Smashed in 60 knots & 6m seas sailing to Australia - Part 2 

Having a boat that provides many options to sail in a balanced state and being able to keep moving in a safe and manageable way in 50-60 knots and 6m+ seas is a true testament to the design and build of your vessel however what is truly impressive is the humility and seamanship you both displayed under very difficult circumstances. May you’re joys be as deep as the ocean and your sorrows as light as the foam.

Havin "been there, done that" over 30 odd years, this is the best representation of a storn from a sailboat I have seen. Well done to you both on your courage, composure and sound boat handling.

Merciful heavens. Don’t let my wife see this, she’ll never agree to go sailing again. Way to go guys.

Great heavy weather sailing video! Thanks for sharing. Shows that times for well built blue water yachts aren’t over.

Absolutely well done in an extremely rough situation. As a sailor for 40 years , yes a capable blue water sailor is much more capable than most of us are. Though sailing I have never been in sea conditions that were the conditions you have just gone through. But I have been in a commercial ship in swells from 20-25 meters, in a 100' foot boat towing hundreds of tons behind. I definitely can understand and comprehend your sea conditions. Well done to both of you.

What a charming and lovely couple, thank you for sharing your adventure.

I'm an ex-yachtie - sailed up from NZ, through the Coral Sea, Phillipines, Borneo, and the South China Sea with a final 65 voyage across the Pacific to Victoria Canada. I was a few sailing vlogs and this was by far the best footage of the 40-50knot conditions. The swell builds and it's as if the wind blows the top off the swells off somehow. Many thanks for the videography

Glad I was watching from my lounge room! Respect!

A seriously calm boat you have.. it never looked close to being in a struggle.. a calm boat brings peace to those aboard. Awesome vid.. thankyou both kindly for sharing.

Greetings from the Uk, extraordinary tale, thank goodness your faithful boat held together. Your calmness under extreme circumstances was really impressive. When u add Covid it’s doubly so. Amazing, well done guys what a story thanks for recording it when I am sure it was the last thing you wanted to do!

Excellent video-- great footage. I really like the protection you have in your cockpit! The boat really stood up to those conditions amazingly well. Phil that is not Phil!

Dramatic and well detailed account. The enclosed cockpit and the fractional sail plan are great features on Jaygo. With that kind of sustained tension, something could pop at any moment and the thought of that... So important to keep a steady tempo. Also, I've hear it said before--make a solid plan because it will be very challenging to change setup mid-storm. The calm of the day after in the lee of the land--what a beautiful sight. Ok, will recommend previous video to my wife. This one... Maybe I just say they haven't posted that yet. Learned a lot from this video about strategy, planning, focus, minimizing stress on rig and minds. Thank you for posting.

What a great endorsement of Amel sailing machines! Loved this video..your attitudes are the Valium needed when starting to convince loved ones to sail around this beautiful planet. Lol. Fantastic video

Your equanimity in this dastardly sea, wind and sickness was admirable. Your perseverance and decision making was exemplary. This is what a sailing video should be like … not the pap that 98% of sailing videographers squeegee out of their sea trials.

You guys blew all the other RU-vid boat/yacht videos right out of the water.👍👍👍👍

Amazing footage and some great discussion at the end. Thats one of the best videos ive seen. Thank you for uploading this.

Watching the video I had to hold myself off the table... with few videos I have empathized more. Maximum respect and admiration for you... Fantastic sailors!!!

Great, I loved a video and how well Amel was handling strong winds and high waves. I own one as well and I am happy to see how strong she is. Great work of the crew as well. Thank you for the video.

Super Maramu: Super yacht for these conditions! And a great video!

That was very impressive , thank you for the amazing footage , glad you both made it back safe to port .

Amazing sail. Thank you for sharing!

We met briefly at Southport whilst we were surveying Jomaro! Been following your vid’s for a long time. You’ve managed to capture the sea state on camera better than any other video I’ve seen! Might run into you in the tropics next year!

You are both masterful sailors, with a lot of heart, thx for your great story ! I'm struggling with a 16ft kayak on calm Pacific shores.

Awww bless! Thank you for sharing. Hopefully you are all well now!

You seem a lot more calm than other cruisers I have seen, in a very heavy storm 😮 thanks for showing us!!

One of the best videos of sailing in a storm that i have seen. Clear footage excellent concise commentary. I really felt like i was out there with you but i was home gripping my chair as every wave passed by. Well done especially for dealing with adversity whilst both of you were sick. Goodonya! Surprised that the clears held up. I have seen clears destroyed in winds less than that. I think i would have rolled mine up and donned the serious wet weather gear..

Fantastic video! Beautiful images of the sea, with all its terrifying majesty! And kudos to you! Your calm during the worst of it beggars belief!

