Had a Catalina 22 for 11 years. Took it up and down the coast of California , as much as 50 miles off shore and trailed it to Mexico and many lakes inland. Loved the simplicity and flexibility of that boat.

Sailing Daydream, you guys are a inspiration to me and a wonderful couple who obviously enjoy each other very much. The POS's that have to point out the size of your boat like you aren't aware of it, and posting how they wouldn't do it makes me sick! You know what....do it again and keep loving each other and sailing.

@geneneill530

5 жыл бұрын

No worries Carl, I don't think anybody has meant any comment in a bad way. I read them all and I appreciate them all. Great bunch of people here! :)

@jolanni7

4 жыл бұрын

Loved it the first time, and enjoying the hell out of it now again. And, I love the boat.

What a fantastic video, you have the right attitude to sailing, relaxed. Beautiful scenery most of all it was obvious you enjoyed yourselves. Cant wait for the next video.

What a great video share. Thanks for doing it. I’ve enjoyed all of them you’ve posted. Please keep them coming for all of your adventures.

Thanks for taking us along! Your Catalina 22 looks impeccable!!

Great video! It was interesting to watch as you had a good narrative. Happy that you could do it

Nice video, thanks for sharing! Congratulations on the successful and fun trip.

Thanks as always for making these videos. Great inspiration, makes me miss our ol C22. Well done crossing!

Wow, that's awesome that you sailed your Catalina 22 to the Tortugas!

what a find for me. great video and info. and i did watch it till the end. good job!

Congratulations! A dream come true. You are a lucky couple.

Great video, thanks for making great videos and kudos to you both !

Love our videos. Really love your boat. Please keep sharing your adventures.

Amazing!! Great video! Thank you

Love this video! :) thank you for filming and sharing the trip with the world! I just bought a spindrift 22!

Great video! Good for you to take a trip that far. The water looks awesome.

I love how you crack yourself up. Got here cuz I have same boat. An 87 with swing keel. Party On !!!!

@geneneill530

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers brother, you got a damn fine boat!

I really enjoyed this, thank you for sharing with us!

All that on an easily trailered sailboat. That is great. Nice trip, thanks for sharing.

You made a real good video ! Great family boat fun together! Kudos kiddos !

Awesome adventure, great job!

I watch to the end good video nice sail great adventure thanks for sharing 👍👍

What a great video on your little boat. You have a slightly nervous laugh that makes me well nervous.... Love the boat, I think I would like one like it. Thanks!

Great vid! Thanks for taking us along.

That's a great sail. It's nice to see you kind of push the upper comfort limits of a daysailer / weekender boat like this.

Awesome video and thanks for sharing! I loved the Catalina 22 I co-owned with a friend. Great little boats that people under estimate all the time.

Great way to spend New Year's! Pesky planes. Lol. Thanks for the journey!

Great trip and video. Contemplating purchasing a 22 so it was interesting to watch.

Enjoyed your passage. We've sailed a 1982 or '84 Catalina 22 for the past 10 years in the Perdido Bay area of coastal Alabama. Wonderful sailboat. May 2018 I was one of three sailors on a 1964 35' Pearson Alberg participating in the Regata Al Sol, Pensacola Bay to Isla Mujeres. 3rd day out we ran into 30 hours of 25-30 knot winds w/ seas running 6-8 feet. We double reefed the main and kept sailing. You did a good job managing your boat.

@geneneill530

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Jay! I would sure hate to encounter those conditions on a C22. The wind is one thing, but 6-8' seas are another thing entirely. I would certainly hope it was coming from astern! Fair winds my friend ...

you have a great spirit friend

Catalina 22 great boat classic my friend had one good sailing!

Like your video ,thinking of getting a 22 or 25 ft sailboat,you both look like you enjoy sailing and being with each other,very refreshing.

Wow! I really enjoyed watching this! --- something I would love to do! I have a Cat 22 also.

Sounds like a dream trip. Thanks for sharing.

Nice sail! Thanks for sharing

The little Cat 22 that could and DID. Great job Capt. and his first mate.

@geneneill530

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tony, very nice of you. Much appreciated.

Good job and a good boat, cat 22's are awesome!

