Ep 5, Heavy Weather: Solo on the North Atlantic in a Small Boat with Whales
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2019
- Episode 5, Part 2 of my solo voyage across the North Atlantic. Heavy weather tactics and sailing with whales.
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Great piece of advice for any aspiring sailors ,very well produced ,thank you !
5:23 “the starboard port” love boats...
Great channel, enjoying immensely!
Welcome aboard!
What a start alan amazing
Not only is your seamanship outstanding, your camera work rocks as well!
Alan
You certainly know what you are doing.
Thank you so much for sharing.
George & Sue
From Yorkshire
Great to hear from you guys, hope all is well.
Mom& Dad very interesting sailing Alan ,
That's incredible! Found your channel yesterday, love the vids.
Love it no frills sailing.
Awesome Allen, thanks again for sharing. Very interesting and pretty cool. Take care.
Thanks Jamie and thanks for the escort out of Summerside Hbr. Hope all the boats at SYC fared well during the recent storm.
Love your weather proofing hatch! My biggest fear. . .but those hatches are hard core. . .love it.
8:54 WOW! I see whales all the time where I live, but not 20 feet away. How humbling! What a great thing for you to experience.
A memory I will hold dear. Unbelievablely lucky to have captured it on video
@Viscous Shear Will wear my rain gear next time
All in all, very good presentation.
Thank you and stay safe & dry....
Regards, Silvano. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Cute boat and a very nicely
set up boat too
Interesting channel thanks for sharing.
I love the organization & composure!
Thanks
Wow amazing. I really enjoyed the video. What an amazing adventure. Respect to you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing voyage, and stormy sea.
Yes it was!
Love your setup
Very informative video. I was thrilled to see the whale broaching. The warps seem very effective; I think you said 200 feet. I am looking out for details of your jib reefing.
I have not yet finalized the companionway design on my Tartan 26. I was considering something similar to what you have, but am reluctant to give up my favorite seating arrangements: either on a bridge deck with feet inside the cabin (pleasant weather, great place to read a book, with the sliding hatch pulled back to block the bright sun from the pages) or athwartships on the bridge deck, feet against the leeward coaming.
Love your channel! Can you talk about your self-steering design and build? Fair winds and following seas!
I will do a dedicated video about the gear in the next few weeks. Thanks for the comments.
The job’s not done until the tools are put away. Also: every place has its tool and every tool has its place. Well done!
cool, mate! on your place I be able only to cry: Mom, take me home, pleeeeeeeeaaaaaseeeeeee
You know, a pretty good chunk of "saves" attributed to harnesses are during good weather or just not conditions where some might consider "harness worthy"...I'm glad you have a survival suit and you should practice donning it in different conditions when your bored, what else you gonna do?
Thank you. He's gone if he goes over. He should live in it.
Good stuff as usual.
Glad you enjoyed it
Interesting channel. Can you stop the music when you speak ?
Great advice, I am going get one of these or something very similar in the next couple years.
Go for it!
@@SailingWaveRover I have done a number of crazy things in my Life and I really fancy this. There are always reasons not to do things. The worst that can happen in life is to die with regrets. We can do most things in life if we really want to and don't let fear stop us.
Well said@@timphillips9954
Season 1 Episode 5 is very real!!!!
It is very challenging and alone!!!!
Thank you
Thanks
Wow that whale was as big as WR. Once encountered a whale shark during a scuba dive & I know exactly what you mean when you describe seeing the whale. Literally & metaphorically makes it very apparent very quickly how small & insignificant we are...
I actually think the whale was much bigger than Wave Rovers 26 ft. And you are right the whale and the ocean quickly remind you how small we are.
such a relaxing video
Glad you enjoyed
The footage of those dolphins and that whale.....JESUS.
I have been watching and enjoying these videos doing what an experienced sailor can do with 26 foot. Just imagine if he had a 60 footer
That would be something!
