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Salty Podcast #67 ⛵ From Wreck to Wonder! | The Sailing Magic Carpet Story

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When Maya and Aladino first laid eyes on their Cape George 36, most sailors would have walked away. What appeared decent from the outside concealed extensive rot and deterioration beneath. But this creative couple—whose backgrounds seemed destined for a nomadic seafaring life—saw potential where others saw a hopeless project.

Five years of intensive rebuilding later, they've transformed a near-derelict vessel into a stunning blue water cruiser they now call home. The journey wasn't just about reconstruction; it was about reimagining what's possible when persistence meets craftsmanship. Aladino's background (growing up traveling Europe in his father's homemade RV) and Maya's upbringing (hearing stories of her parents' world circumnavigation) provided the perfect foundation for this ambitious undertaking.

Their partnership thrives on complementary strengths—Aladino handling the technical aspects of boat building with remarkable skill while Maya brings artistic vision and storytelling expertise to their widely-followed content creation. Together they've crafted not just a seaworthy vessel but a beautiful floating home designed for comfortable long-term cruising.

Now exploring British Columbia's magnificent coastal inlets and archipelagos, they embrace a "sailing around the world as slowly as possible" philosophy. Moving just ten nautical miles a day, they discover hidden anchorages where mountains plunge directly into deep waters. Their approach reminds us that sometimes the journey itself—with its challenges, discoveries, and quiet moments of accomplishment—offers greater rewards than rushing toward distant destinations.

Whether you're contemplating your own boat rebuild, dreaming of coastal cruising, or simply appreciate stories of determination and craftsmanship, Maya and Aladino's adventure inspires us to reimagine what's possible with patience, skill, and a willingness to take on projects others might consider impossible. Follow their journey on YouTube and Instagram at Sailing Magic Carpet to watch as they navigate the next chapter of their extraordinary adventure.

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Capn Tinsley:

Today on the Salty Podcast, we're talking with Maya and Aladino of Sailing Magic Carpet. They took a wrecked Cape George 36, rebuilt it by hand and turned it into a serious offshore cruiser. We'll dig into what made them take that leap, how they pulled it off, and what life really looks like when you live slow and sail far, and what life really looks like when you live slow and sail far. But first, please help me support the channel by hitting that like button, subscribe, check out some more videos and share With that. I'm Captain Tinsley of Sailing Vessel Salty Abandoned and Island Packet 320, and this is the Salty Podcast, episode 67. Welcome, sailing Magic Carpet, let's get into it. Hello, hello, hello.

Capn Tinsley:

Thank you for that lovely intro oh yeah, yes, I'm here to make you look like stars, the stars that you are.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Thank you very much.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, very happy to be here so you guys have an interesting background.

Aladino:

Tell us where you're from. You first. Yeah, sure, I was born in Italy, but I actually grew up in Switzerland, the part that I was sticking to one country, but I did a lot of traveling with my parents on an RV. So, yeah, a bit of a vagabond lifestyle growing up. But then, yeah, I am dual, swiss and Italian.

Capn Tinsley:

Okay, so you toured around in an RV like in Europe.

Aladino:

A mixed Europe and we also did a lot of west coast of the USA and Canada went up to Alaska. We went down to Mexico many times yeah, there was a.

Capn Tinsley:

This is why you were growing up, the whole time you were growing up. It's like both kids, but you were RV kids.

Aladino:

Exactly, I was an RV kid, yeah, and mostly that was the starting years when it was easy to stay out of school and homeschool. Because Switzerland has quite strict regulations. Homeschooling is not a thing, but it's easy to skip a year here and there in the early phase, and so that's what my parents did with me here and there in the early phase, and so that's what my parents did with me. But then, as secondary school starts and high school, that's uh.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, you can't get out of that, so I had to attend, okay to attend those years well and.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

I feel like oh sorry, no, go ahead. I I feel like RV doesn't really describe what it was. I mean, it was a home-built van um yeah it was because you think of RV, you think of one of those like 40 foot long shiny things. It wasn't that.

Aladino:

I actually have a photo.

Capn Tinsley:

What was it like? It was like a, like a van. That was kind of.

Aladino:

It was actually a motor home that my dad built, so there's a bit of crossover there where I got inspired and now like to build, uh, our homes, um, I want to see that's the RV oh yeah, it's like a, like an old Winnebago yeah, it's an old Dodge Sportsman and inside it was completely yeah yeah, he ripped off everything except the foundation and started from scratch and then was traveling around, and that's when I was between being one and seven. We spend a lot of time on that motorhome, yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

Wow, Okay. Well, Maya, what about you? You're from well, Canada, right?

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Yeah, I'm from the west coast of Canada, near-ish Vancouver, but a small town. I didn't travel as much growing up, but my parents both sailed around the world before I was born, so I grew up hearing a lot of stories about that. It was sort of it was not something I ever did with them, but they, you know, it was something I was always aware that people did. You know, it was just the thing that my parents did before I was born. So, yeah, but I was homeschooled for most of my growing up, so I still had a fairly alternative upbringing More in one place.

Capn Tinsley:

I see, okay, great. So before we get into the Cape George, you had another boat.

Aladino:

Which one?

Capn Tinsley:

Well, the one right before this one, I guess.

Aladino:

Which was Magic Carpet. Yeah, so for some people don't see the connection, but my name, aladino, is actually Aladdin in Italian and in Spanish, so that's why it makes perfect sense that our boats are the Magic Carpet.

Capn Tinsley:

Gotcha. Me being Aladdin yeah, and how far did you sail on that one? It was a say, the name of it, it was a 32-foot.

Aladino:

It was actually a 28-foot boat. It's called a Vinde 32 because many Canadian designs refer to the sail areas in square meters. But yeah, it's more designed as a coastal craft. Per designation it's not a blue water boat, but it's more designed as a coastal craft per designation.

Aladino:

It's not a blue water boat, but it's a full keel. Yeah, she's pretty stout for a 28 footer and we spent quite a few seasons in the Mediterranean. We sailed around Sardinia, which is some of my home sailing grounds, which I'm very familiar with and I've done many times we took it around Sicily. That was a really cool adventure.

