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good morning

okay finally we got this to work

we've been trying all morning this is

our first time going live merry

christmas and happy new year everyone

uh i can't see any any text or anything

yet

oh it pops up as they send messages okay

we can watch it

yeah i'm gonna i'm bringing up the text

here

oh it's working i got the i got the

comments right here

oh cool well that's one week ago so no

no that's it oh that says one week ago

oh i'm on the wrong thing

no yeah this is somebody else's thing so

uh no

just talk to talk to them while i try to

get this going

all right so if you guys can see us um

just

mention it in the comment thing we're

this is our first time doing it we don't

know how to

see the oh there we go oh good morning

oh we're on awesome and you can hear our

voices okay

can everyone hear us oh we so happy

lockdown from ontario

wow oh man i hope everyone's

doing well

oh good perfect oh sweet

so yeah we're still in antigua everyone

we're still

trying to plan our travels to st martin

we've been set back a little bit trying

to keep busy

working and whatnot and we've had

some massive wins on christmas and

massive wins

for new year's as well yeah

what else dan i just saw hello from

british columbia

hi we've been canadians out there we've

been there

we're from the east coast but we've been

over to to british columbia before

yeah yeah so we're uh we're still in

antigua

we left barbuda our last video we um

we showed that we were in barbuda uh and

we didn't show that we'd left but we did

and we're back here in antigua again

and we're waiting for the right weather

to sail to saint martin because

uh st martin is the only island right

now here in the caribbean

on this part of the caribbean where we

can travel

without paying for a pcr test i'm

freaking great

it's cool uh and um

the pcr test here in antigua is 300 u.s

which is outrageous so

we're hoping that that we can because

originally saints it's the dutch saint

martin

and antigua were both part of the

caricom bubble um

you don't you originally didn't need a

pcr test to travel and so they still

haven't changed that in st martin so

we're going to go to st

martin next where we won't have to deal

with the expensive pcr

uh and then from st martin we can

eventually cross to the french side

of saint martin and then from there i

think we're we may go to the dominican

republic again but we're not sure yet

hi bill hi dad oh phil and demeron

yeah they are nice they're you can watch

a video with those too

bill and dad they're oh yeah they are in

a video they came sailing with us

uh it's one video way back in nova

scotia yeah

that was a funny day we hit some really

thick

fog and had a couple of

uh moments that were a little scared but

it was all good

so everyone on on you got our attention

do you have any questions for us do you

is there anything that we could be

answering for you guys adam and sarah

hey

adam and sarah that this is where you

all look oh perfect yeah we can see that

now

wow welcome

cool i'm glad everybody's available yes

i'm sorry it took us so long to figure

this out we were just

uh it's our first time doing this whole

live thing right so we're just sitting

here panicking oh my goodness we're

late we're late and i was like dan i

told you i told you we should have

started this sooner than later but

i'm happy that everyone's here and

watching i wasn't sure what kind of

turnout we were gonna get

yeah we're at a a place that has decent

wi-fi

usually and we got here we turned on the

laptop and we got everything ready

and it the wi-fi went down to like no

bars and we're like oh man this isn't

going to work

so anyway i think we're okay now though

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wow we should do it

that's awesome i'm so glad that

people people from canada

are here that's so cool

oh so if you guys have any questions

let's just just go ahead and shoot this

is kind of like an informal

q a and it's our it's our first time

live streaming

and uh it's all new to us and um

what's been the most surprising part of

our journey so far

i think that's a great question

obviously uh kovid kovid hit us like a

ton of bricks but

he did for everyone oh man um

and what else i um i was surprised

just not getting our window to go to uh

bermuda totally

changed the whole tone of our journey um

sailing down the coast of the u.s on

oh karen's there you're interrupting me

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sailing down the coast from nova scotia

