Single Handed Sailing from Australia to Fiji (Ep3) 

Sailing the whole time WHILE fixing things that break

That's sailing!

if they dönt run in hellmetz öh in vväde v v

That's boating for you

It wouldn't be sailing if things didn't go wrong, break, or more often both.

Well, you put that in perspective for me. Holy hell in a handbag. 😂💖

Yes. I was on a us army landing craft on a trip from San Francisco to Seattle. Three days, three nights of wicked seas. Slept with survival suit and life jacket in bunk.

"Vessels large may venture more, but little boats should keep near shore." -Benjamin Franklin

@@growlkitty reality is completely opposite of this :b Franklin wasn't a sailor it seems.

@@laugebrimgiest5733 That maybe do but if and when I cross the ocean on my own accord, whether she be a sailing yacht or a motor-yacht, it's going to be at least 37 meters.

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I completely agree with you! From La Vaga to Zatara, they don't show us anything but 2 and 3 second cuts of video they filmed months ago, to fill their so-called stories!

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How does he sleep? I know there is auto pilot, but that little boat was pitching & heaving.

@@tropickman You become used to it after a while

Thanks Blackbeard. I will be releasing a long play of the trip with all the raw footage on deck this week. Let me know if you like it if you get a chance to watch.

@@captainscarlegs3621 I think sailors like you who do long hauls like this are Incredibly brave. I just wondered when you sleep because surely you must do at some point? If you are sleeping does anything alert you to commercial ships nearby? What if you'd been sleeping and the boat took on water? Is there ever large debris in the ocean, like containers, or does it depend where you're sailing? Wishing you fair winds and good fortune for future journeys, Kate⛵

Loved watching the real deal sailor ❤

Thank you! 😃

Я должен был бросить вызов шторму как новичок, и новичок стал штормом.

I don’t understand these guys who make ocean passages in little boats. He hit something and it punctured his boat! If the hole was just a little bigger, he would not be here anymore. Is it really worth it?

@@Lost_AtSea_ Nobody will remember your name.

@@eklodry6495 Doing thing for fame is meaningless

Thank you kindly!

I always enjoy watching a video and finding that it also got Patrick's attention.

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A nice send-off from Patrick

Thank you . Glad you enjoyed the video.

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Joshua Slocum would be proud!

Glad you enjoy it!

Exactly!!

maybe but a sailing youtube channel like this wont ever make it off the ground

Right

Yep....bikinis get viewers.

Thanks kitty. I have released a long version of this video with only raw shots on deck. It's called virtual sailing

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Agreed. One of the waves hitting the camera literally startled me (I was wearing headphones). A little too real. I've sailed in hair-raising ocean conditions a couple of times. Briefly and not as bad as this, but it put the fear into me. You really have to trust your boat and have your wits about you.

The miracle of editing.

well i hope that you have learned to be prepared

Was that 40knots winds? Woow

I think adding weather and water protection for the helm station would be a mighty improvement, don't you think? The autopilot rigging looked confusing with all the pulleys and ropes, or was that your fix? The system didn't look as robust as I thought it should be, but I don't know squat about sailing at the same time, lol. Great video, but a little scary at times, but as others have said, the added drama made the video more enjoyable. You showed some quick thinking to overcome the setbacks, a real test and learning experience for sure.

Say hi to Don Shipley for me, he's on the chesapeake

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What happened to it?

Glad you enjoyed the video.Thanks for your comment.

Thanks but the moon is a big deal. There are plenty of us sailing on the ocean and I'm happy you enjoyed the video and hope to share more going forward.

Yes that is correct. Back in the bday of sail. Those guys were tough sailing around cape Horne against the wind. Sometimes it would take weeks in the old sailing ships.

how did you even survive a rogue wave?

@@cronoz7 oh…wow…I was pissing off the leeward stern 3am (clipped on!) marvelling how moonlight makes the ocean waves look like terraced slopes, when the mountain beneath just kept rising and rising. I guess things merged and made a monster, rearing it’s head under the 44ft boat as we surfed high, high above the silvered morass now spread out like plains below. Astonishing. Then we were sliding down its back as it rolled onward, down to the dark cleft of its base, where the moon was gone and all I could see was a vast black wall of surging death. I cannot estimate its size beyond ‘fuck’. It broke maybe 200m away and I thanked the stars it didn’t land on us. The steel boat may have survived but I would have been torn off the line and pasted.

