RUNNING OUR YACHT AGROUND!!! Ep.155

Another sailing channel has stolen something from La Vagabonde....Another captain is trying to pull off "The Riley Stache"....and we all know only Riley can pull off "The Riley Stache".

wow. another great vid. genuine, lovable couple giving us amazing real life drama aboard La Vegabonde

Always fun when Riley gets crocked!

Thought this would be of interest ... A new baby on board your boat will present some issues concerning space and safety .. Living in Oklahoma I have seen lots of Native American Indian practices ... one that struck me as something practical for a new baby for adverse travel ..was what they have used for hundreds of years ... and that this might be a great thought for use on a boat for the same reason ... A Papoose Baby Board ... Maybe worth some on line research... Sorry the attached YouTube video is not the greatest.. If interested let me know and I will try to find out if someone here can make you one ..GB <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgd1MP5M_N4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgd1MP5M_N4</a>

Apologies in advance for this dumb question, but I'm not familiar with marine nav systems. At 7.07 mins. into the video I had to giggle because there looks to be a mens and ladies restroom symbol in the North Atlantic Ocean. Curious what that symbol indicates on your fav system? Thanks in advance for satisfying my curiosity! Also, glad you guys made it safe and sound into the marina, and happy to learn that the accident had nothing to do with Riley's prior back injury!

Here's a link that you might like <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=em-uploademail&v=XHgICqsoJwY" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=em-uploademail&v=XHgICqsoJwY</a>

One of the best ! Episodes.......just love it.

Episode 155 is definitely one of my favorites. Very entertaining. Very colorful. Riley, sorry you fell down the hole. Been there - done that!

Great video. Awsome water. Look forward to seeing your dad again. He is just way cool. Glad your boat wasn't damaged Thank you

Oh and I wish you could have seen Lucien (10yrs) and Sophia (8 yrs) LAUGH UNCONTROLLABLY when Riley was doing his "MAD DOGGG SAILOR WOMAN" rant! Oh my gosh we were all splitting our sides doubled over! They love it when Riley gets silly! So good.

So much to say but in short, your boat is just SUCH a beauty! You have got me wanting to pull the kids out of school and set up house with the 5 of us on a cat somewhere that winter never touches!! Ha ha!! Love to you dearies....still can't believe all this happened to you before we met you in Florida in June!!!

My husband and I were the only “crew” on our cat when we lived aboard. We used to do 3 hour shifts. Always felt exhausted after a crossing and usually sacked out for the first day in a new country! 🤣

Riley's dad is the best - he needs a mini-docu featurette!

In the Bahamas running aground is considered an art form. As for watch during crossings the big thing I've held to is strict 4 hour watch schedules. Knowing you are done in an hour or so allows you to power through without succumbing to 'a little nap'. While my wife and/or son (12) are on watch I rely heavily on alarms so I can sleep: AIS and or radar: 12nm pie shaped zone ahead of the boat, 5nm full circle zone, and a wind limit 5kts over whatever it is. If you are unavoidably sleepy on watch it is better to slow the boat down (main only?) so if you do doze for an hour you've only gone 3 or 4 miles.

One of my favs...Love Elayna's music on all the post.. Hope you enjoy.......My Best GaleB.....<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I</a>

Glad you stitched your shin wound. Lower leg wounds are notorious for healing in the tropics. Did anyone notice how blue the water was!!!!!?

...shade of blue! Reminds me of the color of glaciers in Alaska! That was a nasty cut, Riles! Watch for infection so close to the bone. Just beautiful views, music & another gr8 vid I can watch multiple times! God bless! Luv ya!

What a beautiful!

Ouch! Riley when I saw that my chin started to hurt! Stitches for sure! Hope you guys are doing well.

Watches. Sleeping on a boat going on autopilot with no lookout is really dangerous. Any number of things could go wrong. Remember, no appointment or program or job or schedule for arrival is more important than the safety of vessel and crew. Rather take a while longer and stop along the way and drop anchor if possible. I know how it gets with watches and lack of sleep etc. Sailing is already semi dangerous and we try to make it as safe as possible, but steaming on with engaged autopilot without doing lookout is really stacking the odds on the wrong side. I've done some pretty stupid things on boats myself and I was lucky to tell the tale, but many others were not so lucky. Be careful and be safe guys, and "keep on truckin"!

Sleeping on watch. ...hmmm. Seems a simple solution. More crew.. I’ve never done an offshore trip with less than 5. Then everyone gets to sleep and is well rested. With the perfect setup on La Vaga should be easy with one more crew.

Also, for any interested, this is a fantastic, and fantastically funny post of a solo to Hawaii and back. Thought the La Vaga family might enjoy (certainly thought of you Riles): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5m9yT06Khg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5m9yT06Khg</a>

Riley, for that gnash, you should probably eat some beef. And. . .rub it with some beef and veggies. ;)

As usual entertaining ,beautiful water,you were lucky it was a sand bar....Rileys cut made my bum clench ooooh you seem to have had your share of mishaps this year mates.....please take care of yourselves... The TM technique gives the body deep rest you may find it helpful,it has to be learnt from a teacher, not from a book. and is available all over the world in TM Centers.i've been doing it since 1978 and its really helped me cope with some very traumatic situations....its very enjoyable, simple to do ,drawback is, the fee, and you must be disciplined and make time for it everyday for 2 x 20mins......<a href="https://uk.tm.org/?leadsource=CRM1781&gclid=CjwKCAjw-8nbBRBnEiwAqWt1zcJ1myt5xnCL8cLNT0gYcK58Bm-GEN2j-yIoNRJIADEGHe3cKJK7QxoCNxUQAvD_BwE" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://uk.tm.org/?leadsource=CRM1781&gclid=CjwKCAjw-8nbBRBnEiwAqWt1zcJ1myt5xnCL8cLNT0gYcK58Bm-GEN2j-yIoNRJIADEGHe3cKJK7QxoCNxUQAvD_BwE</a>

Another great episode! Enjoyed the little blackadder addition 😁! And welcome to the club running aground...you know there’s 2 types of sailors: Those that have run aground and those that will someday run aground. Luckily it was just on a sandbank with no damage to LV.

