Congrats on new boat David 🎉 fair winds! looks very clean, I suspect it might be an episode to come but information on “the deal” and the process including sea trials is always useful/helpful. 👍

Best of luck with your channel, great production levels. Looking forward to following your adventures!

Best of luck with your new venture, I enjoyed the Routemaster videos but life moves on....

Congrats on the boat 👍Subtly different from ours but still recognisably a Bav! It took me a while to get used to all the boat noises but now I just think of them as the boat speaking, they are her voice as she tells you what she is doing. Now that I am so accustomed to them, I love hearing her speak.

Good Luck with the new adventure Dave

Congratulations for the purchase of your "new" sailboat. I'm located in Mobile, Alabama, USA. My Beneteau 42s7 is docked about 35 miles from my home in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico. I hae a KZfaq channel as well. Fair winds and following seas!

Well, here we are Dave. Sad to see the final Routemaster4Hire video but I hope to follow your continuing adventures here. Good Luck. (Oh, and the offer of the coffee etc. for you, Tim and Alan, still stands)

I had a 1999 Bav 38 in australia plus about 20 others in a charter fleet of the same vintage. Great boats, it takes me back seeing yours.

Your dream is great! but your content creation skills are greater!.. happy to watch you videos.

Congrats on the boat. How excitement... can you please reference new items that yIu present with a link to Amazon for those interested in purchasing. Have fun

Lovely looking boat 👍

A brave step Dave but you only live once and have to follow your dreams

Nice video, David. She looks like a very tidy boat. I'm looking forward to seeing her. And that looks like a good lighting solution!

Greetings. I am a subscriber and have watched many of your videos and have, finally, found your first one! I bought my first ever sailing boat about 3 months ago. A Vivacity 24 feet Bilge Keel. I was as excited as you were. She is at Port Dinorwic and needs a fair bit of work which I'm getting on with, slowly. Thanks for your videos, I'm learning a lot from you.

Admire your courage for taking the plunge and fulfilling your dream. Fair winds and calm seas David.

Nice video and lovely boat!

Greetings from Lancashire. Nice to see another British based channel so Ive subscribed.

good first episode look forward to future eps

Good luck with your channel! Fair winds!

Great video. I know exactly how you feel, so exciting. A matter of interest what is your background? Are you retired? Do you have any sailing experience?

Best of luck in your new venture, sad that Route master 4 hire is no more though, it was a must-watch for me, although I never worked on them, I did on loads of Bristol buses, looking after roughly 130 of them for Eastern National in Chelmsford, Essex when I left school. This is the 2nd boating channel I subscribe to, the other being Ship Happens. Looking forward to seeing more of you and your journey and also more collaboration between you, Allen and Tim back on the buses when you're back in the country again.

G'day mate, I'm watching from Australian. Congratulations on your dream come true, it's a nice vessel. I'm interested to see your transition to boat life so I've subscribed. Keep the vids coming. Blake.

Cheers and off to A new adventure

that's a beautiful yacht mate glad to hear that you're having a great time

Best of luck with your boat Dave, Gonna miss the Routemaster 4 hire videos though.

Found the 1st episode now, I bet you’re gladden you weren’t sai sling in that weather. Take care.

Well David, I'll be sticking with this channel. OK, to be sure I loved your Routemaster channel, but I think your latest adventure could be fun. Watching your first video here, I was reminded of my Godfather. Unfortunately he left it a bit too late to start sailing and he never really got to enjoy it before he had to give it up on health grounds; sailing is hard work. So much as it pains me to say it, I think you've made the the right decision to do this now. I look forward to watching your adventure unfold. Good luck with it👍 Cheers Andy

Well done, very exciting !! Simon from Conwy x

Liked it a lot !! Many thanks - great inspiring video and looking forward to loads more - excellent many thanks David......from David here in Hampshire on the South coast

Hello David. Congrats on your new boat. I also new at this amazing pastime/sport. I have Hunter Formula One 22ft. It's very much smaller than your boat but i love it and can't wait when the weekend arrives and i go sailing. Fortunately i am learning to sail in a large inland dam in South Africa but we do sometimes get gusts of 30kt winds which isn't fun when you are alone and still learning. All the best and I'm looking forward to all your adventures. Thank you for sharing. 👍

Hi Dave,a great start to your channel.May i wish you all the best in your new adventure.Cheers Roly 🇬🇧.

