I dont know if this channel is still looked at, but thanks for the video; it was a very great watch and has inspired me to do the same trip. Thanks for showing us.
Thanks so much for this video. I am old now and always dreamed of sailing to somewhere far away. Keep up your videos. I like them very much. It's almost like i'm on board of the Ovive with you folks.
Ignore the negative comments. I sailed these waters many years ago , thank you for sharing your adventure, the dance is the same but the drums are louder now. Wonderful people all over the south seas.
That was a very, very long sailing voyage, congratulates! I like the way you showed places around! To catch moments and new areas on a way is the best angle to see them for me.
I loved the shot of the knot meter - 10 or 12 knots is a very happy cruising speed - for a multi hull . Nice reminder of that fact - mono's are about 8 or 9 tops depending. I bet it is rare to have seasickness onboard this cat boat - true ?
My only complaint is that there's not enough wind noise on the cheap camcorder. I recommend that you try to tilt the camcorder down just a little to catch more of the wind and make the audio even more unbearable. In this way, you will get a lot of hits, but your audience will click out after three minutes. I stayed for 35:23, which is probably a record. Would have liked to have seen it all...
+Leon Davis I don't understand the rudeness. Do you expect a professional level experience for a amateur presentation? If you don't care for the camera, why not offer to pay for a new camera or don't say anything. It's called RU-vid, meaning you make the presentations yourself. Just people showing their experience. Do you have no civility or appreciation for others sharing their experience? I don't understand comments like yours. Just rude and filled with a sense of entitlement! Did you pay for a subscription to youtube???
doctorparadigmshift On the contrary, you are the one being rude by uploading a crap video. If you can afford to cavort about on an uber-expensive yacht, surely you can pop for a video camera that takes an external mic and a dead cat. Of course if your original intent was to upload a vanity video ("dig me!...ain't I special!...I'm here and you're not!") rather than something to entertain and inform, then forget I said anything. Just go ahead on with your bad self...
Muy Gonzo That's because I'm very poor so I'm collecting aluminum cans and selling my blood plasma and scrounging pennies off the sidewalk to buy a high quality microphone for my camcorder. In three months, I should have $75 USD. But you're obviously rich. You can buy one now. Or not.
I enjoy the video! Thanks! But why is there a board with nails sticking up at 16:25? Is that to stop the seal from getting on board? seems overkill... Just curious.
Thanks for the video....I have been looking at alot of videos trying to see images of big cats not tied up in the calm harbor waters..I wanted to get an idea of the boats motion when actually under way - without a constant face in the picture talking constantly...so thanks for the peek into sailing in different conditions - and i don't mind the wind noise so OldSalt John should go stick a thumb in it...
Bet you did some good fishing...ran around small boats while in the USCG .....but got no idea about how to sail....always thought of it as one hell of a good life to live....just ....life took me some other ways.....bon voyage....
Well sorry to say,,,, I agree with Leon Davis. It take just a small amount of care and preparation to deal with sound issues on live AV recordings. The maker of this video obviously didn't (a) care enough to bother, or (b) didn't bother to learn how to do it properly. Either way it is a shame because the video itself is rather good.
Thanks for sharing the video. Its nice to see videos of real people sailing and not some production put out there to raise money. How much paper work did you have to do to get the girl out of Cuba?
Beautiful people and one of the best video I had the pleasure of watching twice I like to ask where was it that island and what kind of sail boat ⛵️ you feel best for sailing ⛵️ around the world 🌎 in a beautiful catamaran or the v bottom
My wife are seriously considering buying and living on a crusing sail boat and eventually cruising and finding another part of the world where we can anchor and/or dock and live part of the year. Do you recommend a Mono hall or Cat?
Tell me about the junk in the water that you talked about off of cuba. Do you find your cat to be more stable in rough seas that a single hull? Yhank You for taking us along on your trip.
Just curious. I am a layman and do not know much about sailing. In such a long journey, i think it is impossible for you to carry much water on the cat. How do you replenish water in the middle of an ocean? Do you need to bath with sea water?
