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Imagine leaving your family at sea to protect your boat

What intelligent, polite and decent people you all are. Huge respect and all the best to you.

Ugh...yeah sorry to hear this. I had only a single firefly and turned into a P.O.S. in less than a year. Its hard to understand how this went from a promising well made product and somehow got sold off to a foreign company that quickly drove it into the ground. It just boggles the mind....

Looks great. Very informative - I like how you showed clearly the amount of flex the panel had. Canvas sewing was beautiful. 👍

Where did you guys go?

Very educational. You can't re-use the VHB adhesive. You got away with it the 1st time because you had just applied it.

Since there is not much space on a sailboat I wonder if you could but a thin flexible or standard panel under the existing panel? Bifacial down side is they are bigger so per SQ FT they are not much advantage. Im sure the sun reflect off the water and any free power would be a bonus. Wonder if anyone has tried this or tested the idea?

There is starting to be a common thread to these rescues, each of the last few I have reviewed have shown people not stepping up into their life raft. But rather electing to leave their boat half way across an ocean that in hind sight was not necessary. Diverting cargo ships and crews to come to peoples aid is a very serious and expensive serious matter and should not be asked for unless the boat your on is slipping below the waves. To ask to be rescued because your worried about your children's safety suggests to me irresponsible parents, that will ruin it for everyone as it will eventually force governments to get involved and do the safety thinking for people..... Remember the correct way to enter a life boat or life raft is when you need to step up into it!

What about abrasion between the 2 sunbrella surfaces, bimini and mounting surface?

God bless you and God bless your crew. You are a true human being.

someone help me out here but i thought you should never plug the ends together on a panel creating a short and ruining the panel possibly? Not Correct?

post another video!!!

Hi from France young lady 😜🎉

Nooooo it's the last one? We just binged all the Paradox 2 vids.

Great story, thanks for sharing.

Cautions bread cautions 🏁

Stinky

Very informative video well done! Thank you

Sorry if anyone has said. What boat is that? Looks like a Beneteau or similar. Not going to be a great advert for the anti ‘production boat’ lobby. I am guessing no skeg? Also the great thing with a Hydrovane is a second rudder with an emergency tiller.

Need instructions on making what looks like an elastic waist line.

Felicidades.

Big ocean racing events have required tested backup rudder systems for the racers. Loosing a rudder happens more than most people realize. Especially in big ocean crossings. There have been several good cruising boats lost due to broken rudder tubes- with flooding and or just broken rudders. This isn’t a criticism its a suggestion that cruisers look at what racers have developed for rudder solutions and adapt something and test it in rough conditions before doing big crossings. If you need it you’ll be very happy you had it. If you don’t need it you’ll be very happy knowing you had it if you needed it.

Has the Dove II been found?

15 bucks to make bro sewing machine cost 220 fabric 20 bucks a yard materials 20 bucks etc learning how to sew 100 for a class. Total 360.00 and your cryng over 80 swim suits.

Excellent DIY project video, thx!

Great story and great people, this is sailing

Great when you get things for nothing going for the more expensive systems

Absolutely a little Sweetheart...I love this...

Any new videos in the future ?

so after telling everyone that you needed more solar you never told anyone if it was up to the task?

Key take away. Good bye family million dollar yacht. No harm no foul.

*My Fireflies still work great after 6 years. I was warned by the dealer NEVER to charge Fireflies over 13.6 volts! Your problem sounds like an OVER-CHARGE problem.*

Need the pattern

Whatever happened to this couple?

After 10 months, how is this holding up? Great video. Thank you for sharing.

I loved your sewing video...your little girl is darling. I just saw the rescue of the James and Fran Coombes family done over 7 years ago. I have tried to find if they rescued their boat and if they are sailing again. I really like your videos. Happy sailing.

What wonderful outcome rescuing the family. I am wondering if the boat has ever been found. I have looked for updates on it's recovery.

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It looks great forget about the other comment, they probably dont like the colours or something,the sewing and the shape, its great.

Hey guys. I know the panel was a collab piece but do you have any idea on cost of the panel??? Great vid. Navigate safe🤙🤙

Another fake sailing channel.

Virgin islands look like paradise, but statistically the crime rate there is not good.

If you make it to Jamaica you might be able to check out some old school Reggae at the beach bars of Negril beach, Westmoreland. I saw Ziggy Marley, Big Youth and others.I would not recommend smoking though, please don't swim out to the static rafts out at sea either for your own safety

With respect, an American buddhist monk said to me "we contemplate nature, it is a freedom from the environnental traps of overpopulation and urban sprawl." I hope that is roughly how you live.

Thanks very much. Carrabean ackee fruit is poisonous if eaten raw too. In my opinion poisonous plants should and must be phazed out and incinerated not composted globally,

Thr Yoruba tribe of west Africa use a less messy batik method using cassava or tapioca starch not messy wax !! If you go to the Batik Museum of Indonesia watch out for sea snakes and giant Komodo dragon lizards !! Thanks very much for the true water based (non acrylic) dyeing info.

Awesome

Love it❤🎉

Correct me if wrong, but should that not have been a Pan-pan call, not a Mayday?

I was moved by this video. Good work