Congratulations, we are 6 years in to our journey around the world. Really enjoyed your no nonsense video, great editing. Look forward to seeing more.

Looks like a typical Contest interior! They make them really nice !

Congratulations!!! Happy Sailing may the fair winds prevail.

Good luck to you! Let’s see how this goes.

Well done, hope to see a lot more. Keep it up. I saw 3 ads during your first episode so that’s going Allright

Captain Tom coming in with the clutch!

Tell us all about your boat. Who made it, age, amenities, etc. Looking forward to your stories, trails and tribulations. Especially the Seahorse mention.

Great first episode guys 👌🏻 I’ve given it the thumbs up and subscribed, looking forward to future episodes,

Superb editing and of course the cinematography was absolutely breath taking. So nice of Tom to lend a hand. We are truly looking forward to the next adventure. Thank you so much for sharing!

Oh my god, I LOVE RUM PUNCH!!... and also sailing!!

... Awesomeness .... "I think that is one of your children" .. priceless .... doing the refit yourselves you will learn all the ins and outs and what is backwards and forwards .. the bilge pump was definitely not a fail, it was an exploratory plan do review, plan do review and a good choice doing it on the dock rather than installing and then finding out ... as you can tell "fail" is not one of my favorite words .... exciting to be starting out on a new adventure, your adventure. Looking forward to hear more about you two .... you were suggested by YT and have done the suby, belly, likey, clicky, thingy .... thx for the share .. never stop dreaming, just dream bigger .. have fun be safe, save our oceans ....

Congrats

Congratulations on the new adventure with the new boat good luck looking fwd to watching you enjoying yourselves!! Owning any boat is a headache and extra expense but it is well worth it in the end ..

My my family also bought a boot 3 days ago

Congratulations !

Great first video guys! Looking forward to watching more. Please tell us more about yourselves and the boat

Fresh water could be from your tanks, shower/sink drains or rain leaks etc etc. The way i went with my bilge pumps was a small pump at the lowest point (all pumps leave a little water behind) being a small pump it leaves less water once off, also draws less current and makes less noise. About an inch up i have a fairly large pump and a 3rd, largest i can get above that.. the 2nd pump is easy enough to hear and if you can hear it somethings leaking a descent amount but all 3 running (and 3 lights) yells me i have a significant problem. Finally a float switch ontop of the stringer that is conected to a car alarm siren. All pumps have a switch setup with manual/auto switch and a light to say their active). The siren is if something drastic goes wrong in the night that sucker will wake the dead. Most of the system is for just in case, the small pump goes of once a month or so (i leace the cutless on a slow drip mostly cause im too lasy to tighten it up and i cnat forget to loosen it when i cast of lol I have a jarkan 105, 35 ft sloop built in 1980 in nowra nsw australia. She competed in the sydeny to hobart and several other well known races down here in the early 80s then spent most her life heading to the great barrier reif each year, and while maintained didnt see any upgrades at all so only had the manula bilge pump and a compas when i got her. Ive been a live aboard just over 3 years and the last 12 month had my 4yr old son aboard. I love thos life and will fight like hell to avoid going back to land based

Wow love it!

As soon as I saw you inside the boat I recognised her: she's my boat! Just the same. But I read afterwards yours is a Contest 38 while mine is a 33. However both inside and outside are almost identical. Mine is from 1971. Good luck!

Nice to be here at the beginning. Great boat you have there, a Contest 38 I believe. Look forward to following your journey. You can get replacement diaphragms for manual pumps. Good luck. Andy UK

Congratulations 👏. Thanks for sharing your journey 😊

Exciting times ahead.....good luck, and of course fair winds.

Perhaps the first thing you should know about boats is that when you work with tools near water the water inexplicably sucks tools and fasteners toward it. The tool or the fastener is ALWAYS the ONE that the project cannot be completed without and that you have no more of. (You already owe the water a couple of tools and fasteners so you are due.)

I’m looking forward to seeing your journey. You have got this! Love from the Maine coast!

Finally a channel about young couple buying a boat and sailing.

A learning curve = bilge

Good video....

YEEHAW YA'LL SUPER EXCITED FOR YOU!!

Congratulations... remember, this is going to be fun!... no matter what, you are doing it together, for one another... remember to laugh at the skinned knuckles, and sore muscles, and mistakes and bruises... it is 'fun'... and we are getting to go with you on this journey... and for that... thank you

Nice first episode.. Watching from Belgium.

Love the high bulwarks on that boat, very nice. The rest of the boat is great too, congrats!! Edit: Talk more about the boat

Its Great a new adventure,, for you and I !!

