Love this easy ride. "If you smell what James is cooking!" Bless you bro

As a French dude, I'm not gonna lie, you cracked me up when you said "it smells like pastries" when arriving in the country. I was not prepared.

I love watching these videos. Great escape from this matrix. Thanks,

You are a true sailor which I respect .Sailor James thank you for a great education in sailing !! Blessed 2023 to all the viewers !!

I can't express how much I appreciate your vids. Have not been on a boat in a few years so living vicariously.

Very nice camera work. I know from other sailing channels I watch that it's super hard to capture how big the sea state is without a land reference, but you pulled it off perfectly.

Dutch liked this video

You get those nice “land clouds” in the Atlantic too. You see a bunch of clouds moving and one cloud that stays put, and that’s where our next island is ⛵️

The videos just keep getting better, your attention to details have made leaps & bounds , just super enjoyable, keep making it happen

That ocean crossing looked So natural! You look well out there.

James you caught this passage so vividly, superb work bro, safe travels

I feel your stress, man...but you're doing great! my eyes teared up when I saw the harbor lights in the distance....another beautiful Milestone accomplished...after all the difficulties you've been through

I'm jealous of that brilliant hard dodger

Thank you so much for sharing this captain !!!.

TAHITI JAMES!!!!! This should be amazing!!!! This is my favorite part of the world, even though I've never been.... Pretty much uncompromised.... and that water.... I'm a little envious right now.... Can you send me a postcard?? Enjoy ❣️

Hello, take good care your self, thank you for those wonderful views, God bless you .

There was something especially nice about this video. It seemed like a fairly easy passage for you, and I could feel the anticipation of reaching Tahiti. You seemed to be upbeat and looking forward to it. The discussion of clouds over land, and how one can "see" land long before you can actually see it, was fascinating. It was really powerful to think about the smells as you got closer. It must be amazing. And then the lights appeared as you approached at night, and you successfully communicated with the harbormaster, who seemed nice. No major problems here.

"Everything smells like pastries". I love it that you have a sweet tooth. Me too. lol

Hope you don’t think less of us landlocked urban dwellers for living vicariously through your passage videos! Lol Great Work!

Pretty cool content mate! Been tuning in since you made it to Hawaii... good to see an old salt win from time to time too! Spread hope for the rest of us still throwing wrenches at the throttle body. 😮😅 Beautiful boat!! I think she will take care of you, you have gone quite far! Keep living life, don't let life live you!! Waiting patiently like everyone else for the next and, Cheers from Cape Cod!!

I so admire your confidence and your courage. It's great that you can be your own best friend as you solo sail 🌸🌞

Dreams come true!

Thank you, James! 25 minutes of the best travel and adventure, available online. This was the perfect end to an otherwise stressful, grey day, from the UK.

The only times I've ever gone on a sailboat I got very sea sick. I think I'll stick to watching these videos from the comfort of my home. I've been binging the videos on this channel, very meditative and enjoyable. keep up the good work. FYI Quay is pronounced "key" like car key. :)

Awesome videos I'm so glad I found this Channel. Can't wait to follow you as you go around the world!

Can't wait to see u ashore

Just shared this with My Father, Whose Companion also owns and Alberg 30, He was very glad to see this! Thanks! I also enjoy the effort you make to share your journeys!

Tahiti, every time I hear it I think of the movie Adrfit, 2018.

I wish you would take us ashore at least a little bit🤣

Hey sailor! I wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your adventurous spirit, and dedication to creating these raw videos bringing the colors of the sky, smell of salt or pastries and feel of wind to the screen to share with our community. I had encountered a small dark situation briefly during the day. I'm a very positive person. Man. Your presence brings so much peace. I had to say, or give something back. I'm over here sailing on little FJs on the Emerald Coast. Your Hawaii trip is my favorite. It's great to see these experiences and new ones! Wish you the best! Thank you. Merci. and Gracias!

that looks so freaky entering a harbour at night, well done for making it look easy, i'd be bobbing around at sea waiting for it to get light hahaha

Great voyage as always Captain.

