For the love of pizza. Happy Birthday Sophie!🤣😘

In the US on VHF ch.16, it is against regulations to ask for “radio check” on the distress channel. Use Ch.9 for radio checks. Halifax is one of the great sailing cities of the world…a college town that is also a port city. Perfect.

There’s a video of how to express glands on utube too, but I would recommend going to the vet and letting them teach you. When they start scooting on the floor is usually a sign it needs done. I was a vet tech for year’s & I’m still not used to that awful smell! Thankfully, it was a Equine practice, so it wasn’t too often! It will make them feel terrible though & you guy’s are some of the Best Owners I’ve ever seen to notice things big & small & always checking when you’re not sure. ❤

What a great story about the floods in NS. We visited Halifax a few weeks after you did and saw much of the mess, but most was cleaned up. I remember sitting on the docks with a beaver tail and wishing I could have sailed up there. Some day....

Radio check radio check radio check... few more for you! 😊

Hi Ryan and Sophie. Out here in the PacNW (both USA and Canada) a radio check is a relatively common item on the check list for skippers when getting underway after not having operated their boat (and VHF) for a while. A couple days, a couple weeks, whatever - often done just to make sure the radio is working as expected in case it is needed at some point. Good practice is to use channel 83A in British Columbia, and that channel or 22A in Washington or Alaska, so channel 16 isn't clogged with radio check requests. (Those channels are monitored by the Coast Guards here). But radio check transmissions on channel 16 are all too common anyway. Local conditions influence this practice. It isn't much fun to realize your VHF isn't working while you are transiting Dodd Narrows or another of the narrow channels around here. They are VERY heavily traffic'ed, especially near slack water, which is the best time for a cruising boat to be in those channels. So, "securte" announcements on 16 are common practice before entering those channels. Being very narrow (less than 200' feet in a few cases), and subject to 6 to 8 kt currents (and more), they are a hazard. And some of those channels are not straight. You can't see opposing traffic entering at the other end. It is like running a twisty river, but with opposing traffic. Seeing a 50' boat coming around the corner in the middle of a narrow channel subject to serious currents definitely ups the pucker factor. With our boat, we ONLY run those channels at or very close to slack water. And we always do a securite announcement before transiting. Many of the channels here are actually referred to as "rapids" because of the water conditions that prevail (other than at slack water). There are books published here each year with most of the narrow channel current schedules (as well as tides) detailed. Some seaplane operators here will also do a radio check on their handheld VHF marine radios before lighting the fire and taxing out for takeoff in some of the crowded harbors. Seaplanes on the water tend to freak out inexperienced boat operators, most of whom don't realize that the aircraft are the lowest on the totem pole in terms of navigational rights on the water. (That one never really made sense to me.) It isn't uncommon to hear a seaplane pilot on VHF channel 16 advising a boater about what they going to be doing when manuevering their aircraft in a small, congested harbor.

Freshly roasted and ground, brewed in a Chemex. I totally approve that!

Great episode. You are correct. A radio check should be done on a coast guard specific channel. Not 16. I’m pretty sure each prov. Has a specific channel. 🇨🇦

Happy Belated Birthday Sophie. Hope to see you guys in Annapolis this weekend

Ryan's face while in the dinghy is the definition of "happy wife, happy life" 😂

Such an interesting video and so pleased to hear that Barnacle was okay!

I spent 3 weeks in the Halifax Nova Scotia area and I liked it. The only issue is that the ocean water is cold and there is quite a bit of fog when sailing the coast. Cheers, Richard

This summer the weather was crazy in Nova Scotia. We were cruising the NS East Coast and Cape Breton in July in our power boat and had very few days without fog. During the storm you highlighted we were on anchor in Sheet Harbour. It was still a beautiful trip and we are glad we made it.

Thank you ... simple and easy ;)

Thank you for your entertaining and informative videos. I have been following your channel for a little while as we sail around on our own sailboat, and I am so impressed with Sophie's relaxed humorous narrative of your travels. It is one of the great things I love about your travels. I hope as we cruise around to someday get a chance to meet the two of you in an anchorage somewhere. I find your insightful funny descriptions of sailing life to be both encouraging and helpful. Good luck with the weather in North America. Having sailed for years on the Great Lakes I know it is very unpredictable. Now that we are sailing the Atlantic and Mediterranean I hope to take what we've learned from your adventures and apply it to our own. Thanks again.

Hey guys! We have a dog with anal gland issues and we started using dietary fiber (psyllium husk) to bulk up his stool, which naturally expresses the glands. This has worked great for three years now without any human intervention with his glands.

Happy Belated Birthday, Sophie! Safe travels ❤

Relaxing...

That was a lovely episode.

YEP. Radio Check. SOP ASA (US) sailing . The advanced lesson! is to call your local harbor master on their local channel (for me that's 22) for the current weather update. They rattle it off, you've proved your radio works.... and you find just how limited Apples Weather is. What's far more annoying are hourly Securité Securité Securité messages about military operations 150 miles away, or a Pan Pan message repeated ALL day about a half submerged power boat everybody saw being towed into the marina early that morning about the time the Pan Pans started. I've never seen a VHF that didn't work. After I'd bought a new hand held I left my old one at a kayak launch site. It was a wreck but it still worked fine. I figure someone who would never buy one could now have a VHF.

