Paradise All to Ourselves— Sailing Uma [Step 163]

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keebearfull - 5 years ago

More cam glory!! Loving the overhead drone footage. Fabulous sea/sky/cloud scenery! Thanks for sharing the beauty!

dale charles - 5 years ago

Great episode guys, your videography, compositions and editing is superb. Sail on

Sailing Uma - 5 years ago

We were thinking about it, but the swells were pretty big and it wouldnt have been comfortable to sleep there. So we made thr call to move forward.

Cptn Uwe's Pirate Tales - 5 years ago

thanks

Monk Petite - 5 years ago

Nice work.. awesome pictures.
A maybe .. at flat sea .. you can haul in the dingy very close to the stern and you may gain some speed.
It works on my boat ..

Sailing Uma - 5 years ago

Weve done it with our old dinghy, going into the rio dulce . But we didnt feel thr need to do with coco just yet. We might just try it a a test.

H. V - 5 years ago

Absolutely beautiful vistas. You guys rock!

peregrinegrace - 5 years ago

Get a boom fitted lazyjack system, it halfs your stowing time, and doubles your sail life, less handling and tying, cleaner sails.

Nat Watts - 5 years ago

Love the hair

Josh Burns - 5 years ago

Great video you two. Keep it up!

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I'd rather be riding - 5 years ago

I completely understand your description of the sunset at the end of the video. I travel a lot to the pacific islands (for work, not for fun, but...) and one place in particular is interesting, the atoll of Majuro, capital of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (a freely associated state of the United States). Many times I've seen this kind of sunset at the lagoon, have videos on drone and photos of sunsets, so I never forget about it. Thank you for sharing!

Edward Werthner - 5 years ago

Great video, I guess the Bahamas are your favorite places

Cdanell Andrews - 5 years ago

Why not do an ocean crossing?. maybe thailand,japan, or even alaska.

Cdanell Andrews - 5 years ago

+Sailing Uma That'll be Bitchin can't wait to see that you guys be careful out there and i'll be tuned in.

Sailing Uma - 5 years ago

We are prepping to.cross the north atlantic to iceland this summer.

Ruthie Henderson - 5 years ago

Is your jib a 150%? I just ordered one from precision sails so I was wondering what yours is?

Sailing Uma - 5 years ago

Ours is a 135. Too big for our needs. We’ll be getting a 110 or 115 before crossing the Atlantic.

Francis Cambron - 5 years ago

What kind of boat are you sailing on? Is it a pearson 36? Looks kinda like a columbia 32

jones smith - 5 years ago

Loving the videos and the editing or am I the only one to notice you two have kicked it up an couple of notches! Keep up the great work I know some of the shots are probably time consuming but it is well worth it from the viewing end of things. Fair winds from a still snowy Canadian spring.

Joost Lindenborn - 5 years ago

It looks like your spi is a bit small, how many square meter is it?

Joost Lindenborn - 5 years ago

Sailing Uma I have a friend who is the Dutch importer for the parasail we like to look for a possibility to give you guys one. Maybe with a crowed funding program. I don’t know if we will succeed but we will give it a shot. Greetings from holland

Sailing Uma - 5 years ago

No idea. But a friend gave it to us, so its what we have for now and it works great. Adding another 20% SA would only make a difference if racing where an 1/8 of a kt counts.

R Douglas - 5 years ago

Uma good!

On Tilt Sailing Dale Hudson - 5 years ago

That little no name island beach stop is what Caribbean cruising is all about!

John F - 5 years ago

For my fellow electronics geeks, Go to step 148 for the radar install.

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Wayne Federico - 5 years ago

Hey guys,, check your wish list ?

Marco Antonio Federico - 5 years ago

Thanks for share your movies.

Bill Regan - 5 years ago

Gorgeous drone shots with the spinnaker up. Epic!

Gordon Lamb - 5 years ago

So many great drone shots!

Beau Amara - 5 years ago

Kika...that.... fro sis ~

KWB - 5 years ago

Kieka...the most beautiful woman on the ocean and internet.!

caddyzig—John - 5 years ago

Your drone footage is especially beautiful in this episode! Very pretty.

Mark Aiossa - 5 years ago

Loved the footage of you flying the spinnaker! Do you have a spin pole? Great editing too, you both do an awesome job.

Sailing Uma - 5 years ago

Thanks. We had a pole for our old symmetric chute, but don’t need it now with our new(er) asymmetric.

