Saint Helena radio, Saint Helena radio.
This is the sailing yacht Delos, Delos.
Over.
Thanks for calling Saint Helena radio.
[INAUDIBLE] Saint Helena radio.
Saint Helena radio--
Whoa!
Good morning.
Please pass your message.
Over.
[MUSIC - ONETOX, "RAMUKANJI"]
[NON-ENGLISH SINGING]
ONETOX represent Solomon Islands people [INAUDIBLE]
from our own land.
Like my old man said, there's nothing impossible.
So we [INAUDIBLE] straight from the crew, out to the blue.
We'll represent the voices of our ancestors [INAUDIBLE]
And I was here to [INAUDIBLE]
Previously on Delos.
The crew, one by one, is slowly going
insane by their passage at sea.
Jump.
[SHRIEK]
We jumped off Delos in 2000 meters of water
and had some incredible downwind sailing.
Open-ocean drone shots.
[DRONE BUZZING]
Yes.
Whoa.
It's 10 after 6 o'clock in the morning.
We only have got around 80 miles to go.
Then we probably going to be there today evening.
Saint Helena is closer than ever.
I hope the sun will rise soon.
And I hope she will show me a good show.
Lady sunshine, where are you?
[WIND BLOWING]
[WAVES]
This was our first long passage as a crew.
We'd spent 8 and 1/2 epic days sailing 1,400 nautical miles
across the Atlantic Ocean.
And now Saint Helena was getting really close.
[UKULELE PLAYING]
The rain's coming.
[WIND BLOWING]
[INAUDIBLE] summer rain during sunset in the middle
of the southern Atlantic.
Rain.
You're the rain man.
[LAUGHS]
[UKULELE PLAYING]
Double rainbow.
(SINGING) It's a rainbow.
Yee-ha.
(SINGING) Gonna have some [INAUDIBLE]..
We're gonna have some fun.
We're gonna see the sunrise of the great big sun, and hoo.
The great big sun on Delos.
Hoo.
The great big sun on Delos.
We're gonna roll away, gonna rise.
[INAUDIBLE] coming when the tide is high.
And we're going fishing, and we're gonna drink.
And we're gonna sail, and we're never gonna sink.
Hoo.
[LAUGHS]
We're never gonna sink because hoo.
We're never gonna sink--
[LAUGHS]
--the Delos.
We might slide, and we may slip.
But we're gonna give reality the slip.
[LAUGHS] Don't know where this song is going.
But we are going hoo.
[LAUGHS]
We're go on on Delos.
Hoo.
We're gonna go on on Delos.
Hoo.
[LAUGHS]
Yeah!
[UKULELE PLAYING]
Look, it's so epic.
And right as the sun was setting, out
of the clouds we spotted something.
Land ho!
Saint Helena.
Little speck in the middle of the southern Atlantic,
and here we are.
It's crazy.
Saint Helena lays about 1,000 nautical miles west of Africa
and close to 2,000 nautical miles east of Brazil.
It's a tiny English territory only twice
the size of Manhattan with a population of 4,500 people.
Besides a few online articles, there
isn't much about this tiny volcanic rock.
Luckily we came across this documentary film from 1962.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
It's crazy to see not much has changed in over 55 years.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
(ON VIDEO) These are the children
of Saint Helena on their annual march
through the streets of Jamestown in this tiny south Atlantic
island.
Saint Helena is universally known for its associations
with the emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
But this little island, one of Britain's oldest colonies,
has a history which stretches back over four centuries.
The island was formed by volcanic action
in primeval times.
A dot in the south Atlantic only 10 miles long by 6 wide,
it lies more than 1,000 miles from Africa and nearly 2000
miles from South America.
It is believed to be the oldest land mass in the world.
[SCREECHING NOISE]
OK, so maybe it's not the oldest land mass in the world,
but it's super remote.
To give you an idea of just how remote this little island is,
they actually only got mobile phones in 2015.
And as of mid-2017, the only way of getting
to and from the island is by Royal Mail ship, the RMS St
Helena.
Anything that comes to this island
comes by that boat and that boat only.
