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Repair Your Own Sails
How to Sail Oceans
Repair Your Own Sails
Ocean passages are hard on sails. When you travel to far away lands there may not be a sailmaker nearby, and not all sailmakers are equally skilled. It pays to learn how to repair sails yourself. Besides saving your cruising funds, it brings the added b...
  • Jan 10, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:11:52
Offshore to the Caribbean: Sixteen Days and Done
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Offshore to the Caribbean: Sixteen Days and Done
We finally pick up the easterly Trade Winds on Saturday, December 1. The winds freshen overnight, and by daybreak we have the Virgin Islands in sight. I decide to put into Francis Bay, St. John, which leaves me with one final challenge of picking up a pa...
  • Dec 31, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:12:51
Offshore to the Caribbean: Misadventures, Meanderings, no Trade Winds
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Offshore to the Caribbean: Misadventures, Meanderings, no Trade Winds
The winds finally lay down for us, but soon we are dealing with little to no wind at all. Taking advantage of the benign conditions I break out my camera drone and lots of fun ensues, especially when it suddenly flies away on me ... Less then 200 miles le...
  • Dec 24, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:17:11
Offshore to the Caribbean: The Heavy Winds Cometh
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Offshore to the Caribbean: The Heavy Winds Cometh
On Thursday, November 22, the winds are veering northerly and beginning to build. Hopes of avoiding gale conditions fade by Friday evening, and I end up heaving her to for several hours during the overnight as we get buffeted by powerful squalls. The str...
  • Dec 18, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:12:27
Offshore to the Caribbean: Across the Gulf Stream
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Offshore to the Caribbean: Across the Gulf Stream
After a decent overnight run south toward Cape Hatteras, we enter the Gulf Stream late in the afternoon on Saturday, November 17. As usual the Stream tosses us about until we finally exit early the following morning. Winds then become southerly ahead of ...
  • Dec 12, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:16:57
Offshore to the Caribbean: Taking departure
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Offshore to the Caribbean: Taking departure
I move into a slip at Hampton Public Piers for a night, primarily to charge up my battery bank as the shorter days and persistent cloud cover have cut my solar generation to a trickle. So the first challenge is to get the boat back out on anchor without ...
  • Dec 08, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:12:04
When you can’t get there from here
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When you can’t get there from here
Our ship has been swinging to her anchor in the Hampton River (Virginia) for over a month now while I search for a weather window to set off for the Virgin Islands. We are in an active and persistent weather pattern of cold fronts exiting the US East coas...
  • Nov 10, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:16:32
Hard work, on the hard … then back in the water!
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Hard work, on the hard … then back in the water!
We return to treating our barrier coat blisters with epoxy and fairing compound and then give the bottom another thorough wet sand in preparation for painting. After having antifouling paints fail before the one year mark, this year I will put three coats...
  • Oct 24, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:14:14
Hard Work, on the Hard– Part Three
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Hard Work, on the Hard– Part Three
The dinghy gets some de rigueur black paint to match the mother ship. We splice on a new painter using a backsplice, and put the name decal on. Then it's on to replacing the leather on the sculling oar using the double-needle baseball diamond stitch.
  • Oct 17, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:15:23
Hard Work, on the Hard–Part Two
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Hard Work, on the Hard–Part Two
We finish up the repair to the rudderhead, and then return to the mast. Twelve coats of varnish are the order of the day--or fortnight, really--but not to worry, dear viewer, I will not make you watch varnish dry. Then we are on to the rigging, where I t...
  • Oct 09, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:19:45
Hard Work, on the Hard–Part One
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Hard Work, on the Hard–Part One
I haul the boat out for painting and maintenance once a year, but the mast only comes out about once every five years. Well the five years since the last pull is up, so ... I also discuss usual haulout issues such as dealing with blisters, sanding and pre...
  • Oct 01, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:16:39
Seasons’ end, south to Deltaville
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Seasons’ end, south to Deltaville
We are up at the crack of dawn to catch a fair wind for the 90-mile run from Annapolis to Deltaville. We have good luck with the winds--though some thunderstorms disrupt our pleasant overnight sailing--but then leave us drifting at the mercy of the tide j...
