You frightened us! Please wear your PFD sailing solo.

Naughty boy. Solo sail always strap on out of cockpit. Good effort with that size boat.

To be fair to Elvstrom sails, we have to say that 3 boats fitted with them we have never had a problem with quality or stretch. Last boat a Bavaria, 12 years no issues still good when we sold it. Impavidus, 5 years + plus and still crisp and sharp. So good to see parts of the marine industry standing behind their product. Some don't..... Sail Safe Guys, Ant, Cid & the pooch crew.

I admire your courage to solo that size of vessel. No matter the distant ANYTHING could happen! It shows your confident in yourself and boat. Good job!

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely Rico...

Great Video - James has taught you well. With this video, its like I am a friend you are taking with on your trip. Jame from Zingaro has the same speaking ability. Like James you are giving me a more intimate look into your personality. Example would be the cooking breakfast. Also because you are on video, strongly suggest when leaving the cockpit to have a life vest on. Keep up the great work and look forward to more.

Thank you for interesting (except that British food part) and entertaining episode. I really appreciate you explaining the details which is not only informative but also comes out as a very honest narrative. Will be awaiting the next video! Thank you!

@Neilhuny

3 жыл бұрын

British food is crisp sandwiches, or fishfinger and salad cream sandwich - heaven! What's not to like?! James went for the crown of British culinary expertise: a fry-up with HP brown sauce! The food of champions, as he says; superlative Have you ever seen a finger on a fish? Captain BirdsEye has. (Now trying to remember what Americans call crisps ... failing to come up with anything)

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Chips, crisos are chips in the US lol

Enjoyed taking this solo trip with you! Well done!

WoW zíngaro está en todas partes. Siempre v bien un amigo que te ayude. Saludos desde Barcelona!

Love that boat, awsome video footage, learned something new about sails. *PS: Love HP sauce*

It is nice that you are not required to check out of Bonaire first; then cleared into and out of Curacao; and check into Bonaire again. Nice job on the trip and video. Thank you for sharing.

James, even though you said you were nervous and excited at the same time your exterior appearance looked cool calm and collected. Philippa, I hope you had a super lovely indulgent evening and overnight stay. Stay cool guys xxx

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sandi..

Man, I envy you guys who are able to sail around there world at your leisure! Though I have boats I have never sailed on a sailboat! I would love to be in your shoes! I wish you all the best and LOVE the videos!!

Great job with your solo sail,and great job creating the videos.they are a pleasure to watch.thx

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Doug we are enjoying filming and editing them also..

Nice and clean engine compartment, shows you maintain it very well. Thrusters, good job didn't know you had them. Nice sailing, AIS is a great tool.

Good seeing you, amigo. Fair winds, and hope to meet up with you both again. ;)

Impressive solo sail and dock, James! Love your videos. Keep up the great work, you two!

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brandon.

James Sailing Zingaro is more dashing wearing a shirt with the Elvstrom logo. 😂😂😂. Elvstrom is a responsible company and takes good care of customers. Excellent.

@SailingAequus

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, very good service!!

One thing to add, would like to see a safety harness being solo , but as always its your call.

@svravenflintlock7526

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. Again, PPE is the captain's call, right? OSHA giving out tickets internationally?

@richvance9649

3 жыл бұрын

I hope he can tread water well..really well.

Nice solo! Love the yacht too.

Be careful, solo sailing becomes addictive. Nicely done and without a bow thruster.

Love your sailing footage. I keep punishing myself watching refits, with zero sailing. Thanks, James, from yet another James (must have been a popular name).

That is some awesome customer support. And that looks like a beautiful sail. You have a new subscriber.

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Dutch

Very courageous crossing solo on such a big vessel. Your videos capture all that matters. Both of you are awesome🤗🤗

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Ahhhh thank you Mireya

Nice one!! Love your way of sharing and telling!!

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mojn.

Well done Jim, great solo work there, you are so good on camera, a complete natural. Keep up the good work.

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mike 👍

Really good one, and nice sailmaker too🤟🥃🤟

Great episode, you are made for vlogging. Masterfull docking!

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Very satisfying solo sail. It was good to see James again. ;-) Nice of Elvstrøm to include retainer clips with those caps!

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

very nice of them indeed!! clever invention..

Great video....I'm sure you made it look much easier than it was. Now got this overwhelming desire for a bacon & egg sarnie !

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Ian, go for it, don't forget the brown and red sauce lol

Just subscribed. Love your videos and discovered your channel from your cameos on Ryan and Sophie Sailing. Cheers!

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

Good effort, Curacoa to Bonaire is a bar steward on a good day as the seas are always big.

New sail looks amazing! 👌🏼

@SailingAequus

2 жыл бұрын

Not bad hey, thank you Captains Grog for being here..

Another great video. You Make it look easy. Things seemed to go really smooth that's not the usual. Great customer support.

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Yes, very happy how Elvstrom treated us. Top customer support.

Good job, videoing AND in the Explanations of everything 😎👍✅

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 👍

Enjoyable story mate... looking forward to the next 🇬🇧

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Thansk Andrew..

