An anchoring nightmare while sailing alone | Ep 175
Support Sailing Fair Isle
At WeBoating.com, we profoundly acknowledge the unwavering dedication that Sailing Fair Isle invests in crafting each and every video or voyage. Their passion for delivering exceptional ocean content shines through every frame, and it's a labor of love that deserves your attention.
We invite you to watch their captivating videos here and actively engage with their content, including their social media links above. Liking, commenting, and sharing their work goes a long way in fueling their creative fire.
We're also inviting you to explore the gear, sponsorships, and boat partnerships highlighted in the "An anchoring nightmare while sailing alone | Ep 175" video description, or directly on YouTube. By engaging with these offerings or purchasing services and items, you directly support Sailing Fair Isle, their collaborators, and the brands they're associated with.
To ensure you never miss an offshore update, consider visiting their official YouTube Channel to subscribe, like, and join their community directly.
If you have any feedback, corrections, or additional information about Sailing Fair Isle or their videos, please use the comment form below to share your thoughts with us.
Thank you for being a part of our community and supporting the creators we cherish. Your time and support truly matter!
Sailing single handed means that if something goes wrong you are on your own. So, I tend to be careful.
However, there are occasions when luck is against you and you end up in a situation that's going to take a lot to get out of.
This is what happened to me last week. Leaving an anchorage at dawn I was faced with a 200lb lump of metal completely tangled in my chain. The anchorage was packed, I was drifting, and I knew as soon as the sun was properly up I would be getting 20 knots of wind.
The water in the anchorage was murky so it was very difficult to work. In short, a bit of a nightmare.
This is the story of a day that starts off very very badly and an overnight passage that's a bit special.
PATREON:
We couldn't make these videos without the support of you, our patrons. You are our first line of feedback, our team, our support and our friends. We are really grateful and it means we can keep the videos coming! If you would like to join us you get to see (and comment on, which really helps us) the current videos with no ads at all before they get released to the public. There are also lots of extra videos available on Patreon and you can contact us directly on board. Ask us anything! We have regular ZOOM sessions and a WhatsApp group where we talk about boats, passages and life onboard. Join us!
https://www.patreon.com/sailingfairisle
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PLEASE DO SUBSCRIBE - IT COSTS YOU NOTHING AND HELPS US OUT WITH THE YOUTUBE ALGORITHM
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
🎵 Copyrighted music licensed from Lickd. https://lickd.co Ain't Gonna Moan No More by Van Morrison, Kurt Elling, https://t.lickd.co/l/1mJe1e4KJR9
Sailing Fair Isle
Steve and Judy: The veteran BBC filmmakers navigating the globe aboard their Hans Christian 48, Fair Isle, blending broadcast-quality storytelling with blue-water grit.
Channel Information:
Social Media Links:
An anchoring nightmare while sailing alone | Ep 175 Location
- Corsica (42.0396042,9.0128926)
Latest Episodes from Sailing Fair Isle
Explore the most recent voyages. Subscribe to the channel to never miss an update!
Which bike for your boat?
We've spent four years looking for the best bike to have on board Fair Isle. After giving away our old bikes to friends in Turkey because they were too heavy and used up too much space, we found we really missed having bikes aboard. We needed to find a model that folded up small, was light enou...
Why we fly halfway around the world for the Annapolis boat show | Ep180
Annapolis boat show 2026 has managed to be just as hectic as always, there's always too much to do and see than the 4 days allow. There's loads of space for boats on the water here and they are just sailboats, the motor boats have their own show the week before. So all the major brands wer...
Turned back by storms and warships | Ep179
Sailing coastal exploration rarely goes exactly to plan. We get knocked back by some surprising late summer storms and then by some warships performing a live fire exercise blocking the route around Southern Italy. This time last year we were battling storms on our West- East Atlantic crossing but ...
Hijackers took our business and our livelihood in 3 minutes
It's not an episode this week so if you usually tune in for sailing and travel then maybe give this one a miss. But in todays world it's not just the corporations and big businesses that get targeted by hackers it's everyone. So, if you have the time, do watch this cautionary tale of ...
Biblical storms and battling Greek sea gods : sailing to the strait of Messina | Ep178
Jack and Megan navigate SV Fair Isle along northern Sicily into the Strait of Messina, confronting fierce late-summer thunderstorms, complex tidal currents, and narrow shipping lanes.