Oh Sophie, my husband once sent ME out in a downpour/thunderstorm (because someone had to keep watch) in Italy in order to get a pizza. And he refused to admit that we are dragging... Until we reached the boat behind us while "pushing" me in the dinghy. 😂😂😂 Come to think of it, he is French as well... Is this all of you guys? 🤔😄

Hey Guys, I think it’s so super awesome you guys are in Nova Scotia and recording it all for us! Living in Alberta but looking ahead to cruising the Bahamas and Florida etc but our base may be New Brunswick or Nova Scotia being Canadians! I have to admit that when I was in the Navy on cruising watches during the night we would do Radio Checks with our sister ships to alleviate the boredom lol! What you’re hearing is prob a mix of that and just making sure their equipment is functioning as the weather up there is def changing quickly!

Now sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip…

Belated Happy Birthday Sophie. I am just returning from a trip to Chicago myself. I have family there and had a function there. Halifax is very nice, as long as you are not there when a cruise ship comes in to town. I hope Barnacle is feeling better! Safe travels

Great video

I was in Halifax ~40 years ago and the big draw restaurant was Mother Tuckers. Yes, we giggled.

Good to see you guys again back to sailing. I am looking forward to some of your trips . This year is a odd year. We have a elnino year and up north where you are at, the weather maybe effected ours is here in south Texas. Hope you guys come to Galveston Bay Area I live close by there. It is not real cold here during the winter but at times it is. This year will likely be warm. With some cold spells. But rainy weather could be more common than usual. So far it’s been dryer than normal.

I do not know when you shot this video but it is Hurricane season... thus the storms and lightning.

Hi Ryan, Sophie and barnicale. To help barnicale condition , feed he a high fibre diet like baby carrots and sweet potato etc . On another note happy birthday Sophie

Radio Checks - There are few soft spots in the Atlantic Northeast, and as you have seen for yourself, the fog can be sudden and thick enough to top a dessert.... workers on the water up there need to make dang sure that radio will work when they need it. .. Also the North Atlantic is brutal on hardware, so when goign out to fish for a day or a week a radio check just makes sure things are working. Barny... exhaustion. I dated a doggy daycare person, She had a client leave because when her dog came home from daycare, she would just lay there like a lump... "not herself" was what the woman said when she called her to ask why.... ;)

You look beautiful in that heavy weather gear. 😊

a guy that puts that much effort into making a cup of coffee for you is a catch. also.. try unbleached filter paper. love my hot cup of coffee in the morning. the heat from the cup easing the ache in my old hands, the caffeine doing the necessary

Rai rain go away. That was a bad one for NS. You are correct in being annoyed by radio checks. You are not supposed to request one on 16....you request it on channel 09.

Yea you guys finally made it to Nova Scotia, but weather wise, you could not have picked a worse destination.

Wait.. wut.. what coffee grinder was that?! :)

Did you try whole deep fried clams and donairs?

Hmm…Did ya get “Cheese-Less Pizza”?😜 BTW,how do ya “Handle” Barnacle’s Poo & Pee on Passages? Good Video considering time of year…Continue to Stay Safe and Enjoy 😎

Why didn't you guys come further and visit eastern Newfoundland since you came to nova scotia????????😝😝😝😝😝

The pizza is worth the trip in the rain!

Food cravings? Anything to share? 😁😁😁

I'm willing to admit that I'm okay with the fact that none of these systems smashed into Saint Martin.

It's the latest VHFs and their squelch settings...you have a new VHF and you don't hear any chatter so people think is this thing working at all and test it shouting on 16. Not saying it's the right thing to do

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Radio checks are voice identification. When you know who's got their ears on, you know what you can pass on. I'd pull my hair out if i had a sailboat and no CB radio.

Last year we had the so-called "once-every-50-years" flooding. Water came within 20 metres of my property. Then 6 WEEKS LATER we had another "once-every-50-years" flooding!!! I couldn't even get my car (4wd with all terrain tyres) onto my property, which is very slightly sloped! I'm lucky... thousands weren't! Prior to the floods, we had worst drought in our history (12 years), then the worst bushfires in our history, then the flooding... and now... we've had barely no rain, our 'mighty' river is precariously low and we are back in drought mode!!! We're normally pretty resilient people, but we've had enough! Whomever thinks the climate isn't changing is either blind, ignorant or stupid... or all three!

Chicago pizza didn't make the video? Who are you and what have you done with Sophie?

Jag skriver på svenska så inte folk missförstår.. Ni är alldeles för bra för att bara skicka ut ”random” avsnitt.. vad har hänt med röda tråden och content som har ett följbart flöde...? Keep up!!

Each year Halifax sends a Christmas tree to Boston. It is always displayed on Boston’s Common. Do you know the origins of this tradition?

Ryan Sophie I've got 5 Chihuahuas and I do their anal glands, I've found using gel or Vaseline is a must, gloves too. If u see Barnicle scooting or biting her butt, it's time, but I just do it once or twice a month, as u can imagine 5 dogs gets very expensive. U will feel two small grape size lumps or 1 if only one is full then just gently squeeze from the end of the lump towards the anus. 🤣🐶good luck.

I wanted to say that I am sorry for what I said to you before. I was not in my right mind. I was disturbed and crazy. In all my life what I said to you is my major regret. I did not have a base. I was way wrong. I was disturbed. It is my one regret. I'm usually exceptionally particular about my words and I'm happy destroying someone, but not when I am wrong. I was wrong with you guys and only you guys. When one is wrong, one has to hope that some good came out of it. But it is just a meaningless hope. In all my life this is the only time I have just been wrong. I'm ashamed of what I said. Relax and have fun!