Rest Easy Ernie, safe passage across the bar.

I really enjoy all your content. It’s a fascinating mixture of sailing and a great travelogue for none yachties to enjoy a bit of escapism. You should be on BBC2!! God bless your late father I had a tear in my eye. What a fitting tribute and special send off. Fantastic thanks for sharing your story 😍

Your need for exercise gives a balance to life for you. I am the same. I love crazy walks in impossible places (my family says). Greetings from Sweden.

Rest well Ernie. What a lovely send off. It was great to meet with you guys in Santa Ponça. Travel safe x

Sorry about your loss. What a beautiful and fitting farewell!

Love to you all❤ I scattered my Dad’s ashes in 1996 from a boat over the bar in Salcombe, Devon. RIP our dads. Xx

Thank you for sharing this touching moment of laying your father to rest at sea. Love from Denmark

Thank you guys! Sorry for your loss, okay almost a year ago.. but still.. and i think he will be happy there.. cheers guy’s..

Such a beautiful funeral for your Dad, fitting for a burial at sea. We pray Ernie rests in peace.

Yet another great episode! So bummed we couldn't get to the islands at the same time, glad you met up with James though. Fair winds Fair Isle!

Thanks for sharing a nice and appropriate send off and tribute for your father Steve. I felt the emotion. You must have had a strong bond. Bon voyage Ernie! 🙂

Steve , My condolences. I wish all your family lots of strength.

I love your videos. Your narration and story telling is top notch. Really comes across as a highly produced travel show. Thanks for sharing your experiences.

When saying goodbye to some we love I prefer the term "Au revoir" I have no idea if and when we will meet again but the thought that the parting is temporary is comforting to me.

Mallorca looks great and what a lovely place for your father to have spent all that time.

Following your journey since early series 1, don't often comment, however lovely tribute for Steve's dad, as an avid but very average sailor Steve's dad would have really taken that to heart. Lovely tribute. the great things is, your always know where his spirit is....

my condolences ... gorgeous harbour shots guys!!!

Scattered my Dad’s ashes off horse sands fort in the Solent sailed there so much seems very appropriate.

As an EBike owner who lived in Mallorca (LLucmajor) for seven years, I very much enjoyed this video, Thanks.

It was cool to see you father's sea scout picture. My son did sea scouts as a kid, 2012-2019, and is now the adult leader (skipper) of his crew.

Great video, both of you are professional with your presentation. I always enjoy your KZread's.

I love e bikes - assist for nasty hills and old knees! Sorry about your Dad - we live on it memories we create.

Sorry for your loss, very touching to put him to rest at sea. My condolences.

Condolences to the family all round on the loss of Ernie. Please do a video on the bikes! Details, pro's and cons! Fair winds Steve and Judy.

I remember Ea Grau being very shallow. Fornells had a wonderful lobster restaurant, but I’m going back 35 years!

@grandsoleil56

11 ай бұрын

It's still there

@svfairisle

11 ай бұрын

Yes Ea Grau is very shallow but there is loads of space that is still really sheltered right outside where I put the anchor marker on the graphic. It's a nice anchorage

Very good video Thanks

Nice episode Steve and Judy

We loved Mallorca . I hired a car and we visited most of the island in our weeks holiday . My favorite area was the north west mountainous side , but it was all good . I remember seeing large engined trikes , Harleys I think , which you could hire , driving around the northern hills . In the north east there is a cave system where you are guided under ground , up right walking and no spcial equipment needed , where the guide tapped musical stalactites . Nearby was an old castle with a restaurant serving mostly local people with real Spanish meals ; fabulous ! Great place all round . Condolences to you Steve .

@svfairisle

11 ай бұрын

Yes there are many sides to Mallorca and some lovely surprises

If you have two chargers connected to the same battery bank as one raises the voltage, it trips the other into assuming a higher battery charge state. I would try a few days with just one charger. Cheers

@svfairisle

11 ай бұрын

DC systems should play nicely with many different charging sources, ours used to then started playing up. Fixed now though, all will be revealed in the next episode!

@reversingentropy

11 ай бұрын

@@svfairisle they should but sometimes they don't 😂 charging is done by raising the voltage on the battery. If one charger raises the voltage to float leve the other one thinks battery is as float level. But locking forward to seeing how you solved it. Cheers.

It's wing foiling, but all the main kite brands make them plus a few 🤙

Hi! My name is Ian and I have been watching your channel for some time. Love the content and reviews. I have a boat in Alcaidesa Marina and I can offer you lifts in my car from Mon onwards if you need to do any heavy lifting! If not, bon voyage!

@svfairisle

11 ай бұрын

That’s very kind, thank you. Hopefully we will be okay though. We intend to go into Ocean Village to pick up our new sail so I’m hoping will we be able to get all we need there.

@ianbayless9222

11 ай бұрын

@@svfairisle Well good luck. If you do need anything please shout. Good luck with your next leg!!

I have a Brompton Electric and people think the electric does all the work. How wrong they are but it does help on hills. Rest assured your Dad would be proud of you all.

It is called wing foil. On Garda Lake exist since a while.

You guys need way more subs for the quality of your work. Sincere condolences.

