Yachting Youtube channels

[lustyd]

I do like Talisman, Kevin is just a guy who can afford a boat and he shows his worry about life, boating, maintenance. He's paranoid and likes to plan and proactively maintain. It's a huge departure from the easy going young sailing channels, and that's probably why I like it - he's a really normal guy.

 

[Bajansailor]

Everybody is mentioning their favourites - but very few are providing links to them!

Can you include a link please when (eg) Talisman and Kevin are mentioned?
I know that Google is very good, but are a bit stumped if I just mention these two words with Youtube - I just get a site in Spanish re Talizman and Kevin.

 

[HissyFit]

Everybody is mentioning their favourites - but very few are providing links to them!

Can you include a link please when (eg) Talisman and Kevin are mentioned?
I know that Google is very good, but are a bit stumped if I just mention these two words with Youtube - I just get a site in Spanish re Talizman and Kevin.

There is a search bar at the top of YouTube which gives more specific results, but here you are anyway: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8lsbXXdjZ5vWh2fnKZ8lqQ

 

[Sybarite]

By chance I made out a list yesterday :
Delos
La Vagabonde
Ran
Panda
Atticus
Uma,
Fair Isle
Aquarius
Emerald Steel
Christian Williams

I have a friend who is in the process of buying a boat and I expanded on the above list as follows :

La Vagabonde : Young Australian couple who have twice as many followers as anybody else. They were subsidized to move to a catamaran (Outremer 45) which they are now selling to get another boat - still hush hush. Apparently they make about $250k a year from their vlog.

SV Delos : excellent practical knowledge. He sold his house to move onto a 53' Super Maramu 10 years ago. They have a big ship satellite connection and upload episodes regularly. He has ship skipper qualifications and really knows his stuff. He switched from normal batteries to Li-Fe ones which he installed himself and cooks on an induction plate with microwave induction oven.

Sailing Uma : a young Canadian couple who bought a 50yo Pearson 36 which they completely gutted and rebuilt. They converted to all electric, including the engine. He is Canadian and she is Haïtian (eye candy) and they are both qualified architects. The interior is really thinking outside of the box. They crossed the Atlantic and were over-wintering in N. Norway.

Sailing Ran : A Swedish couple who sailed up to Alaska in their aluminium boat and then spent months visiting various boats ending up with a Najad 44. They have carried out numerous upgrades to it since. They spent winter on the west coast of Sweden.

Aquarius : Another couple in a Super Maramu who converted to Li-Fe batteries. He gives a very good account of the whys and wherewithals for doing it.

Sailing Fair Isle : A couple of media persons who purchased a Christian Andersen 48' . he is particulary good technically about boat maintenance.

Emerald Steel. A couple (she American, he Czech) built their own steel boat about 30 years ago and have lived and cruised on it since. Very knowledgeable.

Sailing Panda : A young couple on an Amel Sharki who were virtual beginners a year or so ago. Blocked by Covid they, instead of heading to the Pacific, sailed up to Maine via Bermuda and thence to Greenland. Also blocked from Iceland they did a winter crossing of the N. Atlantic to arrive in Scotland - they also sailed in Strangford Lough. They also converted to Li-Fe batteries and Induction cooking.

Atticus : a young American couple upgrading to a Pacific Seacraft 40'. They reviewed many boats before deciding.

I have learnt a lot from these people and particularly about some of the pitfalls to be aware of when buying an older boat. The professional advice was not to go beyond 20 years of age because fixing the likely problems would probably outweigh the cost of a newer boat.

 

[Aardee]

Is there any love on here for Drake Paragon? - I enjoy the sailing but find the guy slightly intense & odd

 

[Kelpie]

Is there any love on here for Drake Paragon? - I enjoy the sailing but find the guy slightly intense & odd

Having met Drake and Monique in person, I will say they are absolutely lovely. The first time we met, he was driving a radio controlled buggy down the pontoon with a go-pro on a mast on the top of it. So obviously I just had to get talking to him. Turns out it was a safer way of getting footage of polar bears or walrus.

 

[Bajansailor]

@Sybarite thanks for this list - it should be very useful reference for many on here.

Would you like to maybe edit it to include links to the Youtube channels for these folk please?

 

[lustyd]

I have learnt a lot from these people and particularly about some of the pitfalls to be aware of when buying an older boat. The professional advice was not to go beyond 20 years of age because fixing the likely problems would probably outweigh the cost of a newer boat.

