Our ballooner, it was on its last days.
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Previously, on Delos we did some epic scuba diving
and had a muddy adventure on the back roads of Madagascar.
Oh, yay.
Well, we're about ready to head North.
So we're going do a little last minute provision here
for maybe a week to 10 days.
Cool.
So I've made a little list, and we're
going to head into the local market to get some veggies.
And then we'll head to the store and get a few more things.
So-- but I guess, here are shopping bags.
Nice.
It's usually a pretty fun--
Experience.
--experience.
Awesome.
All right, let's do this.
Delos and crew had a pretty epic spot
on the Western side of Aisle Summary in Madagascar.
We had nice, protected anchorage and plenty
of incredible beaches to choose from.
We were hanging out around Lemer Beach.
It's probably not what it's called,
but it made sense to us.
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Our crew contest winners Greg and Chyanne
have arrived just a few days before,
and they were fitting right in.
Spray area.
There you go.
No, no, no, no, no.
Get out of there.
But now it's time to make tracks and sale back around the north
cape of Madagascar over to the west side of the island.
It would probably be a week or so trip.
So we're off on a mission for fresh veggies.
What kind did you go with.
From [INAUDIBLE].
I have no idea what it is, but we're
going to get half a kilo of it.
It looks good.
OK, so that was a success in the store.
Now it's veggie time.
Veggie time.
OK, so we're going to get our eggs here.
OK.
So basically, what we'll do is just lay the egg containers up
over there.
And then you'll just pick out the good ones
and fill them up one by one.
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And we'll get some beans.
So--
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It's a little bit different than the supermarket, huh?
It's better.
It's all organic, just stuff grown out
in the farms where you're riding around, right?
Yeah.
31,500 500, so not so much.
Basically, look at stuff you'd like to eat, and then buy it.
Everything's going to be good.
He has the best, the best tomatoes.
Look at these, beautiful, huh?
Yes.
We don't know what this is.
How much?
And it's.
We don't know how much it costs, but we're going to try it.
It might be a guava or a something.
But now she's taking Brian's money,
and we don't know how much it costs.
All right, what have you got?
I don't know.
I see a little fruit here.
How does it taste?
There's a pit.
It's good.
Is it sour?
I don't remember the name of these.
But do you like them?
Mm-hm.
Yeah?
But they're good.
They are good.
Look at those.
Those are good strawberries.
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So that's a good deal, right?
Yeah.
How was your first Madagascar shopping experience?
I think it went pretty well, actually.
It was very fun to try and figure out what things were,
and what was good, and who had the best.
And it's like a farmer's market, but better.
Good Madagascar store.
That was awesome.
Yes.
It's interesting to see all the meats everywhere.
Yeah.
Yes.
And we tried some fruit that we have no idea what it is.
But it's very good.
So good, very good.
Cool.
Hello, Bio.
Hello.
Today's the day, Brother.
We're going to Nosey Bay.
Nosey Bay bound.
So we've got a 400-mile sail.
It should be pretty sweet, all down wind.
But the boat's been super slow.
I think we're losing between a knot and a knot and half
because we haven't cleaned the bottom in a while.
So I think it's pretty dirty.
So we just got to go down and scrub some stuff off,
make us fast again.
I'm going to pull up the hook and head North.
Downwind, for the Cape, [NON-ENGLISH].
So everybody else is down under cleaning
the boat, which is actually pretty interesting because you
can hear it.
I'm in the kitchen looking after Kimo's bread, which
smells amazing.
And I'm not helping because I still
have nasty poison ivy that has been popping open
this morning, which is really gross.
How is it going, Chyanne
We are itchy today.
So stay on the boat, or whatever happened?
Chyanne has her first poison ivy.
It looks pretty--
Is gnarly.
--gnarly.
Yep.
And then we have this one.
Ew.
This one's gross too.
Oh, wait, all day, oh.
Yeah, good So we're going to try some baking soda, some water,
and some crushed up spirulina, and see if it dries it out.
How is it down there?
Starting to look good.
