Sailing at Night

Distant Shores TV

We show what its like to sail at night as we celebrate our 400th night at sea. Sail with us along the coast of Portugal towards Gibraltar. To capture the night images we used our Sony A7SII and a very fast 1.4 lens. Shots of Distant Shores III rounding Cape Saint Vincent shot by https://www.youtube.com/user/MrNigelpickin - Thanks Guys!! Also featured in this video: Elvstrøm Sails: http://www.elvstromsails.com/ Seldén Mast: http://www.seldenmast.com/ Discovery Yachts Group / Southerly Yachts: https://discoveryyachtsgroup.com/ ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Get an introduction to the cruising life and join us on a leg of our upcoming Around the World voyage. Learn more about our Sail Away Weeks here: https://distantshores.ca/sail-away/sa... ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Own the whole Distant Shores collection: All 130 full half-hour episodes of the Distant Shores Sailing Adventure TV series are available as a collectors set as HD downloads and also on DVD through the Distant Shores website. The Distant Shores DVD Super Pack box set is perfect for binge-watching and makes a great gift for the sailor in your life! Info and order here: https://distantshores.ca/sailingdvds/... ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• You can also connect with us on: FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/DistantShore... INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/distantshor... TWITTER: https://twitter.com/DistantShoresTV BUSINESS INQUIRIES: distantshores@rogers.com ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• THANKS

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Ralf Engel - 5 years ago

i guess it was you then, this summer leaving chiclanas poblado sancti petri marina. wasn´t sure

Bernardo Wiederhold - 5 years ago

Portugal nice place.

Von Allan - 5 years ago

youtube.com/watch?v=aGnvkpXeT3Y

Sailing SV Pardon My French - 5 years ago

Fantastic! Can you share what camera you're using?. Low light is amazing...

Nobby Barnes - 5 years ago

This guy reminds me of Henry Fonda.

Mark de Loose - 5 years ago

Nice trip! Just came back from a holiday om Sintra, so nice to see these familiair places in this video. Keep up the good work with these enjoyable video's.

jmcmurrah - 5 years ago

Another lovely video... always a pleasure.

Mike New Zealand - 5 years ago

A bit disappointing considering your headline for the video

Francois Brodeur - 5 years ago

Just discover your chanel, very nice, on the top with yours educationals comments on sailing, and on visiting such nices places, and over all, i love this boat :), i love pilot house sailboat because ... you can see, it s not like living on a basement, i love the fact that you can beach that boat, i love the size of it, this is a perfect blue water sailing ship, you have very good taste, that boat is so ........ :)

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Sailing S/Y FIE - 5 years ago

Your sail, is that the EPEX sail from elvatroem.? It looks pretty good and I was close to order one for our boat, but decided to go with north sails 3di Nordac instead.
Are you satisfied with sail.?

Nigel Donald - 5 years ago

Nice video as usual

Sail Before Sunset - 5 years ago

Wishing you guys many more nights, and days, of sailing! We feel that we will meet you in the South Pacific at some point. And then you will have to be our dinner guests.

Daniel Culpepper - 5 years ago

400 and going strong! Thanks, as always, for putting an added smile to my day. Best regards, Dan.

SV Impavidus (Ant & Cid Sailing) - 5 years ago

Hi guy's. We are currently sitting at anchor just outside Cascais, Lisbon. We had a great run down from Peniche. Light winds from the North until you round the headland and cape at Cabo Raso. Then wind went from F2 to F6! In same direction. It's been much the same on these last legs with very gentle Northerly's until the headlands. Reefing in anticipation makes good sense. We would love to do longer passages with more night sailing when things seem to calm down. But, we have two pooches with us and it is only fair that we try to make landfall every night. Current weather pattern looks like strong North Westerly's from midday onwards so we will stay at anchor and explore some of the interesting history of this part of the Portuguese coast that we may have missed had we rushed on. Good to see the new boat is performing well. Sail safe, Ant & Cid xx