Congratulations.

TEA 🤣

Good on you. Following.

Beautiful boat. I, too have have a dream of sailing the high seas. Excited to see your adventure.

Many congrats on your new sailboat! Just love your enthusiasm and excitement! I retired over two years ago and intend to fulfill my lifetime dream next year.🤞

Well done. I am going to miss the bus videos, but you have to chase your dream. It will be interesting coming along for the ride(or should I say cruise).

Congratulations on both realising a dream and also getting your boat, brilliant. She's a lovely vessel and a perfect size for a couple or solo. I look forward to seeing how you develop with the boat and vice versa. Best of luck from the Emerald Isle...Neil.

Just stumbled upon your new channel, Great content and the way you speak has me hooked from the first episode, other channels tend to um and ar a lot, which can be annoying, Hoping to buy my first sailing boat very soon, got a motorboat at present, Love those LED bulb upgrades,

That's really cool, mate. Getting your first boat👍

Just found you great channel👍

Just subbed best of luck and although im 6 months late to the channel i get to watch plenty of content so in a way i win. Also that's a really nice boat

Hi David. Comgratulations for your acquisition. Sure you’ll have many pleasant adventures. I’m a happy Bav.33 owner, far away from you (placed in Blanes at spanish mediterranean Costa Brava). Best wishes for 2023.

She's lovely & your pleasure & excitement is palpable... at the end, I could see you were in a pink glow... Have fun & enjoy.

If you don't need to be listening out, earplugs are your friend. The ones I would recommend are the 3M 1100 Foam Ear Plugs from the 3M store via Amazon. Each set (two) comes in its own plastic bag. I also keep a couple in my wash bag for Hotel visits as well. 50 sets for £7.40. Congratulations on the new yacht, get yourself up to the west coast of Scotland you won't regret it. Fair winds.

I just found out, best of luck David

Good luck with your sailing adventure big change from buses.

Nice just subed from Perth Australia

Glad to hear you’ve achieved your dream, you can see how chuffed you are …. I’m still saving :) …

You should also order spare bulbs. Two of three! Good luck!

I was sad that to hear the news about the closure of your Routemaster company one of the better videos on Utube, I have subscribed here looking forward to following your adventure

Enjoyed your vid. Can you give me details to source the replacement bulbs? Thanks

Hi Dave, sorry to see the last of the buses, however I look forward to seeing you fulfil your ambition, I wonder why you chose Y Felinheli to moor your boat? when I saw you getting in your car and driving west bound on the A55 I thought you were going to Conwy or Bangor. Regarding the LED lights I suggest you get a couple of spares as well as the one you forgot, although they have a long life the don't last forever and you might not be able to get replacements in the Caribbean or wherever you end up. I look forward to Ep.2 and beyond. Very best regards from Ray (the old sod) from North Wales

Well it’s not Red and it’s not a Routemaster! Good luck Skipper!

