This video shows some of the projects that we recently completed while hauled out of the water for 2 weeks at the boat yard at Baja Naval in Ensenada, MX. The main reason that we hauled out was to service our stuffing box and apply a coat of fresh anti-fouling paint, but we found more problems with the running gear that needed to be addressed after hauling out. A summary of the work we did in the yard: -Remove and lubricate Hundested controllable pitch propeller assembly -Replace cutlass bearings (2) -Overhaul stuffing box and machine to increase cooling water flow -Remove through hull underwater lights, glass in holes, and replace with flush mount LED lights -Apply Propspeed coating to propeller -2 coats of antifouling paint, 3 at waterline -Replace all worn zinc anodes -Polish blue Awlcraft paint on hull -Remove anchor chain to send to re-galvanize ______________________________________________________________________________________ This Video Is Made Possible By Our Amazing Fans! Please Become A Fan At FanBeach: http://fanbeach.com/CassidysSailingTrawler __________________________________________________________________________________________ We all appreciate your comments and try to respond to as many as possible. Please continue to post comments and questions and if you like the insight into cruising and boating in general that we try to provide, please subscribe to our channel!

We have been spending time at a marina in Ensenada mexico and doing a lot of maintenance on the Nordhavn 56 Motorsailer. We spend 2 months in the boat yard recently where we did some major maintenance on our running gear, as well as a few smaller projects and fresh antifouling paint. We will publish a long video showing all of our work in the yard soon. This video will hopefully be the first of a series of very short videos where we document a single maintenance task. In this one, we show how we overhauled our all chain anchor rode. When we bought the boat, the chain was completely rusted because the anchor locker drain had been clogged so the anchor was sitting immersed in salt water for a long period of time. It was also 10 years old so the galvanizing probably wore off with use. Replacing the galvanized chain would have cost approximately $3500 USD, so we looked into a way to refurbish the existing chain. We found a galvanizing shop in San Diego that said hey could re-plate the chain for about $700 so we took this option. After getting the chain back from the shop, we painted depth markers on the chain and re-installed it on the boat and we show that process as well. ______________________________________________________________________________________ This Video Is Made Possible By Our Amazing Fans! Please Become A Fan At FanBeach: http://fanbeach.com/CassidysSailingTrawler __________________________________________________________________________________________ We all appreciate your comments and try to respond to as many as possible. Please continue to post comments and questions and if you like the insight into cruising and boating in general that we try to provide, please subscribe to our channel!

This episode documents the time we spent cruising between Golfito and Quepos - in Costa Rica. We checked into Costa Rica in Golfito and spent a week exploring the area, including looking for wildlife in the estuaries of Golfito Bay. After leaving Golfito slowly moved up towards Quepos, which is in the center of the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Panama Posse: https://panamaposse.com/ Music - Epidemic Sound 0:40 Desert Island 3 - Magnus Ringblom 1:34 Rain Quail - Dust Follows 5:10 Salt Lake Seagull - Chris Shards 7:15 Into the Sunset - Ealot ______________________________________________________________________________________ This Video Is Made Possible By Our Amazing Fans! Please Become A Fan At FanBeach: http://fanbeach.com/CassidysSailingTrawler __________________________________________________________________________________________ We all appreciate your comments and try to respond to as many as possible. Please continue to post comments and questions and if you like the insight into cruising and boating in general that we try to provide, please subscribe to our channel!

This episode documents a period of a week or so cruising between Panama City and Golfito Costa Rica. We stayed in Flamenco Marina in Panama City for a couple of days while we provisioned and did some work on our boat, a night in Vista Mar Marina outside Panama City, then several remote anchorages as we moved towards Costa Rica. We entered Costa Rica in Golfito, where we prepare to check into the country and spend a few weeks exploring. Panama Posse: https://panamaposse.com/ Music - Epidemic Sound 0:42 Celestial Bodies - Celesy 4:03 Condor - Dust Follows 8:21 Fiesta Vibes 1 - Martin Gauffin ______________________________________________________________________________________ This Video Is Made Possible By Our Amazing Fans! Please Become A Fan At FanBeach: http://fanbeach.com/CassidysSailingTrawler __________________________________________________________________________________________ We all appreciate your comments and try to respond to as many as possible. Please continue to post comments and questions and if you like the insight into cruising and boating in general that we try to provide, please subscribe to our channel! For more frequent updates we try to post photos and short blurbs on instagram: @mv_cassidy You can read more detailed accounts (less frequently) on our blog at www.mvcassidy.com Some equipment we use to make these videos (affiliate links below): DJI Osmo Pocket Handheld 3 Axis Gimbal Stabilizer with integrated Camera: https://amzn.to/2LoKo6P PANASONIC LUMIX GH5S Body 4K Digital Camera: https://amzn.to/2Lie6vB DJI Mavic Air Fly More Combo: https://amzn.to/2LjnaQL

