Hi everyone and thank you all so much
for the awesome support for last week's
video it really went nuts. On Monday I got
an email from Sailing La Vagabonde saying how
much they loved the video.
Well guys thank you and we really love
what you're doing to promote sailing too.
And then on Tuesday SV Delos
announced that they're at the Amel
boatyard in France. I just finished watching
a live video recorded on Amel 55 valued
at something like 1.2 million dollars
from the SV Delos people and it looks
very much like another announcement
similar to Sailing La Vagabonde's is imminent.
These developments are great news
two successful, very hardworking and very
deserving sailing channels.
Although like many of you I'm concerned
that we're starting to see the
corporation's moving in and stealing the
narrative. Here at Luckyfish we are all
about showing here incredible adventures
can be attainable on a reasonably priced
comfortable and safe catamaran.
A remotely operated electric swim platform really
adds nothing to the experience of
swimming and warm tropical seas.
But it does add another item of equipment that
requires servicing, eventually
will break down and require replacing.
Anyway that's enough of a rant. This week
we go back to the Ocean. I hope you
enjoy this week's video. Bye everyone
This time on Luckyfish we see land for the
last time for a month. Have an encounter with
a Chinese longline fishing boat. Get a
visit from friends and, have our first
taste of squally ITCZ weather.
We recovered both anchors without
difficulty and soon had the dinghy
stowed and the spinnaker hoisted. We were
all excited about spending the next
three or four weeks out of sight of land. But
we did wonder how quickly the time
would pass. I divided the 3,000 mile
journey into four 750 mile legs
following the great circle route and
placed a way point at the end of each
leg. This broke the journey into
portions we could comprehend with a
nice boost to morale each time a
waypoint was passed.
So where would you rather go if you were to go to Caribbean.
Let's say you know, outside chance we make it. Umm
from there do you want to just cruise the Caribbean or
do you wanna go to Hawaii and catch up with
Bruce?
Yeah, up there I want to go.
That's not to bad
so would you rather go to Hawaii or down through
the Panama. Down to, ummm,
here the Marqueses, down here somewhere. Why are we going down there?
well that's a good start to go and see all of the Pacific
This is all beautiful here.
Thats where I'm from
We can go there though, thats too far South. We can go there.
Australia. And up through here
beautiful
yeah Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines
Or, we can go there and go down.
Can we do that?
Yes. Yes you can. I think
Well, that's what, umm, Betty and Louis the did
They went from Hawaii, they went to a place called
Fanning Island
I dont know where it is. Whats that? Christmas Island is it?
They came down this way and then they did
they did Tahiti, yeah, French Marqueses
thats right and then they went off up here no
actually they went down, they went round
Cape Horn. Crazy.
That evening the sky clouded over
and Tuya set up the raincatcher.
we quickly settled in to our 2 hour on, 4 hour off
watchkeeping. From 10pm until dawn
and we all felt as though we were getting sufficient sleep.
on the third day we were still in sailing bliss
spinnaker up and raincatcher
ready for the odd squall
but as so often happens a pesky fly found its way into
the ointment. We often get asked is there
anything out there in the middle of the
ocean strangely everyday you see
something new
no sailor like meeting another ship at sea
They are a pain in the neck arent they? You travel for days without seeing
ship and then when you do you you've got to
alter course to avoid it
These are dumb asses, they dont look round
they dont talk on the radio I think English
is a second language
hundreds of miles from the rule of law
you really can't help but feel a little
anxious
China
She saw Chinese writing on the front
China, Yatad (Outsiders)
I think they are just being curious. Coming close to look.
It was alarming to see a Chinese fishing boat in the mid-atlantic.
Each time we altered course, they did too
towards us
There are many men. (Standing along the rails)
It was an indiscriminate long liner. It's either
illegal or should be.
Many of them looking at us. Really!
They've washed the clothes. Hung them out
It's a BI
twenty four eighty eight
The only sustainable way to catch tuna is by pole
and line method as used on St Helena
and we saw how healthy the fish stocks were there
and at Ascension Island,
inside the 200 mile exclusion zone
We also saw these at Craigs place. Satellite beacons
used by the longliners that Craig had
collected washed up on the shore. Some of
them still blipping. To think their
long lines may still be drifting out
there causing untold harm.
Eat!. No playing with the food.
What do you mean no playing?
That night we were thrilled to see the
petrels (??) back.
They seem to remember all the perches and five of them made
themselves at home.
Luckyfish had become a real petrel station this time.
So what were you saying about that scene under the hull
Am I missing something, yeah?
You are missing a beautiful scene down there
What do you mean, which scene?
The hulls?
What's going on with that light anyway?
Why is that on?
Whats up Tuya? Good Morning
Whats up me?
Whats up?
How did you know?
Awwww, thats no fun now you know
I'm trying to do secret bloody movie
and its no good when you do that
the best movies are when you dont know
you always know. You know everything
I'm getting drunk with my ..... water and cordial
The girls were getting conscious about how brown they were
becoming. They just don't get Sun like
this in Mongolia and Zaya saw an
opportunity.
This body colour requires alot of jewellery you know jewelry would look ...
Ahh, excuse me?
What is that?
Nice golden jewelry would look nice on this kind of skin
this colour skin
I think silver would look
silver would contrast more. Silver or
cubic zirconia. Perfect.
Needs alot of diamonds and white or yellow gold.
Yeah, silver and cubic zirconia. Same thing as diamonds and gold.
Then if you would buy alot of necklaces for me then I would just
wear nothing
Just go topless
Would you like that?
So, what do i get for ahh... what do i get for ummm
silver and cubic zirconia
Nah, nothing.
T-shirt.
Wet T-shirt?
Salty T-shirt.
Salty, wet, sweaty T shirt
So when did we start? Sunday yeah?
We started on Sunday
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Today Friday. So its our 6th day
So we've done 144 on the first day
144, 94, sucker
103, 127. 147
Whats all that up there?
Total 614
Divided by 5 days
average 123 nautical miles a day
So, total mileage to Barbados, 3000
divided by 123
24 days to sail to Barbados
So we have already done 4, 5. So its only 19 days left
What do you think Tuya?
Tuya says its more than 20 days, so stop counting
More?
A squall came down on us and brought a
sudden change to the wind direction
which the vane could not respond to quickly enough
Tiller boy
no one likes a flogging spinnaker
especially when its the only one on board
with two and a half thousand miles to go
Poor Tuya wants some more fresh water
She's not gonna get it
Steering systems are one of the most frequent equipment failures on sail boats
But the Wharram has loads of
redundancy built in.
For a start, she has two rudders with permanently attached tillers
that can be operated independently
in the unlikely event of a failure to one of the rudders
The rudders themselves are fully protected by skegs
She has a simple to maintain wheel steering system
for normal maneuvering in harbours and short passages etc
We detach the wheels steering
to remove friction from the system when
either of the two wind vanes are in operation
which is 99.9 percent of the time on passage
That is why I grabbed the tiller
to make this quick course change
before handing her back to the vane
pretty soon we were back to normal
flying towards the equator on a
magic carpet ride
Halem!, Halem! (whales)
whales, dolphins?, whales?
little whales?
dolphins
quite big dolphins yeah
come this way
oh look at those are really quite large
for dolphin. I'm not sure what they are
(young Pilot whales you clutz)
well guys I hope you enjoyed this episode
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Next time on Luckyfish we make a fine
tribute to King Neptune as we cross the equator
he rewards us with a fine Wahoo
We have another encounter with whales
And run out of wind
ok