I respect Shawn’s confidence at anchoring at the beginning. Elisabeth “verifying” his choice of spots and him sticking to his decision...😊 Team Work!

Shaun needs to come up with the reverse energy drink and get a patent, he is so laid back, tha nk you Shaun. and eliz is so uplifting with that gorgeous Smile... you guys Rock.

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

Haha that’s a good idea!

Can't say enough about a man that takes care of his gear. That boat is immaculate. Did you just add extra maple syrup to that dough?...My kind of chef. Lol

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

A little extra maple syrup never hurts 😉

I run my N47 from the flybridge during daylight hours nearly every day out. With the bimini top it's shaded and quite comfortable on sunny days, and the visibility it affords for close-quarters maneuvering can't be beat. We've done legs of 8-10 hours running the boat from the fly. We had the same thoughts as you about how and whether'd we use it, and heard all the same advice, but we now cannot imagine not having it. It's also important to have enough electronics up there so you don't feel disconnected from the boat's systems while you are up there for long stretches of time.

@donhappel9566

4 жыл бұрын

I've done coastal passages from both flybridge and pilothouse on various boats and find I generally prefer the pilothouse off-shore but almost inevitably switch to the flybrige when approaching a harbor or when cruising in-shore. As noted, visibility is almost universally better from a flybrige, but spending a full day off shore in the wind and weather wears on you.

@sailinstyle

4 жыл бұрын

@@donhappel9566 I have a long list of things I don't like, and wind is at the number 2 spot, right below shallow water! I'll definitely stay in the PH if it's not really nice out :)

Wow, I thought I was compulsive! Sean redefines the term. Haha! You 2 are a blast to watch, though!

Awesome video as always, Sean you'll never have to join a gym the way you work on your boat, you seem like a dedicated hands on captain and your boat is small enough to do all the maintenance yourself. When a boat gets too big it becomes overwhelming.

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly and why we love our N43. Anything bigger would be 100% work!

That red building! I remember when I was a kid I was there with some friends and they were jumping off the dock in the water.

My husband’s family owned the yellow building with the red trim in the 1950’s. Their pharmacy was the ground floor and they lived above it. They sold it in 1960 and moved the pharmacy south to Main Street where they built a strip mall. We love taking our boat to the dock and going into town.

Lonian is 287ft and Hodor is it's support vessel at 216ft it carries all the toys for Lonian.

I love your Q & A answer about fly-bridge, Thanks for the insight.

Coupeville, Bless your hearts, thank you all.

Great video and thanks for answering my questions! There is something to be said for minimalism, living on the water and living your life your way. Boater all my life and live aboard is the plan. Thanks guys and fair winds and following seas to you.

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks again for the question!

Saw Lonian from our house! Incredible boat but Hodor is a BEAST of a vessel.

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

She’s like a military vessel from a sci fi movie!

At least he's never board, if he always fines something to clean. I'm sure on a boat that size there's always something to do IF you want to. I'm personally I'm to old and tired to fuss with the small stuff, UNTIL the small stuff becomes the big stuff... LOL

Always good to know that we’re not the only ones who go thru the “anchor anxiety” dance - picking “just the right spot” even if it means moving 3 feet in one direction, then 3 feet in another, then . . . Finally, finally, dropping anchor!

@97tj9

4 жыл бұрын

My dog does that when he needs to poop.💩

Ham hock, otherwise known as pork knuckle, delicious! Hammock in the east pronounced ha.muhk.🤔😁

I really like seeing more of the actual boat life like you did in this one

Another thoroughly enjoyable video your editing is terrific we totally enjoyed it thank you

I really enjoy your maritime adventures.Its human with no special toys.You make a very nice couple and love dogs too! Enjoy your life.

I was born in Coupeville, but my family moved when I was too young to remember it. So cool to see what it looks like there!

Watching you from the other end of the planet. Your videos are great.

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

Сергей Шепалов thank you! Hopefully you’re doing well wherever in the world you are 👍

@user-lj4rd6fv3o

4 жыл бұрын

@@mvfreedom, thank you! I'm fine! I live in Russia, in Siberia. Let you do well.

My flybridge has a windshield and canvas enclosure. I drive the boat up there 95% of the time.

A well-rounded video of some sailing to Coupeville, checking out Coupeville, and lastly your Q&A session. Plus the scenery is a bonus.

Thanks for taking the question regarding longer travel plans. I would love to virtually travel the inside passage with you to Juneau/Sitka. Such a beautiful passage. Thank you for another excellent video.