Yeah.
It's a clean lady now.
Clean?
Clean.
We'll have 10 to 15 knots out of the Southeast.
And then as we go up the coast here to round the Cape,
we'll be around the Cape around Friday, probably 2:00,
3:00 in the morning.
And it's looking like anywhere from 20 to 25.
Some of the forecasts show it's a bit stronger into the 35's.
And we've done this trip before last year.
We were coming in this way.
So we know around here the wind basically
comes out of the Southeast, hits the coast of Madagascar,
and just shoots up North.
So you get really strong presence on this coast.
But we'll be going with it, which will be really good.
And then if we check out the currents around here,
they're going to be with us the whole ride as we come up
the coast of Madagascar.
Of course, we saw last year the same thing.
They were super strong right here.
But we'll have wind and current with us,
and blast around 400 miles.
Get it done in--
24 hours.
--24 hours.
Super speed.
Super speed Delos.
Are you ready for a little sailing trip around the corner
of Madagascar?
Yes.
A little bit seasick.
A little bit seasick the first time.
You'll be OK though.
We've taken some pills.
So I'll either be throwing up or passing out.
So we'll find out.
It looks like a great sail.
Yes.
All right, it's time to go.
Now for getting the anchor up.
We're going to head that way.
Going to tell us the game plan, Brady?
Well, the wind is perfect as we expected
coming straight from behind us.
So we're going to put this poll out.
We'll switch the genoa over to the port side.
And then we can put our [? genicer, ?]
which is like a lighter version of that, on the starboard side,
on the other pole.
And it's really cool because [INAUDIBLE]
are one of the few boats that have duel downwind poles.
So we can set both sails and just straight up the ass.
What?
Two poles in [INAUDIBLE].
Two poles--
Sounds interesting.
So once the boat rocks before it, give it a push.
What can you see with your evil eyes, Camilla?
I'm not sure I want to say anything just yet.
I've gone from it being a massive whale.
But now I think it's' a fish of some kind.
But it's long, and so thin, and has a pretty thick--
there it is again.
It has a pretty thin-- it looks just
like a team of [INAUDIBLE].
Really?
Very strange.
There.
Yeah.
I did a massive [INAUDIBLE].
It that's a sail fish, it's over 20 tons.
Yeah.It's a whale.
Oh, out there.
Oh, yeah.
How are you feeling?
Great?
What's that?
Very cool.
How do you feel?
Very cool.
This sail make me happy.
It's all so colorful.
And it's a good one.
It's nice.
Good sailing.
So it's almost 9 o' clock, and I've had a pretty good watch.
It's a little bit-- it is a little big rolly.
The boat is like, moving in a confined space
because we don't have that much wind.
I think we're doing pretty good for now.
It's a beautiful light.
Cool.
Yeah.
It's about 5:30 in the morning.
The sun's just coming up.
And it's an all right night.
It's a little bit roly poly.
There wasn't a whole lot of wind.
And so the boat's just going like this.
And the sails are going, [IMITATES SAILS],
which makes a lot of noise.
And I don't really sleep very good
when the boat's doing that.
But we're averaging between five and six knots, which is OK.
And I think today will be a pretty nice day of sailing,
at least we hope.
So how are you feeling today, Chyanne?
Good?
Yes.
We had some red butts, and cheese, and marmalade.
Nice.
And the seasickness pills are working.
So--
Did you sleep anything?
A little bit, a little sleep.
It was your first night at sea though, right?
Uh-huh.
Yeah, which is crazy.
Yes.
We have something on the fishing line,
and I am not extremely sure how to pull it in.
I tried to pull it in, but it's slipping.
Do you want [INAUDIBLE]?
Yes.
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Get it.
Wow.
You see the color disappearing?
Yeah.
As it dies, yeah.
OK.
We got a mahi.
Good morning, Brian.
I feel so bad, man, every time we get one of these.
But they're so good.
I guess I know what I'm cooking today.
Yeah.
I haven't quartered fish in a while.
Yeah.