Love the video! Very well done and great series. I’m still new to sailing, why heave to Vs tacking/beating into the wind?
In this case the seas and wind were quite strong and from the direction I wanted to head. I knew that in a few hours the wind would likely back or veer to a more favorable direction and I could continue. Good luck with your sailing.
Great videos. Very informative. What did you do in the Navy? I was a Quartermaster. I read Dove when I was young and sailing has always been a dream of mine. Good luck.
Dana
Damn... another channel I need to sub and follow.... 👍🏻
Amazing sir.I just found your channel. This is a dream of mine but I would never have the time.
Welcome aboard!
Excellent work all around. Very nice and tidy, your boat. I have to secure my dingy similarily as yours. But need ideas. Dont worry about the NO sayers or those who know all better. You are on a journey and things evolve as it happens. I sail in january from spain to the caribbean. And I am alone and do not give a rats ass about all those, who cannot say things in a helpfull or nice manner. Thats why I will do no webpage or video unless for myself. Chers from another Canadian. Anxy
It's very gratifying to read your comment. Thank you
seeing that whale must have been amazing :)
I agree with David Hartmann, do you have anywhere on a website where you have the plans you used in building your wind vane?
No cotter pins in the turnbuckles or does it just look that way??
Its always at 2 in the morning, Something about close encounters with whales . Felt terribly sad when we hit one in the Tasman sea once , stopped us dead from 9kts , He was bleeding as he swam away , Prayed he would be alright - Again at 2 in the morning , We followed him with the spotlight , didn't seem to slow him down any & no damage to us . I was on a 68 foot ketch , I think the rudder skedge did the damage , thank god it wasn't a spade rudder .
Obrigado
Hi. Could you explain how you went about adding water tight hatch on your boat.
Buy certain parts or jerry rigged project?
Great job
I built it out of plywood along with the dog house. And very happy I did as I just sailed through a gale enroute to Lanzarote in the Canaries. It was a cold wet passage on a small boat and I was happy to conduct my watches from the inside
Loved the whales
What was your position when you were heaving to? do you have a record of that information? Cheers, Richard
A Toilet Paper Damper... 4:30. I love it and the Whale 8:45. Looks like a Blue🐳
I was thinking 🤔 you might want to Number your videos like others have been
Doing of late, Makes it way easier to know where you’re at when Binge Watching. 😳🤓
You know, like WR0013... WR0174, etc. 😎👍✅
Great idea on the numbering.
Sailing Wave Rover , Ha, I noticed you did That this morning, Great 👍
The folks that WILL come on in the next few months that go back to the
Beginning to catch up (and everyone else) will appreciate the Numbering...!! ✅
@@robfraley4210 This is a steep learning curve for me, thanks for the great suggestion.
Enjoy the videos and your boat, I don't know anything about sailing but could not understand what you meant when you said you put the wharp in. Is it just a loop of rope behind the boat and what does that do, slow it down? Thanks
Running with warps is just running out a long loop of heavy line used to slow the boat down and keep the stern into the sea.
Sailing along side a whale that is bigger than your boat. Awesome
Enjoying the videos
What brand of air vents did you install in your cabin roof? Have they remained water tight? Do you recommend those vents?
OK 5.42 caught my attention. Are you preferring to sail with out securing pins in you`r rigging screws/ turnbuckles ? but still a good Chanel keep it up.
Scary with unpinned turnbuckles.
I’m worried you put your charging converter in your bilge. One big wave and it’s toast. Why not up by your radio?
If you had 1/3 size sails you could stay under way
Great video series from a fellow Canuck! What is a warp? How does that work exactly? Is it like a sea anchor?
yes a warp is similar to a sea anchor, but how this guy(forget his name :-( ) uses one is new to me. i hope he explains it in more detail
A warp is a heavy rope. The warp is attached at both ends, to strong-points each side of the stern. Thus, it gets towed in a shape like a big letter 'U', which creates drag, slowing and steadying the boat, and keeping her stern-on to the waves. The effect is similar to a sea anchor, but with considerably less drag.
