I agree with the others...keep the sailing amd destinations/travels together. It's all part of the journey. And, like others, I'm enjoying watching that journey.

If it was purely down me, I would say just keep posting your travels ! For us still living the 9-5, keeps the dreams alive and inspirations high !

I enjoy all your videos my friend, keep 'em coming. BTW I am not a sailing man. Your young lady has no reason to be shy. 🙂

Thank you for yet another great video. Greetings from Finland. Peter

@SoloSailingSapphira

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Peter!

Living. The. Dream. First class sailing & travelogue. A joy to watch. 🇮🇪

Repairing boats in exotic locations. Really enjoyed that trip. Thank you.

We'd really like to see the full spectrum of cruising life - many of the cruising channels give the impression of endless days & nights on passage, punctuated by 10 minute port stopovers which seems like such a waste and very little fun. I'd have thought the point of going cruising was to see as much of the world as possible, rather than just sailing past it.... :)

Great video. 👍👍👍 Have a wonderful day.😊 Greetings. 😎

I really like you integrating your travels with the sailing. Part of the sailing is surely the destinations you get to. I did have to laugh - such an Irish outlook about clear beautiful water in a river pool - even though it looks impossibly inviting it is gong to be cold beyond discription.

@SoloSailingSapphira

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback John, really appreciate it. I was about to record some hilarious footage of Sinead getting into the pool, very Irish but ran out of battery at the wrong moment, luckily for her!

@johnfoord9444

2 жыл бұрын

@@SoloSailingSapphira Just found your chanel and really like it - proper sailor's chanel (not a tits and bum chanel - if you get my meaning!) God I hate marine diesels - so much stress in a greasy little package lol

Looks amazing I thought those rock pools were only small till you got in. Bad fire alright that wind wouldn’t of been any help. Hope it’s not to much of a repair job and doesn’t put your schedule of. Stay safe.

Yeah keep your videos together! This is the other side of cruising we never get to see. Brilliant thanks!

Thanks for sharing your boating and land experiences. I like to hear about all the things that go on as you cruise around, more the better I say. Would have liked to see a closeup of the prop shaft and you fixing it along with the engine mounts as I believe it helps other sailors and sailing dreamers like me gain useful knowledge. Wish you the best travels ahead :-)

@SoloSailingSapphira

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, that's great to hear. I do briefly touch on the engine mounts and prop shaft coupling in the next video (not out yet!) but I didn't get any footage of actually fixing it or showing how it broke. I'm rubbish at filming maintenance, the spaces are so tight and I get on a bit of a mission and become focused only on fixing the issue. Will try and have a bit more of this in the future!

@Seafariireland

7 ай бұрын

Yes, the more tech details especially on problem areas the better!

Great trip and great video. Well done sorting out the coupling, I’ve spent some time in that space and I know it’s very tight. Keep up the good work.

@SoloSailingSapphira

Жыл бұрын

Yes that under cockpit area on the Halmatics is my least favourite thing about them. A bottomless bilge that I've spent a lot of time magnet fishing in and a huge reach down to the stern gland and transmission oil check.

Great stuff. Another vote for the 'keep it all together in one travelogue' channel. As a sailor having been that way (and through Baltimore) a couple of years ago, it's lovely to see it all again and you've captured the sailing and the land based stuff and the challenges really well.

The travel log is important and adds so much more

Hi Mark, David O'Hara here. I have been watching all of your videos, enthralled! Well done young man, you are an inspiration and are currently living my dream which I too intend to realise when circumstances allow. You may be solo sailing but you are not alone, the spirit of sailors gone before are with you! Awesome work man!

@SoloSailingSapphira

Жыл бұрын

David, thanks again so much, as I said on the Facebook post, I really appreciate the lovely comment. I feel very lucky to be realising my dream, it is a dream for many, and I hope to see you out here when it's time.

Great video, travelogues with some sailing are great to watch. If you get a chance stop off at Combarro in the Pontevedra Ria as well as Cangas and Vigo city itself in the Vigo Ria. Well worth visiting.

@SoloSailingSapphira

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Actually in Combarro at the moment, really lovely. Looking forward to catching up on your videos once I'm somewhere with decent WiFi!

@LiaSailing

Жыл бұрын

@@SoloSailingSapphira Cheers! I'm way behind at the moment, trying to catch up to date but so much footage to go through! Combarro is beautiful, there's on old town by the shorefront that is kinda hidden, I missed it the first time I was there but it well worth a visit.

