Just so good to see you guys again!!! Been WAY too long!!! Looking forward to what you have coming up! Cheers guys!!! 😃

That's so great you got Freebie out under sail! Now she's on the hard and you can get everything fixed up whenever. Don't worry about us, we'll be here. Keep looking for that perfect Cat, it's out there waiting for you 😉😊👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Fair winds from your friend in snowy Syracuse NY.

So glad y’all are back! I love your videos and you’re just such a likeable couple.

I see you constantly heading toward that bigger boat. Keep me in the loop when you are ready to sell freebie!

Happy to see you two back. Awesome videos

Great you get to sail again, still love the tours. Why would someone complain about your video, that is life I guess.

Hey, it's wonderful to see you guys are back! Really missed you both! Glad you guys are in good health and back here. Thanks for the youtube problems.. Joined your channel! Look forward to many more!

Good to see you two again...

Hey great to see you guys!!! Thanks for the vid. Always like to see what you guys find in sailboats.

Happy to see you guys back at it!

Happy to see you guys back!

Very nice to have you back.

Thanks for the video, I really like watching your boat tours even though I'm still 2+ years from buying a boat; they really help me to start getting my head around the important aspects of boat layout and liveaboard style. Hope to buy you guys a beer someday... on some random island.

So good to see you guys back. Looking forward to some more videos. Keep up the good work. I know it is difficult working full time and doing video. Until our adventures cross, fair winds and full sails. Jack and Billie

Great to see you guys back!

I was wondering what happened to you guys! I went through my subscription list earlier today just to make sure you were still on it. Great to have you back, love the boat tour's. Really excited about watching the projects they are great! Sorry for rambling, welcome back...

Hi. Welcome back! I continue to enjoy your content, you guys are charming, and real, not only entertaining sailors, but just a lovely - hard working couple, and it is a pleasure to watch you grow. I have watched your sailing adventure since you first bought Somnium, (an O'Day 272 happens to be one of the many boats I have owned in my life as well). Sew sails, install roller furlers, rip out nasty carpet install galley, motor, lithium-ion electric, etc. Looking forward to your future life and adventures, Freebe or otherwise. You don't have to sail around the world, just be yourselves.

So glad to hear from you again. I'm sorry you had some malicious jerk muck you about and pleased you got over it. I'm also happy you got Freebie back out on the water, too. Jordan, you look tired! You need a break? Keep at it guys and all the best form the UK.

Good to have you back!

Wow! You sailed? Oh my! What a concept! Good to hear from you, sorry about the copyright issues.

I love love love a center cockpit and probably wouldn't have anything else if I was going to do a significant amount of sailing or any ocean crossings! SWEEEEEEET!!! Thanks for the tour! PEACE OUT!! Ü

I always enjoy watching your videos!!! Glad you are back!

Glad you guys are back!

Glad to see you back! Great tour! The copyright strike pirates are truly awful. So many channels having this issue.

Good to see you back.

Really nice boat. Thanks for the review.

Great to see another video.

Now that is a boat! BEAUTIFUL.....

Best of Luck to you two. Have a Magical Day!

I like this boat,...it's so unique its crazy...it would make an interesting passage to anywhere

Great to see ya’ll again. Don’t ever give up, you two keep on working hard and it will pay off. Stay positive and keep on keeping on, you know you are doing right and are really special when evil tries to mess with you. Sometimes you just have to say the heck with the devil and keep on believing. Great things are headed your way. Trust in the LORD will all of your heart and lean not to your own understanding. Ya’ll are wonderful people and blessings are coming your way.

Sure wish you guys were back on a regular schedule!!! Enjoy the videos so much.

Literally sitting and discussing that you guys hadn’t posted in a while.....and in came the notification. That’s the kind of boat we’re planning to move on to. Thanks

looking forward to see you work on the boat!

Really nice to see you guys .

This is so interesting... I came so close to buying a 1972 Camper & Nicholsons 38 last year, which I do think I should have done.

Editing is a ton of work. Thank you for sharing✌

No worries guys regarding the frequency of your videos. I'll stay subbed and patient! Best wishes. Thanks.

A good price for a good name, bluewater, 48 footer, and a very good video as ever, cheers.

Great to your back!

Good tour. Keep em coming.

Missed you guys. Glad you are going well.

A well built 48 foot boat with the interior of a 38 footer. Narrow, only a 34' waterline mean a small interior. Given it's dated design from the 1960s, and the amount of money required to update the boat, there are simply better options. That's why this boat has been on the market for at least two years without selling.

