You are both are professional, calm and committed sailors. Very enjoyable episode….and what a beautifully designed boat for crossing oceans! Thank you, be safe.
I find I'm staring past you both and just gazing at that gorgeous Hans Christian of yours. My dream Hans it the 38T. Love the pullman front birth with the head in the bow. Watching your videos over the years provides an opportunity to get a glimpse of her personality. So graceful and comfortable she is. Just love her. Love how you care for her. You are both so blessed living on her. Just want to say thank you so much for sharing your beautiful girl with us and look forward to the Caribbean's on Fair Isle. I will be in the VI sailing between St Thomas and St Criox late March. How incredible it would be to see her at the same anchorage. I am her biggest fan.
I've been very excited about seeing this video. It was fascinating, exciting and at times beyond scary. Congratulations on catching that fish and thanks so much for such a lovely treat! 🤗
Great to see you out making tracks! But, as you noticed, double ended hull forms are notoriously rolly sailing deep downwind angles. Sailing under only headsail, while easy to manage, usually is the most rolly setup. You might try sailing with 1/3 of your sail area as headsail poled out to weather, and 2/3 as mainsail to leeward. This is more comfortable for many boats. Also make sure to use lots of vang and a low enough pole to minimize leach twist, since leach twist contributes to rolling when sailing deep downwind angles. Hope this helps!
I really enjoyed the video. You guys really capture the sailing experience for the viewer and the power of the ocean. Thanks for all the effort you put into your channel.
Ha! bizarrely we did have a long conversation about Tsunami's one day, I red somewhere that a Tsunami waves travel at the same speed as a jet liner i.e. about 800mph, I'm sure I did some work on wave propagation formulas in my days of studying Physics and Applied Maths but I can't remember anything that would allow a wave to have that sort of velocity
@@svfairisle I hope your travesl are safe. To my understanding as long as you are out at sea, you will barely notice a Tsunami, so you are in a good place. . Love the channel, love the content and think you are both great.
I was very impressed with the heroics displayed to keep the fried fish from leaving the plates. If it meant keeping them where they belong , right next to the salsa using your hands, you would do it. When you finally placed them on the gimballed stove top even if it meant putting the hot skillet on a non-gimballed counter top and take a chance with hot grease you would do it. BRAVO.😁
I have only just come across your videos. As a sailor with 30 years experience, admire both the professionalism of your boat handling and of the videos. Also a well chosen vessel to do oceans.
Hi, a great video totally interesting sailing and cooking sections.When I was at sea in trawlers and tugs the answer to being bounced around was fiddles and wet table cloths to stop things from sliding. Looking forward to seeing the next one,cheers Roly🇬🇧.
Yes Fair Isle is pretty good for fiddles & I used to do the wet tee-towel trick, but now you get those grippy pads that you just cut to size, they’re excellent nothing slips off them
Being retired it was a make do and mend system in my day,even small yachts these days seem to have so many electrical devices and computers I am amazed at it all.😀Roly🇬🇧.
Watching you cook in a rolling boat reminded of stories from family about my dad. When he finished his hitch in the US Navy and married my mother, he would hold plate when he ate. This was in the 1950's
Really good show this morning, thank you. I’ll confess the realism of life on a rolling sailboat won’t help change my wife’s mind about not getting a boat. 😢 Well like always, I’ll just have to settle for living out my dreams of sailing through your videos. If you guys ever venture to the west coast would love to meet you. Someday maybe.
In 2007 I crewed for my son on his Westwind 43, Ty Dewi, a similar, though less modern yacht to Fair Isle. Less in the way of a keel, so more prone to rolling. Nick had fitted her with twin poles, and we sailed the whole way with poled out headsails and no main. To shorten sail we just rolled the headsails in , and let em out again as necessary. This gives a well balanced boat downwind, and minumum crew exposure, and very little rolling. We saw only 2 ships. Great conversation - us: We are a sailing vessel on collision course, please alter course. Them: we are a very big tanker on course Philadelphia to Nigeria. you alter course. Us: that puts our crew at risk. read your rules. They altered course.
Am sure you have an extra cabin on board just for me ! Wow, this latest voyage being supervised by 2 very capable tutors would have been a super learning experience for this old armchair wanna-be sailor. Top coverage guys...really appreciate being visually onboard....Cheers.👍
Nice video - Once offshore, my guess is you saw no ships. Those crumpets really looked the business. That incessant rolling can’t have been a lot of fun, getting stuff done and sleeping
Glad its going so well, being rolly a pain. I'll guess 5 ships. Must be comforting to have internet communications. Interesting to see your track on noforeignland. Congrats on landing the fish !
Actually only 2 ships & we just met a couple at the cafe here who did exactly the same trip as us at the same time, they pulled into the anchorage just after us, but we didn't see them at all even on AIS
@@svfairisle I guess it is a big ocean. Looking on noforeignland there seemed to be a convoy of boats making the crossing. I have no idea of AIS range settings. Maybe your route was off the large ship routes (no slavers today 🙂).
Yes its always deceiving looking at NFL when it seems like the place is full! If you think about it even if theres 50 boats shown mid ocean theyre spread across 2000 miles of ocean! Even when you do a rally like the ARC and have 50 boats leave at the same time within a day you're very unlikely to see anyone else even though the tracker show a whole bunch of boats
Crumpets? My God man, you make crossing the Atlantic fun. Fantastic episode, you both are the best with everything you do. Thanks for teaching us HOW TO SAIL!
See you in the caribbean! We will be sailing Grenadines in April on our 2001 Hallberg Rassy named Elegast. See you at an anchorage soon. Make sure you add Tobago Cays to your route plans: one of our favourite places we have been so far. Enjoy!
I'm guessing 3 ships? Is it a long lonely ocean? Would you think your weather conditions are due to the route? Or possibly due to timing? Some say November is the best time to cross. Congratulations on the Fish!
The trade are usually better in the new year than before Xmas when the ARC goes. We wind had certainly set in nicely for us, but there were a few big storms tracking East in the North Atlantic and I think we suffered from the swell that was sending down to us
Excellent video. I've been following you since you started and are hoping to do that trip in a couple of years. We live on our 41 ft fraser sailboat and are taking early retirement in June (55 yrs) and heading from Vancouver Island in canada to Mexico then eventually to Panama. Maybe one day we will be in the same area to say hi!