all the way to new york

i was not prepared for that i was

freezing

it was so cold and it was an upwind

battle and we were flying

and we had to stop every three days

because of

weather there was just storm after storm

after storm

we were so excited to go to manhattan

and in new york city

and uh you know just never been there

we're excited to check it all out and we

got there and it was like

zero degrees celsius you know freezing

and water was freezing the puddles were

freezing and everything and

um that was yeah i didn't expect that at

all and that was also the same time our

raspberry furnace kind of kicked the

bucket

so uh and and i tried to fix it

and i i have fixed it since but um

it very inopportune moment for the

freezer

and or for the furnace to die and then

all we thought at that point was like

let's get south like let's get out of

this cold stuff

wow

ah you're welcome

oh man is so i have a question for karen

for karen is it karen and dylan or just

karen

timmy's run no way we love timmy's run

um we met timmy run back in uh

was it the bahamas no uh yeah

yeah it was it was in the bahamas yeah

we we traveled with them through the

whole pandemic

uh we all stuck together when kobe hit

us

and and we were a great little support

unit for one another

it was really fantastic oh the drone

shots we got in

puerto rico came from timmy's run uh

they're

they were with us we we actually met

them in looper on but we

they were an anchor next to us in long

island in the bahamas

but you can see them in a lot of our

videos they're both either behind us or

they're dinging past us

or they're in a shot or walking through

town and they're with us

we did a lot of stuff together it is

karen and dylan

karen dylan from ayc hey guys

nice we're going to get challenging

questions now yes

hit us with some questions

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why don't you fly your 135 jib because

we're too scared

no we're going to start we're going to

start sailing our big jib now that we're

going to be sailing downwind for a

majority of the trip back home

yeah every thing we've shot pretty much

since

maybe the first couple videos were with

our 100

jib if you ever get out of this

nonsense i'm stealing it i'm selling

everything and buying a boat and going

for it

good for you do it

oh that's awesome yeah face mask eating

things

yeah i don't know if they have ones like

this in north america but uh

here in the caribbean they're all really

colorful and pretty

so oh hi peter

yes we know peter oh

that's okay we can still see it here

here oh we have a thing popped up on our

screen

but we don't want that there we go okay

cool

computers sorry how do you deal with

income tax are you are you taxed where

you are

that's a in canada um yeah

dan's mostly been uh working through

canadian companies

and we've been saving all our receipts

and whatnot and

i don't know dan you go for it i don't

work so dan should be answering this

question

well the answer to that question is

we're we're taxed as canadians

uh even though i'm actually working when

i work

um with the the work that i do from the

boat with using my computer

um i'm i'm working internationally

mostly

it's not always canadians that i'm

working with or for but

either way no matter what i do i'm still

my income is all still taxed as a

canadian

so even if i work in the us or work for

the u.s

we're still considered canadian citizens

and we're still taxed as canadians

um some people do i don't know what the

word is renounce or give up their

citizenship but

to become a citizen somewhere else and

if we stayed maybe in the us or some

place long enough we could do that and

then we'd be doing taxes there i suppose

been teagle a few years ago loved our

vacation

we've been getting a lot of mixed

feelings about antiqua

some of the sailors we met that have

been here in the past they say that it

always too busy too touristy uh

they didn't really enjoy it because of

how hustle and bust too many super

yachts but i'm really happy to have

been here now that it's quiet because i

feel like we're getting to experience

a whole other side of antigua that some

people may have not gotten the chance to

experience

yeah yeah the whole caribbean's been

like this and we've been talking about

it since covid that

you go to anchorages and there's maybe

three boats there but

if you go on google maps and you look at

that same anchorage there's like 50

boats there

so adam's asking us when do we plan to

be in nova scotia

we're aiming for april march we're

trying

uh it it really does depend on whether

or not we're going to be able to stop

along the way where can we stop along

the way

with covid and pcr tests the pcr test

it depends on the island but some are

asking for 300 u.s

yeah to get the test and they're

requiring that you take the test before

you leave

like so so that you have it upon arrival

and then some ask for another one

after a rival so it it all depends on

how we do this

it's a lot of planning there's a lot of

anxiety involved when it comes to

bouncing between islands

actually we have to do a lot of homework

because it's constantly changing

so right now cuba is open we want to do

cuba

yeah um and we're thinking maybe after

cuba

uh we'll probably maybe depending on

covid and

the vaccines and everything but if we

can get to florida and maybe put the

boat up on the heart in florida and then

from that point we'll fly back to nova

scotia

we're tickling that idea yeah i mean

right now florida's definitely a hot

spot for covid at the moment so

we'll see how we go but we we are very

anxious to get back home just so that we

can both

uh get back to working and building up

our

you know our finances renew our medical

insurance

medical insurance get some dental work

done

oh you know

yeah it'd be great to see you too we'll

have to do another escape room

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what are your plans for 2021 i'm looking