Great to have Y'all back! This was one of the better boats, I'd have liked to see more of her, but I understand time constraints. It was the layout I liked, efficient, and unlike the standard rent-A-cruse boat designs with staterooms to dazzle, this one is set up for the salty old sea dogs like me; she's a bluewater cruising vessel, and not a weekend island hopper for mon, dad, and the kids. One of the many advantages of a ketch-rigged boat is the ability to carry a lot of sail, but the square footage beginning divided between the main and mizzen. You're not trying to handle one big sail, a lot of work, but two smaller sails, and as Jordan mentioned, you have much better reefing options. One thing better than a ketch rig is a cutter ketch. I noticed she is masthead rigged. By adding a 4 to 6-foot bowsprit, one could move the foresail/jib forward, allowing room for a fractional inner staysail, effectively turning her into a very practical cutter-ketch, which is my most favored rig. The interior is just right, very few things I'd change, but the first thing would be the heater, a diesel heater is the way to go; propane units use too much fuel, save the propane for your stove, you're going to need it. As to berths, there okay if your living aboard or at anchorage, but under sail, especially heeled, a bunk is not that cool, and think about two people trying to sleep in a double berth at a 25-degree angle. Get the picture? When you're crossing the Atlantic, or out in the Pacific, you're not stopping for the night, there are no anchorages, and that's where the good old hammock comes in. For the money she's a good buy, I'd offer $45k, cash if in the market for a boat that big. In closing, I want to take a moment to tell you why your boat tours are so unique, there are others, I'm sure you know, that do the same. Still, they always do expensive eye-dazzling new, or already fixed up boats, and way out of the everyday sailer's budget. Y'all show non-standard designs, unique, fixer-upper boats with interesting stories behind them that, in most cases, are affordable to many of your viewers. You both have an eye for the interesting and unique, I like that, and it's what makes you such an interesting and compatible couple. Keep up the excellent work!

@brettgoldsmith8584

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this nice comment. Just really nice to see

@Paul_C

4 жыл бұрын

Only if wife/husband really can't get along. Why would you have separate bunks?

@danabrown2950

4 жыл бұрын

What Cajun Wolf said. You guys do a fantastic job and I really enjoy seeing these interesting older boats. Thank you!!!

@AnodyneHipsterInfluencer

3 жыл бұрын

I like the cutter ketch idea, that'd be my first move with this boat. I really liked it. There's a few fun modifications that could be done.

this sailing boat has loads of storage......very nice!!

Nice boat. Great video.

Welcome back! 😀

Life is what happens while you're making plans. Go with the flow, do what you have to, and don't forget to have some fun.

I really like this boat. I know it's small and narrow and would love to see it wider and more Berthing. But it's small and compact and I might be able to afford it. My search is for something with more space and I am looking for a gem of a deal otherwise I will not play with a sellers time. Thank you so much for these tours. A Navy man like my father and my Grandfather was a Longshoreman off the Brooklyn Docks. I want to retire in Puerto Rico with my mother and have a good boat to sail. Grew up in Brooklyn NY out in Portland the Great Pacific Northwest. I hope in this last chapters of my life I can find a boat and make some great memories. Thank You , Gracias Danka Merci.

Great JOB guys:)

I just watched all the freebie videos. Seeing this video...you have aged 10 years. Mature adults apparently trapped in the reality that most of work full time. I hope you find that youthful spirit again to cast the lines and let the winds take you to distant shores. Get our while you can. :) best of luck!

Great to see a new video from you guys. This is a classic, Camper and Nicholson made some very famous yachts and made quality yachts. I visited their yard in Gosport UK many times and whilst the design is a bit dated below she has a great hull shape. Funnily enough there was a Nic 48 ketch for sale in the UK only a few weeks back and similar condition for £20k UK pounds. Yes it is small below compared to a modern boat but it will sail really well and keep you safe which is not always the case with modern production boats. Needs lots of tlc and some minor rethinks but would make a great liveaboard and a sturdy and safe passage maker. Pretty sure the holes are for ventilation but I could be wrong. Hope you guys can get back on the water more full time in a boat for the longer term but I love these videos as I am always curious to see inside yachts and you don’t just look around nice shiny and expensive, way over budget yachts. Keep at it and hope you get out on Freebee a bit more this year. Andy UK

Welcome back :-)

Love you guys!

Looking forward to learning about your decision to go back to a traditional stuffing box set up. I was cosidering about doing just the opposite before I launch in the spring. Please be as detailed as possible, I always love learning things!!! Thanks!

