Thanks for supporting this video! I am fundraising for Alzheimers Research UK in memory of my grandfather Ken. Please consider supporting this worthy cause: www.justgiving.com/page/ed-sails-for-dementia Best wishes for 2024!

Watching so many sailing videos, and sailing for 40yrs myself, it's refreshing to see someone who actually knows what they're doing, seamanship, points of sail, sail trim, etc.... Great job! The one thing I see people almost never do or talk about is, practice man overboard recovery. Especially in sea conditions where it's most likely to happen.

I am so thrilled to share a name, with a wind vane steering system. 👍😃

Great Video. I twice sailed the Atlantic in the1970's. No solar panels, Nav Sat or self stearing etc. Just a sextant but we got there:)

@edbeardsailing

5 ай бұрын

Huge respect Steve! 💪

@Whit-mh9nt

5 ай бұрын

I did the west coast of Canada-Alaska in the 70s, clock, compass, paper charts, and drawing tools. Got there and back again.

Great work. Looking forward to seeing more of the Nic 35! Have to say...was stoked (being ex-RAF) with the 11 Nov gesture, including the nod to your grandfather, and veterans all. Good on ya. Stay safe. Arvind Maharaj (Perth, Western Australia)

Great video, congrats on a successful crossing!

@edbeardsailing

5 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

So that's how it's dun! Just drag the biguns behind the boat til it's worn out, then reel ut in & filet! Cool! Thanx 4 the fishing tip! Great video guys! Fair winds! ❤👍

I’m super honored as much as I’m surprised to be, only, the 185th one to 👍 enjoy such an awesome video. This is great material, super entertaining, very informative and amazingly filmed/edited. Thanks for these joyful minutes.

I have a 1974 camper Nicholson aluminium 35 feet 1 tonner . Not everyone’s cup of tea because it’s very small below . But I feel safe on it . I live on it with my dog . But any long passages I use others to help . You have a lot of good equipment. I used just my iPhone to navigate.I have a windvane to . But she is so basic .

A very nice video... Thank U for sharing...

Excellent video, and a great cause guys ❤

Well done. Great passage.

What a great trip. A lot of planning and hard work. Must have been an incredible sense of achievement 👍

Awesome vid! Congrats on a succesful crossing - inspirational!

Great video. I can't wait to see the next one. ..... remember to offer Neptune a glass of rum, he is very touchy...😉😉😉.. fair wind and stay safe

Well done! Congrats.

Wow, she's gorgeous.

@edbeardsailing

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! A lot of blood, sweat and tears into the refit. I sometimes feel like we Nic owners are more custodians of a beautiful pocket watch than boat owners!

fair winds! Thanks for sharing you voyage!

Doing the same this year on my Nic 36! Great vid

Great story, enjoyed it thank you.

@edbeardsailing

6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Very enjoyable video, fair winds fellas 🥰🤗🇨🇦

Well done - please make more of it 🙂

Lucky 500! Cheer guys 🤙🏾

Kudos to you and your friend for a beautiful crossing. Its been a dream of mine to do the same one day. I sail Lake St. Claire, Michigan and working my way to the atlantic. Thank you for sharing your experience. Great Video.

@SailProMarina

6 ай бұрын

On your way to the Atlantic stop in for a free rigging check and mechanical look. We will give you a free transient slip as well. Port Dalhousie Pier Marina..... Ask for Stella

Just found your channel. Great video and congrats on the successful crossing!

@edbeardsailing

6 ай бұрын

Thanks very much!

Living the dream, Guys ❤

Great vid

Subscribed and liked. Great voyage. Cheers.

@edbeardsailing

5 ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

Hats off to you lads, something I've always wanted to do. The Rum incident though.......what were you doing man!

Hey Ed, beauty of a boat. I just purchased a 1976 Nicholson 35, hull no 135. Going through a refit in the Great Lakes region this winter. Working through doing an electrical upgrade to Li and trying to make the chainplates more robust. Planning to do an Atlantic crossing like this on my Nicholson one day. Cheers.

@edbeardsailing

6 ай бұрын

Congrats and good luck Sam! Electrical is fun, I would love to redo my instruments but in the time available I pulled out a pile of unused wiring, added AIS, redid the masthead aerial and added lots of USB hubs. My chain plates are rock solid, the rigger laughed to see them so overdone. Apparently it’s just extreme glassing over them. Keep in touch!

@wahid-lg1kk

4 ай бұрын

It's a bloody good boat, and will keep you alive in just about any weather. It gets too bad, just heave to, go below, read a book.

Very nice sail. Would have loved to go along. (On a bigger boat to be sure. LOL)

Nice to see another Nic 35 make the crossing. We did it in 23 days to Antigua. Argonaut of Rhu

@edbeardsailing

5 ай бұрын

Very nice!

@Whit-mh9nt

5 ай бұрын

There is nothing modern assafe and secure. Can be almost upsde down and still come back up. Heaves to real nice.

Charles Vane thats great

Hey Ed, new subscriber here. An entrepreneur and now armchair sailor retired in the Philippines. Hope you’ll produce more content as your style is easy going and a pleasure to watch. Advance happy New Year.

