this is hi welcome back to the channel welcome back to a 5 Minute Friday if you don't know what
this is if you've been watching less than a year or less than two years actually you might not know
what a 5 Minute Friday is this is something a feature that I used to do a long time ago
I haven't done one for almost two years now and actually I was actually looking back to
see when the last one I did took place and it was in April 2021 when I looked like this be sure to
note also that I am wearing the same shirt right now my name is eSysman and it has been 214 days
since I had a haircut all right so we'll move on anyway all right so one of the things about five
minute Friday is what I do is I put a timer on the screen and usually I blow right through it
so let's put that timer on the screen now before I go into the first story according to the Guinness
Book of World Records the shortest or the smallest wind powered boat to cross the Atlantic is named
Father's Day and it's 1.6 meters in length 1.6 meters in length which is five feet four inches
long I'll put a picture on the screen and it was captained by Hugo Vilan from the US and he sailed
from Newfoundland to Falmouth in the UK on the 14th of June and he didn't get there until the
27th of September in 1993. so fast forward 20 years and Andrew Bedwell from the UK hears this
story down his local pub and says hold my beer and he designs and builds this supposedly a yacht but
I would call it a Contraption with sales he's built this and he's attempted he's going to
attempt to break that world record of sailing from Newfoundland on Newfoundlanders as the
Canadians put it to Falmouth in the UK now he's planning to do it in 90 days now it's this this
was sent in by one of the patrons actually named Sylvie but thanks for sending that in but this
just blew my mind because it is it looks unsea worthy doesn't it clearly he's tested it it's
been in the sea and he didn't die so up until now it's sort of seaworthy the vessel is called Big
C The Big C with the letter c and it's three feet three inches in length or just over one meter long
it weighs 450 kilos in total without 48 kilos of that is going to be food that Andrew will be
eating along the Route and because of the because the vessel is so small and light that is part of
the ballast of the vessel of the you know to keep the thing close to the parts of its buoyancy so
every time he eats some food he will have to fill a bag with water and that of equal ways
to place it back into the vessel to prevent the vessel from losing its buoyancy they do all kinds
of stats like that that just blew my mind when I was watching this thing I mean you probably
got questions I had lots of questions one of the questions is where is he going to sleep because
it looks like he's basically it looks like he's sitting on a toilet for 90 days he does show in
the video that he's able to lay out on top of the vessel with what he called a hammock which looked
like a handkerchief and put his feet out onto the side also the answer the answer of where is
he going to sleep he shows in the video and he's basically curled up in the ball on the bottom of
this vessel I mean it's unbelievable he's got a lid on top like a like a almost like a spaceman's
helmet that it will close in inclement weather oh and it obviously it's all made of fiber glass so
you can imagine being out there and it's going to get really hot inside so check out the video
I'll put a link in all the normal places I'll put one up here and I'll put one in the description
below it's like a 15 minute video but it's very interesting it's from yachting monthly and they
very kindly allowed me to use some of the excerpts here and a little bit of footage just just to just
to draw you in to go and watch that crazy record attempt I mean I was thinking about it and I was
thinking that you know there's a there's a fine line between genius and and Nutter right and if
he does it we'll all say wow what a genius he did it and if he doesn't we'll say he's a Nutter but
at the moment I'm I'm sort of airing towards the size of nothing but you know this is the people
who get into the Guinness Book of Records they do it by doing something we all think is impossible
right so all right on to the second story and this one is just purely because I think it's
hilarious it's got nothing to do with Yachts but it's got some very Loosely connected to the ocean
I suppose and it's a it's a group of young boys or young men messing about on this floating Pontoon
and they're getting unexpected guest in in that of a sea otter so let's play the video so the
unfortunately there's no audio to go with this but you can see that the clte climbs up on and
it makes the boys jump into the water and then the author jumps into the water to follow him
they jump back onto the thing and then yeah it's hilarious and then they end up swimming ashore
from the dangerous sea otter I just thought it was worth playing that just because it's so funny
all right just before I go I've probably blown through that five minutes haven't I
um just before I go uh update on axioma uh we we mentioned that the vessel was being towed
and the destination on AIS was in Turkey. you'll notice by this AIS information here that unless
they've got some serious problems with their equipment on board they are in fact sailing
to the Balearic Islands in Spain now in a previous video which we filmed in September last year I
mentioned that we had information after the vessel was sold that the boat was already intending to go
to the Blair accounts I couldn't say that at the time on the channel but this is the information I
mean I did say in the video dated the 1st of September that the vessel was planned to go
somewhere before they announced even announced to the new owner was which is very curious anyway the
boat has gone now where we expected it to go and for reasons unknown I suspect it's possible that
they might be going there to collect crew like the Gibraltar is a is part of the UK Spain part of the
EU it could be sanctions related we don't know that was just you know a guess as to why they may
have done this most likely they're going there to pick up the crew to to go to onward Journey will
be interesting to see if the tug takes them from Spain I I have my suspicions that the vessel might
leave under its own Steam from there anyway we'll find out we'll keep tracking it as long as we can
if they you know as long as they broadcast to AIS if they do go dark then we will keep it we will
come back to you guys and ask us to keep us updated because you always do
anyway guys I'm going to leave it there I'm gonna go for the weekend be sure to have a great one and
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for watching I'll catch up with you soon bye-bye that's half a day oh just fractionally over half a
day's rations so how many of those are you taking 150 48 kilos worth of those so and obviously with
a vessel they're small what we're doing is as we're going to be eating those they're relatively
heavy each one so we'll be replacing that with water so what we're working on now is a little bag