Sailing a 50' Catamaran across the Atlantic and What I Learned. I'm a guest speaker at NSC. Ep117.
March 11, 2018 by Cruising Off Duty | Language: EN Play Time: 01:25:13 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
I was asked to be a guest speaker at my old sailing club (The Nepean Sailing Club) to talk about my Transatlantic Sailing voyage on a 50′ Catamaran. It took 22 days to cross the Ocean and I will show you, through video clips taken from the 12 episodes I created for the passage, what I experienced and what I learned.
I have posted the entire presentation here, with all the videos presented overlaid, for those that don’t live in Ottawa or were not able to make it.
In this presentation, I will explain: (and the start times in the video)
– How the enjoyment of sailing often comes from the social interactions and friends you gain along the way (Start)
– How the Cruising Off Duty Channel started. (2:20)
– The different chapters in our sailing lives. (5:30)
– How a fortunate string of events got me invited to do this long Transatlantic Passage. (8:00)
– What Type of Catamaran we took and the reasons for it. (11:00)
– What the route across the Atlantic was and why many people chose this path.(12:20)
– Why we left from Las Palmas (with drone footage) (14:45)
– Provisioning for 6 people for a 3 week passage is a big job (16:25)
– Weather routing and how we dowloaded the data for daily updates (20:00)
– Safety planning and getting to know the boat is important (21:30)
– Leaving Las Palmas (24:00)
– Creating a 24 hr Watch schedule (27:00)
– Possible Sea sickness and ways to avoid it (28:00)
– 1st day problems with the sails and dolphins visit us. (31:00)
– The extreme blackness of night watches in the middle of the Ocean causes amazing views (34:00)
– Debate between a fixed watch schedule and a rotating watch. (35:45)
– Benefits of AIS and Radar on a sailboat on a long passage (38:50)
– The benefits of a Catamaran vs a Monohull (43:00)
– With some reasonable winds, a Catamaran can really move (46:00)
– Can you get good sleep on a constantly moving/banging sailboat? (48:00)
– Groundhog day. All the days seem the same (52:00)
– Getting bombarded by flying fish every night (54:15)
– Flying fish in our shower and Stowaway Bird onboard. Humorous. (56:40)
– Very little wind. Time to figure out the Spinnaker (1.00:00)
– Launching the Drone (Mavic Pro) for sailing footage is easy (1.03:40)
– Hand catching a done, to get it back on a moving boat is SCARY (1.04:20)
– No wind. Swimming in 7,000 ft of water in the middle of the Atlantic (1.09:00)
– Catching our 1st fish (Tuna) (1.10:47)
– Catching our 2nd Fish (Mahi Mahi) (1.22:20)
– We finally get stronger wind and waves (1.15:10)
– Catching our 3rd fish (Wahoo) (1.16:30)
– Beautiful Last night on the boat (1.18:30)
– Land Ho! St Lucia after 22 days at sea (1.20:10)
– FYI Rodney Bay is a 2hr wild cab ride to the airport (1.23:40)
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Thanks,
Craig
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