As a 45 year old (maybe on the younger end of your demographic) I appreciate your commitment to advert free content! Love what you do, thank you!

Hello Peter and Geordie, Scott Stapf here, I have enjoyed your videos very much for many months now on your living and restoration of your Monk Cruiser. I especially enjoyed this most recent video because you gave us your plans for future travel, how you arrived where you are ....fantastic! I, like you, find wooden boats one of mans most beautiful creations. I have always wanted to do as you are doing but it is most difficult today to meet anyone who has the experience and techniques needed to own and maintain a wooden boat especially since I live in Florida and the big worry in the southern oceans are the toredo worms. For many years though, here in florida and throughout the Bahamas and Caribbean, the boats, until the late 1960's all were wooden boats so I know there must be known techniques to prevent these things from entering the wood of the hull of the boat. I was very excited to hear of your plans of eventually shipping your boat to the great lakes and traveling from there down to the gulf and possibly the florida coast. I am very interested to find out your plans for preventing the toredos and whether a wormshoe and anti-fouling paint will suffice for the needed protection. I couldn't possibly tell you of the missed opportunities of beautiful wooden boats that I have not invested in simply because of lack of knowledge on how to preserve and maintain one. The first very beautiful boat was what was called a Chrisovitch, she was 33 ft. and would have made a beautiful sport fishing boat. She was very waterlogged in the timbers under her decks and of course, I really didn't know much about how to tackle that job my being a new captain and maybe 23 years old. Next, there was another sportfishing boat called a Norseman... this one was 42 ft. and the owners had most of the deck planking removed and wanted to sell it. The stories go on and on and I am so glad you decided to document and publish the work you are doing, it is very much appreciated. As an example of how much your videos help those of us who love wooden boats, I remember looking at them and when a surveyor would say some sections would probably need refastening. This of course, sounds like a horrifying and daunting task, but the planking that you refastened, wasn't that big of a job at all and in fact looked very manageable. So thank you again Peter, for publishing the work you are doing, Have a Very Merry Christmas to you and yours....CHEERS!

Sweet boat and enjoy watching and hearing your story. I spent over a couple of years as the service manager at a dealer with 34 foot fiberglass our premium line, but 14 different companies to file warranty to. To increase the amount reimbursed for warranty a few dollars, I could take a tech a go to Tennessee (19 boat builders in that state) and spent 2 days at one plant. As a car geek, it was still fascinating to watch everything made in house. Each part, Hull, power plant, electrical harness, cabinet, etc., was produced simultaneously in three buildings to come together without a single wrong part. The hull was fitted as the top was fitted, side by side. Then a completed boat was ready for test drive completing the check list, cleaned & shrink wrapped for shipping or brief storage. Amazing! We had a Dr. retired, but owned a boat similar to yours. All original but thousands in “Teak” wood. Head, Birth, galley, helm all similar names but a lot of equipment including generator and so on. I can tell your feeling for Geordie by the tone and slight changes in your voice. I truly with possible wishes, hope Geordie is with you another five years. I don’t know this videos date, but my prayers are wish you. I had an out of town job, 28 year old son save a dog from two pot-heads that was beating it. I had a female German Short hair and things happened. She had 6 black labs boys and one girl with black circles around the eyes but mostly white. All of the dogs except for one went to people we knew had good homes. The last dog was missing his right eye. Damaged I believe by his mom’s toe nail feeding the new horns 5 days before they opened their eyes. 30 days after 60th, he ate a treated bone someone threw over the fence. He died two days later as he was going quick. His only fault was barking or looking thru a tall wood fence, very short to the public. I can’t do that again, so I wish you and your beautiful boat & pet the best of life for all, including you. Love the craftsmanship that went into these old boats. It is wonderful that you can make what you need, inside and out. Freedom is hard to come by. This includes what you care about, the funds to get by and you health. Enjoy!

