We're FINALLY in the Mediterranean- But is it Everything We Hoped For?

00:00 Unloading Ruby Rose 2 from the ship
04:24 First Day onboard in Turkiye!
08:44 Discovering the rust stains
10:18 First evening onboard in the Med

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Hey there! We're Nick and Terysa and we’ve become completely obsessed with the idea of sailing around the world and sharing our experiences and information through our sailing lifestyle videos with others.

We met travelling around India, and quickly agreed that rather than “settling down” and doing what most normal people do, we wanted to travel and have adventures! We moved onto our 38 foot monohull in 2014, sailed across the Atlantic twice, cruised the Caribbean, Bahamas and Europe, before buying a brand new 45 ft catamaran!

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[sailingrubyrose]

Meanwhile, how nice is Turkiye!? We're SO glad to be here!

[vincentpereira]

nice to see you back in the med. The happiness rolls off of you in waves that is the 2 of you.nice to see the smiles again.

[RuthBrown-tmgt]

Best thing about the Med is the good consistent fresh food and drink. Whether Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Spain.
Bon Appétit.

[glennburch]

IRT the oxalic acid treatment: As a beekeeper, we use oxalic acid as a treatment to treat the bees for a mite infestation. The mite is called verroa destructor and is the #1 malady in all of bee keeping. Very difficult to kill a bug on a bug, but oxalic acid works well when used as advertised. Not sailing related, but thought it was interesting info concerning the multiple uses of oxalic acid. Hope the finnish on your boat was not damaged.

[thedailyword]

You guys are fun.. I am enjoying catching up on your episodes.. Thanks!!

[samanthaharding]

Nick. You crack me up… Bunnings hat - love it…. ‘Bleeping’ expletives…. You so almost, nearly Aussie…. Thank you guys…. You do keep it real. I watch every now and then just to get shot in the arm of Nickisms 😅….

[briancochran]

Anchorage looks beautiful. It is great that the rust stains are the only danage to the boat during transit. Can't wait for teh Med adventures to begin.

[earlhunt]

Thank you both for your mutual respect and love for each other which is always on full display in your videos. Life is a challenge and sometimes goes sour; but, being with a soulmate and uplifting, unconditional friend makes life worth living. You two rock!!

[greatstrides]

Good luck with the rust. I know this won't be what you want to read BUT I was sailing a charter boat this summer which had lots of rust marks due to a numpty doing angle grinding onboard in the past: it had been repeatedly treated with oxalic acid but unless you can get rid of the iron itself (which you won't be able to) the rust always comes back.

[bubashalom]

It's beautiful there and you look like you're really enjoying yourselves, keep it up. Thanks.

[gavinferguson]

like i said we had the iron rust problem because a iron ore terminal near largs marina in Scotland and every boat would get covered. took years to get the terminal to use water to damp down when unloading...

[Grandpa_Mac]

Best line of the video: "We're gonna science the s*** out of this". Nick, you are truly my spirit animal lol.

[mandymacfarlane]

Hi - well the three in the overly friendly boat were fellow Aussies, my husband Mick from SV Kirrikie with Chris and Sonia from SV Cut and Run. So pleased to see you had arrived in Marmaris at last 😊. They totally understood you would have had a lot to sort out, so no worries. (I was back in Perth, Oz, so bummed.😅). Really enjoyed your last episode expalining the decision to ship - if you can do it, why not in these troubling times?. Hope the insurance etc has all been sorted now. Fair winds...

[TeddyCavachon]

Been following your channel for many years and happy to see the boat arrive in good shape.

I joined the US Foreign Service in 1982 and my retirement plan—after three assignments and lots of SCUBA, sailing and mountain bike adventures, earthquakes, Mt. Pinatubo, managing a USIA publishing center in the Philippines—was to buy condos in Panama City Beach, FL and St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands and sail my catamaran between them. I only got as far as buying the Florida condo before meeting my soul mate 28 years ago changed those plans and now I just sit on my deck along the Intracoastal Waterway in North Carolina and photograph the boats which pass Beacon 315 south going to Florida and points south in the Fall and back north in the spring before hurricane season, posting them set to music on my dog’s YouTube channel.

Continued smooth sailing and hope to see you pass by some if you venture across the pond.

[Frostbbitten]

Try an iron remover paint spray for car detailing...apparently usually thioglycolic acid??? Try it out, it is made just for the sort of condition you seem to have, though usually in smaller levels of contamination.

[michellereynolds]

So excited to see you getting through the many tasks needed to get both yourselves and RR2 settled into the Med and ready to do some sailing! I love the sometimes feisty dynamic between the two of you! lol Here's to a great season ahead for all of us. Cheers!

[michaelm]

those "stains" are exactly what you think, if a tiny piece of grinding, welding, or steel wool drops on gelcoat. when it corrodes it eats a tiny hole into the gelcoat, this happend when a friend trried to help me with cleaning the boat with a regular steel wool instead of a stainless steel wool.

[coopw]

that rust on the boat came from the motors on the ship that carried your boat .exhaust stuff.

[jamielancaster]

@10:03 Salicylic acid has a low pH of 3 so it easily dissolves iron oxide. Vinegar will do the same thing.

[phillippurdy]

Looking back, shipping was SMART. The oceans and seas are storming to new levels. And lost at sea is not the way. God bless the sailing couples !🎉