Walkthrough Tour of Our Fountaine Pajot Helia 44 Catamaran | Episode 142 

Bigger is better. Haha! Love the new boat. Stars definitely aligned for you to help get her.

Wow Beautiful

Cheers guys

You guy's Are amazing people. Dude you are a great Carpenter, mechanic, Electrician and it all and the most I'm impressed with is your coffoe table 👏 A-1 brother, and your wife is awesome 👌. I believe she can let you sleep and she can sail that catamaran wherever she wants to go, since I've been watching your channel she has learned so much besides being the best home maker there is. So on that note I just wished I could be able to do what you two can do..so please keep on keeping on guy's and sending out the content that you do it's great love you two!!!

Your new water craft is so so very very groovy. It was nice to see you on a boat that you weren't doing repairs on. It's about time. Stay groovy and stay safe.

Tough life, sailing around the world to all the beautiful places most people can only dream about on a boat that's nicer then most people's homes.

Cool guys 🤓

Thanks for the tour. Always enjoy your videos. You both are delightful!

Love that boat!!

I wanted a Fontaine Pajot years ago when I first got interested in sailing, and I definitely still want one! Lol love it guys, keep it up!

Love then new boat! Congrats guys!

rad layout.

Impressive!

Oh guys, it was so disappointing to see a couple of comments that were just vacuous nastiness. I hope they don’t even slightly impinge on your day. Your vids are such high quality and your lives so interesting that my wife and I really look forward to watching them every week. Thanks so much for sharing your beautiful boat with your excellent vid skills. I’m so glad you are delighted with VA. A beautiful boat deserves appreciative owners.

You are so lucky your house floats!! Awesome! Looks like Better Homes and Gardens/Architectural Digest on water.

Awesome Boat!

Awesome couple in an awesome boat! Your videos are always a pleasure to watch. Keep it up.

As always, secrets, intrigues, investigations )) Thanks!

Thanks guys, I've been waiting for this tour. We are chartering a Helia 44 out of Loreto in May. It's nice to hear what you think about it. I'm pretty excited now. Thanks again.

I too prefer the Helia 44, my favorite catamaran under 45 feet. Another excellent video. Friendships from France.

Absolutely beautiful!! ♥️Cant wait to see all the good times y’all will have on VA.

Happy for you guys! She’s beautiful 😍

Love the whale shark pillows!

Great to see the new boat in all its glory. Good on you guys. Look forward to following you on your journeys.

Just to for your information. The naked guy was still there in November 2022 when we were sailing form La Paz heading North. 😀

Congrats & love the new boat! Fair Winds...

You guys are great at making videos, you are always going on great adventures, you put consistent videos and you are great story tellers. You should have so many more subscribers.....Did I mention Erica. Anyway you should have more subscribers than the top 3 sailing channels......you got my vote.

Loving your new home! Excited for you guys!

Well another great video, I really like the detailed explanation of the boat. You guys are living it up and living free.....enjoy it! Looking forward to more videos!

Boat is amazing

Hey WE, thanks for your great walk through of your new sailing vessel. It’s an awesome ride. Love the expanded room and features. Happy Happy Happy for you 👍🇺🇸😎...

Good video...... Fun to watch.....

Glad you're lovin' you're Helia. Been on our for a few years now. Your catchment setup is brilliant. Thanks for sharing that. If you're amenable sharing more details, would appreciate more details on the specific components used and if you have any pics of the setup under the mast step and water tank area that would be much appreciated! I found you through the FB Helia owners group. I suspect other owners would appreciate seeing your good work! I've already mentioned it to my FP contact as a wonderful idea for a a factory option on the new boats. Cheers, Jeff & Debby sv Making Memories

Love the new galley undermount kitchen sink and faucet Warren!

