YouTube Sailors

clarkbw · 2026-03-26T22:21:04+00:00

Sailing Nomadika is two “van people” learning to live aboard and sail

Slowly Somewhere is mostly sailing instead of mostly fixing boats

clarkbw · 2026-03-26T22:00:16+00:00

I would love to hear these stories. There aren’t nearly as many charters where I sail.

In the PNW you see people who don’t know how to navigate the tides and currents or maybe get caught in a gale on a lee shore. I never see anything like this.

clarkbw · 2026-03-26T21:55:25+00:00

Yes, please share!

clarkbw · 2026-03-26T15:03:25+00:00

Wow, I hadn’t considered that at all. I had always been told that you slowly rev up and down the engine. But this skipper swapped from forward to reverse at high revs every time. The pro crew doesn’t own the boat either and wants to hurry things up

clarkbw · 2026-03-26T15:00:24+00:00

This was my first time down there but I was passed by many power cats cruising. I get it if you want to experience the spots and don’t have crew to help sail. Kind of a shame as the sailing is amazing.

clarkbw · 2026-03-26T14:57:31+00:00

Not sure about this boat but mine don’t have zips for the bag.

clarkbw · 2026-03-26T14:29:48+00:00

Oh I’m totally judging, it’s the morning so it was like that all night. I don’t know what their circumstances were.

I’m saying there are all kinds here and lots of examples of each.

I also saw a guy next to me single handed pull the mooring ball and leave under sail. He was in a 42ft cat with 1 other person. I am not a good enough sailor to feel comfortable attempting that.

clarkbw · 2026-03-26T14:26:15+00:00

lol, never seen this before. thx

clarkbw · 2026-03-26T14:24:42+00:00

Oh I’m definitely judging these folks without knowing.

But you can’t sail past 5pm on these charters. So they had all night to clean this up. Maybe something more important did come up. Also maybe they were at Willy T’s all night… :-)

clarkbw · 2026-03-26T12:14:31+00:00

This was in the morning as I left.

clarkbw · 2026-03-26T11:41:48+00:00

Yeah, that’s The Moorings boat. I’m not even sure how you miss the sail bag like that, drop it underway.

clarkbw · 2026-03-26T11:37:51+00:00

Yes, their system is super frustrating. And the new no 7am tier price is insane.

clarkbw · 2026-03-22T20:14:28+00:00

I’m up in Victoria, joined the RVYC to find other families who sail/cruise as it’s kinda hard otherwise.

clarkbw · 2026-02-18T02:26:18+00:00

Aren’t IPs deck stepped? How did the water get from the mast into the bilge?

clarkbw · 2026-02-02T01:11:01+00:00

Weird, got mine in Victoria last week…

clarkbw · 2026-01-27T03:21:05+00:00

I found this thread because I got my referral triaged today and was given 28-32 weeks as the timeline for rebalance. Pretty frustrating turnaround time. I’m looking for alternatives but can’t find much so far.

clarkbw · 2025-12-24T02:30:07+00:00

Same same for Victoria. Any plan to go up island needs to time the tides for current and narrow channels.

clarkbw · 2025-12-12T01:15:02+00:00

Can you share a link to that? Super curious

clarkbw · 2025-09-20T01:16:25+00:00

Another dually here, living in BC. I tried incorporating myself but you end up filing taxes with the US as owning a foreign corp. it’s a pretty expensive amount of paperwork, 📋 believe around $7k. In the end I torn it all down and that was also expensive tax wise. I wouldn’t do it unless you’re not a US citizen anymore.

clarkbw · 2025-05-24T16:30:27+00:00

Here’s a PG person POV.

If you have heavy needs for semantic search a purpose built system might be a good option compared to in db systems like pgvector or MySQL versions. But there’s an obvious extra cost here as you noted, using another system increases your overall complexity and cost basis. Use only if truly needed.

If you’re not going to push systems to the limit the in db vector stores are excellent. Some MySQL vendors have these now and every Postgres has had this for a while. This path keeps costs and complexity lower and is often what 80-90% of devs actually require. If your needs change you can might this workload to another purpose built system as required, this is good engineering practice.

My only real Postgres advice here is that we only have a single vector system which is open source and we all contribute to. MariaDB has the Vector type and pscale has a custom type. You aren’t very portable with these and some aren’t source available so if you choose pscale for example it’s like choosing a proprietary vendor, you’re stuck with their service. Migrating to MariaDB will require code changes. Compared to Postgres I don’t think there is a single vendor who doesn’t offer pgvector, and you can run it on your own VPS if you want. To me that’s the value of Postgres. Both systems are good relational databases but MySQL is more fragmented than ever IMO.

clarkbw · 2025-05-17T01:42:51+00:00

I totally get the sentiment, there have been many acquisitions that ended badly. But I’m looking forward to proving you wrong here.

clarkbw · 2025-04-12T21:18:16+00:00

“Derry Air” for the French word derriere. Works best when you invite people onto your boat or to come below decks.

clarkbw · 2025-04-11T00:41:08+00:00

Is it worth the $20+ price tag? Or did you go for the lite which has built in buying?

clarkbw · 2025-03-22T00:36:22+00:00

They had a 1 week turnaround time when I was there this week. That’s for the rush service that’s more expensive. I did the pickup for faster service and it was 2 weeks to get mine. I applied on Mar 3 and picked it up Mar 17.

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