SURVIVING 40 DAYS AT SEA! [Ep116 RED SEAS]
We sailed our catamaran across the Pacific Ocean from Panama to French Polynesia. That's over 4000 miles of non-stop ocean with just the two of us onboard. The crossing took us 40 days and we faced some of the worst weather we have ever seen - huge storms, a week of lightning, a broken engine, ripped sails and then we lost our steering. Our first ocean crossing was not as smooth sailing as we had hoped but we survived and lived to tell the tale!
If you haven't seen part one, you can catch up here: https://youtu.be/PA3l8ADy6Uo
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00:00 Intro
00:50 Leaving the Caribbean
01:48 Planning to sail across an ocean
03:23 Route planning across the Pacific Ocean
04:21 Sailing with whales
04:52 Sailing across the Equator
05:47 Stuck in the doldrums
06:32 Everything went wrong
07:04 Crazy lightning storms
08:37 Losing an engine in the middle of the ocean
09:50 Hit by pirates in the middle of the ocean
12:00 Our spinnaker rips
15:53 Disaster at sea - lost steering on our sailboat
18:20 How we repaired our steering in the middle of the ocean
22:16 Landfall after 40 days at sea
24:21 Is the South Pacific worth it?
25:25 Outro
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