@@Garryck-1 Thanks for the clarification JAFO! But wouldn't it keep her bow-to the waves?
@@deegiancola6372 - No.. the wind is what pushes the waves along, and also pushes the boat in the same direction. To keep her bow to the waves, the warp would have to be deployed from the bow.
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Im sorry, do you mean you deployed a sea anchor with sails down?
It seems your boat heels a lot and pitches almost continuously. Is that correct?
How do you like the Inreach?
It's been great so far
"I'm currently in the middle of a gale" ???
Great video,
I thought when a sailboat Hove To you need to keep the foresail or jib sheeted over while the mainsail & boom swings to leeway, then you turn and lock the rudder to keep the boat safely stalled. Seemed like all you had out with a main sail. Like the idea of water tight door into below deck. Never knew why even todays high end sailboats still don't offer a water tight wash boards. Why do you think they don't?
You are quite right on the Hove To and generally I have to do what you described but under those conditions she steadied up nicely about 60 degrees off the wind and the motion was greatly improved without losing too much ground
@@SailingWaveRover I don't think being hove to means sailing 60 degrees off the wind. Being hove to means heading into the wind with the jib backed and the main out.
As far as I know, “hove to” is the past tense of “heave to”.
beachcomber... “Hove to” is past, present, and future. “Heave to” is a modern linguist rule incorrectly applied by those who don’t sail... and it “stuck.” I prefer the old usage.
@@paulcollins9397 Not so.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaving_to
ua-cam.com/video/uQTOfns6OjU/v-deo.html
your journey looks a bit like a bottle mail... ;-)
Hahahaha that whale was bigger than your boat
cool video, cool story. now pedantic squid...: you stated "I should hove to" >> Heave To, you should Heave To, once done you are Hove To, in the past you have Hove To, in the future you can Heave To, when you are doing it you are Heaving To. End of english lesson :-) Carry on and fair winds.
Thank you for that and the next time the wind is howling I will try to recall this lesson.
How many feet is this boat?
26
Hi Sir, I see your wind pilot, and it appear to be simple to amateur construction, or at least cheap to buy. May you please send me some information (brand, link) By. Jakson from Brazil South
Check out my video on Dec 13th
Survival suite next to the toilet- all about floaters
Sorry, late to this party (which I love) but I’m watching you main sheet hit your life lines. . .again! How can you sleep knowing you have chafe on your mainsheet?? It literally slams onto your port lifeline. . .I’m cringing. . .and worried for mid Atlantic chafe! Minor but sticking out for me as a guy who has done this kind of thing. . .not alone mostly. . .
Where could the lines have been anchored to avoid the chafing you have been pointing out? Would you have removed the life line cable railing? Some of these boats also have a canopy over the cockpit, how does that work with lines running right through it? @JAB
I like whales 🐳
BTW, its good to find a sailor here NOT begging for Patreon money. Gets very tiresome.
He's started one recently
Nothing wrong with Patreon. He provide value and if he can get back on giving value giving ppl chance to give back nothing wrong with that. At all. How the world works. Bye
I enjoy most of your content. But I must add that music just adds distraction to your narration and natures sounds.
Noted!
It’s “I will heave to” or “ yesterday I hove to”. Hove = past tense heave.
Hove can also be present tense.. "I am hove to".
You're both wrong, its Brighton actually.
@@adambrickley1119 Ha!
@@Garryck-1 Thats a correct usage although strictly not present tense, but now we're start to get very pedantic.
I will heave to
I am heaving to
I am hove to
I have been hove to all day
Yesterday I hove to
You have no idea what the weather systems are doing so you can choose an optimum course
That looks more like a left over sea than 30+ knots, not a lot white horses around......
Boat hove video is useless, it's just images of boat floating on water. Now if you had added narration and shots of what rigging tactics to hove to; it would have value.
KILL THE MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!