WINDsurfing and WATER collecting - SAILBOAT LIFE EP82 This week we have fun learning to windsurf in the shallows of Ailuk lagoon. We do a little bit of maintenance on our Honda generator and we make use of the passing squalls to collect over 150 litres of water into our holding tanks. Footage from July 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ☕️ Want to Buy us a Coffee? Support our videos: https://ko-fi.com/sailingdoubletrouble 🌎 Blogs and updates on the website: https://sailingdoubletrouble.com 💁🏼‍♀️ Photos and real time stuff here: https://www.facebook.com/sailingdoubletrouble/ 📷 Random Travel Pics and updates: https://www.instagram.com/sailingdoubletrouble/ 👉Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingDoubleTrouble?sub_confirmation=1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 👩‍❤️‍👨About us : Hello and welcome to our channel! We are Jo and Rob and we are here to share our sailing adventures with you. In 2016, inspired by the likes of ‘Delos’, ‘Sailing La Vagabonde’ and ‘Gone with The Wynns’, we sold up everything we owned and bought our 40ft, Fountaine Pajot ‘Lipari 41 Evo’ sailing catamaran ‘Double Trouble’. We had no sailing experience whatsoever, so the past few years have been a huge learning curve. We thought it might be fun to document our travels for anyone thinking of following a similar lifestyle. So far we have visited 7 different countries and sailed over 13,000 nautical miles. We have had many unique experiences that would not have been possible in our prior life and we don’t regret a second. We're both super keen on protecting our precious environment, so amongst other things, we both follow a plant based diet. You wont find any fishing footage on this channel! Subscribe now and join us as we continue our salty travels around the world. https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingDoubleTrouble?sub_confirmation=1 👏Credits: Thanks to 'Shure ' microphones for voiceover sound. 🎼Music: DT Theme tune - 'Happy' by MBB https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/g6swHZbWtRc 🎧Other Music: Epidemic Sound Library

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wind surfing time for my wedding surfing

lesson

well i might just have a swim today

looks like a sauce it's been a very busy

day

lots of laundry laundry day draped

around the boat

and spun dry thank you to alex for using

her washing machine

and spinning for me makes a big

difference she's a little angel

right let's go

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the northernmost anchorage at ilook

lagoon was definitely our favorite it

offered good protection due to a long

sunspit

that provided a sheltered blue lagoon at

low tide

this was the perfect spot for andrew

from offshore haven to give us all

windsurfing lessons

brave man

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before we started andrew showed us how

it should be done

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we spent a few days and a lot of hours

cooling off in the shallows while we all

took turns falling off a board

with andrew shouting helpful suggestions

to correct the many errors that were

made

[Music]

[Applause]

as we gained confidence we ventured

further out and we used the tender as a

support boat

so andrew could continue yelling helpful

advice

and also to retrieve the board back to

the shallows when one of us

inevitably crashed and

get used burned managing a sail don't

worry about steering

at all

the course of a few days under andrew's

expert guidance

most of us noticed some great

improvement however

rob's board seemed to be much more

wobbly than everybody else's

but we all had our fair share of

splashdowns

great fun andrew's showing the steering

we're not that advanced here

well alex says i'm wearing scuba gear

the next time we do this

it's just hard yards lifting the sail up

every time

getting to a point of being able to sail

regularly and have fun

a lot of people give up because you get

so tired

[Applause]

it's not invisible

[Laughter]

what's today's job bobbity well i've

just noticed a bit of

rust on this front panel of our

um our honda generator so

i'm just cleaning rust today

not sure i think it's just because it's

it's basically galvanized metal

so i've taken the panel off so i've

already sanded

and got rid of most of the rust on the

top of here

but that's basically what i'm trying to

get rid of so i've got a product called

rust converter which is a liquid

and you just brush it on and it it will

basically oxidize and seal the rust in

and then you can kind of prime it from

there if you need to

so the joys of living in a salty

environment yeah it's just because it's

galvanized metal basically that's not

marinis particularly but this is this is

after

three or four years so it's not too bad

yeah yeah coming up three and a half

years now

and then once i've done this on this top

edge i'm gonna

put some uh zinc primer i've got there

so

once you've done that it's time for a

cup of coffee isn't it yeah it's pretty

much

a morning's work

so we are in ilux still uh in the

northern anchorage

and the wind here predominantly is

always east northeast

what we are experiencing today is uh

south south west so we had a wind shift

last night at about two in the morning

we always anchor as if we are going to

have a

leisure wind happen to us so we've got a

good turning circle here

the beach is behind us now fortunately

the

the bottom here for anchoring uh is a

fairly consistent 15 meters it hasn't

got a steep slope

like some of the other atolls so we have

lots of scope have put the anchor in so

that we can basically do a full 360 and

not worry about it

it's a grey and rainy day

it is the only advantage is that we're

not using the water maker and we're

making heaps of water

crazy day we hope you're gonna have

another day today

yeah i'll let you later i might do some

uh

some cleaning in a minute when i get

around to it well

so much for the diving day yeah what are

you doing instead darling collecting the

water

and scrubbing the boat it's grim and it

looks like andrew's on the front of his

boat you can't see him because it's so

cloudy

i don't even need to think you can see

uno mas out there in the cloud

this is what happens when we plan to go

out to the reef for the day

yep you're doing a sterling job there

darling

i think we've collected about 100 liters

already pouring off the roof

we're filling one bucket in about uh

three minutes so 15 meters

and here's what's thinking we're gonna

have to cut the tanks off today

i've put about an hour's worth of water

in in about

the last ten minutes we should have our

automatic system set up

we're supposed to have a hole that runs

from the roof but into the tank so we

don't have to do this

and that red bucket's nearly full again

what we do is if it doesn't rain for a

while we let it rain for a little while

without collecting

so it washes the salt off the boat so we

don't get salt

you can see these channels

[Applause]

free we like free

[Applause]

and our back tank is now full this is

the tank we normally

fill up and use as a rinse tank after

diving and you can see that that's full

to the brim now

that was empty an hour ago

we're only collecting some of what's

coming off the roof again marvelous

hubster getting us a drinking coconut

shocked there

just pausing for the sunset

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