Aloha James! Been following you since your sail from Cali to Hawaii. Just love your content brother. Society Islands are awesome. I use to live on Huahine back in late '70s. It was my favorite island. If you go there find your way to Lake Maieva. In knee high water you'll find fresh water cherry clams there. Find a gunny sack or pillow case to take there with you. Plus Huahine is the Vanilla island. The Trades blow it's sweet smell all across the island. Tahitian folks there are awesome too. Enjoy your time in the Society Islands brah!

Good job! I like how you watch the clouds, and birds to know where land is. Amazing how ppl sailed with out charts

Always great video. Thank you!

enjoy the pastries James!!

Thanks for the awesome content James

Excellent.

Really enjoyed this passage. Thank you!

Great video... Keep them coming

I really appreciate your attention to detail. Thanks for taking the time to share.

Just love it 👍 Nice seil James 👍🙂

Yay!!! You made it James!! Awesome video and great sailing.

Brilliant stuff. Nailed it!

That was fun! Excited to see Tahiti. Nice sail.🙏❤️✌️

Love your show brother

Good show as usual James.

Safe travels bro 😎, I envy your adventure it’s awesome!

Those swells were gnarly

Congratulations James! Aloha 🤙🏾

Another great video of yours, than you for shearing your adventure with us. Stay safe man, stay safe :)

Aloha James, Well done. Glad you are safe. Enjoy exploring.

Great work James especially navagating at night look forward to you tripping around Tahiti.

Black tip reef shark and forward was the most awesome part of this video. What a paradise. Wow what an awesome island. I want to retired there. For now I’m heading to the Philippines when I retire in 5 years.

excellent

Dig following your Journey!!

Awesome ...thanks for bringing us along

Congratulations Mi Capitán!!!!

I used to live near a bread factory, there was a sweet bready smell which spread for a long way. It wasn't bad but it was like that really cheap white supermarket bread.

RAD episode man... that was well done. I mean both actual passage and your documenting it. Enjoy!!!

As ALWAYS I truly enjoy your journey videos 👍

As always enjoyed your sailing into pappy High seas scary. Was in sea like that once in a storm thought it was my last day on this earth. Thanks for the smooth sailing into port. Til next time….

Hi James I grew up sailing but it's been a long long time. I appreciate you sharing your adventures!! It's so amazing thank you!!

Once again i get to live vicariously through you and your adventures. Thank you for sharing with us, as always. I get excited with every episode that I see pop up.

Looked like a pretty good passage all considering. California to Tahiti!

Oklahoma Gal here again!! Oh my goodness Thank You for sharing!! I’ve never seen the beautiful blue waters!! It’s number one on my bucket list!! Keep on keepin on doing what makes your heart smile!! ❤️

I felt the pucker as you jumped to the dock. Solo docking is still my Achilles heel.

Loved your night video coming into the harbor. Best night approach I've ever seen. Great job and explanation. The shots out in the waves and swell were dramatic, and I know the camera doesn't catch the magnatude of what it is really like!

That was the blue water you hear talked about

When i sailed into fiji from new caladonia i could smell the indian curry 100 miles away.

You look so freaking happy in this vid..

Absolutely love your videos. Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I am a small time sailor. With aspirations of world travel.

Hello James, you are my favorite person to watch on youtube...... good dude. Inspiring me and my dog to find a cheap boat and sail. much love and respect

stoked you arrived safely James. You can now explore all the patisserie's in the morning 😂

Great video James!!

awesome channel, not sure if it's just me but there is something special to your channel compared to many similar channels around, you just hit a good balance and authenticity i guess 👌

Yay! So excited for you! I can't wait to see your adventures in Tahiti. Let us know why it smells like pastries.😊

You were in sizable seas. (I know that the camera can’t capture the size of waves) You are brave entering a new harbor at night. The feeling of getting tied off… wow! 😴 😴😴. Good vid clips and music 👍🏻.

Mate I am loving your travels. I hope you can make it a little west of where you are to the beautiful Darwin. Great place to launch into Indonesia. Keep up the great work🤙

The island of Raiatea grows the best vanilla in the world. Worth a visit if you go to Tahaa.

Lucky duck!