I liked everything about this episode, including the Geeky bit, as you called it. In fact, I learned a thing or two, which I like. I now see why you didn't swim out there. The conditions were less than ideal, but you guys made the best of them, didn't get seasick and continued to cook and eat well (as opposed to eating crumpets for every meal). Admirable! The wind made the audio a challenge at times--or as it your accents? I'm not sure. :) I'm impressed that, while filming, you were able to keep the horizon level while the boat rolled. I suppose you have a gyroscopically controlled camera for that. It worked well. The music was fun and suspenseful. At one point I expected a giant great white shark to appear. Each segment/day was succinct and gave a nice glimpse into the cruising life! Thank You!
Thanks for the latest update & sorry you didn't find your whale! Watching the rolly nature of the crossing, I felt for you - as others have said, almost got seasick at home. But at least you are going to do the crossing in a super fast time and then get the Caribbean to enjoy earlier ⛵
Brilliant video. So professional. When I did the ARC in 2007 we had a "Parasail" which made a big difference to the rolling. The aerofoil vent seemed to lift the bow and somehow reduced the rolling. The rolling you suffered did look horrendous. Very impressed that just two of you made that voyage. Excellent, and well done.
Best video I have seen recently to demonstrate how poor a monohulled vessel is compared with a multihull. As you can see, this is a very uncomfortable way to sail. The constant rock and roll can be very tiring, and difficult to sleep, difficult to prepare food, difficult to sleep, and the trip could take twice as long as a modern multihull. Great for traditionalists, but it does not have to be this way, so don't be put off cruising by this video.
The long and the short of it dear viewers is this: while you will always find fanboys of certain types of boat, there is no telling if they actually know what they are talking about. You may be gaining some pearls of wisdom from someone who has vast experience or you may be listening to the rant of a narrow minded idiot who doesn't know one end of a boat from another. Of course we have no way of knowing which of these things apply to the writer of this very forthright comment because we know nothing about him... from his profile he seems to know something about metal detectors... If you're viewers of this channel you know a bit more about me, so here's my thoughts. A monohull running downwind with a sloppy quartering sea is going to roll more than a catamaran, that's a given. If you're prone to sea sickness this will not be a good passage for most people. I say most people because I'm not prone to sea sickness, but strangely the motion of a catamaran does make me feel slightly sick. They don't roll so much in those conditions but they can develop a really nasty motion, at least for me, where you feel you are being shoved this way or that, indiscriminately, there's no rhythm to it just a horribly unpredictable motion. So before you imagine a catamaran to be a nice thing to be in with that sort of sea try one! You may prefer it to a slow but predictable roll, you may not. Lets cut to the chase though, If I'm honest I would say that the poster is correct & in these seas the vast majority of people would prefer the cat to a monohull, does that mean a cat is the better option for trade wind sailing? Well take a look at episode 104 and see what you think. That was trade wind sailing, or should have been, 3 days offshore from Portugal to Porto Santo. It ended up being a force 9 on the nose sustained for several days. Now in those conditions look at the comfort of a heavy displacement monohull as against what you would be up against in a catamaran. A well built cat should survive this no problem of course but I would wager a large amount of money those on board would be absolutely convinced the thing was going to break into a million pieces at any second. It would not be a nice place to be and I know for sure would would not have the option of beating to windward as we did so you would be going backwards too. All things are not as they may at first seem!
Thank you for taking the time to reply. Of course you are correct, its difficult to know any commenters background or experience when making comments so let's put that to rest. I started sailing at 7 years of age, initially in Mirror Dinghies, a Barry Bucknell masterpiece which i suspect you may be familiar. Sailed and raced in sail numbers 152, 1751, 9339, 20202, also a 505, Fireball, Snapdraggon, a Prout (Cat) Hobies (cat) 14, 16 and 18 ft, an Etchell, and a 10 meter Lock Crowther ocean cruising cat in San Francisco bay. The fastest I have sailed in a cruising yacht was 23 knots in the Crowther during the St Francis to Catalina race, a suspect half this speed would be a dream for most cruising monohulls. I had the pleasure of interviewing cruiser racers at the end of one of the ARC races (Atlantic Rally for Cruisers), the monohull sailors took days to recover from the Atlantic roll, while the multihull sailors were up and about as soon as they arrived, enjoying the delights of this tropical island paradise. Let's cut to the chase, while I have no idea how much multihull cruising @svfairile has, I would not use this as a reason to discount his comments. Nobody purposely sets sail in a force 9 Gail, in any cruising sail boat, but if caught unawares, this would be the time to batten down the hatches, put out the drogue and wait until the weather passes. I always carried a drogue in my Crowther, and fortunately, with the exception of testing deployment never needed to use it in anger. Another benefit of a cruising multi is the ability to reach away from approaching storms, something that is impossible to do in a slow mono. FYI, boats on a drogue, mono of multi, don't go backwards too quickly in a storm! Let's talk safety, a cruising monohull uses lead weight in the keel for ballast, which helps to exacerbate the trade wind roll, compared with a multihull cruiser which distributes their displacement across a wide beam and keep minimal contact with the water. Most of us learned at an early age that lead does not float, and it can be dangerous to carry lead to sea. Friend's of mine were sailing across the English channel in 15 knots of wind and hit something, and their monohull sank in less than 3 minutes! Fortunately, they were towing their dinghy at the time and all made it out. While it's true, a catamaran can capsize, as can monohulls, but I'd much prefer to have my family safe in an upside down multihull, still floating on the surface than being left in a dinghy or life raft in the ocean, when (not if) you hit some submerged object, or the keel fell off. Regrettably, there are many instances of cruising monohulls disappearing every year, so their stories are with Davy Jones, and we do hear the occasional stories from capsized multi's, because they survived, to sail another day, but all activities carry their risks. My main comment was comfort, a multi is always going to be more comfortable, and faster for cruising, this is where I would wage my money! The initial masters of sail cruising were the Polynesian's in canoes, with out riggers and multi-hulls, certainly not monohulls with lead keels. It could be, that in the future, that foiling monohulls are safer and faster than foiling multihulls, but this is not now. We can certainly agree that all things are not as they first seem! Again, thanks for taking the time to respond, and keep up the good work with your videos, there is still a lot of confusion about the merits of multihulls for cruising, I hope this goes some way to level the sailing field! Multi's sail fast and level, the natural (and more comfortable) way to sail (and cook!)
I sold my boat 30 years ago and I know things have changed regarding navigation but I can only imagine how much. Back then, I had a sextant and charts plus, when you are offshore, you make your own plotting sheet for daily fixes. I did have a Magellan ( I think ) GPS that was the size of a brick and it only gave Lat & Lon and consumed those big flashlight sized batteries at an amazing rate. So, regarding your comments about people not using charts much... how many offshore sailors carry a sextant these days ?
