Yachting Youtube channels

[pcranness]

Here are some YouTube sailing channels I have found interesting and tend to be ones about people restoring, renovating, rebuilding or building boats. Not in any particular order

Sail Life - A Danish Guy refitting, somewhat extensively, a Warrior 38. DIY Videos covering the whole gamut of refitting DIY including glassing, painting the hull, osmosis treatment, interior rebuild and electrics
Sampson Boat Co - A young British guy rebuilding Tally Ho an old English yacht designed by Albert Strange in America. Huge amounts of old boat wood work
Acorn To Arabella - A couple of young American guys build a wood yacht from scratch. Right from cutting trees on their own farm
Sailing Cadoha - A novice British couple learning the ropes sailing a Warrior 38. Seasoned hand may find the noviceness frustrating, but they are honest about their trials and tribulations
Expedition Evans - A young American couple refitting an insurance right off Beneteau 49. The Americanness and again lack of experience might be frustrating for some, but their work ethic, Jade in particular is phenomenal
Project Fury - A British couple refitting an Fairline Fury Mk I. Again lots of intersting DIY videos, very good at de-mystifying glass fibre. Most annoying part is there hasn't been an update for a while!

Clearly these aren't going to appeal to everyone but some might find them interesting

Anyone got anything else?

 

[roblpm]

Well my specialist subject is people sailing AWBs across oceans without dying..... ? As I want to get my Mrs to live on board sailing with me in the Caribbean so mab is out really, and I'm not handy enough to really do massive renovations on anything.....

https://youtube.com/c/seethelittlethings
Beneteau 361 across the Atlantic

https://youtube.com/c/FindingAvalon
Elan Impression 384 Croatia to Australia

https://youtube.com/channel/UCXplY5fv_1RLG0nxN-qQEqw
Sailing Bachus Home
Beneteau 361 Europe to Australia

I think I'm going to buy a Beneteau 361. A paper's world cruiser..... ?

Any more non death AWB channels welcome please.

Actually the original La Vagabonde was a Beneteau Cyclades 43.4 I think.

 

[Sandy]

I've gone off sailing YouTube channels they are all getting a bit "samey". Oddly my current interest is the work of the farrier as I have zero interest in horses.

 

[Buck Turgidson]

That bloke who single hands his twister is good. Leo (Tally ho) is brilliant. The rest are meh....

 

[robmcg]

Enjoying Sailing Beyond Borders - the videos seem a cut above the usual ?

 

[38mess]

Have a look at sailing yaba

 

[lustyd]

Chasing currents are good, and seem pretty genuine. Had a pretty good chat with Brynn on Facebook about drilling the mast after seeing Jade up the mast in one of their episodes. Hungry to learn and eager to share, just what the world needs

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgjZgqPzzT8Fe3XpXNNnpfQ

 

[ctva]

I came across Project Aticus, a young American couple, when I was looking for info on how to use Stayloc fittings. Got a cheap fixer upper a free years ago and sailed the Caribbean until they found a big flaw which necessitated a newer boat, just got it and having the usual trials and tribulations. Professionally shot and presented.

 

[Gary Fox]

How to Sail Oceans ( single-handed, gaff cutter, blue water)

Wind Hippie Sailing ( Young woman, Holly Martin, crossing the Pacific, solo on a budget)

Sailing Embla (my mate Terje, presently in Lofoten, liveaboard with dog and girlfriend, and heading North)

 

[Kilo]

I've gone off sailing YouTube channels they are all getting a bit "samey". Oddly my current interest is the work of the farrier as I have zero interest in horses.

Have you come across This Old Tony?
Engineering with a twist. Possibly Marmite but if there we were only allowed to pick one then I'd ditch all the sailing channels & this would be my pick.

 

[AngusMcDoon]

Sailing Kallisto

A young Swiss/South African couple new to sailing taking an old and not very reliable Prout catamaran from the UK to the Med via the French canals. The Prout fits in the locks, but only just. There is only 7cm clearance either side.

 

[Kelpie]

Magic Carpet are currently on the hard and deep in to boat work. Impressive skills, lovely boat.

 

[Parabordi]

I like "Wildlings Sailing" and also "Sailing Fair Isle, as well as "Sailing Uma" better than the TV

 

[Stemar]

About as far from boaty as you can get, but one channel I really enjoy is Engels Coach shop. He restores old buggies and wagons, from carpentry to ironwork and building wheels. Real skill. I wish I were half as good as him at the stuff I do.

I watch half a dozen sailing channels, but there's a limit to how much I can take. The only one that hasn't neem mentioned here is Sailing Soulianis. An American couple, now with a baby cruising the Caribbean. I probably only watch because it was one of the first I came across, but their camera work and editing are good and the fact that she fills out a bikini rather nicely doesn't hurt. I was watching it the other day when Milady came in the room and commented, "I can see why you watch that" Who, me????

 

[Neeves]

Life is too short to watch sailing videos, or any videos. I only watch Panope - when someone points me at it. Maybe once a year I watch a Halcyon vid. I did some anodising recently - and checked some detail on 2 vids.

Sorry but I'd rather do than watch others doing it. I've yet to come across tasks in our sector of the marine industry that needs a degree in rocket science and I'm yet to come across issues that were actually not solved a century ago. I'm sure lots that I get wrong could be found on many of these videos but part of the pleasure is learning from your own mistakes (which you do not forget). We are still here - so the mistakes have not been catastrophic.

It bears considering that our weather is conducive to being outdoors - though I do sometimes desire rotten weather to catch up on 'indoor tasks' - like documentation.

Each to their own.

Jonathan

 

[Koeketiene]

Lately, I started following these focused on singlehanded sailing.
Both have a sense of humour and style of their own.
Neither of them look to preach or want to flog something (like some/most of the US sailing YouTube channels).

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt6TpIGTLEsBUrBY-vwiq_g

and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEZSvXwSH6flqA0q_EEDDBQ

 

[lustyd]

We've just been through a year where we weren't able to freely go and do things. I think we'd all rather do than watch, but that's not always an option, and not practical to do every day either. Even if you sail every weekend, that's only 2/7 days so you have another 5 to gather inspiration

 

[Aardee]

I'll also add Adventures of an Old Sea Dog and Free Range Sailing

Question: Is there anyone sailing the world NOT filming it for YouTube? ?

 

[Dino]

I really enjoy Sailing with Thomas. He’s a Norwegian guy sailing singlehanded from the Med to the Caribbean on a Bavaria 55.
https://youtube.com/c/SailingwithThomas

 

[bitbaltic]

Lately, I started following these focused on singlehanded sailing.
Both have a sense of humour and style of their own.
Neither of them look to preach or want to flog something (like some/most of the US sailing YouTube channels).

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt6TpIGTLEsBUrBY-vwiq_g

and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt6TpIGTLEsBUrBY-vwiq_g

both links point at the same thing (Samingo). That looks good, what's the other channel?