Watched till the end that was awesome!!

your giving me hope... love it

You guys are awesome sailors, and what incredible inspiration for the 2019 sailing season! I know you had been trying to make that trip, and I salute your patience and wisdom in waiting for the right conditions. I can only imagine the sense of accomplishment evident on your faces - that's a long way in a 22' sloop! As another C22 owner, it's really cool to see how well these boats can handle coastal/offshore conditions in the hands of competent crew. Thanks again for sharing your trip and CONGRATULATIONS! -- Paul (Igetit80 from the SBO Forums)

@geneneill530

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words, Paul! Happy New Year!!

Wow, you did that in a 22 foot Catalina. Thanks for the video friend.

I enjoyed uour video. You both did a good job. You make a good team.

Fun video! Thanks for posting!

What a nice vessel and an enjoyable trip. I've visited Fort Sumter with my future husband many years ago now and those old forts really are impressive.

Fantastic video, I feel like I am on vacation watching it. I hope to make that same trip eventually. Thank You.

@geneneill530

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Tobin!

Thanks for the vid... Took me back to the '80s when my Father used to take me sailing in a Catalina(Boomaroo in Australia) 25. I don't think that extra 3 feet would have made much of a different!

I watched to the end of the video. Good stuff!

man ive watched this three times you both are great.. its on my bucket list and I live in AZ. thanks...

Great video - thanks for sharing!!

thanks for the trip to the fort and back

That's pretty awesome. I had my Catalina 22 in the keys for a year. I've never considered taking it to garden key.

What a wonderful video ! I am a inspiring wanna be ! Right now enjoying the RV life on land but hoping someday to hit the Great Lakes !

What a good trip. Hope you have a good trip

Hey! I saw the Rolly Tasker Sail tag on the sail. I got one of those for my Spindrift 22 and love it. Glad I caught your video.

@geneneill530

3 жыл бұрын

They're great sails. We bought ours (main and working jib) from thesailwarehouse.com in late 2013. Our big red 180 Genoa is a Rolly Tasker also. All of them are doing great after seven years. :)

YUPH south florida is part of the thorny path. Great cruise. I hope you have a lot more

Glad you let me ride along... All my gear is still dry. Yay. ha ha ha, as you say.

Great to see more of what a little C22 can do. New lesson here, watch out for aircraft. Nice to learn from other people's experiences.

Cool. Love your spirit.

I sail a Pandora 22 in Northern Ireland and it was interesting comparing your boat with mine. Great adventure.

Love this great video thanks I making our lives better and God bless

Great trip guys, thanks for posting , trailering tooI, gluten for punishment ! Twice a year is quite enough for me. Cheers Warren

Awesome adventure. Good video. Those 22's rule. seriously.

Hey great job. Back when I was making ocean passages in my 25’ outboard powered sailboat, we didn’t have GPS, plotters and the incredible weather apps and info that there is today. Not to mention things like solar panels and small autopilots. You just did your best guess, listened to the very poor weather forecast available took off and prayed. Ha ha. But these things make is so much more feasible and safe to make passages like this in smaller daysail type boats. Well done!

You guys need to keep pumping out content if you can. Your experiences are unique, and deserve to be vlogged!

@edmilsonsilva7283

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you Sir., they making sailing available for any kind of budget.

Bravo! I have a Catalina 22. Muy lindo viaje. Gracias

Awesome adventure. I've been to the Keys many times, never to Ft Jefferson.

"I don't want anyone to laugh" ***Proceeds to nervous laugh***

you really have this boat setup well. backstay adjuster, a kicking strap - boom vang, nice avon dingy!

Congratulations!

Congrats guys great Sailors you are. The little 22 cat that could!!

You guys are awesome.

Thank you for sharing. Good information

Fantastic! I am a couple weeks from the Dry Tortugas myself.

@willfriar8054

5 жыл бұрын

BRING BUDWISER TRADE FOR SHRIMP AND FISH IF YOU GO BY BOAT TALK ON RADIO TO SHRIMPERS

That was a great video.

Great video Gene and Carlotta!! Thanks for taking all of us along with you again. I'll go ahead and put my vote in for the boat tour as well.

@geneneill530

5 жыл бұрын

LOL! Dang it Ken, we have the exact same boat!! hahaha

@sailinslim402

5 жыл бұрын

@@geneneill530 Lol!! Yes, but yours has different upgrades, styles and touches that mine doesn't and gets more miles under her keel in one day than mine sees in a year here lately.

