Found your family this morning and have binge watched all afternoon once a very stormy sky chased us inside. You are living my dream! My husband just walked in and asked me why I was laughing and crying at the same time. I just said, I want to fly with the dolphins! Love from a mountain in Colorado, USA❤️
Just found your channel and started watching... High quality videography, great music and love to see you two raising fine young men to be future sailors and develop a love for the sea! A boat tour and what you like and learned on your shake down passage. Thanks for sharing your adventures! Fair winds from Boston!!
Thank you soo much for your kind comment!! It's amazing to see how our kids enjoy life on the water. We will definitely be sharing more about our boat and our experiences later. Thank you for watching! Best wishes Tina & Sven
Definitely these two boys are going to be spending best days of there life in few day and turn into watersports boys in few years..Can't wait to see them changing year and years..good luck and have a safe journey 👍😁
Great t see, couple of tips. The higher you are above waterline the ‘more bumpy’ things are! Easier to sleep in the bunks. Practice some man overboard drills. Folding props will definitely increase cruising speed. Ginger usually helps with with motion sickness. Thanks for sharing and stay safe. 😎🏖🌴☀️🇦🇺
Thanks a lot for watching and the amazing tips! Strangely enough we always feel better when we're up the flybridge, don't know why... but whatever works, right? We will definitely invest in folding props one day. ⛵
Thank you for watching and subscribing!! For me the waves were already more than high enough for our first voyage 😅 Once out of the Bay of Biscay the seas were incredibly flat, I loved it! 😄
Thanks a lot! It started out with a sailing trip with some friends a few years ago. We loved it so much that Sven decided to take lessons and not much later we bought our boat.
Planning to do this next year .But a smaller scale...with my Albin Vega 27 haha .starting from Den Helder Holland. I enjoy your adventure ..A un de c'est jour peut-être et bon vent. Mario
@@SailingNohma Growing up doing crossings with my parents, it was rare that we slept in any of the three cabins on passages. Only if someone didn't get out of bed when the crossing started. Otherwise we just slept in salon.
I am very interested in hearing more about the pod of killer whales attacking sailing vessels. I live on Vancouver island amongst killer whales and have never heard of such things. By attack do you mean a boat hit a whale or do you mean an angry bunch of whales show up to your boat and violently attack you. Lol 😂
It seems to be the same group of killer whales that keep approaching sailing boats to interact with. They bump into the boats and especially the rudder. Most boats are damaged after the encounter. You can find all about it on the internet: killer whale attacks in Spain. Thanks for watching our video!
@@SailingNohma oh wow. Glad there not a group of thug whales, up to no good. Thanks for the response. I really enjoy your channel. Am a subscriber. Cheers 🍻
Hi, I wanted to tell you that you are a beautiful family and you have a beautiful catamaran, I do not see solar panels, there is a reason, it would be a great system for the electrical system and definitely for various other things. I sincerely wish you a beautiful journey. Hello from Switzerland 🇨🇭
Hello Tony. Thank you so much! We didn’t have the solar panels installed from the factory. In a later episode you’ll be able to see that we sail to Gibraltar to buy the panels and install them ourselves.
I saw you were asked how such a young family could afford the Sailboat and take the time to travel with your family? I would like to understand this myself? Also why a Lagoon?
Hi Norman. Today I saw a memory on Facebook from something I posted 5 years ago. It said "Don't doubt, don't regret... Just do it! Live!! Because everybody dies, but not everybody lives. And that's exactely what we're doing, living now while we can. We chose the Lagoon simpy because we plan on living on it for a few years, so we chose space and comfort. Thanks for watching! Best regards.
It was all over the news around that time and there were warnings from the coast guard. Apparently there was a group of 3 young male killer whales interacting with sailing boats. They had damaged several boats, there were even some people injured. It all sounded quite scary and we definitely weren't ready for that kind of action. 😅
Yes seems like it's not over yet, it's always the same group of killer whales. Sailing Calista, who we met in Portimão have encountered them recently on their way to Gibraltar, on April 11. Both their rudders were destroyed. Thankfully nobody got hurt.
How far behind are your videos from where you are now? This one you're in Portugal, but I saw a comment that you are already in the Caribbean. What kind of dog is your pup? He looks so happy but very skinny! LOL
Hello Diana, we are running a bit behind with our videos indeed. This episode was October 2020. We took some time to get used to our life as sailors and to prepare the boat for the ocean crossing. Now that we have arrived in the Caribbean we have finally found the time to start sharing our adventures. Our dog was a rescue pup from Spain (a podenco mix). Unfortunately she was diagnosed with Leishmaniasis and passed away last month. She had an amazing time with us on board, we miss her very much. Thank you for watching!!
@@SailingNohma AWW, so sorry to hear she passed away, and thank you for rescuing instead of buying! It certainly looked like she had a happy life with you. I so admire the sailors who make the apparently huge effort to travel with a pet. Tons of regulations and paperwork and costs make it quite a hurdle!
Hi Clarence! We already made it to the Caribbean so far. We plan on staying here this year and would like to continue to the Pacific afterwards. Thanks for watching!!
Looking like there's are perfect spot for all those ropes, a large sail pocket just below the ropes,all over the boat there would be areas to keep the ropes neat and tidy.
I don't get why they are not sleeping in there cabins ? Killer whales attacking boats ????? I have never seen nor heard of that in all my life I have seen Killer whales in the wild and seen them next to the boat I was in not once did they attack it. I live in the Pacific North West of the untied States. by the way make sure you get ride of the paper around your can goods label them with a marker bugs like to hide behind the paper swap out the boxes for plastic totes and dry good in plastic not cardboard boxes.
Hi! Thanks for watching! We slept on the flybridge together with our children on our first passages. It was new for all of us and we didn't want the kids to be wandering around at night without us noticing. When we're in the marina or at anchor we obviously do sleep in our cabins. About the killer whales, there is a pod that has been interacting with sailing boats near the coast of Spain and Portugal for over a year now. You can find all about it on the internet. A couple we met in Portugal had both rudders on their boat destroyed by the killer whales two weeks ago. Thanks for the tip on the cans and boxes!!