Out Chasing Stars
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It's Time to Say Goodbye...
For almost nine years, we've made videos documenting our sail around the world. Having you along with us for the adventures, the challenges and all the MANY things we've learned made the journey infinitely more meaningful.
But all good things come to an end. So with heavy hearts, we're announcing that this is the end of the Out Chasing Stars UA-cam channel.
It takes an immense amount of time and effort to produce these videos. More and more, we found ourselves wanting to devote that time to other projects. Something had to give.
We're not done yet with a life on the water. We still have a passion for exploring this beautiful world and meeting so many incredible people. Keep an eye out for Starry Horizons and be sure to stop in and say hi!
The love and support we've received over the years has meant more than you could ever know. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for being a part of our journey.
Farewell and Fair Winds,
David & Amy
Maintenance Right on Schedule:
MaintenanceROS.com/
Amy's Romance Novels:
www.lizalden.com/
You can still find us on social media and our blog:
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Відео

I did a thing! Introducing MaintenanceROS!
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From the moment we moved aboard Starry Horizons, I've always felt like there had to be a better way of identifying and tracking all the maintenance and work needed to keep her sailing safely. My spreadsheets were good, but they could only do so much. So together with my brother, we've finally built a better solution. Introducing Maintenance Right on Schedule: MaintenanceROS.com We’ve assembled ...
How to Create Your Own Charts for OpenCPN: A Step-by-Step Guide
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Fellow boaters - I'm thrilled to share my latest project with you: MaintenanceROS! Crafted from my experiences aboard Starry Horizons, it's designed to simplify vessel and maintenance management, making life on the water even more enjoyable. Explore MaintenanceROS.com and enjoy an exclusive 20% discount for the first 6 months using promo code 'outchasingstars'. Seamlessly manage your boat's upk...
OpenCPN Plugins: My 5 Favorites
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Fellow boaters - I'm thrilled to share my latest project with you: MaintenanceROS! Crafted from my experiences aboard Starry Horizons, it's designed to simplify vessel and maintenance management, making life on the water even more enjoyable. Explore MaintenanceROS.com and enjoy an exclusive 20% discount for the first 6 months using promo code 'outchasingstars'. Seamlessly manage your boat's upk...
The EASIEST Way to Get OpenCPN AIS & NMEA Data
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Fellow boaters - I'm thrilled to share my latest project with you: MaintenanceROS! Crafted from my experiences aboard Starry Horizons, it's designed to simplify vessel and maintenance management, making life on the water even more enjoyable. Explore MaintenanceROS.com and enjoy an exclusive 20% discount for the first 6 months using promo code 'outchasingstars'. Seamlessly manage your boat's upk...
Sailing the Jumentos: Exploring a Hidden Gem
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Fellow boaters - I'm thrilled to share my latest project with you: MaintenanceROS! Crafted from my experiences aboard Starry Horizons, it's designed to simplify vessel and maintenance management, making life on the water even more enjoyable. Explore MaintenanceROS.com and enjoy an exclusive 20% discount for the first 6 months using promo code 'outchasingstars'. Seamlessly manage your boat's upk...
Our FAVORITE TRICK to Make Raising the Mainsail EASIER!
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Fellow boaters - I'm thrilled to share my latest project with you: MaintenanceROS! Crafted from my experiences aboard Starry Horizons, it's designed to simplify vessel and maintenance management, making life on the water even more enjoyable. Explore MaintenanceROS.com and enjoy an exclusive 20% discount for the first 6 months using promo code 'outchasingstars'. Seamlessly manage your boat's upk...
Remote Bahamas: Cruising the Jumentos
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Fellow boaters - I'm thrilled to share my latest project with you: MaintenanceROS! Crafted from my experiences aboard Starry Horizons, it's designed to simplify vessel and maintenance management, making life on the water even more enjoyable. Explore MaintenanceROS.com and enjoy an exclusive 20% discount for the first 6 months using promo code 'outchasingstars'. Seamlessly manage your boat's upk...
Bahamas Bound!
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Fellow boaters - I'm thrilled to share my latest project with you: MaintenanceROS! Crafted from my experiences aboard Starry Horizons, it's designed to simplify vessel and maintenance management, making life on the water even more enjoyable. Explore MaintenanceROS.com and enjoy an exclusive 20% discount for the first 6 months using promo code 'outchasingstars'. Seamlessly manage your boat's upk...
