This is Delos!
She's an Amel Super Maramu built in La Rochelle, France
in the year 2000.
She's a 53 foot sloop rigged ketch and has been my home for the past 6 years.
Delos and her crew have sailed a lot of miles since leaving Seattle, and she's taken great care of us.
"Welcome to Delos!" "Yeah!" "We're now gonna take you on our amazing boat tour!"
"Are you ready? Alright, let's go!"
"First off!"
Is the dive gear
over here we have the lovely Brady Trautman
And we have our 5 tanks on board.
Brady is our dive master you could say,
and he's gonna tell us a bit about our diving! Go ahead Brady!"
"See, like Josje said we have 5 tanks on board..
5 full sets of gear,
and probably enough parts to fix a full dive shop I think!" "yeah, we have a lot of stuff!"
"We fix quite a few things over the past couple of years..
of course we have a compressor, because we dive in a lot of crazy locations where you can't get air fills
And each tank only takes about 20 minutes to fill
Which is approximately 50c of diesel!
Which is a f *cking good deal!" "That's really good! Sweet, so follow me to the stern"
"We now have..
fishing rods!
So fishing is pretty crucial on Delos
We try and get as much fishing in as we can.
We got one fishing rod on the starboard and one over on port
And we also have this little guy here, this is our hand line
And we mainly catch Mahi-mahi,
Yellow-fin tuna and Wahoo.
In varying sizes!
And these guys are solar panels!
They are VERY VERY important on Delos!
Originally we just had the two outside which equaled up to 400 watts
We added up the centre one, which is another 200 watts, so it gave us a total of 600 watts!
For the whole solar. Capacity of the boat.
It's amazing, we don't have to run the generator at all, for any electricity to charge the batteries.
It's only for dive tanks, making water and making hot water
if we decide to take hot showers" "Very rarely we do this.."
"Also, over here, we have our BBQ!"
"Which is used on very special occasions, like today!
Which is the 4th of July! So Happy America Day!"
"Karin's got some lovely looking steaks here!"
"Yep, we'll cook up some steaks for tonight! We also have our lovely sun chairs..
They are just amazing
for sunny days!" "Yeah, they're pretty good"
"So, shall we carry on? Up to the bow?"
"Follow me"
"Oh, these are our surfboards by the way!
We have two longboards here on the port side. We also have two shortboards over on starboard side there
So we have four surfboards on board, which is pretty cool. Surfboard on board!
"Now we are back in the cockpit where we started"
"This is pretty much our living room! If you could call it that.. pretty much
We spend most of our time in here
when we're sailing. Got it all decked out
with comfy cushions, and what not.. and sunscreen, cos that's really important!
And the most important part of the boat
Is the Captian's chair with the wheel, and all the instruments
that makes us go places!
So here's lovely Captian Brian, and his American things he's got going on! (laughing)
"Boxer shorts.." "Pretty sure it's undies.."
"You improvise on the sail boat, so this is what we do"
"This is what we're all about!" "But yeah, this is the drivers seat on Delos!
As far as sailboats go, it's pretty comfy
and in a nice dry, protected environment, not stuck out the back
where every wave is gonna hit ya, but there's a nice hard dodger here to keep you out of the wind,
and the elements of the rain and all that stuffs real good.
We have all the instruments that you need here to sail.
So on this monitor right here we've got a pretty sweet little navigation system that gives us our GPS
position on top of our charts, with radar overlay, and all the sailing
information that we need, for all routing, and course plotting, really really cool stuff.
This little guy is just a life saver. This is our auto-pilot.
Our trusting magnetic compass
so if all goes hay-wire, we can kinda go, cut this direction
we have a pretty general idea of where we are, and can get around with just that.
We've got our engine instruments over here. So when there's no wind,
and we're coming in to a marina, or a harbour, we can crank up what we call
The iron genny and cruise around with that.
Delos is kind of like a big piggy boat to drive around
not very maneuverable, so we have bow thruster
so to make us go port, and starboard, and raise it and lower it which is pretty cool.
It's blowing a pretty fresh 20 knots right now, keeping everything nice and cool.
We're at anchor, so our boat speed is down to 0 knots and the wind is right off of our bow
We're in 4 metres of water and have about 34 metres of chain.
And this little control panel here is how we pick up the anchor.
We can put the anchor out, or pull her in.
We have control for all the sails, and the furlers, and the winches
to put out the genoa and the main sail, without leaving the cockpit
which is really nice on those nasty stormy days,
so it's a real comfortable boat to sail!" "Definitely!"
"So, what do you say we go downstairs?"
"So this is the main living space, down below on Delos.
And it's right next to the Galley.
Which is really nice, because it kind of creates a whole social space.
We're pretty lucky on Delos, because we have a washer and dryer
for clothes, and we have some pretty typical stuff
microwave, propane oven,
But we also have a dishwasher!
Which is not very common to boats
This is our water maker which makes almost 200 litres an hour for washing and drinking.
And then of course, our fridge!
As a primary freezer for food
So this is where we keep all of our frozen meats,
and we have lots of canned foods,
some milk
and some rum!
If we look in here, we've got our beer reserves, which is actually running a little bit low
so we're gonna have to stock up pretty soon.
On Delos, we do enjoy drinking beer
so we have a dedicated beer fridge!
Oh yeah!
Red Horse Extra Strong from the Phillipines. Awesome stuff!
We do have a projector. And then across the way here..
Is our screen!
So this is where we have people stay when we have guests,
or when Brady and Josje on board. It's pretty nice, we get a lot of breeze up here
and we have two bunks
you can sleep on the port side, one on the starboard side.
How is it up here right now?" "Good" "Comfortable?" "Yeah!"
"Right on" "What are you watching?" "The Wire"
(laughing) Up forward, we have
a head. So it's got pretty typical
bathroom stuff.
We have electric toilets.
"Let's go and check out the back!"
So here is our pass-through bunk
Go through here, and you will come down to our master suite in the back!
Map of the world here, showing our track, planning on where we go
Also have some pictures of family and friends
And this is the second head on the boat
This also has a shower and everything
This is our navigation station
so here we have our single side band radio, the VHF,
and some of the sailing instruments
Up here we have our cool control panels. This is the 24 volt panel
Runs all the DC things.
Then this is our 120 volt panel, for air conditioning,
and water maker, battery chargers, outlets, microwaves, things like that.
We also have the engine room.
Down here in the cockpit!
So if you lift this floor up.. "Oh hello Brian!" "Oh hello there.."
"Brian spends about 20% of his time down here..
he is our handy man on the boat! I don't know what we would without him, because he fixes a lot of things
our generator.." "Sometimes they put me down here when I misbehave" (laughing)
"Yeah, I don't know, Brain, you explain what's down here"
"There's all the heart of the boat down here. So we've got the main diesel right here..
which is a volvo penta diesel, to get us around
when there's no wind blowing.
Right behind me is our generator. It's a 7 kilowatt diesel powered onan generator
and after we put in the solar panels, we really don't have to run this
to make electricity. It's mainly for running the water maker
and for filling dive tanks. So if you look right over here..
we've got our awesome dive compressors
So, this thing has just saved us so much
in being able to dive anywhere in the world where there's not a dive shop filling our tanks
And then back over here, we've got pump for air conditioning
and our dieselinator over in the corner that turns salt water
into fresh water so we can take showers
and not have to worry about filling up water at a dock. We've got battery chargers
And power inverters that turn DC into AC
I see power and pumps and all sorts of good stuff
I spend a lot of time down here"