MAYDAY in the anchorage - Sailing Tarka Ep. 20
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- Опубліковано 1 лис 2018
- Proceeds from this video will go to the Coral Reef Alliance, but you can also support me directly (and specifically the production of these videos) by becoming a Patron: / theadventuresoftarka
Why the delay in posting? Unfortunately, I had to return home because of a tragedy in my family, and haven't had the emotional or physical energy to get a new video produced on-time. But, it's finally done, and I hope you enjoy!
Tarka is a 1973 Albin Vega 27 (8.2m) that I bought sight-unseen and without sailing experience on the island of St. Martin in April of 2017. I was thrust head-first into ocean sailing as I got Tarka safely south from what would become the most devastating hurricane seasons on record. We are now working our way west towards the Pacific.
I am sailing Tarka around the world in part to raise money and awareness for coral conservation by supporting the Coral Reef Alliance. You can learn more here:
www.theadventuresoftarka.com/f...
or visit their website directly:
www.coral.org
If you make a donation to their website directly in Tarka's honor, please send me an e-mail copy of your receipt so I can keep track of Tarka's fundraising. You can forward to:
theadventuresoftarka@gmail.com
Additional support for Tarka’s sail for CORAL (The Coral Reef Alliance) comes from donations by:
Soylent - Healthy provisioning for the long offshore passages
Sta Lok - Swage-less terminals for portions of Tarka’s rigging, making it an easy DIY job and allowing for easy inspection
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Music credits:
Plastic or Paper - Wes Hutchinson
Wishful Thinking - Dan Lebowitz
Mint Chocolate 2a - Vibe Mountain
Eighty Miles - VYEN
Sleepy Jake - Silent Partner
Dance With Me - Ehrling: / ehrling
Your girl friend has an incredible smile. Hope she decides to come along. She's an asset , even if she gets a little seasick.
She has an awesome big smile
Loved the stroopwafel bday cake. Super Dutch ;)
Sweet. Happy to see you got a sense of humor. Love seeing the girls stoked and giddy smile everywhere you go.
Happy B-Day young fella
Love your videos, this is my second go whating them love to see you following your dream!
Happy Birthday! Awesome dive.
As always... Thank you for great videos...
Happy Bday Bro!! I think it's cool you found someone to share your adventure with!
Good video! I look forward to the rest of your journey
Well done ! congrats on the 1 year anniversary! you inspire me on your small boat.
Happy birthday Mr Tarka
Very nice... I hope she joins you as you continue on your journey...
Sorry for your lose mate love the videos keep up the good work
Happy birthday and happy anniversary mate!
Man I love your videos. I will watch every video and hope you do well because I love watching and following your journey
I’ve been checking this channel every day for this video the last 2 weeks and it surely was worth waiting for
Exciting stuff!
Good thinking on moving Tarka, that kind of common sense will serve you well for your upcoming travels.
Cheers! 🍻
You guys look like you are having fun!
That's one crazy night ... good thing you woke up when you did!
You make a really valid point in this video. When we live our routine, 9 to 5 lives, it seems as though times flies because nothing really differentiates each day from the next. When I'm traveling in my bus for 4 months though Mexico it seems like so much longer because every day is a unique experience.
You are a lucky man to be enjoying such an adventure with your choice of companion. 🙂
A tip on flying the Gennaker - which is a fantastic sail from beam-reach to running in light air.
Use the snuffer to gybe and one sheet (line) on the clew and no downhaul on the Tack
a) This saves you trying to gybe the sail while it fully flying (save the heroics and practice for very, very light air) and
b) if you use only *one line* on the clew you won't have a "loose windward sheet" to fall over the side, under the bow and get wedged in the rudder stock under water.
Not that I'm speaking from experience (ha).
You look like you are having a great time. I am so glad you woke up and moved away from the burning boat. Stay safe.
Happy birthday, and a great video.Good call on the burning boat, yeah in hindsight it may have been a pan pan or relay call but you made a good decision based on the information you had.
Good Life, your Lucky..... Happy Birthday
Glad to see you both still enjoying the adventure. Crazy how close you came to a campfire on board. Good thing you were awake. Stay safe.
We're hoping that now that we've gotten our mayday out of the way, we won't need to make another!
love your vids!!!!
freakin DONKY SANCtuary!!!! Gotta be fresh in love for this!!!
You Sir have made it on my Christmas tap list. It won't be a lot but hopefully it'll show my appreciation for your efforts and buy you a drink. I wish you well.
Well that's just too awesome! Any little bit really helps, you never have to qualify a contribution :).
Great video! Can't wait to get back down to the Caribbean next summer. I patroned you, but the lady has to stay! ;)
Happy birthday!
Looks like everything is falling into place for you. That young lady is a trooper!
That boat fire was pretty crazy! I think mayday was the right call, it was immanent danger, it got peoples attention.
Also blasting on your horn is a really good idea because some folks just aren't gonna have their radios on.
I haven't experienced a boat fire yet, but the other day we re-floated a boat using a can of Pabst blue ribbon and some toilet seal wax to stuff the through hull that had gone missing.
I think you have the right attitude about helping others, you watch any of the old John Wayne movies and that attitude is there, it is the cowboy way, only here it is on the sea!
Happy birthday! I have a feeling this next year of your life is going to be even better!
On that note by the time you all get through the Canal I will probably be in Panama on the west side somewhere.
nice video. Thanks
Good luck
Happy birthday.
Good vid bro.
Great impersonation of a donkey at the end. You two be safe out there.