Thanks. I appreciate your comment.

@@captainscarlegs3621what did you hit

Thanks and I hope your making good use of those great lakes.

I agree completely with you. Open water sailing is mostly taking a pounding and keeping systems running. Sailing or parked up this doesn't change. The sweet moments though, the perfect forward of beam run, the exhilarating down wind run, the moon lit run through the calm dark starry night. But it's mostly hard, busy, sleepless, 24/7.

Thanks for your comment.

Go for it. Hope you get out there soon.

Thanks for your kind comment.

If you plan for every thing that can go wrong it's easier to keep your cool, if you can't think of a solution right away that's when panic sets in

Take a look at Erik Aanderaa's channel if you like crazy guys. Solo sailing across the North Sea in the winter etc

Thanks for your comment Matthias. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

my thoughts also

I'm not so sure. I watched some racing around the cans at Santa Monica and it looked pretty rigorous out there. However I did race with a skipper here who expected you to crank the winches even though it was a foot under water.

Thanks for your kind words

Thank you for making these videos! Hope you heal soon from the fall off the dock recently.

@@SpencerToddBrown thanks. Yes all healed up but was a bit of a shock.

Ally ok but you really have to look fter what paints and coatings you use. Plus what you rest on her inner plates. Personally. I prefer Steel After trying Concrete and Timber planked (Back in the 'late '50's to 70's.) 3 times Steel. 30ft .32ft Pugh. and 42 ft Boden from '70's to selling last one 4 yrs ago at 76 yrs old. Bounced over/off Several trees after Coastal Cyclones. (Australia) One Channel Marker (Unlit, female driving)) and bounce off a Container in shipping lanes S/W of Strahan (Tassie) Convinced me on Metal hulls Specially for Single Handers. I've seen the inside of fibreglass hull skins when they hit something. Stell Bends (my fist fitted in dent but no leak from Container) I just welded a sqare of 8mm Plate over dent. so no stretched skin and a talking point Multi Chine, Plates 8mm, Keel side plates 1/2in. Keel Bottom plate 1in thick. Front of keel, formed into stem.. 3/4 wall Tubing. on a 32ft boat..I did all my sailing round Aust, and NZ. Apart from sailing here from UK in '72 in a 32ft Hartley Concrete . They the MOST comfortable. BUT slow sailors on the bouncy water. My early sailing was on North Sea in the Winter mainly on Trawlers, Yacht club in the mid '50's. ALL rough waters. Nowadays I just read you lot and what you doing (80 yrs) Brings back memories. Dream it. DO IT........ You'll only regret IF you don't.

@@mackcarson6729 interesting comment. An experienced sailor friend of ours some years back sailing longhaul solo in the Atlantic in a solidly built timber boat sadly never made it to his destination. Neither he nor his boat were ever found. We think maybe he hit a container. These sailing vids make me think of him and all you brave souls who take on the might of nature.

@@ksc743 Hey. When I was young (20's) The Atlantic was the thing. UK.Spain/Canary's. Chuck a rightie and off you go. Gran Canary waters was covered in a big oil puddle in those days (old ship leaks.)Every waterline was thick crap/oil. Multi's were very popular Tri's more than cats. Home made Ply. I know several who sailed past floating ply sheets on way over after a blow. Nobody will EVER know how many started but didn't make it.No records. I had a Jarrah Planked Ironbark Keelsons ribs etc. 27ft Nicholson. copy. Beautiful. but 8ft 4in beam. 4 ft 9in draught. Ply decks, covered and single pot Bukh Donk. WET.... But beautiful to sail. Some waves you went through instead of over the tops. It was real sailing in those days. Hardest thing was hanging onto Sextant when sighting and keeping charts dry. Plus getting the fresh evap water from your Tyre tube/plastic, desal' and the rain runoff from main. (when??)

@@mackcarson6729 yep, this old world of ours is a very different place now. You were born in a happy time but then came World War ll. The 50's up until the 90's were a great time too (I was born in the 50's). I can only imagine what sailing was like back then. I'm sure it built character unlike all the softies these days!

@@ksc743 Softies are made in the Western World since 50's...

Thankyou for your kind comment. hope to be out sailing again soon.

Hope you get out sailing soon