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Dear Patrick. You shouldn't be hesitant to use Patreon. It is at the end of the day peoples choice to pay for your content. You put in time and effort into making videos and we really do appreciate it.
I know Im asking the wrong place but does any of you know a method to log back into an Instagram account..? I was stupid forgot my password. I love any tricks you can give me
@Graysen Micah Thanks for your reply. I found the site thru google and im in the hacking process atm. Seems to take a while so I will get back to you later with my results.
His attitude to patreon is completely recalcitrant to what the younger generation of sailors are doing. The huge influx of wannabe circumnavigators aspiring to follow the SLV model to finance their lifestyles, families and beyond is something that places Patrick's words in a different class. Honor and dignity came from being brought up in tougher times methinks.
I am so glad that I stumbled onto your channel. This is what have been looking for, a channel that explains in a pedagogical, calm, logical and no nonsense way how things work, and don't work when you're sailing around the world. I am utterly grateful for all your information that you are providing me. Thank you so much for your effort to make the sailing community safer and more aware.
Agree. Problem is Patrick was old school. Self taught, curious and a knowledge seeker. Absolutely willing to get dirty and yet share without recourse. All of today's social medias are interlinked and about self not community. He did not see the value in self alone. It is a very sad thing the best are taken so easily.
It's so refreshing to listen to somebody talk, when they KNOW what they are talking about and can relay that knowledge so precisely. Nicely spoken. Thank you. now I will have to go and watch some of your other videos
Only watched this channel recently and have come to greatly admire Patrick, he is what we call "old school" a real gentleman and so much humility. So sad to hear of his passing and I know from other comments he will be sadly missed
Watching this now and thinking "you don't know what you got til it's gone" we take so much for granted, thank you both for all you gave - and continue to give. Thanks Rebecca
This is far and away the biggest loss to the sailing community. Patrick was an incredible wealth of sailing and maintenance knowledge. I love the historic comments on navigation.
Good to see Rebecca in front of the camera! She's a natural. Thanks for putting out this information. It will come in handy when shopping for and, possibly upgrading my future sailing vessel.
I just wanted to say, Thank you for your help introducing all these so valuable life experiences with me and people like me that are dream riders and I do appreciate that personally so much ,you guys rock, even that I have not started my sailing yet ( Do not have a sailing boat) but I do follow and see so many boating society documentaries together with reading so much about living in the boat and doing what makes us happy for the past 15 years I am sure I am getting close to accumulating that dollars to afford to buy a nice but old boat to start my dream one day soon. So please do not stop doing what you doing best and live long and happy
You should have at least a donation link if not patreon. It's not like you are doing this as beggars your content is meaningful and rich in knowledge. It is ok to be paid to continue doing these extremely informative videos, they take time and effort and waiting for 2 years for a payoff on youtube isn't easy. Think of youtube as bonus income, not a serious income. High quality educational videos like this should be able to get funding outside of youtube's aqueous values and paybacks(tending toward advertisers rather than content providers.) The less corporations take I think the more generous you will find people to be, we aren't stupid out here and would rather direct fund. Again wonderful video, with clear explanations, exceptional content, and please keep making videos!
Thanks Rich! This is Rebecca. I did finally convince Patrick to let me put a PayPal Tip Jar on the top of our blog at www.WhereIsBrickHouse.com. Already 3 people have left tips!
On our Norsea 27 we have a Standard Horizon CPF300i chart plotter (connects to depth finder), a VHF with AIS, and a compass. We do coastal cruising. Our next acquisition will be a tablet to run Open cpn and that barometer app. Didn't know tablets had that. Thanks for your videos, a no nonsense approach. We appreciate it, Fair winds and following seas.
Hi Patrick and Rebecca, thank you, thank you, thank you! I love your videos and as someone in your age range who is planning to shove off next year on his own cruising adventure, I learned so much from you guys with every video and I’m able to incorporate your wisdom into my own skill set. To me your videos are invaluable. Cheers and Fairwinds
Don't forget with your Raymarine chartplotter you can get the free Raymarine control app on the iPad which allows you to mirror the plotter via wifi, meaning you have all the same features wherever you take your iPad. Great video, we found it useful, thank you.
