YARNS: Holly Martin de la @WindHippieSailing vorbește despre viață și despre navigația solo cu marinarul James

26 thoughts on “YARNS: Holly Martin de la @WindHippieSailing vorbește despre viață și despre navigația solo cu marinarul James”

1. Great interview and learning. Thank you.

2. Solid interview James! I love both of your channels. You two are total bad arses! God bless. 🙏

3. That was SOOOOOO good. Holly has sure had a great life with her family on boats. And now the world is her oyster – it's just brilliant. Can't wait to see her channel. Thank you so much Sailor James 😃

4. Just finished watching the yarn with Holly.
   I think James Holly and you have many books and magazine articles to write.
   James from cold Scotland.

5. How much can you make delivering yachts once you have your master license from the Coast Guard?

6. Wasn't Holly nominated for a cruisers award last year? I thought I heard her name mentioned in one of the videos I watched.

7. 7:25 bob did it in a fiberglass boat 🙂 good podcast btw

8. i am currently unsubscribed to both of youz.
   accept some professional technical perspective for crips sake.

9. Nice interview. I subscribe to both of your channels and look forward to continuing to follow you both on your circumnavigations.

10. Nice conversation. Thank you.

11. Thanks!

12. This is fantastic keep up the good work James….. holy is my hero . Can't wait to join you guys travelling around the world

13. Got to love NZ, I want to sail around her.

14. Legends.

15. I love hearing about the hallucinations and how you're mentally attuned to micro details even while asleep. Excellent conversation.

16. Both of my sailing YouTube channel heroes,these two are a couple of sailing beasts 😊 Amazing Incredible

17. The part about the hallucinations was real sailor stuff, fascinating.

18. Much love from the coast of Maine ❤🤙🤙

19. Nice interview, thanks James

20. Terrific interview. Two of my hero sailors. I got hooked into Wind Hippie Sailing when Holly said in a video, "The back stay cable broke so I just tied a rolling hitch…." What?? eh, another day at the life….
    25:00 James asks if Holly couldn't just lash the helm. A ha. I've only been on fin keel boats, James has a full keel. I guess lashing (or locking) the helm would work for his boat. My early experience in funky charter boats out of Marina del Rey "Don't use the autopilot!" is a locked helm means the boat turns 15-20° with every wave. So going forward to raise the jib meant I'd turn 180° in about a minute.
    Sleeping. I was just on a passage from Japan to Canada. Catamaran: slamming, slamming, BANG! SLAMMING! I slept through it all (I actually loved it. Who but astronauts gets to sleep weightless? Granted I was only weightless for a second every two minutes or so.) Loud noises? No problem. But the slightest different noise…. One evening during the typical slams, not too loud, there was a slightly less loud bang noise. I asked the owner, "What was that?" Then his wife came up, " I think something broke." We went out and looked around. Seemed okay. Next morning the owner discovered that the outhaul had chaffed through (It was rigged too low: spliced eye in the line, and solid clew ring so they just put it low to the D-ring. Rub rub. Wasn't the only incompetent factory rigging.) I tied a bowline to the clew – problem solved and no more chaffing). This wasn't the fist time his wife picked out a problem from the background noise.
    The last two weeks I started hearing voices…. No I wasn't losing my mind. It's like in the old days with wall phones when our brains would over interpret overtones in the shower as the phone ringing. My ears were just tuning up, listening for anything that might be a problem.
    Yeah, I guess hearing the phone ring in the shower is an hallucination. (I had a fun dream. The boat was bouncing, I was in one of the fore cabins. (tip always arrive early to a sailing gig.) I was dreaming that I was at anchor off the west end of Anacapa Island (there's no anchorage there) , my monohull was jumping all over the place. Then I heard one of my teachers, Captain Dan's voice say, "If you anchor there you'll get hit by waves from two direction." I started to wake up a bit and remembered we were on a multiday passage, so it couldn't be the Channel Islands….. Where else off California? Nah, it's just a dream. Then I realized, hey, we're in the South China Sea crossing to the Philippines from Vietnam! During the first month of sailing I would often have amazing land dreams, then wake up and realize, I'm on a boat under sail! Imagine the first time you got off a plane in some exotic place – how new and exciting that was. I was getting this feeling sometimes a couple times a day.
    I had a terrific optical illusion. We'd just sailed out of Choshi, Japan to start the crossing. A red tanker was heading north behind us. As it past I looked at it through my binoculars and it looked like a toy boat. Huh. It took an hour to figure out that this was really odd (otherwise I'd have taken a photo) and why it looked so small. I could see water behind (above) the ship. There's no way with my eyes 2 meters above sea level I could ever see water over the deck of that >150m ship. Somehow I had, and that's why it looked like a toy. (A small bangka fishing boat could look like this but only if it were less than 50 m away and less than 1 meter high.) It took a few more weeks to figure out what had happened. when I saw another false horizon that was marine layer fog. There'd been marine layer fog behind the ship that looked enough like the water the ship was in to read as a false horizon.
    I was on a four person crew with a watch schedule. Very different from soloing. During watches, I'd always listen to audiobooks (>20 in the three months.) I could start to nod off. I started switching to music the last hour of my night watches. I also started dancing on the back deck. Second best reason to get a cat: deck dancing. Keeps you alert, fit (sort of) and entertained. Tip: When deck dancing don't lift your feet because even in calm seas when you set your foot down the deck will be in a different place.
    We ran over a guy's net off the Philippines. I'd wanted to move farther off the coast. Nope. Later same attitude ran over my fishing tackle – end of fishing. (I'd already been successful tuna, mahi mahi). Every time we ate potatoes only soup or extremely low grade hot dogs I thought Filipino Fisherman Payback. Terrific interview. Terrific sailors.

21. I came across Dave and Jaja's story about 15 years ago, bought the book, the movie… Your parents are directly (partly) responsible for turning me into a proper sailor. I'm buying my second boat now, after about 8 years of living/sailing on a Tartan 30, and doing the whole youtube 'research' thing, and came across Holly's channel just a few days ago. I'm so happy to see her follow in her parent's footsteps. I always wondered how their kids would turn out with such an amazing upbringing and amazing parents. Now I know!

22. Great interview holly is such a beautiful person. James did a great job also. Sailorama the captain grew up on a boat. That’s a good Chanel also.

23. Wind hippie is a rock star.

24. Great interview, loved it .

25. I put bells on my lifelines. If someone is trying to come aboard, they will ring.

26. Yep, good interview.
    I had no idea about Holly's early life, and very interesting topics of conversation.

    I always liked meeting other cruisers in the Pacific.

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