@edbeardsailing

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Barnaby! I mostly made this video for family, but if there's interest I'll see what I can do! Best wishes for 2024!

Wow Sailor 👍

Great video and great to see the adventure on a Nic 35. I just bought hull number 165, Amaryllis. Very excited for the summer and the adventures that lie ahead. I would love to do an ocean crossing with her. Any advice on things that you can’t live without or would have set up differently? I have a small refit going on in the spring (diesel heater & black water tank install) and then next winter will look into solar. Interesting to see your wings i/o an arch for cost savings… Not sure where I’ll land on that! An arch maybe nice to organise the growing number of antennas on her stern!

@edbeardsailing

4 ай бұрын

Hey! I reckon the indispensables are quite dependent on your plans, budget and crew. (I need the Hydrovane for example, but may not be needed inshore or with more crew.) In hindsight a solar arch would be good for the sunshade here in the Caribbean. I have swapped all lights to LED (even nav and masthead) which cuts lighting draw by 90%. There’s a thousand other quality of life upgrades, for example diverting an unused through-hull to provide seawater into the galley sink. Wi-Fi AIS is great, can use Navionics on phone / tablet and avoid old expensive chartplotters. IridiumGo is useful for weather and emails offshore, but is quickly being overtaken by Starlink (if you can find space for more batteries or lithium on the Nic)

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Many thanks for that. Greetings from Thailand. Harry Nic35 1977

@edbeardsailing

6 ай бұрын

Happy sailing Harry!

good run, good boat, good lads. Keep it coming; a bit more about the boat?

@edbeardsailing

5 ай бұрын

Absolutely, I’ll try share a few more details!

Almost done with my refit of a 32' so looking forward to a voyage like this.

@edbeardsailing

6 ай бұрын

Nic 32? Nice, how’s the refit coming along?

@Even_Keeled

6 ай бұрын

A Westsail 32. Bottom repaired and painted, repowered with new Beta, and onboard systems and electrical completely overhauled. Most of what is left is cosmetic. At the stage now of adding tech so really like your setup. @@edbeardsailing

@edbeardsailing

6 ай бұрын

Amazing! Re tech, in my (controversial) opinion the argument for ditching conventional chartplotters is growing. A rugged tablet and AIS over Wi-Fi is a great combo - the charts are cheaper by an order of magnitude, and updated over the internet very quickly.

Multiple “ implications “ come and go with the tide 😎

Charles 🥹 8:15 Great Vid!

🌈 Romantic love story 🌈

Yours has a little bit of a different interior configuration than ours. Interesting. Ours is 1973, hull 78.

@edbeardsailing

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! Yes there was a general trend toward forward-facing nav stations, removing the saloon pilot berth and adding a quarter berth. I understand Camper & Nicholson were also keen to support owners’ bespoke interiors.

What kind of fish was that. That was a keeper.

@edbeardsailing

5 ай бұрын

The big one? A king mackerel we determined. We were only two people so didn’t want to waste him and instead wanted to give him a fighting chance (although some helpful commenters have educated me that perhaps gaffing him was not very polite!)

Congrats of your crossing! Great and inspiring videos. Looking forward for the up coming ones. What tablet and sea chart do you use? Have you put the Tablet cables through the deck under the sprayhood? What mount do you use for the tablet? How many watts do you have on your solar panels? What AIS do you use? Fair winds!

@edbeardsailing

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Magnus! Ok I’ll try put together a video addressing all your excellent questions 👍

Nice Wahoo

@edbeardsailing

6 ай бұрын

Oh yeah!

@dennisfano2574

5 ай бұрын

Yep. Had one for supper this evening.

But why is the rum gone?!

Do you intend to leave your boat in the Caribbean once you have crossed the Atlantic? What is your strategy to get it back to the UK?

"Across The ATLANTIC in a 35ft sailboat. Are we mad?" run that title for a week.

@edbeardsailing

6 ай бұрын

Solid marketing. I want to share with the family, is the bar set too high now?

@chriscockell

6 ай бұрын

Actually, you would be surprised how many of us are considering these sort of trips in this size of yacht (Beneteau First 35 Year 2009, in my case) and the bar you set is "just right" - just a bit of concise information to help us on our way. The slick "high bar" of amazing views of flying dolphins and tantalising bikinis is fun viewing, but, doesnt help me finally put a day in the diary to leave Poole Harbour! Which your film does.

That bonito is actually a blackfin tuna. Much better eating. Cheers

35ft in the atlantic, how is that boat overall for this? Any major inconviniences, quality of life stuff, and or comfort wise is it bad?

Hi question, is there any situation where the hydro vane doesn't work ? Epic voyage

@edbeardsailing

5 ай бұрын

Hi Mark! The Hydrovane won’t work with zero apparent wind. It needs some true wind speed to steer by, else it’ll go in circles chasing the boat’s own apparent wind. Happily windless conditions are far and few between in the trades, and Charles performed well even in 5-6kts of true wind! Best wishes.

curious what is above your radar on the mast? Nice vid.

