Sailing around Britain Ep6 The Jester Baltimore Challenge, Hurley 22 'Katrina' 300nm 4 days at sea
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- In this episode of sailing around Britain, I sail from Plymouth to Baltimore taking part in the Jester Baltimore Challenge. This was a 280nm passage which rounded all the landfalls of the UK and Ireland routing outside the Scilly Islands and Fastnet Rock.
A lack of wind made slow progress with practically no wind in some of the more critical parts of the trip. Lots of Dolphin sightings with significant numbers around the Scilly Islands. This was 4 days at sea with light airs making progress challenging.
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I’m loving your videos as someone who has never captained anything bigger than a sea kayak down a canal! The shots of Fastnet are incredible, almost unreal.
Well done and thank you for sharing your adventure with us.
Great video. Getting up close and personal with the Fastnet is a big feather in anyone's cap. Congratulations on completing a Jester. Condolences to friends of "Minke".
Great video of your trip to Baltimore, I had a westerly Pembroke until this year which I thought I might try the challenge some time, now have a Jeanneau Melody so I think that wouldn’t work? Anyway keep on sailing and showing ☀️⛵️
Well done Sam you made it dispite the wind not coming al9ng for the ride. Those dolphins were awesome and that massive smile at the fastnet rock was worth the wait. Hope you got a good sleep after a pie and pint.
Great upload and very inspirational. God bless.
A great achievement takes a lot of courage to go out there well done. I bought a boat to do it but couldnt make it in the end wasnt ready for various reasons, so was great to see this video. Great adventure look forward to the rest of the series 👍🏻
Great video. Brought back many memories of this year’s Challenge. Like you, I was knackered during and after night number two and a tricky, busy and very wet passage past the Scillies. It was great when I got past all the TSSs, as I could finally get some longer shut eye. I felt fine after that and for the rest of the Challenge. Rounding the iconic Fastnet rock was definitely a highlight for me. Well done for getting in an hour of so ahead of me. Clearly the cruising chute made a difference as I didn’t use mine during the Challange. Ron, KERRIN II.
Thanks Ron, the Scilly Isles was definitly the larger part of the challenge. I was very close to heading into St Agnus given the benign wind conditions
Massive well done, am really enjoying this.
Great achievement Sam 👍 really enjoyed this
Very well done indeed Sam. Great video, thanks for managing to keep on filming despite the lack of sleep. What a great feeling it must have been to pass the rock, the smile on your face said it all. Very sad about Duncan Lougee and Minke. Catch up un some well deserved sleep and rest, looking forward to the next chapter.
Thanks for watching. Lots of learnings from just these few days at sea.
Sam , sail from Ipswich, years ago I tried to qualify for azab your video brought back memories, wish I had your weather. Respect to you, condolences to Minkie and family,such a shame . Carry on and get stronger,👍👍
Great stuff Sam! It was good to meet you during the Jester Challenge. Best of luck for the rest of your adventures! Phil. ( Vashi )
Cheers Phil, good to meet you both. Thanks for watching
Brilliant Sam!! Cheers from the U.S.
Well done Sam..A lot of stamina required.
Wow what trip Sam amazing
New to your channel and I really enjoyed your journal of your voyage!
Brilliant
Good job Sam 👋 Before me the same task - 2025 Baltimore - I hope...
Well done sam , a great end of passage . I thought you might give up early in the process. !
Thanks for watching
I have to admit the thoughts of being alone on a small boat at night would terrify me.
Gets scary with lots of big ships in low visibility, otherwise its usually a positive experience. Thanks for watching
Nice one Sam, it was nice to see how it was from the Plymouth start, lots more company! 😊
Cheers Jim, there were plenty there.
@@samsails9820 Sam, I do have a Rutland wind gennie in working order if you really want to go wind power... it's an old model but in OK order
Thanks Jim, could you send a few photos through to email account Samsails@yahoo.com?
AIS with alerts would have been really handy with the shipping, I guess?