Tor Aadnevik - 5 years ago

Great videos!
In one of your video it looked like you have installed camera up the mast. Can you reveal the make please?
Tor

Trailer Yacht - 5 years ago

Paul & Sheryl - thank you for sharing your remarkable life at sea. We loved this episode - capturing lighthouses working at night so clearly was brilliant, but the whole video was great. The quality of your footage is outstanding - even uploaded to YouTube - the original footage must be truly sensational. One question though - how do you stay safe sailing short-handed overnight? I assume you have solo watches - or do you take crew with you these days? Are there any special precautions you take? Cheers, Gavin & Amanda

The Manitoba Wingnuts - 5 years ago

That fish market looks great! Thanks for posting such great content on youtube. We just started our full time travel adventure and related youtube channel this year and really appreciate the chance to enjoy and learn from your experiences!

R. E. Hill - 5 years ago

Type of engine, engine room/layout... you haven't done a video about that... coming soon?

Keith Oulson - 5 years ago

Wow more of that please.

Distant Shores TV - 5 years ago

Thanks Keith :-)

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Dan Dixon - 5 years ago

People take what we have without understanding where it comes from, just like the bio luminescence most people will never see that or understand it, but it is there it is real I wish I could enjoy the ocean more than I am able to,Thank you Jesus

avichay gross - 5 years ago

Great video as always

Distant Shores TV - 5 years ago

Thanks Avichay. Glad you liked it!

jwrappuhn71 - 5 years ago

Great vid ya'll.

David Price - 5 years ago

Such a well made and presented video. Look forward to your next one.

jay w - 5 years ago

Would love to hear more about the boat... land destinations are far less interesting than boat-tech.

Stuart Brown - 5 years ago

I liked the night footage. But why do I have the feeling that you’re having just as much fun playing with your new toy?

Adrian Ignatescu - 5 years ago

great stuff guys. keep up the great job. you are keeping my dream alive ;)

Distant Shores TV - 5 years ago

Thanks Adrian. Glad we can help :-)

Phil and Lyra - 5 years ago

Southerly 480/540 or Amel 50/55 for Caribbean cruising?

fraser hardmetal - 5 years ago

Great content as always - you've come a long way (literally) from Two Step - best of luck for the future.

Distant Shores TV - 5 years ago

Thanks Fraser! and yes it sure seems a long way from our first boat :-)

al math - 5 years ago

Thanks really enjoyed

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Darryl Beattie - 5 years ago

Nice Job Paul and Sheryl ....Getting closer to the Canary Islands. See you there!!!!

Distant Shores TV - 5 years ago

Coming up Darryl :-) !!

BobbieGWhiz - 5 years ago

First time I’ve seen a starry sky from a boat in a sailing video. Very impressive! I’m a self taught amateur celestial navigator and enjoy looking at the heavens. Perhaps you could show more in the future. Thanks.

Distant Shores TV - 5 years ago

Will do Bobbie. We've been really hoping to capture the night sailing scene and finally we can - so you can expect more :-)

Bill Fournier - 5 years ago

Great video as always, but a little on the short side. Thanks for sharing! How long to you plan to stay in the Med (ports of call)?

Distant Shores TV - 5 years ago

We're just going in as far as Palma then back to Gibraltar and prepare her for the Transatlantic in November. We're stopping all along the Spanish coast, visiting Espalmador and Ibiza en route.

Frank H. Ritz - 5 years ago

visite cape SW point of Europe

Sphinx2k - 5 years ago

Those are some fancy sails!

7rank - 5 years ago

Can't get enough of your footage/ journey's... please keep them coming! Beautiful work!

luciantm1976 - 5 years ago

To anyone planning to one day include cruising as part of their life:
We have been extremely fortunate to be welcomed by Paul and Sheryl as guests on this sail away week. Words cannot express our deep gratitude for this life changing experience, for everything we have learned and memories that will be with us for the rest of our lives.
Having watched, or more precisely devoured all videos form all seasons over and over again has been and continues to be a catalysts for beautiful dreams to keep one warm even on a cold Canadian winter night. Experiencing a sail away week with Paul and Sheryl should be in our opinion very high on the bucket list of any cruising enthusiast.
Sailing and exploring with our role-models was infinitely better than we dared dream and we now feel permanently inspired to make cruising a major ingredient in the recipe of our future plans.