Aladino:

It got a little too hot for you, but that was really nice, and then, because it was so hot, the Italian summers should be skipped, but that led us to cross Europe doing the canals. So we dove into the canals. That was really interesting and we popped out in the Netherlands and then we went from there across the North Sea to Denmark and then we explored Sweden, norway, a little bit. So, yeah, that was. That was briefly what we did with Magic Carpet One during six or seven years.

Capn Tinsley:

So how long you guys been together? Six or seven years, six or seven, so how long you guys been together um eight years, wow, okay. So that whole experience with that boat you did together, yeah, and then this one as well, okay, great, okay. So the moral of that story is you have a lot of sailing experience coastal, I would say yes. That counts, it counts.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Like we haven't crossed an ocean or anything yet. You know, like I think our longest crossing was three nights, so nothing too crazy, but we're looking forward to that next chapter for sure.

Aladino:

Oh yeah, absolutely yeah, no, and exactly not to take away from it. We have not done a crossing. I'm totally aware of that in terms of blue water, but I also feel like there's so much to coastal cruising, where it's like anchoring every night. There's so much to learn there and to really gather experience. So, yeah, those are the things that we are starting to get very comfortable with, just the daily gunk holing.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, you're actually busier when you're coastal sailing. There's a lot going on, Like when you're crossing a gulf or something like that. You kind of set everything up and just stop for repairs, which are inevitable. Yes, and it sounds like you two are perfect to be able to handle just about anything. Now, what condition was it in when you got it? I'll see if I can pull up. It was bad.

Aladino:

Oh, it's really funny when you put it that way. I chose to tackle two projects which were basically destined for the junkyard. They were almost two total write-offs.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

The first one, literally, was a total write-off.

Aladino:

The first one was a total write-off because Magic Carpet One fell from a crane 20 feet onto concrete and, yeah, she was written off by insurance and she was laying in the corner. And I started an apprenticeship in that boatyard and I inquired and I decided to fix her up. Yeah, not many times that you choose to do such a project twice. So this one here, which I think your question was about, the Cape George. The Cape George could have gone into the water, but since a lot of the boat is wooden, all of that was compromised and so we could have lived on it. But we really didn't want to immerse ourselves in a moldy environment and so we decided to take things apart and start fresh, just to have a good home later, instead of making it work for a little bit but living in a moldy boat.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, that wouldn't be a good thing. Yeah, I'm a real estate agent. Mold is your enemy, yeah.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

Okay, so this is what part of the process? This was about midway right Even a bit further along yeah.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Yeah, because there we've already redone the decks, which was a really big part of it, which means we've also redone the beams and the blocking, which was a huge part of the refit. So it looks like the decks are already fiberglassed in that photo.

Capn Tinsley:

Okay, it does.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Yeah, so from there it was fiberglassing the cabin top painting. That's what it looked like when we first got it. That's what it looked like when we first got it. So it looked good from the outside, it presented really well, but there was a lot of rot hiding underneath everything and as soon as you start to probe into it, that became pretty apparent yeah there is a picture in here of okay, so that's, you're making progress.

Capn Tinsley:

After okay, there does this show.

Aladino:

Okay, this shows the before right yeah, that is very much before yeah shot. Yeah, that's even when I was disassembling the cockpit, because there was a lot of rod in the beams there and it was kind of one of those moments when I'm like, well, if we got this far into it, uh, let's not skip this thing, which I would like to modify a little bit.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, is this like mud or something down there, or is that?

Aladino:

That's just like a floorboard.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

I think it was unpainted fiberglass. A lot of the interior fiberglass wasn't painted and then behind it was rotten balsa which gave it this really like modeled gross look to it. Quite frankly, this is a total project.

Capn Tinsley:

This is like amazing that you took this on. Thank you, I admire you guys. Okay, so this is after you've done some work, right? Yeah, yeah.

Aladino:

Here it looks like, cause we cut open the decks, and that was to access the deck beams which were compromised and needed replacing. So the only way to get them out was from above and not from the inside, because they sit on the beam shelf, so you can't get them out this way, you have to get them up from above. So here, though, we've put down a fresh layer of plywood again. After all, those beams were fixed up, which I guess we can take you in from right here behind us. Those are the new beams here. Let me make that bigger hold on.

Aladino:

Those really distinct.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh my gosh, that's beautiful.

Aladino:

Thank you, that's an original one.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

It has a bit of a darker color, this one the orangey other way, honey, yeah, yeah anyway, yeah, the orangey one, there is an original one, and these are the newer ones.

Capn Tinsley:

Okay.

Aladino:

But, yeah, that was some of the structural phase. Thinking about it, though, now that you said it earlier on the other photo, if that was halfway, maybe that was correct, because we also completely redid all the systems on the boat and that is not something to take lightly. Yeah, that took quite a while back.

Capn Tinsley:

Okay, so let's just look at a couple more here. There you guys are and there you are again. Okay, all right, and I just want to show these real quick, these. That's cute, that looks like a professional shot right there. All right, so now do you do you want to tell I'm going to if I show that video? Let me pull it up again of the introduction you did of the tour of the boat.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Oh sure.

Capn Tinsley:

Do you want?

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

us to narrate it, or something.

Capn Tinsley:

Well, if you just tell what comes to mind, I'm going to try to get it up here on the screen. All right, I'm my own producer here, so be patient. Okay, here we go. So this is a great video that people can check out on Instagram, and it really shows how beautiful it is inside. Thank, you.

Aladino:

Yeah, I really like the butterfly hatch. It lets in a lot of light, which I didn't expect, but that is one really cool feature of it.

Capn Tinsley:

So that was your creation.

Aladino:

No, no, that's original. They come with a butterfly hatch.

Capn Tinsley:

I know I was like jealous. I was thinking I wonder if I could do that to mine, but it might mess with the structure. This I was thinking I wonder if I could do that to mine, but it might mess with the, the structure. There you are.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

It sort of has to be designed in there from the start, I think. But to me actually, it was one of the selling points when we bought this boat. I just I loved the butterfly hatch and I knew it would let a lot of light in and um. Now that everything is sort of freshly painted and freshly varnished, it really gives it the canvas for that fresh, for that light to actually shine, whereas before, when the wood all of the interior wood was oiled and quite um matte and just a bit mottled looking when we got it and so the effect of the butterfly hatch wasn't quite as powerful as it now is. So it's very satisfying to see it. You know all the elements come together, sure.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, I think that's. Some people like to go with other reasons to a catamaran because you have so much more light and everything coming in, so that just was a nice. I'm a monohull gal, so that would be nice to have something like that. It really brings in the light and shows you how beautiful it is inside.