Great video. Having done that run in our boat, l understand and appreciate your situation and comments. People may not appreciate how tied you can become on a normal ocean passage when short handed, let alone with a full gale blowing. We had plenty enough just out from hydreographers passage with 40 knots and no covid. ( Cleared in at Mackay). Thanks for the vid.

Wow, serious weather, excellent rough weather sailing. Great seamanship, great ship. Thanks for the vid. Hope you`re all well now. Bravo

I can't swim and don't sail, but I sincerely enjoyed this video. Your composure throughout your journey on those monsterous waves is amazing.❤

Amazing! Great sail plan and planning your route.

Wow! Kudos to you two for handling that storm so calmly. Those are the biggest waves I have ever seen captured on any You Tube sailing channel....sorry NBJS but I think they have you beat.

Thank you for sharing, well done guys 😊👍

That storm section was spectacular. I appreciate also how terrifying it must have been! Well done 👏🙂

Well done guys. Not ideal circumstances to find yourselves (sick) but you literally weathered it! Great video😎👍

Thanks for posting this, just came across your channel, really like the amount of sailing information and footage and the wrap up, will check out your other videos.

Thank you very much. Quite scary. Rare footage of sailing under such circumstances 👍👍👍happy you made it safely.

I watched in amazement as you carried on your cheerful way. Deliriously happy. Incredible. What a boat and what seamanship, although you shouldn't have done it really. Well done anyhow.

I really enjoyed this video. Thank you..

Nice video thank you a hug ,from Coral Springs FL USA .❤️❤️

Espectaculares imágenes!!, Gran estrategia para navegar al destino y el Amel super valiente, incansable, avanzando con firmeza sobre ese mar brutal. Felicidades!!

Fantastic video. Brings back some memories. I got caught in virtually the same spot on my way back from nz a couple years ago. Had to heave to for 3 days. Character building stuff. Amazing you managed to keep making ground against it. Great boat. Well played.

Beautiful couple. God bless you.

It's true you have to be in those conditions to see how amazing how beautiful the sea state looks.

Wow, I could definitely get a good idea of the sea state on my laptop. What a ride! What a boat! Hats off to all three of you!

Not gonna lie, this video gave me mild anxiety.... excellent calmness under pressure, and well done to the boat nd you both... great advert for Amel.

Wow my Gazelle has seen some lumpy seas but thats next level. Good to see some real sailing boat's in action awesome work. Subscribed.

I just happened by chance to come across this - my 1st time with you folks. Brave souls! (but then again, it's not like you had any choice, or could pop into somewheres for a cuppa)! Great footage of the swells! Tx for sharing and hope you both recover physically (covid is a b - - - h!) Darcee

Wow that's crazy... Lucky you have a solid boat 👌

What an awesome video. Your sailboat is so good and the camera is the only one that seems to show the height of the waves. Looks so so cool. Dream sailboat for an ocean crossing.

Best footage of rough weather sailing I've seen. Being in that kind of weather situation and having covid sickness as well, I still don't know how you had the spare mental and physical capacity to film it ! extraordinary . Ive sailed 38,000 sea miles on my 46' sloop to 13 different countries and I have tried to film rough weather sailing - sounds easy - but the exhaustion of having to be consistently aware of your rigging stresses / sails, even the furled ones / checking for water in your bilges to show up any unforeseen structural problems with chainplates or rudder posts or skegs / checking for changing sea state / wind gusts / course holding of your yacht / auto pilot struggles and the knowing that any small problem that you don't see , hear or notice so as to catch it early, can quickly become a life or death struggle to save your boat and your life (for eg. water in your bilges - once there is more than a couple of inches depth > you know you have a problem , but its already too late & sloshing around so much you will just never be able to see where the water is coming from & hence that broken seacock or cracked chain plate attachment to the hull or rudder post just can no longer be found. Well done . After sailing through that Your boat becomes like an immediate family member - because it looked after your life as much as you looked after it.. And people wonder why old sailors talk to their boat ? Every time I used to dinghy out to my yacht after being away from her even just overnight - I would always say Hello to her as I come aboard :-) BTW. I sold my yacht I've had since 2004 during Covid as it was in the Philippines & I had come back to Australia for a medical reason , then found myself locked down in Australia unable to get back to her & it broke away from its mooring during a Typhoon , ended up ashore , minor damaged . I'm now looking for my new boat (maybe a Catamaran this time as I now have 2 adopted Filipine Children) However Looking at your video has reminded me of how much you rely on your vessel in heavy weather - a catamaran in those conditions ??? I'll keep an eye out for you. I'm from Southport on the Gold Coast Qld.

Well done guys!!

Really enjoyed the video, having been out in one or two gales, t brought back memories. You certainly have a great boat too.

