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Barehand CATCH & COOK 🦀 On UNINHABITED Island! Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 430
🕑 Added 2023-09-22 12:56:32 +0000 UTCAhoy Patreon fam! After a couple weeks of hectic sailing episodes, we've got some pure, unadulterated island fun comin' at ya! We're just starting to scratch the surface of the Tuamotu Islands, and holyyyyyy cow you guys it is such an insane place....the drone shots in this one will transport you to an alternate dimension. But besides enjoying the truly jaw dropping views all around us, we also get busy trying to feed the family when provisions start getting a bit bleak on board. So we take to the sand flats and get creative with our hunting techniques, and with the help of our team of buddy boats we manage to catch a truly obscene amount of crab and spend hours upon hours deshelling it (is that a word?) and preparing a feast for the whole gang! We also check out another anchorage with some amazing history - Has anyone here read the book or seen the movie Kon-Tiki? It's an incredible true story about a team of explorers who float across the Pacific Ocean on a balsa wood raft and make landfall right here in Raroia. We visit the spot where they made landfall, and It was so crazy to imagine what that must have felt like to spend 101 days drifting at sea, and to then lay eyes upon an atoll like this. It's such an amazing story, and we give you the cliffs note version in the episode, but the book is SO worth a read...seriously, you won't regret it!. We have it in our amazon storefront along with a bunch of our other faves under "Recommended Reading" at svdelos.com/amazon
Anywho, hope you enjoy this beautiful paradise with us! Also wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who joined us in the livestream last week, we had such a blast hanging out with everyone!
Sending big hugs to every single one of you!
Brian, Kazza, & Sierra 🥰
Direct link to watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xXhfGKW2WGU
Comments
Janne Peltonen
Wait, are there sailors who *haven't* read the By Raft Across the South Seas? :D Maybe this is a Nordic illusion :-P
SV Trippin'
Very thoughtful and entertaining episode cheers!
Ronald James Haug
Hi Kazza, Brian and Sierra, Really love your posts from the south pacific. I don't know why exactly, but maybe because it's so remote and you've just barely touched land after a long passage. By the looks of it there are other cruisers around, which must be so comforting. I wish I could be there with you also to experience everything you are going through. On Thursday I am heading over to Humboldt Redwood National Park to meet up with a friend from college who is coming down from Seattle. We will be staying high on a bluff overlooking the ocean at the mouth of the Klamath river for the long weekend. Living in Mt Shasta and working in the forest as I do, I know a thing or two about isolation in far off places. What I like about our perch on the ocean is we will see whales spouting offshore. This may be the last weekend for great weather on the west coast. Additionally I am meeting with Yurok Tribe members to see about working as a planning forester with them. I hope they bring me into the fold. What I would like to do in the next 5 years is to sail with you for a few months in French Polynesia or the Caribbean. Great you got some more lessons with the wing foil. How did that "just happen?" If you want to learn from the best check out Cynthia Cynbad Brown. She sails in Baha and Hood River. She is the sister of my friend Jamie Brown who is also an all around great sailor, windsurfer, surfer and outrigger on Oahu. Here I am pimping my friends... Peace and good fortune to you.
Frank
Thank you, you made my day better.
Michael Williams
More Delos Solid Gold! It is just the best to travel with you and catch the crabs! Kon-Tiki was a book from my childhood and as usual, Brian did a standup job with the historical summary. Well done mate!
Brian Travis
Thank you so much for sharing. What an incredible spot you have found in the middle of the ocean.
Are Ã…rseth
Here is the version with original Thor Heyerdahl narration. https://archive.org/details/kontikipart1
FRANCIS DEL VECCHIO
Why does your Patreon Video site, link to YouTube?
William Domb
More mantas!
Jeff Mack
It's nice to see you guys get some fun R & R after that long passage to get there. Is it possible that nothing on Delos broke over the last week and needed fixing?
Are Ã…rseth
You can also watch the original Kim Tiki film online. https://archive.org/details/kon-tiki that’s old school sailing video 😉
david marentette
Stunning drone vid. So beautiful there.
S E
Thank you for the escape. All of it is beautiful, but that octopus was amazing! My wife and I are going to the Annapolis Boat show in October. Have any recommendation of things to see or you found useful, interesting, fun while you were there?
Lowell McCormick
For boiled seafood, I suggest using Zatarain's Crab Boil (the liquid version). It's what we use in New Orleans to boil crabs, shrimp & crawfish. Blue crabs are plentiful around here. Most of us grew up fishing, crabbing, crawfishing and shrimping. We learn to pick crab meat early in life. It's not easy pickin's. This illustrates why lump crabmeat costs over $20/lb. I salute the crab meat pickers of the world.
Emily
Friday morning coffee is better with Delos, I also enforce child labor whenever possible and the fact you got to journey to where Kon Tiki landed is just a wow!
Scott C. Wise
Time to watch another amazing SV Delos episode! : - )
Colleen Balch
Holy, I was laughing so hard about your rope swing antics, I was crying! Loved Kon Tiki, pretty sure I read it when I was 12 or so. First sailing adventure book.
