LAZY SUNDAY MORNING - after an overnight in the dinghy 

This is not a channel about Climate Change, but as there have been numerous comments from people who reject the findings of modern science, perhaps I should make a few points here. The Earth’s CO2 levels were last as high as they are now from 3 to 5 million years ago. Homo Sapiens has been on the Earth only about 200,000 years. Human civilisation is less than some 8,000 years old. Modern science is perhaps only 250 years old. Modern agriculture is only some 70 years old. According to contemporary climate science, humanity has begun to radically alter the Earth’s climate. This is due to emissions of so called "warming gases" since the industrialisation of the 19th century, mainly CO2. The link between the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere and global temperatures has been established for generations, and has been recently confirmed in the Vostok ice core research - summary here: www.e-education.psu.edu/earth104/node/1267 Within a timespan of only 100 years, global heating will flood major coastal cities and make vast tracts of the tropics uninhabitable by humans, unless we act immediately to cut warming emissions. Otherwise the resulting climate change will be impossible to adapt to without major trauma and billions of deaths. That the Earth was much hotter when dinosaurs walked the planet, is irrelevant. There were no humans then, let alone a complex modern civilisation based on modern agricultural production. It is surely unarguable that human civilisation is only sustainable within a limited temperature range. If you want to threaten to stop subscribing to this Channel because you reject the truth of modern science, then that is up to you. But please do not accuse me of being “political” when I mention it. The issue of Climate Change concerns anyone who enjoys the natural environment. Thank you for your attention. Now back to the sailing!

Just had a chance to watch this with my little boy. We both really enjoy your adventures and I think you may be inspiring him to sail one day too. We're trying to raise our children to be considerate of the resources they consume and their impact on the natural (and man made world). I believe encouraging children to enjoy nature and outdoor hobbies can build an appreciation for the natural environment and hopefully instil a desire to take care of it.

What a lovely video to watch on a lazy Sarurday morning! Thank you Roger for treating us with yet another view into the life on a small traditional sailing boat!

Now, why didn't it occur to me many years ago to think of dinghy cruising? What a lovely way to spend time on the water! A great channel of very informative and immersive videos! Thanks.

I always feel better for watching your adventures. They remind me somewhat of my own excursions starting when I was 8 years old in my little Bembridge Scow, pottering around the Solent. The simplicity is what is enchanting. Keep them coming!

Again a great video, Roger, thank you so much! This »Lazy Sunday Morning« episode conveys perfectly the essence of dinghy cruising.

Great intro, marvellous photography - the crepuscular light, the striations of land and sky behind, the headland half in light half shade and then a lone sailor : it's like a painting by Caspar David

Seems like such a relaxing, peaceful time. I envy you. Thanks for another lovely video!

Good to hear the environmental message. Too many avoid talking about global warming and the realities we face if we don’t reduce emissions and as you point out, what will happen even if we do stop now. Whatever our profession, lifestyle and pursuits, we are all in this together and must look at our role in it all and act accordingly, if not for ourselves, for our children and their children and the rest of biodiversity

Love the videos roger! I binge watch all of them at least twice a year! 😂👍

Masterful in every way...thank you...greetings from the Chesapeake

Very nice video. I particularly enjoyed seeing all the little details of your life aboard your boat.

Brilliant again Roger

Some great comments Roger. Its scary when we think of our negative impact on the planet ... even each day ... with our consumer lifestlye , toxic cars , our daily waste , pollution of sea and land. Quite a worry. Not sure it will be addressed until it is profitable 🤔

So relaxing Roger. Great video to watch following a busy workweek. Even liked the food channel aspect LOL. Thanks for sharing.

Beautifully shot. A nice, relaxing lace. Thanks!

Videography is excellent. Thank you for sharing these vignettes which fuel the dreams for my own voile et aviron when I retire in 1-2 years. These are the visual proofs of Ratty's Theorem (to Mole).

Ah life aboard a dinghy. A constant state of moving things around. Thanks for the video. Josh

This channel is good medicine

Thank you Roger, always a boost to watch your informative and excelent videos. Merci beaucoup!

Wonderful, I'm re-reading your book at the moment and fitting out my Dabber for cruising in the spring. Can't wait. Thanks for the inspiration.

