De: Thomson Sails

Thomson Sails — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 11:19:08 +0000

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.

De: Mozart Bradway

Mozart Bradway — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 19:51:31 +0000

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

De: 38 below

38 below — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 07:17:35 +0000

Great interview, loved it .

De: Joe Compton

Joe Compton — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 03:31:45 +0000

Wind hippie is a rock star.

De: C. A. McNeil

C. A. McNeil — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 23:15:08 +0000

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.

De: n0mad

n0mad — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 23:07:19 +0000

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!

De: WillN2Go1

WillN2Go1 — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 17:27:07 +0000

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.

De: nickolner

nickolner — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 16:12:16 +0000

Nice interview, thanks James

De: Robert Bailey

Robert Bailey — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 15:05:56 +0000

Much love from the coast of Maine

De: UUBrahman

UUBrahman — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 07:53:08 +0000

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

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