Linus Wilson's Blog, page 18
April 8, 2018
Sailing Totem completes their circumnavigation in Mexico ten years after leaving Seattle.
Most west-coast based boats first cross their outbound track on a circumnavigation in Mexico. The Seattle based SV Totem and the Gifford family are no different. They announced they had crossed their outbound track near Zihuatenejo, Mexico. Behan Giffords long-running blog caught the imagination of many a sailor. Good for them!
My book studied successful west-coast circumnavigators, and it found most complete a round the world sailing trip in 5.5 years. The SV Totem crew are on slow end of the distribution with 10 years and counting to return to their home port.
Here is a profile done by the Business Insider of SV Totem:
No word if the Seattle based boat SV Delos, Slow Boat Sailing Podcast episode 10 and 33 guests, will be following in their wake next season. Delos, which is in the eastern Caribbean, has been trailing and bumping into SV Totem for a while and has interviewed their crew.
They departed Panama in late March after transiting the canal. Their quick progress to Mexico indicates they may be trying to reach the USA before the start of hurricane season on June 1. Mexico is one of the most active regions for hurricanes in the eastern Pacific. SV Totem saw the devastating category 5 hurricanes Irma and Maria pass just north of them when they were cruising the eastern Caribbean in fall 2017. They sustained no damage, and eventually spent much of the remainder of hurricane season which goes from June to November in Grenada. Grenada is considered outside the “box” of hurricane risk for the Caribbean.
April 5, 2018
Alleged YouTube Shooter “Goes Postal” Over Less Than $2,000 Per Year
It seems “going postal” is not limited to Post Office employees any more. With millions of creators getting AdSense checks from Google, YouTube pays more people than the USPS. According to her now taken down website and her family, the alleged Youtube shooter was upset about getting ads pulled from her channel and her getting less views on her four YouTube channels in a variety of languages and topics than she used to. According to my estimates Nasim Adhdam, earned less than $2,000 per year making videos on YouTube. That is really not a lot of money to shoot three YouTube employees and kill herself with a handgun as Nasim Najafi Adham did on April 4, 2018, at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California.
Before she went on her shooting rampage, she did a screen shot of her four channels below:
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For sake of argument, let’s estimate how much money she could have made from ads running on her four channels over her seven-to-eight years of making videos. This is an upper bound estimate assuming that all her videos ran ads. Obviously, she was mad that her later videos did not run many ads.
Best case scenario I think her odd videos could have pulled in $3 per thousand views. Her cut of 55% of ad revenue over 8.5 million views is $13,000. Because she posted about the demonitization, ads being pulled, in 2016 its likely that less than half of those ad revenues were lost (less than $6,500). Its actually, pretty sad that anyone would harm someone else and commit suicide over what they could make from a few months at minimum wage.
My belief is that criminal acts rarely make sense. Searching for a motive in madness is an unsatisfying pursuit.
Above is my take on the tragedy, with more picture and video from her taken-down website and taken down Daily Motion videos.
The definition of a mass shooting varies between four people being killed with a gun to four people being injured with a gun. However, you define it mass shootings are too common in the USA.
Alleged YouTube Shooter Shot Herself and 3 Other People Over Less than $13,000 in Ad Revenue
It seems “going postal” is not limited to Post Office employees any more. According to her now taken down website and her family, the alleged Youtube shooter was upset about getting ads pulled from her channel and her getting less views on her four YouTube channels in a variety of languages and topics than she used to. As a YouTube creator, I was interested in the sad story of the YouTube gun woman who shot three YouTube employees and killed herself with a handgun on April 4, 2018, at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California.
Before she went on her shooting rampage, she did a screen shot of her four channels below:
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For sake of argument, let’s estimate how much money she could have made from ads running on her four channels over her seven-to-eight years of making videos. This is an upper bound estimate assuming that all her videos ran ads. Obviously, she was mad that her later videos did not run many ads.
Best case scenario I think her odd videos could have pulled in $3 per thousand views. Her cut of 55% of ad revenue over 8.5 million views is $13,000. Because she posted about the demonitization, ads being pulled, in 2016 its likely that less than half of those ad revenues were lost (less than $6,500). Its actually, pretty sad that anyone would harm someone else and commit suicide over what they could make from a few months at minimum wage.
My belief is that criminal acts rarely make sense. Searching for a motive in madness is an unsatisfying pursuit.
Above is my take on the tragedy.
