Alright guys welcome back to the channel. It's been a while I know. Since January
in fact I think I've only posted two videos which is not great
Lots happened since since then as you're all aware a lot of stuff going on
in the world right now seems a bit inappropriate to be making videos about
hey look at this Yacht and look how big it is but at the same time since I have
left the boat which I'll go back into in a minute and I found myself watching
videos on YouTube of things that are not concerned with this virus that's going
around so I figured maybe it's maybe it's a good idea for everyone to make
videos and to try and keep on subject even though this video is kind of gonna
be about how it's affecting the yachting industry from my perspective at least
okay first I want to just say thanks for everyone who's asked about how I am and
if I'm okay and everything yes I'm fine I'm here in Peru now I left the boat in
the Caribbean and I came down to see my lovely girlfriend so I came down here a
few days ago four days ago getting here in itself was a bit of a
drama it was a kind of race against the clock because as the days were ticking
down for the end of my rotation the news was getting progressively worse on the
situation and and countries were starting to lock down you know Airport
Airport except tray the u.s. implemented a freeze on flights coming in from
Europe and I was flying from the island in the Caribbean to to Miami
that was my I had a connection there an overnight in Miami and then I was flying
down to Lima. I was worried the whole time that I was not gonna make it was
gonna get stuck in Miami so it was a race against the clock fortunately I
made it I was on actually on the last flight out of
to Peru which was a quite something well we got down to Lima we were told that we
had to stay in our seats and then the agents would come on board and they
would give us forms to fill out and they came in took us off in small groups off
the plane and as we walked out of the out of the door there were medical
people dressed head-to-toe like they were going into an operating
theatre taking our temperatures asking us if we were okay we had a
cough will be short of breath all that kind of stuff so luckily my temperature
was fine and we eventually went through packed airport absolutely packed it was
I don't know how many planes landed at the same time but there were people
everywhere as you do I took up my phone and filmed a little bit of it. The day
after I got here there was a lockdown a quarantine for 14 days mandatory by the
government I think that's a good thing you know you have to you have to get
tough on this to deal with it you know so anyway that's the status now so I'm
in quarantine for 14 days in my partner's house you know good things
could be worse I just been locked on our boat for too long so it's it's not that
much difference so I got everything I need internet TV you know going back to
the to the boat I had a very busy rotation we did transatlantic crossing
like I mentioned in another video so we I didn't have an awful lot of time to
film and then have a lot of content to film I made a video in Trinidad of Aviva
and that was about it really and with everything that was kicking off in
actual fact the islands has this got worse the islands were actually stopping
ships from coming in from cruise ships got turned away Italian cruise ship got
turned away who wouldn't let anybody off and in actual fact when I heard that
some of the boats some of the yachts they had problems with if they had any
Italian crew there are problems being able to
clear like you whenever you go into an island it's just like you fly into the
island the whole boat has to clear they have the purser has to do a lot of
paper work they have to present all passports we don't generally have to go
anywhere with our passports they just present the passports some islands you
have to you have to come on board and and you have to go in with your passport
but most most of the places don't do that. One that one of the places we went
to it took us 10 hours to clear so it normally takes maybe an hour two hours
but when I when I was leaving the island I was leaving they put out a notice
saying that they were willing to stop all flights in and out from the 17 to
march that's happened now obviously and yeah so I was lucky I was lucky was
lucky to get out of that from the island I was lucky to get in to Miami and I was
lucky to get out of Miami and into Peru, like I said in a race against time
it definitely was
I've heard stories of boats being stranded though I heard stories of boats being
able to dock in Gibraltar but not being able to get cleared so they were able to
go in and get fuel but they weren't able to get clean and no crew could go ashore
Norman I had a story of one boat being stranded in Chile because they can't get
out they can't leave and that's gonna be the case with a lot of places now you
know you just whatever you happen to be they're not gonna clear you to leave or
if you do leave you might not get into the next place you go which is obviously
a problem you get low on fuel very quickly you get low on food so yeah so
you've got a kind of a lot of the boats or most of the boats now I would imagine
I just staying where they are and sitting it out
yeah it's a good place to be to be honest if you're on a boat because you
kind of in a bubble. This whole thing started after I went on the boat I was
actually in Italy if you're a regular viewer you might have seen I did some
videos in Italy before we left. So we left beginning of January
before this office all kicked off and as we crossed over the Atlantic and as we
got over into the Caribbean we can have been a bubble and my girlfriend was
texting me and telling me that this was going on and I was like oh yeah
never thought much of it and he got worse and worse and then it started you
know we're in a bubble on there you know and we'll just focused on our job
of course we read the news nut but we're all we all joined at the same time more
or less we all traveled out together there was no crew changeover so there
was no possibility of any infection coming onto the boat the only contact we
had with the outside world is basically in these ports where we were getting
fuel or we're getting food that all comes on it's all it's all comes on in
boxes and stuff and it's all unpacked and cleaned and everything very solid
disinfectant regime. So we all feel pretty safe and then you leave the
boat like I did and then you come into the world and say wow it's quite a shock
boats are basically stopping wherever they happen to be I also got an email
from one of the crew agencies and they were basically asking all of the people
who are registered to to update the location because they were saying that
with the way things have gone if any boats need crew because they can't fly
them in or out they might need to bring on crew temporarily on a temporary basis
you know they might need an engineer or something and then because they can't
fly them from anywhere in the world they might you might be in that location
where they need somebody so they're asking you to update your locations so
that's kind of the messages I'm getting from crew agencies right now. So that
pretty much brings me up to date What I'd like to do is I'm gonna
do I'm gonna do a few videos I'm gonna do another question answers pretty soon
I've been going through all the questions from the last Q&A
the one that was the girlfriend contracts. That was very popular Q&A
it has over 600,000 views now so there's a lot of questions in there so
I'm gonna do that if you've got any questions if you're watching this video
now you've got any questions that you don't have to go back to that video put
your questions in here and I will I will do one in a couple of days hopefully if
you've got any specific questions about what's happening and how it affects the
boats and stuff like that put that below also if I get enough for those questions
maybe maybe I'll do a separate video on that but you know anyway we'll see if
it's if that's something that people are interested in but I'm definitely going
to do another Q&A it's going to be a generic Q&A based on the regular
questions not the end of the world questions like I said at the beginning
thanks again for all our comments on asking how I am I'm fine now on leave
and quarantined yay so I've gone from two months quarantined on a boat to to
two weeks at least two weeks quarantined in
in my girlfriend's house in Peru. Police had just come outside you might have had
that then police are going around with the blue lights on with a loudspeaker
telling everybody to stay inside not to go outside if you go outside
without the proper paperwork you can be arrested and taken away there's also a
curfew by the way I forgot to mention there's also a curfew from so I think
it's from 8 p.m. until 5 a.m. nobody's allowed though nobody except
the police obviously and the military they're all as well so yeah the pretty
lockdown this place pretty good anyway I'm gonna leave it there and thanks
Deborah everyone for watching if you're still watching well done get your
questions in below I will try and get another video out in a few days
alright guys thanks for watching