This man out here living his best life, the dreams of my youth, single handing around the world, sadly stripped away from me by health issues so I had to sell my boat. Do it for all it's worth, live while you can! I loved every minute of this. Fair winds and following seas!
Nice job, greetings from the (steel) SV Poldi (PNW). Congratulations to your successfull solo passage. I like the honesty and the absence of bs. fillings. It is refreshing to see something like this in the endless stream of those generally fake 'reality show sailing videos' made mostly by patreon sponsors collecting millenials full of happy dolphins & rainbows.
I love that your audio is so rough. No music, just the Sound of you, the wind and the ocean. Your captures where you can just see the boat and hear the ocean makes me feel awaysick (Opposite of homesick, german: Fernweh). Greetings from Germany.
I'm glad you like it! I mostly filmed it on a phone (a little on a Sony A6400). In hindsight, I wish I'd brought an external mic. Less wind crackling would have let more of the real sound of the sea / boat come through.
I always set a timer and only slept for a set period. The longest I slept the entire trip was 90 minutes. You get pretty good at not really waking up 100% for the checks, however (especially when sleeping in the cockpit). I'd sometimes keep one of my eyes closed. But there are too many ways things can go wrong to sleep longer than that