I’ve watched this twice already. Thanks for the videos.

What a cracking video, thank you Roger. Ben

Thank you for sharing your adventures with us subscribers. Please allow me to perhaps alleviate your concern over climate change. My suggestion is that you look at three graphs showing global temperatures and co2 concentration for three different time spans. The time spans are: 500 million, 2.5 million and 15,000 thousand years. They are easily obtained thanks to the internet and I hope you will find them helpful.

Thank you for this gem!

Wonderful!!! Thank you!

Roger it’s easy to be philosophical about global warming, but you use a car, you cook meals, you heat your home in the winter, you buy things made from plastics, your food if it’s anything like mine comes in too much plastic wrapping, your milk comes in plastic containers which are one use while the old glass bottles were reusable, your waterproofs, your bedding, your waterproof bags are all man made fabrics, I could go on but we have created a monster of a way of life that we have lost control off. Really enjoy your videos, again special materials for your cameras etc. We are literally on a sinking ship and the best thing to do is try and rescue as many for eternity as Possible. Thanks

You are such a nice chap Roger, that I have no desire to argue with you over your views on climate change. You offer so much with your wonderful laid back videos. PS. That final bit of sculling and the music really finished it off beautifully!

Very nice ,zeilen in holland is ook leuk IJsselmeer. ❤🎉🎉🎉🇱🇺🇱🇺🇱🇺👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

Climate change is an issue I'm very glad you have raised. We can do something about it. And we must all do something about it.

Great sound quality throughout 👍

I've just found your channel, and iam fascinated by your boat. Have you done a vlog about the contents and layout of your lovely boat, if not I would love to " have a tour" thank you

I really enjoyed that, a lovely video.👍

Roger, thanks for taking us out to sea again. While unfortunately I'm not allowed to sail from my club during winter, at least I enjoyed a little tour on my standup paddleboard today. I wonder, did you ever have to leave an anchorage in a hurry with all your camping equipment in place?

I didn’t comment on your dinner the last time I watched this, but those sausages looked pretty good! Also appreciated your comments on climate change. A well reasoned presentation, and anyone thinking your views are political, should just scroll on!

You drinking the fresh coffee with satisfaction..bliss 😂

Thanks for another great episode Rodger, do you think the manufacture of your synthetic sleeping bag could have contributed to global warming?

Merci pour ca petit sojourn, Roger

Very nice video Roger. I might not agree with everything ... but I don't care. In particular I do find your adherance to boomless lug rigs not supported by logic or research. 😉 But I don't really care that our views might clash so violently. There is so much of value in the video that I don't care if there is a difference in our opinions or approaches. Keep up the good work in bringing the potential of something beautiful to a growing audience. 🥰

Morning roger hope you well very much looking forward to see you in new video robert

i doo something similar to you in a sea kayak but not in November in Eire.love your video not enough off them. thanks for shareing youre adventure slooking forward to the next one

Hello Roger, good to get a new video from you and I see you got a new coffee maker for Avel Dro !

Another great video. Always rely on Roger to show you the way things should be done

You have never told us about the boat loo. Is it the big container in the front with the red screw top 😁

I was surprised to see that your dinghy had a dinghy.

Bom dia, sou um feliz seguidor do seu canal, gostaria de assistir a um vídeo para conhecer mais do seu barco, dimensões, construção e etc. Um abraço do Brasil.

Were do I find your book

Enjoyed that, very simple sail, thankyou. I was particularly impressed by the cinematic raising of the sail! Was that intentional?

Avel Dro is very picturesque 😊

Excellent video Roger. Thanks for making it. Interesting what you were saying about climate change. I was near your old neighbourhood last weekend, I went to Stourhead to see the Autumn colours. It was a sunny day and 20 degrees! It felt nice but also wrong.

Hello, we missed you 🙏🍀

Hi Roger, I've been following you no for the last 3 months, I bought a few of your books as well. I have just bought a second-hand van, I am looking for a towbar, as it did not come with a van, I bought a little gp14 after following your channel, small question, what sat nav do you use on your boat?

You're getting a lot of spam comments! I haven't had the courage to do any sailing since September (Golfe du Morbihan), not even in my dinghy on the Mayenne. I will go to the Ribineurs de la Rade de Brest next June with Sarum (Zef with Mirror rig) with her newly rebuilt rudder. Yes, there's a lot of condensation and you have a nice little heater that works with your alcohol stove. Well done.