Shawn seemed a bit sus if Elizabeth was deliberating asking questions about her cooking , and he was trying evaluate if it’s a trick question to trip him up on. Always say “ yes dear, you love her cooking “, nice work Shawn

Loved the video, and loved the questions and answers ....I'm in Victoria BC

Hey , I live in Nantucket. Watching you from ACK.

Awesome Video, Love the Q & A's. Trevor, Australia

Loved the view of the other side of Mt Baker. We here in Vancouver BC see Mt Baker at a slightly different angle so it looks a different shape. Can't get too lost in this corner of the Pacific Northwest when you can see Mt Baker.

Love your boat it's beautiful and thanks for sharing your expertise. I dream of owning a Nordhavn some day, they just speak to me every time I watch one it's just lovely.

Good for you living aboard it!

Coupeville looks a lovely place to visit. Thanks for showing us

Welcome to our beautiful island and town. Thanks for coming to visit. Next time you are in the area you will have to take a ride to the West end of Penn Cove and check out dinner at Captain Whidbey Inn.

Wonderful video enjoyed the Q & A especially your opinion regarding the flybridge. Stay well, be safe.

I remember the red building when we spent the night there. Good clam chowder in the bar/restaurant

Omg! I loved the B&B reference!! Really appreciate the care and maintenance you are very good at staying on top of! It's actually inspirational. My fiance and I just bought a Downeast in Mystic and have a 10 day adventure in the long Island sound area and thought I'd get in the mood with one last video prior to departure from Michigan tomorrow morning. Looking great guys!

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

Tom Barbier how fun, safe travels!

Fabulous episode guys and a great Q&A with very detailed answers.

Another great Sunday episode... 👍👍 Thanks again for sharing. 😀

Flantastic video! Interesting perspective regarding the flybridge, thank you. I see others have differing opinions, this is all very good information. See you guys next week!

Thanks for sharing another great video. Love exploring new places with you.

You guys are awesome. Thank you for sharing your adventures and insights.

I was in Coupeville last year. Except I called ahead and had dock space. Nice little town.

Coupeville is great! Langley is even better!! You have to go there if you haven’t, you went right by it.

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

We’ve been there on our previous boat and loved it. The marina is tight but their Main Street is amazing!

It makes him happy Elizabeth! :-)

Nice lifestyle you guys have! How about showing us more you to operate the boat in certain situations such as docking?

Hi you three, Another Great video. You guys got me hooked,wait with baited breath for your upcoming vids. Like always, put me in a good mood. Miss home. But! in a good way. FTI> My first job was at Bayside Marina, Just off of Schuster Parkway in Tacoma, many moons ago, and that's where I got my first boat.

Just discovered your videos a couple days ago. Been bing watching your videos ever since! I live in the Seattle area as well and never seen this side of it. I dream of one day owning a boat to explore some of these amazing places you two go to. I'm minutes away from the marina in Des Moines and never realized just how much beauty lies beyond the horizon I can see from my place!

We were on our boat at Catalina Island in So Cal over 4th weekend and Lonian was there with her toy hauler. We were thinking it would be a nice yacht to own but then realized it would take a lot of work to wash and wax.

@googlevoicer

4 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing the owner hasn't ever washed a deck - at least not on that vessel (maybe they started smaller, who knows). I look at something like THAT as "nice place to VaCa but I wouldn't want to live there, hAhA. Even with a Powerball win my sweet spot would likely be someplace between 70' and 90' - money being zero object...

Great q&a! Nice to hear Freedom has some miles under her keel. I think more cruisers will be thinking of doing what you are in the near future. Keep up the great episodes!

Hey guys, just wanted to say i really enjoyed watching and also found the video very informative. Thanks and keep doing what your doing!

Beautiful videos, places, great information about Nordhavn. Thank you.

Love the Q&A. Great questions and answers

I've always heard hammock with the o sounding like an i, I've never heard hammOck

Look forward to you videos every Sunday. Interesting comments about flybridges. My boat, 391 Meridian, only has a flybridge. I thought I'd like to have a lower helm, but they are rare in this boat and most people I spoke with here in Florida that have both lower and upper say they rarely use the lower. We don't do much foul weather boating here, so the upper works out great. Visibility for docking and traffic on the ICW up high is great. Much easier to see the dolphins!! Give Sully an ear scratch for me.

@donhappel9566

4 жыл бұрын

I'd agree that a flybridge is very location and boat-specific. I'm in northern California and a flybridge is definitely more useful and common than a lower helm only. But I'm not typically running true pilot-house boats. I find for off-shore cruising I tend to stick to a lower helm or pilothouse but for local bay and delta cruising I rarely use them due to limited visibility. However when cruising in the PNW I tend to favor a pilothouse as the weather is more often wet or cool. One of my favorite things in the PNW is waking up early and having a cup of coffee in the pilothouse while the fog burns off before getting under way. Whereas closer to home in the bay area I'm more likely to be sitting on the flybridge enjoying that coffee while idling through a no-wake zone before getting up to speed. Additionally I often boat in the CA delta and a flybridge lets you see more over the levies. For me at least, it all comes down to where I'll be using the boat which dictates the type of boat I'd want for that location which in turn informs the flybridge or not question.

