16 Nov 2024 Martin the welding man & Bonus

This Youtube channel is about me Sven Yrvind. I am85 and a half year old dyslectic solo sailor. I am adapting a 30 year old 17 feet, 5.3 meter long high latitude canoe cruiser of my own design for a sail to Dunedin in NZ. There I have been promised an ice cream.

The route will take me south of Cape of Good Hope, Africa and Cape Leeuwin, Australia.

The voyage is not only intended to be one of pleasure. With two of the three great capes done I believe that if I continue east and round Cape Horn. I can argue that a small boat is seaworthy and that will be good for the man of small means.

Often the 22th every month I do a resume of the project.
If you’re interested in contributing to my experiments links are below.
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Also please subscribe - even if you are not interested in sailing.

[rafaelummus]

The friendly atmoshpere you create around your projects is awesome. I like to work with happy people around me too. Greetings from southeastern coast of Brazil.

[iangesman]

Nice work Sven, most would think the rudder and bow mast is odd looking, but my Father is Dutch, I know how well this design will work.❤ smash the like!🙏🇨🇦🍻

[avonneave]

G, day Yrvind excellent footage, I see how she rides the ocean, real smooth and steady as you like, very well designed vessel glides like an Albatross. Very cool. All the best regards from here on the West Coast side of Australia 🌏 Batavia Coast 🇦🇺 Abrolhos islands Gantheaume Bay 🙏🖖🤟🐨👽😎

[A-fo]

Very swedish world-map: yellow and blue ;)
Thank you for this video - very interesting!

[Itssmial_Ova]

Exlex II was my favorite boat of yours, I loved it.

I wish I could afford some divinicel to build my own. I dream of sailing the world in a small boat, but I am a wage slave in New Zealand.

But I can still afford to shout you an Icecream or two.

[bdmenne]

Looking really good & sea-worthy bound!

[bdmenne]

So funny you showed a Group photo with La vagabond crew. I was just thinking about them and their boat collision in Japan while watching your video, and then Voila. La Vagabond.

[melinda]

AZORES!! I used to live on Terceira Island, Azores! 🙏✝️🙏❤🇺🇸

[daveamies]

Yes Australia and New Zealand went into strict quarantine at the beginning of the corona outbreak, no one in or out initially for a few weeks, but later it was changed eased to allow people to arrive but you had to stay in designated quarantine locations for 4 weeks when you arrived, there was an exemption for freight ships, the crew didn't have to quarantine, but were not allowed to leave the ship. Not sure about NZ but later Australia saw some sense and allowed the time at sea to count towards the quarantine time, so if you'd been at sea for 3 weeks you only had to do 1 week quarantine, this was better but it took 6 months for them to get there.
Yes the guys from La Vagabond are both from Australia 👍