La 76 de ani m-am pensionat și mi-am cumpărat o barcă cu vele. Toți prietenii mei au crezut că sunt prea bătrân și destul de supărat, fac tot posibilul să le dovedesc că se înșală. Anul acesta, am 78 de ani și am navigat, cu o singură mână, pe Zephyr IV, Westerly Ocean Quest de 35 de picioare de la Portsmouth Harbour la Falmouth și înapoi. Acest videoclip este prima parte a croazierei, partea de la Portsmouth la portul Portland. Speram să vină și prietenul meu Bill (Portland Bill, așa cum l-a numit cineva), dar a avut o înlocuire a genunchiului în această vară și nu a putut să mi se alăture. Așa că am mers singură. Prietenii mei landlubber sunt acum convinși că sunt din cap, dar a mers bine, fără probleme …. Totuși!
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Navigație cu o singură mână către Țara de Vest – Partea întâi
Nice start to a lovely passage, past some great coastline, Dave. Looking forward to your next video.
You can get cameras mounted on a gimballed self-steadying handle, and they make a HUGE difference to the steadiness of the final image. Not complaining – just saying, in case you intend to do further videos. The sound quality is very good, which is unusual in beginners' sailing videos. Nice story, well-told. Keep going!
* Ooops – sorry for the condescending tone. You Tube threw this up as a suggestion for me, and seeing there was only one other comment, for some reason I thought this was your first video. I'm an idiot. I watch several sailing channels, though – S V Delos, Uma, Windhippie, Free-range, Gone with the Wynns, Acorn to Arabella – and having also read all the Hornblower books several times, consider myself as an armchair expert. What all the good ones have, though, is an honest telling-it-like-it-is style; and your production is comfortably up there. Thankyou for your time and trouble, and do, please keep going. (Now I can go catch up on your previous videos.)
Good stuff Dave. Nicely edited too.
Do we know what was the ketch (?) at 19:05?
If you need a crew, I sail out of hamble on OPB's and have also been called Portland Bill.
Just got off a cat a day early due to the rather lively wind.
Lovely video of home waters.
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Too much sail..no??
Looks like a lovely trip! I recall the idea we once had for lunch in Cowes *grin*. I’m full of admiration for both your boat and your seamanship.
Great video, you're an inspiration! Looking forward to watching more of your boating adventures!
Your NOT mad….Dont listen to the Judea Popular Front ..YOU ARE A VERY NAUGHTY BOY..At least your getting out there LIVING marra. She looks well maintained and handles beautiful under sail. All the best youngin and look forward to seeing your other adventures.
I saw in one of your other videos you're 78? Heck you look younger than that. Great video , would love to sail the south west coast of UK one day. I'll be going for a month long Xmas summer cruise myself down here the other side of the world in NZ .