To Paul and Sheryl:
From the bottom of our hearts, Thank you!
Thank you for your very warm welcome and having made us feel at home, we miss you and hope to see you again.
With all our love,
Lucian and Lana

Distant Shores TV - 5 years ago

Thanks so much for your kind words, Lucian & Lana! It was indeed a pleasure having you aboard S/Y Distant Shores III and you know we wish you the very best with your cruising plans. We also thank you for the incredible meals you prepared while on board! Now we are spoiled! It was a great cruise and we are very happy that we could share our cruising life with you both. XOXO Paul & Sheryl

Thomas Fundgrube - 5 years ago

great video thanks - did you saw during your night trips any UFO's? On my trips I had some unusual sightings in the sky and underwater - travel safe

Distant Shores TV - 5 years ago

Actually we have Thomas! Never managed to film it though. But as sailors we are lucky to get to see such interesting things.

Ed Rosenberger - 5 years ago

I don't understand how Sheryl keeps every hair in place.....always looking as though she just stepped out of a beauty parlor. That is a beautiful shot of your boat at 0:33 Paul. 400 nights at sea or 1.1 years in 29 years of cruising.....I would have guessed more.

jmcmurrah - 5 years ago

Ed Rosenberger I think Cheryl has that thick, naturally wavy hair that just IS.... and doesn’t require much fussing... gorgeous!

Tim K - 5 years ago

Beautiful videography but too short. Your soothing narration especially at the beginning reminded me of Rick Steves.

Distant Shores TV - 5 years ago

Thanks Tim. We'll try for a longer one next time :-)

Ben Dixon - 5 years ago

Goodonyah guys, how is the new boat working out?

G Mac - 5 years ago

It's like memory lane, I have sailed to all of those ports and loved the experience. Lagos is very special.

Distant Shores TV - 5 years ago

We are all so lucky to see things!! Glad we could take you down memory lane G Mac :-)

Aboard Ohana - 5 years ago

Noticed you have those new sails that look more like racing sails. Are these ones you have good for long term cruising? Are they lighter? Do they take up less space in the furling mast?

formerly 987946216430 - 5 years ago

great episode and night footage - spectacular! nice shoutout to Jason and Nikki as well :) Cheers from PEI Canada, Bryan.

SABBOATICAL - 5 years ago

Great to meet you guys and glad that some of the footage from Cabo St Vicente was ok to use. Safe travels from Nigel and Ann, (Now in the Canaries)

Distant Shores TV - 5 years ago

Thanks SOOO MUCH for the great footage. Hope the trip to the Canaries was good for You. I've put a credit in for your help with the shoot. We very much appreciate it.

Thomas Moriarty - 5 years ago

Always enjoy your show, it's both entertaining and educational.

Distant Shores TV - 5 years ago

Thanks Thomas :-)

justininvestor - 5 years ago

click bait title

Sail Before Sunset - 5 years ago

It worked.

Lloyd Ledrew - 5 years ago

You stated you switched to a camera they could take photos night. Which video camera are you now using?

Distant Shores TV - 5 years ago

We use the Sony A7S2 with a 1.4 lens

Sailing Yacht Ruby Rose - 5 years ago

Awesome footage guys. Should be with you in a couple of weeks x

Albano Abrantes - 5 years ago

W0W... 400 Nights at Sea in this beautiful Planet, awesome!!! Thank you for sharing xoxo

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Charles Green - 5 years ago

I sure hope you've received many awards for your videos. I love the combination of sea, people and communities and a bit of history! You and your wife are perfectly complimentary. Rare indeed...

Distant Shores TV - 5 years ago

Thanks very much for the kind words Charles :-) Its great to have you aboard!