@geneneill530

5 жыл бұрын

Okay, well, apologies in advance: I still haven't installed that beautiful custom made table you gave me. Turns out it is just a hair too wide to fit between the seats. I promise it will get done eventually!! :)

@sailinslim402

5 жыл бұрын

@@geneneill530 I'll be darned....it drops into place, right and tight on mine. I guess there are some differences between Daydream and my '86 model.

When I saw that seaplane for a second I thot "you found jimmybuffet!" Nice vid and trip. Very like the O'Day 22 we used to have on the Chesapeake.

Great vid. Well done.

It was great watching you guys. I have a Catalina 25 and am preparing to sail from Gulfport, MS, to some of the barrier islands. I’m apprehensive about it, as it will be the farthest I’ve been offshore. But your little trip (in a smaller boat) was very inspiring. I love how much fun you had.

@geneneill530

6 ай бұрын

You'll love it!! I remember when we first ventured out into salt water (we practiced in lakes first). We were so excited just reaching the 3 nautical mile line. It seemed so far. We took a picture of the chartplotter, high fived, and hauled ass back toward land. LOL

I love your videos! You have a great voice for narrating!

@johnirby493

5 жыл бұрын

The laugh is irritating.

Awesome cruise , of the two sailboats I've owned I've always regretted not buying a Catalina 22 in the first place.

I love all your videos.

Super fun ! I would love to see a boat tour and description. I have a 1983 wing keel . She needs allot of work but we love sailing her.

@gilbertklip7202

Жыл бұрын

Is your boat’s name Seafood?

That was great!

We live in northeastern Alberta, Canada , sun dissapears at 3:30 pm on the 28 of Dec. we have Catalina on the west coast of Canada. pretty good off the cuff video..

What a great video! Really enjoyed watching all of it. Guys...come though...you need to get a bigger boat for those kind of trips!😀 And...I envy your awesome trip!

@geneneill530

5 жыл бұрын

We're refitting a 27' Albin Vega in the driveway. Does 5' bigger count?? :)

@JustFlyIt09

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds better but I was thinking something between 30 - 35! Then again, my wife and I are timid sailors on the Chesapeake Bay.

You sure have your boat in great shape

Your adventures inspired me. During the last week of March last year (3/21) I trailered my Sanibel 18 from NY and launched it from Flamingo in the Everglades. The intention was to sail to the Dry Tortugas and back over the course of a week. But 6-ft white caps and a very strong northerly kept me tucked behind the northern keys near Snipe Point for two days. I eventually made it to the west side of Marquesas and spent a night anchored there. I ran out of time and needed to head back to Flamingo. Sailed solo the entire time. Started and finished with 4 gallons of gas. It was an epic little adventure for me. Maybe I'll try again soon and make it to the Dry Tortugas. Anyway, thanks!

@geneneill530

2 жыл бұрын

Man, that is awesome!! Alone in an 18', you are tougher than a two-dollar steak, my friend. I like your boat, too. Light weight, shallow draft, lots of ballast ... she'd be PERFECT around here.

Great, thanks for sharing. Will subscribe.

yes good job you 2 for living the dream ... i hope to make the trip some time on my 1987 moody 376

Loved the journey. you speak the little boat lingo

@geneneill530

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks LP, from a fellow pool professional. ;)

I love this video!

Fantastic!

NICE !! Just found your YTube site. Tumbed up and subbed. Reminds me of my C&C25 up here sailing out of St.Kitts on Lake Ontario . Weather window , yeah ?? !! Two hours out, YIKES ! Lots of fun though. Happy New Year to you and your beautiful First Mate.

@geneneill530

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Brien! Happy New Year to you and yours as well. :)

Catalina 22 is a good, solid boat. I've sailed them back in the day on the Chesapeake.

You got a killer laugh.👍

@geneneill530

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha!! (thanks Steve!)

I learned a lot! Thanks!

Happy New Year! Splash!

Brings back great memories of my Cat 22. Took that boat everywhere.

Just awesomeness, so jelious

Nice. I had a bigger boat. More than twice as big. You’ve got a perfect sized boat for what you’re doing.