Aladino:

Oh yeah, sorry, no, go ahead, but yeah, for a boat from 79, the idea then was really small windows because they can smash in, because the ocean is a serious place. So the one place where there is a bit of compromise is that big butterfly hatch, and I was just surprised oh yeah, actually does.

Aladino:

Yeah, as you can see right there in the shot, it just you see the sky, you see the boom, you see the sails, which is elements that they're incorporating now in boats, uh, where you can see the mast and you can see your head sails sometimes, so things like that. It's it really. Yeah, happened to look good from outside and it brings.

Capn Tinsley:

It makes sense I mean I've always. I don't even put my bimini up because I want to look at the sails yeah, I like sun, I'll die. I'll probably die from sun exposure, and that that's okay. I'm going with it all right. So let's see what else we got here. What part of the refit took longer than expected, and was it worth it? Of course, you're going to say it All of it, all of it.

Aladino:

All of it took longer yeah. To me, it was absolutely worth it, yeah.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Yeah, I mean, ultimately, we have a really beautiful boat now and a boat that we can really rely on and really trust, and I'm really, really proud of that. I think, if you're going to take on a refit of this size, it's also really important to be honest with yourself about like, ok, how do I want to spend, you know, five years of my life? Are these the skills and the knowledge that I would like to build and expand on in my life and take with me into future endeavors? Or are my you know skills and interests pulling me in other directions? And that doesn't mean I can't be a sailor, but you know, 99% of sailors on the ocean haven't rebuilt their boat for five years, so it's not exactly what we recommend. Did you know it was going to take that long?

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

No, we thought it was going to be two.

Capn Tinsley:

That's still a long time to commit to, you know, but I'm so, I'm so glad you guys stuck with it. It must be so gratifying.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Well, we're really fortunate to have been able to be to stick with it. You know, I think if we weren't lucky enough to have an audience, as we do, cheering us on and sort of having that social push behind it, I personally for myself don't know if I would have made it through. I think that was a huge motivating factor.

Capn Tinsley:

I'm sure, cause I've done things like well, I'm going to do this. Well, now that I said it, I got to do it. We're going to have to finish this. We can't walk away now. So you've done a lot of upgrades. What were your top priorities for getting ready to cruise full-time? And I assume that's what you're going to do? Yeah, I.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

It's hard to answer because we literally rebuilt every single system on this boat, like the rigging is new, the engine is new, all the electrical, all of the plumbing. So like it's hard to even narrow it down to what did we prioritize, cause we literally had bare bones. We had to rebuild all of it.

Aladino:

We tackled it from the ground up. First we did the structural repairs to the boat so that it would have structural integrity again, and then we started rebuilding the interior and we customized it a little bit to fit our needs and our preferences and make room for the systems that we will want to have on the boat in terms of where does the fridge go, how do we deal with holding tank, do we want one where? And just all of those things. We customized that.

Capn Tinsley:

What did you decide on the holding tank?

Aladino:

Oh, holding tank. We were giving the airhead a try. It's a composting or a desiccating toilet. Yeah, okay, just trying it all out so that one day we can be wise about both things and know all of the approaches.

Capn Tinsley:

Well, I decided to do the pure sand system. Okay, yeah, and well, that was a game changer. But if I wasn't doing that, I was going to do the compost, because I just didn't want to have a holding tank and carrying all that around, you know.

Aladino:

There's an answer, but yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

So you, aladino, you had a background in this somehow and and I and my you had you're kind of the filming person, right, yeah, so you guys make a good team, so so you have the experience with the boat and you could just kind of follow, like you can say I want this and here, what do need to do? How does that work with your team there? Um, I hope that made sense.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Yeah, no, totally.

Aladino:

Oh, that's one of our skillset, yeah.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

I think, I think, yeah, part of the reason why Aladino and I work together well is because we have a really different skillset, but that skillset compliments each other pretty well. Well, um, you are an extraordinarily talented boat builder, as everyone who watches the channel knows, and it's amazing what he can do with. He's just like such a natural craftsman. It's really really cool to watch, and I've got more of the artistic and the entrepreneurial side and I can keep things ticking along in that regard.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

I think with the refit, roles definitely got crossed a little bit, which added to the challenge, because I don't think either of us really enjoy working in the other's role. So it's nice now that the refit's over to sort of be back to our happy places and you can do boat maintenance and? I can do the filming, and that's a nice balance.

Capn Tinsley:

Well, it comes natural yeah.

Aladino:

There's always interesting moments where sometimes it feels like oh my God, I got a lot of my shoulders because we do have our field all to our own, where sometimes it feels like this is a lot. But also, on the other side, I can see how it creates friction when you're working within the same field because it like works. I can see how it creates friction when you're working within the same field because it like works. Maybe there is conflict of interest in the sense of like. No, I want to bring the story this way, no, I want to tell it from this perspective, and then you, you could end up arguing about that. But we, we have our fields and we carry that on our shoulders that on our shoulders?

Capn Tinsley:

definitely I. I can definitely say I I'm a sailor, I I love making videos, I know all that stuff, but I am not a mechanic so I have to get the credit card out. I try to fix things myself. But to have you, aladino, to have that specialty, it's just awesome. And you're probably thinking I'm glad I don't have to edit those videos.

Aladino:

Oh, big time no Maya is a lot of work. Yeah, no, she's. Her narrations and storytelling and journalism aspect is absolutely mind blowing what she puts together. Yeah, the artistic brain is on fire.

Capn Tinsley:

That's a great.

Aladino:

It's the brain. That is great. That's a great partnership. It's the picky mentalizing brain.

Capn Tinsley:

I would like to be able to say to my boyfriend my husband died nine months ago so I'm solo in it and I was a solo sailor before. But to be able to say to somebody I want this and I want this upside down like this, can you make that happen? And Aladino's like sure it doesn't quite go like that.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Let me, yeah, it's going to be funny, you know. First I say no about 10 times and then eventually.

Capn Tinsley:

He'll say that's not possible.

Aladino:

Maybe it appears as a surprise one day. Okay.

