Sailing Alone and Anchoring A Sailboat! 

Captain and technichal engineer at once - great work. Now overcome the arachnophobia and we are set for the Hawaii trip ;)

50" in 18' of depth is probable fine for day anchor without wind but try to do at least 5:1 for over night. That would be at least 100' feet of chain. Personally I do at least 6:1 up to 10:1. I do not know how much chain you have but it does limit the depths you can anchor in. I learned the hard way unfortunately and now I carry 450' of rode. I am very impressed with the drone skills! Also you should permanently mount the solar. The MPPT controller does a great job maintaining the battery and if you every get disconnected from dock power the solar will keep up. Great video and I love to see you practicing it is a good strategy!

Your videos are so positive and you exude happiness. Thank you!

Great job

As long as you don't damage anything, every docking is a successful docking. You only move the boat as fast as the amount of damage you want to do.😂😂😂😂

As always great job Captain, still the best docking skills and awesome handling your windlass under stress. 👏

That portable stove you have is a great little stove fair warning now I just burnt my leg last week because I had a small saucepan filled with oil and garlic and when I placed it on and turned because it's so small the burner wasn't wide enough to keep it from tilting and falling off so make sure you use large pans on that particular unit or be very careful using smaller pans on that unit because it will fall through the space😮😮😮

Captain your showing all of us up the way you handle your boat and carrying out proper checks. Keep it up 😊

All looked very well done! Good job!!

Love Your Videos Beautiful Boat And You Do A Great Job Captaining It! Excellent Boat Handling

loved this video you had a lot going on with the drone and managing the boat way to go girl

FANTASTIC....LOVE THE INSTRUCTIONS ON EVERYTHING YOU DO. YOU SHOULD BE CONVIDENT IN WHAT YOU DO, BE POSITIVE ..LOVE YA

What a great service you are providing to young and old sailors who can learn good tips for the first time or revisiting for the umpteenth time.. And you and your crew (including Mom on shore duty this week) make it all very enjoyable.. Your smiling spirit is as lovely as the sunny day and sparkling waters you sail upon. 😊

Excellent work and videography 👏🏻👏🏻

You're perfectly good there with two to one on your anchor but when you anchor up at Catalina or any of the islands hopefully you have a 100 ft of chain and put it all out if you anchor deeper than 40 ft make sure you put some rope out to this is advice from a guy that has worked most of his life as a commercial fisherman anchored out at the Channel Islands don't be shy and letting all your chain out hopefully you got at least 100 ft of chain and at least a 35 lb anchor I prefer the Bruce. One last piece of advice don't anchor in the rocks no matter what type of anchor you have. Good job on your video and all the things you were doing at once.🎉

Good job Captain Christa. New on your channel but we'll be following you. It's great to check all systems before embarking on a trip. God bless

Nice video editing, great checklist, thx for sharing. Personally, I wouldn't anchor with less than 5:1, but of course it depends on the currents you predict. Great content, love your videos, great inspiration for a solo sailor like me. Keep up!

get er done girl! great to see you're back on the water.

Hello Captain Christa, nice to see you out on the water doing the proper checks before heading out onto the blue. 7:26 I noticed the plug for your solar panel is not on a sealed connector and that can be bad. The best way to keep your batteries charged is for this to be working any time the engine is not running and the sun is up. These connectors should be sealed/ weather proof connectors because salt water will mess them up, as a minimum I suggest you fill the outlet with dielectric grease and make sure the plug connectors are greased before plugging them in.

Awesome

❤ ⛵ well made video. Looking forward to the next one.

Good video. I was complementing a RU-vid sailor that I was learning from when someone said "he's only been doing this for a year." He's also a surgeon and a chef.. so clearly he knows how to learn. What I figured out is he is very deliberate, step by step, which is why I found him so helpful. You're deliberate. Even though you're still new, you aren't doing what too many RU-vidrs do mug for the camera and go over their shortcomings and only half figure things out in front of the camera. Mostly just a waste of time. So well done; I've only got a couple of years myself. What I learned about anchoring is it's not so much the length of rode we let out, it's the ratio. Of course we still have to know how much chain. There are numerous anchor chain marking systems. I didn't like any of them. (Stare at a hundred feet of chain looking for three red plastic cable ties.... ) The one I thought was great was from Jon, with whom we just sailed across the Pacific. It uses cheap poly or nylon rope. There are color schemes and mnemonics. I use the color spectrum ROY G BIV Red, Yellow, Green, Blue then Red for 0' 25'(Y), 50'(G), 75' (B), and 100'(R) [Orange is used if you're doing meters 0m (R), 10m (O), 20m (Y), 30m (G), 40m (B), 50m (R). Red at 0' because on the catamaran we sailed when the anchor came up, it seemed really fast. So we liked to see a red so we'd slow down. ] I have 200' of anchor chain then 200' of 3 strand nylon. I marked that with the color electrical tape you can find at any ACE Hardware. I made a spread sheet chart, printed it out, highlighted the colors, laminated it and stuck it inside my anchor locker cover. (It won't fade because it's in the light only when I'm anchoring.) The chart shows the lengths and the scope ratio. So your depth gauge reads 14', you look at the chart for 5:1 ...15' (close enough) that's 75', Blue, so you let out chain until you see blue. Done. The way the chain is marked is 6' of the color rope is woven through the links. It doesn't interfere with the anchor moving through the gypsy gear, it doesn't fall out. (I tied a couple of knots at the ends just to see if they help in anyway) and most importantly, you can't miss it. I shared the chart on Facebook Hunter Sailboat Owners. No idea how to find it, it's simple enough if anyone is interested. (Also I'm just up in Los Angeles, (keep my boat in Oxnard), if you'd like to do this for your chain, I've got plenty of rope left. I can cut some and send it to you. ) You could probably make a helpful video setting this up on your chain. I've never seen a video on this.

