Just swinging over to northern Sicily [Ep. 112]
Sailing Sardinia has been an absolute treat. But, it was time to move on. Off to Sicily we go! We provision in a city called Olbia before heading off into the Tyrrhenian Sea. Join us for some random adventures onboard La Vagabonde. I’d like to thank James and Destiny for coming onboard and the support, we had such a great time and we’re so happy to have been able to show you a little bit of what our life is like on the water. Good luck with Yacht hunting. Cheers, Riley.
Just swinging over to northern Sicily (Sailing La Vagabonde) Ep. 112 (YouTube)
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On your long term cruising plans of the Arctic ( and to come to Ireland) you might be interested in this: <a href="https://cornellsailing.com/2017/08/jimmy-cornell-where-do-all-the-boats-go/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://cornellsailing.com/2017/08/jimmy-cornell-where-do-all-the-boats-go/</a>
Great soundtrack! Turned the volume up on this episode. I'm dying to see this "ripper" you land on the new LV. Hope she's a beaut! Time to spill some fresh tuna blood on the deck. Break LV in big fish style! Love it! BTW, the underwater filming is getting better and better. It adds so much to the experience for us viewers. Really top notch. I'm hoping Daniel was able to rig a go pro on a gaf pole so we can see some underwater shots of you reeling it in. Cheers guys! Thank you so much for the adventures!
Hi Guys, great episode as always! Just a technical question re paperwork. Have you had to get any sailing certification (such as ICC skippers certificate or other), some other sailors have told us that this is required in many ports as part of the paperwork to check in? thanks Bill
Hi Bill, Neither Elayna nor I have our skippers certificate if that answers your question.
Hello from Las Vegas, Frank JG here. Any chance you could tell a person with no sailing experience at all, what some of those numbers mean when you show us what looks like a speed and depth gage and no idea what they all mean, please? There's quite a few different categories on the, hell I don't have any idea what it's called other than a tracking electronic outlet of various things your ship is doing? Sorry, I know this sound like a idiot talking but try to muddle through my ignorance and tell me what those various numbers mean? Please, the instrument appears at about 7:30 on your video and I can figure a few but am lost on most. Anyhoo thanks for all your fun and informative video's! Please start at the top and go down whenever you don 't have anything to use for local interest, tell me or us what those various figures correspond to?
SOG = Speed Over Ground in Knots which is Nautical miles/hour.... about 1.15MIles/hour and uses GPS to calculate versus actual boat speed in the water. COG = Coarse Over Ground in degrees (Magentic as they have it set versus True degrees) which takes in to account the variation of their location on Earth. This is also calculated from GPS based on direction traveling as opposed to a compass bearing. AWS = Apperent Wind Speed in Knots which is the true wind Speed with the speed and direction of the boat mathematically taken in to account... obviously, the POS is Position / GPS coordinates... Put these in Google Maps and you can see exactly where they were within about 6 feet.
What a great way to wake up this morning! Coffee in hand & watching just a fabulous vid. A trolley full of laundry & clean up - I love to clean & I do have our own laundry to do today; thanks for the reminder. Take care, luv ya!
Cheers Harlan!
Another great video ,it's like being there with you, I'm totally lost in the sun and sea, away from cold wet UK! nice to see more of the places you visit...take care!
great vid, liked the stop and go far a swim in the beep blue. When we got bored motoring we used to swing the boom out over the side and go monkee dunking, the person on the end of the main sheet controlled how deep you went.
For sure David, it's an ultimate freedom feeling isn't it
I wish I could itemize all the aspects of your productions; photography, subject, sound, music and Ican’t think of more right now but the one I’d like to single out is the background music.....you have come so far in putting it together. I’m going to remind myself in the future to look for Elayna’s name. I know you have contributed but your musical talents need to be pointed out as a feature. Thanks for publishing.
Don't worry Harold, I've been trying to get the guitar back in Elayna's hands lately. Hopefully more to come in the future.
tying the ropes in your bath robe Elayna...lol
Another late day in my office ONLY to come home and relax sharing another dream video with my favorite cruising couple! Hugs Darlings!!
My grandparents were from a small village near Palermo, Sicily. Looking forward to seeing videos of the place.
Nice video. When you show videos like that its amazing (in a tragic sense) to see how incredibly depleted the fishery is in the med. Also, its good to see you two/three enjoy sailing with out so much apparent stress. P.s. Tim Tams rule
Beautiful as always you guys rock
Thinking of doing a charter out of Palermo next year... looking forward to hearing about it.
Excellent video guys. Not to worry Riley that fish wasn't big enough to be the first one on the new boat. Patience you must have my young padawan.
We have a ripper of an ep coming up that makes up for it. Can't wait to show it to you all.
It was incredible and we are still smiling and dreaming. Thanks again for sharing your adventures with us in videos and for our time aboard. So grateful Daniel edited out the more awkward clips, to make me appear halfway comfortable on camera is impressive. Destiny was actually about 2 1/2 months pregnant when we were on board so we we're changing our plans a bit on the yacht but sailing is still on the horizon, just more intermittent. We're excited after our small taste of real sailing. Finally catching up on episodes. SLV videos are a blessing for us chained to a desk. Can't wait for your next adventure heading north.
CONGRATULATIONS GUYS!!!! That's awesome news!!!
...need to catch another tuna! great video!
Cheers mate! stay tuned, we've got one of my favourite catches from the med coming up in the next few weeks.
Great video! God that engine noise must drive you batty!!
pretty great....thanks guys.
Thanks Tim!
I'm enjoying your journey - keep this s#*t up ;)
Cheers Bruce! ;)
Cool! 😉
Cheers Jimmy!