Ha ha ha ha. - I sold my yacht and bought an e-Mountain Bike. It certainly is (almost) better than sailing :-) Enjoy and fair winds and calm seas ahead.

Hello Steve and Judy: Sorry for your Loss. Many thanks for putting the time and effort in another top notch video… entertaining, informative, inspiring Fornell’s was NOT in my cruise plan… it is now. 0:03 Wanted to ask you for advice: you seem to rely on your dinghy quite a bit to get ashore and explore… for long periods of time. So, two questions about SECURING it: 1) do you only dock it in dedicated dinghy tie in places (e.g., at Fornell’s); and 2) is securing just a matter of using a chain and lock?

@svfairisle

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words, We do tend to lock the dinghy ( many people don’t ). We use a 3meter long piece of plastic covered wire, it’s what you get for securing bikes, it has two loops in the ends so it goes through a ring if there is one or around a tree and gets padlocked to the engine. Only about 10% of the places we go have dinghy docks so often you’re improvising

I had the same problem after software up date, I had to reset to default, then change back lithium , and adjust voltages for the batteries you have , also so take in to account volt drop between controller and batteries,

@svfairisle

11 ай бұрын

Yes I may get the Victron Smart Battery Sensor, it looks like it would overcome any voltage drop issues

You should get yourselves a couple of Gocycles!

@svfairisle

11 ай бұрын

Just looked them up, seem really cool, space is always an issue though

@philipwright7186

11 ай бұрын

@@svfairisle They fold!

Complete non sailor, never been interested even, until KZread algorithm brought you up. Firstly fantastic stuff, I started at series 1 a few weeks back and been watching since but you mentioned anchorage’s and someone gets too close you ask them to move. What’s the rule/form here? I’ve seen you go into busy anchorages etc but never know how you work out who / what should be where? Maybe Steve could do a video!? :-)

@svfairisle

4 ай бұрын

The rule is not to anchor too close and if someone anchors too close to you, you have a right to ask them to move. It seems to work!

Check for a bad connection between charger and hub. This can cause a voltage drop and effectively fool your chargers into thinking you have a higher voltage in the battery, and triggering float. It becomes more prevalent at high charging currents as the voltage drop is higher. Battery voltage plus any voltage drops is what the charger sees. I thought you had lithium?

@andypag1071

11 ай бұрын

"charger and batt. -autocorrect and fatigue.

@andypag1071

11 ай бұрын

Just catching the end of the vid, glad you got this sorted. Condolences about Ernie. Great send off.

@svfairisle

11 ай бұрын

Yes we do have Lithium. It ended up being a problem with the breakers I was using in the line from the battery to the MPPT. I caused an enormous change in the MPPT's behaviour. It was basically limiting the o/p of the panel to about a quarter of it's capacity in the end.

I see you are using a square screen tablet. What type of tablet is it exactly and does it work better with maps than the standard one? ​

@svfairisle

11 ай бұрын

I mainly use an iPad pro, but I think the one you are referring too is one I am testing from Orca. It has a fully weatherised Android tablet. There will be full test coming soon.

I was really close to buy Fair Isle when it was for sale years ago.If I not mistaken the advertisement sell price was 299,000. I remember very well Fair Isle.

@svfairisle

11 ай бұрын

You should have bought her, the price has gone up now!

great! re: temps. could you mention the temps on sea w/humidity? just curious as here in canada, lake huron exit, it was 22 c, 28 c humidex @18:27 10/08.

@svfairisle

11 ай бұрын

We’ve just had a heat wave in the Med. Last few weeks the temperature has been around 40 degrees and humidity about 75% but that’s unusual. It’s cooled down a bit this week across the Med and especially for us as we’ve got to Gibraltar which is generally cooler and the sea temp here is MUCH cooler

@iainlyall6475

11 ай бұрын

@@svfairisle ouch! thanks. quick reply. you must be bored :-)

Thanks for the vlog. Which E-bike is it you are using?

@svfairisle

11 ай бұрын

It's made by Trek, an American company I think but made in various parts of the world. Very good bikes!

@GeorgeLittle-ft2yx

11 ай бұрын

@@svfairisle thanks for that, which model is it😁

@svfairisle

11 ай бұрын

No idea I'm afraid

@GeorgeLittle-ft2yx

11 ай бұрын

@@svfairisle 🤣😂🤣😂😇👍🏼🫶🏻

If the meal that you eat has an eel for the meat, that's a moray...lmao

A big downside of ebikes, for urban dwellers in particular, is two fold: weight and fire risk. Try muscling a heavy ebike up some steps, through double doors, onto an elevator and then into an apartment. Battery theft and refurbished gray market lithium are also now sadly a big problem. A battery technology that afaik can’t be recycled or otherwise safely disposed of. We’ll stick with our old school 20lb bikes thank you very much.

To the people with the trigger-warning nonsense…creators can’t be aware of all of your fears and phobias, past traumas. Expecting THEM to put warnings up for YOU is insanity. Please leave this lovely sailing couple alone to create and share their adventures with us, y’all need to exercise some maturity and fortitude. I’ve got my own issues, but I don’t expect everyone else to knock the sharp corners off of the world to keep me from having to experience reality in all of it’s naked beauty.