Excellent as always,your videos are very informative and inspiring. I'd rather watch your videos than the junk on tv. Truthfully I never watch anything on tv, as it's very exciting waiting for your next episode. Your videos are very well thought out and editing is good, and I find them uplifting. I am very thankful to you, for posting and sharing your lifestyle with us folk on here, we all need to move forward, especially after broken relationships etc..after all, we can't fix yesterday, but we can sort tomorrow. very positive thinking, Peter, that's what you have shared with us, by sharing your videos. Thank you. Don't forget? Amongst others, the Caledonian canal, awaits you.🙏

Thanks for sharing your story and future plans as a fellow wood boat lover and rebuilder so nice to see someone else with dreams of getting great joy on them. Really hope geordie hangs in a lot longer.

Keep up the great work Pete. We are with you all the way.

You are doing a great job on your videos. I watch you for the wood boat restoration, SV Basik for the composite restoration, SV Delos for the vacation fun factor, and Sailing Sophisticated Lady for the antics of Captain Rick. LOL. All are very different, but all have to do with boats and boating. Keep up the good work. You never know, a collaboration of one or two other KZfaq'rs could push your sub count much higher and get you to the point where it covers your expenses. Oh, and not all your viewers are as old or older than you! :)

Peter. I'm almost 3 years late to the party. I know. Just found your series, on the boat. Awesome content. Just watched you make your plans as to where this all goes. I get to watch the next 3 years play out. Pretty, stoked. The boat? You're "Bob Ross-ing" the hell out of it. The pace of the videos, is spot on. I came all the way back from the playlist, just to comment. Had to. Cheers.

The plans are great. The world is small. The income is there for you. And your character is nice to hear. I too am look for a wooden boat to live aboard. Good luck.

Peter, I can't believe the parralells in our lives. I started out in a sailboat, and moved to a Coast Cruising Powerboat. I've been chatting with a girl from Lunenburg NS for almost 9 years now. She doesn't want to leave NS and I can't see leaving new england except to go farther south to warmer weathe. I have a great interest in doing The Great Loop and have read several books by people who've completed it already. I have a 50 year old wooden boat and I'm putting a new motor in it this spring. Please let me know if you hit the lottery so I have something to look forward too! LOL!!

Hey Peter mate...., I have loved all of your videos so far and my hat is off to you for keeping Geordie til he passes away.... we have 3 cats (I am 68 and Margaret, my partner, is 80, and from Canada) and the oldest cat, Maximillian)Max for short will be 10 years old on December 27th so I know where you are coming from with Geordie. We live in Whyalla, South Australia and are "riding the train to the end of the line" as Margaret has kidney cancer and is too high a risk for surgery. We were going to travel around Australia but Margaret needs to stay near her doctor so we just do random day trips around Whyalla. We wish you and your friend a very Merry Christmas and an awesome New Year and big hugs to Geordie mate!!!!.

As Land Rover said : One LIFE . Live IT ! I`m watching you Peter, full steam on the channel :-) have a nice day ,and Merry Christmas from " a cold winter wonderland Norway" :-)

Thanks peter this last episode is exactly perfect. More

I too plan to travel the great loop. Being in the Tulsa, Ok area, I am within an hour of the most inland seaport in the US.

Talk about a parallel universe with myself ... Broken relationship replace by a wooden boat and a Perkins 4.236 except you have greater plans.. Just luv it all.. Look forward to the future... Cheers

That's quite a plan Peter. I think you can make the Patreon thing work, others have done it and so can you. What's more you provide content to different audiences, the joinery side of things, the land Rover fans, the boat enthusiasts and the travel and more. That's 4 channels in 1 at least.

Loving the sound of your plans for the future. I hope your channel grows and helps you support those plans.

Nice to hear the plans. Always subject to change I'm sure.

Hope you do the great loop. We live in Florence, Alabama a stone's throw from the McFarland Park marina. A popular stop for loopers. Get here for dinner and great home brewed beer on us, Safe travels. Dean

Cheers!👍

Cheers my friend

I’ve said it before you have a natural way of presenting what your up to doesn’t matter it’s fun to catch up with you ! I’m a 43 year old guy down in Oregon doing excavation work I really only watch KZfaq these days a lot of it started because I hate commercials and red lights ! I am saving for a sailboat to cruise when I retire so I’m excited for the future of this channel with such great presentation ,awesome it will be fun I could do a little towards keeping this great channel going good work my friend thanks for sharing!!! 👍👍

Congratulations on being caught up and up to date. Also, thanks for your summary review and future big picture update. This is a very refreshing episode; very exciting for any free spirit. Warmest wishes for this festive season, your friend and neighbour, Kim, Skipper, coastal trawler, M/V Salish Sea.