We are back! It’s been a few months but we have finally gotten back to scrubbing through footage and hope to be posting a lot more in he near future. This episode shows some of our passage from Marina Papagayo in norther Costa Rica to Acapulco Mexico. This was our second longest passage on the trip from Florida to Mexico at a little over 900 nautical miles. Nels (who helped bring the boat to Panama from Florida) returned to crew with his girlfriend Patty. We didn’t experience any of the notorious sustained offshore winds across the Gulf of Tehuantepec, but we did get hit by some squalls with gusts over 30 knots an at one point our mainsail ripped at a seam near the top and we had to pull the sail down for the duration of the passage. We didn’t get any footage of the actual event because we were too busy dealing with dousing the sail in pouring rain and high winds. We crossed through some really productive fishing grounds and caught Dorado and a big Sailfish (which we will show in another episode) In Acapulco, we managed to find someone to repair the sail and had an interesting experience taking on fuel. ______________________________________________________________________________________ This Video Is Made Possible By Our Amazing Fans! Please Become A Fan At FanBeach: http://fanbeach.com/CassidysSailingTrawler __________________________________________________________________________________________ We all appreciate your comments and try to respond to as many as possible. Please continue to post comments and questions and if you like the insight into cruising and boating in general that we try to provide, please subscribe to our channel! For more frequent updates we try to post photos and short blurbs on instagram: @mv_cassidy You can read more detailed accounts (less frequently) on our blog at www.mvcassidy.com Some equipment we use to make these videos (affiliate links below): DJI Osmo Pocket Handheld 3 Axis Gimbal Stabilizer with integrated Camera: https://amzn.to/2LoKo6P PANASONIC LUMIX GH5S Body 4K Digital Camera: https://amzn.to/2Lie6vB DJI Mavic Air Fly More Combo: https://amzn.to/2LjnaQL

After selling our Nordhavn 40 long range passagemaker, we purchased a new (to us) Nordhavn 56 Motorsailer and are in the process of moving her from Florida to Ensenada, Mexico for the North Pacific hurricane season. In this video, we transit the Panama Canal. Sometimes small pleasure boats do it in 2 days. We ended up doing in on one long day on April 21, 2019. We picked up our canal advisor I (the guy that rides on your boat and tells you where to go and what to do) in Colon Harbor on the Atlantic side at 4:30 am and dropped him off at about 5:30 pm on the Pacific Ocean side of the canal. It was not without a few harrowing moments, including having lock lines break on a boat we were tied to, but we made it through with no injuries or damage to the boat. By that measure, a successful transit! We all appreciate your comments and try to respond to as many as possible. Please continue to post comments and questions and if you like the insight into cruising and boating in general that we try to provide, please subscribe to our channel! For more frequent updates we try to post photos and short blurbs on instagram: @mv_cassidy You can read more detailed accounts (less frequently) on our blog at www.mvcassidy.com

fter taking possession of the new to us Nordhavn 56 Motorsailer and getting her all ready to go, we leave the dock in Florida and head south toward the Panama Canal. Our plan was do go from Tampa Florida to Colon Panama, a distance of roughly 1200 nautical miles in one long passage - weather allowing. We did make it all on once passage and try to share the experience in this video. The strangest thing that happened on this passage is that we got boarded by people that were likely Nicaraguan military, although they did not behave at all as if they had professional military training. They would not let us take down our sails, rammed into the side of our boat several times, and shook us down for “gifts” before finally leaving. They were basically thugs with uniforms - some might even say pirates. We managed to capture on video the incredibly crazy maneuvers of the boat operator and the boarding party when they finally left. There are images of killing fish so for anyone who doesn’t want to see it - please skip ahead. Sections as follows: Fishing 4:04 Nicaragua Military Boarding 7:01 Sailing 10:05 Boat Problems 12:13 Boat Life 14:47 We all appreciate your comments and try to respond to as many as possible. Please continue to post comments and questions and if you like the insight into cruising and boating in general that we try to provide, please subscribe to our channel! For more frequent updates we try to post photos and short blurbs on instagram: @mv_cassidy You can read more detailed accounts (less frequently) on our blog at www.mvcassidy.com