forward to getting back into the

workforce actually uh

but we'd also wouldn't mind sailing more

around nova scotia

i'd like to see newfoundland um even

cape breton

i'd like to sail around there too um

it'd be nice to

i'd like our new home to be in mahome

bay actually for the boat

that is we really enjoy sailing around

the home bay

but we're definitely going to take a

break from massive trips for a little

while and just

settle down and get ourselves prepared

you know

for our next big adventure which

hopefully is the mediterranean

hopefully the med would be sweet yeah i

really like what sailing uma did

um going up because we met when we met

them we met them in nova scotia

uh sailing up the coast and then uh i

guess greenland

and then over to um to i guess

maybe iceland or whatever and then and

then um

ireland and then down and getting to the

med through going

north route which is really dangerous

sometimes but there's a time in the year

you can actually do that

um and that might be what we do but for

now like i think the boat once we get

the boat

to florida we'll be thinking differently

and making other plans and it's hard to

say exactly what we're going to do but

we are going to do like a piece where we

go back home for a bit

just to just recharge the batteries

oh my god yeah isn't it beautiful i love

sailing in my home bay

like i mean after doing the caribbean

and everything like i still look back at

sailing in my home base well that was my

first sailing trip i had zero sailing

experience and dan's like okay i got

three weeks off work

let's uh sail over to my home bay and it

was a

it was just a such a fantastic trip and

um i'll cherish that forever

that was the only series that was the

only sailing experience i had before we

did this massive jump to the

to the bahamas and i was just like whoa

like

so i have a story for you guys that's

not going to be uh is it going to be

embarrassing no no no

it's not we're not going to put it in a

video because we didn't shoot anything

but we were when we were in jolly harbor

here in antigua

we had we were going for groceries at

epic

period you can see that in one of our

videos

and it looked like a boat we knew we're

like it turns out it was the people

we bought the boat from it was the

people that that had valchanda before we

had it says complete coincidence like

over here in the middle of the character

this is very random meeting the previous

owners of our vessel

right and noel had never met them yeah

no so how has recording editing and

publishing impact your sailing

experience

that's a good one dan uh he has fomo

fear of missing out

so we we try to try to start our editing

every thursday

friday and and and schedule it so that

you have to edit when the solar panels

and the batteries are full oh my god so

you have to do all your editing during

the day because your laptop's going you

know and as soon as sun goes down and

and your batteries are shot it's like

it's game over

so it's work work work work until like

four

and then at four you're like hmm

it really needs to be out so i'm gonna

start the engine and then you start the

engine and your work work work work and

it takes about

a day to two days day and a half to two

days for dan to get a video out

with time though like you just editing

yeah just editing shooting is a

different thing

just editing shooting we take bits and

pieces and but she's she's asking about

the editing not the shooting honey she's

like how is it impacting your sailing

experience

well and well it includes sailing too

because um when we got the gopro

everything really changed and i know

like a lot of people have gopros but

for us we were shooting a lot of our uh

stuff where their camera might get wet

uh sailing and stuff with our phones

before with with waterproof cases and

special lenses and stuff

and um and that takes a while to set up

but the gopro has clips you put them on

the boat and it just

so when you're sailing you can just

throw the gopro out point it in your

direction or whatever and you're getting

video

and you catch things you wouldn't catch

with your phone anyway and you don't

have to worry about it because it's

clipped in really solid it's not going

to wash overboard

so that that's gotten a lot better but

but editing definitely is a big

most of our friends know that thursday

and friday are editing days for us and

and they know

that they shouldn't try to make plans

with us so they'll let us know what's

going on but we're just like you know

what

we really stay home and get this done

yeah and we've missed out on some really