You won’t find many people carrying a sextant these days! I sold mine years ago, in a way I wish I’d kept it if for no other reason than filming a little sequence on celestial navigation. It’s just not something you need to have these days as there are so many ways of getting redundancy in you electronic plotters.
Brilliant, thank you. Very candid commentary, straight up and informative. By the way, a slight smear of sweet chilli on the almost cooked first side, back 30seconds to caramelise, then flip to cook side two - it will pick up a little of the caramelised base. Remove, butter then lemon juice to de-glaze then over the fish
Absolutely loved the video, certainly worth the wait. Love the way you talk us through the journey; seems like we're one to one. How many ships? Maybe X18? With you both all the way. In my years gone by it was charts and only just on to chart plotters etc. Best wishes from a wet Kent. P.
Spring onion tip.... Leave about 3 inches and the root, put it in water and it sprouts again. I had some for about a month doing that and then re-harvesting.
S&J, regardless of your targeted destination, have you ever tried comfort cruising? Which means Incase you don't know, heading in the direction of comfort. I have tried it on coastal Vancouver Canada, but the sea space is tight. Try it for a couple of days. What have you got to lose? You are not in a hurry. Then fun to see what your plotter shows. In some cases you may not lose much distance. In others you may be back in the UK. Lol
So for us with a folly sea we get the stay sail out and bring her in as tight as she can to midship, we find that it dampens the roll and acts as a shock absorber. We do have a plastic fantastic boat so it may be different for yours
Great passage making. In the past used to put up a bit of mainsail (sheeted tight a midship) it reduces roll when sailing downwind,maybe worth a try. I love your videos they are so professional well done.
Coming to Grenada at some point? If so I would love to buy you both a beverage and pick your brain about fixing our Hans Christian 41T's flooring that has similar issues to yours. The work that was done on your boat was quite impressive.
Yes we will certainly be coming to Grenada, not sure exactly when, probably early May. Would be very happy to take a look at you 41, keep in touch & hopefully we will meet up.
Have read the Osman series and totally loved it! Another book to recommend is David Mitchell, Unruly. It’s a satirical, historical look at Englands Kings and Queens. If you like listening, David reads it on Audible and his presentation is wonderful.
Wow! I didn’t think Fair Isle could go that fast! Isn’t she a motor sailer? Very impressed. Great coverage. Also, didn’t expect you to be rolling like that. Surprised that you aren’t sea sick. But great that you aren’t! Really enjoyed this. Thank you. ⛵️
Oh dear Hugh you could get struck of for calling a Han Christian a motor sailor! They are pretty much to opposite of that. They are not built for speed but then no true blue water boat is. Blue water boats are usually heavy but the best ones, like HC’s, have the sail area to cope with that. Fair Isle is basically a 48 foot boat with a 57 foot sail plan, because of the bow sprit.
When running dead down wind with just the yankee, have you tried sheeting the staysail hard amidships using both sheets? I have used this tactic successfully to help reduce the rolling, as well as ease the steering by keeping the nose pointing down hill
You need to hold the rod more upright so the rod takes more strain than the line otherwise the line will break. If the line is 20lb breaking strain then hand to hook it will probably break at around 23-27 or more, but with a rod there’s no telling how much bigger the fish will be it all depends on the rod and the skill of the angler, I’ve caught a 56lb carp on 4lb line others have caught bigger on less bs line👍🏼
I think it’s a shame that non-sailors will get the wrong idea about what it’s like, that they may have to endure such rolling on a boat (I won’t show this video to my wife); it was just your choice to go dead downwind with, usually, just a head sail as a compromise, to favour speed and a direct route, and accept the rolling as a consequence. The roll would have been greatly reduced, as you know, if you had taken a route twenty or thirty degrees off the wind on a broad reach, and gybed every day, or every few hours, to zig zag along, as you would do upwind. The main sail has a tremendous effect on stability. Personally I would choose the less rolly, longer voyage. The food looks great. Thanks.
yes it's all a choice, and if the rolling was making us sick we would have certainly dropped off the wind and added a couple of days to the trip. In fact that's the decision I think we would have taken in theory, in reality the ride was not that much more comfortable running off with the main so sticking with it and having a quick crossing was better
Before I looked, if you've posted it, I would guess 3 ships sighted. I made a passage from Hawaii to San Francisco in the 70's with one large ship and one sailboat over 3,000 nautical miles.
Somewhere Mid-Atlantic, I finally decided to read the Atlantic chapter in Ocean Passages of the World And I learned that a yacht crossing in the Trades suffers an average of half a million rolling strokes! ... I was like: "stupid of me I should have counted since Las Palmas!"
When sailing dead down wind with the head sail poled out,would it help to sheet the main sail in tight to reduce the rolling, or would it affect the auto pilot to keep your coarse ?
With the amount of roll we had from the sea (3m waves that wern't direct behind, they had about 30 degrees on the beam) having the mainsail centered would mean it continually flopping from side to side. Even if you can control the boom to not move the sail will snap from side to side as the battens reset on every roll, it would drive you mad!... and kill the sail
Does anyone ever rig flopper stoppers on sailboats for down wind ? Could just have some little outriggers set up. Sure does work a dream on some fishing boats I have worked on. Love your channel, your boat, and the way you two do things.
Well done guys!! That’s the Atlantic crossing for you. A rocky rolly downwind ride. It’s a big ocen and theres nothing else to be seen on AIS. Welcome to the Caribbean!!
Great episode. Thought I would do and touch and go, but the sailing caught me as well as making crumpets. Have to try that this summer in the Med. Enjoy the Carib... S/V Trident Star, '78 Amel Maramu #25
Beautiful passage so far, thank you for sharing. I'm ho;ping to cross the Atlantic in the other direction next year. I'm still in the Pacific, though, so I have a ways to go. As for Starlink, I believe you need to sell it to yourself and then register it again with a service address in the new continent. I know there has been several discussions on this topic online as cruisers from North America goin to Columbia exit their home continent as well. Cheers from the Lost Pearl, may we cross wakes some day.
Thanks, I think you're right, I contacted Starlink support to ask if I can register it in a new continent and they say no, so looks like selling it to myself is the workaround!
Flying fish fries on a Friday night in Barbados is something I'll never forget, Tasty, and much larger than your ill-fated passengers.Nice video, and good luck the rest of the way!