Love the sailing La vagabonde hat!

We talked with you in line to see La Vagabone at Annapolis Boat Show. Also had the pleasure of having Elana, Lenny, Riley, Greta Tunberg, and her dad at our house in Hampton before they departed to cross the Atlantic. Really exciting. We have missed your videoes and really glad you are back.

@LearningtheLines

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Wayne, great to hear from you!

It did seem small, Good to see you guys .

It's great to see you guys again. The KZread copyright strike system is a joke and it's hit us on our channel too. Fortunately they are making changes for the better but it's still not great. I hope this was a one and done for your guys but you never know. Next time don't hesitate to upload a Patreon video just saying that you guy are okay. =) Also, thanks for the boat tour. It looks like a good deal for someone wanting a sail-able project world cruiser. If I lived closer I'd consider putting it on contract and have a survey done. Take care. ~SP

Boy-O-Boy it's been a while since your last episode (with the reasons being explained here). I like this boat too. It looked to be in pretty good shape, but I also wondered about there not being a nice large sleeping area, fore or aft. Built in Dec. of 1972, my 20' boat even has a nice V-berth with no "chain tube" to get in the way in the middle. Oh, and I'm happy you got to sail FreeBee, at least briefly. KZread probably hasn't told you, but I wonder what they did with the person who made that false report. Glad to see that you're back! Scott W

Happy new video. Missed you guys. Monopolies are flighty.....not making enough. Oh well, looking forward to the next one. BTW, it's been a long time but I haven't seen the improvements on your boat nor the haul out and stuff. Cheers

Glad to see you back. Think you did a good evaluation of this boat. Totally agree with you that it seems narrow for it's length. Maybe it sails really fast because of that. No way to know really. The berthing situation almost looked right. The bunks aft of the cockpit would be perfect for a couple crossing oceans and need to be able to get help in a hurry. The forward berth does seem strange in it's inability to sleep a couple comfortably. Not what you'd expect from a boat of this length.

The older a boat is the more charm they have.

I think a lot of people would love to see you test these boats under sails. And for the owners it would be a even better promotion. I mean, the most important thing about a sailboat ist how she behaves at sea!

@clayfarnet970

4 жыл бұрын

I’ll help sail it to the Caribbean for a couple months to provide a detailed review. 😂😂👍👍✌️✌️

@Taugtaug

4 жыл бұрын

@@clayfarnet970 Two hours for a First Impression would be enough. ;-)

@tc1817

4 жыл бұрын

Do you believe that they are doing all this for free? I don't.

@Taugtaug

4 жыл бұрын

@@steveddad4385 Nobody forces you to watch their videos. Why do you insult them when you know nothing for certain?

@Taugtaug

4 жыл бұрын

@@steveddad4385 Most of the people watch These Videos because they are interested in different types of boats and aren't looking to buy one. And again: Why do you watch the Videos if the channel ist bs?

I figured you got blown up with SV Seeker😂. Glad to see you back!

@tinamou5473

4 жыл бұрын

Gary Allsebrook I’m still astonished someone would pull a stunt like that on their followers.

one of my favorite channels can't wait to see your boat on the water.

Welcome back.

Welcome back

I was going to also make the Amel comparison.. really love that center cockpit! Btw, you two have created an interesting YT niche here letting us into these old beauties for sale. I really enjoy this!

@gregorytimmons4777

3 жыл бұрын

True, but at what cost? We have at least one viewer here that seemingly had his sense of decorum and ultimately his whole world turned upside down. Expected to be able to remember the name of the channel and thereby being able to avoid exposure to the whole sordid enterprize and it's objectives. It's hardly a task one man should have to bare alone.!

@Clickumentary

3 жыл бұрын

@@gregorytimmons4777 ha.. that's quite funny 😅

Sweet little rig

Awesome deal.. Would make master cabin.

Good to see you back and another interesting boat tour

You guys should go to brokers and make videos for them. So many boat tours are so bad it’s hard to tell what you’re looking at. Always look forward to your tours. Keep up the great work!

This would be well worth my time and money, to bring her back to pristine condition. I loved this presentation. However, I must say all of your presentation's are top notch to me ! Very well worth every minute. I am looking seriously for a great older yacht, I can invest my time and money into. This brings back old happy memories, of a yacht I lived and sailed bluewater in years ago . Great memories! I was first mate, and loved sleeping on the starboard long bench, in the protected inside wheel house. Great yacht find you guy's, thank you ! Mark. P.S. I will call the broker and drop you a line on what I find out. I would be so jazzed to get it !!!