I've got a bone to pick - you are making me spend a bit of money on my open boat (Lugger) ! - as I'd really like to try camping like this. Really lovely video. Don't you worry about drifting / anchor dragging in the night ?

Roger, Was there much drag on your boat, towing that inflatable?

Merci encore Roger. Always good to watch your videos. And yes, an important, existential subject. I know ten long years of nutty conservative rule here in Oz under the spell of Murdoch et al has led to a lot of catching up. I do hope we are up for it. Cheers again mate. BTW the radiant heater? Can you explain the concept please? Is it just an upturned can with holes in it? And, the updated book. I have the original. Can I ask what you've changed please?

I enjoy your channel very much, but as a physicist and geologist by training, I can tell you we're being sold a pup on the warming/sea level stuff. A determined effort to investigate outside government pronouncements, media catastrophising and proven failure of models (that form the basis of those articles you read intended to fill you full of gloom and guilt), will reveal there is no looming disaster. Just live your life with minimum waste and complication for your own satisfaction, but don't imagine we're all bringing about our own destruction through the climate. Our planet has a long, long history of robust and successful ability to look after itself and support life - continuously for well over 500-million years and counting, and humans are the most adaptable creatures of all. The danger to us comes from our governments and their idiot, control-freak meddling. All the best Roger.

Why do you have a blow up dinghy when you're in a dinghy?

Roger, so why don't you give up all of your modern comforts and start organic gardening for a living?

Good video and thank you for raising climate change as an issue.

You'll need a gimbal for your galley box soon 😊

As much as I love you and your presentations, you have been taken in, not by facts but by models containing gross errors and contradicting the facts.

A stove top oven : Omnia oven on Amazon.

When I did Geology 101 it was "Established Science" that Continental Drift was an illusion. I quote my Professor, "We have done the sums - and it cannot happen!" That "established science" is now doubly embarrassed...... Firstly of course because it has proved NOT to be "established." But the second embarrassment should be, may I suggest to you, even more embarrassing - apparently "the sums" still say NO. Roger, I appreciate your concern over the possible urgency because of the possible catastrophic consequences of climate change - but may I urge care not to be panicked into accepting of shoddy science? The danger could be that in order to stave off a very real catastrophe we are misled into trying to apply an inappropriate solution. And I am personally very concerned that "Science" these days is no longer practised with quite the rigor that is necessary. I hesitate to mention it again but, for your own intellectual honesty, may I suggest a science website where all the contributors are required to have published at least at the PhD level (and all the way up to Nobel prize winners) - in 'recognised scientific journals'. This site presents material in a form accessible to the educated layman. It would be wrong to dismiss the site uncritically. That is not how rigorous science should be done. ANY credible presentation requires rigorous examination before it can be considered refuted. I commend creation.com for your serious consideration. Seriously, Frank

Hi, my fiend is a skipper fishing antarctic waters. There is consistently more ice making it harder to fish, not what you hear on the news. Also no correlation between co2 and temperature over the last 600m years. Habitat loss and pollution are a huge problem but please question everything msm and politicians feed us. Love your channel.

Forgive me but your concerns about global warming make me have to ask what Are you doing about it?? 'We as Humans ' Are not doing enough! quote! I notice you have a big trailer for your boat that is towed by your diesel /petrol car 🤔carbon foot print indeed!

We ? No we in WEF.

'deflate' not uninflate 🎈that sir sailor would be like un- drinking or un-filming

The earth has been warming for 12000 years with or without us. In a few thousand years there will be another ice age

gotta admit, I was getting a little sea sick

owow - the time I spoke out my views on the subject of this anthropogenic shitstorm, it cost me a dear amount of subs😅. Well, I'm with you and staying for your nice moody campouts. Mind you, a few meters more wouldn't matter that much for the Brittany coastline I imagine, here in Holland however the cow shit would start flowing right back at us - oh deary - We have been looking into moving to the Morvan or another quiet and secluded spot.. But I find it not easy to work out the big step of moving house to another country. (laws, customs, language) Cheers, thanks for your thoughts and nice trip reports.