Hi David, I started with episode 2, now back to the Start. Love Dinorwig, one of the nicest natural Alates in the World came from there, the Dinorwig Heather Purple, sadly no longer available new, though as the Slate seams are connected, as Newfoundland used to be connected to Wales believe it or not, we may get that lovely Slate again at some point - presently a Match for the Penrhyn wine Red Slate is being quarried there. I think I noticed you have in Mast Furling? if so a tip after the research for my next boat popped up a couple of surprises regarding Sails for in Mast Furling. It appears that Battens in Furling mainsails are a disaster unless used for racing. I don't race sailboats, I'm a Cruiser, as the Battens cause a lot of chafeing wear and tear, causing reliability issues when Furling and Unfurling, plus that is exacerbated with cross Cut Dacron stretching and getting Baggy, So after giving it some thought for reliable Cruising use and potentially extending their service life, I approached some Sailmakers to see if it was possible to get a battenless Triradial Mainsail, as the shape retention with upgraded UV resistant threads in the Construction, with normal Sail Valeting, should give around 20 years of reliable service life while Cruising. Well I expected an inevitable loss of performance compared to a fully battened Sail, but figured I could make that back up with say a 125% to 130% Triradial Genoa- worth having imho, compared to cheaper cross Cut, as reefing points, reinforcement, etc, can be added so the Sail doesn't get wrecked by using the thing at different stages of Furling. Back to the Mainsail. I had a very interesting communication from Precision Sails, turns Out they have made quite a number of Battenless Triradial furling Mainsails, saying if using them Offshore, tick the Bluewater option box withbthe order, a d the Sail will be beefed up appropriately. Then they added, a bit of a surprise. If Triradial Constructed, ther oerformance recovers most of the performance obtained with a fully battened Mainsail. That made me sit up and take notice ! For about double the Cost of a cheaper Cross Cut Dacron Sail, with a usable service life of generally 2 to 3 years before the shape dies in us, we can Ave up to ten 10 times the Shape retained service Life, for about double the Cost ? That sounds like a bargain to me. Since, I have found Quantum Sails, Ullman Sails, and recently added to their range Elvestrom Sails do Batrenless Triradial Furling Mainsails as well. Likely others can have their arms twisted to make them too. Hope that helps with Plans for future Suit of Sails purchases David. Must admit, I'm a bit tempted to have a self tacking beefed up Furling Jib, and trying a Polyester (no mylar) Laminated Furling Reaching Code Zero to fill in the Wind angle gaps. Have to see how big the Piggy Bank ends up being first though. Best Wishes and Fair Winds. Bob. 👍⛵️✨️

Hi 👋 do you have a link to the red white bulbs ? Thanks

You'll get used to all the noises overnight. All the best!

Congratulations on buying the new boat, we have a bavaria also, can I ask what bulbs you got for the lights? as we are looking for the same ones. Thanks. Dave

hi David, love the first video, nice boat we have a b37 any chance of a link to where you bought those bulbs please

Congratulations on your boat you will get use to the noises are you going to take Jess with you anywhere? And that’s fully understandable with routemaster4hire business and I’ve subscribed to this channel too.

Lovely! Easy watch, good presentation! (Don't s'pose you've a link for those LED's - I need those)

Hi, great channel, i have spent 30 years finding reasons as to why i shouldn't buy a sailboat...there are lots....but a few weeks ago, i thought that the dream of owning a sailboat had to happen, so i put a deposit on a Jeanneau sun odyssey 35 and am now going through the buying process, so looking forward to actually taking ownership and then starting the process of upgrading her....your videos have given me lots of inspiration for things i want to do..please keep posting.. ps. where did you get those bottle holders on the guard wires in the cockpit from?

Congratulations!! Watched a few of your videos and found them impressive. Boat looks great, but why Bav??

Are you going to put a bus engine in the boat?🤪

How is it going so far. I just came across your video and coincidently I am in the process of buying the same boat.

If you had waited you could have had your shower on deck, maybe a bit of cold water. Need a catchment system.

Sailing Cruisers have moved on a bit since the 60's and 70's.

Best of luck….my dream too…but I don’t know. Where to start from …

Will ye be fishing in int'l waters on the trip, for food? Or is the pollution too high?

Tidy

David, Will we see Jess on board?

You might want to nix the horrible pounding music if you want to attract more subscribers. Are you going on this trip alone or will you have a crew? Also wondering how much you envisage the wind carrying you and how much you will rely on engine power?

It's a bit early to be begging for Patreons.

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