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Viking

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  1. Back to dirt life until next year. We hauled the boat last week in Virginia and spent three and a half days prepping for storage. Cleaning the inside, removing food, sails, lines, winterizing the water system and engines, dropping the dinghy, throwing away a shitload of crap, etc, etc. We're in a yard that caters to catamarans and they've got us stacked 3-4 deep. I've been off the boat for a week and I'm ready to go back. The wife feels the same... "Why are we in Texas again?"
  2. 120-150 should be awesome in a cat.. was it an issue with the headsail? I assume they don't have good sails and certainly not downwind sails on a charter boat so maybe that's it. Kinetics look nice. Like a gunboat but a bit more affordable? Have you looked at Balance catamarans? If I had the money a Balance is one of my actually obtainable dream boats.
  3. Almost all provisions from port. I try to fish but haven't had much luck having only caught 2 blackfin tuna and 1 mahi this season. Both of those we shared with friends (sushi for the blackfin.. so wonderful eating it just a few hours after it is caught) so they didn't last long. Otherwise we provision from whatever grocery store is nearby. In the Bahamas most of the grocery stores are fairly small but some of the larger islands (Spanish Wells, Marsh Harbor Abacos) have US sized grocery stores. Prior to going to the Bahamas we spend a few grand provisioning particularly for frozen meats and bulky items that are a lot more expensive in the Bahamas, eg chips, crackers, etc. Yeah it sucked but thankfully we didn't get struck by lightning so no harm done. Actually I was happy to have a great fresh water rinse on the boat. Less work for me to do when we haul out!
  4. His son has a separate channel https://youtube.com/c/JetBentLee where he's done lots of videos with his dad cooking. Usually the theme is he bring his dad a bag of fast food and he turns it into something gourmet. They're pretty entertaining as his dad evidently has never set foot in a single fast food restaurant and is generally disgusted with what his son brings him, ala "people like this shit?" https://youtu.be/RiTH2ekj5g8
  5. Heading up the Chesapeake to haul out tomorrow when a line of storms caught us. No where to run so we dropped anchor and waited it out. Saw max gusts of 45kt and lightning all around. Living the dream! VID_20220612_132404017.mp4
  6. He's ready to return to his crew!? Like maybe if he handcuffs himself to the bed at night sure. Crazy that he was found.
  7. Looks like one of these https://www.alphayachts.com/yachts so 100-120'?
  8. Monday: Thursday: We left the Bahamas on Tuesday and hauled ass (by Viking slow boat standards, not G650 rocket ship standards) up the gulf stream until we got to Charleston, SC. I find the color and clarity of this water to be unappealing.
  9. Blows my mind that someone could live through that. I always turn off the propane at the bottle when not in use since even the smallest leak could be deadly.
  10. You do when you steal all the packages from luxurywatches.com.
  11. Yup. Imagine having so much wealth that you can offer 50 billion to buy something and you don't need a single investment bank. "Eh, it's only 50 billion...."
  12. We spent the last 3 weeks in the Raggeds which is a remote part of the Bahamas that's just 100 miles north of Cuba. There's not much down here. No restaurants, no bars, no grocery stores, nada. Well except for the fishing which is .. amazing: Me and a friend have caught at least a hundred lobster the last 3 years and the guy 2nd from the right was way bigger than any previous one. Just a monster. The crew threatened mutiny due to too much lobster so I gave most of these and a bunch more away to other boaters. We've now turned north and are heading back up the islands and then back to the US. We've been here for 3 months and have just a month and a half left. Time flies way to fucking fast. Our last anchorage in the Raggeds at Water Cay: Heading northeast to Long Island:
  13. That's a badass boat. You don't need a starter boat as that is the perfect size to learn on. You just need the equivalent of a basic keelboat course which takes just a few days. The local authorities might say otherwise however but in the US no courses are required. Sailing is the easy part of sailboat ownership btw. The difficult parts are maintenance. Things like "why does the deck feel squishy when I walk on it" or "the keel bolts look really rusty".
  14. Aha you found it! Thanks for sharing and wow it's even more amazing than I thought.
  15. We've been in the southern Exumas and Raggeds (part of Bahamas that's remote and just 60mi north of Cuba) for the last month. The calm before the storm. This was a fun front to come through as it happened just after sunrise. The winds were calm and quiet and then suddenly the monohull's wind generator starts making a loud weezing sound is it spins up. One by one the boats spun around 120 degrees as the wind went from nada to 15-20kts. Here's a picture for your monohull lovers @G650 @Sbbruin @troph. We took a friends Leopard 48 out fishing and fuel and this machine was docked. I can't find anything about it online but it was ~60ft and looks fast as hell. The color doesn't come through in these photos but it was olive green that looked amazing. No crew around otherwise I'd have gotten myself onboard for more pics.
  16. You're finally on the right track Troph! If you have the money a performance oriented cat is 100% the way to go. Hopefully your wife finds the motion of the cat while sailing to be more to her liking. I've met some people that handle monos just fine but get sick on cats.
  17. That's a pretty kick ass setup and looks fool proof. I'm into aquariums and ponds and would be tempted to put guppies or japanese rice fish in there. Thanks for sharing; I'll have to try this sometime.
  18. It's a Manta 42 catamaran. Here's a picture of one (not ours): Well made boats built in Florida for owners and not charter. They're a bit small on the inside compared to modern Lagoon/Leopard/Fountaine-Pajot but it's perfect size for us and has decent performance.
  19. I haven't posted much because doing so feels like bragging and I'm not that type. But since you asked, it's 4pm on a Tuesday and I'm drunk on Kaliks at Staniel Cay. Life does not suck.
  20. Whoopsie. Would love the know the story of how this happened. Drunk? Asleep? Christmas blowjob? "Maritime Management LLC, based here, has reported that a ship under the company's management, the M/T Tropic Breeze, was struck last night at 22:03 p.m. by the super yacht M/Y Utopia IV approximately 15 miles NNW of New Providence Island, The Bahamas. The 160-foot tanker was traveling on its proper watch en route to Great Stirrup Cay when it was rear-ended by the 207-foot super yacht. The catastrophic force of the collision pierced the stern of the tanker causing the tanker to sink to the ocean floor at an estimated depth of 2000 feet. Fortunately, the crew of the Tropic Breeze were uninjured, have been rescued and safely returned to a company-owned facility on shore." https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mt-tropic-breeze-struck-by-mega-yacht-utopia-iv-and-sinks-off-the-coast-of-new-providence-island-301450791.html?fbclid=IwAR3maHBGARbpf1Rwj-I4WlkI402PrBuxdId34wZLWSFYRH0DBlHv9UdTbAw
  21. That looks fast. What speed are you doing? Do your crew fly home after the race or do you bring the boat back to the states with them? I need to arrange to be in Miami early November next year so I can get a ride during the shake down sail before the race. 😀
  22. Getting a boat from Florida to the VIs is a pain in the ass. You're going against the prevailing trade winds so you're basically waiting for a good weather window that might occur every few weeks to get you 100-200 miles east and south and then you wait again. You should look into storing the boat in Grenada during hurricane season. Getting it back from VIs to Grenada is super easy as it's a beam reach both ways.
  23. Hanse isn't a catamaran so I say no. You want a Leopard 44-46. I've actually not been on a Hanse so I can't comment on those specifically. I'm curious as to keeping it year round in the USVI or PR. Lots of boats do that but the insurance has to be $$$ during hurricane season.
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