn all the systems and how to sail this boat compared to our sloop rig on Moonshine. Good thing I enjoy maintenance! ha
You are so happy and proud you have a smile on your face the entire time. You picked one of the best Robert Perry designs on the market today. It will definitely take you anywhere in the world safely. Fair winds!
Thank you and I have loved this make and model for some time and we are glad we could share the update. :) We definitely feels like there are no cruising boundaries now! :)
Thank you and we are very happy we could share this update with everyone! Northern Dancer V definitely meets our long term plans which may include long distance cruising. :)
So good to have an update from you, thank you - and what an absolutely beautiful boat! Wow. No wonder you both look so happy. I wish you all the best for many wonderful adventure aboard.
Thanks so much! We are so glad we could finally give an update as to what has happened in our lives. Always happy when I am on a boat, but maybe my smile was a little bigger this trip! ha Hope you are staying well and safe!
SV. EL FARO It’s long been on my wish list! I want to do the (ok, I know it’s classic tourist stuff) Rocky Mountaineer train trip as well as look around Vancouver. It’ll happen for sure one day, and I will be delighted to see you all 😀
great to see you back on YT. i'm no sailor but she's a beauty. the craftsmanship is very obvious. and i love the name "northern dancer". very canadian. looking forward to seeing her sails up. thanks....much enjoyed.
Thank you! We are very excited to get to know her and love all the fine work that the HC is known for. Looking forward to getting out for more than one night next time! ha
Found your channel the other day and followed you down the inside passage, just loved it. I really enjoyed your tour of Northern Dancer V. I wish Devlin could teach others how to take good video of a boat, most get me so dizzy I have to stop watching they swing back and forth so much. She looks like a boat that will stand by you in most any type of weather. Looking fotward to seeing you out and about enjoying her. Take care and keep each other safe.
So glad you found our channel and glad to hear you enjoyed the Inside Passage series. :) Thank you re, Northern Dancer V and we are VERY excited to get back on board to continue documenting our adventures on the BC coast. Fair winds and stay tuned! Alfy & Devlin (in the meantime I hope you will enjoy watching some of our other adventures on the water that we have already shared)
nice boat! i was on a hans christian 38, i couldn't believe the teak work on it. good luck with the new boat and hope you find a worthy home for moonshine.
Thank you! They sure do fine workmanship on these HCs. We even found the original paperwork from 1979 that had the master shipwright signing off on the build. :) We hope to find the right owners for Moonshine, that is more important to us than a quick sell. :)
AAAAAWWWWW Alfy.......We can see how stoked you both are!!!...The wait must have been hell!!!...Well done, she's beautiful. I guess this leads to a different cruising chapter. This is true offshore pedigree!
@@lifeislikesailing Did you buy this vessel sight unseen? If so I it would be great to see a future video of how you went through the process. Did you rely on a surveyor, etc? Living in the North I find it difficult to coordinate such a purchase.
@@albertalakeland We did buy it sight unseen and I actually bought Moonshine sight unseen almost ten years ago as well. We could talk about the process on another episode for sure. :)
Yes, FB is not for everyone, but is is just another platform that we use to give more real time updates. Glad that we could finally share this update here for everyone of course as well! :)
It’s a beautiful boat, but wow, the bright work! Just got done painting mine. Now, the only varnish outside is at the companionway and that’s kept covered. So, when you get sick of varnishing all the time, painting is an option.
I am not sure I have ever seen such a deeply happy smile on your face as when you describe your new boat @14:23 Alfy. Congratulations to all 3 of you on what I am sure will be a deeply rewarding union.
Wow, wath a comback your new boat is splendid! There are lots of room for you all familys and critters to! Hope you ceep her in orginal shape! New adventures i site in the future i hope! Barbro Sweden!
Thank you! So glad we could share this update and we are excited to get back to the coast full time so we can start exploring this amazing area with her!