  • Sep 13, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:19:12
Love’s labor lost
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Love’s labor lost
In 2008 I built a 7'7" Nutshell Pram as a tender for s/v Ruth Avery and proudly sailed away to the Virgin Islands. A few months later a careless speed-boater ran me down and destroyed it. Almost miraculously I was not injured. Determined not to let it s...
  • Aug 27, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:12:41
Wood rot, wood roaches, and the DIY boat owner
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Wood rot, wood roaches, and the DIY boat owner
It starts with a small trail of sawdust on the countertop and leads to lots of summer fun.
  • Aug 06, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:11:48
Your Boat as a Recording Studio
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Your Boat as a Recording Studio
Write and record music, anywhere in the world, from the comfort of your own boat studio! The marine environment does, however, present some unique challenges to the aspiring musician ...
  • Jul 29, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:14:31
S/v Ruth Avery: Boat Tour, Part Two
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S/v Ruth Avery: Boat Tour, Part Two
We dive belowdecks to finish the tour of s/v Ruth Avery.
  • Jul 15, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:16:17
S/v Ruth Avery: Boat Tour, Part One
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S/v Ruth Avery: Boat Tour, Part One
I give a brief history of the boat, talk about modifications I have made, and then we are up on deck for a short tour. We will go below decks in Part Two.
  • Jul 09, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:18:28
Ah, a lovely afternoon for some yachting … Uh-oh! Thunderstorm
How to Sail Oceans
Ah, a lovely afternoon for some yachting … Uh-oh! Thunderstorm
Just a short afternoon sail from the South River to Annapolis on a humid, early summer day. We get out to Thomas Point when NOAA starts broadcasting warnings of a severe thunderstorm . Looks like it will pass north of us, then perhaps it will graze us, t...
  • Jun 26, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:06:40
Handling a Gaff Rig
How to Sail Oceans
Handling a Gaff Rig
I've received lots of questions about handling a gaff rig, enough to make a separate video on the subject. This video turned out to be much harder to make than I thought, between the awkward camera angles and trying to explain what I'm doing at the same ...
  • Jun 21, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:17:06
Big ships, fickle winds, arriving at night–Miami to Virginia, Part Three
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Big ships, fickle winds, arriving at night–Miami to Virginia, Part Three
With light winds after midnight and into the morning of May 16 go our hopes for a late day arrival. Moderate winds out of the south develop in the afternoon to help us on our way but also bring in showery weather. We enter the Thimble Shoal Channel aroun...
  • Jun 07, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:12:03
FREE MILES !! (Offer only valid in the Gulf Stream, see vid for details …)
How to Sail Oceans
FREE MILES !! (Offer only valid in the Gulf Stream, see vid for details …)
Miami to Virginia, Part Two. Fair weather persists, and so does a diurnal wind cycle--southeasterlies at night backing to light northeasterlies the following morning. Progress would be painfully slow if not for the Gulf Stream current pushing us along at...
  • Jun 02, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:12:31
Rollin’ on an Ocean River–Miami to Virginia, Part One
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Rollin’ on an Ocean River–Miami to Virginia, Part One
Thursday, May 10, and we are off for Virginia. We end up having to tack out of the Old Florida Channel to reach open waters. The winds stubbornly remain east to northeast, pushing us westward until we close the coast around Lake Worth the following morni...
  • May 26, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:13:38
Wind, time, and tide–the elements of engineless cruising
How to Sail Oceans
Wind, time, and tide–the elements of engineless cruising
No engine? No problem ... but a few moments of arrested breathing as we sail off the anchor at Miami Beach and proceed down the winding waterway into Biscayne Bay. This includes transiting three narrow bridge passes. All doable with patience and plannin...
  • May 18, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:14:47
He Went to Miami–Music Video
How to Sail Oceans
He Went to Miami–Music Video
Well it's nearly time to put to sea again, to escape probable hurricane paths, to return to the typically tranquil waters of the Chesapeake Bay. I must confess that I have slacked off with the video blogging, but managed to scoop up what I have and put it...
  • Apr 23, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:04:01
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