The scary moment for me is when the anchor is up and the boat is drifting. You did a great job!

Nice video

Truly enjoy your videos. Keep up the great work!

Love feels so inviting but when you fall,you find out your not really in control. Scary stuff

……my week is complete!❤

When the anchor chain slipped out of the windlass and the drone was in the air I know that had to be stressful but you handled it awesome. Great prep video, makes me want to go sailing. Looking forward to the next video.

Great vid C.C.! .....and greetings from Lake Michigan!

I have a great suggestion for a destination smuggler's cove excellent Anchorage there Santa Cruz Island

Your stressing me out with this drone battery business. I'm surprised the battery lasted that whole time. Good aerial shots though.

Good solo docking, nose it in half way, step off and walk it up, especially in high wind.

Use bongee cord to secure the solar system

First time watching your channel. Exceptionally beautiful young Woman. I just watched a video from Outdoor chef. He stopped in San Francisco and picked up solar panels that can output quite well even if you have shade going over part of your panel. Taku is his name and you can find his channel with the new solar panels. Might want to check them out because shade across the panels from the boom is common... maybe they will help you.

Great job.

Great testing of your systems. The only comment I would make is, and I may have missed it, is that you let me he boat drift back onto your anchor then put the boat into reverse and pull back on the anchor chain at about half revs and that should help set the anchor. Enjoy your boat and have the best time sailing. Have calm seas and fair winds. You are doing well keep it up. All the way from Australia.

good to see you back on youtube

nice sharing!see you soon. Captain~ ✋

Nice work Captain ❤

well done Cap !

We need more content from you

Newport ri is one of your stops

Your a good captain

Your editing is fabulous, definitely better then you mechanical engineering 🙂

Christa , please don't kill creatures for fun , thank you

18 feet!.. That's deep water in the Thames estuary!.. lol

Well it seems you found the slip from land. Had a little issue coming back :) Thanks so much for sharing with us. Edit: have us comment, helps also.

Looking forward to you doing some traveling/sailing you have been to Catalina before but I would like to see more ! Don't know if you get Paid Vacation from work but it would be nice to see a longer trip, maybe to the west coast of Mexico ? ✌️💙🎵 From STL MO

I think you should show us the Baja and the Sea of Cortez 😊

You can check to see if your Bimini solar panel is putting out voltage by using a multimeter on the end connectors set to a high voltage. If the meter has 100v dc then that would be ideal. Try it on a battery to make sure you set it correctly. Those flex panels go bad so quickly. I would recommend some hard panels on your railings by the stern seats. Also paint your chain with the rybwg acronym so as to know how much chain you have out. It's rub your balls with grease...red yellow blue white green I think. The anchor depth is depth under your keel plus the height from the depth sender to the top of your deck...so 18 feet on the depth finder might actually be 25 considering that circumstance. So a 7 to 1 anchoring situation would mean seven lengths of 25 or 150 feet. 50 feet of chain is a 2:1 anchoring...which with people really close I wouldn't go less than 5:1 and you've got to be careful of swing. If you were leaving your boat 2:1 won't work at all.

love that shoulder/arm tat

Awesome as Always. Looking forward to your trips.... do you plan on any longer passages? like outside the US?

Enjoying your videos. Very nice and you're super cute too. 💋

You mentioned you were in18 feet of water and put out 50 feet of rode. That's only 3:1. The standard is 7:1 so you should have close to 125 feet of rode out in case the wind comes up.

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Hello my friend. Is that a public anchorage for multiple nights? Do you have to reserve a spot if traveling? Where is it? Thanks for the info. Might be too late for this fix, but consider using epoxy to bond some wood to the hull for the charge controller to screw into. West Systems Six10 from West Marine is a good choice. Fits a standard caulking gun. Squeeze amount needed onto a piece of scrap, mix with a putty knife, apply to one side of wood, press onto hull where you want it, and tape to hold in place for 24 hours. FYI they sell a mixing tip for the Six10, but they’re a bear to squeeze the epoxy thru.

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Hi Christa, can you tell us where you got the solar camping light? I went to the company that sells them but they only sell the "Emergency Crank" lanterns. Thanks

Nice! How long is your rode? I have about 50' chain, for a total of 250'. I don't anchor in more than 50' ATM, but thinking about adding another 100' of rope(no more chain), as I don't have a windlass. Great video

I kinda vex that you have so much control over my feelings,anyway tell us about you tattoos

Christa, is that device you wear and insulin monitor? If so, please educate us about it.

It would be fun to have a pet chimpanzee and see if you can teach him/her to drive the boat.

Do some fishing on the side

What type of drone is that?❤

Am really in love,everytime i see you i feel like am free falling ,

Put apiece of wood behind the inverter..so it dont go all the Cruise don't go all the way through the of the boat

Where do I find a women like you? 😁😊❤‍🔥🤙🏼

You are so cute head to barefeet. How long have you been sailing alone?

She’s very beautiful to me

You could move to Michigan and marry me