Wow. What a trip. And Sick with Covid! Very good thing tha you had such a good and squared away vessel. Reminds me of Delos off of South Africa. This is one of the best cruising monos ever. And yes, don’t know how those people do it in those exposed cocpits. Love that about the Amel’s. I have cruised 2 center cocpit boats, a K Peterson 44 cutter and a Cal ll-46 ketch particularly liked my ketch. And on top of everything……….you’re video taping and documenting! Good on ya!

Great video, I cam empathise with you having been in similar seas and breaking down crossing the Tasman in a motor boat. Well done!

Awesome vid, thank you.

Thanks for sharing.

Wow! I was all ready for another RU-vid exaggeration but that was well nasty. Seems like another fine testament to the old Amel. We have a steel cutter. And while incredibly strong it doesn't have the stability and stiffness to stand up to those conditions and keep sailing at that speed. We would be forced to either bear away or motor sail. Well done. Impressive boat and crew. We got hammered on that route going the other way. Not something I will forget anytime soon.

Gutsy sail you guys! Bad enough being in weather like that but having Covid on top would have been horrendous. You two made it look relatively easy, which good seamanship often does...

Thanks for that. Some of the best heavy weather footage I've seen. Looking forward to your next episode with the entry fees etc.

😮 very good. Great job

Sailing at that conditions in the dark should be an impressive moment.

Amazing how you got through this good job 😊

You guys are doing great.I have worked all that area where you are over 3 years working on aye trawler out of malolaba I remember we had to run in behind Morton bay and trip the pick until the storm passed many memories of the whole coast .

really well done, and a great video

Süper very nice video thank you so much beatıful family

Excellent video

Nice work!

Best storm video yet !

That's a tough little boat. When I did an Alaska trip we had absolutely atrocious weather crossing the Gulf. We were on a 72' Nordhavn (probably one of the best designed powerboats out there for ocean crossings). We had 50-60kt winds and 20-25ft seas for just about 3 days, plus whiteout snow, ice and some terrifying rouges that came out of nowhere (usually at night when you can't see them coming). Storms at sea are different than storms on land, storms at sea make you realize just how small we truly are compared to Mother Nature.

Vous êtes beaux tout les deux. Bravo à vous!!

I am happy to see your great video in my safe habour in italy, regards marc

I've read that it is impossible to capture the true sea state on film. You guys did an excellent job trying! It looked like a big sea to me! Thanks for your content, I've liked and subscribed. Good luck.

Hey you guys are heroes, covid in that weather wow! Anyway well done, good to see you and the good ship made it , some good decision making there.

Enjoyed the video 👏

My respect for your bravery.

Really enjoyed this Boatcast….

Some years ago I saw 90 kn inside Auckland harbour we watched 5 masts fall, this was a race day. The work you do to set the boat up before you sail is what can see you in a bearable state..

So calm!

Excellent video well done

This Is What I Call A love for water. EYE EYE SAILORS

Wow, you guys are legends, I get sea sick in the shower.

Impressive journey ….you made it

Thats What I call Living An Adventurous life...😮😮😮

amazing video

Terrific passage guys! We have done 15,000 nm but have managed to avoid anything over 30knots. More power to you and your Amel!

Obviously a very good team.:) and first class sailors. Also you couldn't pay me. Lol. That ocean terrified me.

You know better than I, but i wouldn’t be taking the seas on the beam. Dangerous. Amazing footage. So rare to see such things recorded. Thank you.

Glad you guys are ok, very scary stuff, glad you sail a tank 👍

Yikes ....thats really scary and don't think i would want to experience that personally .. well done

There’s over 200 sailing channels, 95% fair weather ones all showing the same content as each other, totally predictable and boring. They need to watch this. Awesome video guys.

Well done Jaygo! We met in Fiji on Knot Tide Down. Our trip from New Cal to NZ was quite different. Highest gust was 22 knots!

That's an invigorating sail, fine navy day 🎉

Welcome home 🙏🏼🎉

I wish to have this with my partner in the future what a brilliant experience I wish you both well sail safe

Good share.Helming from inside cabin seems a dream having faced similar seas as Clipper crew as RTW.But you guys did great 😅

Good job guys, that's sum big water, I'm a ocean ski racer, the biggest water I've been in was 6 meters, it fealt bloody massive, the water was moving so fast, 180 people started that race, and 40 finished, So good job on getting to your destination safe., and you were casual as...great waterman...mahalo

Very impressed. I have a good sense of adventure but don't think I would take on that challenge. You would probably find me half way between Vanuatu or QLD just bobbing around for a couple of days until the low pressure of QLD abated :)

Great video. I notice you do not use a staysail or a storm jib.....I have neither either.....but you seem to manage quite well with a heavily reefed genoa hard on the wind. Thanks for this effort, great video, and this is one of the few videos where the sea state obviously matches the wind speed, very well captured!

Congratulations, you went thru and kept calm. Did not understand the all discussion (I'm not English native speaker) but sounds like you are real flegmatique people.