We took possession of our new (to us) Nordhavn 56 Motorsailer in at the beginning of March, 2019 and it has been a busy month getting ready to leave the docks for the first leg of our transit from Florida to Mexico. We had plans to leave the dock April 2 or the first weather window after that and almost made that date, if Dougal hadn’t realized that his passport expired in May at the last minute. Panama was our intended first stop and the country requires a passport valid for 6 months after entry. Our canal agent said that he would have likely been asked to leave or deported so we had to expedite a passport renewal. Luckily, we were able to get one (for $$$) by the morning of April 3 and left the docks for Panama that morning. In this episode we show some of the long list of chores that we had to get the boat ready to leave for Panama including: * Replacing CQR anchor with Ultra UA60 * Fueling the boat * Sail Repair/Prep * Cleaning rust and painting main engine air intake * Repairing and reinstalling dinghy lift winch * Replace washing machine drain pump * Replace having port on transom * Provisioning We did get the boat all ready to leave and after arrival of Dougal’s new passport on April 3, we left the docks and got underway for passage to Panama. We all appreciate your comments and try to respond to as many as possible. Please continue to post comments and questions and if you like the insight into cruising and boating in general that we try to provide, please subscribe to our channel! For more frequent updates we try to post photos and short blurbs on instagram: @mv_cassidy You can read more detailed accounts (less frequently) on our blog at www.mvcassidy.com

*We scrubbed this video after it had uploaded out of respect for the privacy of the seller of Ata Marie, who does not want to be included on video, and because of this there may be some strange edits and blurry spots* We recently sold our Nordhavn 40 and just a week later closed the deal on the purchase of a Nordhavn 56 Motorsailer and are starting to get settled in on the new boat. In this video, we talk about moving onto the new boat, show some details about the pre-purchase survey and discuss some plans for the future. The 56 motorsailer is a unique boat and Nordhavn only built 8 of them. We are super excited about the boat and while it will be a learning experience for us to move to a boat with a sailing rig, we hope to share the many benefits of a boat like this as we start cruising on her. Please subscribe to our channel to follow our adventures on this new boat. We are heading toward the Panama Canal in early April 2019 and hope to be posting new videos a lot more regularly. Instagram: We update our instagram account fairly regularly with images and comments - follow us there for more frequent updates than what we are able to share in these video logs: https://www.instagram.com/mv_cassidy/ BLOG: We (try to) maintain a written blog: www.mvcassidy.com Follow our boat on NOFOREIGNLAND: https://www.noforeignland.com/home/map/boat/5692329578987520/

This episode shows the final chapter of our adventures aboard our Nordhavn 40, M/V Cassidy. After almost 2 years and over 5,000 nautical miles not he boat, we decided to put her up for sale and move to another boat. Spoiler alert: its another Nordhavn! Not a whole lot of action in this episode but we discuss the process of selling the boat, show some of the survey that the buyer had done as part of the due diligence of purchasing our boat, and a glimpse into all of the packing and moving that we are still doing as we transition to the next boat. Watch to the end for a glimpse at our new boat, which we will soon be cruising on from Florida towards the Panama Canal and Mexico. Cassidy (the kid) decided that she didn’t want the new boat named after her so we shall have to make some decisions about what to do with the name of this channel as we start making episodes aboard our new boat. We may try to poll the viewers for assistance with this! It’s been a fun ride so far and we are looking forward to continuing to explore the world on our amazing new boat.