That’s a perfect plan! If you make a stop in Detroit, we can have a coffee and I’ll give you the tour of the city.

Well Peter, I just discovered your channel, I mean a month ago maybe and I was hooked! It is almost the visualization of a fantasy because for me it is, I’m a colombian entering middle age without the slightest possibility of doing what you have done and continue to do, yes I admit it there is some envy in my words but why not?. I have seen chronologically the videos of this channel, until yesterday I discovered the one of the Land Rover that I also began to follow. I was encouraged to write this comment basically because I felt when I saw him that I should express my sincere admiration, man, what he does is spectacular, I will continue watching the channel until I catch up and we will see what has happened. It has some kind of grace because it is like speaking to you through time and well paradoxes of technology I suppose. For now I have nothing more to say without starting to feel strange, cheers.

Thanks for the insight Peter. Its nice to know your story 👍😉😁

Great to hear your plans, look forward to you getting back to the UK, I'm sure there are loads of people here that would like to buy you a beer on your travels.

Great plan, Peter. I am looking forward to all that. Best luck with restoring your Art Monk cruiser.

That's a big bucket list Peter but good to have something to look forward to. The boat is looking good, like the spacious aft cabin.

Good plans. I live on the Great Loop near Port Dalhousie. I may not be here when you start cruising the loop as I will be untieing the lines in fours years to go live my own cruising dreams. I enjoy the videos, keep making them.

Cheers, Peter! Another great episode, looking forward to following your adventures. When you do the Great Loop, stop by Presque Isle Bay in the Pennsylvania portion of Lake Erie, and I will buy you a beer. Its the best place in the world. And reading the rest of the comments here, it doesn't look like you will have to buy any beer for yourself the whole loop!

Wow! You have just inspired me, coastal cruising and shipping the boat...I had no idea...you’ve planted a seed 😁. Loving these videos, keep them up

Awesome and ambitious plans! I am a Looper in planning, learning and repairing my boat on the Chesapeake. Most Loopers use the Tennessee-Tombigbee system to Mobile rather than going to New Orleans.

Peter, Please consider some time doing a docking video of how you do it by yourself, I could never manage our boat with two engines without help from the admiral. Cheers

Hi, Peter! I just found your channel last week and I've watched the ENTIRE wooden boat series! Great work! I hope someday to buy my own and follow in your footsteps. Keep them coming!

I made it through the entire video... and enjoyed it. I got a bit choked up when you talked about Geordie not being with you. I love my Basset Hound so I know how you feel. Merry Christmas and Cheers.

I started following you when you lived in NS. I had a boler and seen you doing one as well. I finish mine and camped many years until we sold it in Victoria in 2012.

Hi Peter, KZfaq is a funny thing, you watch someone enough you feel like you know, know someone. But in this case we did meet a few times, Nova Scotia Labour Day Rally in 2009, Winter Romp. Anyway, I and Barb reside now in the Cape Coral Florida, moved down from New Jersey two years ago. Seams that it is on your planned route, and I got a dock you can tie to right at the Caloosahatchee Rivers mouth before you tackle Miserable Mile going up the intercoastal here. Still got the Rovers and more important tools. Drop by, I'll have the cold beer waiting.

Cheers! Cool update. M/V Geordie will make a great Looper boat.

What a great plan!

Sounds excellent! Let us know when you're bringing the land rover to the UK and we'll happily host you in Wales!

Great video Peter, very ambitious indeed. I look forward to watching your adventures.

Great video as always. Keep my name on file for your next visit to New Orleans. I know you’d appreciate a behind the scenes tour of French Quarter, Garden District, Irish Channel (bargeboard homes) and my old Audubon Park neighborhood. The interiors are magnificent. I too, plan to see Europe by canal boat...hopefully, sooner than later. Cheers!