fun things because we had to edit

but a lot of people will reschedule and

wait for us to that's true

yeah if we're doing something with other

cruisers yes but there's also

sometimes where the weather's really

good for sailing and we just have to

stop what what was your biggest barrier

and taking up your cruising lifestyle

biggest barrier taking up

the cruising livestream it's engaging

disengaging

yeah disengaging from like general

population

leaving your job your your friends

i miss the socializing aspect with my

friends and family

yeah yeah being willing to sell

everything you own

except for the that doesn't bother me so

much i feel

i feel so um light

having no car no house no nothing i feel

very free actually it's it's

it's invigorating we meet cruisers who

have a home

back somewhere we meet cruisers who have

like a storage unit somewhere with some

things put away

but in our case we literally got rid of

everything yeah we sold the car

everything um canceled car insurance we

we just got gave it all up because

we didn't know if our income would cover

all those expenses so we're just like

you know what no

i know it was only meant to be a six

month trip and we just thought whatever

it's not a big deal but i'm really happy

that we had gone that route now

because uh we definitely would not be

able to

um afford a storage unit or a car

payment or anything like that

at this point now that's been a year

yeah

all the other stuff too yeah but but

yeah and then i think getting

an arrangement where i can work remotely

with my company

that i was working for at the time um

was was a bit of a

like had that not happened i don't know

if we would have left

so bill 1961 yes shirley heights is

still open and we can hear the steel

drums from our boat and it sounds

incredible

uh we've been wanting to go up there but

we've noticed there's a lot of

uh people from the uk flying in right

now and antico is not

doing two weeks quarantine or anything

like that

yeah so we've been trying to be extra

careful not to go to crowded places like

bars and restaurants especially

yeah just right now um i have

we're worried that there's going to be

an outbreak and we got to protect

ourselves right now from the buyer

says if dan and i either one of us were

to get sick we wouldn't be able to sail

the vessel

solo and we wouldn't be able to afford

um putting the boat up right now so

we're taking extra precautions

yeah yeah because we would have to pay

for whatever hospital

stuff came up if we were to catch it dan

how much sailing experience did you have

when you first bought the boat

that's a good question um i made a

couple videos about this

when um when i was first learning

about large boat sailing because i had

done small boat sailing back home

and i put in a couple years racing

sail racing in bays like in nova scotia

they sail in the bays usually

and i would race like once a week

usually uh and maybe stay on the weekend

or something like that with other people

um and brought all my chops up and

figured out

you know handling the boat tacking and

all the stuff that you need that the

basics

through through that and then i bought

my own boat which

before belichandra i had a small boat

called a morningstar which was a 20-foot

day sailor

and i sailed that for a couple years and

then um once i

sort of figured i knew what i was doing

uh

go to like maybe a 30 foot but i knew i

really wanted

the boat to live on i was i was selling

a house i was getting

away from land life and i just went for

the big boat i'm like you know what i

don't want to buy a boat that i have to

sell and then buy another boat

i'm gonna buy the big big boat now and

just throw myself in the fire

and uh and figure it out but that's why

my very first passage from saint john to

halifax i brought a captain with me

and it was more just to have someone

with a lot of experience show me

the few things i didn't know and have

somebody else help me handle the boat

because it was just

it's a huge boat and i wasn't used to

that and me i just learned how to sail

on the fly

i didn't take any sailing courses or

anything like

that yeah um

and dan says i'm a real sailor now guys

just so you know

this is coming from him he says i made

it this far i'm considered a sailor

uh timmy's run uh they sold their boat

in grenada and and they did very well

and and now they bought a massive boat

in bc right and it's like a captain ron

vote

it's incredible she doesn't mean she

means because it's

cool no it's cool i love casting we

don't think it's falling apart

[Laughter]