TAHUATA: Fixing our SAILBOAT in PARADISE, Marquesas, French Polynesia, Hanamoenoa to Vaitahu S2E9
If you are going to do boat projects, you might as well be anchored in paradise. Hanamoenoa Bay and the town of Vaitahu, Tahuata are paradises just off the beaten path that are often skipped by Pacific Puddle Jump boats. Linus tells you about 5 projects he did in Tahuata while enjoying the island. Tahuata is just a few miles from the dark and crowded waters of the Atuona, Hiva Oa and its anchorage at Tahauku Bay. Hanamoenoa Bay has clear water and white sand beaches which are rare in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia. They are also frequented by Manta Rays but Linus did not see them.
Linus visits the town of Vaitahu and its uncrowded anchorage. There is a store and some potable water at the dock, but there is a lot of swell. Landing and launching the dinghy can be tricky. The Walker Bay dinghy get swamps several times while Linus visits the village.
At the end of the video, Linus replaces the belts and the impeller to the Yanmar 3gm30f but forgets to do something at the end.
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Move Over Sailing La Vagabonde! Dylan Magaster Wants to Be the Top Sailing Vlogger.
Dylan Magaster and his YouTube channel of the same name wants to buy a boat in the Med and take his 368K subscribers with him. You can join his motley crew if you win his video competition.
Sailing La Vagabonde just vacated the Med for the Caribbean as part of their northbound swing to the East Coast of the USA. Sailing La Vagabonde has about 380K subscribers and has the edge on subscribers and of owning a boat. Slow Boat Sailing Podcast episode 10 and 33 guests Sailing SV Delos is also in the Caribbean with a future route unknown, and they lead all sailing vloggers in terms of total views and have over 200K subscribers and climbing:
I think Dylan has zero sailing experience except for the sailing he did with the Slow Boat Sailing Podcast guest, Bobby White, of Sailing Doodles. The video is below:
Dylan is not the first top travel vlogger to switch to sailing and its seemingly more lucrative Patreon audience and ad revenues. The bummer is that owning a boat is more expensive than owning a van or RV, and has a much steeper learning curve. Slow Boat Sailing Podcast episode 48 guests (coming out in May 2018) Gone with the Wynns are sailing around the world in a catamaran after selling their RV.
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The Wynns took sailing lessons and paid a captain soon after buying their awesome catamaran. If you are in the market for a sailing catamaran, watch this video FIRST.
P.S. The Cheeky Monkey owned by the Slow Boat Sailing Podcast’s episode 29 guests is for sale in Oz if you are interested. It was a sweet boat from our view just behind it in Papeete Marina in Tahiti!
April 3, 2018
The Terror on AMC: Northwest Passage Sailing Mystery’s Episodes 1-4 Cliff Notes
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Inspired by a true story, The Terror is a suspenseful mystery centering on a Royal Navy crew’s harrowing voyage into uncharted territory as they attempt to discover the Northwest Passage in 1845.
This AMC series comes out on Mondays at 9PM eastern and pacific time. The first three episodes of a ten episode season one have been aired. Will anyone survive to see season 2? We’ll dive into the AMC press kit so you’ll get up to speed on the story and be ready for episode 4 coming out on Monday, April 9, 2018.
Faced with treacherous conditions, disease, limited resources, impending starvation, dwindling hope and fear of the unknown, the crew is pushed to the brink of extinction. Cold, isolated and stuck at the end of the earth, the seamen also face a mysterious threat by something out in the frigid darkness that is stalking their ship, snatching one man at a time and leaving bodies mangled or missing. The Terror is an extreme tale of human survival and a “what if?” of epic proportions, revealing what hubris against nature can cost you.
The real expedition, which led to more than 120 crew members inexplicably disappearing, has warranted a great deal of speculation ever since. Their fate is one of the enduring mysteries of the age of exploration. After almost 175 years of searching, the ships were discovered coincidentally by Arctic research groups in 2014 and 2016.
EPISODE 101: “GO FOR BROKE” Sir John Franklin’s Arctic expedition finds itself within two hundred miles of finally discovering the Northwest Passage when an accident at sea cripples one of its two ships. Sir John must make a difficult choice that could either seal their bid for glory or doom them.
EPISODE 102: “GORE” Having spent a long winter trapped in the ice, spring arrives and an optimistic Sir John sends scouting parties out to search for open water. But one of the parties makes an unsettling discovery and finds itself the target of a vicious predator.
EPISODE 103: “THE LADDER” With the “thing on the ice” now stalking the ships, Captain Francis Crozier tries to convince Sir John to send out a rescue party to attempt to alert the world of their situation, pitting Crozier’s loyalty to his commander against his duty to his crew.
EPISODE 104: “PUNISHED, AS A BOY” With the arrival of another winter, a frightening attack on the ships proves to the men they are not battling an ordinary bear. Whatever is hunting them is cunning, and driving the men to panic. The expedition’s officers are forced to consider that the region’s Inuit culture may hold the key to their survival or demise.