Awesome plans, Peter! If you ever make it to Europe, even with MV Geordie, you'll find a cold beer here in Bremen! Have some nice holidays and a happy new year to you!

My yaws dropped to the floor herring your plans and aspirations. Very cool indeed if you can pull that all off. I would have problems with the road trip myself. I never like to leave my boat for more then a few days. You have a top quality channel that should do well with the Patreon system.

Looing forward to your future travels :)

You should check out the archipelago between Sweden and Finland on your road trip. There’s nothing like it anywhere else. I’ve been sailing there for 15 years, and still haven’t seen it all. Cheers!

Exciting plans! When you make it to Lake Michigan consider stopping on the Wisconsin side of the lake. Manitowoc, my home town, is charming and has a Gato class WWII sub to tour and our sister city of Two Rivers, has a Frank Lloyd Wright home you can stay the night in. Cheers!

Great backstory and yes you nailed your demographic spot on! sign me up when you launch the pay per view.

Thanks for letting us in on your plans. I'll be watching all of that and if you come to Europe, gimme a ring. Maybe we can work something out..

It's going to be one hell of an adventure and I'm glad your taking us along for the ride... and thank you very much for tee shirt. I'm sat in my narrowboat with my wood stove lit.. toasty warm on a miserable rainy day wearing that shirt right now. I'll send you a picture if it ever stops raining 👍

As long as you make videos I’ll be subscribed. Cheers.

good job Peter

MV Geordie is looking great Peter! You are living the dream my friend!

I love your channel and your plans for the future. It is very inspiring and motivational. Will be happy to support you. Maybe you should think about starting with Patreon early as it takes time to build the customer base. Also, think about letting people buy your t-shirt. There are many people that will love to buy it and support you.

Hi Peter,fantastic to hear you plans for the future, and great to hear we can all continue to follow your adventures, long way down the road yet , but when you hit the UK !! beer is on me if you're up for a meet??

Hi Peter, love your ideas, yes do the Patreon Page, best of luck.

Sounds like a very good plan. I hope it works out for you.

Content is fine for me that's why I'm subscribed

Ambitious! So good!

I love to see how ambitious you are, it really blows me away to hear those kind of plans and I have no doubt you will do them all and more ! I also really dislike ads, they are the bane of modern life and highly intrusive, the Patreon thing is a much better solution.

glad that you are real time with your videos! Very exiting plans for travel. I do enjoy your videos....not posting comments often, maybe I should. Merry Christmas Peter!

Really happy that you are now caught up and current. Your content is always compelling. As for monetizing your channel; how about sponsorships and product placements in your videos? They would give you the ability to choose companies you really want to support. Your exposure could help smaller, more ethically-minded businesses that provide quality products and services compete against giant corporations. I have seen some of these types of sponsorships done tastefully. Just a thought.

Cool!

Glad to be along for the ride. Maybe when you make it back to the UK, I'll buy you a coffee!

I wanna go!

Great episode...

Awesome

Sounds like a great plan. if you ever get to Virginia I have a slip waiting for you and MV Geordie.

Great vid. Wish you the best in your dreams. One way to fund your dreams is to work on the tall ships, I got to spend 9 months on the wooden Bounty in Euroup. Amazing sailing and travels. Also in Euroup they like the engineers to be ummm older like us. There are some amazing ships out there. Most of the job are 6 months. Great furball ,shipsmate you have there. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your pup

Awwww....now we're talking about the 'Great Loop"...and beyond???!! Oh Yeah Baby!!! I'm IN!!! Great job Peter, and keep 'em coming!! oh, and pet the 'Pooch' too! :)

Sounds like a lot of great plans for the future! I'm looking forward to any and all new videos to come.

Wow, I got tired just watching, best of luck, hope you stay healthy to accomplish all your goals and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and Geordie.

Wow. What a fantastic plan. I also grew up in Montréal. Yes, ditch the car. I presume you will continue the videoblogs.