Hi Roger - your C.C. comments have triggered me. dunno how much space you can give me - but i'll give it a go... Hi Roger, it's Frank 2892, I often turn to your videos as a balm and a “talisman of reality” and as a kind of refuge from the crazy stress I have been put under. Anyway I was touched by your ruminations on climate change and I feel moved do try and cheer you up. I am an engineer (ret.) - you know pretty down-to-earth, nuts and bolts, show me prove it, where's the real data? kind of thing - and you as an architect would have a strong understanding there as well…… So we both have our foundational reference point in Space-time - 3 1/2 dimensions - and the current most widely accepted model of the universe which apparently only explains 5% of it! - the rest of it 95% is “Dark”. (of all things) I find that a most unsatisfactory explanation. I would kind of like to think that something with a with such a large fudge-factor, such a large degree of ignorance, has a better explanation. Now, down by your knee somewhere was a clever piece of technology that without resorting to the fourth and fifth dimensions would not work - or at least would have a 5 mile error. Apparently 2 Miles of that error is due to the 4th dimensional effects as worked out by Einstein - you know those satellites are whizzing around so quickly that they get time dilation (or contraction - doesn’t matter). And Einstein's equations for the fifth dimension where he has worked out the relationship between time and gravity can be applied to correct for the other 3 miles of error. I got all this from Google - so you can check it for yourself to get the real explanation….. Ok so I understand that the boffins in their back rooms are now are working on that 95% of ignorance - and as I understand it they are coming up with models of the universe that removes the need for all that dark stuff. My mind turns to Copernicus and Galileo and those times when they were trying to get their model of the universe from 2 dimensions to 3 dimensions - from The flat Earth 2 a ball whirling crazily around the Stars. (or something like that) The relevance for me is that it solved the problem of the standard model timescale being out of whack with the Biblical time scale (What? A catastrophic planetary flood just thousands of years ago???). Simple (but very accurate!) trigonometricy can place stars 100,000 years away. But the new cosmic models can validate BOTH timescales as being applicable in the same universe at the same time..... Back to the flat earth days: Q. “You mean there is somebody standing on the other side of the planet - and they don’t fall off ???” A. “Yup” Goebbels observed that you can get people to believe anything - if you tell them often enough. (and hide the alternatives). For the serious curious to check out I would recommend Creation Ministries International (yair I know - but at least they speak simply and plainly). “And Learn the Bible in 24hrs.” (crap title - but the dude has cred - connected Ford to the new thing he had built, www.) I defy your pessimism to survive……you may be outraged though, or…… G’luk, Frank

You lost me when you started on the global warming. Sorry.

Roger, leaving the climate politics at home, would be a good idea.

Don't believe it. use your observational skills.

I must control myself, the whoooooop of joy could be heard across the whole of Shropshire when your latest video came on stream. Total pleasure 😊.

Hello Roger, I have been a loyal follower of your fantastic videos for years. I really appreciate you bringing up the climate issue as well. It's a big problem that will affect us all. I am sailing in the Dutch Wadden area and the consequences of climate change will also cause dramatic changes there.

Another masterpiece of camera-work & a reminder, if one was needed, of how to enjoy the simple pleasures of life. Thanks for taking us with you again & taking the time to film/edit the overnight adventure - very much appreciated

Another wonderful video Roger. I fees as if we have been sailing together for many years. Thanks SO much.

I watch and watch each video you make and dream of the day my boat is finished and I can do this. I need this for my mental health to be free and enjoy the freedom of the sea. The pleasure your video's give are as you put is immeasurable. Another video please Roger.

I was sad to see that some of your subscribers were taking their bat and going home over the climate issue. Discussion, even heated discussion, is essential in science and life. So your view on this topic will not deter me. How boring life would be if we all agreed with each other.

Thank you for your outstanding ability to put me right there on your boat, such that i smell the salty breeze and feel the tug of the sail. I've spent years in small motorless sailing craft, in US waters, exploring estuaries and shallow lagoons, miles of it where yachts can't ever go. A sailor and expert chronicler such as yourself has earned the right to comment on climate change, or anything you see fit, and tell how it touches sealife seen intimately up close and personal, alone on a sailing vessel, spending nights inches from shore. Few on this earth are as qualified. Thank you for those reflections.