Good to see you on your own channel, finally get to see more of your stunning Bavaria, it may be the only monohull I can sway my wife to before I'm pressured into buying a cat. Keep the videos coming please!

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

And in addition you can tell her that we seem to be the only boat 'out in the anchorages' that doesn't rock at night like crazy we sit very flat (if thats what yo need to sway here lol)

Thanks for sharing !

haha you can use all the swag for sails if you ever tear one! great job solo-ing!

Thanks James!

Don’t just live a little… Live a lot!! Great sail James and a really nice boat. I always add 8 drops of Tabasco sauce to my bottle of HP sauce, gives it a really nice kick! 😃 Cheers Nigel

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Nigel... Will give the tabasco a try!

@adrenazanetti3660

3 жыл бұрын

through in some jalapeño !

Good on Elvstrom - I'll remember that.

They’ll be my next buy! They went the extra mile.

Nice job mate!💪👌

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Cliff

Cool as a cucumber James! You are quite the seaman, you made it seem like a walk in the park! Nice bacon and egg sandwich too :) I never thought of eating it with brown sauce... Got to give it a try sometime!

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha. Ketchup AND brown sauce. This is the way!

Nicely done solo docking ............ : )

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Thabks 👍

Oh James that was awesome, hi Phillipa

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Ahhh thanks Tammy,,,

Living the dream.

Nice bit of solo work there - sailing and filming ! Zingaro James is a good friend to have , but I was expecting to see you two “out on the town ?? 🤔😂 Love the dolphin “escort” both directions 👍😊

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks Hamish

Nice to see a down to earth English boy giving it sum

Single handing is my favorite pass time!

Great video ! Thank's to Zingaro for the help ! See you next episode ! :)

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, he is a great friend of ours.. miss him hugely

Yes, Chef!!! A little short on le bacon...

I haven't lost a cap in decades. A simple lanyard to the back of the lifejacket and done. It comes off my head a lot but is easily retrieved.

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, the caps Elvstrom gave me had those fitted. Works a treat!

@haydenwatson7987

3 жыл бұрын

@@SailingAequus Sail maker knows! They want their cap on your head advertising their product not providing a new home for a shrimp.

Hey congrats on the awesome story and starting your channel! James would you mind sharing what sort of business it was that you eventually sold? Very inspiring!

wee bit of chutney lad would be smashing.. you have a new sub

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub Gil! Not sure about the chutney though!

nice mullet, well sailed

Güzel vidyo için sağolun! Tek başına yelken yaparken, tekneden düşmeye karşı kendinizi bağlamanız gerekmiyor mu?

Another great video - very tempted to switch from motor to sail :-) One thing that I would have expected on a Solo sail is some safety kit on - life jacket and EPIRB ?

Hello from Chile!! Congratulations!! Very nice videos! You are so Nice! So Funny!! And your Sailboat is awesome. Can I ask you something? What speed have they achieved with the different wings? Thank you!! Sail Safe!!

Nice one Han Solo!

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Wingman 5.6

No Phillipa but still a great episode! Hope she enjoyed her time away. I am sure it was nice to have a break.

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

I did, thank you Ryan, thansk for watching..

a day in the life.... keep'm coming.

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you The86rex for being here..

I have found that when I need to motor upwind, that if I roll out a very little bit of the genoe (50% or so) and sheet it tight, it provides significant speed increase and much less pounding because it helps to pull the bow down and through the waves instead of up and over them .

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Does that work if you are head on to the wind or do you need a bit of an angle?

@haydenwatson7987

3 жыл бұрын

@@SailingAequus I sheet the sail so that it is about 1/2 as close to centerline than normal by trimming the leeward sheet hard and then adding some to the windward sheet to pull it about 1/2 the distance to the centerline. You have a self-tacking jib so you may not need to do that but haul it is tight and flat. You then fall off just enough to fill the sail which on my boat is only about 10º apparent 15º true. The speed increase and comfort more than make up for the small extra mileage. For full disclosure, my boat is a 30' masthead rig with overlapping genoa but I have suggested this method to others with larger boats up to the low 40' range and they found the same thing. The motor alone is just not powerful enough to slice through the waves and you end up riding up over and slamming off the back side. With the bit of extra pull from the flat jib, you power through rather than riding over the crests of the waves. Nest time you find yourself in those conditions and let me know how your boat does. All you have to loose is rolling out a bit of the jib and if you do not like it just roll it back up and never leave the cockpit.

@haydenwatson7987

3 жыл бұрын

@@SailingAequus The first time I did this, I was heading out into the Straight of Georgia, BC, Canada with 35 knots on the nose and +60 miles of fetch. I saw about 2' of the keel stump on another 30' in my group as he crested over the tall short period waves before slamming back down with the rig looking scary under bare poles. I was only able to make 1.7knts at wide-open-throttle and told my wife that I either needed to put out a bit of sail or we would need to turn back. I rolled out 6' on my 30' and strapped it tight. My speed increased from 1.7 to 7.1knts and instead of crashing off the backs of the wave crests, we parted them and went mostly straight through. The ride was so good that my 14-year-old daughter crawled up in the vee-berth and went to sleep.