March 30, 2018
CROWHURST v. CHICHESTER, Colin Firth in THE MERCY | Sailing Movie Boat Show Clip Reaction
Colin Firth as Donald Crowhurst comes face to face with Sir Francis Chichester his hero and later detractor in a clip from THE MERCY film. This is a YouTube premier for this clip where two sailing legends face off and Linus Wilson of Slow Boat Sailing reacts to this amazing scene. The Mercy stars Colin Firth as Donald Crowhurst and Rachel Weisz as his wife Clare.
The movie debuts in 9 February 2018 in the UK. It is planned to be distributed by Village Roadshow in the USA later in 2018. This movie has big time Academy Award potential not just for the Oscar winners Rachel Weisz and Colin Firth, but everyone involved in this marvelous production.
From the StudioCanal UK Production Notes for THE MERCY:
“Short Synopsis
Following his Academy Award® winning film The Theory of Everything, James Marsh directs the incredible true story of Donald Crowhurst (COLIN FIRTH, The King’s Speech, Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Railway Man), an amateur sailor who competed in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race in the hope of becoming the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe without stopping. With an unfinished boat and his business and house on the line, Donald leaves his wife, Clare (RACHEL WEISZ, The Light Between Oceans, The Lobster) and their children behind, hesitantly embarking on an adventure on his boat the Teignmouth Electron. Co-starring DAVID THEWLIS (Anomalisa, The Theory of Everything) and KEN STOTT (‘War & Peace’, The Hobbit), and produced by Blueprint Pictures (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, In Bruges), the story of Crowhurst’s dangerous solo voyage and the struggles he confronted on the epic journey while his family awaited his return is one of the most enduring mysteries of recent times.”
Check out our other video about this movie and the Crowhurst story featuring director Simon Rumley:
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March 27, 2018
The Secret to Making and Indie Film that Resonates: The Slow Boat Sailing Podcast Episode 45 Guest, Simon Rumley Writes about Making Crowhurst
[image error]Donald Crowhurst’s story is truly a unique one, combining British derring-do and proud flag waving adventurousness with an intimate story of a dream gone very badly wrong.
In the late 1960’s when men were landing on the moon, it seemed like nothing was impossible. Sir Francis Chichester had just sailed single-handedly around the world (stopping in Sydney for a well earned quick rest) while Sir Chay Blyth and Sir John Ridgway rowed across the North Atlantic, all modestly brushing off these daring feats as being only marginally more dangerous than going to buy a pint of milk at the local shop. The idea that a man might sail around the world with as little experience as Crowhurst still seems vainglorious and crazy although, in reality, both the aforementioned Blyth and Ridgway also set out on the same Golden Globe race with equally little, if not less, experience. Crowhurst’s story is tragic not only because he (probably) committed suicide but also because he left behind a wife and four children. Yet here was a man who was ultimately neither hero nor anti-hero but in a strange way both because his reasons for entering the race were entirely admirable; he wanted to win the £5000 prize money so he could support his family and extricate himself from financial debt. Forget that he cheated and lied to the whole world, somehow his comeuppance still feels too excessive for what seemed more like a series of white lies rather than deceitful, harmful falsifications. Robin Knox Johnson (winner and only man to finish the race) famously said that history should not judge Crowhurst too harshly and this is something we have taken to heart in the film.
With our modest budget, there was no way we’ll be able to compete with a larger production in grandiosity of scale and have massive Perfect Storm or White Squall type sea-spraying storm scenes. So artistry, imagination and suggestion came to the fore in telling this unique story in a unique way.
The main thing we’ve concentrated on is the emotional and psychological journey that Crowhurst went on; the narrative is about a man on a boat after all, and during this journey there are a few highs and quite a few lows. Not only is his loneliness and isolation explored but also, the ultimate irony that as each of his competitors drops out, so he comes closer to winning – the last thing, it turns out, he ever wanted to happen. There’s something terribly British about cheating to come last yet, perhaps worse, is cheating to come last and actually failing and winning by mistake.
When not concentrating on Crowhurst himself, we cut away to give the film a dynamism and pacing beyond its man-in-a-boat origins. The film is interspersed with descriptions of each of the other sailors, read by a BBC newscaster with maps to illustrate where they dropped out of the race. At the beginning of the story, after two sailors already crash out, Crowhurst humorously notes that he hasn’t even left home and he’s gone from 9th place to 7th. As the race progresses it becomes apparent that if the other contestants continue to drop out, then Crowhurst’s benignly cheating ways will have disastrous consequences for him. So, just by having these inserts, a great drama and tension is imbued into the film as the dawning realisation that disaster looms.