My Aunt and Uncle spent many years in the Dominican and loved it, they wanted to stay permanently but family beckoned and they had to go home, I've never been, but they wouldn't shut up about it... :-)..... they make pretty good rum there though.... :-)

Great video. Bluest of the blue blue!! Beautiful. Glad you were able to get unstuck. And rileys owie 🙈🙈 until next time. Much love from california. Elayna i think im gna try those bananas. 👍👍

Spoiler alert please, turned my tum tum

Wonderful video as always!!!

Oh, and Riley concerning your boo-boo. I recommend the same for you ... as outlined in my previous post ...My Best GaleB

I'm looking forward to seeing your new guests. Both of you have an incredible sense for making people feel at home on LV. That allows us to see your guests as they really are, among friends.

La Vagabonde is now officially broken in ! I never considered any boat I owned broken in until they got their first scrape , scratch , ding ,dent , wound , boo-boo , blemish , bruise ,scar ...and it was always devastating !!!! Requiring imbibing large amounts of spirits ( alcohol , wine . or almost anything distilled ) to self medicate the emotional trauma of the event... My Best GaleB

Well, that was exciting, glad it looks like all will be well.

Well you know any sailor who tells you they have not run aground is a liar. Enjoy the blue water and the future Grandma and Grandpa. Fair Winds and stiches!

In terms of fatigue - it’s worth remembering that REM sleep cycles typically last 3 to 3.5 hours so a 4 hour sleep usually gets one cycle in. Waking from deep sleep is challenging and disorienting so fatigue policies recommend napping 20 minutes maximum if you can’t get off watch safely (or in deep ocean etc) as this reduces the likelihood of entering deep sleep (from which it’s hard to wake) yet has a significant short term benefit. Caffeine is also recommended. (I store pepsiMax specifically for this purpose 69mg in USA but only 43 in UK, OZ, NZ and 34 in Coke Zero. Red bull has 80)

Loved the episode. Glad you were able to get free, and sorry about the stitches

As for sleeping... the ColRegs Rule 5 covers it... Rule 5 - Look-out Every vessel shall at all times maintain a proper look-out by sight as well as by hearing as well as by all available means appropriate in the prevailing circumstances and conditions so as to make a full appraisal of the situation and of the risk of collision.

Running aground happens to EVERYONE, I've seen the older Danson Outremers with a skeg forward of the sail drive to protect rudders and drive, appears to be on the engine room bulkhead, great idea, properly done adds very little in the way of drag. It's one of the great appeals of Outremer, solid glass hull skin, easy to fix if damaged. Personally I do not sleep on passages at night, too much traffic, actually heard a collision between a fishing boat and a freighter one night, always had multiple GPS running (different manufacturers) paper charts for backup and always checking between, so no sleep on passages. 2 hour shifts with two of you maybe 3 hours but need to be relatively short.

Another great video. Glad I’ve never run aground! (Much). Only three types of sailors:

Riley you are killin me! Please close the hatches and be careful!

Glad it was sand - minor drama....thanks for sharing everything that you do! Heal fast Riley!

Elayna, Being a "holistic kind o gal" have you tried taking some Melatoni.? All natural with no residual effects...<a href="https://www.swansonvitamins.com/q?kw=melatonin" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.swansonvitamins.com/q?kw=melatonin</a>

Riley and Elay, welcome to the BOTTOM CLUB! We have all done it at some point. The old saw is that if you have never run aground, you have not really been sailing, even in a cat! So, if the hull and dagger boards checked out, and no damage to the sail drives; no harm, no foul. Check out your water strainers for sludge. Carry on and stay calm! All is well. Thanks for the great vlogs! We so enjoy you two and the great cat, LA VAGABONDE. Capt. Rick

Riley, can you send me an address where I can please mail you a hockey helmet before you do some real damage to yourself. 😉 It was a great ideo thiugh. Thanks guys. Take care

Do you care to mention what it was you ate Riley? Should there be a guessing contest?

that small pause and subtitle in the video was priceless. :)

Sleeping while under sail (during a more remote passage) is like picking your nose everybody does it, but almost nobody admits it. And those that do are old and really don’t care. In my experience during a solo sail you need sleep. So I don’t expect to cover much ground during the night and put away all but the tiniest amount of main sail and I keep out a t-shirt of headsail not moving very slowly in the correct direction is important. Now you just make sure all alarms are on and hope that every other captain around is awake.

I echo Steve A's comment. I'd love to learn more about sailing that big cat and how it's rigged and how it works.

Love the new extra videos. Would love to see more sailing, I love learning about that and seeing how you do it. Having you explain how you do certain things and what to watch for would be awesome, after all it's in your title.

The big problem with falling asleep whilst underway is that you then become liable for anything that happens between you and any other boats. The number one navigation rule is that a proper watch must be kept at all times.

Love T&C but it is super $$$ especially compared to the DR. Leg looks nasty, hope it healed up ok.

The DR is amazing. Parts of it (Punta Cana, La Romana) are full of enormous all-inclusive resorts. But much of the rest is unseen by most tourists.

Dang Larry Berman! 3rd

I love being in the same time zone as you guys! Always a convenient upload time ***drops everything for the next 16-ish minutes***