Capn Tinsley:

Well, okay, well, that's a you can, you can, she thinks of it. You could actually make it happen. A lot of cases, right, and you too, you think of stuff. So what's one system or feature on magic carpet you're especially proud of? Maybe it's just all of it. What do you think?

Aladino:

Oh yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

There's so many Like something that you said how do we do this and oh we figured it out.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Yeah, the one thing that has made the biggest difference to cruising life that we did not have on magic carpet one is hot water. Yeah, we never had. We never had hot water before and it is such a game changer no, it's really nice such a wonderful creature.

Aladino:

Yeah, yeah, oh. But back to the other point of um me building things that maya wants, um the reason I hit on something, didn't I oh yeah it leaps into this as well, because I was like curious what you were gonna say. I thought you were gonna say something about maybe some twinkly lights or a lamp.

Aladino:

And the conflict often is that I was like building structural parts and I was breaking my head about things like that and Maya's priority would have been the lighting of the boat which is important, but yeah, but look at all of our.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

you know, now we're going viral on Instagram because the boat looks pretty.

Capn Tinsley:

It's important. Yeah Well, it's good that you two are both. I mean, it's good thing that you're not just doing the superficial stuff and ignoring the structure so it has to be a bit of give and take.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Oh, absolutely, both are important, because if you just did structure and no aesthetic, then it also is like a lot harder to show for your efforts.

Aladino:

Yeah. Yeah, it's a little thing. I think the camera cabinet came out pretty well.

Capn Tinsley:

Camera cabinet perfect. Like you have little notches or something where things fit in. Of course we're dedicated to this.

Aladino:

We have dedicated one cabinet to just cameras and ND filters and batteries and microphones.

Capn Tinsley:

I bet you have the most organized boat.

Aladino:

There, yeah, it is fairly organized.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

It's fairly organized. Things can always be better, but it's pretty good.

Aladino:

Totally.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Wow, I need an.

Capn Tinsley:

Aladino, that's what I need, so okay, so your philosophy when it comes to comfort versus performance, you're going for both, right?

Aladino:

Trying to very much indeed. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

And, and and.

Aladino:

I mean, I don't know, some people would maybe not agree with us it is. It is a performance within a certain bubble, because it's not a race boat. She's a full keel I mean many racers would laugh at calling this a race boat, but for 79, and compared to many other cruising boats, she is sporty, definitely yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, I've got an island packet, so I know about sailing a bathtub sometimes but, I'm not going for races, so yeah, it's a, I'm just going for safe, comfortable, you know. Um, okay, so I like to ask people about their favorite anchorages.

Aladino:

Oh, the one that we picked right now just happened to be a beautiful spot. We were fishing this afternoon and, yeah, just before hopping on the call with you, we just happened to see a little bite and we went in there and it's beautiful.

Capn Tinsley:

So you took the boat out. Pardon me, you took the boat. Yeah, we're on the boat. Yeah, we're on the boat. Yeah, you're on the. I mean, you took the boat out to this place today.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we were fishing from the boat earlier and then we had this call, so we had to find somewhere to anchor.

Capn Tinsley:

Okay, I gotcha. All right so tell me where it is, I'm going to pull it up.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

We? We are in the Broughton Archipelago, which is off the northern coast of Vancouver Island, and we are near an island called Guilford Island.

Aladino:

We're actually in Cremner Channel or Passage.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, is it Cremner, yeah, cremner Passage.

Aladino:

Yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

Guilford Island, oh Cremner, mount Waddington.

Aladino:

Yeah, oh, that's an area.

Capn Tinsley:

It's that Island.

Aladino:

Oh.

Capn Tinsley:

Cranes, mount Waddington. Yeah, oh that's an area. It's that region.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

That's the district. Can you put the bread out of the sun?

Capn Tinsley:

They're making bread guys. It's so cool. All right, Let me pull this up so I can show everybody. I've discovered so many good anchorages by asking people these questions that I would have never known about. So, okay, there's Guilford Island, so yeah, so um we are.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

you see Echo Bay. It's sort of on the Northwest part, so we are um sort of just to the West of Echo Bay, that channel under Baker Island. That's where we are.

Aladino:

Pretty much where the cursor was. Yeah, a bit to the right and a bit to the top. There is a little island, a tiny one. Yeah To the left the little bay to the left. That's it.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Yeah.

Aladino:

And we're tucked in behind that little island. We're right tucked in there. Yeah, You're right in.

Capn Tinsley:

There Is yeah that's where we are. You're right in there. Is anybody else there?

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

No, no, and we thought it would be. It's not really an anchorage.

Aladino:

No, we thought it'd be too shallow because not every place is charted very accurately around here, but there is enough, so we actually went in. Yeah, and there is this nice midden to the north and there is this nice midden to the north which are the shell beaches which you can see on the map. That it's like bright turquoise.

Capn Tinsley:

That's because the shells are white.

Aladino:

Is this it right?

Capn Tinsley:

here yeah, wow Okay.

Aladino:

To the south, there is a kelp patch, which is neat, and there is a bait bowl surrounding us.

Capn Tinsley:

That's all the little bait fishes, which is very neat. And what's the water temperature?

Aladino:

Oh cold. The Brattons get a lot of moving water and it's about 12 degrees Celsius, which is sorry.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Sorry, Let me look it up. You know it's not freezing, but it's not warm.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, 50 Celsius is probably about in that ballpark, not swimmable yeah, it's 53 so where do you normally hang out?

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

you just kind of hang out around this area, or no, we've been moving north the whole summer, so we started near vancouver and, uh, we've just been heading up the inside passage and exploring all the little indentations in the coastline along the way. This coast is just absolutely absurdly beautiful like it. It's. It's hard to I I struggle to even put it into words it's, it's amazing. So there's these inlets that go really deep into the mountains and so you can literally sail in between the coastal mountains and it feels right here, for example yeah, they're everywhere.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Like for example, uh, rivers inlet. If you scroll out just a touch, yeah, so rivers inlet is up at the top there and you can see how far deep into the mountains that goes. That's all salt water, so I bet it's beautiful If you go up. Yeah, and yeah, here you go.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

It's stunning you can go up here. Oh, yeah, yeah. So if you scroll out even a little more um the inlets that I was talking about, so this is all. This is all beautiful, this is all like islands and lovely. But I scroll out a little more and you'll see what I'm talking about and how deep these inlets really go even a little more. Go down south a little bit, so at the bottom south even a little more, that's yeah okay, so now stop there and do you see rivers inlet marked there?