Ah. Joys of your first boat.

Lovely to see your trip. We bought our new boat from Portland Marina last March and life has been on expensive adventure since then

Great video. Looking forward to more great adventures

Looks like a few to many wraps on the furler, you may jam with the sail deployed. Shoot for about five wraps when the sail is furled and adjust as required.

Hi, Good luck, looking forward to your adventure, trials, tribulations, highs, lows and everything else. From a new subscriber in South Africa

Great job for a first video but I think it's important in terms of "storytelling" (I'm a social media marketing professional so "story"is my mantra!) that you two the audience who you are, what got you to this point and most importantly for many in this niche, all about the boat and what your sailing plans are

so excited for you and looking forward to your adventures….hoping to see you in Scotland soon. Loved the footage of your beautiful boat sailing but can I issue a plea that you invest in lifejackets as accidents can and do happen. Looking forward to seeing more of your travels

Yay, finally seen this now, enjoyed following you on insta for a while now 🎉❤

Love to see new sailing channels and to see their journeys, cant wait for one day to do the same. Just subscribed.

Loved the episode and the three stars .. you two who are a super core and your beautiful seaworthy vessel make for a fine trio 😊...Having a captain Until your seasoned and confident in things is totally smart and acceptable. My favorite vacations were on the 70' Schnoor Stephen Taber built in 1871 and is the Oldest vessel in continoud use in the USA...The two soon to be captainz Ken and Ellen has a licensed tried and true captain aboard the first year of passenger week long journers in the Penobscot Bay of Maine.. They were both University Theatre majors at a University but TOTALLY fit for the parts of coCaptains on the sailing stage of their dreams.. They both sand and played many instruments fit for sea shanties and Ken learned the bagpipes which were great to hear moored in a deserted cove played as the Sun set...I went on 6 vacations and even found my dream girl on the 4th cruise.. PERFECT!! Can't wait for your next episode..😊😊😊

Great first episode have thumbed up and subscribed hoping for good things😊

Congratulations on the best thing you have ever chosen to do :)

Hi guys, just come across your video I find it very interesting. Have subscribed and will be looking forward to more videos Cliff from Logan City Queensland, Australia 🇦🇺

Bilge pumps , the one you installed are weak , they clog easy , when you have the money install a pump above the waterline and just have the hose and float switch on the bilge , more room easier to clean out , and the pumps not permanently in dirty water , more room . Just a view

Great job. Next time you have engine drama, especially at sea, dont forget to break out the cameras. Or any non personal drama for that matter. Looking forward to a boat tour.

Great start! Amazing!

Our first sailboat was named “Pum Runch”!! A Westerly W25 sailed over from the UK in 1965 by the original owners.

lovely touch when you surprised your parents 😍

Already liked and subscribed. Be assured I will be following your every adventure! I'm 73yo now and in a wheelchair but I love to watch young people being happy together! ❤😊. Looks like you're going to be fully occupied for quite some time there me hearties! Seawater in the bilge? I would suspect the thru - hulls first, then maybe the stern gland. Thru - hulls may be a little easier to replace. I've only watched stern glands being done and a lot seems to depend on the type. Nevermind, you'll find the problem and fix it I'm sure!

Im going to follow you for sure. Great choice of boat

Good video. Looking forward to watching your progress. Just sailed my boat home from Portishead to other side of the river to you guys.

Great to be in at the beginning- well done looking forward to your vids hopefully plenty of ups and not to many downs. But don’t tworry your both young enough to “Sail through them!!” God speed Malc uk 🇬🇧 😊😊

Congratulations I’ll be following ❤🎉

always taste the water if its salt or fresh then you know were to look

First thing that I would do is to take that CQR plow anchor to the junk yard and replace it with a Delta or other modern anchor. My experience is that a 22 lb. Delta outperforms the 35 lb. CQR.

Good luck with Your project!

Great episode. You're both good in front of the camera, so your channel will hopefully sail merrily onwards. As you've already discovered, every boat needs a Naval 'Tiffy' like Tom, to keep it ship-shape. I would suggest you find yourself an Engineering Evening Class, to get some in-depth knowledge about your Diesel engine, before you start sailing seriously, even if only to learn how to service it correctly. It might be worth having it overhauled, whilst you are doing the rest of your refurb. Fair Winds. Russ. Pompey.

Had to subscribe!,😊😊😊

Best of luck with the new boat, may she bring you many joys. Also you sound like Jeremy from peep show 👌

Best wishes for your re fit! Watching from New Zealand

Well done guys,

Congrats on your boat!!!

