THANK You FOR Sharing ALL that you have AND FUTURE Episodes ...your in my prayers, take care you all and everyone whose watching...

@Spoondrifters

4 күн бұрын

Thanks so much

Friends and family are always the best thing in life

@Spoondrifters

7 күн бұрын

Yes they are

@dfb1951

6 күн бұрын

Well I hope you will conceder me a friend😊

I love this part of the state. Good to see you’re taking it slow. 😎🥰😎🥰😎

@Spoondrifters

8 күн бұрын

It’s beautiful!

The best things in life aren't things and places, the best things in life are friends and faces.

@Spoondrifters

8 күн бұрын

Yes!

👍👌❤️🇨🇦, hanging out with you all

@Spoondrifters

7 күн бұрын

Glad you’re here! ❤️

I’ll give you a week before you motor it. Good way to start an adventure

@Spoondrifters

8 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

Sailing, especially cruising, is about enjoying the journey not the destination, well destination is nice too, but it's the journey that's the enjoyment, good to see you finally getting it, It's hard for people who didn't grow up with sail boats to really understand this, when on land everything is so fast pace, you get in the car and go and in a few minutes your there, who cars about the consequences of the journey, that's also the mentality of motor boaters, the pollution and the wakes (waves). I guess cycling everywhere would the be the land equivalent of sailing.

@Spoondrifters

4 күн бұрын

Yep, very true

I get a whole lot more done when I take one day a week to just rest and take it easy.

@Spoondrifters

8 күн бұрын

Amen!

I was down there Nov time frame. Weather was awful. Anchored down in Little Allegator river and had 35 knots wind at 1:00 in the morning. Not much fun. Caught a log with the anchor. Just a bummer of trip all way around.

@Spoondrifters

8 күн бұрын

Yeah that sounds terrible.

Loving the slow down attitude. Hey do you know what happened to Salty escape?

@Spoondrifters

8 күн бұрын

Thanks! They are back on land working.

Crab pots - you have my sympathy. Here in the UK it is often like sailing a mine field. The fishers are legally obliged to mark each with a short pole and flags but often all there is is a 5 litre poly bottle. A small white bottle is hard to see but, single handed, amongst the "white horses", come on!

@Spoondrifters

7 күн бұрын

Yes!! They can be terribly hard to see. And sometimes it’s like they got tired and just threw everything left in one spot. 😂

No no no you need to pull up anchor and set sail hit the high seas a good test for you and your boat weather be damed . It like Captain RON said if anything going to happen its going to happen out there so just go for it lol.

@Spoondrifters

8 күн бұрын

Been there, done that. Just a different experience. ❤️

Did Liberty get off the boat?

@Spoondrifters

8 күн бұрын

She’s visiting family this summer.

at 29 knots those boats were drinking about 120 gal an hour of diesel. I have blown down that river at 20 knots on a 70 ft hatteras

@Spoondrifters

8 күн бұрын

So crazy!! 😂

I’m still hesitant to convert to electric. My big plan is to do the great loop, but I’m worried that I might find myself motoring on the ICW more often than sailing, and would be limited by range. Forgive me if you have answered this in a previous video concerning range, amp hours, speed and time, but is there a part of the ICW that you are concerned with if the wind isn’t blowing?

@Spoondrifters

7 күн бұрын

Yes, we have done a lot of motoring. Range hasn’t been a problem as we also have a generator making us a hybrid system. We us that if there’s not enough solar (winter) or the current or wind is against us. We sail as much as we can, even if it means we’re slow. If you can’t handle being slower than everyone else on the loop, don’t go electric.

What size and make boat is that?

@Spoondrifters

7 күн бұрын

Morgan 462 so 46 feet

Decisions, decisions, decisions...

@Spoondrifters

8 күн бұрын

Yep