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

yeah so that you can go. That's saltwater and you are in the mountains.

Capn Tinsley:

So you can go up in here. How wide is this?

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

So we haven't done rivers inlet specifically, but we just finished doing night inlet, which is actually the longest in BC, I believe, and it's down south a little bit more. You can have a look where that one is. So if you go south, south, south, more south.

Aladino:

Yeah, quite a bit.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

And I would zoom out just a touch as well.

Aladino:

Yeah, and now to the east.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, oh east. This way yeah.

Aladino:

Yeah, so that's the one.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

So where that water becomes milky at the end, that's the end of Night.

Capn Tinsley:

Inlet water becomes milky at the end that's the end of night inlet, so you can go so far up there. And is that, is that ice? What is that? Yo? It is ice, yeah it'll melt.

Aladino:

That's why the color is different, but it's all the water that runs into the ocean from the rivers and glaciers yeah, fascinating.

Capn Tinsley:

I guess we can't get on the ground here. Well, let's see what little man, let's put him on a boat.

Aladino:

Hairspray.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, it doesn't work, let's see if he'll go here.

Aladino:

Oh, here we go yeah he would go in Fort Hardy. Oh, it's on a boat. That's funny yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

Is it a sailboat? Oh, look at this. No, it's a powerboat. That's weird, isn't it? It's a google boat, okay, well, fascinating, okay. So, uh, the name of that anchorage was say it again well where we are.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

We don't even know where this has a name, but I would say if to answer the question about favorite anchorage would honestly probably be up night, inlet night inlet okay that was spectacular.

Aladino:

Yeah, there's the one place we can't. We can't tell you about it.

Capn Tinsley:

It was too beautiful, sorry no, okay I I don't blame you, because as soon as we put it out here, people gonna know. Okay, tell me about what's not.

Aladino:

Many boats go up the inlets because they're a little challenging. Uh, more challenging. No, I'm super happy to tell you, yeah, we loved it up there.

Capn Tinsley:

Well, does it get windy up in there with the mountains? Does it like go through like a?

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

you know, yeah, it really funnels through, and part of the challenge is that there aren't really good anchorages in terms of good holding. There aren't really good anchorages in terms of good holding because the guy who taught me how to sail said that the water is as deep as the land is high. And so when you've got these mountains that are just you know, soaring up into the clouds and they plummet straight down into the water and they just descend down to 2000 feet deep instantly. So there's no ledge for your anchor. There's very few select places, for example, where a river might come out and then it pushes a bit of sediment out, where you can somewhat anchor with a stern tie, but it's never super secure. So you do have to have a little bit of trusting yourself and your boat to go up the inlets, but the rewards are pretty great as well.

Capn Tinsley:

How do you stay back there? Do you tie onto the rock somehow, or? But you just find that spot that has a little bit of sediment.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Like you said, you find the spot with the sediment, you drop the hook and then you stern tie. So you're anchored and stern tied.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

And that's because often these ledges that you're anchored on are so steep and narrow that you don't want your stern to drift away from them, because you'll probably just pull your anchor off and your anchor is just going to be floating and nothing. So if you stern tie and you pull your stern to shore and then you're kind of stuck, so your anchor is like pulling against that slope and then your stern is pulling against the shore and then you can get yourself in there pretty securely yeah, always keeping it under tension.

Aladino:

But it's rolly, it's windy, uh. So yeah, the beauty comes with a bit of discomfort yeah, and do you sleep pretty good under that yeah, we've had some really good night's sleep, uh, luckily, and uh, some other nights are a little less good, yeah yeah, but I mean obviously it pays to have good ground tackle right like we sure your ground tackles so much.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

We've got really good stuff now and that has been huge yeah, well, that's one of my rapid fire questions.

Capn Tinsley:

We we're going to have some rapid fire.

Aladino:

What is your?

Capn Tinsley:

we'll go ahead and ask that one now your anchor. What kind of anchor do you have?

Aladino:

We have the Vulcan by Rockna, and that is also because our boat has a bowsprit and so we couldn't have a roll bar anchor, which is, uh, pretty trendy right now. But the vulcan was designed to perform the same, if not better, without the need of a roll bar and, uh, yeah, so we absolutely love it and it stows really nicely, uh, within our existing, uh setup it's been so good we haven't dragged, yeah, ever really, and do you have one in the rear also? Not yet. That's in the works.

Capn Tinsley:

For emergencies at least.

Aladino:

I have a stern anchor for some situations, yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

I don't have one, but that's my goal to get one soon. Before we do the rapid fire, I wanted to know what's next. Where are you going to go?

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

We're just going to keep going north for a little bit along the BC coast here, and then I think we're probably going to end out the season by heading down the west coast of Vancouver Island, which is more open Pacific, because where we currently are is it's called the inland or the inside passage. We're quite protected by Vancouver Island, but if you go down the west side, yeah, it's Pacific Ocean and it's supposed to be just absolutely stunning and beautiful. So that's that, yeah, wintering.

Capn Tinsley:

So are you going to stay on the boat all winter?

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

right there, we're like not 100% sure what the winter is bringing, yet it's going to be cold.

Aladino:

Well, we have a heater now now, which also is a nice addition. But, yeah, the boat is our home, um, we can visit family here and there, but it's not like we have many other uh places to fall back on. Uh, so, and there is beauty in that, um, in living in our home regardless of the season, but there might always be the occasional um uh other excursions here and there yeah as we have always done, yeah are you thinking about going to mexico? Maybe one day too, with the boat eventually.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, that's what I mean, and the caribbean, you're gonna go to the panama canal, but I think we're more interested, interested in heading over to French Polynesia going that direction. Nice, yeah, okay, very nice Okay, so you, ready.

Aladino:

Our motto is sailing around the world as slowly as possible, so that's very much what we're doing right now. We're doing 10 nautical miles a day and exploring a new little inlet.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, I really like that motto. A lot of people would like to live that way. So more power to you. I'm a part-time, I go. I didn't go anywhere last year, but normally I go for like two or three months, and so I'll be doing that. October. Around the first of October, I'll be taking a trip to the Bahamas, georgetown, from Orange Beach, alabama, if you know where that is not yet it's on the northern Gulf Coast of the Gulf of Mexico, gulf of America, okay, so here's a little rapid fire.