Yes....this is Rebecca btw...yes...and that works pretty well too. I tend to have WiFi off a lot of the time to conserve power, but the energy consumption isn’t that bad. Thanks for reminding me about this feature..I sort of forgot about it recently ;)
Now that is what I call "useful" info for the wannabe sailor/cruiser (like me). The real deal !! No "pig beaches" here folks. Perfect balance of old school meets modern technology. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and giving me something to chew on. :)
Great video. I am close to closing on a boat with electronics that are from the early '90s so this is perfect timing. There is so much to choose from it makes my head spin. I find it difficult to choose between what I need and what I want. This episode helped clear some of that up. Cheers!!
You guys are so wholesome! I genuinely love watching your videos! I'm not a sailor nor do I own a boat or anything, I do however find your videos so interesting! Thank you so much for putting your tone and effort in to making them. Its really appreciated ☺
I like the idea of maintaining an independent redundancy with regards to the electronics and multiple software applications on the same real-time issues. An individual aberration reading can be compared to another for verification is good but I also like your idea of actually looking over the water to see a ship that is there but not registering on AIS. Good material. Like they say: It's the content that's important. The editing and the rest will improve and you'll find a simpler, effective and productive method. Besides, this is your hobby. Cheers.
Old Sea Captain and his beautiful Navigation and Administration Officer, meeting you here was a great find for me. All sea and boating lovers should watch all their videos. Thank you very much.
Excellent. Very informative. Great to see someone talking about charts and sextants in this day and age as well as all that has followed. And thanks for the links, especially the free online courses.
Sometimes it is not about what you have on-board, it is about taking the time to remove the old equipment and properly installing the remaining equipment. I have watched several of your videos and enjoyed them all, thank you for taking us on your journey.
This is Rebecca. Thank you very much to whoever just got an IPad from the link below!! Thank you to everyone who clicks on any of the links below...it really does help!
Hi , thank you very much for sharing all you very valuable information , it would take us a long time to figure it but with your help everything is looking not as scary . We will defenately use the links in the future
You two are so great together! Nice, calm and down to earth. Love watching your channel evolve. I too like things simple and non integrated I can’t imagine having the autopilot set to a gps system like most are installing. I’ve sailed for many years and yes, like the new systems but I love the old ways of sailing. I love feeling the boat, not some video game and kept on course to the degree. When we use the Aries offshore I’d go crazy watching for cross track error. We have your exact Vesper, and Furuno GPS. Bought gps after Y2K meltdown while cruising the UK. Only in the last four years have we moved to chart plotters. Love the iPad and our small Garmin 50. Have little patience for learning all the new systems that we never really needed in the old days. But, I suppose it keeps the mind growing. LOL Cheers!
Good education, I really appreciate and I like it very much. I m leaving next week in 2023 alone around the world ⛵ 🌎 to me extremely important and learn as much to know .I m watching already second time this video ,many thanks
@@RVLifeNOW Well,..here I am again. I need some advise from you! I am 65 and intend to buy one 33-35foot boat only for sailing the Med. Unfortunatelly my wife does not have any link to sailing and I will do it alone (dont tell me to change wife..hahaha). Which will be the major problems I have to expect? Any suggestion to me ?
It's amazing to see how fast this channel has grown. I think I was about number 65 when I subscribed. Now, in a very short time, it's at 9,000 subscribers. Keep up the great work, the reason why it's growing is because it's great content.
Space Walk, Once the channel got to 1,000 subscribers, the pace of new subs was what I always hoped it would be. Then just a couple weeks ago the channel hit 5K and there was an amazing incline to now over 9K. I can give Rebecca all the credit for finally getting interested in the videos and tweaking the analytics and adding content. Thanks for sticking with me for so long. Making videos has been a real learning experience. Certainly the newer ones are better than the early efforts.