Recapping Our Refit
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Fellow boaters - I'm thrilled to share my latest project with you: MaintenanceROS! Crafted from my experiences aboard Starry Horizons, it's designed to simplify vessel and maintenance management, making life on the water even more enjoyable. Explore MaintenanceROS.com and enjoy an exclusive 20% discount for the first 6 months using promo code 'outchasingstars'. Seamlessly manage your boat's upk...
Commissioning and Troubleshooting Our New Schenker Watermaker
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Fellow boaters - I'm thrilled to share my latest project with you: MaintenanceROS! Crafted from my experiences aboard Starry Horizons, it's designed to simplify vessel and maintenance management, making life on the water even more enjoyable. Explore MaintenanceROS.com and enjoy an exclusive 20% discount for the first 6 months using promo code 'outchasingstars'. Seamlessly manage your boat's upk...
Installing Our New Schenker Energy Efficient Watermaker
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Fellow boaters - I'm thrilled to share my latest project with you: MaintenanceROS! Crafted from my experiences aboard Starry Horizons, it's designed to simplify vessel and maintenance management, making life on the water even more enjoyable. Explore MaintenanceROS.com and enjoy an exclusive 20% discount for the first 6 months using promo code 'outchasingstars'. Seamlessly manage your boat's upk...
Starry Horizons Gets New Sails!
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Fellow boaters - I'm thrilled to share my latest project with you: MaintenanceROS! Crafted from my experiences aboard Starry Horizons, it's designed to simplify vessel and maintenance management, making life on the water even more enjoyable. Explore MaintenanceROS.com and enjoy an exclusive 20% discount for the first 6 months using promo code 'outchasingstars'. Seamlessly manage your boat's upk...
My Rigging Masterclass - Fixing and Upgrading Our Mast
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Fellow boaters - I'm thrilled to share my latest project with you: MaintenanceROS! Crafted from my experiences aboard Starry Horizons, it's designed to simplify vessel and maintenance management, making life on the water even more enjoyable. Explore MaintenanceROS.com and enjoy an exclusive 20% discount for the first 6 months using promo code 'outchasingstars'. Seamlessly manage your boat's upk...
Our Off Grid Boat - New Arch with 3.2kW of Solar!
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Fellow boaters - I'm thrilled to share my latest project with you: MaintenanceROS! Crafted from my experiences aboard Starry Horizons, it's designed to simplify vessel and maintenance management, making life on the water even more enjoyable. Explore MaintenanceROS.com and enjoy an exclusive 20% discount for the first 6 months using promo code 'outchasingstars'. Seamlessly manage your boat's upk...
Solar Work Begins! Step 1: Re-configuring our existing panels
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Solar Work Begins! Step 1: Re-configuring our existing panels
Taking the Plunge - Learning Fiberglass Repair
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Taking the Plunge - Learning Fiberglass Repair
Air Con Game Changer! 12v Mabru Install
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Air Con Game Changer! 12v Mabru Install
Goodbye Bronze! Upgrading Our Thru Hulls
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Goodbye Bronze! Upgrading Our Thru Hulls
Quick vs Right. Doing Things The Right Way
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Quick vs Right. Doing Things The Right Way
No Going Back! The Genset is Out and the Rig is Down!
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No Going Back! The Genset is Out and the Rig is Down!
Our Eight Year Refit Begins!
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Our Eight Year Refit Begins!
Starry Horizons v2.0: New Boat vs Refit???
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Starry Horizons v2.0: New Boat vs Refit???
10 Thoughts on Cruising The Bahamas
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10 Thoughts on Cruising The Bahamas
International Shore Power for Cruising Boats
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International Shore Power for Cruising Boats
Sizing a Marine Battery Bank
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Sizing a Marine Battery Bank
How To: Boat Power Audit
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How To: Boat Power Audit
Marine Electrical Systems 101
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Marine Electrical Systems 101
Marriage Savers! Why You NEED Them On A Boat
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Marriage Savers! Why You NEED Them On A Boat
5 Things I Wish I'd Known BEFORE Cruising
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5 Things I Wish I'd Known BEFORE Cruising