Have subbed & will be interesting to follow your experience. Seems like some ocean skippering skills will be first on the list? Congratulations. Good luck & fair winds going forward. Regards ⛵️ 🍾🥂S. Africa)

Hiya, Good video; thank you both. I've sub'd, and I'm enjoying your output. I've followed 'Sail Life' for a few years, and it looks like your channel will be a good mix of everything boating too. Stay safe, Steve.

Congratulations on your journey to a new life on your new boat!

Hi Guys So far so good. Looks like you already have some good footage lined up. Will you be telling us what you paid for the boat? Looking at your future highlights your interior refit looks a little extreme to say the least; I hope all is going well as I believe the latest video is a little while ago and you’ve probably made a lot of progress since that went out, and lastly if all else fails there is always Panto season😂

YEAAA!!! CONGRATS!!! are you gunna sail around THERE?? or the MED ??? or AROUND THE WORLD???? what's the plans?? short term, long term??

Awww . .. dad

Congrats on breaking free from the Norm - looking foreward to see your upgrades

Ok guys, I’m aboard for the adventure. However we need a tour and some info about the boat! (This is the first episode I’ve seen so I apologize is that’s been covered already. I’ll start binging today).

Really enjoyed your first episode, looking forward to many more….

Check the stuffing box around the shaft

just subbed. Looking forward to watching your adventures. Take a long hard look at your hair and nails Ellie as they wont be nice looking for much longer but the sights and fun you two are about to have will be worth it.

Now get the best Bulge pump that is electric you can and decent separated Battery for the pump and alarm. Make sure the battery can be charged by solar to keep it topped up. Always safety first latest life raft safe place for passport cards spare phone and other things in an easy to carry emergency waterproof pack.

Another KZfaq channel launched! Best o luck…got a plan? Money? Sailing experience? Did I say money ?

I'm 5 minutes in and can't help but think maybe your sink is leaking 🤣

Congratulations and many happy adventures! We bought our boat 2 years ago this month and have yet to sail off into the wild blue yonder due to some setbacks beyond our control. However, things may start happening soon. Since you are brand new I was wondering if maybe you could answer a couple of questions when you have a bit. I have not started my own KZfaq channel yet because I want to get the name of it copyrighted first and create an LLC since this will be a business as I assume your channel will be as well. This is not a requirement to start a channel or a business, but I feel it is the smart way to go about it. Have you done something similar? Thanks in advance!

Congrats, you’re not far from us, we’re at North Fambridge Marina. Look forward to watching your adventures! Are you both from Essex?

My god the audacity of that stinkboat captain overtaking you no jokes aside just found you on youtube good luck fair winds Cheers n beers Marty Australia

Congratulations 🎉 🎈 🎊, getting the freedom to go places, my opinion get her out to work on the shortcomings your home is with before spreading her wings

Nice start, but try and get some more of the adventure on camera! i.e. stopped for essential repairs, these are the things I would like to see, not just be told they happened!

Outside your zone

Congratulations on the beginning of your journey to an empty bank. Account 😅😅 sorry couldn't resist May the wind be always behind you and following seas

I enjoyed the video.. how ever, I would have preferred no music

Congratulations on your new boat, I wished I had done it years ago. Best wishes and fair winds sailing into your new life. I will require a skipper to sail my Moody 30 from Pembrokeshire to east coast next year. are you able to share contact details please?

bonjour, j'ai le même voilier que vous, un Contest 33. la couleur de ma coque est bleu foncé. tout comme le votre... c'est un tres bon voilier, j'en suis tres content.ur, je suis français et j'ai exactement le meme

Thanks for great video. What is the boat type and size, from what year is she?

No Info... no subscription... no one likes to feel manipulated... enjoy your ??? Oh that’s right, you chose not to tell us... GOOD BUY

Dear lord, not another boat channel?

I want your life! 🙂

Lets see, (up to 2:30, can't find bilge pump)you bought a boat without checking it over, or even locating all the components. Yup, this is not going to be a good journey. Good luck with that.

Like, folluw u! but please remove the klick spider so i don t destroy my tv. What kind of boat u u have?

YOU SPENT 10 MIN LOL FOOLS

Please not another sailing channel!!

Please please please....Keep this YT channel CLASSY. So many of these channels start using their wife's bikkini and cleavage on video thumbnails...I don't watch those channels, out of respect for my wife.

ok seems i got here at the start always exciting also dont want to worry you but there seems to be a spider in the bottom right of the screen :)