Very well done segment. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us. We have purchased a 37' Cutter rigged sailboat and are putting together our first navigation system. In the saloon we will have a windows 11 laptop running Coastal Explorer, the later we had purchased years ago and just had to pay for an upgrade. We have an English ais/gps receiver which is interfaced into the laptop via a usb port. This receiver outputs nema 1083 data and also provides both a nema in and nema out port. We output gps information to our vhf radio. Also we are providing information to our autopilot which also listens for nema1083 information. We have purchased an Airmar depth sounder which is also nema1083 which will return its info to the nema in port. There are also legacy instruments on the boat for depth, wind information, and engine monitoring. We have an I-pad which remotes in to the laptop and brings control up to the cockpit. We are interested in the satellite system but frankly it looks like it might be out of our tax bracket. As all our eggs are in one basket we will be taking along a 9" Navionics tablet as a back up. We are rookies and would greatly appreciate any suggestions you might have, Garry and Doug Vessel "Sea Student"
Thanks, MiKL, for joining us. We are happy the video was helpful. Marine electronics are Rebecca’s specialty...luckily I don’t have to deal with them that much....just happily use them for navigation, etc.
Just found your channel and find it so helpful and informative - thank you for sharing your vast knowledge! I'm a life long in-shore sailor with aspirations of future off-shore exploring - I feel like I need to take notes on each of your videos! Such fun. Thank you again & wishing you following winds.
Great info, thanks. It looks like you have confirmed what I've said for a while , if buying an old boat you don't have to worry about the electronic equipment and an iPad will do most of what you need. Cheers Warren
This is Rebecca. When I originally bought Brick House, I was glad to have a lot of old equipment to play with, and then remove and replace. It gave me a lot to chew on so I could choose what I liked best.
Nice video guys. Umujo was a friend of mine (Norwegian) lagoon 45 that used to be here in Maputo. He sailed it up there last May and sold the boat In Zanzibar and flew home. It was a spur of the moment sale. I enjoy my Raymarine equipment myself. I have 2 a series 7 inches next to each other.
Wonderful video, It's nice to see what experienced boaters are using. I have a tablet as primary with a handheld gps as backup along with my phone. I plan to use a standalone autopilot. I like the idea of the iridium for offshore, sounds like the goto device for communication.
This is Rebecca...Have to say...the Iridium GO was a real game changer for us...used to look out the window and just GO if it looked nice that day. The GRIBS were just wrong 50% of the time or more. Now we have very few surprises! Boring is good! The Iridium GO paired with Predictwind fits like A glove for us! We are very careful to shut the month to month plan down when we are near internet for any length of time..this saves substantial amounts of money per year! I nan not emphasize enough, how important it is to get the SIM cards from Predictwind. There may be other straight forward service providers around, but there are some with a lot of fine print. Predictwind sims are just all inclusive, no fine print...and no surprises. We have the unlimited plan so I never have to worry about chatting, emailing, or asking for weather too often!
Wow! very informative and well presented video. Thank you for posting this type of info. It's really good to hear from seasoned sailors about what gear works. I'm new to sailing and am planning my first offshore trip (starting small w/ the Dry Tortugas). My current setup is a 10" Ipad pro running Navionics boat app and windy.com. I was very happy to see Rebecca's favorite app is the Navionics. I put her other suggestions on my download list. I'm supplementing the internal GPS with a Bad Elf BT unit. For depth and supplemental chart plotting I'm adding a Garmin echomap plus74Cv. It's a 7" depth finder running chirp sonar and Navionics blue chart maps. All this goes on board a Rhodes 22.
Whether a 40' boat or 22' you still need the same nav equipment. Nice to have that on a Rhodes 22. Out and back to the Dry Tortugas is a fun trip. Have a good one!
Hello again Patrick and Rebecca, I am still learning about navigation etc. I am amazed at the amount of modern equipment available to help with finding a path through the oceans. I intend to buy some of the things available when I get a boat. All that aside, from what I see I don't think there is a replacement for learning old school navigation with charts and a sextant because that won't fail. As for your patreon comment, for what it is worth, I agree. Anton Ditt made a post on this site and I have had the same thoughts as him for months now. What has attracted me to your videos is the amount of information you can pack into a short video. You have shown what works and what doesn't. Your videos are no nonsense and raw. I like this. I also like that you both seem to be humble people which is backed up by real knowledge and not simply fluff. Great stuff keep it up. I'll check out your website.
Very clear exposition. I use the chart to make the corse amd use the I-pad with GPS to plot the position ang give a screenshot to the people who sail with me .
A free boat listed on Cruisers forum lead me to your channel. I thought it was odd that there were no questions about what the boat needed, but there was a link to your video. After watching the video, all the questions are answered. If you saw a car damaged like that, you would think someone went after it with a pick ax. And that video brought me to this one.