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @b0nafided65
    @b0nafided65 3 години тому

    Gosh, I really wish you two would start up this channel again. Your videos are stand-out exceptional information. No one else documents like this.. no one else puts out this kind of information - It’s all click-bait!

  • @alexfuller818
    @alexfuller818 2 дні тому

    Great video. Is it possible to export a route or waypoint to a plotter with wireless capability, without using an SD, I.e. wirelessly using wifi or blue tooth ?

  • @anthonsinala
    @anthonsinala 2 дні тому

    Can you help me how to insert circle border 500m zone sir?

  • @dwight_klaus2981
    @dwight_klaus2981 4 дні тому

    Incredibly useful video - thanks

  • @solarscreens7973
    @solarscreens7973 7 днів тому

    Yal are living my dream. I'm still young. One day I will do this.

  • @solarscreens7973
    @solarscreens7973 7 днів тому

    Where did you swim with dolphins

  • @jamesstrom6991
    @jamesstrom6991 10 днів тому

    some keep bungs stringed to their seacocks…

  • @timlamarre8680
    @timlamarre8680 11 днів тому

    Thank you for posting this!

  • @tedspeed3338
    @tedspeed3338 11 днів тому

    Maybe a short 1 year update on the 12V A/c conversion?

  • @timlamarre8680
    @timlamarre8680 11 днів тому

    Fantastic. Thank you for posting this.

  • @familienviig2207
    @familienviig2207 21 день тому

    Thanks alot, i have been looking for the game type o video. 🙂

  • @paulotavaresrabrugu
    @paulotavaresrabrugu 24 дні тому

    Fantastic intro. Thanks

  • @JeremyDWilliamsOfficial
    @JeremyDWilliamsOfficial 24 дні тому

    Don't watch if you use a Mac....

  • @coldisle
    @coldisle Місяць тому

    Very helpful. Thx.

  • @marcelogenao3009
    @marcelogenao3009 Місяць тому

    What else can we plug in

  • @alvananeboamarga8098
    @alvananeboamarga8098 Місяць тому

    Wakatobi Island is Beautiful ❤

  • @svbarryduckworth628
    @svbarryduckworth628 Місяць тому

    We replaced our DST-800 with an 810 a couple of years ago after we were hit by lightning and the transducer quit working (along with just about everything else electronic on the boat.) The new app is nice and well-appreciated due to the pain of trying to set offsets on multiple displays. Calibrating the data source only once is better. The new water wheel seems to foul a lot quicker and easier than the old style. That's a pain but the excellent water stopper gate makes pulling the transducer for cleaning super easy and low stress. Changing the transducer creates about a half quart of.water inside the boat. We rarely pull or.change ours until the wheel is fouled or we are hauling out. Installing the plug before hauling out is a good idea. Definitely make sure there is no water in there above the O-ring(s) if you expect freezing temperatures as any moisture in there could freeze and damage the plastic thru-hull. On our transducer the water temp stopped working almost immediately but we never used it anyhow.

  • @dwongu
    @dwongu Місяць тому

    According to an Airmar install video, the black seal is actually mean for retrofitting the new transducer to the older thru-hull fitting (if you already have one in place).