Ha! we did our best to keep the cooking bits short for the episode, but that does mean we have an extra cooking special coming up with the full recipies so you can watch or avoid as you like!
Crazy to watch your cooking…always wondered about the difference between scones & crumpets. 3 ships is my guess. Watching the waves rise up and down behind you 😳 🇨🇦 ❤
I bet you saw one ship. Just because you put the question to us. Great show I would have thought putting the main up would have stoped a lot of the rolling.
It usually helps a bit and that was the way we started, but it really wasn’t doing much and the slating around was annoying so on the whole we were better off without with the wind dead astern
A hunter legend would not be my first choice of offshore boat as I'm sure you know if you've watched this channel, bolt on winged keels and spade rudders are not my favorite. But with a capsize screening ratio of 1.8, I think you won't be in bad shape at all. It will be a little tender and heal easy, but reef! Any well maintained boat of this kind can cross oceans,. As for doing it annually, well if that were my intention I might be thinking a purpose built blue water boat could be a wise thing to have!
@@svfairisle Thank you! I'm two years out and want to plan a graceful entrance and execution. I really just want to travel the world, as I've done in my career, and not be strapped down to one area. Hence the annual crossing. Again, thank you!
Sailing the Atlantic and not seeing a single whale is sad and quite a testament to the anthropocene effect. A few hundred years ago the seas fairly boiled with marine life and you would have undoubtedly seen a dozen or more whales every single day. The oceans are now a veritable desert with all beaches strewn with plastic refuse.
I am a ex merchant seaman also one of the cooks. Days sandwiches or baked potato. Not a chance of soup bounces out of the pot even tying the lid on. I like baked potato with curried beans. Make stuff you can nuke a baked tattie can roll about in the oven.
I recall one crewmember's dinner literally flying across the salon seconds after he told the helmsman to "hold the boat steady" during a rolly downwind to Hawaii from Vancouver. 😂 I'd venture that you saw only three ships.
Hi there. Thanks for the well-done vlog of your crossing. What were the actual dates of your passage? We’re in Ireland now, and readying for our next Atlantic crossing. I’m curious to know why you chose Trinidad as your landfall destination on the other side of the pond? Why not somewhere in the Lesser Antilles, for example? We on SY AT FIRST SIGHT wish you safe travels.
It was 13th-28th Feb. We came to Trinidad because we have friends here. It’s really only a place to come if you want to work on your boat, it’s not much of a cruising ground
@@svfairisle Thank you for your quick reply with the dates of your crossing and reason for making landfall in Trinidad. Congratulations on a super fast crossing in a traditional monohull. Maybe you’d have preferred a day or two longer in exchange for a little less rocking and rolling? Tough call… Do you have a Fair Isle policy for when you wear life vests and/or harness in to jack lines? Every vessel has its own ethos for these sorts of things.
@@davidlane5190 No hard and fast rules really it’s a common sense thing. In Fair Isle it would have to be a Southern ocean type storm to feel the need for anything in the cockpit, on deck life jacket at night or if in high seas or doing something that might overbalance you like putting out the pole. I rarely clip on because it can be very limiting on movement which will mean you spend much longer on deck and put yourself at more risk. Clipping on if needing to be in one position for a while is a good idea though, like when working at the mast. Remember the drag risk is high with tethers so keep tethers short and the jacklines inboard if possible. Above all though don’t think because you’ve got some safety gear on that makes you invincible!
Yes they're amazing. We've showed them before in our 'best things for your boat' videos that we do every now and then. They are called 'Comfort Seat' and the come from the Netherlands.
This is one of the best actual sailing videos ive seen in years ,outstanding!!!!
They really are very nice and also kind to each other.
You are both are professional, calm and committed sailors. Very enjoyable episode….and what a beautifully designed boat for crossing oceans! Thank you, be safe.
I'm so jealous. You both do a wonderful job with your videos. Many thanks.
I find I'm staring past you both and just gazing at that gorgeous Hans Christian of yours. My dream Hans it the 38T. Love the pullman front birth with the head in the bow. Watching your videos over the years provides an opportunity to get a glimpse of her personality. So graceful and comfortable she is. Just love her. Love how you care for her. You are both so blessed living on her. Just want to say thank you so much for sharing your beautiful girl with us and look forward to the Caribbean's on Fair Isle. I will be in the VI sailing between St Thomas and St Criox late March. How incredible it would be to see her at the same anchorage. I am her biggest fan.
I never knew of anyone else making banana bread with currents. I always make it that way too and with tons of walnuts. My family and I just love it.
Brilliant update, thank you. The highlight for me was to find out that I’m not the only one who eats cold cheddar on crumpets!!! Go Steve 👍
Not sure what i was more excited about - your stunning boat or the fact the crumpet recipe is forthcoming
Aiming to get the crumpet recipe out next week, along with my tips for the best curry and spag bol... not to be missed !
I've been very excited about seeing this video. It was fascinating, exciting and at times beyond scary. Congratulations on catching that fish and thanks so much for such a lovely treat! 🤗
You got my attention, just saying the words sailing from Africa to Mondello, angry seas, what an adventure!
Thank you so much for the free sailing lessons!
Bravo. Great speed!
This video was one of your best. You two are absolutely pros! More please.
Nice update , you really make it easy to cross the Atlantic , even with a small crew of 2
It honestly wasn’t that hard!
Great to see you out making tracks! But, as you noticed, double ended hull forms are notoriously rolly sailing deep downwind angles. Sailing under only headsail, while easy to manage, usually is the most rolly setup. You might try sailing with 1/3 of your sail area as headsail poled out to weather, and 2/3 as mainsail to leeward. This is more comfortable for many boats. Also make sure to use lots of vang and a low enough pole to minimize leach twist, since leach twist contributes to rolling when sailing deep downwind angles. Hope this helps!
Thanks, we are trying different things.
Brilliant. Thank you!
I really enjoyed the video. You guys really capture the sailing experience for the viewer and the power of the ocean. Thanks for all the effort you put into your channel.
This is the most British sailing channel ever, and I love it! “Darling the waves are bit aggressive. Is one of those Tsunami things?”
Ha! bizarrely we did have a long conversation about Tsunami's one day, I red somewhere that a Tsunami waves travel at the same speed as a jet liner i.e. about 800mph, I'm sure I did some work on wave propagation formulas in my days of studying Physics and Applied Maths but I can't remember anything that would allow a wave to have that sort of velocity
@@svfairisle Love what you guys do. Thank you and safe travels. Hopefully see you out there when I set sail from Oban in May.