Capn Tinsley:

Okay, what's your coffee set up on board?

Aladino:

a year supplied later yeah what was it?

Capn Tinsley:

a percolator, okay, a percolator, all right so you had to make sure you had power for that. Oh, it's okay, it's the kind that you put on a fire. Yeah, yeah, it's not the electric one okay, cool, cool, a percolator in English.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Yeah, because you always call it a mocha which is what it is in. Italian, but I think that's what it is in English.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, yeah, if it perks, it's like an electric one, but it's like a camping one.

Aladino:

So you put water in the bottom, then there is a coffee up here, and when the water boils it sends it up a tube and it spits it out in this chamber, and then this fills with coffee and then you pour it into the cup this definitely makes sense to save power on board.

Capn Tinsley:

You know what I have a keurig?

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

it sucks power yeah, this is like, this is very european, like it's. It's not even we didn't get it because of power saving, but, like everyone in Europe, this is how they make coffee at home.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, we're learning something here on the Salty Podcast.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Okay.

Capn Tinsley:

Autopilot or wind vane. Depends if you're motoring or sailing, yeah.

Aladino:

I like both, but I really love wind vanes for well offshore passages, which we haven't done many yet. But we have played with wind vanes close quarters. I just love that. They don't take power, they're reliable, they keep going. It's that extra crew member without it being one that eats your food and drinks your water. There is no noise. I just find them fabulous devices, but that's in the works. We don't have one yet on this boat, so an autopilot and electric one I find is also a really handy tool.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

It's nice to have both. They serve different purposes.

Aladino:

Yeah, that's how I see it.

Capn Tinsley:

Have you priced out the wind vanes? I'm asking just because I don't know. I'm interested in getting one too.

Aladino:

Yeah, there's many that pop up on the used market too. Those are usually pretty easy to give it a second life. Yeah, hopefully stainless or aluminum, and those can be had from anywhere between $500 to two grand, and I think the newer units are probably from two grand to between two and four. It always depends a bit what model. There's a few different options out there. Yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

What about Watermaker?

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

We don't have one.

Aladino:

No, not yet.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Where we're cruising. Right now we really don't need one, but once we go elsewhere, maybe we're going to want one more. So we did. Actually, we were given a Watermaker, which was really, really kind. But it turns out it's a model that's no longer made and it needs several, quite a few parts to actually get it working, and it's quite an investment actually to get those parts.

Aladino:

So we're figuring out if that's worth it now or what we're going to do with that, yeah, if it's worth reviving an old one and trying to make it work with new pieces that are compatible, or if it's not worth trying to make this one work, but yeah, no, in general I love what the folks over at Cruise RO do. We have their fridge compressor and I just love their customer service. So, yeah, whenever we have a question, we call them up and they're always available and they're always very helpful and they also have a water maker, so they're a good one tell me the name of that again, the name of that company cruise ro okay the folks over at cruiser are great, uh, and then I also heard good things about the shankers.

Aladino:

Um, that's, they use a little less power. There's so many options out there. It depends. Do you want to produce a lot of water quickly or a trickle of water, but for a long? They use a little less power. There's so many options out there, it depends. Do you want to produce a lot of water quickly or a trickle of water, but for a long time? There's too many options.

Capn Tinsley:

I imagine you guys just need a low producer. You're not going to require high amounts of.

Aladino:

Before we add a water maker, we will probably add to have salt water at the faucet, because right now most of our water use is just like for doing dishes, and if we swap that to salt water, if we actually just drink all that we carry, then we could cross the pacific. Um yeah, with no worries well, and what?

Capn Tinsley:

what does that do to the pipes?

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Well, you have to have a dedicated saltwater pipe, dedicated saltwater faucet. Yeah, okay.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh, cool, okay, Okay, sunset sail or sunrise sail, sunset.

Aladino:

Oh yeah. We're not early, no brainer, yeah, okay.

Capn Tinsley:

Anchorage or marina. Anchorage Every day of the day every day.

Aladino:

Yeah, marina means a chore day that's just to do laundry, get rid of garbage, I mean sometimes it's really nice, but yeah, we, we don't go into them that often yeah is it, uh, where you are, where you go in?

Capn Tinsley:

is it pretty expensive for a slip?

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

also it's yeah, it's pretty expensive and um 100 bucks it changes anywhere between uh 50 and 150 yeah, okay, seasonal, okay.

Capn Tinsley:

Uh, who's the better cook?

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

maya probably me at this point yeah, yeah if you asked a few years ago. Maybe it was me, but no, no you mostly cooked when we first got together. But I've sort of taken that over now. Actually, to be honest, I took it over during the refit because it was like an escape from sanding. And then I was like, the more allowed that I make this dinner, the less I have to sand.

Capn Tinsley:

So I became a really good cook because of that, you suddenly became willing to learn some new cooking skills.

Aladino:

Okay.

Capn Tinsley:

We are food, we really eat food.

Aladino:

That is also one thing we really like, or why I like to travel is experience cultures, experience different foods and catch the fish that we then get to eat. Like all of those passions tie into each other.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, well, you look like the both of you eat very healthy.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Oh, thank you.

Capn Tinsley:

We try to, yeah, so it's working Okay. Favorite weather app.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

I've been using Windy up here because it's really affordable, but for more offshore weather we hear really good things about predict wind, but yeah, up here it's a mixture of Environment.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Canada puts out marine forecasts, which are really good, so I check those and then windy, and actually that is something that we have found like we, when we were cruising in Italy, we were using the local Italian forecasting service. That was a good one. When we were cruising up north, we were using the local Italian forecasting service. That was a good one. When we were cruising up north, we were using the local Swedish one. It's really good to use the local forecast. Some local knowledge goes a long way.

Capn Tinsley:

Right rather than the app.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Yeah, like Windy is a really good overview of sort of the bigger systems as they move through the seas. But especially if you're coastal cruising and you've got, you know all these land formations and islands which can change the way that wind curves around it, then those local forecasts often have a better idea of how those bigger ocean systems passing by are actually going to affect the local region. So yeah, it's nice to have a mixture of the both.

Aladino:

That's definitely the way to go. Always try to get some local intel.