Thanks for following the links and coming back for more videos. Warning, the newer ones are better produced than the older ones. It has been a steep learning curve starting from knowing 0 about making You Tube videos.
Thanks. We enjoy sharing the information we have...amp Nd Marine electronics are especially interesting to me. It makes me feel a bit more relaxed know where I am, what the weather is doing, and where we are going -Rebecca
Half way between Bora Bora and Pago Pago, in the middle of nowhere, we met up with a boat that had a broken rudder and needed supplies to make a jury rig steering. In the old days of celestial navigation, there is a good chance that would not have happened. For your ranch, go to Google Earth and zoom in. Amazing what you will see.
You are great, very useful and practical information . I am currently equipping my recently purchased sailboat and I will put to use the information provided … right now. …. On another subject, I love your complicity. All the best to both of you. Jacques
Great information, thank you for making these. I realize the effort. We actually still use a Garmin GPS76c that I mounted at the binnacle and paper charts. Our sailing grounds are western Lake Superior so not super long, multi waypoint voyages at this point. I think a simple system with back up would be an iPad system as you have with the GPS backup. I'd like an MFD at some point, but not yet. One Problem is for newer electronic equipment like Raymarine autopilots, one needs an MFD with WiFi or a PC to update the software.
Thanks for your reply. Our Raymarine MFD software is best done with a PC...stick the SD card in the PC or laptop card reader (internal or external) , let it put the update from internet to that SD card on the PC or laptop. Then stick the card back in the MFD, boot it up, and it does the update from that SD card automatically as you boot it back up. We only do an update once a year, at the most. There is a BIG update for the software now, but we are waiting for the next update since everything is running well now, and we have a big trip coming up in a few weeks. It’s always best to know what is going to change in the updates..sometimes it’s not worth doing them right away. Raymarine is great to consult with personally to talk about it to see if you should wait or not, and their site is good at giving all the details of what will stay, what will go, etc, with each update they offer. As far as Navionics chart updates, they are done very simply. You can update your smartphone or iPad charts when you are near internet, and then come back to the boat, turn WiFi on between the smartphone or IPad and the MFD, and update all or some of the charts on the MFD. It works very well, have never had a hiccup. I haven’t a clue if the other MFD manufacturers offer this..I would guess that they do.
We use two ipads, a backup gps, depth, wind, speed. Wish to add AIS from vesper but have not done so yet. Also would go to larger iPad Pro next upgrade. Two handheld vhf's and on built in vhf that at least has receive mode ais, but small screen.
What a fantastic video! I really enjoyed the review of the old gear through the new gear you have on board. The depth sounder is pretty cool . Watching a submerged volcanic island appear on the video screen sound amazing. I am really digging the explanations of the equipment and love the redundancy you have built into your Nav/Com electronics. That Raymarine with Navionics charting package is so cool! Patrick and Rebecca the best old equipment you have on board is the two of you! The knowledge you both have with sailing is pretty darn impressive. I have watched a few of the videos you two have created and I am looking forward to watching many more. You two are amazing. Fair Winds PCS.
Thank you! Great real world experience and information both of you are sharing. I hope you two keep making videos. For me a tablet with Navionics is my primary tool with handheld gps, iphone, and of course some paper charts as back up. These have been fine here around vancouver island. This is a timely video though as I'm in the final stages of building a Cape George cutter for offshore voyaging and its time to make some hard decisions about what elections to invest in. I will be hitting up a bunch of those links of yours.
Very good demonstration. I use navionics on a tablet. I also use anchor alarm when anchored. I am no pro :). I also connected a garmin etrex (nmea) to my vhf.
Very good video. I currently just plot position from a handheld gps on a paper chart, but as a singlehander I'm not satisfied with that, particularly in poor weather. However, it seems as though any time I purchase any sort of electronics (not necessarily navigation), I immediately regret the purchase, not liking the level of intuitiveness of the interface or lack of features or so many features that I'd never use. I have a frustrating love/hate relationship with the things, so any videos demonstrating features and use is most helpful.
