Oh no...
The crew consists of three humans. Dylan Magaster, seven-day sailing
experience, Skipper. Jackson Peters, two months as a deckhand,
Admiral. Tara Wear, five days sailing from Colombia to Panama, Treasurer. The
Balearic Islands resting in the western part of the Mediterranean. The Plan. Sail
from Barcelona Spain to Mallorca and onward to Ibiza. The vessel yet to be purchased.
You can't make yourself interested in something. Interest
manifests itself and grips you. That's a whole different thing. You're compelled
forward by your interest.
Welcome to See++ the vessel that'll take us all over the Mediterranean from
Greece to Spain actually from Spain to Greece, hopefully to Israel, this is Sea++. The deal was done for
$10,000 and we were committed to the artist formerly known as See++ and all of
her beauty and all of her faults.
As you can see, it's not like perfect condition. Egh it's ugh super thick. Just in case.
The engine was taken out, disassembled completely. Tiny tiny oil leak, but it runs great.
She was a little bit beaten down but the necessity, potential, and the vision were there.
Now, it is time for action.
Organize your local landscape. Schedule
your time. Start taking control of yourself. See if you can stop saying things you know to be lies.
Out here killing mold. This is a process of
soul-searching. Bathroom time...you have to figure out what it is. What will work for you.
Miscellaneous hardware, miscellaneous miscellaneous, miscellaneous plugs.
First time out! We got a ship coming in here.
You get one shot at this gig right here.
LIFE.
So you have to go into the unknown and that's that's God's first command, go into the unknown.
Gage doesn't work.
We are going to Mallorca! Well, it's excitement at the moment.
So yeah we'll see, it's an overnight sail... our first sail!
We're off! Woo! Raise the main. Raise the main sheet. Okay!
We're sailing!
Sea++ Sea++. Come in.This is Sea++ furling out the head sail. 13 to 15 knots of wind. Go ahead and enjoy!
And the most important thing to learn is that we have so much to learn.
We all do. And we can learn from school and from people and from experience and we learn
from life.
It's a pretty tumultuous sea. Stop the pressings! Captain Matthias the
captain of the cruise ship we were on said that just a little bit alcohol
helps settle the stomach, allegedly. In the sun able to look out it it's not too bad.
Trying to adjust just the out haul so that we
don't get so much weather helm. Oops. We sailed for like four hours with a ugh
not fully tensioned luff. So again I guess it's good we got it now.
There was Braddock at a big table with a party called Francis Klein and Mrs.
Braddock's and several people I did not know.
The sea at night is unlike anything I've known. The dark immense below the vast
array of stars and planetary bodies overhead traversing the fragile line in
between. With Mars as our heading, I began the first watch.
Then ease the main sheet.
What do you see, Cap?
Land ho! Oh, where did that come from?
Ouch. Some mysterious way we lost 60 gallons of water. It was going perfectly
according to plan until I gave it too much forward. Can you see that? That is a
little ding on the bow. *screeching*
So we're gonna get hit with a nice little storm tonight so that'll be
fun because it's our first night on anchor.
Make sure there's a couple wraps around the winch. Two head sails were coming unfurled.
Our anchor is holding, that would totally blow if it wasn't, but thank the Lord it's totally working.
Sailing Vessel Swift. This is Swift, copy. We just pickled the outboard engine. Ouch. Here we go.
Here goes nothing. It's chilly.
We had it locked onto the dinghy and then the ferry came
by and we got hit with a giant wave and the halyard was still attached to
the engine and so the dinghy went down the halyard went up the engine went over
and then down.
You got it? Got it. I didn't cinch it though.
Many boaters would certainly agree that one of the most character building
situations in recreational boating is dealing with an engine that has slipped
it's mount and needs recovery from the deep also known as pickling an engine.
We need to go around the island down here to Ibiza which is this island down here and
there's a little town of Ibiza. It should be relatively quick but we'll see how it
goes. Finally filling up with gasoline. Although it is diesel. So we're checking the wind here so we'll be
headed right into the wind. We're gonna have to motor some of it, unfortunately.
Goodbye Swift!
Sea God's may you look upon us with grace. Big love. It would appear that we
have a problem. What you cooking down there? *alarm sounding*
The engine is all wet. Is that where the waters gone?
I would guess that was a coolant leak, but that leak is no idea and the engine is like 200 degrees.
Oh, was it just this? Might have just been that popped off. That might be the culprit but not positive.
It is quite rocky down here. Oh boy, oh Jesus. You feeling sick? Not yet...
I think it's fine.
Engine's spewing coolant all over the place and that changes all of our plans.
Got issues. People call it Murphy's Law anything that can go wrong
will go wrong. Don't necessarily believe in Murphy's Law but maybe right now I am!
Why am I using a flashlight? We've got...*turns lights on, laughter* That is not that funny but man...
We're still having motor problems. 17:30 yesterday we left now it's 14:35 and
we're back at the place we anchored last night. It's literally an hour walk from
where we anchored two nights ago.
We're walking.
I've almost got this thermostat off. Engine block is in
the way. This here is a thermostat. The way you test this is you put it in a
container of water and boil it. It would appear that our thermostat is
functioning. I don't know what the issue is now. The wind looks good today and it
should carry us the full way from a beam reach to a broad reach. You can see the wind
right there you can see wind behind us but we're in another calm. Reading both
pages and we got two jibe preventers.
Stay on this point of sail and at this bearing for another six point six nautical miles.
In order to get any oil out of a diesel marine engine you have to siphon it out.
It's working! It's totally working.