It's a beautiful boat. I sailed on one two weeks ago. And thank you for this video. Specifically for the shots of your master cabin. In January I was on chartered 4-cabin Helia. Nice. I also have a Seawind on order. I was wondering if maybe I shouldn't get that in 4 cabin version, use one as a workshop..... two minutes into your video I now completely understand. Your master cabin is absolutely gorgeous, really nice and roomy. btw the hydraulic steering on the Helia we chartered out of La Paz, Mexico, had a huge problem. The repair guys said it was the seals in the hydraulic ram. They couldn't fix it. Made steering really difficult. If you slowly turned the wheel and the rudders would never change. The only way to steer was to give the wheel a hard yank and then yank it back just before the boat reached the new heading. (Autopilot worked fine). (btw if by chance someone reading this chartered that same boat and suffered with that steering tell Dream Charters to give you your money back. It should've been fixed before they sent us out on it. I'm sure it was bad the week before - our boat was changed at the last minute. I wouldn't be surprised if it's weeks or months before the problem is fixed.) tip for you guys: Carry a set of those ram seals and learn how to replace them. It is nevertheless a beautiful boat, easy to sail. For the mainsail traveler I'd replace what they have with a single-crank back-n-forth one (don't know what they're called). There's just a bit more fussing that I think there should be and if you do it wrong (which I almost did) you could get hurt. re: the inside table. The Helia I was on had a full table. Definite plus. Because so much of the 'furniture' in a catamaran (foam and veneer) looks like Ikea I have the idea for my Seawind to get a piece of that lightweight structural foam, get some really nice veneer (birds-eye maple?) and make my own table (or hire someone who can make something really amazing.) Looking at photos of other Seawinds, clearly I'm not the first one to have this idea. I think it would really set off the saloon of any boat.Your table solution is really smart. I'd round those corners, even a one inch radius I think you would definitely notice how much 'friendlier' the table would be. (The Seawind had a table with two fold out leaves, this means I'll have to veneer two sides - no problem, but when folded open there will be 'missing' wedges where the curves meet - I don't see a problem.) I'd also insert a curved solid wood edge all the way round so it's rounded and more comfortable. On the side of the settee near the steps to the starboard hull? Put in a side rail. It can even swing a bit out of the way. A couple of times people sliding out that end started to tumble down the steps. A single rail that would pivot out of the way would remind the person of the drop but also keep them from falling down the stairs backwards. & I loved the night I slept on the top deck in my sleeping bag liner. Be good to have ties on the liner and on a pillow so they don't blow away. I'd put handholds on the sugar scoops to make getting in and out of the dinghy easier. I'd also put them on the hull steps. (I prefer stairs that can be made easier and safer when you can use hands and feet.) I've been in situations where I've seen people repeatedly reach for handholds that weren't there, but should've been, pointed it out, and was then dismissed by the person who'd just been reaching for them - 'nah, not necessary.'

Love the new boat and congrats! Warren, I'm like you do a little exploration and find out where you can make more storage out of areas which were previously covered up... Looking forward to the new adventures!!!

Love the new boat. Looking forward to seeing where she takes you guys. Until our adventures cross... Jack never2old adventures

WOW! The rainwater collecting system is so cool! I would love to know more about that thing!

Fantastic looking cat! What's the headroom? I love the working desk with the monitor! Some feedback: Use a super wide lens (like a GoPro) and give some comments.

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Congrat ! Love from France.

Love the videos. Congratulations on the new boat. I’d love to see how the reefing works on Helia. We’re chartering one in puerto Escondido in April.

For the water catcher, remember that the first few minutes of rain will wash the dried salt spray off the decks, you definitely dont want to catch that salty water. Perhaps a manual/electric valve to control water tank access ??.

"Size matters BABY!" "Does it?" "NO!" "Okay, good!" LMAO You guys!!

Man we are so Happy for ya'll. Love to see your rain Catchment System. How it works and how the filtering system works. As you remember here we Catch all are water. (25,000.Gallons of Storage)with three filters and a UV light. The best water I have ever had. It looked like your Washing machine was a good size. How much can you wash at a time? Love what ya'll did with the set(T) in the Salon! That is just plain Genius! Now can it also be a place to sleep or rest for Those long or overnight Passages? And is it or did ya'll or have ya'll gone to Lithium batteries yet? Ok we are so Excited for ya'll. Looking forward to seeing more! Ok until next time Aloha from your friends on the Big Island 🏝of Hawaii 🏞🍹! Aloha!

Love all the upgrades. How did you know where to cut the floor? * - not an evolution.

fantastic! do you have a movie or pictures of the Lipari and Helia next to each other just to see how different they are in size?

Curios what do you do with the sewage and also the water from dishes and showers? Thanks. Love your boat!

Where did you get the Octopus bookends? Love em!

Love your new boat, she is beautiful and I look forward to watching you sail. One question, what is her name? I just can not figure it out.

We are looking at buying a Helia 44 owners version as well and wanted to know if you have your asymmetrical sail measurements from Precision sails? We have ours from Provision sails that we bought last year for our 41’ monohull with our logo and wandered if we could use it on the Helia?? Loving your videos and the fun you had with the Parley gang and Delos! Happy new year guys!!

We all can see how visibly excited yall are about your new boat and it is beautiful. How does the cruising speed on the engines compare to the old ones? Fuel usage a little more or about the same since you could run at lower rpm? I am an electrician so hearing about the solar system i really enjoyed and all of the other systems as well. Now lets get those scuba tanks out and go explore....

