Thanks for visiting Scotland, shame you never got to experience summer here. It's our favourite day of the year!

Monday wasn't looking great, but then Sam uploaded a video...

Nice one buddy! Glad you're having a rest now it's winter time, you've had a busy season! As we say in Scotland... canny wait ti see wit ye git up tae nix year! 👍

Can't believe you were 20minutes away from me when you visited Lossiemouth. Hope you enjoyed the area even though its a little rough around the edges!

Lossie is one of my favourite places in Scotland, glad you got to visit!

That was some of the most stunning coastal scenery I’ve ever seen with all the ancient caves.Superb...!!

That beach was stunning! Another great video - thank you!

Thank you Sam for sharing your journeys with us💯you've got an excellent boat they used to make them up the road from me😁👍

Thanks for the post. I was in Lossiemouth a number of years ago and it was windy then too.

Thank you for the ride along.

Cool video Sam. Scotland has been an incredible experience for you. I am to get up to check out Edinburgh at some point. Good sailing, Sir. Be safe and have fun. Paul

Great update Sam - Thanks for sharing!

Looks like a blast. Be safe, you still got a long way to go.

Brother his wife our sister and myself explored the center of Scotland to the west and north buy never got to the east coast. Thanks for taking me there with you 45 years later.. Lossiemouth and the secaves you found both seem worth the visit ...thanks !!

I will be watching for the next one! Really enjoying your channel....

that little fishing boat is incredible!

Your videos are so great. You really live life well.

I like the spot lights on the boat. I'm going to do that on mine

Thanks Sam for another great video ⛵️⛵️⛵️😊

Salmon steak looked great, also got those same channel locks they are fantastic little plyers! Happy safe travels

Sam I have really enjoyed your travels and travails. My neighbor here in NC is from Scotland, and I’ve been telling him about you expedition through his birthplace.

Thanks,Sam!

Great to see you again. Wondering about where you were.

I did not know those fuel syphons existed!!! Great video as always.

Sam, watching your passage to Hawaii motivated me to take a Basic Keel sailing class. Next summer I planning to do a lot of sailing with a sailing group out of Pentwater, MI.

Happy travels 👍

Great video amigo. Safe travels. And merry Christmas 🎄

Looking good Sam!

Damn if only i had discovered your channel sooner man. Inverness is my home town. I would have loved to see you going through the locks and got the craic with you. Alas....maybe again if your ever passing through.

Isn't Scotland breathtaking! Thank you for another awesome vid Sam...shame it was too windy to have a flight. Fair winds Brian, Top Hat 25'

My Goodness, I spent my childhood summers in Findhorn Bay...and all along the Moray Firth. Had no idea you were going to be doing this adventure around Scotland Sam. Beyond pleased for you that your Atlantic crossing went so well, now this...Now you are in "LOSSIE"....Fit like ?

Love the video and the caves, Stay well and all the best as this leg of your journey comes to an end. I Check my IPad every day for your next post. Addicted to the Sam Holmes Channel! Rob

I believe I had the same bilge pump on my 1981 O'Day 28. I had a Whale Gusher 8 Mk III. I replaced the valve flaps and diaphragm with the Whale 8 Service Kit SK8813 and I purchased (but have not yet installed) the replacement Deckplate Gaiter Kit AS3725. They were fairly easy to find online. I got one from Defender and the other from Amazon. I tested the repaired pump and it moves water very well. It would not surprise me if it can move several gallons per minute. I'm glad to have mine working again as it is the only bilge pump I have until my electric is repaired.

It's great that you have so many experts in the comments to tell you how to do things better. Here's my expert opinion- just keep on doing what you're doing.

Great stuff Skipper Sam!

That's good you made it Sam and when you put your spotlight on the Bell I was a good choice and lit up that entrance really good like daylight it's a good light glad to see you enjoying yourself there hopefully one day I could do the same thing be safe out there Sam God bless you and it might be a good idea to have an extra bilge pump like that in case that one goes bad just a thought anyways take care watching from Roseville California USA Ray Garrett

Another great episode. Keep the receipt for the red diesel, you may have trouble in the EU if they do a tank dip (and that red dye stays in the system for quite a while). I'm not sure what the latest is now, but there have been problems over it (because of tax).

Great video ,thanks for sharing. Greetings from the beautiful Hawaii islands

As far as cutting the end of the bilge pump you may want to do that. It could form a little vortex there if there’s an air pocket or back flowing water. Also it would create pressure that may help push on the valve unnecessarily.

That lid over the bilge pump prevents deterioration of the rubber membrane by sunlight.

Hey Sam, just found your channel and hooked. Very inspiring mate, just shows that you can do it on your own. I'm rebuilding an old cat from the bilge up in prep to travel like you do. If you come to the south of England you are very welcome with a beer waiting for you in Littlehampton 🤙

Very good video!

Always nice to see your posts. So jealous

I love that the bilge pump is called a "gusher"

Near Lossiemouth is the town of Elgin. Downtown is a store called Gordon and Mcphails. They are a local Scotch store and also an Exporter. They had 750 different Scotches!!!! They are happy to educate you on Scotch. There are also several small distilleries close by. Great fun!!

Very interesting

Stay safe daddyo and God bless.

Please keep us updated on your where and when's thru the winter months, or we'll be upset and worried. Take care Sailor Sam!

Pour some vanilla extract in the bilge to help kill the odor

good surfing around Lossiemouth

Lossie is on my list for the spring but I'm going around the top (the boat is in Craobh at the moment) rather than going through the middle! Before I got back into sailing I was flying gliders for 20 years. I've often wondered about learning to paraglide (I've done a couple of tandem trips) and taking one with me on my voyages...

