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Day 9: Two Harbors To A New Year
1/1/2018
Isthmus Cove, Catalina Island To Angels Gate Lighthouse
22.6 nm | 5 hours | Sail / Motorsail
I awoke before the sun and brought in the first day of 2018 watching the sunrise over the quiet Isthmus Cove. Meital and myself had coffee on a very wet deck and enjoyed the stillness.
The winds were forecasted to increase to 10 knots in the afternoon so we decided we would push off at around noon.
Heading ashore for some breakfast at the dinner we heard from Noah that they were out walking the dogs and would meet up with us.
We all went for a hike up the hillside towards the campgrounds.
Soon we were back on the boat preparing to leave. The winds off the island felt fresh so I hanked on the genniker, we thanked the Harbor Master on ch.12 and motored out of Isthmus Cove into the fog and marine layer of the morning.
We were sailing before Shiprock but the winds slowly eased and by 1pm I turned on the iron genny and we were motorsailing.
Meital took up her post on the cabintop on “Spout Patrol” hoping to see some whales
By 1:30 we started to see dolphins and it turned out to be a superpod. The pod was spread out in all directions with smaller pods of 3 or more dolphins lazily making there way but you could look to the distance from either side of the ship and see dolphin activity.
A number of them came by to say hello and have a look but none stayed very long.
At 3:30 the winds were still very light so I decided to get a shot of Trietia undersail at sea. I set up the drone on the place where I had launched her so many times before successfully and the moment she lifted off a gust of wind hit her and sent her slamming into the working sheet then up into the headsail then upside down in the water. We watched her sink very rapidly along with my heart,,,, and wallet for that matter. I was very bummed but I was glad it happened at the end of my trip and not the beginning. I was very disciplined about transferring all video footage from all of my devices, iphone, gopro, drone, canon, every morning, as I was certain some piece of equipment was going to end up as an offering to Neptune so I didn’t lose any footage at least.
From that moment on the winds continued to increase. Soon we were doing 5-6 knots SOG and by the time we passed the lighthouse we were burying the rails.
The channel was empty and the winds remained steady allowing me to sail almost all the way to the bridge before turning my motor on.
Night had set in and we were surrounded once again by the lights of industry and enormous container ships.
Triteia eased into her slip at 6:00pm and the trip was complete.
- Sailor James
The video episode for this post can be seen here: https://youtu.be/9m_vp4crXSE
POSITION LOG:
11:45 – 33°26' 53" N | Departed
118°29' 81" W |
05:00 – 33°42' 30" N | Angels Gate Lighthouse
118°15' 05" W |
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The first Episode in my new series is now up online, Come Sail Away with me...
How to Start a Sailing Channel on YouTube ! Sailor James of SV Triteia Breaks Down the Process.
Hello Friends,
This video is meant to be a guide to help anyone who is considering starting a sailing or boating channel to document their adventures or refit process. Much of what I discuss could apply to any other type of YouTube Vlog as well.
The video is rather long but I felt if someone is interested in this subject the information about how I started, my process, and the suggestions I make based on years of doing this might come in handy.
Here is a list of the gear we currently use for our channel:
- iPhone 6 - GoPro hero 7 - Scorpion Jr. Camera Rig - RODE Video Micro Microphone (with wind sock) - Two handed diving camera rig with super suit (for GoPro) - DJI Mavic Pro - Alpine White - Canon 60D (for some time-lapse and still photos) - Sony PCM-D50 audio recorder (for Podcasts) - Adjustable Arm with Clamp (for GoPro) - 3 slot GoPro battery charger - Old MacBook Pro (circa 2012) - Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 (old) - Adobe After Effects CS5.5 (old) - Adobe Audition CS5.5 (for podcasts) - Portable solid state G-Drives & Any decent Dark Roast Coffee
If you have any further questions feel free to shoot me a message in the comments and I will do my best to answer them for you.
I hope some of you dreaming of starting a channel see this video and realize it is within your reach and give it a shot!
Until Next Time, Sailor James
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Designing and Building a new Nav Station for a 1965 Alberg 30 Sailboat Hello Friends,
We have another small series of Projects for y'all. This time we are designing and building out the new Navigation Station on SV Triteia. As I mention in the video this project took me FOREVER to complete. I ended up making 3 different complete switch panel / housings before I finally made one I was really happy with.
The main factor in the whole process was that I was also designing and building out my Chart Table ( https://youtu.be/mAUi2lt6kqA )at the same time and the final Chart Table design directly affected what was possible with the switch panels. Also early on I tried to make the Chart Table top and panel faces out of a variety of different wood/surface treatments; Stained Marine Ply, Hardboard, Europly before I ended up just making everything out of high quality Baltic Birch and laminating it with white durable formica.
This video is a little spotty in the fact that while I was finalizing the switch panels I was going full throttle on my Stove Enclosure build out ( https://youtu.be/Bw_tRFfVJ30 ) and I was so frustrated with the switch panels and focused on building and filming the Stove Enclosure that I didn't video all aspects of Nav Station construction.
I did however film a TON of footage of the actually installation of the panels and all of their instruments on the boat. So this first video is just a collection of some of the footage of the lay out design and cutting out the aft panel and trimming the formica.
In the next episode we get into the real fun of the project!
Fair Winds, Sailor James
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Finally wrapping up this four part series on my head build out! In this episode I measure and drill out the deck fitting and the hole for the vent in the hole on my Alberg 30. Boats of this age do not have a cored hull so the beauty is you don't need to seal the core on the vent hole because the entire hull is solid hand laid fiberglass!
I make my project videos on the slow side letting people see what I did and how I dealt with obstacles, in past videos my viewers have thanked me for not jumping over all of the details and getting right to the finished project so while this might not be the most exciting video it might help some people out there see how I dealt with certain aspects of the project.
Thanks for watching!
fair winds, Sailor James
patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sailorjames website: http://svtriteia.com insta: https://www.instagram.com/james.the.sailor.man