Alone in the Arctic Ocean - total steerage failure!
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Tromsø to Svalbard - 5 1/2 days alone in the Arctic Ocean. Started beautifully, but halfway through I was faced with fog, squalls, steerage failure, and flooding. What a trip! Limped into Longyearbyen under hydrovane steering, and will be here making repairs that I will share with you next to show you just what went wrong. I'm proud of my accomplishment of making it all the way to 78° North, and I have learnt a lot about my own capability to face challenges and overcome them. Every passage makes me a better sailor, and makes Yeva and I more ready for next year's expedition.
You persevered and made it to port safe! Exhausting passage with relentless beam seas and critical system failures - heroic. I had a similar experience mid-way across the Gulf of Mexico: a cascade of serious, life-threatening failures during a storm that required ad hoc attempts to address multiple problems that each alone would have made the sail difficult. You've got to dig deep within when you manually pump the bilge five out of every twenty or thirty minutes to keep seawater below the floorboards. In my case, my hands swelled like big red winter mittens from working the pump, and I couldn't feel them for a week after crossing. You. Did. Great!!!
@@djohnson2449 thank you so much, that made me quite emotional to read and I appreciate your taking the time to comment. All the very best to you x
The Gulf of Mexico can be tough...often when the seas get up, they are STEEP !
81-years-old codger here. First time viewer of your channel.
I thoroughly enjoyed your video. I felt like a guest, who was unable to help. Madam, you have grit.
Safe passages to you, and I look forward to your future posts.
@@dntsaycant1234 thank you! And welcome to the channel. 😉
well done on an epic passage! seems like a bit of a design flaw that the anchor locker drains into the bilge! Fair winds. ~~~_/) ~~~~
@@cpobyrne1 thank you!
Wow! As an often-solo sailor, I admire your resilience and humour!! My audio would have been filled with bleeps. My boat is a ketch too, and I hoist the mizzen to ease the rolling on motoring passages. Good luck with fixing stuff … thanks for taking us along, so entertainingly! 😊
FELICITACIONES POR OTRA GRAN NAVEGACION ELLA !!!!!!! CONTROLA Y REPASA TODA LA INSTALACION ELECTRICA PARA NO TENER FUTUROS PROBLEMAS . SIEMPRE TENES UN PROBLEMA EN EL PEOR MOMENTO !!!! TE MANDO UN GRAN SALUDO DESDE LATITUD 34 S. ARGENTINA Y BUENOS VIENTOS CAPITANA !!!!
@@ezequieldiaz1950 muchas gracias! Me necesito un o dos días para trabajar en el barco y después voy a continuar la navegación ☺️
@@ellainthearctic BUENA PROA CAPITANA !!!
Una Ca'pitana con mucha fuerza
Well done you are a cool STAR. Hope you enjoy Svalbard I love it.
aye, you should be well proud!
Well done 👍🏻 It’s nice to follow you out there 😊
Great to see you doing this
Hey Elle,
Inspiring. Way to overcome adversity. This is Charlie who donated the Caulder book (the bible). I am planning on crossing the Artic circle now.
Hi Charlie! The Bible has gotten me out of trouble more than once already! Thank you again. All the best. Ella x
Hey, Charlie. If what you are referencing is Nigel Calder's Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual, I just want to say you gave a thoughtful and perfect gift! His Cruising Handbook also excellent. Best wishes to you and your journeys.
@@djohnson2449 that’s the one! It’s a life saver honestly, the perfect present. 💝
Thank you for enjoyable video.
@@robertpatterson641 thanks for watching ☺️
Wow, great to you. Good thing you have a dependable diesel and plenty of fuel. How much do you carry. Great trip!
Thank you! She carries 500L in tanks and I have an extra 100L in jerry cans on deck also 😊
@@ellainthearctic Very good. Quite a passage. Better light conditions than storms in the face. Best thing in the world is a good sail. Second best is a good motor.
Yeva looks such a sound boat, so surprised she has a design flaw like the anchor locker drain.
Is the locker accessed from above ie chain stored at high level. Or chain in the bilge, as it is best located, with just a hawse pipe?
😊Hi! Chain is accessible from the deck, but the locker is so deep the chain sits in the bilge there, underneath the waterline, so there’s no drainage from the locker overboard (except for an entirely redundant bilge pump, since the locker drains at its lowest point into a pipe that leads to the interior bilges). But I’ll rectify this over the winter season back in England. Potentially building a new base for the anchor locker to make it sit above the water line so we can have holes draining directly overboard….
@@ellainthearctic good plan.
But I assume you have lots and lots of heavy chain. Or chains.
You could have a hawse pipe in the new base, with one, or part of the chain in the bilge. Then just the working chain above.
waiting for more ...
@@OldSchoolDo fixing the issues today and tomorrow and filming as I go, so there will be another video uploaded soon :)
I got almost 20°C in Svalbard during summer. already some 5-6years ago...there is even faster changing and permafrost is really affected.
@@ame2deo 22°C here just a couple days before I arrived. Svalbard is warming 6x faster than the rest of the world, 3x faster than the rest of the Arctic circle. I’ll be making a video about it before I leave, currently learning as much as I can from the locals here first
@@ellainthearctic I've been there some times from the heart of the coal mines to glaciers. Every time I went back it was warmer and warmer. If you want some realiable inside on the topic try to talk with someone of the Norwegian Polar Insitute. I spoke in some occasions with Kim Holmen International Director of the Norwegian Polar Institute. I'm not sure he is there right now...but you can ask of some other
@@ame2deo thank you! Will do.
Hello I have just found your channel and enjoyed this video. Could you comment on engineless sailing please. The channels I have watched on wind only sailing are interesting but I think I would feel vulnerable, Thanks
@@oogabooga590 hi! Thanks for commenting. What do you mean by engineless sailing though? Isn’t all “sailing” engineless? Or do you mean boats without engines on board at all? If you can clarify I’ll try and help answer your question best I can ☺️