Great video !

Great set of videos. I am often in DUN LAOGHAIRE. Thinking of buying an Halmatic to keep in Ireland. Would be delighted to buy you a drink or lunch and hear the pluses and minuses of the boat. Current boat based in Greece but now interested in sailing in Ireland.

@SoloSailingSapphira

Жыл бұрын

Hi Larry, would love that! Will be back to Ireland in September most likely. Halmatic are great boats

@lorenzoward946

Жыл бұрын

Right to take your time. Fair winds and following seas. Where are you?

@SoloSailingSapphira

Жыл бұрын

@@lorenzoward946 hi Lorenzo I'm in St Vincent and the Grenadines at the moment, will head south as far as Grenada then north to the leeward islands before heading back across the Atlantic via Bermuda and Azores in May/June

glad your anode saved you, but a shaft anode which is inside the boat and out of the water is not doing anything at all - except saving your shaft from disappearing, of course. Good sailing to you.

@SoloSailingSapphira

Жыл бұрын

Yep that's the only reason it's there, as a collar to prevent the shaft exiting the boat if it separates from the coupling. Have external anodes etc elsewhere. good sailing Paul

Great movies. Been enjoying them. Hopefully you stay clear from orca events. Some sailors put down the sails and put the motor in reverse, which seems to harden the orca's job to 'nibble' at rudders and such. Hope for you guys all the best, and safe and pleasant journeys !

@SoloSailingSapphira

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I'm hoping we do too! The main activity appears to be further north than we are now, I think they passed us while we were in Ria Muros, although there's a second pod off the Portuguese coast in their usual position. Feel safe enough in southern Galicia as there are islands offshore. We've a long keel and the prop is in a cut out in the rudder, which I'm hoping might make it more difficult to get a proper chomp at it, especially when going astern, which is my plan if we meet them!

Fingers crossed the coupling is an easy fix

@SoloSailingSapphira

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, hoping I have it fixed now, new bolts on the transmission side and realigned engine. Seems good so far!

Great location, thanks for sharing. As for the engine / transmission troubles the only thing I can imagine causing enough torque to shear all the bolts would be a jammed prop. Must of made a hell of a bang when it broke all those bolts? Also just thought , I don't know if its all boats, but isn't there thrust plates that are fitted so the stresses of the forward and back movement don't get passed through the engine and transmission block?

@SoloSailingSapphira

Жыл бұрын

I have a flexible coupling which I think is supposed to absorb some of the forces. The issue was that the rear engine mounts had lowered over time (I should have been checking them regularly!) So each bolt in the coupling was under huge alternating compressive and tensile force as it rotated and once one went they all went. Didn't actually hear a noise, until the shaft slipped back and then the grinding of the disconnected coupling off the transmission flange was horrendous.

@russellthomson5571

Жыл бұрын

Thrust bearing required for larger boats. Think 20hp up.

Great Video, would love to see how you sorted the engine issue, were you at sea at the time?

@SoloSailingSapphira

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm terrible at videoing my engine work as the space is just so confined. The prop coupling detached from the transmission as we turned into the fairway about 100 meters from our berth, luckily there was no wind and Sapphira had enough way on her to coast to the berth. I'll post something about the resolution in the next video but basically just replaced sheared bolts and realigned the engine properly (rear engine mounts had lowered themselves down due to vibrations I think)

What’s your radar set up? Looks like the screen is an iPad?

@SoloSailingSapphira

Жыл бұрын

I have a Halo20 radar hooked up to a B&G Vulcan chartplotter. I'm mirroring the plotter to a galaxy tab tablet. The mirroring isn't great, hence the shadow, known bug that B&G don't seem able to fix. Better with an apple tablet apparently.

You will have to engage in preventative maintenance before ye yacht off. Your engine problem would not have occurred had you done proper pre flight take off. Tch,,I hope Sinead deprives you of ,,,ehhh,,ehhhh,,,whats that called,,,eehhh ahh yes,,,charms. Stop having problems,,,if you continue like thisyill have to give up and fly home. Jus sayin is all

@SoloSailingSapphira

2 жыл бұрын

Every day is a school day! But yeah, need to check everything more thoroughly.

@Seafariireland

7 ай бұрын

Somebody if not everybody has onboard surprises, what is really important is that problems are exposed and publicised so we can all learn and be safer as a result! SkipRay, Kerry.

I didnt like your jangly musak

@SoloSailingSapphira

2 жыл бұрын

Keep the feedback coming!