I like the many ingenious low-key solutions.

How awesome are Oscar, Tracy, and Max!!!!! Wow!! Thanks for your support of Holly!

Hi Holly. I just discovered WindHippieSailing... and loving your videos! Just turned 63 and still dreaming of doing what you are living every day. And so KUDOS to you! You've earned the admiration and respect of a global audience. A BIG THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR ADVENTURE. By the way, your videos are as INSTRUCTIVE as they are entertaining! And thanks for teaching us that dreams are possible! AT ANY AGE!

I am grateful for you sharing the whole adventure with all of us for all these years but I am even more happy to see you have found someone to share it with in the day to day. I wish you both the best.

Looks like you guys are starting to get the Geck in order. Your friends are really lovely.😊

Holly: "more Allen keys that...." Dan: "Allen" 🤣😆🤣

Love your perspective, it's like a breath of fresh air in a sea of sameness.

"that's good to go around the world!" You found the perfect caretaker.

You two are great! I love watching you go head-long into all your projects and you always make the most out of whatever you have, without complaining about what you don't. It's truly inspiring. If only more of could learn that lesson.

She has the cutest perfect pronunciation of anyone on KZfaq.

The chart table destruction and refit with the paint looks great. The dinner at the end looked incredible! You are having a fun time. Keep moving forward. You deserve it. You have come a long way.

So close to 100k subs! C'mon folks. Make it happen for her!

You have a quarter berth. And a chart table. Glad its being put to use! Great episode as oer usual.

That food looked absolutely amazing. Who needs French cuisine. 🤤

I'm not sure where to put this comment. I recently watched a video that reminded me of what I read about your adventures with your parents growing up. The UT video is Sailing the Northwest Passage 2023: A Family's Adventure into the Arctic by John Pennington, his wife and young son. Their son narrates the video. You might enjoy it.

I have been onboard a Grinde and I must say it is impressive the amount of stuff you have stored in the Geck while you guys live onboard. Love the content and that Dan is a part of your adventure!!

Welcome Dan!

I totally enjoyed watching you and froend using your brains to solve problems. And improvising is the key sometimes to get things to work. Oh my, those 2 dinners made my mouth water. So happy for you and the friendships you are making along the way. Cheers!

Congratulations to the channel hitting the 100.000 mark ❤. All the best to you two 🍀

Dan the crew .......be careful looks like a limey pirate🏴‍☠️ 😁🙋🏼‍♂️🙋‍♀️🇨🇦

Hurray Hurray 100k. Congratulations. Thumbs up

OMG 😱, Holly. The lamb meal (our fave) looked scrumptious ‼️🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 Lots of work when doing boat projects, maintenance, and a bit of refit. Bravo on plowing thru all that🎉🎉🎉 See you next time. ✨🌊💨⛵️🏝️👙🌞✨

Great to see you guys renovating The Geck. There must be so many things you can do to outfit/upgrade budget permitting. xxx

I finished a 7 x 11 cabin on my Grizzly Tracker 2072 CC and took it out for a sea trial. Passed, floats and turns...Have to add the 9"x11" wood stove, and convert the live well into a sink. Then the upper Tennessee river in the 🍂 fall, after the heat, and maybe Florida keys after November. We love our boats. ⛵

Another awesome episode. Thank you.

Good times 🎉 chart tables are from a bygone era long ago. I have seen other boats that have repurposed the chart table. Australian culture seems very interesting 🎉

you get my vote as the best sailor on youtube.

You need to break out the bubbly when you hit that 100k mark! Cheers, Holly! 😄

I used to repair boats. a few tips. When filling those dents...spend time to outline them with masking tape. Mix some very short piece of fiberglass with the epoxy (I'll explain at the end how to make these) fill the dent with epoxy. Place more masking take over epoxy. Pull when cured. *** To make tiny pieces of fiberglass, get some light fiberglass and with a razor, cut about 1/16" slices off the fiberglass. Slice at 45 degrees to weave. Mix this cut glass mulch with your epoxy (you don't need much, but adding the glass will prevent the epoxy from running). This will stay in the dents. After the dent is filled with the epoxy w/glass, cover with masking tape. Remove the tape when the epoxy has cured to a consistency of hard chocolate. You'll end up with a smooth surface & with little or no clean up.

