Sailing SOLO to Cartagena and preparations for the ATLANTIC crossing - SwT 16
August 30, 2019 by Sailing with Thomas | Language: EN Play Time: 00:09:57 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
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In this sailing solo from Mallorca to Cartagena in Spain. It was probably the easiest yet the hardest sail so far. Crazy amount of ships and yachts made it almost impossible to get any sleep in 50 hours.
Hopefully, this can give you some insight about how hard it can be even though there is the best weather ever when sailing singlehanded. It does not only have to be heavy storms that make you crazy tired. Lack of sleep is just as tiring.
In the end of this video I’m also sharing with you my check list for my Atlantic crossing preparations.Crazy many things to check in only 11 days.
While waiting for parts to BE FREE in Panama I try to be productive
and to catch up with my videos. I’m truly sorry for being so behind on my episodes. Hopefully I will find time to close the gap between where I am at the moment and the 30 episodes in between.
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Sailing around the world in a Bavaria 55 Cruiser, making videos whenever I have time for it. Most of the time I sail singlehanded but occasionally I do have sailing friends onboard
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Sailing solo around the world in a Bavaria 55 Cruiser - S/Y Be Free. Most of the time sailing single handed and occasionally with friends and other guests. Dreaming of crossing the Pacific singlehanded. Most of my life has been in the small coastal town Tønsberg, 95 km south of Oslo. With the national park at our doorsteps, and the Oslo fjord and Skagerak sea outside the windows, it was almost mandatory to own a boat. I´m almost raised in a sailboat and had my first by the age of 7. Not only did we spend 3 weeks every summer, and every weekend of my childhood, on the lean (Sailing) But my parents owned a boat factory, where they manufactured sailboats and smaller motorboats. So I think its fair to say I've been into sailing my whole life. MY LAST JOB Full time working for the Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue, and almost 10 years as voluntary and skipper for the Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue. ONE LIFE SAIL IT WISELY www.sailingwiththomas.com
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