Tom Goodguy - 5 years ago

GREAT VIDEO !! I love how when I watch your videos I can almost feel like I am with you. It gives me A fleeting glimpse of a feeling that I’m actually they’re experiencing the beautiful beach you where hanging out on all day and that sunset on the bay with the boat lights in the distance. I also appreciate the fact that you don’t use your electric motor when the wind is down. But I have a different theory. I am re-fitting a sailboat to be all electric and have no sails. See, you use the power of the wind to move where I would use the power of the sun. And when the wind is down, the sun is shining bright and the seas are calm and that would be the perfect time to motor along at 4 to 6 knots. Look forward to seeing where you go and what you do next.

Ugly Son76 - 5 years ago

An absolutely beautiful video!

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Dutchman Sailing - 5 years ago

Hey looking good there hope you all are well. Also wanting to know if you still have your KECO refrigeration and how it is working?
Fair winds And smooth seas!!!

Travelin' Tides - 5 years ago

Seeing all those anchor lights was awesome! What a cool sunset too with the storms a-brewin'. Loved the video!

Jeff C. - 5 years ago

Why whenever I'm on a boat I wish I were ashore. And whenever I'm ashore I wish I were on a boat?

urlkrueger - 5 years ago

Question from a non-sailor: Most spinnakers I have seen are highly colored and patterned but most main and genoa sails are plain white. Any reasoning behind this?

Travelin' Tides - 5 years ago

I believe the reason is most mainsails and jibs are made from Dacron whereas spinnakers are made from mostly nylon, Dacron is normally available only in white I think, where nylon comes in an array of colors. Hope this helps. :)

Marc René Yvon - 5 years ago

Wow. What to add to all the so positive comments here. I share Tom Williams' comment. I, as a youngster... no make it my whole life, dreamed of owning a sail boat, proudly showing it's spinnaker under the wind. Exactly like Uma and you two kids. Love you soooo much.
I follow you from the start of your adventure, and I must admit, with much envy. Young, free, talented and so creative. I may describe myself as a creative person, working all my life in graphic design, and as a sideline job, house design, mostly for local house builders. Ooooh, the hours spent in educating those well intended trade guys, not to follow their competition but try new, unique, out-of-the-box designs.
I'm an old geek now, but the dream of sailing south is still there. That's why I love and envy your voyage, your concept of "Not buying a couch" ! You do not want to report that to being 66 as I am now. Oh well... But I do now live my dreams through you. I cannot thank you enough.
BTW, I follow some other channels on sailing. But none, 0, nada, come even close to your absolutely awesome videos, the quality, the camera work and angles. We feel like being right there, with you. That is rare, professionnal work. Kudos and kisses, mes amis.
Fair winds.

Space_Coast_Snapshots - 5 years ago

Just a bit of info, you have dirt on your camera sensor

Sailing Uma - 5 years ago

Yea it happens sometimes...

Charlie Rivera - 5 years ago

How about having a blooper video to see the real thing about editing and getting things done again and again and again ....... !!!!!! Love your videos !!!! Keep it going

Peter Balazsy - 5 years ago

Who's doing most of the editing?... wow! Nice.
Give yourself an A+ for smooth, beautiful, artistic composition.

Peter Balazsy - 5 years ago

She certainly has an artistic eye. ...and she can only get better and better... Nice!+Sailing Uma

Sailing Uma - 5 years ago

It’s all Kika on the edits. I just watch in amazement.

Aimee Wigton - 5 years ago

How pretty

Richard Reid - 5 years ago

My favorite channel after Celia and Ran sailing. You guys are great

Fahi - 5 years ago

So peaceful... thx for sharing.

chris scott - 5 years ago

I was so glad to see you install radar this past summer and I know many people don't feel its needed, but as i see it it's only those without that feel that way. It's great to see you're loving it.

chris scott - 5 years ago

+Sailing Uma, i always liked it on my power boat in Ontario as small fishing boats and logs are impossible to see at night. Also in rainstorms its helpful. I live in the DR now sailed from Luperon to Lauderdale last summer to sell it, and was there the same time as you, that boat had AIS which is great, however you can use radar to see any bobbing containers and to figure out if those big ships you see on AIS are actually going to cross your path. And if you get back to the DR let me know, i have a nice home with space in the mountains if you need a break.

Sailing Uma - 5 years ago

I really only think it’s needed in places with fog. We’ve been using it in the Bahamas to learn how it works, but it’s certainly not needed in the Caribbean. You can see the storms coming and other boats at night long before they pose a threat. If your only going to be sailing in areas without fog, I can think of many other things to spend $2k on.

Adam Smith - 5 years ago

I love watching your adventures. Great job you guys

James Maxwell - 5 years ago

As a small boat sailor, I'm curious. Why is downwind so preferred for cruising? I see very little beating on all my sailing channels. Just easier for navigation? Safer? I don't think I've heard "We'll be beating upwind to our destination" outside of a true NEED to do so. Keep up the inspiration!

