La Rochelle to Gibraltar FP 44 Sailing Ocean Fox Ep 260
A Brand New Boat and a Brutal Shakedown.
We picked up our new Fountaine Pajot 44 in La Rochelle with high hopes, but the Atlantic had other plans. What was supposed to be a dream delivery to Gibraltar quickly turned into a battle against failing gear and "blind" navigation.
Inside this episode:
The Furler Fail: A constant struggle with our headsail that nearly left us stranded.
Invisible to Giants: Our AIS is not displaying our position in some of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
Close Calls: Watching massive ships emerge from the sea clutter just hundreds of yards away.
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Check the photos on Instagram , plus all the journey. We also have the Instagram stories where we register a few seconds of our day all the time. The best place for you to follow us as it is in real time. So much fun.
https://instagram.com/sailingoceanfox/
Visit our website where we have our route on the map in real time. It is automatic updated and you can see where we are. You can also choose some official Ocean Fox merch and help to support our journey.
https://www.sailingoceanfox.com/
Have a look at the food we eat on board of Ocean Fox. A daily blog of our healthy lifestyle . We eat a Low Carb Mediterranean plant based diet and we just love it. Loads of fresh fish as we catch so much.
https://www.facebook.com/healthyonboard/
Please like and share all of that to help us going on this adventure. We are really enjoying this life and sharing everything with you it's been wonderful . Thank you very much, you guys are amazing supporting us with your likes and comments, we really feel that we have a new family out there.
Much love
Carla & Simon
A little bit about us...
We met in the summer 2015, we were introduced to each other by the virtual world. Eighteen months later we were getting married on a beautiful beach on Barbados, bare foot, very simple ceremony just like a dream!
Two days after the wedding laying on the beach, talking about sailing, Carla suggested... why don't we sail around the world? Guess what Simon said? "Let's do it" He took it with no second thoughts! And here we are, two years after that day in Barbados, we started our adventure in Croatia.
We made it happen working through all the challenges on the way.
Now we are enjoying this wonderful life, and what a wonderful life it is!
As we travel we will cross less fortunate countries, we would love to help to build a school or a health care centre, anything that these people may need, and in our beautiful world this is taken for granted. But for these people it's a dream, or may not even be a dream.
We will look around and when the opportunity to help comes we will put our hands and hearts in to it.
Sailing Ocean Fox
We started our journey on the 27 of March 2018, our idea was to have a YouTube channel to inspire and encourage people to do exactly the same we are doing. A lot of people has doubts about this life style at our age. So on May 2018 we launched our first episode. Not being use to having a camera in front of us, most of the time made those first episodes a little awkward, if we watch them nowadays. But the feedback from all of you was something we were not expecting at all. The messages, the emails, the comments on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube were absolutely amazing. At that moment we made a promise to ourselves, we said we would reply to all these lovely people that had spent a few minutes of their lives to follow us and write to us. Surprisingly we got monetised by YouTube in 11 weeks after the launch our first episode. That is a huge achievement at such an early stage. Follow our adventure by subscribing to our channel.
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A Brand New Boat and a Brutal Shakedown.
We picked up our new Fountaine Pajot 44 in La Rochelle with high hopes, but the Atlantic had other plans. What was supposed to be a dream delivery to Gibraltar quickly turned into a battle against failing gear and “blind” navigation.
Inside this episode:
The Furler Fail: A constant struggle with our headsail that nearly left us stranded.
Invisible to Giants: Our AIS is not displaying our position in some of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
Close Calls: Watching massive ships emerge from the sea clutter just hundreds of yards away.
Consider to subscribe to our channel to help us to keep producing these free videos for you!
Follow our blog with our daily adventures on Facebook . We post our route everyday, showing you the ups and downs of sailing. An amazing adventure documented every single day. Stop there and leave your comment, we reply every single comment!
https://www.facebook.com/sailingoceanfox/
Check the photos on Instagram , plus all the journey. We also have the Instagram stories where we register a few seconds of our day all the time. The best place for you to follow us as it is in real time. So much fun.
https://instagram.com/sailingoceanfox/
Visit our website where we have our route on the map in real time. It is automatic updated and you can see where we are. You can also choose some official Ocean Fox merch and help to support our journey.
https://www.sailingoceanfox.com/
Have a look at the food we eat on board of Ocean Fox. A daily blog of our healthy lifestyle . We eat a Low Carb Mediterranean plant based diet and we just love it. Loads of fresh fish as we catch so much.
https://www.facebook.com/healthyonboard/
Please like and share all of that to help us going on this adventure. We are really enjoying this life and sharing everything with you it’s been wonderful . Thank you very much, you guys are amazing supporting us with your likes and comments, we really feel that we have a new family out there.
Much love
Carla & Simon
A little bit about us…
We met in the summer 2015, we were introduced to each other by the virtual world. Eighteen months later we were getting married on a beautiful beach on Barbados, bare foot, very simple ceremony just like a dream!
Two days after the wedding laying on the beach, talking about sailing, Carla suggested… why don’t we sail around the world? Guess what Simon said? “Let’s do it” He took it with no second thoughts! And here we are, two years after that day in Barbados, we started our adventure in Croatia.
We made it happen working through all the challenges on the way.
Now we are enjoying this wonderful life, and what a wonderful life it is!
As we travel we will cross less fortunate countries, we would love to help to build a school or a health care centre, anything that these people may need, and in our beautiful world this is taken for granted. But for these people it’s a dream, or may not even be a dream.
We will look around and when the opportunity to help comes we will put our hands and hearts in to it.
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