Please include Sophie on your boat tour. It would be very interesting to hear her perspective as well.

I've watched a few of your enjoyable videos but didn't know that you were Finnish until now. Eric's Norwegian, RAN are Swedish and you're Finnish, so I believe I'm just missing a sailing Dane for a full Scandinavian sailing set. Thanks for speaking the language from my country btw.

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@@geoffmilner your sailing Dane is Mads & Ava on Sail Life ⛵️😊

@@Sailspirit99 Thanks for the tip. A Scandinavian full house for the win!

I appreciate you honesty! Wish u all success and will support u!

Totally agree. Great little ship, great crew and beautiful content. Wishing you a fantastic 2022.

Dave Don't be a suck ass

@@StephaneDemers do you.... blow?

Her name is Sohvi

You need a KZfaq channel, it would be very interesting.

@@johnnunn8688 agreed : )

I wish you were doing better financially. Your filming and editing are top notch! I’ll consider a patreon subscription.

I think you should have added a reality check on the cost of owning a boat (BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand $$$). You should have added in the approximate cost of repairs, maintenance, and updates (rudder!), plus docking and fuel costs, etc. Most people would get an even deeper appreciation of what and where you are doing this. Your adventure is for dedicated and knowledgeable sailors. If you couldn't do or manage all those repairs yourself, you would be up the creek (fjord in your case) without a paddle. Fair winds-and don't hit an iceberg. ;^)

Sailing used to be likened to standing under a cold shower & tearing up £10 notes (except standing under the shower was probably cheaper) nowadays it's probably more like £100 notes!

hi Mike, thanks a lot for the thoughtful comment. And Patreon is definitely not for everyone, most of us are on way too many social media platforms nowadays!

Second your comments

thanks Ken!

SLV lost me around the same time. Went from a rawness of a young couple trying to sail an ex charter boat to a slick expensive professional production. I literally groaned when they jump up and down on their green platform but fly to and from Australia to compete in yacht races. Yes they have been very successful in generating cash, but i sense they were happier without it. They are now locked into a process that is so far from a carefree lifestlye they started with.

@@terrybaker8349 Yes. What turned me off was the fake drama and too many underwater shots of the lady. It was like she was trying to get a modeling gig. Cheers.

My wife and I loved SLV in it’s early days like many. We bought merch from them and proudly wore it and loved their earlier stuff. We bought Elena’s album and played it in our cafe for years…when we worked our butts off, we dreamed of sailing like they were. We would have loved to have met them in the Bahamas and often missed them only by a few nautical miles. We did notice their subscriber total literally explode in a very short period of time and wondered how that happened. We lost interest when the catamaran and baby came along. Not haters, just a couple who doesn’t have kids, likes to focus on sailing and the catamaran life we didn’t relate to. I will defend SLV when Riley was explaining his desire to see a little bit more kick back from the subscribers as I do believe the amount of time and effort to put into producing incredible quality videos IS worth supporting a couple rather than a corporation. They do produce superior videos with great editing and audio. They take the time to actually edit the useless crap or horrible audio from their videos. I would expect this as I believe Elena has the education in her past to do this and it shows. I liked that they transported Greta Thunberg across the Atlantic to deliver her to a climate change conference and yes, while it may be annoying to see them jet set somewhere, I think this is pretty much unavoidable for most of us. I do feel they bring and discuss climate and ocean issues to their videos (in the past - we haven’t watched them in a while) that I like to see discussed as without any discussion, there is zero chance of change. They do, at least to me, appear to be trying to have a smaller carbon footprint than many of us so good on them. I hope their videos haven’t changed a lot with more frequent ads and really pushing PATREON but I wouldn’t know as I haven’t watched them in a while. They way I view it is a reminder is fine but people will find a way to support you if they want to so I don’t like to be “pushed.”

Yep, the same. I deliberately unsubscribed at that time as I felt I was no longer watching authentic people any more. Media already creates such distorted ideals and most you tubers are the antidote to this.

What I don´t get is why people support millionaires who probably earn multiple of themselves, even though the video quality is very high without question (I assume they are not editing themselves anymore). Wait until they get the trimaran...

hey Mark, thanks for watching and for your support on Patreon! And for me it's not as much about how much the creators "need" it and more about what kind of content I personally enjoy and want to support. In many ways I don't really "need" the money. But it does let me allocate more time into producing these videos!