It's been a while, and this is a nice one too.
But mahis aren't too bad to fillet.
The meat comes off pretty easy.
Look at that.
Beautiful fillet of [? bahi. ?] I think that's
what we'll have for lunch.
Yeah.
We'll probably have enough for lunch and dinner, maybe
one more meal too.
So we got a nice, big bag of fillets.
Beautiful.
It will at least be three meals, I
think for sure, for six people.
That's incredible.
Yeah.
We caught a mahi while I was sleeping.
Yes, Brian.
So this delicious mahi mahi--
all right, back here sweating in the kitchen after an hour,
I've cooked raw, chopped up, raw potato, and some salad,
and now I'm going to check the fish.
Voila.
Oh, perfect.
Yep.
It's sweaty, but it's done.
Oh, man.
That looks good, partner.
What have you got in there?
We have a salad, assorted salad with garlic.
We have raw fried potato, Swedish style,
and fried mahi mahi.
Freshly caught.
Lunch is ready.
Oh.
Thank you.
It's the best fish.
So fresh.
Yep.
It's already gone.
Thank you guys.
Yeah it's amazing.
Thank you, fishy.
The wind picked up, and we having a hell of a sale.
Delos was just cruising along doing her thing.
All was well in our little world.
Then all of a sudden, we heard a loud rip and the slapping
of sheets on the hold.
Our ballooner.
It was on it's last days.
Not surprised.
Oh, man, we should have known better.
Yeah, well--
This thing's like--
I don't know-- it's 15 years old.
I don't know how many tens--
It had a good last day.
--of thousands of sea miles it has on it.
I think it's time for a new one.
Yeah.
My favorite sea.
It's a bad one too, like really bad, like all the way.
We've fixed the whole bottom.
I've probably sewn it about six times over the years.
But I think this has--
This might do it in.
This might be my last.
I don't know if I can do that one.
I ain't stitching that up.
That's a lot of stitching.
At least we got a full day of sailing out of that.
It had a last good run.
It had a solid fucking eight hours
of what it was born to do.
Eight hours.
So it's our second night out at the sea.
We're doing pretty well.
We had quite a bit of wind, a lot more than yesterday.
We have around 30 knots we're reaching, I think.
We're doing really well speedwise.
I think on my watch we've been reaching around nine knots
and seen everything from--
it's at 12 right now-- and so anything from seven to 12,
really.
We're quite close to the coast, which you can see on the radar.
And yeah, wind's been a little bit more than we'd like,
actually.
The autopilot is having quite a rough time handling it.
But it's doing pretty well so far.
We took in a lot of sail.
We've got a fish on.
Oh, yeah.
That's pretty stretched, isn't it, on port side?
Yeah.
There's something on there.
It's a tuna.
Yeah.
Oh, shit.
Look at that.
Beautiful.
It's a beautiful tuna, beautiful tuna.
Fatty.
Oh, that's a yellow fin.
Nice and healthy.
No, it's not a yellow fin.
Nope.
It might be a big eye.
It looks like a big eye, huh?
That is beautiful.
Yeah.
Here you go.
Yeah.
It's a big one--
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One shot.
Here on the top.
[INAUDIBLE] to give it away, all those lines
with the dots and stripes.
So I think it's a big eye.
But we could--
I think maybe you're right.
--we could compare.
It's midnight now.
We're about 70 miles from the top of the Cape,
and the conditions are getting pretty rough, big waves.
Wind is gusting, 35, 40 true.
But it is directly behind us.
But it's pretty intense to hear these massive waves just coming
at you.
And you can't see.
It's pitch black.
There's no moon.
And all of a sudden, this massive wave
will come and pick up the stern, and you'll just
launch down the face of it.
A lot of respect for the ocean in this part of the world,
for sure.
That wind speed has just been crawling up.
And, of course, our speed over ground, flying along.
So it we switch the pole to starboard,
put it on the other side, I think
it will handle it a little bit better.
OK, we'll strap the head sail out,
it's still doing nine, 10 knots.
Yeah.