@@svfairisle I hope your travesl are safe. To my understanding as long as you are out at sea, you will barely notice a Tsunami, so you are in a good place. . Love the channel, love the content and think you are both great.
As Nelson said, "I see no ships!"
BZ guys, you`re smashing it!
I was very impressed with the heroics displayed to keep the fried fish from leaving the plates. If it meant keeping them where they belong , right next to the salsa using your hands, you would do it. When you finally placed them on the gimballed stove top even if it meant putting the hot skillet on a non-gimballed counter top and take a chance with hot grease you would do it. BRAVO.😁
My thoughts exactly
They were the roast potatoes, the fish was better at staying put!
I have only just come across your videos. As a sailor with 30 years experience, admire both the professionalism of your boat handling and of the videos. Also a well chosen vessel to do oceans.
Probably one of you best videos. Great stuff. I guess 3 ships. 🤐
Hi, a great video totally interesting sailing and cooking sections.When I was at sea in trawlers and tugs the answer to being bounced around was fiddles and wet table cloths to stop things from sliding.
Looking forward to seeing the next one,cheers Roly🇬🇧.
Yes Fair Isle is pretty good for fiddles & I used to do the wet tee-towel trick, but now you get those grippy pads that you just cut to size, they’re excellent nothing slips off them
Being retired it was a make do and mend system in my day,even small yachts these days seem to have so many electrical devices and computers I am amazed at it all.😀Roly🇬🇧.
Watching you cook in a rolling boat reminded of stories from family about my dad. When he finished his hitch in the US Navy and married my mother, he would hold plate when he ate. This was in the 1950's
Did anyone else see the beam of sunlight shining down on Steve as he reeled in his catch?
Really good show this morning, thank you.
I’ll confess the realism of life on a rolling sailboat won’t help change my wife’s mind about not getting a boat. 😢
Well like always, I’ll just have to settle for living out my dreams of sailing through your videos.
If you guys ever venture to the west coast would love to meet you. Someday maybe.
Cats are more stable !! Had the same problem with my girlfriend, then I showed her a few videos ,she's been showing me boats now 😅
@@Outrageousconduct Ha! You’re lucky she changed her mind. Good luck with your search 😊
Plates 🤣 Save them for port. Bowls are in order. What cracking progress you are making.
You’ll be saying we shouldn’t use our best crystal for the wine soon! Us Brits have standards you know!
In 2007 I crewed for my son on his Westwind 43, Ty Dewi, a similar, though less modern yacht to Fair Isle. Less in the way of a keel, so more prone to rolling. Nick had fitted her with twin poles, and we sailed the whole way with poled out headsails and no main. To shorten sail we just rolled the headsails in , and let em out again as necessary. This gives a well balanced boat downwind, and minumum crew exposure, and very little rolling. We saw only 2 ships. Great conversation - us: We are a sailing vessel on collision course, please alter course. Them: we are a very big tanker on course Philadelphia to Nigeria. you alter course. Us: that puts our crew at risk. read your rules. They altered course.
Interesting to see that your starlink worked under this conditions. Seems that i have a lemon 🙈
Love your videos.
Am sure you have an extra cabin on board just for me ! Wow, this latest voyage being supervised by 2 very capable tutors would have been a super learning experience for this old armchair wanna-be sailor. Top coverage guys...really appreciate being visually onboard....Cheers.👍
Wow fantastic! Looking forward to the Caribbean stuff. That meal you cooked was mouth watering😊.
Nice video - Once offshore, my guess is you saw no ships. Those crumpets really looked the business.
That incessant rolling can’t have been a lot of fun, getting stuff done and sleeping
There were only 2 ships that came into view in the far distance and we probably wouldn’t have even noticed them if it wasn’t for AIS.
Glad its going so well, being rolly a pain. I'll guess 5 ships. Must be comforting to have internet communications. Interesting to see your track on noforeignland. Congrats on landing the fish !
Actually only 2 ships & we just met a couple at the cafe here who did exactly the same trip as us at the same time, they pulled into the anchorage just after us, but we didn't see them at all even on AIS
@@svfairisle I guess it is a big ocean. Looking on noforeignland there seemed to be a convoy of boats making the crossing. I have no idea of AIS range settings. Maybe your route was off the large ship routes (no slavers today 🙂).
Yes its always deceiving looking at NFL when it seems like the place is full! If you think about it even if theres 50 boats shown mid ocean theyre spread across 2000 miles of ocean! Even when you do a rally like the ARC and have 50 boats leave at the same time within a day you're very unlikely to see anyone else even though the tracker show a whole bunch of boats
Crumpets? My God man, you make crossing the Atlantic fun. Fantastic episode, you both are the best with everything you do. Thanks for teaching us HOW TO SAIL!
See you in the caribbean! We will be sailing Grenadines in April on our 2001 Hallberg Rassy named Elegast. See you at an anchorage soon.
Make sure you add Tobago Cays to your route plans: one of our favourite places we have been so far.
Enjoy!
I'm guessing 3 ships? Is it a long lonely ocean? Would you think your weather conditions are due to the route? Or possibly due to timing? Some say November is the best time to cross. Congratulations on the Fish!
The trade are usually better in the new year than before Xmas when the ARC goes. We wind had certainly set in nicely for us, but there were a few big storms tracking East in the North Atlantic and I think we suffered from the swell that was sending down to us
Excellent video. I've been following you since you started and are hoping to do that trip in a couple of years. We live on our 41 ft fraser sailboat and are taking early retirement in June (55 yrs) and heading from Vancouver Island in canada to Mexico then eventually to Panama. Maybe one day we will be in the same area to say hi!
Sounds great, we would love to get up to the Pacific NW at some time, just a way off the beaten track, but may see you in Panama
I liked everything about this episode, including the Geeky bit, as you called it. In fact, I learned a thing or two, which I like. I now see why you didn't swim out there. The conditions were less than ideal, but you guys made the best of them, didn't get seasick and continued to cook and eat well (as opposed to eating crumpets for every meal). Admirable! The wind made the audio a challenge at times--or as it your accents? I'm not sure. :)
I'm impressed that, while filming, you were able to keep the horizon level while the boat rolled. I suppose you have a gyroscopically controlled camera for that. It worked well. The music was fun and suspenseful. At one point I expected a giant great white shark to appear. Each segment/day was succinct and gave a nice glimpse into the cruising life! Thank You!
Thank you!
I would say, that you have spotted three ships. The same number that I spotted on my crossing in 1989. Nice video, thnak you.
