SUPERCELL STORM ON A SMALL SAILBOAT | WHY PLANS AND SAILING DON'T WORK S1CH.40
December 20, 2021 by Slim & Soph - Sailing Nakama | Language: EN Play Time: 00:23:30 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
We had a plan, but then massive storms, northerly winds, no gas and only a drop of diesel left changed our plan…with only a week of uni holidays left what do we do?
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After storms threatened around us all night out at the reef, we were eager to escape the coral bombie minefield and head towards civilisation. Upon coming back into reception we see northerly winds have well and truely set in, but for the next few days they are looking light, we thought of using the opportunity of light winds to motor into them towards Magnetic Island because YES, although cyclone season is on the horizon, WE PLAN to continue north. Though, it’s been a while since we have refuelled and upon sticking a dip stick into the fuel tanks we realise we don’t have enough fuel to do that…back to the original plan of heading towards the mainland. We have beautiful day sail until we begin seeing storm clouds developing over the land as approach Gloucester Passage…little did we know this would be the beginning of a few days of storms. Each storm brewing to deliver the mother of all storms…A super cell was moving up the coast on its way towards us, on anchor on our small sailboat. This monster of a storm brought with it 70 knots gusts, a ripper lightning show and even managed to pick up our inflatable tender from the water and plonk it onto the decks…
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Chapters:
00:00 Wait, how did we end up here?
01:34 When we said we had a plan…
03:37 Sails out let’s go!
07:36 Well this is making it hard…
12:02 There goes our gas, hot food & coffee
14:43 The mother of all storms, a supercell is on the horizon EEEP!
22:49 CYAxoxo
SUPERCELL STORM ON A SMALL SAILBOAT | WHY PLANS AND SAILING DON'T WORK S1CH.40 Locations
- Gloucester Island (-20.0109861,148.4572907)
Slim & Soph - Sailing Nakama
Welcome aboard SV Nakama, We are Slim & Soph a young Aussie couple tryna get by living aboard our tiny retro sailboat with our cat Chilli. We sail the Australian coastline whilst attending university online and take you with us. After putting study on the back burner for years as we didn’t want to sacrifice adventure, we thought why not have both? Fed up with the outrageous rental prices in our hometown, the idea of doing it afloat came to mind. We figured we could scrape by on our tight student budget if we stopped paying way too much rent and lived minimally on the ocean, whilst continuing our passion for adventure. The plan for now, is to keep sailing onwards, keeping Australia to our left and once we're done doing that...Who knows. Our mission is to prove that anyone can do it, you don’t need the fanciest boat or a squillion bucks, just a whole lot of ambition and a willingness to make mistakes and learn. So join us on this whacky adventure! Slim & Soph xoxo
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