We just created an Instagram account to post more frequent updates: https://www.instagram.com/mv_cassidy/ Our Nordhavn 40 is officially on the market, listed with Larry at Nordhavn/PAE and we are on the hunt for our next boat. https://www.nordhavn.com/brokerage/listings/cassidy/ In this episode we travel to Guaymas and San Carlos in Mexico to check out the unique expedition power catamaran Domino. She is a Malcom Tennant designed 20 meter power catamaran (Domino 20) that was built by her current owners in Paraguay and launched in 2009. The performance specs of this boat are very attractive, having a proven record of crossing oceans at an average speed of 10 knots with good economy and range and ability to run at over 20 knots when needed. Domino is mentioned specifically in the latest updated edition of Beebe’s classic text Voyaging Under Power. https://amzn.to/2PJG5EP While in Mexico, we also took the opportunity to do some exploring of the local area by off road buggy and got a few hours of fishing in on a local charter boat. To close out this episode, we share our thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of this power cat for our lifestyle and mission, and why we are back focused on the Nordhavn line for for our next boat. Businesses in San Carlos that we highly recommend: Adan Off Road Tours - Adan Ciapara Phone:622-103-5108 (English) 622-150-6431 (Spanish) https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Travel---Transportation/ADAN-OFF-ROAD-TOURS-866630813415154/ Home Run Sportfishing - Captain Jesus G. Estrada Phone: 622-855-5267 To read more about Domino: Yachtworld listing: https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/2009/malcolm-tennant-domino-20-3495698/?refSource=browse%20listing Domino Blog: http://dominocatamaran.blogspot.com/ Avenger Yacht Sales - Marisa Velasco https://www.facebook.com/pg/Avenger-Yacht-Sales-155440517878597/about/?ref=page_internal Cool new camera: We shot most of the footage on this episode with our new DJI Osmo Pocket, which is an amazingly tiny gimbaled camera that can shoot 4k 60 fps video: https://amzn.to/2rXY1Rp Drone: After our DJI Mavic Air drone flew itself into the water in Catalina, we brought the old DJI Spark out of storage for this trip: https://amzn.to/2LCkKvf

After making the 58 hour passage from San Francisco Bay to Catalina Island, we spent 5 days on a mooring in Avalon Harbor relaxing and exploring the island prior to bringing our boat to Dana Point Harbor to list it for sale at the Nordhavn headquarters. Some good friends of our from San Diego trailered their boat to Long Beach, CA and then came across the channel to spend a few days with us over the Thanksgiving holiday. We spent a lot of time cruising around the harbor by dinghy, checking out the town, cruising around on golf carts, and ate Carnitas for Thanksgiving instead of Turkey. Luck also finally caught up with us and our DJI Mavic Air drone decided to disconnect from the controller and slowly try to land itself on salt water. We recovered it and sent it to DJI and now waiting to hear whether it is repairable... Finally, our boat is listed for sale but we are NOT DONE cruising. We are looking at options for a different slightly larger boat and will share this decision when we are closer to the goal... If anyone is interested in a super well equipped Nordhavn 40, she is ready for more adventures: https://www.nordhavn.com/brokerage/listings/cassidy/

After spending a couple of months in San Francisco Bay, we continue moving south toward Southern California. We travel non stop from San Francisco Bay to Avalon Harbor on Santa Catalina Island where we spend a week before continuing on to Dana Point Harbor to prepare our boat for sale. She will stay at the Nordhavn headquarters in Dana Point CA while we list her for sale and prepare to continue our attempt to travel the world by small boat in a slightly larger small boat- hopefully in the near future. In this episode, we show footage of what life is like on passage while running the boat non stop for 58 hours. This episode ends with our arrival in Avalon Harbor, but we will show more in our next episode about our week on the island before continuing on to Dana Point Harbor

A lot of people have been asking us to put together a tour of our Nordhavn 40. The Nordhavns are very unique boats and are often described as Trawler Yachts or “Passagemakers”. Regardless of what you call it, the Nordhavn 40 is a super capable boat and has taken us all the way from Northern California to Alaska and back down the entire west coast of the US to Southern California so far. We thought about just carrying a camera through the boat and posting something 5 minutes long, but decided to put a little more effort into it and before long we had over an hour of footage to sort through. There are a lot of systems on these boats and a lot of things to show, so rather than cut out too much, we erred on the side of providing too much information. The tour is broken up into specific areas of the boat. Time stamps are below for each section, which will hopefully make navigating to areas of interest easier if you don’t want to watch the entire thing. Cockpit 1:58 Saloon 7:06 Galley 12:18 Forward Stateroom 15:01 Port Side Stateroom 17:46 Head: 20:13 Pilothouse 20:56 (this section is LONG!) Engine Room 40:35 Foredeck 43:12 Portuguese Bridge / Boat Deck 48:10 ______________________________________________________________________________________ This Video Is Made Possible By Our Amazing Fans! Please Become A Fan At FanBeach: http://fanbeach.com/CassidysSailingTrawler __________________________________________________________________________________________

