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- Wow
- His Downwash is affecting the sail!
(Aircraft Roaring)
- [Inaudible 00:032:30] that was an incredible fly by man.
We're all pumped up.
Amazing. Thank you for that.
Have a good flight and hope to see you on the way back over.
That was so awesome.
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We just left little Creek Virginia
after making a quick stop to repair the storm damage
from our nasty day on the Chesapeake, we departed
in some of the most idyllic sailing conditions we'd seen
in months as he prepared to round Cape Hatteras
on our way to Beaufort North Carolina
about 220 miles to the South,
Cape Hatteras also known
as the graveyard of the Atlantic is one
of the most infamous capes on the East coast
of the US.
The 200 mile long strip barrier
islands surrounding the Cape are made up of sand.
So they can quickly shift depending
on the weather and currents.
The area around Cape Hatteras is known as diamond Shoals
and it's located at the point where the opposing Gulf stream
and the Labrador occurrence converge
but the currents don't just meet here.
They explode
this area sees opposing wave forces
that move massive under sea sandbars in unpredictable ways
creating uncharted sand dunes up to 20 miles off shore.
Add to that.
The fact that this area is a magnet for low pressure
systems coming up the coast, and you've got yourself
a recipe for danger that can intimidate even
the saltiest sailors.
There's been over 5,000 shipwrecks in these waters
since record keeping began in 1526, earning it
the nickname graveyard of the Atlantic.
A few months ago, we had one hell of a time down in the Cape
on our way North.
So I'd be lying.
If I said we didn't feel a little bit nervous
as we prepared to face the Cape again,
but right now
there is no time to think about Hatteras is something
even bigger and more exciting was headed our way.
- [Inaudible 03:05:06 ]Six, nine pleasure channel.
We just got a call from a chopper.
That's running a training mission out here
and he's a Delos follower.
He knows that we're sailing out here.
So he said he was going to try and find us today
and get a little fly by.
(laugh)
So he should be here any second, literally.
And I'm super excited.
[Crosstalk 03:28:28]
I'm so nervous.
I don't know why.
- No Way!
- That's a black Hawk, helicopter Sierra.
A NAVY black ops.
- She doesn't know (laugh) [Crosstalk 04:06:13]
- No way (laugh)
Awesome.
Wow.
Are you impress.
- The downwash is affecting the sail!(laugh)
- Oh, really.
- Ya
- How many times is he gonna circle us?
- These fishing boats are probably like
"what the heck is going on".
Awesome.
- [Inaudible 00:032:30] that was an incredible fly by man.
We're all pumped up.
Amazing. Thank you for that.
Have a good flight and hope to see you on the way back over.
- Copy that Delos back too [Inaudible 04:19:45].
That was so awesome.
- Does he see the sun set here.
Right over their.
It's pretty.
- How's it going up here.
- We are doing pretty good, the wind is just coming back.
I think we like 30 miles from Hatteras for our return.
It's cold.
- Ya, it is cold.
Do you want a blanket or something.
- No, I have my tea, my jacket, my gloves.
- So now how we doing the workshop.
- I'm doing now the [Inaudible 04:30:28] for a couple hours
and then when we
round the Cape Hatteras, I'm going to come back to set up
the sales and get us in the right direction,
trimmed on the right tack and kind of see how it is.
And then maybe you can come on for like an hour or two.
- Yeah. Like how do it exactly how you guys feel
or if I need to change sales and stuff.
You'll wake me up too.
- Yup.
- Okay.
- Good Night.
- Yes. Oh, yes I have.
Okay. Hatteras is here.
Although we have to go out around these Shoals
keeping this Mark to starboard right there earlier 15 miles
and change away from that.
So about two and a half hours at the current speed.
Why don't you just wake me up when we get to right here
at this point, and then we'll make our turn.
- Right.
- And then I will help you adjust the sails
for enough wind beat.
- All right.
We at the our turn.
Yeah, we just got to turn here just below hatters.
I'm just going to trim.
And then we're going to have to do something
with the Mizzen.
- I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go back there
and I'm just going to travel it up to the center.
- This is interesting.
You can tell that we're definitely close to the Gulf stream.
So look at that bump in temperature right their.
It been climbing steadily but then all of a sudden,
right there just goes
boom.
Up above 20 degrees Celsius for the first time.
In a long time.
you are cruising along just skipping over the waves,
averaging eight knocks.
There's eight, six, seven, seen a few nines.
It's pretty smooth though.
Winds right on the beam.
And we've been doing well, 52 miles to go.
And it looks like we're gonna take the inlet into Beaufort.
North Carolina never been to North Carolina.
So that's pretty cool.
What time is it?
Three something, almost three 30.
