That's kind of you to say. I only hope the Cornish men who recently took issue with me referring to Cornwall as England will see some benefit in my celebrating their beautiful region of Britain 🙏🏻

You're far too kind and I would agree with you on Carly, I'm just the dumb ape she makes look good 😇

Our pleasure! We hope others who perhaps didn't know about it can go and enjoy it now too along with many of the other spots we've had the great privilege to stay in recently ☺️🙏🏻

A lot of these places do feel like they're straight out of some kind of period drama, enchanted fantasy or pirate/ smuggler story book.

@@CadohaAdventures Your sailing adventures give us amazing adventures and beautiful joy.

She certainly feels marginally faster now 🙏🏻☺️

Hey there Rod. This is something I wrote previously about the under water breathing apparatus that I use. For everyone messaging me and asking about my under-water breathing equipment, this is the system we're using here: www.airbuddy.com/?ref=aJ0aLM Now let me say a few things before you run off and buy one. Firstly I have nothing to compare it to other than free-diving. I've never scuba dived before in my life and I've never used another hookah before. I did do a lot of due diligence when it comes to understanding the dangers of breathing compressed air under the water. In short, these things are dangerous and not to be taken lightly. If you think this is something you'd be interested in then please do speak to a diving expert (I've had the good fortune to learn from several, in terms of theory, as well as my own continued reading). We really enjoy this electronic hookah as it's small, lightweight and seemed (to us) perfect for the little space we had on the boat, where dive tanks and a compressor just wouldn't fit, as well as add a lot of additional weight. If you use the above link and you do buy one too then we will get a small kick back which will go towards Hanks treat jar, it's the same price regardless of if you go to the company directly, but I know some people feel a certain kind of way about us getting any kind of kick backs, so if that's you then just google 'air buddy dive system' and go to the site directly, again the price is the same regardless, but I'd like you to feel good about how you got there, so, there you have it. What else can I say? We bought the system directly from the company in Australia. We bought it ourselves and paid full price for it. We saw a 'distributer' in the UK, but they wanted close to double the price and had similar wait times to simply ordering direct from Australia, so that's why we went direct and just paid some import taxes, which still worked out much cheaper than the UK distributer. The team at Air Buddy have also been amazing on the other end of my emails and questions, for us it's been a very positive after sales service. Again I've never tried any other products so I am in no way qualified to give any advice other than say that we use this most days and have been enjoying it, we've used it to check on the anchor, clean under the boat mid-season, explore some amazing reefs and do a spot of foraging too. We get close to an hour under the water on my own or about 50 minutes when Carly is attached to it too. I hope that's answered most of the questions which have come my way but if you have any more then again please do just ask and I'll do my best to answer them from my own anecdotal experience.

Hi @@CadohaAdventures , Thanks so much for your very informative and thoughtful response. My 26', fin-keeled, Bermudan-rigged sloop is normally on a mooring in a tidal estuary and gets a lot of barnacles. I used to have a PADI 'open-water' diving cert., but that elapsed many years ago so when I saw your set-up I thought it would save me a lot of money 're-certifying' myself and buying (or hiring) scuba gear. My boat is now out of the water for the winter, so I'm now thinking I will use the winter months to find out as much as I can about this 'surface' system. But I'm also aware that I'm lucky, insofar as I have access to a small, tidal, drying harbour, so have the ability to tie-uo against the wall and scrape my hull twice a day. Thanks again for your info and thoughts. ATB, Rod

We will be back in Southampton and having some fairly extensive work done to Cadoha. She's going to be coming out of the water and into a shed for the winter so the work can all be done properly.

My pleasure and you're very welcome ☺️

Ha ha, yes just 4 or 5 more scrubs and it's paid for itself 🤣

It was just an automatic pick up tool that we bought in the chandlery in Falmouth one year. I think most chandlers sell them.