It's been this way since people first arrived on Saint Helena
over 400 years ago.
This island was entirely unknown--
(ON VIDEO) Entirely unknown until 1502, when Portuguese
mariners returning from a voyage to India
first sighted its steep cliffs.
It was the feast day of St. Helen,
and they named the island in her honor.
The voyager Thomas Cavendish chanced upon it in 1588.
And soon English and later Dutch ships, too, began to call.
When the Dutch claimed the Cape of Good Hope,
the English East India Company occupied Saint Helena
And since 1659, the island has been a British possession.
In the path of the trade winds in the south Atlantic,
Saint Helena became heaven for ships rounding
the Cape of Good Hope, bringing spices and gold
from the Far East.
They would stop for much-needed food, water, and rest
after battling the rough conditions in the Indian Ocean.
Over 1,000 ships a year would drop
anchor in the safe harbor of James Bay--
safe until the rollers came in.
These massive open-ocean swells would often
destroy entire fleets of ships.
Nowadays, boats not only anchor more offshore in deeper water,
but also have the luxury of weather forecasting.
(ON VIDEO) Ships were once grateful for Saint Helena.
Today Saint Helena is grateful for a ship.
How do you feel, Brady?
Really good.
It feels good to tie up to the mooring.
Oh.
You're black now.
Do you want me to be there, or do you want me to do this?
No, it's fine.
It feels really good to tie up to the mooring
and to be settled in.
And you can tell it's a good mooring too.
It even has a number on it.
It's like official.
They probably have a specific person that maintains
the mooring, so it feels good.
And yeah, I'm so glad it's not pouring and 35
I know.
Now we can--
It's so weird.
--get some rest, and then go in in the morning.
We're gonna pop that champagne first, right?
Yeah.
I'm going to make the champagne even more special
and put some frozen berries in it.
I was thinking about it the last two days to be honest.
No, not drinking the champagne, but imagine the champagne--
Pimp it up.
--with the frozen berry in it.
I don't know why.
Whoo.
OK, champagne time.
Cheers.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
Cheers.
Nothing like champagne at 3:30 in the morning.
[LAUGHTER]
Ah, we're all off to bed now.
Super stoked and excited to explore this island tomorrow
and have a lovely cup of English tea.
That's what I'm excited for.
Maybe some scones.
Tea and the English cup.
Or some-- [GASPS] with cream and jelly?
Yeah.
Saint Helena radio, Saint Helena radio.
This is the sailing yacht Delos, Delos.
Over.
Thanks for calling Saint Helena radio.
[INAUDIBLE] Saint Helena radio.
Saint Helena radio--
Whoa.
Good morning, please pass your message.
Over.
Good morning, Saint Helena radio.
This is Delos-- delta, echo, Lima, Oscar, Sierra.
We ended up arriving last night very early, 0300.
Tied up at a mooring and are awaiting
instructions for clearance.
Over.
[INAUDIBLE] This is Saint Helena radio.
Copy your message.
Can you call port control on 014, please?
Over.
Saint Helena port control, Saint Helena port control.
This is the sailing yacht Delos, Delos.
Over.
Sailing vessel Delos, this is port control.
Good morning, port control.
We arrived early in the wee hours of this morning
and tied up to a mooring and are awaiting
instructions for clearance.
Over.
OK.
[INAUDIBLE] Delos, welcome to Saint Helena.
Port control and customs should be out to you
in about half an hour, 45 minutes.
Over.
OK, sounds good.
We have the yellow Q flag flying.
We're on more in number 17.
And we are a [INAUDIBLE].
OK.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Hi, we're pleased to meet you.
And you.
Good to hear an English voice.
Mate, tell me about it.
I haven't heard an English voice in eight months.
That's all she's was talking about.
[INAUDIBLE] thinking about it for you wouldn't know how long.
There you go.
Well, I work for customs.
You're obviously going around the bloody world.
Yeah.
After all the pleasantries, we got right
into the important stuff, like what do you
do if you get too drunk at the bar?
If you want to get wasted and don't
want to come here, right down at the very end of the landing,
there's toilets.