Your videos getting longer , that's great!!
Great donkeys man
West to east in the southern Caribbean...ugh. If you play your cards right, that trip back to Bonair could possibly be the worst of your upwind battles for the entire voyage!
That's what I keep sayin', "It's all downwind from here".
Hi, really enjoying your videos, I had a Vega (#1701) and lived aboard for 2 years in the UK. Mine too had a Navik steering gear, brilliant thing to have, how are you getting on with yours? There are a few bits that can fall off if it you're not careful but you can tie them on with a loose loop of thin wire to be safe. I spent a couple of years around the Caribbean (diving mostly) before I got into sailing, if you're considering Colombia at some point have a look at Santa Marta, there's a marina there, not sure about anchoring/whether safe? Taganga is a small town a quick bus ride away that's well worth a visit (you could definitely anchor there but the local kids will be all over your boat), and Parque Nacional Tayrona is on the doorstep. Have you seen Cruising Lea Lea channel? Good luck to you both I wish I was there...
That issue with the bugs in the pasta is one of the main reasons why most cruisers put their foods like that in plastic sealed containers......might be an idea to get some. Otherwise, enjoy your cruising......
Probably true! Though we did find bugs in some of our plastic containers as well, perhaps those ones came with the pasta though.
To avoid weevil infestations in your wheat products add a handful of bay leaves to flour and pasta containers, and sprinkle throughout galley cupboards. If you find one weevil there will be many more in your future as they lay their eggs inside wheat products. Discarding all of the flour/pasta you found it in is the only way to get rid of them.
@@TheAdventuresofTarka Foodsaver is amazing. Costs a little more and takes some prep time when provisioning, but they're infallible in my limited experience.
Search You Tube for "Provisioning for Sailing an Ocean, An Exact Provisioning List" and you will see closeups of weevils and how their eggs are naturally in nearly all grain products. Without proper treatment, the eggs will hatch out. Protein! It does no harm to eat that protein but it does not taste like steak! So the thing is, don't over provision.
@@TheAdventuresofTarka The best and cheap is pet bottle from Coke. Have no problem with it an it's ease to store any were in the boat.
I did the same rutine every day for one year. What i dont understand is why it felt like one day.
You kind of look like George Mcfly :D :D
Keeping your knees straight and kicking from the hips will be a lot more efficient for you.
Nice video 👍 Do you have cockpit cushions? To make things a bit more comfy rather than sitting for hours on hard fibreglass
What I would give to have a relationship like this.
How do you collect your rai water?
Hello friend, and happy birthday, one question, is ur ship a Tartan?
It's an Albin Vega 27.
Just a thought: would you both consider a sit down in front of camera and share your updated plans? Jeez I sound like a meddling dad (:
What camera and microphone do you use?
Could you please,can you tell us a little be about the boat,the technical side of S/V Tarka.
We have some information on our website: www.theadventuresoftarka.com/meet-tarka/ but we'll surely feature everything in a future episode.
How old did you turn?
Do you have a Facebook page or can follow? Also, I’m trying to prep my boat for the same thing you’re doing. I have some questions
If you search "Adventures of Tarka" on facebook, we'll pop right up!
Use the gennekar!!!
Oh, it's coming.
Boat on fire 13: 15
Those weavils chew through the plastic of food packaging. Maybe keep it in better packaging.
Episode 13 - 19? I don't see them
Hi to you both - I hope the answer is YES for your girlfriend to sail with you around the world.
😁⛵🌍🌏🌎⚓🏖️
I have read that women have a more sensitive inner ear and are therefore more likely to experience motion sickness. It's certainly true of my wife.
I believe that, and I'm not really sure why I've always been fine with motion.
For the Record if you don't marry this girl I am flying down there and I am.
For the record, not if I get there first! Sail Boats are a dime a dozen pretty first mates are priceless
@Forbidden Knowledge Wow, you're classy guy; glad I don't have a sister.
@Forbidden Knowledge Is that how your dad treated your mom?
tjonessc You are absolutely correct!
Marry her
not very good for the stitching on sails to inspect them on concrete, better find some grass to lay a sail out on.
That's true, but unfortunately there's no grass in these parts :/.
I bet thin active people like yourselves didn't really need dive weights if you weren't wearing wet suits.
Haha, I don't know about that, I still need 4-6lbs if I don't want to be fighting to stay down at the end of the dive.
They're in salt water. The salinity is much higher than that of the human body, so I assume yes, they will need dive weights. Not sure about fresh water diving, though. :-)
realulli He was nice enough to provide the exact answer. It all comes down to how much neoprene they're wearing. I never dove long enough to empty a tank. There's about 6.5 lbs of air in the tank. Interesting that he needs 4-6 more lbs at the end to stay down. He's right on the edge. A big lunch and a rock in each pocket would do it :-)
I cant understand why your using a voice over rather than talking whilst recording as this seems so unreal and there are microphones that you can get that will not pick up wind so much whilst sailing, if you talk about your adventures whilst doing the recordings of the adventure at least it would be more realistic especially with having the sea breezes in the background, thats another reason why these recording seem unreal and unnatural because of the lack of sounds of the sea breezes and winds, we need to be hearing them in the films, im not particularly enjoying these because of no sea breezes as these are just unnatural and look very unreal with the voice over, and not talking whilst facing the camera is so unreal and is fake, I dont care if people slate me over this but its just my honest opinion as ive seen others sailing the high seas filming their progress and talking to the camera and no voice overs being used by them and they've filmed in rough seas