Sailor James. I been on the ocean all my life, born and raised in a house literally on the seawall. Your navigation and sailing skills are extraordinary. You mentioned funds are a little tight and I hear that trust me. You love to sea and love to sail, you had a great Capt that taught you. Here’s the reason for my comment. Why don’t you open a sailing school. Have some classroom basics but the majority is hands on deck. Take one or two clients out on day trips or over night port to port etc. I’ve owned two businesses in my life for 20 years. It seems to me you can kill two birds with one stone, sail and make some revenues and the clientele you could generate just from KZfaq alone would be pretty lucrative in my view. Eventually getting a bigger ship and sail on brother. I’d look into it. Don’t let all that sailing and especially navigation knowledge go off to the weigh side, I’d make some money out of it doing something I love which is what I did in the granite business. Just a thought. My love for the ocean and all the times I’ve been underway in one vessel or the other, I’ve owned so many boats. My love all of it has made me a bit addicted to watching your video adventures. I wish you clear sky’s and calm seas, but I like the rough seas every now and then can be exciting. Excuse me if I call you Capt. I’m not a sailor, I’ve always captained under power but on the ocean my whole life never the less and most of that time fishing which is not terribly common on sailboats. To be honest, with the current cost of fuel, sailing may be the new way for me. I have only sailed twice with a neighbor who shared the same seawall property and would have sailed more because I enjoyed it but Mr. Dunn the boat owner took sick and eventually died pretty unexpectedly but I think it was cancer. It was sailboat not much different from yours. It was back in the late 70’s I was in my teens.

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A Bayfield 25 or Bayfield 29 would be most ideal for sailing around the Tuamotus and also being a RTW Bluewater Pocketcruiser under 32'. Bayfield are Canadian built boats. The Bayfield 25 has a 2'11" draft. The Bayfield 29 has a 3'6" draft. The Bayfield 29 is rarer on the Westcoast of North America, found most often on the Eastcoast and Great Lakes. To me the Bayfield 29 is the perfect boat cause it's got a spacious head/bathroom in there compared to all other boat designs. Both are fairly fast to get through the doldrums. Other boats I find intriguing with this same type of RTW purpose and shallow draft are: Gladiator 24 or Gladiator 25 (by William Lapworth) Columbia 26 Pearson Electra 22 Pearson Vanguard 32 If an Albin Vega 27 can Circumnavigate North & South America and a Newbie sailor did that? Then anyone can find one of these above listed boats and circle the pacific safely and comfortably. To go RTW seems dodgy at this time in history with all these wars and BS breaking out. This show is very cool. Very well done. Congrats again on your achievements! These are the only boats I can think of off the top of my head that you can get into for less than $20,000 and really get after your travelling goals. To see the world really develops the soul.

smell the forest :)

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Great vids would appreciate seasons and each vid getting numbered so i can watch in sequence

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great video, assuming there are lights marking the channel entering the harbor, trying to learn

Come to Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands

I would love to do this one time in my life. I’m 32 so I still have time but money is tight right now so I will just have to watch your videos and dream lol

Cool looking shirts, James. Your vdo logs are incredibly truthful. When youre here in Brazil, I'll bring ya warm coffee. Let us know which were the hardest ports to entry to (paperwork). Tnx, bubba. Safe waters.

Very funny expression when you make us understand your French is not really there and your sense of relieve once in Papeete . Happy days in Papeete There is a great market in town 🤩

The music at the end was a bonus- kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rtt3otWmuMmZpGg.html

Another awesome video James.thank you for sharing. A point of curiosity... is it pronounces Quay? I am sure people on my country pronounce it 'key'... but it may well vary around the world!

Tetiaroa home of the Brando. Off the charts gorgeous. $7000/nt rooms. Too rich for me. Hopefully you can make it up to Tahaa and Bora Bora.

james, another beautiful video. thank you for sharing. do you have a video that talks about your gear (camera, editor, etc)? thanks again for sharing.

Do you eat fish?? I seen those birds an thought oh man there's the fish!! Much love from the coast of Maine USA 🤙🤙

Hello James, question: how do u take care of yourself, i mean excercise for example but mostly your diet. Obviously not easy when ur at sea but i think they're important issues as we don't get any younger! Love your vids brother! Following you from Argentina ✌️

You've got some interesting tattoos, have you done a video explaining some of them?