Red Sea Chronicles Ready For Shipping

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The Red Sea Chronicles is now available for your viewing pleasure.

For 11 years the Abbott family sailed around the world on their thirty-nine foot catamaran, Exit Only. The Red Sea Chronicles follows their adventures through Oman, Yemen, Eritrea, Sudan, Egypt, and the Suez Canal. Join the crew as they race through pirate alley, tackle engine problems , and battle sandstorms, while exploring one of the most exotic and underrated cruising destinations in the world, the Red Sea.

The DVD is one hour and twenty-two minutes long and in addition has one music video as well as special features that include:

Storm Management for Cruisers
Bloopers
Handy Arabic Phrases
Middle Eastern Cuisine
Why Catamarans for a Circumnavigation?
Captain Music Video
Taming the Ropefish

Purchasing information is available at: RED SEA CHRONICLES (http://www.maxingout.com/red_sea_chronicles_DVD.htm)

[tyrntlzrdking]

Dave,
I ordered mine. Looking forward to it.
Thanks for all your help.

Jeff

[ForumAdmin]

I just ordered mine as well .... :)

[Nordic]

Looking forward to a cosy evening or 2.

Alan

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Its would be nice if when members watch the video they could post a review in the review section.

[Maxingout]

Thanks for the ordering the Red Sea Chronicles DVD. I'm sure you'll enjoy watching it.

Multihull cruising DVDs aren't so common, and people don't really understand the offshore capabilities of small cruising catamarans.

I remember when a magazine editor at the Miami Boat Show told me that catamarans under 40 feet were not seaworthy for offshore sailing. I had already sailed from Florida to New Zealand in our Privilege 39 - and we survived against all odds according to the editor.

I remember camping in the Saudi Arabian desert with a monohull sailor who told me I was a very brave person to be sailing around the world on a small catamaran. I asked him why he felt that way, and he told me that he sailed in a single-handed race across the Atlantic Ocean, and he was knowledgeable in the ways of the sea. Then he mentioned that his monohull was struck by a ship during the race sinking his vessel, and he had to be rescued.

I remember the British family in an Edel Cat 35 that I met after the tsunami in Thailand, and they were finishing up their circumnavigation.

I remember the cuisers I met in a Gemini 1000 catamaran in New Caledonia who had sailed their Gemini from the Australian mainland to Tasmania, then directly across the Tasman Sea to New Zealand, and then up to New Caledonia.

It turns out that lots of people are sailing to far shores in small, medium, and large size cats. I'm glad that we have the opportunity to show people in a video what it's like to cruise the world in a cat.

In the world of video production, the cardinal rule is "SHOW, DON'T TELL". That's what we did in the Red Sea Chronicles. If you want to see what it's really like to have a multihull adventure, this DVD is for you.

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I have purchased just about every cruising DVD I am aware of and in general they are not very good. Some are very poor image quality and very poorly presented but beggars cannot be choosers - there is a shortage of them.:)

Also many are expensive and still very poor. It was a pleasure to see your reasonably priced.

I can see from the excerpts that this video will not fall under the headings above and I am really looking forward to watching it and sharing in a fraction of the experiences of your trip.

Its seems to me that the DVD is like having freedom chips by proxy:)

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I have purchased just about every cruising DVD I am aware of and in general they are not very good. Some are very poor image quality and very poorly presented but beggars cannot be choosers - there is a shortage of them.:)

Also many are expensive and still very poor. It was a pleasure to see your reasonably priced.

I can see from the excerpts that this video will not fall under the headings above and I am really looking forward to watching it and sharing in a fraction of the experiences of your trip.

Its seems to me that the DVD is like having freedom chips by proxy:)

I relied on the power of video to keep my dreams alive while I was working in Saudi Arabia earning Freedom Chips to pay for our voyage on Exit Only.

After seeing a Privilege 39 catamaran at the Miami boat show, my wife told me that she believed she could sail around the world on a cat. We decided to test this theory by going to the BVI and chartering a Privilege 39 for one week. Saying that she liked the no bruising cruising on a catamaran is an understatement. We made videos of our week long cruise, and I took those videos back with me to Arabia. I also had a video from the factory demonstrating the construction of the Privilege 39.

Back in Arabia, I watched those videos hundreds of times visualizing what it would be like to sail around the world in a catamaran. I ordered our Privilege 39 from the factory, and the rest is history.

For me it took two things to make my sailing dreams come true.

1. Freedom Chips
2. A relentless visualization of what it would be like to sail around the world on a catamaran.

My job in Saudi Arabia provided the Freedom Chips, and my relentless addiction to watching the videos of my dreams made it all happen.

I like it when a plan comes together.

[ForumAdmin]

I once did two tours in Saudi Arabia myself - as a young engineer but that was back in 67 and 69 .... early days making freedom for life chips that started me in business.
Back in Arabia, I watched those videos hundreds of times visualizing what it would be like to sail around the world in a catamaran. I ordered our Privilege 39 from the factory, and the rest is history.


Whilst I wait for the boat and being in the video business anyway I purchased just about every video out there and what you say about visualizing what it would be like to sail around the world in a catamaran - is what we do. When your video arrives, we will sit down with a nice warm drink (its cold here in the UK) and suck every second of it up - sailing by proxy.

Thanks for despatching the dvd so promptly.

[sailorgal]

Just ordered mine! Can't wait to see it.

Thanks!

[ForumAdmin]

On the video you are hit by a mystery wave when in the Red Sea but offer no explanation of what it was - have you any idea what caused it?

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On the video you are hit by a mystery wave when in the Red Sea but offer no explanation of what it was - have you any idea what caused it?

We never figured out what caused it. Our buddy boat was a seaworthy Corbin 39 monohull that performs well offshore and takes seas in stride. The night was very black - no moon - so it was impossible to see anything out there. When the wave went over them, they immediately called us on the VHF, and within five minutes the wave hit us. Very weird. I can't imagine it was caused by shipping because we didn't see any ship's lights at the time in the Gulf of Aden. Our two yachts were more than a mile apart, and if it was caused by constructive reinforcment of a waves from several ships, I don't think that both of us would have experienced the same wave because we were in different locations. It was definitely a traveling wave on an extremely dark night. To this day, it remains a mystery wave.