welcome back last time on Sailing Joy we departed les sobres alone in france where
we spent 10 awesome days and we crossed the bay of skate towards lacroix spain
and tonight is our second night crossing the bay of this cave uh the first 24 hours uh i think in
the first 12 hours we had uh seas of maybe a meter and a half of waves and uh the wind was constant
at 15 20 knots so we were we were doing very good in terms of speed we were doing about nine
knots which was like terrific we thought we were gonna get to la caruna in like two
days in uh a couple of hours what happened was there's no wind on the second night so i'm here
on my shift it's 3 a.m and we have a beautiful full moon today and uh pretty much no wind so
uh i know it's a sailing catamaran we should be sailing but whenever there is no wind we go for
our engines so we have one of the engines on we have the port side engine on tonight
and uh and we're doing about 5.5 knots that will take us to our coronia in probably 24 hours making
this cross a total of three days bay of this case notorious to have like bad weather and really some
nightmare stories last time that i crossed the bay of this game was pretty good was not that bad
and this time around has been even easier again we have to respect we have to make sure that we
plan accordingly in terms of the weather and so on and i think we chose it you know the right window
but for patricia being the first of her crossings i really wanted to make sure this was a easy one
and uh and she's doing great she's having a good time the first 12 hours kind of rough on everybody
people got a little bit of seasick nothing bad but just that uh that initial motion in the first
12 hours kind of rough because of the sea state and the wind but uh now every everybody's feeling
great and the morale of the crew is up and in the next 24 hours we arrive in spain in la crew again
today let's talk about some of the issues we had on the crossing things that broke down and how
we're fixing it i will tell you guys what are my thoughts about some of the aftermarket items
we bought and as a bonus i will share some areas of attention and improvement for the lagoon 46. i
hope you enjoyed this video good morning guys we are here in la coruna and today's day to do some
projects uh that we have to do here enjoy since we got some lines that got shaved during the crossing
of the skate so uh the first project that we're gonna be doing here is to replace the
main halyard line they got shaped by the top lift so there are two things that we're gonna be doing
first we're going to be uh rounding up the top lift just in case the line touches that top lift
again it doesn't get shaved it was cutting like a knife so uh you know making it round at the
borders whenever the line uh touches that top lift is gonna prevent that from shaking first
so second we're gonna replace the line of the main halyard line because it got shaped and
kind of destroyed so since we're gonna be uh moving that line we're gonna be using dyneema
uh as a replacement there's actually not a need to use dyneema here on the on the main halyard but
uh i believe it's gonna be better uh to use it on a day-to-day basis first it's gonna you know
the cable is much more resistant second the diameter of the dyneema is a little bit uh
uh it's not as thick so i think this is gonna be good it's lighter it doesn't soak on water
so there are many advantages it's just like it's a little bit more expensive than the other one so uh
in order to do that we have to splice the end uh so that's what we have done
uh yesterday so this is what's gonna be going at the top of the mast and uh and we're gonna
be replacing the shackle that got loose during the crossing of the biscuit so what we're doing
here is trying to do a fix so applying this fix here will prevent the shaping from the
line we're also going to be doing an extension of the how it's holding in the top of the mast
so it was necessary to go up the mast to try to
better understand the source of the main halyard chafing
what we found out was that the top lift cart was the one cutting the main halyard since it did have
some live corners to it so here's the part that we made it round so as you can see it doesn't cut
anything it's very smooth and this is how it was actually here it's how it was it
was really it's like a knife if i do like this with my finger it will cut my finger
so you better understand this is a system designed by incident sale to lagoon to lift
the square top type of sale this is an issue frequently presented on lagoons
with square top sale it certainly requires some adjustments to prevent the situation to happen
we notice here at the marina we are in la korea already and uh we're having you know a wind coming
from that direction straight from the back of the boat uh getting to up to 30 knots 35 knots tops
and we noticed that the guys from robin marin simply forgot uh to put the screws right over
there in the middle of the panels in the back so uh the air was coming from the from the back of
the panel and lifting was uh if i was not here probably would just rip them apart and totally
destroy it so uh yeah they should pay a little bit more attention uh to details because this is
the type of thing that will totally destroy a good work that they have done in the past so right here
uh you have boats uh to the panels but here in the middle they simply forgot to put the boats
so those uh solar panels were lifting up here in the back almost got ripped off
so we did like an easy fix here real quick so we can have it voted tomorrow
and after lunch we continue to check items off our to-do list
and one aftermarket upgrade i'm looking forward to test is the upgraded rokna 40 kilos anchor
and here you will see the mantle swivel we bought to attach the chain
anchor in order to avoid the chain to get twisted when the boat moves at anchor
we certainly did spend some good portion of our time attending fixing some of the issues we
encountered at joy but we also found some time to go out and explore la croix and its surroundings
lots of story in galicia one place that we loved visiting was santiago de compostela
which was about thirty minutes from la coruna just great to see the pellegrinos
arriving there after walking the path for several hundred kilometers and days
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6 20 a.m uh we're right in front of cabo finisterre uh here in spain and we have about
12 hours to go to get to vigo and our trip so far has been pretty good here uh from la korea to vigo
so we believe we're gonna arrive probably at 1 pm um finalizing my my shift here it's um
6 20 so um it has been pretty good the winds are about 15 knots we're sailing away around seven
to seven and a half so very calm now it's the only thing that we had noticed was uh there was
a lot of fishing um there was a lot of fishing boats around and there was one uh distress call
that we have received in the middle of the night with um with a sailboat that got fishing lines
caught in their propeller so they were they were like uh issuing a security and pen pants they're
kind of far away from us so we were not able to do anything to help but uh we had to be pretty much
on the watch out the entire time to make sure that we did not catch anything along the way as well
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