[WAVES CRASHING]
- It is 10 o'clock in the morning.
And I just came on watch, and the ocean is beautiful.
[MUSIC LIGHTLY PLAYING]
[REGGAE MUSIC PLAYING]
- Previously on Delos, we arrive in Richards Bay, South Africa.
As we wait for the perfect weather window
to continue our journey to Cape Town,
we had to check out some wild African animals.
And we see exactly how bad the weather on this coast can get.
[WIND WHISTLING]
- It's a little spooky, but we're doing good.
Both of the charts are lining up,
and the radar is lining up with the charts as well.
But you can hear the waves hitting on either side of us.
But the depth knot hasn't gone under two and a half meters
so far.
- It was about 10:00 PM, and we had just
left the protection of our dock at the Zululand Yacht Club
in Richards Bay, South Africa.
Ahead of us was a 900-mile sail that
would take us around the Cape of Good Hope and into Cape Town.
A nasty low had just blown through,
wreaking havoc on local marina.
But as the low moved on, a high pressure system
took its place, bringing with it very strong Northeasterly
winds.
All we had to do was navigate the harbor at night
and get out onto the wild coast to find
the strong wind and currents to carry us south.
- How's our depth doing?
- Uh, one and a half and holding.
- OK.
On the chart, does the channel go starboard or straight?
- It hooks off to starboard.
We're going to need to make it turn starboard here
pretty soon.
[VOICE ON RADIO]
- Yeah, we were just start clearing the fairway
and will shortly be into the main channel, over.
[VOICE ON RADIO]
- OK, have a good evening.
OK, I'm going to start turning to starboard.
- OK, all clear.
- So you're exiting the break water?
- Yeah, that's the last light.
After we pass that light over there,
we are officially out of the protection of the harbor.
Headed down the wild coast.
Hopefully it's not too wild for us.
- So it is three o'clock in the morning,
and I was just finishing my watch here.
We are motoring.
- Well it's about four AM now.
We've been out for like eight hours,
and they haven't really found any strong current yet,
unfortunately.
It's another 80 miles off the trip, so all good.
- Three hours later, the wind and current found us.
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS]
- It is 10 o'clock in the morning.
And I just came on watch, and the ocean is beautiful.
It's really cool out here.
[SQUEALS] It's quite rolly.
[UPBEAT MUSIC BUILDS UP]
- So we're about 35 nautical miles away from East London.
And the wind is still doing nicely.
The barometric pressure is still stable.
So we should be there soon.
- We're only about 10 miles out from East London,
but it looks like we're gonna have some dolphins that
are coming to visit.
- We didn't know it at the time, but we had just broken
some serious records on Delos.
We covered 350 nautical miles in just over 32 hours,
averaging 10.8 knots of speed over ground.
Although we did have long periods of constant 12
to 15 knots and a top speed of 18.8,
it's no surprise we also have our best 24-hour distance,
covering 254 nautical miles.
The combination of 30 to 40 knots of wind,
five knots of current, and surfing down three meter waves
shot us south on a super fun ride.
- How was the passage?
- Oh, the passage just really good.
Fast!
Some of the-- actually, definitely the fastest sailing
we've ever had.
But I've been feeling sick.
Like I've been feeling really tired, and feverish,
and lethargic.
And have a headache and that was a little tough for me.
- Have you eaten?
- We're going to be here to rest.
Yeah I've been eating.
- How much did you eat?
- I had an orange last night.
Because I was thinking about it, and after I
got that bite that had a strange, like, round center
that turned black and then brown.
I think I got bit by a spider or a tick.
Or something like that.
- Hold it still.
- Like I started getting aches under my arm,
and my lymph node here was swollen.
And I wonder if like, the poison from the bite
kind of stuck in there.
- So we found ourselves in East London, waiting on the weather
and for Brian to start feeling better.
After tying Delos up to a mooring,
Karen and Brian stayed on the boat
while I headed into the yacht club to have a little drink.
After a few rums, I met this very generous dude.
- Hello.
[LAUGHING]
- Hello.
He just, this morning, he just watched seven crew,
1,008 beers.
And, I don't know.
You tell them, man.
You tell them the story.
- Well, [SLURRING] the story for you guys,
I watched it this morning.
I've just come back, yeah?
Just passing on, came under the bridge
and I saw them put down the front of the drive.
[LAUGHTER] Surreal.
Now I looked at it this morning and you had like 1,089,
whatever, beers counted.
I haven't donated one beer in nine months.
It's your lucky night tonight man.
- He's like, fuck donating online.
I'm just going to bring it to them.
How fucking awesome was that?
Brady and his new friend just came and dropped off
a bunch of beer, and said hello, and then
headed back into the bar at the yacht club.
[LAUGHTER]
- Awesome people, huh?
- Like a lot of beer.
- Really cool people.
- And tonight, I'm not doing anything
because I'm not feeling good at all.
I think it's getting better, but every now and then
I get really weak.
And I have a fever now, but it comes and goes.
[SIGH] Last night was a really bad night.
I had like, fever and cold sweats and chills.
And the previous few days it had gone away and come back
a short time.
But last night, it was pretty much the whole night.