Ketch rigs are also great because that mizzen can be used to balance your sail plan and load on your steering (which would also ease the load that autopilot will have to deal with). I have sailed Ketch rigs in heavy winds nearly hands free, and, after you get used to the way the boat rides, literally feel the shifts in the wind just in the way she feels.

Glad your back, love larger boat tours and haters suk. Just cause trouble for fact of causing trouble. Thank you

Great Video. Holes are for air supply to engine and bilges

I like your hat. You must know my friend Lenny. He's sailing around with his crazy&funny parents.

Didn't realize until this moment I missed you two great to see you both back on deal

I like the La Vaga 🧢 cap

Everybody needs a break now and then. Hope you had a great holiday season. Good to see a new boat tour. Did you get a chance to work on Freebie over the holidays? Have a great week.

The way KZread is I’m surprised you both didn’t take up full time jobs also I love your tours of the boats but would love to see more of your vessel

A drippless shaft seal is the best way. graphite works. at least for my wake boat, I have had no leaks this year so far and the PPS seal really works.

I would have thought that the narrow beam would let it cut through the water more efficiently, saving diesel, and increase speed. Be less choppy too. Like the enclosed cabin very much. Best of the bunch you've looked at lately.

@gregorytimmons4777

3 жыл бұрын

You know? That's what i wonder too. It seems like there must be some perfect beam for a particular length of boat and deviate outside that parameter and here come the critical commenters widen it out and they will say it sails like a pig and it's more akin to a floating condo. Of course i understand that there is truth to that. Having stumbled across a few that stun you dock side with dimensions that surely would resign a boat to eternal sailing purgatory. I didn't think this one would be on the narrow side given the sailing advantages as such which come with the narrow beam i thought there might be more praise for a boat built for the swift passage.

That galley is a deal breaker

Not a bad boat layout and the protected cockpit, great. Would offer 40-35k for it. If its a fin keel, then 30k.

Yes, many attributes to a center cockpit designed hull. Event the shorter ones like the Hunter 32' are totally cool weekenders for a crew. Protected helm stations are always a great attribute, problem is they are rarely found in anything but motorsailers in shorter hulls. Those cabinets would be out of the tunnel and a work bench put in. BUT, 49K and a few years work it will be far better. I don't blame you for going back to a drip packing tube. There is nothing with one of those you should not be able to easily fix underway. Can't say that for the dripless. Waiting for you guys to check out a Morgan 41. Plenty of em out there! Problem I have personally with 48' is that I do not want the boat to own me. Just me, no need for all that much boat. I'd be chained to the thing through my time and my wallet. But for younger people looking at families and what not, yup I'd be into something that large.

Very nice boat ! I also like the large, deep center cockpit. The 2 cabins and the walk through "tunnel" are great. About the only negative is the tube for the anchor chain. Not a fan of ketch rigging. A lot of $$$ in sails and standing and running rigging for how much more speed ?

Missed you! Always looking forward to your evaluation of boats for sale. But are you neglecting to evaluate (or comment) on the condition of the sails and rigging? That is a major expense if it needs to be replaced.

Happy to see you guys, I thought you split up. Get the bank account full and get cruising.

Good vid ya'll.

New subscriber here. Nice little walk through. Seems like a great project boat. Is this in the East coast?

On the topic of seaworthiness, that giant deep cockpit will hold water if you're unfortunate enough to take a wave in there. Companionway doors should have the swing reversed and be sure the scuppers are adequate to drain the cockpit quickly enough.

hey guys would you ever do a entry-level boats like a Pearson 30 or Catalina 30 and compare them?

1972 I was 21 years old and you weren’t born yet. No computers no digital anything. Like displays. Analog everything. No electronics on engine. No navigation stuff. VHF ADF radars??? Really. My my how things have changed you are on board a time machine you can’t imagine it’s history. Cool 😎

Nice to see you two. That's a nice boat a little narrow though. How much money

So out of all the big old boats you've shown, have ANY sold? In 90 days or less?

WOW A "true Blue Water boat" never heard that shit before.

Interesting boat, being narrow for her length she should perform well, especially with the Ketch rig. Interesting layout, that would need some mods if she were mine. Rear cabin would be a gut and redo if she were mine. I’d definitely be looking for a new genset as well. Still, a unique boat with real potential. I love the Centre Cockpit and helm station. Glad to see you two back and am looking forward to some new vids, now that the issues have been sorted. Oh, and thanks for another great boat tour.

Not sure if this has already been posted, but I think the holes are for ventilation.