To emphasise the Britishness of the situation and how important honour and the Empire were back in the 1960’s we took inspiration from Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia where the whole cast sing Aimee Man’s ‘Wise Up’. From when Crowhurst departs to his final demise, we have various rousing and traditional British hymns/carols sung by various members of the cast – starting off with ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ when he leaves Teignmouth Harbour to The National Anthem when he realises his mission is in tatters. In between, we also have ‘Jerusalem, I Vow To Thee, My Country’ and ‘Silent Night, Holy Night’. The songs are sung by Crowhurst’s supporters but as his plight progresses they, bit by bit, fall away so that it’s only him singing with his family (him on his boat, them at home in England) and for one of the final scenes singing the National Anthem, it’s just Donald alone, on his trimaran.
Working alongside Nicolas Roeg during development on this project has been a terrific
experience for me. Nic’s legacy to the art of film is enduring. Don’t Look Now, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Walkabout, Bad Timing, Eureka and the ultimate in filmed madness, Performance, all contain huge elements of the outsider, the alienated and the the horror and seduction of loneliness. Nic’s contribution to this film in terms of his support, influence and advice has been huge.
The goal of the film has been to treat Donald as the honourable man that he was before leaving on his voyage; a dreamer, a man with a vision, a father and husband, and more than anything, a British underdog. I hope the audience will empathise with his situation, share his hopes and dreams and ultimately his horror at the crazy turn of events the race unpredictably took. In Justin Salinger (Everest, Heartless, Enduring Love) I cast an immensely powerful and captivating actor who completely projected Donald’s charm – perfectly capturing his affable optimism yet never letting go of that sense of being a dreamer with a tangible vulnerability.
I’m very proud of this small but intense movie. It’s an incredible film about an incredible journey by an incredible man.
by Simon Rumley
Simon has been described by Screen International as ‘One of the great British cinematic outsiders’. His career started at the end of the 1990’s when he made a triptych of youth culture films set in London – STRONG LANGUAGE and THE TRUTH GAME were both released by the BFI and premiered at the National Film Theatre whilst CLUB LE MONDE was released more widely. They were critically praised and STRONG LANGUAGE garnered two BIFA nominations including one for Best Newcomer. After that, his films went into a darker, more psychological territory and gained him a strong following on the worldwide genre circuit. Both THE LIVING AND THE DEAD and RED WHITE & BLUE premiered in Rotterdam and the latter also played at SXSW. Together the films won over 50 awards around the world including best films at all the major genre festivals such as Sitges, Fantasia and FantasticFest. After these, he directed parts of two successful horror anthologies, LITTLE DEATHS and ABCs OF DEATH, the latter of which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Most recently he has finished filming a true story in Louisiana, THE LAST WORD, produced by veteran Hollywood director Frank Mancuso Jr (Species, Ronin, etc). He has recently directed FASHIONISTA and ONCE UPON A TIME IN LONDON. Simon’s films have played all around the world and been distributed likewise. Empire Magazine described him as ‘One of the most important and intelligent British film-makers working today.’
You can hear Simon Rumley on episode 45 of the Slow Boat Sailing Podcast. The critically aclaimed Crowhurst film is currently running in the UK.
The director’s notes and bios were taken from the Studio Canal UK Crowhurst Production notes. The picture above features Justin Salinger as Donald Crowhurst.
March 12, 2018
Sailboat LOAN SECRETS | Financing the Cruising Boat with Gary Fretz, Catamaran Yacht Broker
Yacht broker Gary Fretz outlines the big sailboat loan process. We break down the costs and qualifications for a $250,000 sailing yacht.
He says you should only deal with marine lenders and lists the ones that write loans on non-US documented vessels and vessels outside the USA. You need a 680+ FICO credit score, at least 20% down, and less than a 35% debt-to-income ratio. Gary Fretz mostly helps buyers looking for big sailing catamarans that are 5 years or less old. For a $250,000 boat you can expect a $900-$1000 monthly payment based on 20% down and fixed interest rates of 3.75 and 5.0 percent. The number of lenders and terms of boat loans for smaller and older boats are generally worse. He also talks about some of the tax and registration issues with foreign boats. He argues Caribbean sailing catamarans are typically 10-15% less expensive than US-based boats. It costs about $2.50 per mile to have a boat delivered.