I use the fly bridge on my Fleming constantly.i have a nice soft top for the shade

Lovely boat in lovely views

Hey Sean and Elizabeth! (oh, and Mr. Sully too)! It was great meeting you at Shilshole Marina as we crossed each other's path a couple of weeks ago! I just watched this video, and it was amazing! I can't wait to watch more, and then meetup again when you finish your current adventure!

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

Bob Gassen it was great to meet you too! We’ll see you around soon.

Sean, a friend of mine has very similar to yours what I call a " cleaning disorder " 😊. You guys are very nice. Like your videos a lot!

hi there,just started watching the channel.Great stuff.My son is in Seattle working on a super yatch.He has been telling me how good the cruising is around there,watching you vids now shows me.Thanks.i fly a drone and when i watch your drone shots i dont see who is flying.good trick that and that is a great perpective.Looking forward to more,Greg in OZ.

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

How cool that your son works on a super yacht! If only more yacht owners accepted dogs that’s the job we’d have 👍

Another great day

Colonite metal wax works wonders by the way or 3m metal polish and coat with ceramic coating, you will have years before you have to do it again.

I think that’s so cool, Shawn wants to keep it shining.

Just stumbled on this channel and love it. You guys rock

Question for next Q&A. Elizabeth, are you at all concerned about taking the helm alone during overnight cruises while the Captain gets his sleep?

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

Good and timely question! We just got done with a 30 hour passage where Shawn slept most of the overnight hours, so I guess I passed the test 😉

@raiderx7410

4 жыл бұрын

@@mvfreedom should be very easy, the boat drives itself.

The boat is obviously well maintained, Good Captains are always maintenance duty, Shawn is a Great Captain. GOOD LUCK GUYS, ENJOY YOUR VIDEOS‼️👍⛴. Vinny 🇺🇸

Hammik...

We never made it to Coupeville either....wish we had. Thanks for the tour!! ☺☺

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe a Whaler ride when you’re on Camano?

@BoatingJourney

4 жыл бұрын

@@mvfreedom yeah, it's probably not too far :)

Try Mermaids Inflatable Boat Cleaner. Available at fisheries. Wet down boat, spray on, sit 5 min, scrub if needed, rinse.

We are big supporters and familiar with almost all the places you go since we had lived there for so many years. It brings a smile to our face when you go to these places. Would like to know a little about the boat when you purchased it. Shawn does such a good job of keeping it so nice. What kind of shape was the boat in when you purchased it and what are some of the detail things you have done other than waxing the boat? We appreciate how it looks and how well it is taken care of. Your engine looks like it was new and many pictures of other Nordhavn engines show wear and rust in places. Did you touch it up? Bob

I live in Oak Harbor. Welcome to our island.

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

We hear there’s great clam chowder in Oak Harbor 👍

Good morning from Cincinnati! Hope your staying safe !

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

Good morning and same to you!

Another video watched on a Sunday, another Sunday ritual written off, and as always enjoyable. Whenever I look at the like and not like column there seems to be a persistent two who give you a thumbs down. I think you both need to tell your "ex's" to stop watching the videos.... lol. Flybridges is an interesting topic, almost as good as anchor talk. Boats are tools and as such some tools are better for a job than others. Open console, center console and bow rider boats are great for Florida and California but not as useful up here in God's country of PNW & coastal BC. Think rain, snow, wind and cold. After sailing for many years, in one torrential downpour while I was at the helm I asked myself - why am I doing this - thus the birth of a new power boater. A flybridge is really not much different than a sailboat cockpit, crewing in the open in great and not so great conditions. As alluded to in the video, a flybridge adds weight up high raising the center of gravity, in a blow and rougher water conditions - not so great. I've had friends in longer trawlers than Freedom afraid to go out into the Strait of Georgia because their boat was swinging from side to side so much. The second aspect of a flybridge is an increased beam wind footprint, more boat above means more sensitivity to the wind, again adding to the side to side motion - rolling - of a boat. So add increased weight and increased side wind profile and a boat that looks like it should have great sea legs doesn't always respond well in a bit of a blow & water chop. Thirdly, no flybridge increases territory for solar panels. Solar panels are definitely becoming more predominant for cruisers in our neck of the woods and many a trawler owner with a flybridge often has difficulty finding real estate for the panels.

