that's The Needles right there!
woohoohoo
it's a lot more intense by yourself when you're just out here solo
welcome back to another mission on the boat
gonna be a two night mission and yeah i've got all the kite stuff
all the food we're heading to The Isle Of Wight not sure where yet but gonna
probably stay in Newtown Creek tonight maybe Hurst Castle tomorrow who knows
come aboard
woo lets go
so we are about an hour and a half in we've done 10 miles we're just going
past Ryde Sands
it's pretty windy it's about 20-25
knots a bit too windy really but we've got two reefs in and yeah we've
tucked in behind the all away so far so good... lovely
so it is um about half five in the morning
had an eventful sail yesterday smashed the bottom so hard i thought
we'd gonna bloody sink the boat, touch wood it seems fine
the tiller seems a little bit bent but i think it's all right so yeah it's
already a little bit windy and the sun's up so we're cruising about
hour and a half to Hurst Castle now it's about five-six miles
okay so we made it to Hurst Castle we got here about 7 30
um and i think i'm gonna go for it i think i'm gonna try and
well no i'm not gonna try i'm going to kite foil around the Isle Of Wight
solo the wind's good the tide's good if i get going soon
i've got a tracker i've got a phone loads of food water backpack so i'm
should be all set so hopefully leave her at 8 30.
back by 2 p.m let's go it is about it's actually 8 15 in the morning it's
around 15 to 20 knots pumped up brand new 8m
Slingshot SST i think it's going to be the perfect
kite today it's going to be around 20 knots all day
the tide is coming up hoping to be back in four hours last time it took six
i don't think anyone's ever solo kited around as well so
it could be first solo wish me luck
feels good mate
i'll see you on the other side
wind feels good on the 8m gonna send it
wish me luck this is gonna be the hardest bit of the start
into the tide into the wind if i can make that
i'll make it round
coming out of Hurst against wind with tide was so hard
I barely made it out, luckily I was quite powered
I haven't been filming much for the first half an hour just because its been so hectic
you can see The Needles behind me
thats it in the distance
getting around The Needles is going to be the scariest part
I'll be relieved once im around The Needles
this is going to be the toughest bit so its quite nice to get it done first
the wind feels good, the 8 is perfect
wish me luck going round The Needles
thats The Needles right there
ahh that was some of the most
intense water just moving all directions whirlpools scary
but i'm through the worst of it now it's crazy how exposed you feel out here
love it love it
it's about i'm only about half an hour in i've done 12 kilometers
in half an hour oh it does feel good to get around the
needles well i'm not quite around yet but through the worst of it
it's quite the view
i'm not getting as close as i did last time
just keeping it super safe and simple my average speed was
around 22 kilometers an hour coming up from Hurst to here
because i had about a 10 kilometer current going again
against me now my speed stepped up to around 30.
yeah so far so good over and out i'm going to tuck into
another half an hour and i'll catch up with you then got my tunes on
big up to Snugs i've done about 20 kilometers in 45 minutes
so i calculated i need to do six of those
it's about 120 kilometers maybe 140 but i think i will get faster with the
tide when it starts helping me but sun is out tunes are on
everything all good i'm one hour in i've done 33 kilometers
and i'm just going around saint cat's point
it's getting pretty hectic but yeah already done a fair old way
it's a lot more intense by yourself when you're just out here
solo, it gets hectic
I've got some mad needles in my toes and i'm hot i wore a winter wetsuit
thinking you know i keep warm i haven't actually fallen
off yet so i'm just really hot but i also don't
want to lose speed by getting stopping and
getting in so i'm gonna just stick with it i've got
plenty of water look at this
glorious so i'm an hour and a half in done 50 kilometers
so just under halfway yeah pretty good time really
here's a bit weird because um it's wind with tide now which means i'm going
pretty fast i clocked 45 kilometers an hour um
at one point but it feels like there's not much wind because it's
such strong tide going with the wind but it's
touch wood it's kind of perfect because there's still plenty
to go along
had a couple of falls as you might have seen i got my hair wet i didn't
voluntarily jump in but things are going well next up we're
coming around to the leeward side of the island
so that's also going to be a little bit scarier because the wind's going to be
gusty gonna have to go quite far out probably
about a mile out to sea so i get clean wind but enjoying it the
tunes are helping starting to get some cramp in my leg
so nice and flat wind with tide when you're going with it it's glorious
pretty big ship, better keep out of the way
wooah that was close
lets not crash my kite
2 hours in, ive done 70 kilometres
average speed of 33 kilometers an hour so yeah things are going bloody well at
the moment but i reckon i could be back by one
o'clock i think maybe another two more hours
i'd like to get a sub four hour time and i'll be happy
it's nice to be amongst other boats
it was a bit lonely out the back
oooo ive got leg burn
real bad leg burn
coming up to Cowes
managed to eat some food
ive ran out of water which is a bit annoying
I should be back in hopefully in less than an hour and a half i reckon an hour and
a bit but yeah it's fun uh overtaking
some nice yachts my little nice yacht that goes faster than all those big nice yachts
so i'm just going past Cowes there's Cowes behind me this is like the busiest
area for boats so i've got to be careful and i'm early so it's actually wind with
tide which is going to make it a bit harder to
get upwind to Hurst Castle but i'm on the home stretch now
another hour to go
wooo hooo hoooo
i made it!
hundred and...
so just to recap 3 hours 42 minutes 120 kilometers (74 miles) fastest kilometer
i did in an average of 45 kilometers an hour (28 mph)
pretty quick really stoked to do it in sub four hours
not the fastest ever time but the first person ever to do it solo unassisted
common mate hurry up
almost there
so
successful cup of tea
made it round
look who showed up
Tom Court: reeeyyyy
it's a cozy hatch mate what's going on here
hatch life
mate do you want to give us an interview
(laughs)
good morning so i had a nice
chilled evening on the boat last night i was knackered after the rounding
Tom came over with his buddy Doug and yeah we had some food and a couple of
beers and an early night woke up this morning and on our way home
epic little two-day trip, it felt great to go around The Isle Of Wight again
first unassisted solo rounding um and yeah my best time shaved off
almost two hours and it was epic so yeah good little trip
in the boat but hey thanks a lot for watching this
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peace out
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