We break out the secrets to getting the best sailing catamaran for a great price and maximizing your resale value. Many top vloggers such as Sailing La Vagabonde and Sailing Zatara are selling their monohulls to buy a catamar Gary Fretz has been a yacht broker for 30 years. He helped Jessica and Ryan Adventures buy their sailing catamaran and he can help you too. Once you live aboard space becomes so important and cats have more space! Seasonal and Regional Factors are crucial in price you pay for a cat. Gary Fretz gives a way all his secrets if you e-mail him at
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March 7, 2018
Cruising Outpost Runs “Tracking the Strange Voyage of the SV Sea Nymph”
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You can read the rest of the article online at issuu for a small fee which gives you the whole Spring 2018 issue. Alternatively, you can buy the print version at places like West Marine or Barnes & Nobel if you are not already a subscriber.
It seems that the editors at Cruising Outpost edited down the length around page 154. I was never given a proof or edited version of the article prior to publication. The Cruising Outpost editors wrote something I definitely would not have approved if had I got the chance. They wrote, “Such a slow speed seems only consistent to see if they had stopped anyplace before being rescued.” That phrase is a bit awkward and, giving the editors the benefit of the doubt, perhaps they meant that “the slow speeds make reasonable to ask if they stopped somewhere before being rescued.”
What I wrote was very different. This is what I submitted to Cruising Outpost in that part of the article:
“ Such a slow speed seems only consistent with a craft completely adrift. Nevertheless, Ms. Appel disputed that her boat was not adrift in her GoFundMe appeal from November 25, 2017, “We were not ‘adrift’. ‘Adrift’ denotes that we had no ability to steer, which fails to account for our ability to circle Christmas Island, leave the Dragon’s Triangle, almost return to Hawaii or navigate over 2,000 miles from our failed attempt to return to Hawaii to reach 7.4km Wake Island.”
To the author, these slow reported speeds of less than one knot raise the possibility that the Sea Nymph stopped somewhere between May 18, 2017, and October 1, 2017, (Honolulu time). Those were two points that the author has confirmed in which the Sea Nymph hailed the Christmas Island and USAF respectively. The maximum hull speed of the Sea Nymph based on the 32.5-foot waterline length reported in sailboatdata.com for the Starrett and Jenks 45 is 7.6 knots. That indicates that the Sea Nymph could reach Wake Island from Tahiti, about 2,400 nautical miles, in less than two weeks. Thus, if the reports of the USCG hailing the Sea Nymph near Tahiti on June 15, 2017, are true, then the crew would have had plenty of time to anchor and go ashore several at different ports prior to reaching Wake Island on October 2, 2017, local time.
The Sea Nymph‘s reported speed picked up to 1.7 knots between the confirmed locations of Wake Island and the crew’s eventual rescue 900 miles southeast of Japan, points 19 and 20.
Jennifer Appel told the Slow Boat Sailing Podcast in the bonus interview to episode 42 that she had never looked at the GPS tracks on the Garmin GPSMAP 76cx which she had on board and salvaged from the abandoned boat. She told Matt Lauer on the Today Show, before Mr. Lauer was fired, that her tracks proved she wasn’t near Tahiti on June 15, 2017. Sailing Anarchy writer Alan Block said in his podcast episode 27 that he had Ms. Appel’s Garmin GPSMAP. He told listeners that could not find any tracks, at least initially, on the Garmin GPSMAP 76cx micro SD card.
Here are some possible ways the mystery about the strange voyage of the Sea Nymph may be resolved. If the Sea Nymph is ever found, it may corroborate or dispute the account of Ms. Appel. Donald Crowhurst’s abandoned yacht contained logs that he had landed in Argentina secretly in the middle of the first solo, nonstop circumnavigation race, the Sunday Time’s Golden Globe Race, in 1968. A government body could use subpoena power to look at phone or credit card records that may corroborate or dispute Ms. Appel’s account of her voyage. The US Navy, in correspondence with the author, said that it did not even bother to check the ladies’ passports to see if they had stopped anyplace before being rescued.“
The point that I made on above quote from the deleted part of my submission to Cruising Outpost, which I read on my podcast, and wrote in an earlier blog is that Ms. Appel is saying two things that oppose each other. At this point, there is no way, in my mind, to decide which one of the two possibilities is true:
Ms. Appel gave up on sailing around June and mostly drifted downwind for months, or
Ms. Appel and Ms. Fuiava stopped somewhere between May 3, 2017, and October 25, 2017, and are lying about not stopping anywhere.
I don’t think there is enough information to determine if 1 or 2 is true, but Ms. Appel says both 1 and 2 are false. I have repeatedly asked Ms. Appel to record an interview about the June to October segment of her trip, but she has declined those interview requests. Since the magazine is already on shelves, there is no way to correct that awkward phrase that I never wrote and do not agree with.
Oh well! Let’s just sail on.
by Linus Wilson
