It another Ask Me Anything episode where I answer all our patrons questions. If you'd like to have a question answered become a patron at / sailingdoodles In this podcast the main topic is that we are looing for new crew!
Watching your pod cast and you talking about it new crew. I'm retired and have been thinking about buying a boat I have had boats most of my life but no sail , I retired from the building industry and have been building custom cars and boats and I'm also a dive instructor.....
I realize this podcast is about many topics but I want to pass on to you how much my wife and I enjoyed Amanda/ Dakota ‘s video ! What a Team those two are !! Suggest you treat them with love, maturity and gratitude - they are killer young woman - put together and do directly help your channel ($$) - treat them with respect !!!
Interesting as always, Bobby. Watching you sit back and discuss things on your boat reminds me of the days we used to do so much of that for days at a time. We’d usually sail out of Lauderdale or Pompano over to the western Bahamas or from Miami down into the northern Keys. So relaxing to just sail away til you felt like stopping. Always loved the life! Enjoy! Cheers!
Essentially this channel was about bringing two dogs on a sailboat to an exotic location while maximizing the skin content. Sounds like a pretty fantastic combination.
Bobby as my job is electric motors and on the new Cat,, I would also order and keep on board,, a replacement stator and also a wound rotor if that is type of drive motor. Just sayin. Cant wait to see when it finally arrives.
Counting in electricity requires so much effort that casual observers are frequently not willing to endure it. Here is one fairly easy to understand concept. 1 HP = 746 Watts and Watts = Volts x Amps in the DC World. So if you have a 30 HP diesel engine, that is the equivalent of 30 HP x 746 Watts / 1000 = 22.38 Kilowatts. With 200 KW Hours of Batteries, 200/22.38 = 8.9 Hrs. However, since batteries taper off as they discharge, you would never get that much, maybe 7 hours is more realistic. Now they need charged and it's dark, so let's take an example assuming 48 Volt battery stack and they are to be charged in 10 hours (Provide 20 KW for 10 hrs). So 20 KW = 20000 Watts / 48 Volts = 416 Amps. If the battery stack was 96 Volts, then it would require 208 Amps for 10 Hours. Anyway you look at this, it is not a compelling scenario. This example assumed 30 HP as the propulsion capability. Scale it up to 40 HP or 50 HP and redo the math. For comparison, a typical alternator on your car is 100 Amps @ 12 Volts = 1.2 KW of Charge Capacity. Scale that up by 25 times and you could run a 40 HP Motor. (1.2 * 25 * 1000 = 30000 Watts / 746 = 40.2 HP). Bear in mind that we have not accounted for HVAC, Refrigeration, Cooking, Hot water, Auto Pilot, Radios, Electric Winches, Navigation Computers, Internet, Lights, Etc.....A LARGE Solar array makes this a bit less of a problem on Sunny Days, but it must be managed by someone like Bobby who is used to managing technology in a critical application. Then there is the deep cycle capability of the batteries to consider. If your stack can handle 1000 discharge / charge cycles, that is a few years and then the entire stack has to be replaced. But here is the problem that every electric vehicle owner has to face. You are going to lose a percent or so of capacity every month or so. After a year, 10 % is gone....(Your fuel tank is getting smaller), two years...20% is gone...3 years 30% is gone....At what point do you cave in and say I want my full tank back ??? There is a solution however, you can buy a generator with a 10 - 20 HP engine on it...and avoid deep cycles by letting it run all the time... FYI...300 Gallons of diesel = 12,210 KWH (assuming 100% conversion efficiency).
You’d better keep Amanda forever, Bobby! Megan stayed my favorite for a long time, but (Sorry Megan), Amanda is now my favorite of your travel companions. She’s a rare balance of looks, character, and refinement, and she puts up with your crap very well. 😆
We've all seen the great crewmembers you have had, how about a video on the the bad experiences, I remember one crewmember who as soon as you hit the dock she was gone. I am sure you change names, and blurr images to get around hurt feelings, etc.
Bobby. I’d love to see a series of you bringing the boat ‘home’ on its own bum as opposed to shipping it. The content of the journey would be good for your channel as well. If you ever get near Australia I’ll join you for a cigar.
I love the idea of Australia ,New Zealand and Fiji ,my lord what video's ? that would be fantastic. Only Aussies have done that before . As an Ohio resident i can concur that at this time of year the winds come from that frozen place up north. Happy that Amanda's mom is doing better , i just turned 70 and i can assure you getting old is no fun when your brain thinks you are still 25.
At least going around the tip of South America you have the straits of Magellan instead of the dreaded Drake passage. Going round the cape of good hope is an experience from what I've been told. Not for the faint of heart and you seem to have the sailing experience to pull it off but it comes down to are you sure you want to do that on a cat? Cats are great on the hook and fair weather but they don't point for shit. Plus a monohull when over powered will heal to the point they dump the wind out of the sails, a cat you flip over. Don't know about you but I've experienced the Atlantic go from calm to "oh Shit" in a matter of 5 minutes. That's not exactly enough time to reef.
Thank you, Bobby, while most males would enjoy nudity on the part of the woman, honestly, including me, you are showing a great deal of class by shunning that approach, keep up the good work.
First world problems for Bobby doesn't want to see the world in his new boat ! South Africa isn't as bad as the other ways to get to the east coast of the USA !