Nice watching the boat getting improvements...

sharpie, carrots, isolated cafetiere.... I'm learning so much. I love this channel and your real world fierceness. Go Holly and Dan ❤

Holy...... A friend of mine sailed from Los Angeles to Honolulu in 37 days in 1969... He said one time he was in the doldrums.... And t h e r e was so little movement that there was no rigging noise.... And the ocean was a sheet of glass. And it was just dead quiet... He was in a 14-ft enclosed sailboat... And he still has the sailboat in storage...

22:05 nice to see a properly set table 👍

Outstanding as always! ⛵

Love to you and Dan!!!

Holly, really cool vid! I enjoy when you add new thing's, change, or just do routine maintenance, to your boat. I cary two fire arms on my boat. A less lethal, and my 9mm pistol for protection, or my safety. I did buy a monocular, after using my dad's Binoculars for years. They're really cool to have, on your vessel, for an emergency, or many other uses. Now they make them ten inches long, they come with a mini Tri-ipod, and can reach a 1/4 mile out to m7ch further, tgan that. They're also not expensive either. Stay safe! ⛵ 🌊 😎

Great video! Boat life is tough! You guys manage quite well and have a wonderful time doing it.

Congratulations on 100K!!!

Excellent video as usual 🎉

You are the best, as always! Gotta love all your fixes!

Really enjoyed this episode! Great to see the heart and ingenuity used to make things work. Excellent job by the both of you!

Cute puppers!

welcome back😎

When back out in open seas check all your safety equipment and any batteries for locating devices just to be double secure…your friend has a nice.22 and of course the 308

Very enjoyable video!

Welcome Dan! Love seeing you two. Looking fwd to the next eight months ❤⛵️😎

Welcome Dan😊

Another great video Amiga and Dan!!!!

Happy belated Independence Day Captain! Give the Captain a problem and she will find a solution with the help of Dan the Man and Awesome Andy. It doesn't hurt to have friends that can cook either. 😊

@2:26 You don't have lazy jacks? That's a whole new level of lazy... Jeez... :) Thanks for the episode! You rock!

I love projects!

Beautiful Holly! 😍🙌💖

You’re awesome 👍 . Keep it up Hippie Girl.

nice dogs!

Quite literally, genius! 4:25

It's also nice to see you taking care of yourself ... Nice Hair !...

I love seeing you, from nose to toes!

Welcome back. Chrers

I want you to know you are the Best ... And now A new chapter !... With a new Mate ... He did say maybe a new bigger boat !...

Thanks for sharing!❤

Thank you, Holly.

Awesome friends!

100k is coming Holly. Great video.

Wow, such delicious food ! I have all that lamb in my freezer, all the best cuts.

Hi Holly. I have lost track of you. I am writing this Saturday evening at 19:46 local time at Pompano Beach, Florida my home. Are you out on the ocean now? ok take good care and I am looking forward to your next vid. I have been watching whse146 for a while now. Ciao. geo

A tip on paint tins, the first time you open the tin get a small screw driver and hamer hit the tip down in the groove, 4 or 5 around the diameter. This allows any paint in the groove to drain into the tin. The lid seals on the outer lip so the tin is still properly sealed, and when you pour paint out the paint drains out of the lip making cleaning the tin very easy.

G'day Holly, I can't believe you said it was cold in Darwin, usually stinking hot n humidity. So pleased my fellow countrymen & women are being such gracious hosts for you . Little sad you couldn't head south , would of loved to tune the Geck's engine for you . Enjoy the rest of your stay in OZ. Respect...!

Dads fabulous.