In this epsisode we get really close to Bears at a fish hatchery and at Anan Wildlife Observatory. One of the highlights of cruising through Alaska on a relatively small, and very slow boat, is the opportunity to have amazing up close encounters with wildlife. We highly recommend the experience of stopping at both Hidden Falls Hatchery and the Anan Wildlife Observatory to anyone that may be planning a trip trough Southeast Alaska. Anan Bay requires permits during the high season when the bears are feeding, and tours of the hatchery at Hidden Falls can also be arranged. The staff there are a wealth of information and great hosts. To get permits for Anan Wildlife Observatory: https://www.recreation.gov/permits/Anan_Wildlife_Observatory_Permits/r/wildernessAreaDetails.do?page=detail&contractCode=NRSO&parkId=74986 To make a reservation to tour the hatchery: https://www.nsraa.org/?page_id=3602 Another thing that we had to deal with frequently in Alaska is extreme tidal changes, and with our main dinghy being a Boston Whaler 110 Sport that is over 600 lbs, it is too heavy to beach. We tried using a device called an "Anchor Buddy" to keep the Whaler in deep enough water to keep it floating as the tide went out, but because we didn't leave it in deep enough water and we stayed longer than we planned, we ended up high and dry on the beach anyway! This is an an example of an "Anchor Buddy": https://amzn.to/2xzDCVY and this is the dinghy anchor that we use: https://amzn.to/2zq301M Please subscribe to follow along on our travels and adventures, and learn with us as we operate and maintain our boat. Read more about our journey on our blog: www.mvcassidy.com

In this video, we show how we launch and recover electric bicycles from our boat while at anchor and how we use the bikes to give us more range to explore on shore. The bicycles that we use are from Rad Power Bikes. No affiliation with the company but the bikes are decent quality and the customer service from the company has been spectacular (we had issues with the electronics in one of the bikes and they were great in helping to troubleshoot and send us new parts free of any out of pocket expense). This is the newer version of the bikes that we carry: https://www.radpowerbikes.com/products/radmini-electric-folding-fat-bike?variant=5032656863263 Please subscribe to follow along on our travels and adventures, and learn with us as we operate and maintain our boat. Read more about our journey on our blog: www.mvcassidy.com

This video is an overview and how-to about using passive paravane roll stabilizers on our Nordhavn 40 Passagemaker powerboat. We show specific information about how they are rigged and used on our Nordhavn 40, but because there are so many ways that paravane systems are rigged on boats, your mileage may vary on how the information transfers or applies to other the boats. For a detailed technical look at not only paravanes, but other forms of stabilization for small boats, we highly recommend the classic text Voyaging Under Power by Robert P. Beebe: https://amzn.to/2PJG5EP Contents of this video: Intro: 31:15 Overview of Components: 2:30 Rigging Paravanes: 5:05 Deploying Paravane Fish: 14:37 Recovering Paravane Fish: 16:34 Please subscribe to follow along on our travels and adventures, and learn with us as we operate and maintain our boat. Read more about our journey on our blog: www.mvcassidy.com

We spend a few days visiting the small off the grid community of Tenakee Springs, Alaska over July 4th, which is Independence Day in the United States. This video is less about boating than some of what we have shared and more of a travelogue and snapshot of our experience at Tenakee, which is a super cool and welcoming community on Chichagof Island in Southeast Alaska. Please subscribe to follow along on our travels and adventures. You can read more on our blog: www.mvcassidy.com

We do some inspections and maintenance on the underwater part of our boat while enjoying some down time tied to a dock in British Columbia for a couple of days. We show routine inspection of running gear and other underwater components on the hull, changing sacrificial zinc anodes, and cleaning parts of the hull. Please subscribe to follow along on our travels and adventures. You can read more on our blog: www.mvcassidy.com

We spend a few days in Glacier Bay National Park, exploring the coves and glaciers. This video shows some information about how we navigate through the ice fields that form as the glaciers calve and shed icebergs into the ocean. Please subscribe to follow along on our travels and adventures. You can read more on our blog: www.mvcassidy.com