She wanted to complete her college education, and you can't do that from a boat. Kudos to her for realizing that lifetime goals are more important than aimless travel.
Different countries have wayyyyy different rules. Also curious myself. I would be able to protect my family, no matter the cost. Hidden very well, but accessible.
Hey Boby, interesting information love to give some food for thought for you to think about for the long game. You may consider doing somebody over 50 who doesn’t mind being behind the camera and knows how to sail. I am a Sailing Instructor photographer and video editor. I’m 56 and ugly as a pig don’t ever want to be in front of the camera. Have no kids understand youtube strategy I would love to sit down and chat with you about some thoughts I have for Glamping doodles and your Sailing channel if interested I’m sure at this point it’s not the ideal person you’re looking for but long game if you change your mind, please reach out, would love to help you out in anyway and serve you as you would let me. John Sailing Instructor, the video editor from Kansas City.
Well John , can you cook? I just don’t want you taking the space of a beautiful, funny, intelligent Bikini Model, with big boobs, and great personality who can hold a 4 ounce camera and dance at the same time! Nothing personal, but I would want you to be multi-talented off camera so Bobby and the prime time entertainment did not have to lift a finger!!
The ND filter opens the aperture and lets you maintain a shutter speed twice your frame rate to get a more natural motion blur. A larger or faster aperture will give you less depth of field for a blurry background.
It does not cost double to ship around S. Africa avoiding Suez canal. A large 20,000 teu container ship (Maersk, MSC or COSCO ) costs about $10 -$12 a day per container to operate. Adding 21 days adds $210- 252 per container in costs. But you save the Suez canal charges which are about $700,000 for the ship or $35. Per container. The bigger problem is you need more ships because the total return trip for the ship is another 42 days. Also it requires importers to increase their inventories, to account for the Longer transits. Overall it is not a huge increase in shipping costs. A 40 ft container has a capacity of 40,000lbs or 2,300 cu. ft. The increase is $ 0.015 to 0.050 per lb, depending on the volume of the goods carried, ie rice is heavy, shoes are light and volumous. The problem is shipping companies are taking advantage and jacking rates. If it takes longer, then there are not enough ships to fill the demand. Most of these ships are foreign flagged, foreign crew, owned offshore.
I’m sure you know this already! Don’t mean to be Capt. Obvious!!!! The United States Navy did call all of their East Coast U.S. sailors to ship with secure text and commanded to have all cell phones turned off as soon as they received the message! The majority of Navy ships have left port or are preparing to leave port!!! My point Bobby, is Hell, I am not sure any boat is safe going anywhere except the Caribbean!!!! Bobby, I just hope you get your boat over here before all hell breaks lose around China or Taiwan!!!
Yes I'm mature, I'm 49 male 110 kg (I think that's about 230 lbs for you American's), and I have super high blood pressure with my doctor giving me some blood pressure medication. But I'm definitely mature, although I know absolutely nothing about sailing boats. I would feel self conscious if I was videoed in any swim wear, because I have a figure of a pregnant hippo. And I love talking about computers, science mostly physics and electric cars. So yes, why have youthful crew when you can have mature crew.
I have always considered you the luckiest SOB on the water with all the beautiful women who sail/cruise with you. I appreciate your decision to keep it family friendly. The internet is forever and the rare drunk encounter with a camera and private parts shown cannot be unseen or deleted. Too many young ladies out there that don't realize that and that hurts their future marriage prospects. That is if they desire to get married in the future.
Try permanently mounting cameras on the boat that are hard-wired, and locked off in the directions where common tasks are performed that you think are interesting to the viewer. Winches, anchor, docking, cockpit, etc. If you film a lot of fishing, mount a waterproof camera under the stern to get action shots of game fish. This makes for good B-roll, and can catch content that would be missed of it happened when the main camera was pointed elsewhere. You can dropbox footage to a professional editor, and thus free up one space on the boat, and lower the power draw on the boat as nobody has to be sitting at a desk for 8 hrs to edit 20 hours of footage into 20+ minutes of video product.
Thanks for answering my question On the question that's being asked about nudity As a naturist there's no need to see nude people Yes sailing will generally be done nude there's no need to see it
As a fellow naturist, I get really annoyed by censoring nudity for the purposes of satisfying censors, but I also get annoyed by nudity for the purposes of sexual titillation. Basically, if we’re showing what happens on a sailboat, and the crew is naturally nude on a sailboat, editing it out is censorship of reality without cause.
I don’t care what business you’re in, it’s next to impossible to find anyone who wants to take responsibility for holding and performing a job of any kind these days. The term “work force” has become an oxymoron. It should be called the “screw off force”.
Seeking crew. No sailing experience required. Must be willing to work for free ride on a boat. May appeal most to aspiring swim suit models who need exposure. Send video in a bikini.
Bro you need to do an all male crew to shake the pervy swinger vibe that drips off you. This will be my last troll-ish comment on this channel, as I am not a hater.
Better yet, why don't you do an all male crew and let us how it works out? The rest of us can keep watching this channel. Bobby obviously is successful because he knows what is popular.
It is the cigar, creating the weird vibe, reminds me of President Richard Nixon's best friend from Miami, Bibi Rebozzo, I think his name was. Smoke creates throat cancer.