Capn Tinsley:

Local knowledge about everything Right. Local knowledge Favorite chart plotter.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Oh, we just have an iPad, Well we've got something new that we haven't installed yet, but we're looking forward to it.

Aladino:

Oh yeah, I'm very excited about the Orca. I don't know if you've heard of it, but we actually we haven't unboxed it yet. It's basically a tablet and a chart plotter navigation system made in Norway. It's a couple of engineers who sat together and decided to make something different, and what I really love about that is because I don't like to have something mounted on the boat, but I like that double duty use tablet because then you can take it inside. It's not mounted on the boat. You can use it for all sorts of different applications, and they have come out with this tablet which charges faster, which you can see well in the sunlight, which, uh, yeah, um, it's purpose built for that and I'm really excited to take it out, do all of your instruments still.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Come in and read on the the chart plotter yes, but with that said, we also have very few instruments like they could do. But we just I mean, we don't even have a wind speed indicator. We never have, no, and we just yeah, I just stick my nose out.

Aladino:

Uh, we, we have depth.

Capn Tinsley:

My kitty's talking, if you hear that she's. She's crying, looking at me. I didn't want you to think there was a crying baby in here and I was ignoring it, so do you? Uh, what about like um radar or um the autopilot?

Aladino:

I'm talking about radar. I prefer to keep gear to a minimum because the radar, for me, the only reason really is when it gets foggy.

Aladino:

You really feel lost when fog surrounds you and like squalls if you're doing a crossing and squalls, but on the other side, it's a lot of cost and a lot of installation to have the radar for those few occasions. So, before radar, um, I want to get ais, which is something we should have. We didn't get yet, so ais is paramount. Uh, that will be our first um, but yeah, as you can tell, we're out here doing it, but the boat is never finished, so there's still I like.

Capn Tinsley:

I like your minimalist philosophy because you know, know, honestly, I don't hardly ever turn on my radar. And then I found out that if you get in an accident and you should have turned it on and it's on the boat and you didn't turn it on, you can be liable. So it's better just to not have it. That's not my expert opinion, that's just my opinion. Okay, that's not my expert opinion, that's just my opinion. Um, okay, starlink or comms off.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Oh no, I mean we have to have starlink.

Capn Tinsley:

We work online I thought you were gonna say no, no, we don't know.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

I mean, it's definitely a love hate. You know you're out here, and part of the beauty of being out here is being disconnected but also like we wouldn't be able to be out here if we weren't able to connect and work online.

Aladino:

So it's yeah, if we really design how this works to our greatest benefit, then we would be spending the season out here filming all of it and then go to a home studio and edit over the winter. But that means that we would miss out on half a salary, um, because, yeah, we, we get some income when we post the videos, um, but yeah, that would be an ideal setup yeah, maybe monday.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

that's how I'll do it At the. Moment it's pretty much a mix. We're filming and editing, always all the time.

Capn Tinsley:

It's a big job. Maybe someday you can get an editor. It's hard to do that because I don't think I could do that either. I don't too. It'd be nice to hand it over, but that wouldn't work.

Aladino:

the videos are what they are because, uh, my eyes right yeah, that's the thing.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

I really love doing it too, like I I love editing. If if I was to get help with anything, it would be the communication side of things. I am perpetually bad at emails and messages and you know that that's where I could do with some help.

Capn Tinsley:

But the video editing I really love that okay, yeah, one of your fans would probably help you with that. They'd probably love to the one that you trusted.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

No, I don't know. It's also hard though, Cause, like I know, the people reaching reaching out or reaching out to talk to us right and ask us specific questions, so it's a hard thing to um to do, but but that's a lot to keep on top of as well, and I'm appreciative that we have folks reaching out to us. I'm really grateful for that and I'm really happy whenever we can respond, but it's definitely, you know, like an hour or so every day of just emails, and I'm not always up to date.

Capn Tinsley:

Well, that's awesome. So, and also, if you just do lives and like, uh, one of the reasons I wanted to do a podcast was, for one thing, I came back home and I was kind of let down and I was like, oh, get back to work. And I thought, well, at least I can do a podcast and talk to people that are still out there and and the the idea of going live is, I'm not editing it, it's just this, is it? So that part helps. And.

Capn Tinsley:

I do clips so you'll see those afterwards. Name three things in your ditch bag and do you know where it is? Fishing line emergency olive oil.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

We have flares in there we have a little bit of rations. What else, where is it?

Aladino:

Yeah, where is it? I don't even know Our table seat.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Okay, good. All right, we're not super offshore ready at the moment, like we don't have a life raft yet. You know, and obviously we need that before we go offshore. We're very much coastal cruising at the moment, but before we head down the West coast, of Vancouver Island.

Aladino:

We should buy a few of those things for sure. Yeah, we we do have a hard uh rowing and sailing dinghy right now, which, uh, yeah, and you're going to.

Capn Tinsley:

You're going to keep that.

Aladino:

Oh yeah. Yeah, it's working pretty well.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, all right. Uh, let's see how many spare parts is too many for long?

Aladino:

no, ever exist.

Capn Tinsley:

If the boat can take it and if you have the storage for it, uh yeah, everything you can helps so that'd be mostly like your engine parts or your um, filters and belts, and oil and fuel pumps all kinds of pumps.

Aladino:

Yeah, I haven't worked on the spares yet, as the boat is just finished and I'm getting to know those and so the spares acquiring that will be the next chapter, just like with gathering the offshore side of things. But yeah, every single system requires gaskets.

Capn Tinsley:

I bet you're going to have a nice organized locker just for spare parts.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

He already does. Are you for hire?

Aladino:

They're sprinkled here and there wherever they fit.

Capn Tinsley:

That's right, yeah okay um best piece of gear under 100 does that exist on a boat? Well, sort of um under 100, under 100, oh, oh it's, it could be, it could be just, it just could be something that makes your life easier, like a special setup for the camera where you just made filming easier. It could be anything, or tool.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

The one like. Some might call it superfluous, but it's. It's very necessary in our lives is. We brought our cast iron Dutch oven with us this year, and so I've been making really good bread. Like every three days I make a massive loaf of bread, and that has been so wonderful for quality of life, so that's nice. That's under 100, my big Dutch oven.

Capn Tinsley:

You just don't even look like you eat bread. Oh, we eat so much bread.