Hey Paul. Well this is the first time we’ve really (fully) scrubbed the underside, mid-season, and yes I was indeed covered in thousands of creepy crawlers, mostly tiny looking shrimp like creatures 🤢

@pauclarke8184 *_ That's why it's imperative to either wear a Wetsuit that covers your head or Goggles and earplugs. Getting one of those creepy crawlies in your ear is absolutely devastatingly painful _*

Hi Carly and Dominic, great video as always. Pick the aft bouy up at the cockpit paying out the aft line while motoring onto the bow bouy. No need for the dinghy or going astern. Nothing wrong with how you did it though..

Appreciate the tips and I think we too would surly be even more nervous in such a big boat too 🫣⛵️

We have thought about tying up and drying out a few times now actually 👌🏼

Hello there, I wrote this in a previous video which covers the kit I use: For everyone messaging me and asking about my under-water breathing equipment, this is the system we're using here: www.airbuddy.com/?ref=aJ0aLM Now let me say a few things before you run off and buy one. Firstly I have nothing to compare it to other than free-diving. I've never scuba dived before in my life and I've never used another hookah before. I did do a lot of due diligence when it comes to understanding the dangers of breathing compressed air under the water. In short, these things are dangerous and not to be taken lightly. If you think this is something you'd be interested in then please do speak to a diving expert (I've had the good fortune to learn from several, in terms of theory, as well as my own continued reading). We really enjoy this electronic hookah as it's small, lightweight and seemed (to us) perfect for the little space we had on the boat, where dive tanks and a compressor just wouldn't fit, as well as add a lot of additional weight. If you use the above link and you do buy one too then we will get a small kick back which will go towards Hanks treat jar, it's the same price regardless of if you go to the company directly, but I know some people feel a certain kind of way about us getting any kind of kick backs, so if that's you then just google 'air buddy dive system' and go to the site directly, again the price is the same regardless, but I'd like you to feel good about how you got there, so, there you have it. What else can I say? We bought the system directly from the company in Australia. We bought it ourselves and paid full price for it. We saw a 'distributer' in the UK, but they wanted close to double the price and had similar wait times to simply ordering direct from Australia, so that's why we went direct and just paid some import taxes, which still worked out much cheaper than the UK distributer. The team at Air Buddy have also been amazing on the other end of my emails and questions, for us it's been a very positive after sales service. Again I've never tried any other products so I am in no way qualified to give any advice other than say that we use this most days and have been enjoying it, we've used it to check on the anchor, clean under the boat mid-season, explore some amazing reefs and do a spot of foraging too. We get close to an hour under the water on my own or about 50 minutes when Carly is attached to it too. I hope that's answered most of the questions which have come my way but if you have any more then again please do just ask and I'll do my best to answer them from my own anecdotal experience.

Thanks Dom, much appreciated. If we buy one we'll use your link. 👍

In those conditions and wind, would agree. However, each time will depend on conditions and whether your yacht will go astern easily. As pilots say, any landing you can walk away from is a good one!! 😇

You did and we did, Sir. It was just an automatic mooring hook grabby thingy which we bought in a chandlers in Cornwall last year. It was basically a yellow one of these: www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=mooring+pick+up+tool&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Ahh… Great! I just repaired my Hook&Moor the other day and it is a little wonder again 👌🏽

They were literally just a Morrisons purchase. They've been great for helping find the right boat again at night when we're actually in a busy anchorage. Are they any good? I mean I don't think they'll last many seasons, truth be told, but they were also really cheap, so it's to be expected I guess.

Fair 🤣

I mean the hull itself wasn’t quite as bad as I had expected and bare in mind we didn’t apply new anti foul this season, so that accounts for a lot. We also used different anti foul on the sail drive which had very different results to the rest of the hull.

There is no point defending the paints. I own an run 52f ketch, bottom stays clean 6 moths, tolerable for 12, with one or two dives. Sometimes I think polyurethane really well applied would do better @@CadohaAdventures