Thanks for the latest update & sorry you didn't find your whale! Watching the rolly nature of the crossing, I felt for you - as others have said, almost got seasick at home. But at least you are going to do the crossing in a super fast time and then get the Caribbean to enjoy earlier ⛵
Congratulation for yours REAL navigation chanel. Greeting from Spain.
I have promised to myself before the end of my life to do a greatcircle of this planet. If i dont i will be angry to myself forever.
Your presentation skills are excellent! I’ve only just discovered your channel so I shall enjoy watching your videos.
I keep the roll down by using a triple reefed main centred with the genoa out or both genoa and main out and use the centred staysail.
Warm Crumpets with melted butter and honey and a slice of cheese! GOOD
I enjoy the James Michener Novels! Great minds think alike!....not that I'm one of the greats!...Im barely adequate! LOL!
I had no idea there were so many. Now reading The Covenant.
Brilliant video. So professional. When I did the ARC in 2007 we had a "Parasail" which made a big difference to the rolling. The aerofoil vent seemed to lift the bow and somehow reduced the rolling. The rolling you suffered did look horrendous. Very impressed that just two of you made that voyage. Excellent, and well done.
Thanks Dick. We are slightly worried about stepping onto land now....haha
So happy for you two! Well done and this video was next level. Thank you :-) cooking my own crumpets is going to change my life.
Best video I have seen recently to demonstrate how poor a monohulled vessel is compared with a multihull.
As you can see, this is a very uncomfortable way to sail. The constant rock and roll can be very tiring, and difficult to sleep, difficult to prepare food, difficult to sleep, and the trip could take twice as long as a modern multihull.
Great for traditionalists, but it does not have to be this way, so don't be put off cruising by this video.
The long and the short of it dear viewers is this: while you will always find fanboys of certain types of boat, there is no telling if they actually know what they are talking about. You may be gaining some pearls of wisdom from someone who has vast experience or you may be listening to the rant of a narrow minded idiot who doesn't know one end of a boat from another. Of course we have no way of knowing which of these things apply to the writer of this very forthright comment because we know nothing about him... from his profile he seems to know something about metal detectors...
If you're viewers of this channel you know a bit more about me, so here's my thoughts.
A monohull running downwind with a sloppy quartering sea is going to roll more than a catamaran, that's a given. If you're prone to sea sickness this will not be a good passage for most people. I say most people because I'm not prone to sea sickness, but strangely the motion of a catamaran does make me feel slightly sick. They don't roll so much in those conditions but they can develop a really nasty motion, at least for me, where you feel you are being shoved this way or that, indiscriminately, there's no rhythm to it just a horribly unpredictable motion. So before you imagine a catamaran to be a nice thing to be in with that sort of sea try one! You may prefer it to a slow but predictable roll, you may not.
Lets cut to the chase though, If I'm honest I would say that the poster is correct & in these seas the vast majority of people would prefer the cat to a monohull, does that mean a cat is the better option for trade wind sailing?
Well take a look at episode 104 and see what you think. That was trade wind sailing, or should have been, 3 days offshore from Portugal to Porto Santo. It ended up being a force 9 on the nose sustained for several days. Now in those conditions look at the comfort of a heavy displacement monohull as against what you would be up against in a catamaran. A well built cat should survive this no problem of course but I would wager a large amount of money those on board would be absolutely convinced the thing was going to break into a million pieces at any second. It would not be a nice place to be and I know for sure would would not have the option of beating to windward as we did so you would be going backwards too. All things are not as they may at first seem!
Thank you for taking the time to reply.
Of course you are correct, its difficult to know any commenters background or experience when making comments so let's put that to rest.
I started sailing at 7 years of age, initially in Mirror Dinghies, a Barry Bucknell masterpiece which i suspect you may be familiar. Sailed and raced in sail numbers 152, 1751, 9339, 20202, also a 505, Fireball, Snapdraggon, a Prout (Cat) Hobies (cat) 14, 16 and 18 ft, an Etchell, and a 10 meter Lock Crowther ocean cruising cat in San Francisco bay. The fastest I have sailed in a cruising yacht was 23 knots in the Crowther during the St Francis to Catalina race, a suspect half this speed would be a dream for most cruising monohulls.
I had the pleasure of interviewing cruiser racers at the end of one of the ARC races (Atlantic Rally for Cruisers), the monohull sailors took days to recover from the Atlantic roll, while the multihull sailors were up and about as soon as they arrived, enjoying the delights of this tropical island paradise.
Let's cut to the chase, while I have no idea how much multihull cruising @svfairile has, I would not use this as a reason to discount his comments.
Nobody purposely sets sail in a force 9 Gail, in any cruising sail boat, but if caught unawares, this would be the time to batten down the hatches, put out the drogue and wait until the weather passes. I always carried a drogue in my Crowther, and fortunately, with the exception of testing deployment never needed to use it in anger. Another benefit of a cruising multi is the ability to reach away from approaching storms, something that is impossible to do in a slow mono. FYI, boats on a drogue, mono of multi, don't go backwards too quickly in a storm!
Let's talk safety, a cruising monohull uses lead weight in the keel for ballast, which helps to exacerbate the trade wind roll, compared with a multihull cruiser which distributes their displacement across a wide beam and keep minimal contact with the water. Most of us learned at an early age that lead does not float, and it can be dangerous to carry lead to sea. Friend's of mine were sailing across the English channel in 15 knots of wind and hit something, and their monohull sank in less than 3 minutes! Fortunately, they were towing their dinghy at the time and all made it out. While it's true, a catamaran can capsize, as can monohulls, but I'd much prefer to have my family safe in an upside down multihull, still floating on the surface than being left in a dinghy or life raft in the ocean, when (not if) you hit some submerged object, or the keel fell off.
Regrettably, there are many instances of cruising monohulls disappearing every year, so their stories are with Davy Jones, and we do hear the occasional stories from capsized multi's, because they survived, to sail another day, but all activities carry their risks.
My main comment was comfort, a multi is always going to be more comfortable, and faster for cruising, this is where I would wage my money!
The initial masters of sail cruising were the Polynesian's in canoes, with out riggers and multi-hulls, certainly not monohulls with lead keels.
It could be, that in the future, that foiling monohulls are safer and faster than foiling multihulls, but this is not now.
We can certainly agree that all things are not as they first seem!
Again, thanks for taking the time to respond, and keep up the good work with your videos, there is still a lot of confusion about the merits of multihulls for cruising, I hope this goes some way to level the sailing field!