I know that we've had a lot of anxiety about this passage
since we really get the kicked out of us around
in the Cape on the way North
Hatter as is no joke
and it feels good to have at least the Cape behind this.
And let's just hope that the freeze holds
in this 20 knot range and doesn't go any more than that, but
at least we're we're around it and we're inside the current.
So that's the big deal here is, you know
the current just ripping through here a Gulf stream.
And if you get wind
against current there and it's really uncomfortable
and can potentially be dangerous.
And so just being at least on the way, I know
that Casa had quite a bit of anxiety about this passage too.
So it's nice to be underway
and at least have the end in sight.
Here's our track on the way North attack
on our guts out beat, beat, beat.
I remember this particularly gnarly tack here.
And then we blew up
our jet
like somewhere around here, maybe here something
but now we've been just been flying this way.
And we really, we cut this quarter as tight as we could
like this is Hatteras
and this is the show we need to get around.
So we just nailed that turn right there
and over the last hour and a half flying down this way
it's still fricking freezing.
Just getting down to some warmer weather
I think is going to be really nice, especially for Sierra.
Like it's been a little bit difficult
with all the clothes and her wanting to play
and it's just not, it's just not easy
plea.
Calicos guys will be there.
We can hang for a bit and catch
up with them and then continue our hop down the coast.
It's the only plan we've got.
We're sticking to it.
All right.
How about a good night?
[Inaudible 11:45:28] 28, definitely 30 to 35 range.
- It's almost Friday. And what am I doing also on my watch?
I'm checking out.
41 miles.
- How did you sleep last night?
- Okay, yeah. Thank you for [Inaudible 12:19:28] Ryan.
- Doesn't look for him.
- I can't really tell from here
but the boat is rocking and rolling here.
The conditions are the same 15
20 occasional gusts up to 25.
Right now it's on a beam, but when we turn our corner early.
- We might not get that nice.
I don't know.
- We going to see.
[Inaudible 12:48:28]
- You have to follow here,
- It's like a full, you have way more work to do
than I have.
can be a little frustrating
because she just wants to play down,
making her turn.
- You're making the turn.
- Make the turn.
- Hang on.
- It be few hours.
- Huh? 20 twenty-five with your parents.
Here we go.
Say what it's like outside.
That movie is just leaning.
The final limited into the inlet
for Beaufort only to get nailed by 20 knots
of wind on the nose and a 2.3, not tied against us.
So we're just crawling.
We're doing like 3.4, 3.5 knots over the ground.
Look at the state.
Can't catch any breaks today.
- Sort of feeding that, you know, we see all 220 miles
and we're a mile away from their Anchorage.
And here we are.
We look like a Michael Jackson doing the moonwalk.
- We'll get there.
We'll get there three minutes, probably another
probably another four hours
at this speed.
- I declare that as successful rounding of Cape.
- Oh my God.
I'm so relieved.
- Ooh, it's cold.
- We set. I been dreading that passage.
- Me Too!
It's pretty good though.
- Ryan is up there.
Swabbing it
- Here we are, high five baby.
- High five.
- How do you feel about that passage,
was it okay.
- Yeah, it was a great one, I mean, I think the weather,
whether it looked like it was going to be good
it behaved well only problem is, is current
this last five, 10 miles.
So, but other than that, yeah, it was great.
We said three o'clock and it's, you know, three
three 30 it's three 30.
- Oh wow.
- So we nailed it.
- - I am so happy that it's over in a way.
I was really dreading going around the cave
and the boys did an amazing job.
And Sierra was actually really good too.
It was hard for her today because she couldn't really
walk around or anything.
It was very about the, but we made it and yeah.
Oh, geez.
Very happy about that.
Are you have to work here.
- Up next.
After a short rest in Beaufort
we take advantage of fair conditions
and set sail for Charleston, South Carolina
and checking the forecast pretty regularly to see
if anything lines up and they still don't agree.
- I eat way too much fried chicken at sea.
- What do you call this?
Right?
- (Poppy's) a hush puppy.
- A hush puppy.
That's fantastic.
And we get nailed by another big loan this time
whether to a dock
that's the Fender's rubbing on the dock.
The wind's blowing so crazy.
The boat just makes this incredible noise
rub it up against the dock.
Cause it's kind of on our beam.
- Hey, could we get you to do one more close flyby
if possible on your way back.
We had a little snafu with our big camera
over.
- Hey, thank you, cam.
- All right.
Now give me this camera.
- Take Ryan off a suicide.
Watch helicopter flew by and he snafu the shot.
- I'd and I totally had every intention
of making sure I hit the record button
but I guess I didn't
and yes, we had a black Hawk, 50 feet
off the mass and unfortunately I didn't catch any of it.
- What happened.
- She press this stress button on the radio yesterday,
come on, don't get stuck in a hole.