what's up guys welcome back to another video
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we're Alejo and andrea and we've been sailing the caribbean in our catamaran for almost two years
my perfect spanish "Por Que No?"
today we sail on a monohull for the first time ever
and we decide whether or not we keep the catamaran
this time we're doing it all like the real sailors do it
it's not moving
Other way, now pull it in! Alejo go!
Alejo is going to the grocery store
right now we are with
hello simone
hey
we're with Timon and Pumba
Simone said you're Pumba because you fart like Pumba
you guys are clinggy man
so you guys are going to the grocery store we're going to do a little barbecue today
barbecue
you guys are going to meet our german friends
so you have already met our south african friends but you know we're very international here
and so you're going to meet antonia and daniel
antonia's from germany and daniel is from switzerland
switzerland
so yeah let's see in a little
look how healthy you guys eating
yeah
vegan vegetarian
and taco chickens
That looks awesome!
oh yeah
so what are you guys making
we are barbequeing
oh that looks good
for the vegetarians for
and for the meaty chicken for the meat eaters
so we haven't introduced our new friends
can we introduce you guys to our channel
we're being introduced
can we introduce you guys
okay
so these are our friends from "Por Que No Sailing"
ah tell us all about that name because you sound like you're latin american and you are super far from it
yeah so we obviously know how uh how to pronounce it right antonia
how do you guys say it
por que no
i can't even pronounce it right
so how do you pronounce your boat name
you go first
okay my perfect spanish
por que no
she's been practicing it for what like four weeks now you've been on your phone she's practicing in spanish
i'm like three sessions in
um yeah we don't want to change it it was the previous boat name and we were like
and it's a cool motto as well i think too to live by you know yeah just
you know go out there and try it out right i think
it suited us but
but i still don't know why it's spanish because the previous owner was dutch
doesn't make any sense
we have a 40-foot monohull uh
it's a Wauquiez Centurion 40 from 1987
yeah it's quite old baby yeah
and you've been living on it for how long?
uh now for exactly one year now
yeah true
yeah do you guys love it?
yeah we like the life
best decision we've done
really?
yes i would say
but we only did a minor refit
and you guys already crossed the atlantic
yeah
where are you guys from
I'm from switzerland so not a lot of ocean sailing going on in switzerland so it's all new for me
i'm from germany
that's awesome can we go into your boat tomorrow
oh yeah we can also take you out sailing for a little bit if you want to see monofull sailing
we don't want to make you guys do a lot of work
we don't have any plans
what are you guys planning on like the future? where are you traveling?
so next up is bonaire we're gonna go to the abc islands
uh hopefully get a lot of diving in a lot of kite surfing
yeah that's important thing for us
and afterwards we'll go to
panama right and do central america that's the plan but it always changes so you know
yeah what's your favorite thing about living on a boat and your least favorite thing
oh that's a tough one favorite one is to definitely live
or you know in these amazing places
yeah you just move your home to like paradise
we started out like in a cold wet environment back in the uk and you could like actually sail it here on your own
i think the least favorite would be the like you have to compromise with space and comfort
which is also a good thing because you kind of minimalize your life and like the things you own
but it's also yeah we don't have a lot of space on board you will see that
we're having dinner and we're having what do you guys call this
skewers yeah
chuzos
chuzos in colombia
and today we are going to sv Por Que No and we are going to see around their boat
and we might go sailing this is the first time that we go sailing on a monohull
like a real cruising monohull and so this is going to i think this is going to be super
something new for us because we don't have
we've never really felt like what monohull cruisers feel when their boat is healing and
doing all that cool stuff
the pups are staying on the boat with ac like always because it is summer
hi thank you how are you guys how are you good
so how big is this monohull uh 40 foot um and over 33 years old now
so when we bought it we didn't do much inside so when you go down below you see uh-huh quite old
like people told us it looks like an old pub
and the outside we re-did the deck
um so it was all teak deck everything oh
what you have here, it was everywhere
and we ripped it off and put some more fiberglass on top of it and i repainted it
watch me end up falling here because i'm not used to it
the monohull does move a lot more
as i'm walking through like the deck area i do have to like hold myself from something
and the catamaran I just feel like i can walk and i'm not gonna fall
but here i feel like if i don't hold i might fall so
hello how are you guys
good and you guys
oh my god it's so nice it feels a lot bigger than it looks on from the outside
it feels big
antonio and daniel showed us around their beautiful home
their 40-foot monohull was the perfect setup for them to cross the atlantic from europe and explore the caribbean
both Por Que No and Lady Africa had purchased their boat in different continents and sailed almost 7,000 nautical miles just to get here
where we were lucky enough to start our journey
um use obviously and it's so it gives you weather data and stuff like that and when
and when you where coming down what did you have 30 degrees of the of the bum
coming across
that's the route
and you guys came from where?
down there
and then
so these guys are real real sailors unlike us
so right now simone is taking off the
taking it off so we can hoist the mainsail
alejo will be hoisting the main sail by hand because
we are very spoiled with an electric winch so this time we're doing it all like the real sailors do it which is cool
so you can turn it into the wind
okay
and then once the wind angle is not right anymore it tilts
and then there's a there are gears in here
and down there there's a rudder and then it gives counter steer so once it's in the wind again it goes up again then it just sails straight
with your left hand on that one yeah just loosen it
let's go sailor
watching them prepare for a sail on their monohull was different from what we did on our catamaran
they had to remove the dinghy's engine winch it up and they had to set up the wind vane which was their self-steering system
you can uh
we have an instagram post where you can see that picture of this one or we can show you on my phone
yeah we should take a look at it to see how it is
yeah so yours is six persons
i think it's eight
that's good because of the dogs
imagine being in that thing with two dogs
it works
pretty windy right
pretty good good wind
yeah, let's hope it doesn't rain, that would suck
all right pull it up
okay go to forward
what are you gonna be doing here
i'm gonna host the mainsail with my own hands
with your own hands bare hands
did daniel teach you how to do it?
yeah how?
you pull, not down but to yourself
how do you feel about it
nervous
first time doing some real sailing
i know we are spoiled sailors
so one thing is that it does feel a lot more comfortable when you have the waves head on
on the monohulls than on our catamaran
on our catamaran we would be just slamming on the waves really annoying really awful
here it's really comfortable you're just rolly
go baby!
it's not moving
oh right here
loosen it a little bit simone
it was about to say like jesus man, i can't be that weak
all right okay
wait a second
is it heavy
light is the light baby
okay and now a little bit more
this is real sailing
not all the way
yeah yeah yeah
pull it in pull it in as much as you can
more?
yes
as we were hoisting the sails tacking and sailing the monohull we realized how different it was from our catamaran
tacking the monohull was quick it was a lot more maneuverable and responded a lot faster when compared to our catamaran
which was one of the reasons why the crew had to be a lot more hands-on
but my favorite part was that they didn't have the slapping that we had due to our bridge deck
all right so we're heading towards trinidad now
our destination
i forgot my passport
hey it's only 75 nautical miles
that's not bad
so this is straight
this is us right now
straight us
much better sailing than in our catamaran
we're going right now with head on waves
and we would be slamming so hard
and we're just like
what do you think
some margaritas you know
my gosh
look at this
okay i can get seasick very easily here
oh my god
like shot, I'm like this
okay I'm good
that was perfect really
even though we loved the experience of sailing a monohull
we were reassured that we made the right choice of boat based on our needs
if you guys want to see a full video of us comparing a catamaran versus a monohull
let us know in the comment section and we'll see you guys next week
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