How fast is our Open 60? | Extreme sailboat refit END
Here's the link to Timo's swanky new phone AGM G2 Guardian
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and here's the discount code JOSNAGM which gets you 8% off + charging dock + tempered film :)
After destroying multiple phones in a short space of time during the refit, Timo has finally found his perfect indestructible phone. It not only has a 100 lumens torch, a 3.5 watt speaker, is drop and dust proof and can survive half an hour underwater, but the coolest thing is the infrared night vision and thermal camera which we’ll surely be showing you more of in future videos. Thanks to this phone we managed to find where we lost 1 volt in heat resistance
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Finally after a 2 year refit turning our Open 60 into a fast family cruiser - it’s time to head outside of the reef here in Fiji and test her in some big waves.
Fiji is surrounded by the largest coral reef system in the south pacific, which as well as providing some great diving, snorkelling and some of the world’s most famous surf breaks - also offers more sailors some more protection from waves and some smooth sailing in a giant lagoon. Especially on the western side of the main island of Viti Levu around the Mamanuca and Yasawa islands which is where we’ve been since we re-launched as this western side of Fiji is also protected from the easterly trade winds. So this trip out of the reef to sail along Fiji’s southern coastline was an important test sail for NV after our big refit before embarking upon our first ocean passage.
But our smiles were short lived - as before we’d made it out of the reef pass, our engine died.
Our engine is an old Volvo which we’d overhauled during our refit- taking it out of the boat, and after a bad compression test, opened up and replaced valves and seals, sandblasting and repainting. However since being back in the water, other parts had been playing up and in particular we’d been leaking a lot of oil.
So after all this hassle with the engine over the last few weeks, you can imagine our disappointment when it died on us - luckily this was short lived as it was a broken fuel pipe which Timo cut and re-attached.
We made it out through the reef pass in darkness and after a successful first night at sea and we arrived at our destination shortly before lunch - a bay called Natandola - well known for it’s Surf breaks - which we witnessed crashing on either side of us as we entered... a little bit nerve wrecking given the recent reliability of our engine…
But it was on the way home that the real fun started...
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Caio! We are Timo and Jo, an Italian and English couple with countless ocean miles under our belts. We're refitting an ex Vendée Globe Open 60 race boat originally designed & built & raced by famous Hungarian sailor Nándor Fa. He competed in her in the 1992 Vendée Globe (round the world single handed race known as “the Everest of the seas”), finishing 5th, becoming the first non-frenchman to finish.
We are currently in Fiji giving this old gladiator a new lease on life, transforming her from an ex race boat to a performance family cruiser, which we'll need to make both dog and baby proof! We’re planning to set sail again in Oct 2022, so with limited time&money we have plenty of challenges ahead to turn our dreams into reality&get back on the water!
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1 окт 2024