Multi's sail fast and level, the natural (and more comfortable) way to sail (and cook!)
I sold my boat 30 years ago and I know things have changed regarding navigation but I can only imagine how much. Back then, I had a sextant and charts plus, when you are offshore, you make your own plotting sheet for daily fixes. I did have a Magellan ( I think ) GPS that was the size of a brick and it only gave Lat & Lon and consumed those big flashlight sized batteries at an amazing rate. So, regarding your comments about people not using charts much... how many offshore sailors carry a sextant these days ?
You won’t find many people carrying a sextant these days! I sold mine years ago, in a way I wish I’d kept it if for no other reason than filming a little sequence on celestial navigation. It’s just not something you need to have these days as there are so many ways of getting redundancy in you electronic plotters.
Brilliant, thank you. Very candid commentary, straight up and informative.
By the way, a slight smear of sweet chilli on the almost cooked first side, back 30seconds to caramelise, then flip to cook side two - it will pick up a little of the caramelised base.
Remove, butter then lemon juice to de-glaze then over the fish
Absolutely loved the video, certainly worth the wait. Love the way you talk us through the journey; seems like we're one to one. How many ships? Maybe X18? With you both all the way. In my years gone by it was charts and only just on to chart plotters etc. Best wishes from a wet Kent. P.
Outstanding episode mates! You guys keep going and going and it’s so much fun to watch. 🙌
Thanks Josh, hope you’re well
Spring onion tip.... Leave about 3 inches and the root, put it in water and it sprouts again. I had some for about a month doing that and then re-harvesting.
S&J, regardless of your targeted destination, have you ever tried comfort cruising?
Which means Incase you don't know, heading in the direction of comfort.
I have tried it on coastal Vancouver Canada, but the sea space is tight.
Try it for a couple of days. What have you got to lose? You are not in a hurry. Then fun to see what your plotter shows.
In some cases you may not lose much distance. In others you may be back in the UK. Lol
Yes we do that a lot. On a trip like this though where it's already a long time at sea extending it for long periods isn't that appealing
So for us with a folly sea we get the stay sail out and bring her in as tight as she can to midship, we find that it dampens the roll and acts as a shock absorber. We do have a plastic fantastic boat so it may be different for yours
Didn't try the staysail, might be worth a go in future
For eating while at sea, we use stainless steel dog bowls. Flat bottom and high sides perfect for fine dining on the high seas. 22:02
Great passage making. In the past used to put up a bit of mainsail (sheeted tight a midship) it reduces roll when sailing downwind,maybe worth a try. I love your videos they are so professional well done.
Coming to Grenada at some point? If so I would love to buy you both a beverage and pick your brain about fixing our Hans Christian 41T's flooring that has similar issues to yours. The work that was done on your boat was quite impressive.
Yes we will certainly be coming to Grenada, not sure exactly when, probably early May. Would be very happy to take a look at you 41, keep in touch & hopefully we will meet up.
That sounds wonderful. Thank you, and enjoy Trinidad.
Rolling and uncomfortable yes. But ‘white knuckle’ per your title? Don’t think so.
I’ve been on many milder roller coaster rides in the park …
Great video guys. As I'm new to your channel I'd like to know the make of your boat, please?
It's a Hans Christian 48T, there is a boat tour video if you're interested
the cooking struggles when it's rolling.... Love it.
Have read the Osman series and totally loved it! Another book to recommend is David Mitchell, Unruly. It’s a satirical, historical look at Englands Kings and Queens. If you like listening, David reads it on Audible and his presentation is wonderful.
Sounds good, I’ve just signed up for Audible, so I’ll give it a go
Wow! I didn’t think Fair Isle could go that fast! Isn’t she a motor sailer? Very impressed. Great coverage. Also, didn’t expect you to be rolling like that. Surprised that you aren’t sea sick. But great that you aren’t!
Really enjoyed this. Thank you. ⛵️
Oh dear Hugh you could get struck of for calling a Han Christian a motor sailor! They are pretty much to opposite of that. They are not built for speed but then no true blue water boat is. Blue water boats are usually heavy but the best ones, like HC’s, have the sail area to cope with that. Fair Isle is basically a 48 foot boat with a 57 foot sail plan, because of the bow sprit.
@@svfairisle Oops!
When running dead down wind with just the yankee, have you tried sheeting the staysail hard amidships using both sheets? I have used this tactic successfully to help reduce the rolling, as well as ease the steering by keeping the nose pointing down hill
I’m going to give it a go
You need to hold the rod more upright so the rod takes more strain than the line otherwise the line will break.
If the line is 20lb breaking strain then hand to hook it will probably break at around 23-27 or more, but with a rod there’s no telling how much bigger the fish will be it all depends on the rod and the skill of the angler, I’ve caught a 56lb carp on 4lb line others have caught bigger on less bs line👍🏼
Yes, well done video as usual. You both captured the true feeling of sailing for us viewers. ❤
I think it’s a shame that non-sailors will get the wrong idea about what it’s like, that they may have to endure such rolling on a boat (I won’t show this video to my wife); it was just your choice to go dead downwind with, usually, just a head sail as a compromise, to favour speed and a direct route, and accept the rolling as a consequence. The roll would have been greatly reduced, as you know, if you had taken a route twenty or thirty degrees off the wind on a broad reach, and gybed every day, or every few hours, to zig zag along, as you would do upwind. The main sail has a tremendous effect on stability. Personally I would choose the less rolly, longer voyage. The food looks great. Thanks.
yes it's all a choice, and if the rolling was making us sick we would have certainly dropped off the wind and added a couple of days to the trip. In fact that's the decision I think we would have taken in theory, in reality the ride was not that much more comfortable running off with the main so sticking with it and having a quick crossing was better
Before I looked, if you've posted it, I would guess 3 ships sighted. I made a passage from Hawaii to San Francisco in the 70's with one large ship and one sailboat over 3,000 nautical miles.
Somewhere Mid-Atlantic, I finally decided to read the Atlantic chapter in Ocean Passages of the World
And I learned that a yacht crossing in the Trades suffers an average of half a million rolling strokes!
... I was like: "stupid of me I should have counted since Las Palmas!"
When sailing dead down wind with the head sail poled out,would it help to sheet the main sail in tight to reduce the rolling, or would it affect the auto pilot to keep your coarse ?