I don't know why everybody is concerned about the quality of this vid. It's not buttered up. It's the real deal without allthe crap editing and silly soundtracks. This is sailing
Thanks much for the video. I am hoping for a trip like this and to move from a mono to cat before doing it. After much research, I am convince its the way to travel on long journeys. I have been trying to figure out the make of your cat so if you read this I would like to know. The video helps me see apart of what is ahead!!
Thanks for sharing this video! It was a pleasure to watch. And thanks a lot for not adding crappy music that destroy the ambiance like most other one does!
I saw the part where that huge container ship was stacked 3 stories high and thought about how they fall off a sea and boats hit them!! But you hit a tree!!!
The debris was off Panama and caused by a combination of heavy rain and full moon tides dislodging the debris out the rivers and off the coast. This can be avoided by traversing that area earlier in the season before the rains start. The cat/monohull debate is a long one but one can say the motion on a cat is more jerky in certain wave conditions, therefore uncomfortable. One can also say that they are much more comfortable sailing downwind as they do not roll side to side like a mono.
I was thinking about sailing from Florida to Europe during my break between high-school graduation and college. Any suggestions about what type of boat would be suitable for this kind of voyage? I would say my budget for a craft would be between 25,000- 55,000. I know that that doesn't really get you much, but the plan is to buy a sailboat a couple of months before leaving, and fix it up on the weekends. I have no prior sailing experience, but will probably take a class, or just learn the hard way. any ideas?
but whyyyy?!?! it's not that I've never been on a boat before or anything, I actually live on a 28 ft chris craft Catalina. I go diving and fishing every weekend on it, and was hoping to.... level up i guess to a sailboat. I would buy the sailboat, and live aboard it MONTHS before I would head out in order to get acquainted with it. just, any suggestions for the best sailboat you could get for 25,000-50,000?
What you have described is very very tough. To buy a boat and simply live on it in that time frame is very very difficult, let alone the effort to fix the boat up for an atlantic crossing. On top of this, the knowledge required in order to safely sail (with people) across an ocean takes years and thousands of miles of experience. A really really fun thing to do (which is what I did) is crew for another boat on a atlantic crossing first. There are people all over looking for atlantic crossing crew and that will teach you a lot about sailing. After arrival in europe you can back pack around and then fly home and start school. After you do this, consider buying a boat.
Stop. First problem is sailing to Europe. The North Atlantic eats sailors, experienced sailors ... sailors with yachts in perfect condition. Start with learning to sail, learn how to handle a yacht in a bad storm ... and most of all take the time to just enjoy sailing BEFORE you undertake a passage like that.
watching you haul your boat out answered my question. that cat doesn't have much of a Keel. I know for long term crusing I would want a full or a cut away. wouldnt be going up any shallow inland water ways!!
so whats the deal with firearms in foreign ports and all that? illegal in most limits or whatI should say a rifle or and shotgun is a good thing to have anywhere especially a sail boat or other conveyance on water ? thanks
This video is great because it is raw which equals REAL. There are no setup scenes / long music tracks / tons of drinking... it is just normal people taking one hell of a cruise. And wow... 200 miles out, hitting that tree at 4:27.... disabling both rudders and making it back to land... a lot of people would have folded in that scenario. There isn't a chapter in the manual telling you how to get back to shore... you just figure it out or drop the EPIRB.
You probably set a World record referring to WHALE Talking Recording, because of its shear spectrum of relativity in sound. The tree made me think about HOW it could happen ? I know there are things (objects) floating , but I forget about this.
HeathLedgersChemist Thanks for that info because I was thinking of getting one.Now I know you can use it with a filter it would make my decision even easier.
It's called a windscreen or a windjammer for your microphone. Don't let all these haters get you down, your video is raw, but the footage is interesting, thanx for providing it.
It's not clear what was damaged by the tree? Needs much more commentary which is best to do in editing. That way you can get rid of the audio (wind noise) that's taken during video recording and add commentary afterwards.