i think it's a catch in captain ron

that's a catch and

i don't know i don't know i just see

them having epic adventures i'm so

excited for them and i i

really do hope that we can come and

visit you guys i would love to come

visit

yeah that boat looks wicked

we still plan on living on our boat when

we go back home

i think i don't think we're ready to

give up the boat i'd like to live on the

boat a little bit longer

i mean i prefer uh paying

for paying off the boat then renting an

apartment

like we're not even 100 sure if we're

going to bring the boat back to nova

scotia

i mean we talk about it but we're not

like

we might we're we're going to go home

when we're for a few months to sort of

you know just just see where we can get

because after kovid like

work has been hard and it's been hard to

keep things going

um and uh we might change our minds

about

taking the boat north and we're not sure

yet so it's it's for now

we're thinking putting it on the heart

in florida is a good idea we have to do

some work on it we got to paint the

bottom and do stuff anyway so

i mean one that's out of the way um it's

hard to say

but uh but if we were to take it back to

scotia it's so cheap to live on your

boat

in the north compared to having an

apartment or a house or something so we

probably would live on it for a while

yeah i think we would live on the boat i

i i don't mind living on the boat and

and our yacht so close to friends and

family it's just a little short car ride

or bus ride away so

uh we're pretty content this one's oh

what did they say here

did you ever no this one that's timmy's

run honey yeah i just talked about that

yeah series of videos from bc

did you ever scheme out going through

the panama canal

and then up the west coast to south east

alaska let's see that fits into what

timmy's friend said because they said

would you come and make videos

i i i already we already spoke about

that we moved on to the panama canal

um we haven't dan's mentioned the panama

canal a few times and i'm just like

i don't my head is just so filled with

the current situation that i can't

think further than what's in front of me

right now

i i always said that at some point i

would circumnavigate

the globe but i'm not doing that with

you though but

i'm waiting for charlie my son to uh to

you know get into his late teenage years

you know where he can

uh make decisions that for himself like

as an adult

or as a young adult and then um at that

point i think that's something that we

would do together maybe

um although you know things change

it's hard to say but that's uh that's

always been kind of the plan

but um panama could happen

without crossing the pacific i don't

know so this is our view right now

they'll like to see your view i hope you

could see that

there's an there's some boats there on

mooring balls

and we're actually sitting outside of a

grocery

store um

which is kind of like a cafe yeah it's a

grocery store slash

cafe restaurant and we

we like to sit here because of the free

wi-fi and

there's not too many people around um

so we're able to sit here with our face

mask off right now and

it's fairly quiet so yeah

um what was the scariest time out there

on the boat

oh man that's easy

i don't know if anybody has sailed cape

hatteras

but that was crazy there's a the gulf

stream

flexes close and then further away from

shore

and we were it's changing constantly and

we thought that we were pretty

far away from the gulf stream and we

turned this

corner and as soon as we turned that

corner all of a sudden

we went from minus five to like

plus 20 and we're wearing all these

layers of clothing

and and dance like hoist the storm jib

bring down the mane like it was intense

dan was screaming at me

and in every five minutes if i just

slowed down just a little bit just to

unzip my jacket because i couldn't

breathe at this point yeah and i'm just

winching and winching

and every five minutes he's like we're

gonna die

we saw we were seeing 48 knots 48 knots

and i remember that number coming up on

the knot meter

and um and the waves around us were

confused

and when you look out at the sea

normally when you're sailing you can

tell which way the wind's blowing

because the waves are coming the same

direction but

on that day in cape hatteras because of

the cross currents and the changing of

the wind

um we couldn't tell you looked and waves

were going this way and waves were going

that way we were coming from the front

and behind and we were taking waves on

the beam while we thought we were

we head into them so it was a complete

washing machine

and oh dan freaked out the whole thing

i was just like taking my time i was

taking

my clothes off because i was sweating to

death

and dan just kept on saying i'm gonna

die i'm gonna die

and i'm like i have full confidence in

our boat our boat is solid

i wasn't worried first i did say we're

gonna die but i said we're going to die

what i really said was we're going to

die

if we don't do something yeah yeah

that's what i say we were but we were

ready we were prepared

we were prepared dan was so prepared for

that and i was very impressed with him

at that moment i was

very proud and oppressed and i felt

confident in my captain

somewhat we were we were rigged to cross

the

cross to bermuda almost atlantic um and

uh we had a temporary

air force day set up with dyneema and we

had a storm

jib already already hanged on and

strapped down on top of our dinghy on

the deck so

we were thinking like if you know

things hit the fan and we were in

trouble we could pull up the storm jib