Yes, there are repair kits available for the Gusher 8 mark 3 bilge pump.

Sculptor's cave was great.

Hey Sam I love your channel, you make this dream seem very real. I would love to know how much your boat cost all up to be able to set off. Even a rough figure would be great, Im looking at a 28 as your boat looks perfect. Thanks, Phil from Sydney, Australia.

Nice harbour master to help out an intrepid sailor!

Cheaper fix on your cables. Just use white vinegar. Fixes corrosion in the port as well.

Nice oump install, dude.

Should have visited the Glenfiddich destillery....not that far away from Lossie ;-) Love your videoes :-)

I was in Inverness for while...jogged across that bridge many times. But never went to Lossiemouth!

you can definitely buy repair kits for the Gusher bilge pumps.

I want to live in solo sailing few years and people keep tellin me im rlly crazy or some, rlly feel lonely bad cuz of them they didn't even consider me, thank you for your videos

That's 'Fort George' off the starboard...'currently in use' by the Highlanders, British Army.

Sam, I think you could use a wire wheel brush and put it in your cordless drill and use it to clean the dinghy hypalon patch area. I think that might work better. Cheers

“People and their dogs” 😂😂😂

Whatta teezer! Taking us up to go para gliding with you, then nope, nor gonna happen. Cool little marina

Hey Sam, great to see you in Scotland. Great content on the scenery and activities but would like to see how you continue to provision. Where do you fuel and stock up?

You passed by Burghead. A little fishing village where I lived as a young kid in the 1960's.

Sharp haircut Sam. 😄

Hi Sam, rub some vaseline into the rubber on your bilge pump, it will keep it supple and stop it from cracking.

Hope you made it to the Isle of Lewis.

Nice.

Sam, don’t forget to keep your red diesel receipt! If you enter the European Union they can check your tank and you might get fined if you can’t show were you bought the red diesel.

Sam your amazing

Enjoy Zagreb Croatia, you've earned it.

That marina looks a lot like the one that the jester challenge starts out from

you need a camera mount that allows you to have both hands... i love your stuff sam... you are living the dream... love to watch your videos... heh, i watch and think... 'one hand'd sam' is at it again (:~:)

Sam, Keep and eye on your diesel heater.. some diesel is not good to burn in diesel heaters.. too much soot with red diesel. Green is clean.

As the Duke of Bildgewater I approve this message!

Whale gusher would most likely have a spares kit for that hand pump.

If ya grinning ya winning… Nice work on the replacement…

Red diesel == agricultural diesel. They dye it because it has less tax, but using it on the road can get someone fined. Not sure about boats but I assume that if marine diesel isn't dyed that it's the same deal. Ireland does it too but uses green dye and there are actually fuel laundering operations between North & South of Ireland where they try to strip the dyes out to sell it in forecourts.

Good call not to jump off mountain in gale, coming into unfamiliar harbor at night is way scary enough

Thought you were here... Inverness, Nova Scotia. Maybe next time :)

I'm surprised he never filmed at Baile a' Chaolais /Glencoe on the way to Ft William.

Red dye diesel is for agricultural use only...at least ober he-a!

Sam. You have made a dreadful mistake. I hope you rectify it sometime in the future. You went up Loch Linnhe to use the Caledonian Canal. That's fine and dandy as Americans might say. BUT. You have missed out the spectacular West coast of Scotland north from Mull which also has access to the wonderful Outer Hebrides. I know you have a tight schedule but sometimes you have to slow down and see what's around you. The motto of Clackmannanshire is "Look aboot ye". Sage advice ...... Bill

The outtro background looks like a nice little apartment. Looks like a nice girl may have taken in poor Sam

Would a Sam Holmes video be the same without 'new holes'?

This is were my boat is standing Dignity

The whale customer service are so good! You should send them an email

Happiness is a working bilge pump...

Noticed you've been moored up near Stavanger for a while, would be nice to know your plans for the winter months.

I have a serious question. Why are good dinghies that are usually nothing special the price of a 28 foot live aboard bluewater sailboat? Am I missinng something or should I start manufacturing dinghies? I know yours was not super expensive, but still most are super expensive!

Losiemouth is one of best marinas in UK.

Sam, I applaud you for traveling so many miles in such a short time. And by yourself too. Don't you get lonely with just your camera to talk to? Btw how do you get the Internet when you are so far from land? And I sometimes get the feeling that you are not. So who is controlling your video camera?

Hello Sam. Could you do a review of your Cape Dory 28 and the refit you did on her? What would you do diferent? What would you change? What's the best and not so good?

By the way I still have my boat at newmarks marina. , I have a little power boat but I get to catalina on it in about an hour.. so I can't complain,, but im looking to sail myself there a few times before I get my final ,,, well,, the boat im gonna travel on.. I won 2 gold medals in the jr Olympics for sailing at alamitos bay back in 84,,, so I have some experience sailing,, I do own a 14.2 Capri I can get out on and practice sailing around .. so im lucky that way.

Yo yo yo.... bro,,, ive been following you since you were at newmarks marina,,, sailor James of tritaia turned me on to you... ,, im stoked on how you've made your way across the oceans,, im working towards selling every have and buying a decent boat to travel on with my girlfriend... she's down soo im stoked... anyways love your vids bro.. keep it up mang...

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Hey Sam, what are the biggest swells you've been in so far in your travels?