Ep 5, Heavy Weather: Solo on the North Atlantic in a Small Boat with Whales 

Great piece of advice for any aspiring sailors ,very well produced ,thank you !

Alan You certainly know what you are doing. Thank you so much for sharing. George & Sue From Yorkshire

5:23 “the starboard port” love boats... Great channel, enjoying immensely!

Awesome Allen, thanks again for sharing. Very interesting and pretty cool. Take care.

That's incredible! Found your channel yesterday, love the vids.

Not only is your seamanship outstanding, your camera work rocks as well!

All in all, very good presentation. Thank you and stay safe & dry.... Regards, Silvano. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Love it no frills sailing.

What a start alan amazing

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.

Love your weather proofing hatch! My biggest fear. . .but those hatches are hard core. . .love it.

Mom& Dad very interesting sailing Alan ,

I love the organization & composure!

Wow amazing. I really enjoyed the video. What an amazing adventure. Respect to you.

Great advice, I am going get one of these or something very similar in the next couple years.

Love your setup

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?

Interesting channel thanks for sharing.

Season 1 Episode 5 is very real!!!! It is very challenging and alone!!!! Thank you

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!

Cute boat and a very nicely set up boat too

Thanks

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.

Love your channel! Can you talk about your self-steering design and build? Fair winds and following seas!

The footage of those dolphins and that whale.....JESUS.

Amazing voyage, and stormy sea.

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 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.

Good stuff as usual.

cool, mate! on your place I be able only to cry: Mom, take me home, pleeeeeeeeaaaaaseeeeeee

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

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

Interesting channel. Can you stop the music when you speak ?

I agree with David Hartmann, do you have anywhere on a website where you have the plans you used in building your wind vane?

such a relaxing video

Amazing sir.I just found your channel. This is a dream of mine but I would never have the time.

Love the video! Very well done and great series. I’m still new to sailing, why heave to Vs tacking/beating into the wind?

No cotter pins in the turnbuckles or does it just look that way??

Obrigado

What was your position when you were heaving to? do you have a record of that information? Cheers, Richard

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

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.

What brand of air vents did you install in your cabin roof? Have they remained water tight? Do you recommend those vents?

seeing that whale must have been amazing :)

Damn... another channel I need to sub and follow.... 👍🏻

Hi. Could you explain how you went about adding water tight hatch on your boat. Buy certain parts or jerry rigged project? Great job

Loved the whales

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 .

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

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. 😎👍✅

I’m worried you put your charging converter in your bilge. One big wave and it’s toast. Why not up by your radio?

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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?

If you had 1/3 size sails you could stay under way

Sailing along side a whale that is bigger than your boat. Awesome

Scary with unpinned turnbuckles.

Great video series from a fellow Canuck! What is a warp? How does that work exactly? Is it like a sea anchor?

"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?

Hahahaha that whale was bigger than your boat

How do you like the Inreach?

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

your journey looks a bit like a bottle mail... ;-)

How many feet is this boat?

As far as I know, “hove to” is the past tense of “heave to”.

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. . .

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.

Survival suite next to the toilet- all about floaters

BTW, its good to find a sailor here NOT begging for Patreon money. Gets very tiresome.

I like whales 🐳

I enjoy most of your content. But I must add that music just adds distraction to your narration and natures sounds.

It’s “I will heave to” or “ yesterday I hove to”. Hove = past tense heave.

That looks more like a left over sea than 30+ knots, not a lot white horses around......

You have no idea what the weather systems are doing so you can choose an optimum course

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!