With the amount of roll we had from the sea (3m waves that wern't direct behind, they had about 30 degrees on the beam) having the mainsail centered would mean it continually flopping from side to side. Even if you can control the boom to not move the sail will snap from side to side as the battens reset on every roll, it would drive you mad!... and kill the sail
Might use the flying fish as bait. Then throws them overboard . lol
I did try one, we get a constant supply, didn't hook anything with it.
Great Tradewind sailing! See PBS/Nature: Patrick & The Whale-Sperm whale interspecies connection around Dominica! Fabulous! Safe sailing!
Does anyone ever rig flopper stoppers on sailboats for down wind ? Could just have some little outriggers set up. Sure does work a dream on some fishing boats I have worked on. Love your channel, your boat, and the way you two do things.
Well done guys!! That’s the Atlantic crossing for you. A rocky rolly downwind ride. It’s a big ocen and theres nothing else to be seen on AIS. Welcome to the Caribbean!!
Great episode. Thought I would do and touch and go, but the sailing caught me as well as making crumpets. Have to try that this summer in the Med. Enjoy the Carib... S/V Trident Star, '78 Amel Maramu #25
Beautiful passage so far, thank you for sharing. I'm ho;ping to cross the Atlantic in the other direction next year. I'm still in the Pacific, though, so I have a ways to go. As for Starlink, I believe you need to sell it to yourself and then register it again with a service address in the new continent. I know there has been several discussions on this topic online as cruisers from North America goin to Columbia exit their home continent as well. Cheers from the Lost Pearl, may we cross wakes some day.
Thanks, I think you're right, I contacted Starlink support to ask if I can register it in a new continent and they say no, so looks like selling it to myself is the workaround!
Flying fish fries on a Friday night in Barbados is something I'll never forget, Tasty, and much larger than your ill-fated passengers.Nice video, and good luck the rest of the way!
You are throwing away a good treat. Flying fish on a trisket! Maybe with a touch of mustard.
Its turning into a cooking show
Ha! we did our best to keep the cooking bits short for the episode, but that does mean we have an extra cooking special coming up with the full recipies so you can watch or avoid as you like!
Crazy to watch your cooking…always wondered about the difference between scones & crumpets. 3 ships is my guess. Watching the waves rise up and down behind you 😳 🇨🇦 ❤
I bet you saw one ship. Just because you put the question to us. Great show I would have thought putting the main up would have stoped a lot of the rolling.
It usually helps a bit and that was the way we started, but it really wasn’t doing much and the slating around was annoying so on the whole we were better off without with the wind dead astern
another excellent production. choice work
Fresh fish , Wind arft , Crumpets , That beats boring pancakes .... Im jealous .
Am I crazy to even think about annual Atlantic crossings with a well equipped Hunter Legend 40.5?
A hunter legend would not be my first choice of offshore boat as I'm sure you know if you've watched this channel, bolt on winged keels and spade rudders are not my favorite. But with a capsize screening ratio of 1.8, I think you won't be in bad shape at all. It will be a little tender and heal easy, but reef! Any well maintained boat of this kind can cross oceans,. As for doing it annually, well if that were my intention I might be thinking a purpose built blue water boat could be a wise thing to have!
@@svfairisle Thank you! I'm two years out and want to plan a graceful entrance and execution. I really just want to travel the world, as I've done in my career, and not be strapped down to one area. Hence the annual crossing. Again, thank you!
I am from Chile and enjoy watching your sailing videos very much. it's great what you do and I think you love the sea so much.
Sailing the Atlantic and not seeing a single whale is sad and quite a testament to the anthropocene effect. A few hundred years ago the seas fairly boiled with marine life and you would have undoubtedly seen a dozen or more whales every single day. The oceans are now a veritable desert with all beaches strewn with plastic refuse.
That far south very few ships I'd have guessed - possibly zero...
Amazing sailing! Well done 👏
I am guessing no ships, but probably wrong.
2 ships. We thought we may see more
I am a ex merchant seaman also one of the cooks. Days sandwiches or baked potato. Not a chance of soup bounces out of the pot even tying the lid on. I like baked potato with curried beans. Make stuff you can nuke a baked tattie can roll about in the oven.
I recall one crewmember's dinner literally flying across the salon seconds after he told the helmsman to "hold the boat steady" during a rolly downwind to Hawaii from Vancouver. 😂 I'd venture that you saw only three ships.
I have just found your channel! You are so easy to listen to. Thanks for posting!
Fantastic entertaining informative wonderful. Thank you for sharing 😍keep safe 🙏
If you haven't tried crumpets with a ton of butter and a small amount of vegemite then you've not lived.
Zero ships, nice fish dinner, I am not sure I could the extensive rolling. Wonder video.
We actually saw 2 ships, but more than 3 miles off. My AIS alarm never went off the whole trip
Hi there.
Thanks for the well-done vlog of your crossing. What were the actual dates of your passage?
We’re in Ireland now, and readying for our next Atlantic crossing. I’m curious to know why you chose Trinidad as your landfall destination on the other side of the pond? Why not somewhere in the Lesser Antilles, for example?
We on SY AT FIRST SIGHT wish you safe travels.
It was 13th-28th Feb. We came to Trinidad because we have friends here. It’s really only a place to come if you want to work on your boat, it’s not much of a cruising ground
@@svfairisle Thank you for your quick reply with the dates of your crossing and reason for making landfall in Trinidad.
Congratulations on a super fast crossing in a traditional monohull. Maybe you’d have preferred a day or two longer in exchange for a little less rocking and rolling? Tough call…
Do you have a Fair Isle policy for when you wear life vests and/or harness in to jack lines? Every vessel has its own ethos for these sorts of things.
@@davidlane5190 No hard and fast rules really it’s a common sense thing. In Fair Isle it would have to be a Southern ocean type storm to feel the need for anything in the cockpit, on deck life jacket at night or if in high seas or doing something that might overbalance you like putting out the pole. I rarely clip on because it can be very limiting on movement which will mean you spend much longer on deck and put yourself at more risk. Clipping on if needing to be in one position for a while is a good idea though, like when working at the mast. Remember the drag risk is high with tethers so keep tethers short and the jacklines inboard if possible. Above all though don’t think because you’ve got some safety gear on that makes you invincible!
"Goose Winged". Gull Winged is about aeroplane wings...
Looks like it would be handy if you were an Octopus with 8 arms to hold onto all the food wanting to fly everywhere.
Great cockpit seats. Where did you get them?
Yes they're amazing. We've showed them before in our 'best things for your boat' videos that we do every now and then. They are called 'Comfort Seat' and the come from the Netherlands.