Hello Roger, I have just bought a Lugger, what do you do when you leave the trailer for several days to ensure its safety please? Many thanks for your videos.

Thanks cobba ,cracking hobby you have champion

The realities of a changing environment cannot be denied. I live in Alaska and I am well versed in the loss of coastal communities to rising tides and how our salmon are impacted by warming ocean temperatures, and now our crab have run off looking for cooler waters, or perhaps it is the trawlers or?? I have recently begun to follow your videos and I enjoy my South Jersey skiff I recently purchased from my new friend Scott. I will have it out on Katechamak bay this summer - Thank you!

Agree with your comments on climate change. I used to worry on behalf of my offspring but now I'm starting to worry that it will seriously impact my life before that ends. I'm not optimistic I'm afraid, I feel completely powerless, and just try to enjoy nature while I still can. I also live in France btw.

🎄 Co2 Gas of life 🎄

My boat is already laid up for the winter. So it was a great pleasure to vicariously sail with you again. Many thanks!

So nice to spend some time with you in your boat. I and many others are feeling the sadness of losing what we have in nature. I call this future world “the other place “ and something that we’ll have to deal with compassionately. Thanks for your efforts in bringing these moments to us.

Ah, what timing. Friday; pizza, wine, and Roger Barnes.

Another great video Roger thank you for sharing your adventures with us. I was very interested in your heater attachment for your cooker! I have the Origo 3000 in a 24ft yacht I'm currently doing up. I was thinking about installing a separate heater but your attachment for the cooker would work perfectly fine in my situation. Thanks again for the video keep up the brilliant work of inspiring people like me to get sailing. Gavin

유유자적한 Roger님의 영상 참 좋습니다. 감사합니다^^

Hi Roger, two points if I am not too late in this debate? Firstly I would have thought that the dinghy cruising arena was not a forum for political correct or any other kind of dogma for that matter - dinghy cruising is open, exploratory - and, when we meet together, interactive!. I take it that a love of dinghy cruising is the only common factor amongst us all. Civilised logical debate therefore becomes a potential for great joy and satisfaction. So I do not sympathise with those who leave nor with excluding anyone on principle. The other point that I would pick you up on is what I think is a self-refuting assertion that a lack of Papers indicates that the issue is beyond debate. The issue could not have been settled, nor become a consensus unless all the alternative points had been raised and answered. And thirdly, there can be no such thing as "settled science" ?!!!? ( - at least not in a universe where 95% of everything is "Dark" - at least not IMHO.....) FWIW, Frank

I enjoyed the slower pace, seeing how you set up, , prepare the stove, make coffee, and stow it all back. Routines are actually difficult to build.

Well it was fun while it lasted Roger, goodbye and fair winds

Bonjour Roger ! Et merci à toi pour le partage de ce "dimanche matin paresseux" ! For information, in the Mediterranean, there is no problem with the tide... but the problem is that Brittany is not there! And if she was there, she wouldn't be so beautiful! Good winds, calm seas to you, Roger! Bon vent, mer calme à toi, Roger !

Dry out the condensation??? With a heater which emits large volumes of H2O,, 🤣

Another lovely video Roger. As to heating pastries on the Origo: You want to use a trivet of some sort in your pot. I have used everything from scrunched up balls of aluminium foil to a couple of wrenches. But the easiest thing to do is keep a collapsible vegetable steaming trivet onboard. Put your pastries, pies, sausage rolls on the trivet, put a lid on the pot and put your origo on a bit under half (too high and you will burn the pot!) It takes about 45 minutes or so to heat a meat pie and you will have nice flaky crispy pastry like it has just come from the bakery hot! 👌 You can also bake bread in the pot like this. As to climate change, I doubt anything will really change the path we are on until the rich start dying on mass in rich countries - which as you know is too late anyway.

Just another very enjoyable video. Your comments about climate change are so true and obvious. Here in Texas we’re about to roast with 108 degree temperatures. But honest Roger I simply do not know what to do about it. Do I abandon my cars then how do I get groceries or see my doctors? And, if I could afford a horse, I don’t know how to ride. Boy we’re in a pickle.

Excellent video. Very good choice of music. Professional editig. It's like being accompanied by you. Roger, thank you for sharing your adventures with us.