we could furl in our jib pull up the

storm jib

and get out of a bad situation and we

just just so happened we were ready for

it and it happened and we

we tried out all those things we used

the storm jib to get out of it and it

was

it actually works really well yeah three

reefs in the main

yeah we had three reefs in the main it

was really hard winching in those reefs

i have to say i

i never worked so hard i was so out of

breath and we popped like three of the

little cars in our sail track

it was crazy 48 knots what makes your

boat

blue water capable hall

good question yep i love her when

cute that's uh water line oh water

probably the biggest one

uh yeah and her wing kill is is good

having yeah having a good heavy kill our

kill is

a lot of keels are steel um but i think

there's a

weight requirement in the keel that has

to be met i think but um

uh the longer length of the water line

that you have

probably the more blue water see where

your boat's going to be um

also good displacement

there's an argument as to whether speed

is better than than

displacement because if you you have a

heavier boat not

in a higher displacement you're going to

be probably going to be slower

um but the most blue water capable boats

would be heavier

and uh and have a longer water line and

displace more water

but you sacrifice speed when you you

know add that our boat has a balsa core

versus like a phone car you know what

peter i'm really happy that we haven't

had to use the drogue yet it's

in in in really

like rough seas we've had it there ready

to deploy

but we haven't had to test that one out

yet i think i showed it in one video

where we had it rigged up i think

right uh because we have our swim ladder

on the back it gets in the way uh but we

we found a way we figured out a way that

we could just toss it overboard when we

needed to

and uh we had it rigged up that way for

crossing to bermuda

um i talked to a guy the other day i put

this one in a comment in one of our

videos

um because this came up but i talked to

a guy here but we i saw the um

the uh he had some steel uh stainless

steel

connections on his transom that you

usually use with the jordan series drill

because you have two lines coming off

your transom

and um i saw them and i knew right away

that's a jordan series uh

connection point and i asked him he was

getting water or something in the dock

and i asked him about it and he said

that uh he did

actually fly his jordan series drove and

fly he deployed it

uh in rough weather i guess something

really bad and he said it worked

perfectly

and they felt very safe and they used it

until the weather passed and they

brought the

brought the drug back in um

hi estelle oh wow

how did zeus handle that uh we have a

backpack for zeus

and i just put him in the backpack i zip

it up i

do the drawstring i put him on my back

and i forget him

he's happy in his backpack and he likes

to know that

he's touching like he's he's one with us

you know

and that helps him so much in

any type of situation it's his uh happy

place

so i'm really thankful that i purchased

that backpack in nova scotia before

coming along

um fort pierce fort pierce we'll look

into that

yeah i think i heard about that about

about four people we were we were

talking about

somewhere around tampa too um and some

other places

but uh i don't want to have to take the

mast off uh to go in the heart but

if we have to we will actually it

wouldn't be a bad idea to take the mast

off especially if it's sitting there

during hurricane season but we'll see

the last time we took the mast off we

needed well there's people on this chat

that know this

uh we needed about 12 people to help us

move it yeah

it's a really big it was uh

it was funny everybody in the whole

yacht club were standing around

watching us do it a lot of people are

going back and forth of whether or not

it was actually going to be

possible our mask was the largest mask

to ever

uh been cranked up on halifax

uh yeah a room in the club there's a

bunch of guys standing around i had

known that they were doing a meeting

cool so you can keep your masks on their

harbor town marina

thank you for that intel yeah i'm gonna

go back and get this after

yeah fantastic

happy new year everyone yeah yeah

absolutely thank you for tuning in

um how is it to cook on board a boat

regarding the

ozad we're good okay

we're back

uh grease sally the cupboards it felt

really good to have all grease cleaned

up

um and after we do fry and whatnot i

just give everything a little wipe with

water and vinegar and so far it's been

okay

dan's usually cleaning up out after me

actually i'm a very messy hook

well when you're cooking with gas you

want to have

a ventilation anyway i mean um when we

were on the

uh sorry when we were wintering in nova

scotia and we had the boat

in plastic there wasn't a lot of air

flow in the boat and if you were to

leave your gas

stove on you know indefinitely you would

you would die from uh from the carbon

monoxide poisoning so i mean

uh whenever you're burning any kind of a

fuel inside of a closed space you need

ventilation

i wish we had um i wish we did have a

fan

or something to suck the air out but we

don't but there is um

a hatch not directly on top of the stove

but just

like two or three feet away from the

stove that does um

open up slightly it doesn't crack it's

under our dodger so we just keep it open

all the time yes

yeah so that helps ventilate some of the

yeah yeah i've never had a wave come in

there or anything

so yeah but it's important

anything else we didn't answer no i

think we got all the questions any more