Impressive customer support! So why didn't Phillipa go with you? And I can't believe she didn't at least give you a shopping list for while you were there. LOL

I love your guilty smile when you said you were leaving Philippa in a hotel in Bonaire! Guilty pleasures ahead involving excessive amounts of beer, I suspect. Philippa is beautiful, intelligent, fun and I am certain she is a great person to be with .... but a break is good for both! I hope she is doing exactly the same as you - gin or vodka cocktails rather than beer, maybe, and lots of spa treatments ...

@Neilhuny

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, that lady shoved the test swab up your nose very thoroughly!

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Neil, haha, that made us laugh, thank yuo for your kind words, I was actually writing part of a book lol so not so many spa treatments although that sounds divine..but you are right time apart is always healthy.. thanks Neil for being here...

@Neilhuny

3 жыл бұрын

@@SailingAequus Writing part of a book? Wowza, intriguing. That surely deserves a video saying what it is about, what books, if any you have previously written, are you a budding JK Rowling novel author, or a Stephen Hawking non-fiction writer? Do you have a background in journalism/PR/Communication? Maybe you are writing a modern 'Robinson Crusoe' book based on your travels? Or a lifestyle and sailing guide? It could be anything.

You are a very kind man! Very good vibe! If I purchase a C57 I would sail it mostly single handed, no or go?

Scare is see you not using a lifeline!

Uhh... I am 2 weeks away from taking delivery of brand new epex genoa and main from Elvstrøm. Hope it was only a bad batch of glue, however I know others have experienced delamination on fairly new sails as you did. Anyway, really enjoy your channel James!

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Good news is that you have a 5 year warranty on delamination and it seems Elvstrom stand by their warranty which is very reassuring.

@adrenazanetti3660

3 жыл бұрын

they have great customer service from what you described James!!

Great stuff. What's that song at the end? Before the teaser for the next video?

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Its called "Where do we go" by Strlght kzread.info/dash/bejne/gIB6qdWtetbXhpM.html

Elvstrom didn't only dress up your boat. They did very well and apparently as a standard service procedure. Wow, how about that!

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Elvstrom really did a great job looking after a warranty claim. More manufactures should take a leaf out of their book!

If I could afford a new Bavaria C57, I'd start a UTube cannel too but I have to go to work now.

delivering a 50 foot hanse from new Caledonia to Hawaii i sailed frew 23 chines fishing boats at 3 am , not one of the buggers had AIS on ?? Keep an eye ball watch at all times mate .

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Bill, James and I have experienced this many times, tiny fishing boats that don't even put their lights on and possibly asleep in their boats.. it is a great worry for all concerned.. thanks Bill

Hi James and Philippa, In Australia we don't call Ketchup Ketchup we say Tomato sauce or "Dead Horse". If you plan on coming to our shores you need to know the lingo.LOL. Fair winds to all. Chris

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha thanks for the tip Chris. Maybe one day we will sail to Australia!

How do you actually send something to a ship, what do you write on the package as delivery address?

@SailingAequus

2 жыл бұрын

haha very good question, we havde to get things shipped to a marina (when we are in a marina which is rare) or find a friend, it is a difficult one for sure but we manage... Thanks pmgear

Lads few days away, While the cats away and all that,

How would you pass the cargo ship if they are moving at 8 knots and you at 7?

@SailingAequus

2 жыл бұрын

Go behind it

Why is everyone going on about solo sailing a big boat ? With all that technology It practically sails itself , Nice vid tho

So what did you do to refinish the deck from grey teak to brown?

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Hey David, we haven't done anything to the deck recently other then washing it.

It's torture!

All these comments about sailing, did you see the horror he calls a breakfast sandwich? OMG.

My dream is to a buy cheaper boat to sail entire the nation...

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds wonderful good luck...

James if money wasn't an issue what sail boat would you buy?

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Good question. I really don't know... If money really wasn't an issue probably a superyacht with a full-time crew to fix everything! lol. More down to earth but still out of my budget would probably be a MC60 catamaran. www.mcconaghyboats.com/mc60cat

Mate ketchup AND brown sauce🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

British!!! lol

James is shorthanded sailing difficult?

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

Everything is easier with more crew but no sailing a modern yacht single handed is pretty easy these days.

Nicely done - coming up episode doesn’t look good for the Williams :(

@SailingAequus

3 жыл бұрын

All good in the end lol

4 ads in 4 minutes. C ya!

cargo boat it was only 44 m in length (144 ft) ... why hard to see

@adrenazanetti3660

3 жыл бұрын

on the horizon many boats can’t be seen regardless of size also hazy conditions where they are etc 😉

@AlienX69

3 жыл бұрын

@@adrenazanetti3660 Well size does matter, that's why the cargo boat @ 144 ft was hard to see. But 600' Container ship would be a lot easier to see. Haze/time of day/sun position are all factors. The boat in question was just a little over twice the size of Aequus