@googlevoicer

4 жыл бұрын

RE: the TWO 👎 comment/EX's - LoL... I never even noticed, hAhA... I just know a lot of green eyed haters out there with nothing better to do than go around the internet complaining and trying to bring others down. 🙄

Really nice videos. Enjoy watching from Denmark.

I love the ferries so much!

!!! From Oak Harbour!!! I miss Whidbey Island!!!!

"HamACK" is the way i say it. Have not heard it called "HaMOCK" before .. goes to show you there's more than one way to say something 🤣 PS - The Cornholio reference made my day 🤣 .

I love these vids, here in England.

I would have to say I would love to spend a week using all the toys on that support vessel and sleeping on Then”mother ship”

Right by my home port in Oak Harbor! Would have been great to have seen you guys out there! I'm out almost every weekend sailing around there!

You can anchor out infront of cama beach. Camano.

Another enjoyable video. Thanks. we always you three but ,I wonder, do you ever have visitors comming out with you? I am very jellouse of you having a boat and being able to go out nearly every weekend. If I get all the number on the lottery I would love tour the west coast of Scotland closely followed by the Norwegian coast. I live on hope!!! By the way I live near Edinburgh Scotland.

Very Nice!!!

Into my 10th beer tonight, hence the comments. Great Q & A.

Ham-mick!🤣😉

How’s the engine noise when you are underway in various areas of the boat? Whoever gets the pleasure of owning Freedom next will have a hard time keeping her as spotless as you two! Regards, Joe from Illinois.

Good Vid as usual... Interesting to hear about the cruise history of Freedom... Originally from Portland so enjoy seeing you all cruise the Great NW... In Florida almost 50 years... run a 42 ft Invincelible... go fast fish boat. Boating in Florida is awesome... do a canal trip and drop in and see us... Knot So Fast! Home Port: Ft Pierce and Orlando.

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

Bill Dillard we are looking forward to showing Freedom Florida within the next few years!

Lonian is currently in Juneau!!

Good vid guys.

I love going along with you two.

Question: Did you look at other boats than Nordhaven? What Makes, and what swung your decision to the Nordhaven?

You guys keep teasing about the 'Big Trip' when are you going to let us know more? From Will on the Isle of Wight England. If you make it this far I will gladly take you round our little island.

If you do come to Hawaii I would like to meet you two and have a nice dinner and you can show me around on your boat.

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

We’d love that, and we’ll remember 👍

nice vlog 👍🏼⚓️⭐️⭐️ keeeeep it going on and up guys ⚓️⭐️👍🏼 watching you from kuwait 😃😃

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

Wow hello 👋 all the way to Kuwait!

@Quartz331

4 жыл бұрын

MV Freedom hiiii 😁

Pragtig man pragtig

Another great video guys!

Good Q&A, Was wondering why you didn't have a flybridge.

Happy Happy Happy Your boat is ideal for you would be for me ha ha Dont suppose you know of a cheap one for sale aint got much money but at 75 i could work on it lol take care both UK

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

No but YachtWorld.com is a good hobby for those looking!

Great foresight and decision to move full time onto Freedom. So with your great mental gymnastics I have to ask do you prefer gold or silver as your investment choice right now😂 Shaun is always cleaning, but many small tasks over time seems smart. What do you guys think about the New Nordhavn 41 ?

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

Probably gold! And although we haven’t seen the N41 up close we like it. It doesn’t seem like a good liveaboard boat given the space layout, but it’s fully capable of long range cruising like crossing oceans so compared to other new boats in that price range it’s a great boat!

@raiderx7410

4 жыл бұрын

@@mvfreedom ya, its only a one head vessel, I could never have a live aboard/open ocean blue water vessel. But that me. Is yours a 2 head boat?

I don't have a boat but yours is always so clean. Could you cover in a video how often and when you fill/empty tanks, where do you put your garbage when you fill a trash bag, how you dispose of trash, does your mooring fee grant you benefits and services in other marinas or is everything pay-as-you-go. You had a video weeks ago during the start of Covid where you got threats from small islands where they did not want any visitors. Is that still an issue? Love the channel!

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

Hey! Great questions, thank you! We’ll cover all of that soon. Regarding Islanders, it’s nothing like it was back in March but they’re still not fans of anyone going there even now.

I couldn't hear Sean comment but there's no way you were cruising at 14kts unless you had one hell of a current.

@m2pozad

4 жыл бұрын

That was the Super yacht with the swimming pool. Boaters can track other boats broadcasting direction and speed on some system, AIS(?)

@mvfreedom

4 жыл бұрын

Yes that was Lonian before we lost him on AIS for a bit.