questions for us you guys

does anybody want to know what

balachandra means i think they all know

of bella chandra

hi how's it going uh we're live right

now on youtube yeah

but um oh nobody said nobody no i think

we've answered

we're not going to say it unless someone

asks it

oh okay okay we get it we do get asked

we actually get asked a lot by uh people

from india

um so balochandra means

um the rising crescent moon

in ancient sanskrit at the time

uh when when we bought the boat or when

i bought the boat i was uh doing a lot

of yoga and really into

that stuff i was reading like the

mahabharata and the bhagavad-gita

and um and i wanted a name that

kind of had that flavor at the time and

uh so i just did some research and

came up with almost two years old human

years

um and he's doing great i've noticed

though uh

now that he's getting older he's

actually becoming more anxious

when he had more uh

he had he was way i don't know what the

word is i'm looking for

um he he he the anxiety that he has now

uh before he he handled everything but

now just the slightest noise kind of

freaks him out

and i'm trying to figure out ways to

help him with anxiety all of a sudden

because when he was a pup he was

fearless so

yeah it's it's not the boat moving

around or leaning over and all that

stuff that's the noise

it sounds sounds freaking like when the

when the jib sheets get tight

and and the sometimes the block moves it

makes kind of a bang noise and that

freaks them right out

uh dan watson dylan wants to know

what you're running for solar now our

solar panels are not keeping up the days

are a lot

shorter right now yeah we need to

replace them with uh

with bigger panels right now i think we

have 80 watt panels or something we have

two of them so it's not

it's not really adequate unless

so right now we're at the winter

solstice and when the sun rises

it's at an angle to the to the ground

like this

and our panels are here so the sun's

hitting the panels

i don't know what does that like almost

a 45 but not a

not not straight up high noon like you

would get and um when we were in grenada

and it was the opposite time of the year

we had

great like the power was crazy like i

was worried about it we actually blew

a fuse on our solar controller because

we had so much power

so i mean just 80 280 watt panels was

wasn't was adequate

during that time of the year but during

the winter solstice you feel like you

need bigger panels

but we our wind generator sort of helps

to keep it up so

depends on the anchorage uh with the

wind generator uh

right now we're in english harbor and uh

we're just so well protected that the

wind generator is not going as much as

we'd hoped

it would so we have been running our

engine a lot more than usual

and uh yeah it's a little annoying

but yeah we're making do i would upgrade

them i think

if we had the chance because a lot of

the

people that we run into here have the

more the newer bigger panels and uh they

never seem to have the

issues with power yeah bill this i don't

think we should buy solar panels here

back home i met a boat that bought

really nice solar panels from canadian

tire and he said that

he it was a bargain he said it was a

and they're holding up really well

they've been working for him

no complaints this whole time a lot of

people are doing are switching their

batteries over to lithium ion

it's really expensive but they're

incredible like

right now our general like we float at

about 12.65 volts

that's like our happy place when uh when

the sun goes down and we're not charging

anymore but with

lithium-ion your float's more like 13

something

like 13 and a half so you could be it's

almost like what you're getting in the

day when the solars are charging

but they have that all the time and it

never drops unless they're

really low yeah we can totally uh give

you guys some tips on how to

um secure your dinghy well when when you

go on shore

for sure we've been observing other

people as well and everybody has their

own ways of

bringing their dinghy up on shore we've

done a few things

yeah um casting my vote for

mediterranean you will love it

oh i hope so i think we'll we'll

it'll take us a few years to save up the

money enough money to do it the way that

we'd like to do it because i've heard

that the med can be quite expensive but

um i'm i'm really looking forward to it

as well

and i we we definitely will get there we

always talked about it

yeah i think it's it's it's gonna happen

um

bellatrander was in the mediterranean

for eight years before uh

before i i acquired it um and

um they had crossed from nova scotia

uh i think i can't i asked them if they

stopped in bermuda i can't remember if

they said they did

but they they they brought it right

across the atlantic

and uh and entered the med that way so

it's definitely doable it's been

it's done it once already um about the

dinghy on shore thing i think with the

anchor

yeah with the anger we probably never

showed that in a video

no we haven't showed there's every beach

from ways that you can secure the dinghy

it depends if there's a tree trunk there

for you to tie up on or not you know

um there's been a few times that we

dropped the anchor in the ocean itself

and just swim to shore as well

so that's a good idea for an episode

we'll just do an episode all on

um all these different ways that you can

you know secure your dinghy if you're

going to the bahamas you need an anchor

for your dinghy

you have to there's beaches where

there's nothing else to tie up to you

have to go on shore with

you'll drag your dinghy up and just in

