If you are fed up with La Vagabonde....

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... try Ryan and Sophie sailing.

For us they are one of our success stories. We taught them how to sail a few years ago in Gib. Now they are sailing their own yacht as full time liveaboards and do a cracking blog and you tube stuff.

Dined with them yesterday and they set off this morning for Cape Verdes. A lovely couple and for anyone interested, I hope you enjoy the vids.

Good luck dudes on your voyage!
 
capnsensible said:
and Sophie is a French babe!
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With highly animated facial expressions or maybe that is when she is on camera. Ryan and Sophie are in my current top 5 of sailing YouTubers.

SV Delos has gone off the boil this year.

Sailing Kittiwake is likely to appeal to a British audience, low key and non flash that demonstrates a low budget approach to living aboard.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT9U1fPkHj0mJjC4LWGH26g

More with Brit appeal:

Sailing Fair Isle features an early retiree couple taking it slow in the Med aboard their beautiful 48' Hans Christian. They are ex. TV production people hence the video quality is good though the dialogue often seems to be lifted from the local tourist information office.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjJH0fF_wXUjARGD-SZfHIQ

Finally Sailing SV Bora Bora is completing a 3? year Atlantic circuit aboard a Victory 40, they started from Turf Lock on the Exe. Their sailing and voyaging style is probably closest to what I dream of doing one day.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY8CGO6EX8PwA1B-KUA_Djg
 
My favourite is probably Sailing With the Flo, young English couple on a fairly small budget who have so far crossed both the Atlantic and Pacific.
 
Re Vagabonde,

I was wondering if we could club together and charter a carbon neutral attack sub, I'm sure Jeremy Clarkson would help the project - the only snag is the wailing brat might overload the passive sonar requiring ear defenders and a deck gun fitted - we could fund it by selling time slots with the gun a la Golden Shot - ' up a bit, left a bit '
 
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Why do people want to watch films of other people sailing? (or doing anything)..

I am genuinely interested as I have never wanted to watch such presentations but do understand that many do.
 
Good question - I never watch ' sport ' on tv, detest football in every way, don't watch motorsport - which is much better on tv than standing by a track with no clue who /what went by - and I can't watch more than a couple of minutes of even extreme sailing.

I guess it's a case of not following the herd - whenever I'm travelling ( not necessarily driving ) and fancy a meal and a soft drink, if I see a pub with a sign ' Big TV sports here ' I think ' ta for the tip ' and go straight by to somewhere decent. :)
 
Seajet said:
Good question - I never watch ' sport ' on tv, detest football in every way, don't watch motorsport - which is much better on tv than standing by a track with no clue who /what went by - and I can't watch more than a couple of minutes of even extreme sailing.

I guess it's a case of not following the herd - whenever I'm travelling ( not necessarily driving ) and fancy a meal and a soft drink, if I see a pub with a sign ' Big TV sports here ' I think ' ta for the tip ' and go straight by to somewhere decent. :)
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Could not agree more than 500%! sport on TV is the big thing here and i hate it even in Hooters!

W.
 
Tomahawk said:
Why do people want to watch films of other people sailing? ..

I am genuinely interested as I have never wanted to watch such presentations...
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+1, except for my one mate with a YT channel ( Sailing Embla), whose channel I watch because I know him, I find sailing channels painfully dull , not the sailing exploits so much as the protagonists and their personalities.
People keep going on about bikinis, why don't they just watch pornography instead of pretending they are interested in looking at AWB's :wink-new:
 
seajets comment is exactly how i feel about football and sport:encouragement:

but i like watching "sailing millenial falcon", "bums on boats", "Aquaholic", "adventures of an old seadog", "sailing with the foxwell faily", "sailing britaly" and a couple of others. gives me ideas and
 
Seajet said:
Re Vagabonde,

I was wondering if we could club together and charter a carbon neutral attack sub, I'm sure Jeremy Clarkson would help the project - the only snag is the wailing brat might overload the passive sonar requiring ear defenders and a deck gun fitted - we could fund it by selling time slots with the gun a la Golden Shot - ' up a bit, left a bit '
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Does joking about killing a child make you feel like a big tough guy?
 
Great, we need a YouTube thread.

I watch a lot of this stuff but very rarely the big hitters, no idea what De-los and the others get into. I am always put off when I see 25,000 followers, there always seem to be the slightly manic niff of theatre and artifice.

However, I do like these two thoughtful and bright chicks..........

 
Seajet said:
What a prat.
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Well the suggestion of sinking LV,presumably with occupants,is over the top even if you do find them too commercial/artificial/successful/green.
I can stand the odd episode but see them as being trapped into endless voyaging now for the camera.
 
Zero sailing, and more beards than bikinis, 'Acorn to Arabella' is about building a yacht from plans..starting with chopping the trees down..
The boat is an 'Ingrid' class (subsequently plasticized as the Alahuela 38's) , and I am heavily biased, as like my yacht she's a beautiful double-ended William Atkin design.
Atkin is best known for his Eric design, including Suhaili.
 

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scruff said:
Yes, you are quite for suggesting shooing and killing a child with a machine gun.
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Go easy, I don't think Seajet specified a machine gun. A more satisfying choice of weapon might be the Goalkeeper system, assuming the Outremer is fitted with a radar reflector..
 

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