It was very useful to have AIS
Excellent blog as usual. Noticed one of your stb inner shrouds was quite loose (8.31 minutes in), could that allow the mast to groan a bit? My other spare mainsail went within minutes of placing an advert. Best of luck for the rest of your trip. Alchemy
Thanks for watching, the noise appeared to be from the genoa furling block. Slackening and retensioning appears to have resolved the issue as no more noise. The inner shrouds have been tightened.
Hi Sam, I don't know how you make that hurley 22 get so far. I did Silly to Kinsale in my Warrior 35 and when the wind dropped I put the diesel on! It still took me 32 hours to do the crossing. I was in Baltimore on 22 and 23rd of June so I either missed you or I didn't realise you were there. I was sad to hear about one of the competitors in yacht Minke who went missing.
It was hard work and alot of the focus was trying to maintain boat speed as once stopped it was very difficult given the wind strengths to build back to benefit from some apparant wind. Luckily most of the way across there was 10-12 knots during the day enough to maintain an acceptable daily milage. Thanks for watching
A pity the Jester Challenge has made you miss stopping at the Scilly Isles. A stopover there would be my number 1 destination if making a circumnavigation.
I have plans to go there in an open boat, something I can dry out in, better to explore.
Well done and a nice length video. Could feel your frustration at times, still 75 miles a day in a little boat in those conditions is pretty good. Did you solve the knocking sound at or in the mast? Cheers from an old man in Oz.
Thanks for watching, the sound stopped after that evening and never came back, the only thing I did was slacken off the genoa halyard and retension. Guess it was the bearing block after all
Hi Sam. I like your vids, nice content, honest and without ego polishing and too fancy equipment. I bought hurley 22 last summer. It is rigged as cutter. I found hurley quite rudder heavy. I wonder if you can give some tips how to trim Hurley, without reefing mainsail quite early. Or is it heavy rudder just essence of Hurley? Years ago I own Colin Archer type double ender and I believed that her rudder were extraordinary, I was wrong. 😂
Without changing the shape of the rudder itself im not sure of another way of relieving weather helm without reducing mainsail canvas. Thanks for watching
@@samsails9820 Thank you! Because my hurley is cutter I suppose that the balance is little bit better than sloop. With jib weather helm is not so bad than without. But it is not good either. I think that I need to live with not so good weather helm. I’m planning to change rig from bermuda to dzonk, then is time to made some changes to rudder too.
@@Beorninki i would try and relieve the weather helm where possible, creates drag and pressure on the cast rudder fitting
Well done, great video. What was the outcome of the mast creaking and did you mange to mend the windvane?
Yeah it appears to have been the bearing block on the furling unit the genoa halyard attached to. As the genoa was swaying and sending that weird noise down the mast. Released the pressure off the genoa halyard slightly and it hasn't come back. Thanks for watching
Oh man, UA-cam asking me to verify my old arse age so I can watch this! has someone been a potty mouth, Sam?! :o)
I've edited the very small profanity and appealed so hopefully the automated assessment will remove this nonsense restriction.
@@samsails9820 Sorted :)
THV Galatea
Hi Sam,
Nice video, it brought back many happy memories.
You did better than me on Vivendi (1973 SHE 32C), I retired at 10pm Monday 19th, a couple of miles north of Bishops Rock and motored back to the Scilly Isles to anchor.
It was an excellent sail to the Scillies but then the wind disappeared around Bishops Rock and I spent 3 hours going nowhere. With the weather forecasts showing light winds for the next 169nm, I decided to bow out as the Scillies were a better starting point for me to head North.
I sailed up the east coast of Ireland, singlehanded to Oban over 5 days. Crew joined me up to Stornoway, then I sailed singlehanded up to Faroe Islands. If you’re thinking of going up that way checkout my video.
I’ve since sold Vivendi to purchase a larger boat so 2023 will be the last Jester Challenge for me. Best of luck for the future.
Good to hear you got into the Scilly Isles and made it out to Faroe Isles, thats definitly a place I'd like to sail to one day, i'll check out the vids. Thanks for watching. 😎