case the tide comes in or something you

take

your painter out and then you put an

anchor at the end of your painter

but in our case we have an anchor and a

bit of chain and then a painter

and we'll take it about 15 feet up onto

the shore drop it in the sand dig it in

there

and then we're okay with that we it's

not going to go anywhere

thank you canadian q for that uh tip on

uh

saw technology mississauga ontario

uh he said that's where we can get the

cheapest uh solar panels okay right on

yeah

so we'll be definitely looking into that

for sure

it's time for an upgrade oh that's

fantastic yeah yeah

i'd write it down but i know after this

i can go back and read all this again

how do you deal with um the smell from

the head uh we we have to

sometimes at night we'll put a little

bit of bleach

in in the toilet water and just let it

sit throughout the night and that will

help

um with the smell for at least a day a

day and a half

well the smell and everything like that

a lot of people use water and vinegar as

well

everything inside um and just like

constantly like

giving it a decent clean every two days

the smell

is not from um there's a common

misconception with a it's a marine

toilet

that your uh the smell is coming from

like fecal matter or something it's

actually not

it's uh it's it's the stuff that you

have

if you have salt water in your head it's

the uh the cultures in the bacterias

that are in the ocean

coming up inside the boat and reacting

with whatever is in your head

and um it's the off gassing from the

marine life that's actually creating the

smell if you do the med how long would

it take to cross the atlantic

that's a really good question um if we

did

if we went via bermuda it's probably

five to seven days probably five days to

get

from the east coast of north america to

bermuda

and then uh from bermuda to the azores

is probably another week i guess

and then um and then from the azores to

spain

i'm not sure i think maybe another five

days so

all together three weeks plus whatever

time you stay over in bermuda

you might be able to it also depends on

weather windows weather conditions

the amount of wind we're getting there's

a lot of factors that play into that for

sure

yeah i mean you can literally skip you

can skip

bermuda and most people don't skip the

azores but i guess you could

if you had enough supplies and water and

everything and if you did in one

straight shot

i guess it would be three weeks or

something but it's a long time to be at

sea you'd

want to have good weather prediction

like yeah i would have an iridium go

for sure and make sure that you can

download

your group files via satellite the

entire time because every day the

weather's going to change and the north

atlantic is

very unpredictable but who knows

by the time we actually get to that

point where we are ready to go to the

med

maybe we'll have enough money to just

fly over

and charter catamaran

maybe maybe buy maybe buy a boat

oh yeah we could we could sell uh cell

bella chandra and buy a boat on the med

as well and just save ourselves the

hassle

i don't know i don't know some people do

that don't skip the azores

okay i heard that all right yeah i've

heard that

yeah yeah

yeah yeah well it's something we'll

probably do

at some point yeah maybe

i know friends of ours are going to do

it um

wow we've been on here for 46 minutes

now

that's incredible dan said that we might

be online for an

hour uh the beam our beam is 13

point something i think 13 feet and

change

for a number of months i i would

probably keep the boat there for at

least oh man

who knows maybe we don't go there until

we retire and we'll just stay there like

permanently

we have to go to lebanon because uh

that's what my family is in lebanon

yeah i've never i mean i i personally

haven't found any

any sailing channels that have gone to

lebanon i don't know there might be some

issues with getting there

um but i don't see why i've heard that

it's possible

i heard that it's not right now it's

definitely not a good time to be uh

traveling of course but um no no no uh

it's just anchoring i don't know how if

there's that many anchorages for you to

choose

from in lebanon but i'm i'm sure it's

feasible

yeah but i heard yeah greece is uh

now and and i did hear that i'd like to

go to

um um i for getting what it's called

i might be having myself some grape

leaves tomorrow i met

uh some young uh locals here that are

from

lebanon and syria and they said that

they're going to bring me some grape

leaves i'm very excited

long term dreams well

definitely sailing with my son i want i

want

like my son charlie to learn sailing i

mean i mean everybody wants their kid to

do something i don't know if he's going

to be into it but i hope he is

but i would love to have him on the boat

and uh you know it'd be if you could

single hand the thing that'd be

fantastic and then

and have some adventures with him would

be wonderful

you like convenient i i i

like the taste of it texture kind of

throws me off a little

we had falafels the other day yeah i did

make falafels on the boat the other day

they were fantastic

i love making falafel

falafel is a nice treat to have on the

boat for sure it's really

it's really good all right we should

probably wrap up soon yeah

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the time

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even with the kovid masks yeah the comic

masks make us

extra cute doesn't it kind of feel like

a ninja

oh my zeus doesn't have a mask though

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