I can't wait for you to start doing long runs to places. I am glad i found your channel and really enjoy the videos. thanks for the tour. Do you plan on any long runs again this year?

Have I missed the part where they explained the meaning of the name Va? Another great video from a talented couple. Love from the Maine coast

woah. 142 episodes deep?

Like the rain collection setup, but doesn´t the deck have a lot of salt on it from time to time?

So....did y`all have a fallin out with the crew of SV Wolfhound? I noticed a faraway video of the farewell, and absolutely no mention of them anywhere.

Congrats on your new Helia 44. We are SV Eventually Hull#63. We decided we would search the world for the right Helia 44 and that would be where we would start our live-aboard adventure …which ended up being Turkey!! We have been watching with great interest your additions and modifications to SV VA especially the new found storage. We were particularly interested in the issue of your unfurling jib furler as we have the identical problem. So we were a little disappointed when you gave up on it and went swimming instead (which is exactly what we did). Did you come to any solution or conclusion on the furler?

Awesome videos guys as always. Quick question: What are the widths in meters of all 3 beds you have in the 3 cabins? Many thanks

Love the rain water collection Idea, do you have a bypass for when you wash the boat with soaps etc?

Congratulations that’s a wonderful catamaran ⛵️🐳🍷🍷🦋💖🐬🐬🌸 we hope one day you can make a wonderful adventure to Australia 🇦🇺🦘🦘🦘🇦🇺🐬🦋⛵️🐳🌸

Where is the dive compressor?

Hi, Love your vids, Do you tie down your scuba bottles while underway. Thanks Bobby.

New boat is good, when you guys making sailing to Mediterranean Sea?

The 2015 Fountaine-Pajot Helia that we chartered had a 120V/240V electrical panel above the cupboard that is above the two-drawer referigerator. In your videos, I haven't seen the panel . Where is the AC electrical panel located on Va?

I am very interessted in the hinges you made for the coffee table in the saloon. Would appreciate, if you could send me some infos about that. Greetings from Leros, Greece Evelyn and Roland Witsch

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Hello Warren and Erica. Hey Warren do you have any plans for your hings and top that you made for your coffee table? I would like to do something like this to mine.

generator ?? a friend who circumnavigated in the 1990's had a lever attached to the engine block with the alternator mounted on it - when they needed ac power for the washing machine or dryer the lever would be swung over and locked down so the the alternator ran on the engine pulleys - depending on fuel usage you might be able to get a weight saving

Some haters here big time. Love the Helia. Looking for one preferably a evolution owners version

Hi there. I have concerns about the veneered wood. It is of poorer quality than solid wood because the coatings can come off. What is your impression of the interior quality with regard to the wooden parts?

How do you afford this lifestyle? Could you make a video regarding the cost of sailing? Thanks for sharing what you do. Fair winds and much love

Does the intro song say to “go jump around in the forest”?

Hello WEsail, I bought a Foutaine Pajot Elba45. Delivery in May 2022. I wonder about the sails. Do you think it would be useful to install a small genoa or a special sail for heavy weather? We see this on catamarans over 45 feet, and as we are going on a long trip, I think it could be very useful. Your opinion as a sailor please? thanks in advance. Good sailing and enjoy your videos. Christophe.

Erica you looked exceptionally nice at the Va q&a! What was that guy's name sitting next to you? (kidding)

Do you have a water heater? I assume you do but curious.

How fast is the heila 22:09

Gosh that looks nice! -- QUESTION -- This is going to sound weird, but for some reason, if I am honest, I want to NOT like Catamarans and to prefer sailboats. Not sure why tha tis, but I want to like sailboats more than Cats and we are fighting the "get a Cat" syndrome. Sailboats were like our first love and our dream was to get a sailboat to go around the world and now there is this new thing called a Cat that is messing it up. So weird.

Hope you are having a great time cruising. Question? Do you run your rainwater through the water maker? I hope I have enough money to buy a 40-foot trimaran. I can't sleep much anyway while riding so maybe planning trips right. Maybe i could learn to sleep working at it and maybe the help of some sleep aids. I could have much higher speed even if sailed conservatively. There's not many of them around and might end up buying a new one like the Dragonfly 40 or the Rapido 40 and a house with a dock on the water. The whole world is fixing to open up. Trump said one time he wished everyone else had the same chance he had and i think he meant it by what is fixing to happen but i don't want to discuss it publicly.

Love your videos but a 50 sec intro, come on

Did she always have those unsightly tats ?

so boring bye

Boat “TOURS” have to be the biggest lame azz waste of time for any sailing channel. If I want a boat tour I’ll go to a marina. Sorry. But. It’s the truth.