Great boat! Our family owned this vessel for many years in the 90's. I helped my Dad sail it to Mexico where my parents lived aboard while down there before sailing back to Vancouver. It's been through and handled many a storm offshore very well (something like 17 tons in the keel, slow boat but very stable in heavy seas). We upgraded the electrical and all other systems extensively at that time and I think I know every nook and cranny there is on this boat as I crawled into places you had to be a pretzel to get into! Even had to go up in a bosun's chair up the main mast (65' above water line) offshore in 20 foot swells as the halyard clevis on the genoa tore at the top of the sail. BTW, when we bought it the prior owner was Fraser Heston (the Movie Producer who's father is Charlton Heston the actor). Apprently he had this one in Vancouver and an identical one in LA. We installed one of the first GPS systems available to consumers at that time (crazy expensive) and all you got was a digital display that told you your latitude and longitude and you had to plot those on your chart manually. We had a sextant as a back up in case it went down as we sailed as this was during desert storm push into Iraq and the US Army demilitarized the GPS system at that point so troops on the ground had super accurate locations as they were not that accurate before then and we didn't know if they'd block access at some point. (the US didn't have enough military coded GPS units so they provided consumer based GPS receivers to the troops during the invasion. If someone knows the current Owners personally, I'd ask a favour that they pass on my information to them as my Dad whom is 84 and has dementia, but still has his old memories about the boat and I'd love to chat with them about the boat if they are open to doing so as sailing this boat and their time in Mexico was my Dad's dream come true (prior 36' Chriscraft and a 36' sailboat). My name is Bruce McIntyre. Thank you!
Hello Bruce, we are the owners of Northern Dancer V and so great to hear that your family owner her previously. We have been documenting our sailing adventures on the BC coast for many years now here on our LIFE IS LIKE SAILING channel, but nearly all of our cruising has been with our 1982 C&C 34. We purchased Northern Dancer V last year and we loved learning about the vessel's history. Your parents must be Arlene and Warren? They provided the previous owner with so many original documents and we even have a document that has your parents inked signatures. I'd be happy to call you and have a chat about ND5 and fill you in on our future plans for her. Alfy & Devlin
@@lifeislikesailing Hello Alfi & Devlin, thank you for replying to my post! Yes Arlene and Warren are indeed my parents. Not surprised if there was a plethora of documents. My Dad was an Engineer and was an extreme record keeper before his recent medical challenges. My Dad was very fastidious and focussed on the little details and as such the teak and mahogany was in full glory when we owned this boat (it was in terrible shape and not well cared for when they bought it). You’re going to love it! I have some photos that I can scan and send to you and in addition Mom and Dad have lots of photos in there collection that I can get them to dig up. I even have an old VHS tape of our voyage offshore when we repositioned the boat to Mexico. Some sketchy stretches along the way especially in storms but tons of awesome times. Our children loved to go on the boat especially when we’d visit M&D in Mexico or in local waters (they are 34 and 36 now) Yes, I’d love to chat with you when you can. I’ll post my cell here for you to write it down and I’d love to chat about her with you. Cheers Bruce
Thank you and glad to share this update with everyone! I have loved this make and model for some time and still getting used to the fact that she is ours. :)
Wow Alfy....What a "salty" boat!....Finally back on the water...even for a little while must be an amazing time....Thankyou for a look aboard your new vessel...That maker really does throw a lot of wood work and great detail to the build...And it is set-up as a passage maker in regards to storage...Good Stuff you guys...I will keep an eye out for new material Wes & Denise. M/V "Fourpoints". Ladysmith BC
Thank you Wes and Denise! We sure love the boat and are so impressed with the workmanship! We are very excited to continue exploring the BC coast and share our adventures on s/v Northern Dancer V!
What a gorgeous boat. Congratulations, you two! I'm such a sucker as well for traditional looking "shippy" boats. The canoe stern is just beautiful, as is the interior. The boats built in the Ta Shing yard all have amazing joinery. There are two Mason 33s, a Baba 30, and a Baba 35 in my marina, all Ta Shing built. One of the Masons sits next to the Baba 35 and I've joked about that part of the pier being "Ta Shing" alley. You're fortunate to have one of these beautiful boats.
Thank you! I have loved this make and model for quite some time and I am also a sucker to shippy boats! Sounds like you are surrounded by them and get to appreciate them every time you walk down the docks. :)
Hello Brian and Chris! Devlin just told me she received an email from you earlier tonight and we were just about to read it together. So funny with the timing because I was just telling Devlin the other day that I wanted to send a message to you both to check in, say hello and pass on a Fall/Winter update. :) Alfy & Devlin (email reply coming soon) :)
So glad you enjoyed it and we are very happy that we could finally share this update! Also looking forward to sharing many more adventures on Northern Dancer V with everyone. :)
I believe it was a video of yours that introduced me to Hans Christian boats. If I'm remembering correctly, you visited some friends on the west coast trip that have one. They're just beautiful, and the Northern Dancer V is a stunning example. I'm thrilled for you!
Oh yes, that was James and Angela's boat when we stopped to see them at Lagoon Cove Marina. That was Devlin's first experience with a Hans Christian as well. The craftsmanship really is stunning when you get to see one up close and personal. We are very happy with the move to Northern Dancer V. :)
