Trade winds YouTube Videos
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Running Through the ITCZ (Inter Tropical Convergence Zone)
Watch this video to learn about the sailors' strategy for safely navigating through the challenging weather conditions in the ITCZ, as they share updates on their fuel consumption and personal well-being during the long passage.
Have you ever heard of the Beaufort Wind Scale?
Join us in this educational YT short as we sail across the Atlantic Ocean in the gentle breeze of the trade winds. Learn about the Beaufort Wind Scale, a valuable tool in measuring wind speed, and discover how "gentle breeze" is actually a technical term r...
PASSAGE PLANNING Madagascar
Despite conflicting reports on the re-opening of Madagascar to sailing yachts, we're investigating and planning the tricky sail across the Mozambique channel. The "traditional" route is direct from Richards Bay to Tulear (Southern Madagascar), but it's dif...
The PERFECT passage??? ~ Postcards From Bagheera ~ POSTCARD 15
With trade winds blowing south east every day, it is rare that when heading south east, you can sail downwind. But it happened! We had the perfect weather, with clocking winds that would give us a chance to sail downwind even while sailing around the Berr...![Girls, DRUGS from Pablo Escobar, racing Dolphins….Planes in Norman Cay! [S1:E10]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/LQnz1SYeJxY/maxresdefault.webp)
Girls, DRUGS from Pablo Escobar, racing Dolphins….Planes in Norman Cay! [S1:E10]
Hello Everyone! Here we are in Norman's Cay, one of our stops down the Exumas. We heard of a couple of places to check out including an old drug lords house and sunken plane! Our friends from Penyav IV also decided to take us to dinner! This was one of the...
How do you cross the Atlantic East to West (The Atlantic route explained)
Follow Polar Seal across the Atlantic! www.ryanandsophie.com/#tracking In this video, we explain how sailboats have crossed the Atlantic for hundreds of years! We go through Trade Winds (in particular the equatorial trade winds), how they form, why they a...
CATAMARAN SAILING: SAILING AGAINST THE TRADE WINDS TO PUERTO RICO 🇵🇷 THE THORNY PATH…
Sailing to Puerto Rico took a lot of weather watching and planning but we did it. Thank you Audible for sponsoring this video! Get your first audiobook and two Audible originals free when you try Audible for 30 days visit https://www.audible.com/tula or te...
Trade Wind Sailing In Panama – Ep. 89 RAN Sailing
The wind had been blowing hard the last week in Guna Yala (San Blas), Panama and when we sail back towards mainland we get to experience how big the waves can be when they get pushed between the reefs. After a pit stop in Narganá we have a really smooth s...
“Philosophy of Sailing”: Solo to Hawaii and Return, 2017
2021 voyage is here: https://youtu.be/Oz8wpl9YG1o Christian Williams retraces an old route in a new boat. Closed Captions (CC) available. Music: "Dance of the Kordies," Les Paul Trio; "Like Someone in Love,"* Coleman Hawkins on tenor sax; "The Boy in the...
Caribbean Sailing Trip. Day 2. Bitter End. Virgin Gorda, BVI. Ep52
Ep52. This episode of Cruising Off Duty, we take you out on our 2nd day on the BVI Catamaran Sailing Trip where we visit the Bitter End Yacht Club in Virgin Gorda for dinner. It was a bit of a gong show getting there with 6 of us squeezed into a small din...
“Alone Together: Sailing Solo to Hawaii and Beyond” — the Book
Available at Amazon. "Alone Together: Sailing Solo to Hawaii and Beyond" by Christian Williams. East Wind Press, 286 pages. Pub date March 6, 2016. Watch the YouTube Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28TAdDu5L6U In 15 years at The Washington P...
Crossing The Atlantic Ocean On A Boat – Part 3
Here's the final video (Part 3) of our Atlantic Ocean crossing. We sailed 2800+ miles on our 56' Oyster sailboat with 6 adults and 1 five-year-old. Part 3 shows the final days of our voyage - Watch the captain swim in the sea, I catch my first mahimahi, An...
Atlantic Crossing Part 1
This first video shows the lead up to crossing the Atlantic. The video introduces all the crew members, showcases quite a few of the work we did to get the boat ready, ARC 2015 opening ceremony, provisioning, ARC activities, our one and only practice sail,...