Aladino:

That's a crucial part healthy homemade bread.

Capn Tinsley:

That's what people calories goose says. Uh, greatest info. As usual, he's a regular on here, so okay, um, what's your favorite sailing sound? What's your favorite sound on the boat? It could be when you're at anchor.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

What makes you feel peaceful. You know something really lovely that I don't know if you know, but I've been getting really into recording sounds and this summer I bought a really lovely stereo recording setup. So I've been going around with my microphones recording all the sounds of sailing, and one that I was really excited to be able to capture is the sounds of the bubbles as they start to burst apart as they pass by the cockpit. So you know, when you're sailing and the bow disturbs the water, and so that sound is very like percussive and high pitched and harsh in a pleasant way, I guess, just like it's very defined, but then that those waves, as they pass by the stern of the boat, all of those bubbles that the bow created, start to pop and it creates that hiss. Do you know what I'm talking about?

Capn Tinsley:

Yes.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Yeah. So I love that sound and I'm really stoked that I've I think I've finally been able to capture it in a satisfactory way, which is pretty cool.

Capn Tinsley:

That is amazing. I had no idea you were going to tell me that you actually recorded sounds on the boat. I mean, that question was meant to be for you, okay, so I think I might know the answer to this one Short hop or overnight passage.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

I mean, we've mostly done short hops but that's not to say that we're against overnight passages.

Capn Tinsley:

I've enjoyed those too, oh overnight passages are magical yeah yeah, but we just happen to do more short hops yeah yeah, well, it sounds like that's the way you're gonna, when you finally do go on a long excursion. It sounds like you'll you're just gonna be taking it easy. Yeah, not in a big hurry.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

We're definitely, and it's the same when we're traveling on land. Neither of us are too concerned about checking places off. We want to spend some time, get to know the place, the people, all of that.

Capn Tinsley:

Awesome, okay, do you keep paper charts on board?

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

For filming mostly we do have some, but we never use navigation I do I use them for the videos. That's the honest. That's the honest truth.

Aladino:

There is aesthetic beauty in them.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, sure, yeah, I took. I, you know, took all the courses, got my captain's license, all that good stuff. I can do it, but I really like using that chart plotter that's the thing I mean.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Very few people actually use the charts anymore, um for navigation. They're good to have as backup. I'm glad we have them as backup. I'm glad we both know how to use them. But we don't on a day by day, yeah sure quiet anchorage or lively cruiser hub oh quiet anchorage for sure okay, what's the last thing you fixed on board?

Aladino:

the fridge. The last thing was the fridge.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah we got a bit of you. Got it working.

Aladino:

Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, oh, I think we just uh, we had some exciting sailing and so some connections maybe vibrated a little more. So we had a refrigerant leak, but everything down again and recharge it a little bit and it's back on fire.

Capn Tinsley:

I mean cold as ice, were you able to do that yourself?

Aladino:

Because I haven't worked on all of my spares yet. No, sadly.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Well, we had to get someone to bring refrigerant. We didn't have spare refrigerant.

Aladino:

But the unit is designed brilliantly where it is pretty easy to do yourself. If I had been carrying the refrigerant, yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

Okay, I was going to say they call it they call it up there, but they, they call it gas. You know when they're putting in. Yeah, whatever it's called, I just call it gas.

Aladino:

There's so many types Freon.

Capn Tinsley:

That's it.

Aladino:

That's what I was trying to think of so many different ones, yeah that's it.

Capn Tinsley:

That's what I was trying to think of so many different ones. Yeah, okay, um, what's next? Where are you headed?

Aladino:

we kind of already asked that one. This is all dedicated to bc british columbia coast, which is incredible.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, all right well, you've got that big boat, so I'm looking for that, that passage when you think you might go to Hawaii or something like sailing Phoenix.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Yeah, we definitely are going to do some longer passages, probably starting next year. Okay, cool Is BC.

Capn Tinsley:

Okay, so I'm going to put up your information here. You're at sailing magic carpet on Instagram and I didn't see you on Facebook, but you're on YouTube. Our main thing is YouTube, which is also sailing magic carpet on instagram, and I didn't see you on facebook, but you're on youtube.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Our main thing is youtube, which is also sailing magic carpet okay, and on instagram too.

Capn Tinsley:

I see there's a lot of good clips there so people can follow. You got a lot of followers, got a lot. It looks like you got a lot of loyal fans and, um, as someone who just got invited to be in the partnership program on YouTube, I'm going to be following your lead on how you guys. So let me ask you one other question how do you balance? I know how much time it takes. You do really great content. How do you balance the time? Has it slowed you down or you just have your roles as such, where you can did it slow you down with the refit?

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

I mean, I think because we have such clearly defined roles, like I do a hundred percent of the video stuff, like all of it, and you do the majority of the boat building those lines got a little blurred during refit, cause I was also doing a lot of boat building stuff, um, but now that we're out here, like you're mostly doing boat stuff, I'm doing the videos. So did it slow us down? I mean, not really, it almost might slow us down. I think more when we're actually out sailing, because you know it takes me two days to edit an episode. I put one out every week, so that's two days every single week that we're basically just sitting in an anchorage so that I can edit. Sometimes I can edit while we're underway if it's nice and calm, but like if it's not calm I can't be sitting down below looking at the computer screen, you know so. So yeah, I would say it slows us down more out here, hey.

Aladino:

Yeah, it slows us down, and it's also what keeps us going. So, they are in balance, so the answer could be yes and no. Yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

While she's editing, you can go be, you can tinker and be fixing things.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Which is good yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

Well, I've kept you for an hour right on the dot. This was great. I appreciate you guys coming on. What an honor. I hope we can do it again after your. Whatever the next chapter is that maybe I can touch base with you and you're planning your first passage.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Absolutely. We look forward to it. Thank you so much, and I look forward to hearing from the Bahamas.

Capn Tinsley:

I hope you will have an amazing trip. That sounds sounds lovely I've been thinking about. I have Google Nest cameras on the boat. I thought about going live every day and kind of doing a reality show, you know, just showing. It might be boring to some people, of course, but just me sailing. Boring to some people, of course, but just me sailing. Anyway, thanks so much and I'll be back in touch with you and I'll be following you Okay, thank you very much.

Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet:

Thank you very much.

Capn Tinsley:

That's Salty Abandon.

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