James Maxwell - 5 years ago

+Sailing Uma Thank you!

Sailing Uma - 5 years ago

Waves. We’ve spent about 2/3 of our sailing miles going to windward. They call it ‘beating’ for a reason. The hull pounding into the waves makes you feel like your whole boat is going to come apart at the seams. We still prefer it to following seas which rock the boat back and forth. We actually don’t go down wind very often. And unlike many, find it to be the point of sail we try to avoid.

Greg Meir - 5 years ago

Great video guys!

Kyle Kaae - 5 years ago

If I was able to go sailing, I would do it exactly the way you guys do. Keep it simple , have fun and think it out. good job as usual. Summer !!

john mccormick - 5 years ago

Great video and great photography...Uma looks amazing...what a great job you guys have done restoring her to better than new!

Kim Taylor - 5 years ago

Beautiful! And the way to not stress about your sail plan, adjust attitude and " Explore the Wisp of the Islands..." Now sail! You really show how exploring is done, thanks. Oh and thanks for mannaging the sailshirt purchase, my daughter will also have your wares!

Good Guy - 5 years ago

Have to say it, Kika your editing skills have grown by leaps and bounds. I go back and look at some of the early videos and there simply is no comparison to how polished they are today. Do you and Dan ever stop and think about how much personal growth your sailing has brought you?

Matt Evans-Koch - 5 years ago

Kika and Dan,
That video went by too fast! Beautiful footage. Now back to work (bummer). Has anyone in the sailing community in the region considered submitting footage of the various sailings that are made by you guys and others to the tourist boards of the area? Real world footage is much more interesting than the scripted commercial stuff and you and some others are becoming more in the range of professional cinematographers than amateur documentarians. Just a thought. Have a good week guys.

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Cleer Vie-EWE - 5 years ago

Perfect!

M ISAK - 5 years ago

Omg looking at this makes me miss summer:D its beautiful and that lightwind sail is just the dream!

Neil Bob - 5 years ago

what kind of boat do you sail and how long is it

MrRJBooth - 5 years ago

Brilliant camera work and editing as per usual . Starting to look like sunshine is coming for you guys ;-) Fair winds

Daniel Hoyle - 5 years ago

Beautiful. Thank You.

risa bear - 5 years ago

Glad you finally "railed" Ms. Uma she looks like a real cruiser now.

John Wright - 5 years ago

Thanks for sharing again guys. Great editing. Im really impressed with your sailing on and off anchor.

giso79 - 5 years ago

great! you guys did it again I'm officially jealous

wayne mazan - 5 years ago

Wow you guys.... best ever!!!! its interesting to see when other boats would turn on the engine you put up the spinnaker BRAVO !!!!!!

Lon Peruzzi - 5 years ago

I brag about you two on Facebook as though you're MY kids. I'm 70 and wanted to do what you're doing when I was your age. Maybe I WOULD'VE if we'd have had the technology back then, but my biggest fear was dismasting, which seems silly now.Thanks for the BEST sailing videos on Youtube. I feel as though I KNOW yuzz, as probably do many people around the world. There I go, bragging about you, AGAIN !!! ;-)

Garold Jackson - 5 years ago

Just another rotten day in paradise... NOT...

Bobby Baldeagle - 5 years ago

I think a turtle moves faster than 2knots on land... LOL... I guess that's why God made me a biker and not a sailor.. I like to slow down and smell the roses along the way. BUT I don't want to take all day getting to where the roses are blooming... LOL... But now in my golden years of life I don't move as swiftly as I did 20 years ago. My motorcycle now has three wheels and I have a walker and cane... Ah yes the golden years of life, the best part is you don't have to grow up to enjoy them. The doctor told my wife that I was heading into my second childhood dew to the brain damage I had from the motorcycle wreck back in 2012. She told him no way could I be going into my second childhood the doctor ask her why she would say that? She told him that I never grew out of my first childhood yet!!! LOL... In life you grow older, BUT NO ONE SAID YOU HAD TO GROW UP!!! I remember my dad asked me when I was 40 when I planed on growing up and I just asked him WHY? and he just looked at me shook his head and walked away. He couldn't think of one good reason I should grow up. I had a AWESOME job making big money I owned two homes at that time, we had really nice trucks to drive I raised 2 awesome boys. And I didn't have to grow up to do any of that....
I'm sorry I got off course there. That the brain damage kicking in. oh well it took me 20 minutes to type it so it stays... LOL..
I love you kids and am praying for you... Keep having fun and be blessed... BBE..