  • @symaitreya9931
    @symaitreya9931 Місяць тому

    Sooo good videos! Thank you! I am trying to figure out IF rumours are true regarding using an iPad with OpenCPN in our cockpit? What is the latest regarding works or will nots on iPads?

  • @dune_tech
    @dune_tech Місяць тому

    great installation video. I have taken the inspiration and got a zen 50. Can I ask where did you get the TDS senor and solenoid?

  • @CaptainBarbaros92
    @CaptainBarbaros92 2 місяці тому

    Unless your using a dingy, for the love of God use 24v

  • @rimasmeleshyus9486
    @rimasmeleshyus9486 2 місяці тому

    Sailing around the world 🌎 the best education and expiration, learning culture and language. Thank you for sharing.

  • @sailing.not.dreaming
    @sailing.not.dreaming 2 місяці тому

    Im into backups, OpenCPN is my fourth chartplotter as I lost mine crossing the Atlantic and had to use an iPad only

  • @wilbertojavierizaguirrecal7165
    @wilbertojavierizaguirrecal7165 2 місяці тому

    me salvaste la vida chico me toca dar un clase de cartas nauticas y asi se puede obtener cartas mas actualizadas que en navionics o garmin mucho amor chico

  • @dhruvilshah30
    @dhruvilshah30 2 місяці тому

    Is there a plugin to see my night vision camera? It has cvbs output or HDMI. Thanks

  • @blondestrainger
    @blondestrainger 2 місяці тому

    Ask your insurance company and Lloyds first

  • @blondestrainger
    @blondestrainger 2 місяці тому

    It’s not that they won’t work but expansion of plastic and it cracks you sink , can’t tighten like bronze

  • @gioncarloabella6764
    @gioncarloabella6764 2 місяці тому

    how to put some dummy target? so i can practice my navigational skills?

  • @SailingSarah
    @SailingSarah 2 місяці тому

    "Just sitting on it for purposes of making this video..." it's OK buddy, I get all my great ideas while using the head too 😂

  • @psystealth
    @psystealth 2 місяці тому

    great features, thanks

  • @louisdrummond7874
    @louisdrummond7874 2 місяці тому

    Great stuff

  • @Mordalo
    @Mordalo 2 місяці тому

    I've used it, or more precisely, tried to use it. Anything but intuitive or user friendly. Pass.

  • @gerryduquette6717
    @gerryduquette6717 2 місяці тому

    Can you import navonic charts in to open CPN

  • @acampbell198
    @acampbell198 2 місяці тому

    Looks like you started quite the debate on bronze vs Marlon and a sub debate on whether your old fittings were brass or bronze. Great video! I recall that you all are moving away from UA-cam and have other irons in the fire you are tending. Good luck on those new endeavors and thank you for all the great content. One question concerning your project, I noticed you took all the paint and barrier coat off when replacing fittings...required for bedding compounds to mate to gelcoat and not paint. But then you put strainers over the through hull fittings leaving bare gelcoat exposed under the strainer...or so it would appear. Are you concerned at all with this little bit of gelcoat being exposed under the strainer w/out any barrier coat and/or ablative paint? I will be doing this same project this fall and am trying to learn all I can from those who have already done it. Again, thank you!

  • @MmIlahg
    @MmIlahg 2 місяці тому

    If you walk around a room that means its a sphere? Sailing should prove the opposite. You wouldn't be able to use the stars as a reliable navigation if we were hurting and spinning through space while the sun and the galaxy was spinning and hurtling through space. There would be no fixed north star in the center

  • @basantsharma5487
    @basantsharma5487 3 місяці тому

    Sir how come to know my chart is update or not in open cpn Or pls send me link of update chart

  • @mattbrink721
    @mattbrink721 3 місяці тому

    Awesome video. Thanks

  • @seanbuford987
    @seanbuford987 3 місяці тому

    A chisel would of made that hole easily.

  • @VIJAYzk
    @VIJAYzk 3 місяці тому

    I am pretty sure if an advanced alien race come here on earth it would do something similar to what colonisers did. There is a possibility that they find us primitive and do nasty things.