It's interesting because the main take away I get from all of these channels is that you'll be fixing your boat regardless so age makes very little difference. Even Vagabonde who got exactly the boat they wanted with all of the exact kit they wanted at the price they wanted have had loads of problems. I took this as quite reassuring and an indicator that effort is better spent on learning maintenance than looking for the perfect boat. My own boat is 20 years old and if I fitted a brand new engine, electronics, and sails it would still be less than half the cost of a new boat. I've had a bunch of problems despite it being in good working order when I bought it, but I do know a lot more about the boat as a result!

Not sure I'd refer to Kika as eye candy. She's the brains of the operation from what I can see, but does have a well crafted on screen persona to try to appear like the ditsy wife.

 

[Alicatt]

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

The big reveal last week was that they have bought a new boat for blue water sailing and this evening they should be posting up a tour of their new boat which needs some work done.

In one episode they were sailing past where my wife and I were at Koundam in Friesland and where I finally got my wife to go on board a small craft
They pass where we were at about 10:40 into the video.

 

[adamstjohn]

There is another, unsure if anybody else has mentioned them above, sailing good bad ugly, some of it is not at all pretty but i do enjoy the commentary and really hard work they are putting into getting a really really knackered-thats not overly critical just a realistic description of a largeish 5000$ boat , hey my boat is no beauty queen...tee hee - anyway some of the work is sketchy but i absolutely love the positive can do attitude from this couple and they seem to have fun on a total budget too. worth a look imho.

 

[steve yates]

Much as I like scantily clad women, I tend to not bother with channels which are all thumbnails of some bikini clab beauty, Clickbait in general irritates the hell out of me so I go too far the other way Ive dabbled in most of the well know channels and just cant get excited about them, the one I have watched most of and enjoyed in the modern crop is Sailing Magic Carpet,

and The art of going nowhere, with two young scandi guys heading down the canals, they only got 4 episodes in or so then I was caught up ad they seem to be stopped, but enjoyable and hopefully they will carry on.

I still find some of the older ones have never been beaten or even equalled. Teleport was a great watch and an interesting trip, sorting their old wooden boat and going through the NW passage.

and On Kudu, a young lads attempt at sailing round the UK on his corribee has a real storytelling pull to it,

One of the most beautifully filmed chanels I have watched all the way through are the voyages of the fleming motor boat designer on his venture, they really do some amazing trips,

check the videos list for them all.

 

[Buck Turgidson]

Teleport was fantastic.

 

[Kelpie]

Going back in time a little, Bob Shepton's 'Vertical Sailing' was very good.

 

[Seven Spades]

We like the following:

1. Erik, compleatly mad you have to love him.

https://youtube.com/c/ErikAanderaa

2. Not on many peoples list but the top of mine. Sailing Yacht Florence. An English couple very charming fantastic travelog.

https://youtube.com/c/SailingYachtFlorence

3. Fairisle- I don’t need to say anything about them.

I sometimes skim watch Leo but nothing else. Appeals to me.

 

[38mess]

Were sv Delos the original YouTubers? On sailing anyway.

 

[Kelpie]

Were sv Delos the original YouTubers? On sailing anyway.

Not quite, but they were amongst the first half dozen. It took a while for the weekly video format to develop.
The first videos I became aware of were Dylan Winter's 'Keep Turning Left', then 'On Kudu'. Follow The Boat have been going for yonks, and White Spot Pirates as well. I think these all pre-date La Vagabond who were probably the first to hit a big non-sailing audience.

 

[Sybarite]

Not sure I'd refer to Kika as eye candy.

Did you see the episode where she is modelling her own brand of swimwear ......?

@Sybarite thanks for this list - it should be very useful reference for many on here.

Would you like to maybe edit it to include links to the Youtube channels for these folk please?

You just need to type in the boatname on the YouTube header to get the various channels.

 

[HissyFit]

Did you see the episode where she is modelling her own brand of swimwear ......?

Not her own brand; it was a friend's swimwear company. Long time ago now.

 

[lustyd]

Did you see the episode where she is modelling her own brand of swimwear ......?

Modelling swimwear in one episode doesn't make someone eyecandy, it just shows they have good business sense to get paid for something they also get for free. Alayna on Vagabonde modelled her own swimwear recently too. She was heavily pregnant and her young son was climbing all over her - still eye candy, or just trying to make a living to support an enviable lifestyle? If it was Doodles I might have agreed, that channel borders on porn, but Uma very rarely do anything like that.

 

[lustyd]

Dylan Winter's 'Keep Turning Left'

I still can't understand why Dylan doesn't have those up on Youtube. He'd have made a fortune by now, especially over lockdown!