Hi Patrick and Rebecca. Rebecca would you consider doing a video on overlaying Google Earth images onto your Potter and the processes/software involved Many thanks love the videos
Hi....to my knowledge it’s not possible to overlay google earth charts on to a chartplotter...only on to a PC or laptop. I do use Ovitalmap on my iPad which is very good...and so simple! Here is a short video on that which I did a while ago. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vCEiFqylbOI.html . .Also...Navionics with their Platinum+ chart chips , it does it for you though still not as well as Navionics or Ovitalmap on the iPad! Maybe I should do one on my other very small channel on that? I could probably do one on doing Google Earth images on to a laptop, but it’s actually a little outdated now! And every version changes so the version I know may not even be available anymore. I stopped doing google earth charts to Laptop about 6 or so months ago now with the addition of Ovitalmap and Navionics satellite charts. For $35 Navionics does a great easy job for you and it’s all available as long as you download before you get out of internet access! -Rebecca
Excellent video. In today's world of electronic navigation what is the risk of failure? Can a close lightning strike damage equipment? Keep up the great work.
Any time there is lightning nearby, I can only hope we make it through again without any damage to our electronics. You hear about some boats getting hit by lightening twice and each time blowing away tens of thousands of dollars worth of electronics. No boat I have ever been on has been hit by lightening. One cruiser has a theory that if your mast is grounded to a thruhull, that will leak the build up of energy to the water making a mast less prone to a full blown strike. At the top of our mast, we also have a "witches broom"; a broom of wires sticking straight up to the sky and the handle bolted to the top of the mast. People in the know say there is no scientific reason for such a thing to deter a lightening strike, "but if you have not yet been hit by lightening, don't take it down!"
yes it can but use your builtin Faraday cage - oven or microwave to stow things such as laptops phones handheld GPS etc also used dinghy stainless chain wrapped around the side stay and directly into the water, even when underway when lightening was severe as strike is always meant to take the shortest way to ground.
Thank you for all of your wisdom! We bought our dream boat and named her Mariyah. She is a 43 foot Spindrift. I look forward to watching your videos and supporting you too! I downloaded the apps you suggested.
You are a nice couple and your videos are interesting, helpful and simply cover a lot of very useful ground for both the experienced and novice sailors. Thanks!
Thanks Sailing Channel Marinus...This is Rebecca...I don’t really like being on the camera, and all the time this all takes, but I love seeing Patrick wildly succeeding with...he loves it so much!
Sailing Channel Marinus Thanks for the recognition ;) I do enjoy playing with the analytics and SEO, etc...I find that really addictive! We make a great team!
Hi 👋 I want to do what your doing cruising on a sailboat ⛵️ when I retire I’m 43 so quite a ways away witch is good in the sense I’ve never sailed 🤔 I’m from Saint Helens Oregon just outside of Portland and spent lots of time on the Columbia River Pacific and other little rivers around here fishing on stink boats so it’s something I know I’ll enjoy and so grateful there’s people like you sharing this priceless information thank you so much another great video👍👍
Great video. Thanks folks. I use a mux that is wifi enabled so I can tie all my de ices together and view all he data on an iPad. Chartplotter B&G, vhf standard horizon with gps/ais, raymarine autopilot, tillerpilot, wind. Navionics
Pretty awesome how fast technology is FINALLY evolving for us on boat, hah? Nice to lay in your bunk and STILL be able to see the chartplotter with all the radar and AIS etc on it...LOVE it! -pAnd now we can even get Predictwind, on our Chartplotter, via the iridium GO! It just CANT get any better than that??!! Rebecca
Great video. You made me laugh with your comments about parallel plotters. I still have mine from the 1970s. It hasn't been used since. I use an aviator type plotter like you described. We share many common systems, but I am really envious of the Iridium GO, but can't really justify the investment/subscription for the type of sailing I do now. I have a low-cost version called InReach. It is adequate, but barely. Perhaps one day…….. Fair winds to both of you.
Patrick, I see you have a new video and tonight it is on my list to watch. I was learning aviation navigation about the same time I was taking small boating classes. Having the aviation background made sailing so much easier in many respects. The InReach looks like a nice system. For the ocean sailing we have been doing and the big need to have ocean current information, the IridiumGo is worth it to us. Long ago, cruisers would blindly set sail and just deal with whatever weather and currents happened to be there. Nice to now have the ability to see what is out there and not have to buck everything.
I'm running navionics on android and ipad, backup built in chart plotter, and then paper charts of course! Love your videos guys thank you for sharing your knowledge!