@edbeardsailing

5 ай бұрын

Hi! That’s the radar reflector, the idea is to make your vessel give a stronger “ping” or reflection on another vessel’s radar screen. Fair winds!

@theblogfather

5 ай бұрын

@@edbeardsailing oh cool. The reflectors I remember seeing before looked different than that. Maybe you have a new style. Thanks for the reply

Hi Ed! Great trip and adventure! Looks like Your Nic was plowing through the atlantic just nicely. Assuming You had the same budget and want to cross again, would You buy a Nic 35 again or choose another sailboat?

@edbeardsailing

6 ай бұрын

Hi, thanks very much! Same budget yes I would absolutely go with a Nic 35 - and I plan to cross back in May! I’ve met a lot of cruisers with boats x10 the price that are (i) only making 1-2kts faster and (ii) spend a lot of time fixing complicated gear. It’s taught me the value in keeping things simple, and the Nic 35 is certainly straightforward but sturdy and seaworthy. If you’re ok with being the smallest (and classiest) boat in any anchorage and forgoing the modern conveniences (which are surprisingly prone to breakdown), then a Nic or Westerly or Sadler would all be great choices! I met four British lads squeezed into a Nic 32, so anything is possible!

@Kosty19

6 ай бұрын

@@edbeardsailing Thank You for the reply! I like these old classy boats too and all the Nics seem to sail really great. Were You focused on Nics in particular or were You open to any of the mentioned old classy boats? What do You think about the Nic 38s?

@edbeardsailing

5 ай бұрын

I started checking out the classic Contessa 32 but it has a big following in the UK with a £££ premium. So I tried the Nic 32 but couldn’t stand upright in it! The Nic 35 was a good compromise. Is the Nic 38 the ketch? Confess they look great and sturdy as cruisers but (from my uninformed perspective) I’d be worried about the x 2 expenses in sails, standing and running rigging etc. What do you think?

@Kosty19

5 ай бұрын

@@edbeardsailing I see , makes sense. The Nic 35 seems a good compromise for a solo sailor. So You can stand upright in it? Yes, the 38 is the ketch. Maybe its too much for a solo sailor, I see. I found two YT channels sailing a Nic 38, "Outside Your Zone" and "Sailing Promise II". There are 4 guys from the UK who want to cross in a Nic 32, I think they need to be really good friends staying together in it for weeks.. 😀 I'm just fascinated by the Nics in general, they all look great and all seem to sail really well.

@edbeardsailing

5 ай бұрын

I met those four lads in the Nic 32 in Madeira! The Boat Boys UK. Absolutely crazy to fit four in that boat, hats off to them!

Can’t believe you threw back the best eating fish (wahoo) - didn’t feel like keeping it? 🙁

@edbeardsailing

5 ай бұрын

We were only two people with no fridge! Hopefully he lives to help repopulate the fishing stock! 👍 🤞

What size of solar panels do you have? Great video!!

@edbeardsailing

6 ай бұрын

Hi! They’re 2 x 100W mono panels from Renogy with NOAA adjustable rail mounts

What's the song at 12:21?

Did you gaff a fish just to throw it overboard? Why?

@edbeardsailing

6 ай бұрын

We’re novice fishermen and so couldn’t estimate its size until it was aboard. Should we have cut the line and let the hook stay in its mouth?

@rski1036

6 ай бұрын

@@edbeardsailing Unless you're using Stainless Steel Hooks, they will rust away. That said, fish are yummy.

@TonyRaincoat

6 ай бұрын

@@edbeardsailing at that point just eat it

I wouldn't take a boat out without an American band CB radio. No FM. I'll keep lead batteries alone or in series, but never wired in parallel. Even on land, my solar panels are a maximum 100 watts, stubby 4 X 3, and not long and fragile like yours. Aircraft ADF's automatic direction finder, are common and cheap, and you are not stuck with the tiny rare airplane antenna. The receive wattage is extremely low. I never run a 12 volt chest freezer on MAX. Always on ECO mode. Your huge boat freezer is good, unplugged, for cameras, film, and binoculars. Things you want perfectly dry. Don't turn the beast on unless you do a gigantic voyage. Lotsa limes, aye? The new kid on the block is the Chinese 168F diesel. 44 LBS of air cooled 12 volts and maybe propulsion. I like my TK144FC four cycle outboard, modified to troll properly. Ignition set back and clutch springs changed.

@Whit-mh9nt

5 ай бұрын

'American band CB" ok Bubba, have fun with that 1000nm out from the Galapagos.

@stanleybest8833

5 ай бұрын

@@Whit-mh9nt 2 things. It's not a subscription. Day skip? It can be crazy selective. Don't be the poster boy for getting it wrong when you're only one of thousands reading good advice.

@Whit-mh9nt

5 ай бұрын

@@stanleybest8833 not everyone is in America..

@pauljohnson9542

5 ай бұрын

Could somebody please translate the Stanleybest8833 posts into something resembling English. Thanks.

@Whit-mh9nt

5 ай бұрын

@@pauljohnson9542 Not possible. Also, he seems not to have heard of channel 16. AIS transponder would probably confuse the hell out of him, he would ask for an artillery range finder, or something.