Oh, OK.
So in the back part of that we have showers,
changing room for swimmers Lay up a bed just in there.
[LAUGHTER]
Yeah.
I like your style there.
I like the style of this already.
We're going to like Saint Helena.
Which then led to us talking about how safe the island is.
It's like me-- I leave home this morning 10 to eight.
Windows open, but my door is locked.
My house is--
[LAUGHTER]
The only time I ever lock my house
is when I go home and go to bed.
That's it.
My house is still [INAUDIBLE]
And finally, the official business of
checking us into the country.
What I need from you is your last port of call and crew
list, if you don't mind.
Gotcha.
And your registration.
Here you go.
We got to go dancing tonight.
No, not we.
Us got to go.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
Us go dancing.
Let's go dancing.
[INAUDIBLE] here.
We're dancing tonight.
Us go dancing.
Whoo!
I'm getting crazy in my head with all
these different English accents.
An American one, the British one, the Saint Helena one.
[BOAT MOTOR RUNNING]
Here we go.
You guys ready?
Whoo!
Yes.
[MUSIC - SAVI FERNANDEZ BAND, "OPPORTUNITY"]
(SINGING) Yeah, we show, show that love.
That love.
We show, show that love, love.
Bring it out, bring it, bring it up.
Only got one voice to share to sea to sea.
This place looks awesome.
Like, everybody so friendly and they
say hi to you because they see that we're [? yachties. ?]
It reminds me a lot of the islands in the South Pacific
actually.
Yeah?
Like in the middle of fucking nowhere and then
there's like a little settlement and a town.
And everyone is super, super friendly.
Awesome.
Like smiling, waving, and you have
to stop and talk to everybody.
It's really cool.
Look at this gate, man.
Got a Small town vibe-- very different than Namibia, huh?
Yeah.
We're going to go and take out some money now,
because apparently it's only cash on the whole island.
So we have to take out some money for things.
Ah, it's got the queen on it.
Got the queen on it and everything.
How cute is that?
20 Saint Helena pounds.
So are those accepted anywhere else in the world?
I don't think so?
I'm assuming you could exchange it for British pounds again,
because they're a one-to-one kind of locked rate.
And what's it to US right now?
1.25.
Nice.
The US dollar's not doing too bad.
After the bank and a little walk down Main Street,
we headed for the local gardens.
What y'all doing?
Looking at things to do.
Clear, strong--
What you got there?
Saint Helena rum, enhanced with exotic spices from the Orient.
A blend developed in 1659 by mariners
replenishing at the island.
Cool.
Today it is produced in exclusive quantities
and blended at the world's most isolated working distillery
by the Jamestown Fort shore.
Most isolated distillery.
I think we are--
What they know about the Delos distillery?
Yeah, I think we're the most.
We should be like, hey, you guys' claim to fame--
What's going on here?
[LAUGHS]
Just drink some out of the--
[MUSIC PLAYING]
It's nice rum.
Oh.
Vanilla.
It's great.
What is it?
Mm, White Lion.
Mhm.
It's fantastic.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[INAUDIBLE] We've got-- we ordered a double vodka
and soda.
No.
Yeah.
How does it taste, Karin?
It's like this much vodka and some water on top.
You know what?
I ordered a water, and this is what I got.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC - QUEEN, "ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST"]
(SINGING) Another one bites the dust.
(SINGING) We'll be together.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Next up on Delos, we spend some time enjoying the warm waters
of Saint Helena.
Come on, Kazza.
Get in.
We're Cruising now.
We're having breakfast pancakes.
Not going to get in now.
I'm eating pancakes.
And go on our first mission, trying to climb 699 steps.
How excited is everybody to climb 699 steps?
How many was it?
699 steps.
[CRASHING SOUND]
What happened, bro?
I smashed into the railing.
I thought it your head.
You like it?
I like it a lot.
Oh, Karin, look here.
There's 22 endemic bird species.
Wow, Brian, it looks like there's 16 kilometers of hiking
we can do.
Oh.
I'd love to stretch out these legs.