Back in '92, my future wife and I were, "having fun", in the ocean, just 100' or so off a Florida beach, when we got back to the beach, that song was playing. Neat moment!!! :)

........~If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane~....... ~Jimmie Buffet 😎

Exactly!! But people will never know that if they never push that hard.

Baja goed, dankie!

@@CatGreatcircle Sehr danke Cat Greatcirle. I was in England from 1998 to 2000 AD. In that time I was 4 times to the Nederlands. The first was to Nijkerk, near Utrecht, from were my forbears hail from (1591). In the South of the Netherlands the spoken Dutch was very the same to Afrikaans. In Groeningen it was like German. As you know in 1994 ZA got a total new Government. And the new Government's language policy change. As a Afrikander I feel as a outsider. That was also what Pres. Mbheki (1999-2005) said: "Afrikaners is colonialist of a special kind,. They did not left when the colonial power went away..." In my past, Holland was not seen a friendly country and sporting the Backs(&Communist) to get the Whites out. Dit was bezonders lekker om een TAAL te hoor bijna zoals mijn eigen Moeder taal. Voor Nederland om een verbintenis met die Afrikanders te hebbe. Dat kan maklik als rasisties gezien word door die NIe-Blanke bevolking van ZA. 1 Jan. 2000 AD was ik in die Kerk in Nijkerk. Dat zal ik altijd onthoue.

Thanks! It’s a 52S btw, quite different compared to the 50. I like the interior of the 50 though.

Their bulkheads are cracking on a bunch of boats... not good work at all...

What's the name and number of your 52S? How many cabins?

Just the thought of a calm ocean is scary.. all that water, and not being able to touch the bottom if you're in it.. yikes

Proost!

Muito obrigado

Did you end up getting a catamaran?

Captain Downunder it seems a trimaran gets you best of both?

@Captain Downunder A 52ft 30 ton cat will have to have a tsunami behind it to capsize and tsunamis only hit coasts. I don't think you are right on this one. Show me ONE catamaran of that size that has ever capsized without a total fuckup by the crew (like not easing sheets, reefing, changing course and/or disengaging the autopilot). The largest cruising catamaran that capsized I know was an Atlantic 57 in 2010 (autopilot engaged and it was a wind-induced, not wave-induced, capsizing) and that was half the weight of this Lagoon. Are you sure you want to end up turtling in a monohull since it seems you want to take it easy on proactive measures when facing a squall? Because that's what'll happen.

The weather was not so bad....big waves are different things !!!

@@Abebe345 No

@@C_R_O_M________ You said it! You just need one f..kup by someone to go over.

996601 996601 pretty but really ruins night vision though. Amber lights the norm if lights must be on at night, dim brightness on electronics displays as well

During the launch of nr 1 the drone was in the air but not live, during moving nr 4 there was an issue with the drone hence the GoPro improvisation on the truck.

@@CatGreatcircle That's okay, I wasn't complaining! Thank you for taking the time to create edit and post your videos!

No worries I didn’t think you were, looking forward to sea trials in the coming weeks

Sorry wrong video, I thought you were reacting on the most recent video 🙈

We tried the drone up to 30 knots, as the speed difference to the boat is still ok then but it gets increasingly difficult to get it back aboard in one piece

Well, we wouldn’t wanna be in similar situations again if we can avoid it, but the 52S is a very special Lagoon...

Then you will like episode 136 as well

Abdulla Alsulaiti indeed, cats have been lost at sea for pitchpoling at high speeds.

Smedly Dumpsterjuice I am interested in knowing of these. Do you have the names of vessels to get me started?

Secret Squirrel nope, don't remember their names, but watch the big cats race on tv. You'll see it. And yes, big racing cats have living areas below for the distance racers. Just not like a cruiser.

@@MrLikeke No they all sunk

@@smedlydumpsterjuice8875 No shortage of monohulls pitch-poling either. When I was a kid I met Miles and Beryl Smeeton, and I was fascinated by the story of how they were dismasted when their 46 foot ketch Tzu Hang was pitch poled rounding Cape Horn.. Since then I've met people from two other monohulls who suffered the same fate.

Just don't try to make a habit of it. A 30 ton boat going at 27 knots has one hell of a lot momentum behind it...and it's not going to stop without things snapping.

No worries, never again

Was thé speed of thé wind

Sustained wind twice for a couple of hours 45 - 50 knots max 56 knots

Hi to you both great videos and choice of music. Had you much experience of sailing when you bought your first lagoon? Hope to hear. Stay safe ⚘🙏

Thanks!

I was thinking the same. Most cat capsizes are due to digging in the bow and pitch polling over, opposed to going over sideways. Its the biggest thing I like about the performance cats over typical condo cats is how much more reserve buoyancy they have further out and sharper bows that can cut waves instead of plowing into them and even taking water over the top pulling them down. I think they were turning onto a broad reach though so they can surf the waves more instead of them all just passing under the boat. Cool footage though all around, finding more details about cats in heavy weather is harder to find than mono stuff.

Cat Greatcircle surprised you did not keep a bit of jib up.

Mark Thomasson we didn’t have a clue at that time in circumstances like this. Flo decided. Still not sure though what would be the best thing to do, apart from taking the line for the third reef along 🙈 On the new boat we can reef the jib max 4 turns so we would have to take it away completely as well

@@CatGreatcircle The best balance for heavy running is some jib unfurled and no main. The jib is pulling the boat from the bow. The main is pushing the boat from the center. The jib can be furled if conditions worsen without having to turn into the wind.

@@zoomsails1437 duikt die dan niet juist meer?

Jim Sullivan we've got Rode stuff but unfortunately seldom take the time to install it 😇

The Apogee 96K is an excellent voiceover mic too.

ATR2100-USB

Bringing the force closer to the center of gravity should have a positive effect (no boat design study here, just boerenverstand). Haven’t got a clue why our skipper chose main over jib, Lagoon manual says jib, and we weren’t (aren’t?) experienced enough to judge

Seems ages ago..