CRYSTAL CLEAR (featuring Squid v Abalone) - Episode 127
Join us this week for a sail down the east coast of Tasmania, an incredible sunset, crystal clear water, a review of our solar array and a culinary taste test with a difference!
A little late coming out today as we've decided to stay in one place for a while due to travel restrictions and start a winter refit of Mirrool so we've been pretty busy this week. We will upload some pics of ground zero soon!
With gratitude
Troy and Pascale
CRYSTAL CLEAR feat. Squid v Abalone - Free Range Sailing Ep 127 (YouTube)
Comments (18)
What a little Beauty! (Not you Troy, the scenery! ;-) It reminds me a bit of one of my major sailing adventures in the Greek Isles on my good friends Catamaran. I did have to get off of the boat a little early after taking a tumble and hurting my arm. I took a ferry to stay with a friend of a friend on Santorini. There I found out that Santorini is a TERRIBLE place... To be on your own! All those darn honeymooners ;-) . Thanks for another great movie! Tim
Tassy is amazing in that it packs the scenery you would expect from about 20 different exotic lands into one convenient destination! We have a question for you Tim. Do you think someone with raptor training experience would be able to train a smallish dinosaur if they still were extant? There is no one else who can settle this dinner time conversational quandary. You're our only hope Mr. Brown.
Thank you both, another most enjoyable episode, and as usual your videography, and explanations are superb. I've never had abalone, probably too cold for it to thrive in British waters, but of course had heard of it before, and having watched these last two episodes, if I had the money I'd be getting a plane down there as soon as possible just to try it fresh from the Sea!
I still think it may be difficult to wild harvest them in the UK, but you guys also have a type of abalone:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2002/dec/10/food.fish We are enjoying the filming side of visiting Tasmania in particular because the wonderful landscapes are very dramatic and it is easy to shoot beautiful images here!
My girlfriend and I have had the same string shade discussion and I say the string ain’t no loss. Now with your video, Jean 1 Girlfriend 0. He he he. Thanks.
Haha, we're quite sure you were very gracious in victory Jean. If that puts the score at 1-0, that indicates very few disagreements so congratulations on finding one another!
Loved this, as always, thank you! I also think squid is extremely close to abalone. Years ago we had a favorite restaurant that prepared squid so well, I loved it just as much as the abalone I remembered from my youth, and was long gone unless one was either wealthy, or extremely skilled and lucky. Great news about the success of your solar array. I only have one 100 Watt panel set up, but it is fully adjustable. I'll be interested to see how it does. Hope to add at least one more.
We have seen a company implement large specially shaped concrete structures that grow algae and when seeded with spat produce a lot of abalone and provide fantastic fish structure. It looks like a positive impact aquaculture and it would be wonderful to see it implemented in more areas to provide the sea's bounty to folks like you once more. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-23/world-first-abalone-sea-ranch-creating-opportunity/7345448 We are following the sea farming in North America and Canada that produces seaweed and this also looks like a positive development. Good luck with your photon harvesting!
Very pleasant video. I good mix of professional seamanship and some wholesome family fun. TY for taking the time and sharing with us. You might already have done this, but if not, can you please tell us sometime what are the absolute essentials you have to resupply from civilization? Seems like you can be pretty self sufficient as long as things keep working. I'm sure the list includes Video production stuff as essential!
Strangely, one of the absolute essentials is alcohol to drive our stove. It has changed as we go, for example, in parts of the tropics the water is too turbid to run our water maker and the sea pushes a long way up rivers, so fresh water is hard to come by unless we get rain to replenish supplies. In a place where we can get fresh water, seafood and light fires ashore (like the Kimberley), we could stay out for a good part of the year with the supplies Pascy detailed in her recent ebook. To tell you the truth, right now, an essential is news of how our friends and family are handling the unusual challenges of our lock-down!
Yet another awesome episode!
Thanks Mark, we appreciate it.
Love the Bongos
Haha, yes something a bit different...
Another great work! Hope the refit is going well! Stay healthy and fear not!😁
It's the first refit not being conducted in a tropical summer wet season- it's like having a holiday!!
Another cracking episode guys. Troy I totally agree with you about tilting your solar panels to catch the sun at all angles. The panel on Ngarlaa are located on the roof of the Pod and remain flat. I am trying to design a way to allow them to move in the same way. Stay safe there and take care in Tassie.
I might try a ball fitting on one corner of a panel, connected to a strut that is as long as the long side of the panel. When laying down, there is a grooved track directly under the edge of the side with the strut, running parallel. Lifting he panel has the bottom end of the strut run along in that groove where it can be locked at the correct angle. That should allow pretty large adjustment.