Soma Devo - 5 years ago

Nice episode...great photography

The Wayward Life - 5 years ago

I'm so happy you guys decided to make these videos! They have seriously opened up an entirely new world for us. We didn't even think about being able to live on a boat and now we are in the process of moving onto our first sailboat and learning to sail! <3

Marc Andre Robert - 5 years ago

Hi guys.( This useless comment is meant to help my favorite sailors with their YouTube statistics revenue. Youtube factors in the number of 1 LIKE 2 COMMENT 3 SHARE .) It's easy to help, click like and say HI GUYS!

Christian Knebel - 5 years ago

good on you sailing in those light winds - unlike the vast majority of the 200+ anchor lights most likely ;-). nice footage!

proto - 5 years ago

Sigh. . .

G11713 - 5 years ago

Nice.
Question...if you are heading south and the wind is from the west is that beam reach, an ideal and speedy condition, instead of close hauling or even beating? Perhaps you meant the wind was from the south west. ;)

Zulu Zulu - 5 years ago

Absolutely beautiful. I so wish your videos where 2 hours long. I love watching them. Fairwinds guys.

Wayne Federico - 5 years ago

Dido , find a small boat first, go sailing. I started on a 12 foot skimmer I traded for a job building a wood stove chimney... sailed 1 year with that learned what not to do then moved up from there.. You can do it to ... take lots of pictures GL bud..+Zulu Zulu

Zulu Zulu - 5 years ago

+Donald Cheatham Well Sir, I wish you the best of luck. Life is short, get out there and follow your dreams. Hope to see you out there one day. Cheers

Donald Cheatham - 5 years ago

+Zulu Zulu I'm with you! But I started late and did the whole UMA Marathon... I'm caught up now, but sometimes I think about going back and starting all over again! Start doing? I'm getting myself in the mental mindset of doing just that!!!

Zulu Zulu - 5 years ago

+Wayne Federico I started watching them the first day that they uploaded on YouTube and I have been watching all along. So, there's nothing left to see that I haven't already seen. I can't watch any other channel because I've already seen all of them as well. LOL. I guess that means it's time to stop watching and to start doing. I just need to find a boat. Have a nice day.

Wayne Federico - 5 years ago

Binge watch them from the start... great rainy day fill-ins..

jeroen de vaan - 5 years ago

this video is realy inspiring for me because i am a sailor myself but a charteher sailor in the netherlands the weather isnt always as nice but you know that it will be keep up the vids and safe travels

Matt Hanson - 5 years ago

Amazing spinnaker footage in this step. As I was writing this comment and realized that I did not in fact know how to spell the word 'spinnaker', I looked it up and found this interesting tidbit on Wikipedia; "A purported etymology has the first boat to carry this sail being a Cowes yacht named Sphinx, from which "Sphinx's Acre" and eventually "Spinnaker". Knowing that little piece of nautical trivia makes me feel just a skosh saltier than I did before ;)

Thomas Blesinger - 5 years ago

That’s some interesting fact there. I always wondered where that name came from. It’s a hard sail to control though. Have to keep an eye on the wind all the time.

simon talbot - 5 years ago

Such a shame you had to pitstop in a dreadful place. Jealous ? Who, moi ?
Beautifully presented episode :)

Cleer Vie-EWE - 5 years ago

Do you guys ever sail by your compass? I see you have SOA Nav equipment.

Sailing Uma - 5 years ago

At night we usually dim our electronics all the way down so you can’t really see them anymore and then just keep an eye on on the windex and compass. We only turn the brightness back up if we’re making a course change. Let’s us appreciate the stars and wave more and stare and our speed less.

David Austin - 5 years ago

love your hair

Daniel Oliver - 5 years ago

Hey guys that last minute with the squall line and sunset was epic! I thought I'd get tired of drone shots but just the opposite, I can't get enough of the spinaker out and that turquoise water!

William Green - 5 years ago

These videos get prettier by the week.

Jack Taylor - 5 years ago

Hello Uma Crew, Your camera work was exceptional this week, thanks for the Vlog. Love Y'all.

S C Yz - 5 years ago

I loved that little island! And my small outboard can propel my boat (when not under sail) at about the same speed as when I have a nice breeze. That kind of fits with the other sailboat (under power) going about the same speed as you while under sail. Plus I love your spinnaker! I've actually made my own (from a parachute) but have yet to fly it. Being single handed it's hard to change/drop sails. Good luck and fair winds to you!

Mike Hagen - 5 years ago

Beautiful aerial shots of Uma! Thanks Dan&Kika for another escape video.

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