Great idea having deck gauge for screws, will use that one. Can I suggest white vinegar for your waterways (both in and around the boat) , just as good for what you were doing as that poisonous bleach, especially if you leave vinegar to soak. Difference is you can drink it without poisoning yourself. I understand a rust busting acid is only way to kill established rust but lanolin spray or lanoline grease (*straight from the sheep's back to you) is a less poisonous way to keep them free of rust in their respective containers once done. Great natural anti galvanic action agent too. Sliders in mast, sheaves, winches all good with lanolin. I guess I just think that seeing we are living directly on this liquid environment, and some natural products work just as well, maybe we should lean towards them more than always going nuclear with bleach and ranox and all the rest. I am experimenting this year with melted lanolin on the prop instead of prop speed for example (partly for environment, mainly because of exorbitant price) 4 months in pretty good so far, I will see. Thanks for the content.

I'd say you've become a pretty good troubleshooter by now. I think pulling a boat out does that to a person. :)

I used to be based in Townsville, an absolutely stunning place. Make sure you get a trip to little and big crystal creek, good fresh water swimming holes, Additionally check out the billabong sanctuary, awesome place to hold a koala, see some good crocs etc Awesome content kidda, mad skills👊🍺🇦🇺

Hi guys, hope you use some water tank treatment which will get rid of all those funky bits and clean the tank out properly so you can use it went good water anyway you know what you’re doing only a suggestion from Queensland, Australia

I flashed to the gun salesman scene in "Taxi Driver" with those guns on the bed in the leader.

Good times😂 Always fun to watch all the adventures. We liked the lazy jacks when doing charters. Just keeps the main away from guests.. poor sail took a beating from the Florida sun.

You are soooo close to breaking 100K subscribers!!!!! Congrats!!!!!

PAINT EXPLOSIONS from lids? Poke a couple of holes through the tin grove the lid fits into. It will force excess paint down into can when hammering lid down.

Nice video all the way around, good to see your everyday life of a sailor?

Awesome!

Wow to sail all over the world is amazing. Big currents of tip of Australia. Can make polyurethane bushes & send. Good to share sailing in reef areas. Yes confined space needs to be talked over & separation may be just saying will you go & do that job or time to check the outside fittings. Or go fishing. Need to be able to go develop cool recognition words.

Goon bags are legendary here in Aus, as a kid I thought everyone used them for pillows on holidays

great tips for the paint sticks and re using of the tray. love to see your boatwork! i also got inspired by all of your video that i got a 31 foot vd stadt sailboat. great work nice to see you have trapped a crewmember, maybe you can share tips on how to do that ;)

Fun!!

Thanks for another great video Holly. That's a goon bag not a goon. A goon, aka flagon, is made of glass. 😊

That lamb looked so good

Hello, Will we see a vid of your trip from Townsville to Darwin? Thanks, geo

Wooo hooo! Pretty awesome video don’t ya think Klebs?

Loved the episode, so glad you have made such great friends but what is the plan for the next 8 months? Hmmmm🤔

Can you demonstrate backing, close hauling and other manouvres?

The tanks...were you in a hurry...forgot...or just lazy. You surely knew that it was gonna be a nightmare. 🤔☠️😵‍💫

Back in the early 90s,maybe 93 when I lived in St Pete there was a woman from Connecticut,or New Hampshire,or that area who lived in the same apartments as I,and she and Gecko girl look so much alike,and from the very first time that I saw I've always wondered if they might be related..

Hi,bungee cords of varying lengths are useful to have about the place.

That insulated French press is SUPER-DELUXE!

My god! That lamb shoulder . . . 😛

Goodonyas! Go get'm tiger (s)!

A bit of steel wool with WD40 will help to clean rust from tools. (To some practical extent)

You’ve learned the frustrating way, but always cover paint can lid when closing with a rag. And, if you want the lid to adhere but not stick, brush off as much of the paint in the well of the paint can (hope that makes sense). I imagine the paint you use is expensive.

Sulphurated catalytic penetrating oil is the best. Yes it stinks, but its so much better then anything's else for loosening corroded bolts and fittings its an an excellent overall light oil.

We're going to need a bigger boat

That's interesting...I thought they took all of the Australians away from them...

"Bulged in"? 🤣