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@@RoversAdventure It vindicates the design and the thoughts behind the design. I guess there was no guarantee until it was tried "in the flesh". I think it would be a great boat for the Jester Challenge
Me gusta el andar noble y los balances pausados del barco. Hay dos cosas que no me agradan. La falta de guarda mancebos y candeleros y la falta de roldana y cofre de cadena en proa...
Obrigado. Estou feliz com a maneira como ela lida e com a facilidade de operação para mim. Sinto-me muito seguro com o arranjo que tenho atualmente. @@mariajosemorenoguerrero8638
Your best video yet! What a great little ship Wave Rover is as she proves herself in lumpy conditions. Her ability to depart when much larger yachts stay on the hook confirms that she is a comfortable bluewater boat. Your ability to reef and to shake them out gives you a huge advantage when singlehanded. Thats once again for taking us along on the best leg of the adventure so far.
@SailingWaveRover what a great boat and crew... that she is so comfortable in Tradewinds like conditions.. Wish I was younger, you got it figured out Alan...talk this weekend?
i remember sailing along that same path in october 1991. i was on a 22ft bilge keel boat with boom rolling reef system (not my favorite way to reef)... everything was hectic but basically okay until i had to take a helicopter ride to cape charles c.g.. station. never did find that good little boat again. (oh, i went outside the delmarva peninsula...)
Another great V-log Alan! I’m a little worried about Wave Rover not having a conventional cockpit rather a deck helm. I hope you are wearing a vest and teather when the seas get rough. You sure don’t want to flirt with going overboard.
I hope I one day will have built myself a Wave Rover ⛵ Thank you for sharing your videos. Both from the build and your voyages. 🇨🇦🇩🇰 Every thing has to start as a dream before becoming an ambition which in turn can be pursued to become reality.
Very cool boat. You did a wonderful job building it. I used to own a Ranger 23 and I sailed on San Francisco Bay. A normal summer day was similar to what you are in, wet and windy.
That would be a great trip. North to south is the way to go. Someone did part of that trip in a Potter 19 many years ago. I think they stopped in LA.@@RoversAdventure
I am new to your channel…. And I love it!!! I just watched an older vid and watching this one I see you are now sailing a Junk-rigged boat!! I wonder how a junk rig would work on my Laurin Koster 28….. If anybody has ideas, suggestions or advice…. Greetings Henk, the Netherlands….
Cape May is a really underrated town. One of our favorite little-airplane flying destinations. You’re getting close to my home town, I hope you’ll soon leave those Yankees in NJ behind and stop somewhere around the mouth of the Chesapeake (“Tidewater Virginia”)!
There's a good possibility that I will be heading that way. I haven't formalized the plan yet. Send me an email if you know of an inexpensive marina or dock space in that area. alanbmulholland@gmail.com
Looking forward to seeing the Cape May entrance as well as from shore. In May 1971 I arrived at the USCG Cape May Training Center.. Yes, I do have memories of Cape May, but for some reason I don't associate it with a vacation wonderland. I very much enjoy seeing how Wave Rover with its junk rig performs in the heavier winds. I am comparing to my Capri 22 which is a similar size but is more of a racing boat (a J/22 want-a-be). I have been out in 30+ knot gusts while racing. The foresail was mostly wrapped up and the main needed a second and third reef (which the main does not have).
I have loved thee last bunch of videos. Long Island Sound is my sailing grounds (from Lower NY Harbor, New Jersey) and have sailed much around Staten Island and Sandy Hook. I am amazed that you are sailing in the winter - my boat is on the hard for the winter... I plan on taking the boat to the Chesapeake in the next year, so will be following your path down the Jersey Shore (but I will do it in warmer weather).
The Understatement of the Week Award goes to Alan Mulholland for "These are really good conditions to stay at anchor." Mulholland shows us all how to be a glass half full with only a quarter of a glass of water!
Nice job with the video. Your correct on how the seas just dont show true on the video. A suggestion for video showing wind. A couple small tell tales off the bimini frame. Thanks
Hi Alan! Great voyage thus far. I enjoyed hearing you like to read the names on the benefactor bulkhead. On both Wave Rover 1 and 2 I have wondered why there isn’t a cabin heater of some sort? Stay safe buddy.
The boat is well up to the task, its a tad noisy (as was my previous boat) which is good the boat talks to you once your brain has synced it you will be able to read conditions in your sleep. Good conditions to learn the boat and find weakness's so take advantage .
Hi mate, considered adding 2" insulation against deckhead and hull ? Should be pretty easy to do, make life more bearable in high latitudes and add buoyancy.
Wave Rover seems like a great coastal cruiser, but if these are ‘challenging conditions’ what about off shore crossing oceans where inevitably you will be occasionally exposed to MUCH worse sea and wind conditions. How is that going to work?
If this was mostly with wind and waves, how will it be during ocean crossings? 18-20 knots of wind is not much once you get out there. I look forward to the continuation and hope everything goes well. 💕😄😀🇸🇪
Having crossed oceans in small boats, these conditions were not trivial. Perhaps that doesn't show o the video. At one point a 60' plus cutter was slowing passing me fully reefed with only a tiny amount of stay sail showing.
Alan after watching the video I wonder if you're satisfied with the forward visibility from inside the cabin? Would a larger port, or multiple forward facing ports be an improvement?
Good stuff. Could be a trick of the camera but the pointy bit of your anchor looks like it could be trouble if you stumbled on deck. Could it be stowed with the point facing out?