  • @magnumxs1100
    @magnumxs1100 3 місяці тому

    I just stumbled on this video and really appreciate the making of it, I will definitely subscribe to pick up all of your videos on this subject. I haven’t got my head around OpenCPN as yet, but wish to learn as we have as our boat is fitted with a lot of legacy equipment Raytheon/Raymarine RL70 displays, radar, wind and depth/speed/temp transducers. I have recently installed a Raymarine AIS700 and connected this via an NMEA 2000 backbone, which, in turn, I have linked into a Digital Yacht IKommunicate NMEA 0183/2000 to Signal K Gateway, this I have connected to a wireless router on Cloud Nine, I have taken NMEA 0183 data from the back of the Raymarine Tridata instrument, and can see most of our data on Navionics loaded onto iPads, this is picking up the AIS data via our WiFi on board (just using a domestic old router). We also use a laptop as a back up to the RL70 chartplotters, using a product called PCPlotter, this has Navionics charts loaded as well. So OpenCPN seems a sensible way to go to give us an alternative chart software, at the moment we have to buy Navionics licences for each device. One question, ahead of looking at your other videos, where I may well find the answer!, will OpenCPN pick up and work with Signal K data?

  • @siren17
    @siren17 3 місяці тому

    You are true naturals... Honest and informative videos, not out just for the clicks. Thanks so much and good luck with your new ventures!

  • @siren17
    @siren17 3 місяці тому

    Thanks for the video. I just received my DST 810. I applied marine grease to the o-rings and was trying the fitting of the plug and transducer in the housing and it is so tight that I can barely remove them by hand. Did you experience the same? Are those easier to remove once the boat is in the water? Thanks.

  • @TheBobwei
    @TheBobwei 3 місяці тому

    stooooppppp

  • @user-wg5db6pb7z
    @user-wg5db6pb7z 3 місяці тому

    A minor correction perhaps. I think of amperage more as “volume” when compared to the water analogy. “Speed” is more related to velocity with water.

  • @marie-pierremaingon6171
    @marie-pierremaingon6171 3 місяці тому

    I did the download on Mac and all I got was 1file and preview content no file to preview. what now?

  • @StevenRidder
    @StevenRidder 3 місяці тому

    Thank you for the great videos, watched your Top 10 series during Covid, then got a boat. We saw you all in Georgetown Exumas in winter 22, and just now bought a FP Helia 44 and you came up again on google, so now I’m rewatching all your videos to know what to expect and see if there’s any hidden tips/tricks. We are currently circumnavigating, had to pause to deliver our daughter and swap boats for the expanded family, but these videos from years ago are still relevant.

  • @StevenRidder
    @StevenRidder 3 місяці тому

    If UK bought the land, they own it and can do what they want. They ex-slaves should be compensated, but that’s it.

  • @curtisinnorcal
    @curtisinnorcal 4 місяці тому

    I followed this tutorial by downloading the programs and installing them as you do. But at 8:55 your map menu shows more choices than I have in SASPlanet. Specifically I don't have Marine Maps as a choice and I can't find Navionics Marine Charts like you have. Do I need to change a setting or do anything else to get these charts like you show? This is a great tutorial for step-by-step instructions on how to make charts for OpenCPN, well done!

    • @curtisinnorcal
      @curtisinnorcal 4 місяці тому

      Nevermind, I figured it out. I pressed the N hotkey and the Navionics Chart appeared in the viewer and it created the Marine Maps directory as you show in the video. Not sure why it didn't show after the installation.

  • @luizdesousa7079
    @luizdesousa7079 4 місяці тому

    you put your life on plastic vs bronze. "kind of stupid"

  • @stanleybest8833
    @stanleybest8833 4 місяці тому

    Water dissipated heat is an unnecessary mess. 8000 BTU's is way too large for most boats. A good video should tell how to budget wattage and how to make cooling effective and not waste it.