Transatlantic Sailing Passage #4. Hard to Live and Sleep on a Moving Sailboat? Ep107
January 13, 2018 by Cruising Off Duty | Language: EN Play Time: 00:16:58 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
Ep107 – In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue our Transatlantic Sailing Passage series. I am taking you along with me in this VLOG style episode. I will show you what it was like to live, and more importantly try to sleep, on a sailboat that never stops sailing, motoring, moving and making noises. We start doing our watches where we have to be On Duty at the helm for 4 hrs at a time covering the 24 hr day. In between those watches we have to do all our cooking, cleaning, eating and sleeping. None of that was too difficult except (for me) the sleeping.
Some people who are not borderline insomniacs and who are not light sleepers, who are woken by the slightest noise, may not run into the trouble I did. With the non stop motion and unknown noises coming from a sailboat under sail, I found it really hard to fall asleep and stay asleep. Because of that, for the first few days I felt like I was a walking zombie. Always tired but never quite able to fall into a deep prolonged sleep.
This episode cover this first “getting use to the boat” period. The good news is, with time even I, once tired enough, could shut down and fall asleep for short Naps. Add enough naps together and YOU CAN ACTUALLY FUNCTION.
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Welcome to Cruising Off Duty. We are Craig and Janice. We love travelling and we love sailing, so we figure the best way to see the world is by sailboat. We presently have a 35' Beneteau Oceanis sloop that we sail out of Kingston, Ontario Canada, which is on Lake Ontario. We have a longer term plan, when we retire in a few years, to sell everything and buy a 40-50' Catamaran and circumnavigate the globe. Craig loves photography along with land based and drone videography and plans to document everything along our travels to share with the world through Youtube and other social media. For now, follow our channel as we show you the beauty of the Great Lakes and the 1000 Islands area of the St Lawrence River. You will also see the steps we take as start narrowing down the Catamaran we think will suit us best as we move closer to our goal of living full time on a sailboat and exploring the world. It should be a journey worth watching.
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