So I thought I was getting better,
but it doesn't really feel like it any more.
So our friend Patrick, whom we met yesterday,
has a friend that's a doctor here.
And he's nice enough to go take us to see him.
So we're gonna go meet him and go see what's going on with me.
- Sweated down the whole bed.
- Uh, so disgusting.
I'm so sorry.
I would not want to sleep next to me right now.
It is gross.
- You've got a choice, obviously.
Inside we have the local witch doctors, which are commonly
used for this type of thing.
So that might be your first protocol.
- Uh.
[LAUGHTER] Yeah, OK.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[SOUND OF TELEPHONE DIALING]
- All right.
So I'm always surprised about how efficient
the medical care is in all the places that we go.
It was a cool experience, super cheap, it was 400 grand
for the consultation, and 25 grand for the medication.
25 grand is like, less than $2 US.
Crazy.
Not a spider bite, that's the good news.
She was pretty adamant that it's a tick bite,
and so basically my instructions are
to keep it uncovered so that it can breathe
and won't get pus-y.
She said all the symptoms that I have are classic tick bite.
Should continue to have what's been going on
for seven to 10 days.
So hopefully I'm on the last half of what's going on.
And I got stilpane.
Take two tablets, three times a day for pain.
And for antibiotics, I was given doxycycline,
which we have a bit on the boat, but we're not
quite sure how old it is, so we re-filled that.
So that's it.
Get some rest and we'll check whether see how it's going.
Good news though.
- Good news.
- I still think we should have gone to the witch doctor.
[LAUGHTER]
- Now that we knew Brian's hand wasn't going to fall off
and it wasn't anything serious, we drove to the coast
to check out the conditions to continue sailing.
- This is the stretch of coast that we'll be headed down
in just a couple hours.
- Looks good.
- What do you think, Brady?
- Yeah, man.
So it's to be able to drive and see the coast
that we're going to travel down for the next 24 hours.
And the Port of St. Francis is that way,
about between 130 and 170 miles if we go all the way to Port
St. Francis.
And the wind's only going to drop, so it looks good to go.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
- It's not nearly the pleasant conditions
we had on the way to East London.
The wind has come out of the west now, about 15 knots.
Which isn't too bad except we are in the current,
so it's tossing us around a little bit.
Nothing dangerous but it is a little bit uncomfortable.
- The conditions really weren't the best,
so we had to motor the whole 170 miles to Port St. Francis.
The motoring part wasn't really the issue.
It was that we were now entering a small, unfamiliar harbor
in the middle of the night.
- It's a bit nerve-racking.
- [NERVOUS LAUGHTER] Yeah, it's a bit of a different entrance.
We never attempt this if there wasn't somebody
meeting us to guide us in.
- So we got in contact with this guy Peter in St. Francis.
He sent us a message on Facebook and said
he welcomed us to his local marina,
it's a private marina here.
And of course, we took up the offer
and we're on our way in now.
But we're moving a lot slower than we thought,
so it's like almost midnight and it's
really dark and really fucking cold outside.
But he's so cool, he's been calling us
and he's waiting for us at the harbor entrance,
and he's gonna have a little tender out there to guide us
in, because you can only come in at high tide.
High tide's at two in the morning.
So because we don't know the harbor entrance
and we don't know the depths, and stuff,
he's going to lead us in.
- But the conditions are good.
No wind, no swell.
And we have a local guy out here in a dingy bringing us in.
- Hey.
Nice to finally meet you.
- Brady, nice to meet you.
- Hey Brian.
- I'm Brian.
- Brady, nice to meet you.
- Hey, Karen.
- Nice to meet you.
- You're gonna stay closer to the rocks
on that side than this side.
- Keep this course, I'll let you know if you go to port.
- OK.
- You can start coming to port.
[INAUDIBLE]
- What are you showing on depth, Bri?
- Uh, one.
- OK.
Start thrusting starboard.
- I can't hear you, bro.
- Go ahead and thrust starboard.
[ENGINE THRUSTING]
- There you go, there you go.
- Am I good there?
- Yep.
- Straight in now.
- Yep, just on port side, back in.
- Oh, right on in here.
Perfect.
- Everybody out here gets our pilot captains.
- Yeah, so this is Peter.
Peter is how you pronounce it, right?
And I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name?
- IB.
- Yep.
- IB with a B, yeah?
- IB.
Peter and IB.
And they were nice enough to come out and meet us
in the dingy, bring us in, and tie us to the dock.
And even arrived in style, South African brandy,
we're drinking it local style-- with Coke.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
- Thanks guys.
- Especially when you guys go down to West Cape Town side,
that's where they produce brandy and all the wines and stuff.
- Next up on Delos.
While once again waiting on the weather,
we get to know Peter, and his mates,
and the beautiful area that surrounds St. Francis Bay.
We get some work done on Delos and eventually set
sail to around the Cape of Good Hope.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
- Ah!
[COUGHS] [LAUGHS]
- You OK?
- First thing in the morning.
That's a rap!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
- Like it?
I like it a lot.
- Whoa, nice piece of shit man, wow.
Are there any zebras that are domesticated,
that can be ridden?