Well, once you start putting more sail out,
it makes no difference, although I did see 15.1.
I don't know why this cape is such a gnarly cape, this one.
The weather says it should be nice, 20, 25.
Of course, it's not.
Good morning, sunrise.
And I'm tired.
I don't know what the deal is.
But I'm exhausted.
I think the weather, a little rough last night.
I didn't really sleep much.
I had to change some sales.
But the good news is, look where we are.
So we're only 20 miles away from the Cape.
And after we make that little turn there,
I think we're going to find a sweet little place
to anchor in here and get a little bit of rest.
Hello.
Good morning.
Are you as tired as me?
Oh.
You look fresher than I feel.
Yeah.
I slept for an hour just now.
How are you?
Sleepy and harnessed in.
I was wondering.
You're all clipped in.
Are you planning on going out on deck or what?
Never know.
So we should be there.
We're going 10 knots.
So we should be there in a little over an hour, an hour
and a half.
It feels good.
It's weird to think that we crossed last year
in very different conditions.
And we now-- it was a pretty rough night.
But it's nice now, and I can even have the autopilot
on without it screaming at me.
So it feels really cool.
And yeah, I'm really excited to have sushi today.
It will be cool to add china, some fruit.
Good.
I love sushi.
It's one of my downfall.
I know I shouldn't like sushi probably.
But it's so good.
What is that?
That's gnarly.
Look at that drum.
Anyways, so hopefully we can turn pretty soon
so we don't get too much on beam.
But we need to take a pole down and stuff.
So the way you say it, I'm pretty rigged.
You can really feel the energy of the current
and the wind around this cape here.
It's quite beautiful though.
It's impressive.
Good morning.
I can sleep in two hours.
Two hours is good.
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Awesome!
Wow.
That was a good one too.
That was a good high five.
Made it out of the gate.
Here you go.
Looks like this chart is off a little bit
because, as you can see, we're about to run right
through the land.
At front, it looks like we're going through the channel.
[INAUDIBLE]
And that's why you enter in the day,
and you look with your eyes these things.
Yeah, eyes are number one.
Eyes are good ones.
We have arrived.
Whoo.
It's chill.
I don't think there's anybody here except us.
You guys want to check out this little cove here?
Yeah.
OK.
The beautiful tuna.
See how that shimmers?
It's nice and pink?
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So what's going on here?
We are making sushi.
Sushi.
You
Sushi nights.
We have cut vegetables and a huge avocado.
That is a massive avocado.
I know.
It's only a half of a half too, which seems really crazy.
And then Gregory's making--
He's learning.
Gregory's making rice.
He's doing really well today, mahi pacas, and then sushi.
You're advancing fast, man.
We're trying.
What are you guys doing outside?
You've got some liquor coming up.
What?
It's a very productive night on Delos.
This upstairs project?
It's flowing.
Is it?
It's flowing, baby.
It's flowing.
Oh.
Let's see this bread, guys.
Yep, very good.
Nice work.
Cutting up the fish, huh?
Look at that burrito.
Oh.
Do you want this part?
So then turn it and grab, so one big motion.
Yep.
Look at that.
Probably not going to be sushi chef of the year any time soon.
Yes, he is.
And now we cut it.
What have you got over here?
You just got rice and sushis.
It's to be stoned.
I mostly like the fish and the rice.
So I just made a little fish and rice.
It's a tradition here.
Nice.
Ah, yeah.
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Up next, we arrive at the beautiful island of Nosy Hara,
and explore this paradise for the second time.
OK, sweet.
I was thinking of morning.
That's a wrap.
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You like it?
I like it a lot.
I can't even tell which one's which.
Huh?
When you're standing like that.
Look.
The two Swede's.
What's inside there?
We got some salt, and some--
Sugar.
--sugar--
Sugar?
--and some of the jasmine juice.
No.
Jasmine.
Jasmine juice.
Gross.
Let's go with jasmine juice.
Joke of the day.
What kind of milk--
oh, no.
What kind of bees make milk?
Boobies.