Really great video looking forward to following your adventures you really are living the dream and I hope to see you in Northern Ireland someday Alan 👍

cheers

Your definitely a man with a plan Peter. Great video. Hope you have a fantastic Christmas and an even better new year. All the best.

Captain Peter ! Patrick John wrote a very succinct note and there isn’t much I would add to his sentiments. I also much prefer your video episodes to television or even the new movies. It is comforting to know that your future plans will have us all vicariously part of your crew for some years to come. Please do consider Patreon or similar as your funding source. I also am one who hates having to suffer through advertising and would much rather have a “subscription” to your channel. I will gladly support your videos and, through those, your travels. Please don’t feel that your videos need more polish or professional shine. What you are giving us now is honest, very entertaining, humorous, educational and leaves me with a sense of participation. Good stuff, all. And, so... Merry Christmas to you, Geordie and the mysterious Captain of MV Zephorus

Hi Peter. Great to hear your plans. We bought our boat in New York whilst living in Ireland. The Time has come to ship her home, well sort of home. Plans are afoot to ship her from Florida to Genoa next May. We will do our boating in the Med. It is a much easier commute for us. I will be taking pics of the trip and if you are interested I can email them to you. Please please please put Ireland on your travel plans, you will be treated to a nice dinner and accommodation should you need it. Keep up the good work and see you next week. Sean

Best of luck to you, I hope your plans play out as you hope. I wish your Landy was here in Aus, I would love to give it a good home!

nice tree!!!!!

boat work, cruising, road trip im excited for it all. Also on a side note im 32 and id be willing to bet you have many subs my age range. Also thanks for the boat tour.

Wonderful plans. Enjoy watching anything your doing. Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to you.

Cant wait to travel with you !

Thanks for sharing your vision - sounds fantastic! Would love to do the same but will have to live it through your experience.

Merry Christmas!

Truly inspiring,merry Christmas.

Hi M. Knowles First i want to thank's you for the t shirt i am now the proud owner of travel with Geordie t shirt. Second, this vidéo make me dream to live and travel in a boat like you.I hope to realise this ... Anyway i will follow you via your vidéo,it's a beginning .... Also thanks to share your background i am now convinced to never returned to Nova Scotia (I love this place) because this was the last trip i made with my ex wife.My girlfriend also made the same trip with is husband same year same time and also split after this trip,and now you ....no more Nova Scotia !!! . I really hope that one day you will come to Montréal with your boat we have a lot of beautiful place along the St Laurent. Marc

Welcome to REALTIME! Looking forward to the future videos!

Happy new year and safe travels

I like you'r video's and plan to stick around,Many year's ago I helped my Dad refit an old PT boat and it was a mess.Maybe some day we could sit and have a cold beer? I live in Portland area and not to far off.Keep plugging away and Merry Christmas to you and Geordie.

Cheers, Mate. Have a very happy Christmas and New Year.

Cheers Peter, love your future plans for the boat and your travel plans with the old Landy. Hope the New Year gets you one step closer to fulfil your dreams...... As always keep Well and Safe

So looking forward to growing older with you and this channel mate Love the plans you have for your future, thanks for allowing us to share it with you

Thank you for sharing your ambitious plans. It is inspiration for me to pursue mine and to share with others just as you are doing.

a tour de force this time Peter , thank you , I really learned something from that , good work !, Merry Christmas and a Hppy New Year .

Hey Peter. Really enjoyed your latest video. I notice that you neglected to mention Ireland in your cruising plans. If you get as far as England you really should pop across the pond and say hello. I live in Kenmare in the beautiful south west, in the county of Kerry. You're always welcome. Looking forward to forthcoming adventures, so thanks for making the effort to keep us all up to date. And while I think of it, Seasons' greetings to you and yours, including Geordie.

great update and love the plans for the future. will support your future plans, your videos are inspiriational and worth whatever you decide to charge

Well said Peter I agree on the advertising b.s it is so annoying . since I don't drive . seems 90% of the adds are cars and trucks

Cheers Peter and Merry Christmas!! And my hope's for a happy New year!!!