welcome back to sailing joy and on today's video we're very very glad that we didn't go today to
ibiza and i went to put the vhf radio back over there in the cradle and for some reason
i pressed the distress button so don't forget to leave us some love in the form of a like
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and we're very very glad that we didn't go today to ibiza and we stayed here one extra night here
in cartagena because it's almost 30 knots here in the marina and uh this marina is very good
because i mean you can come and stay here and have a lot of wind and the boat doesn't even
move not a bit has lowered a little bit but look we still have uh yeah almost 30 27
25 goes uh up and down and we're planning to go to ibiza tomorrow so we're gonna leave
uh probably around nine o'clock and it's gonna be the first time that just me and patricia
we go on a uh night sale so she's excited she's a little bit uh anxious about it
it's gonna be all good but the weather promises to be good for the next uh 24
to 48 hours that's more or less what's going to take us to get there i think it's about 30 hours
from cartagena to ibiza so it's going to be good but uh and tonight we're just going to
eat something sleep early so we can be full of energy tomorrow whenever we depart towards ibiza
we felt so good here uh that we decided to stay more and besides that the wind is against us so
not even if we wanted we could continue our trip uh towards ibiza
and we had a lot of friends that decided to spend the winter time here in cartagena this
is the first time that we were here and the first time that we're gonna be in valencia so we had to
make a decision before the winter to choose a marina for us to spend the winter time and we
chose valencia instead of cartagena and so far we really liked cartagena we really hope we have
not made a mistake by choosing valencia but uh from everything that we have been
seeing valencia seems to be pretty cool as well so we're looking forward to see
and spend some time in valencia as well but for now we're gonna enjoy here cartagena
so
and we're leaving captain we were supposed to be here maybe like for two three nights and we end up
uh for six nights that's pretty good uh we really liked the city the only thing is the
marina is a little bit expensive actually a little bit more expensive than we were paying
over there on the other side of the atlantic we paid overall 510 euros for six nights so
that means a little bit more expensive but it was good we liked the marina it was very safe
was secure and uh we liked the services and the way it was uh located so we got winds up to 30
knots here on the marina but the but joy didn't even uh uh shake a bit so it was very very good so
now we're heading to uh ibiza so it's gonna be our first night sale together as a couple patricia's
super excited right right and we're leaving with a very good uh weather forecast for the next
uh 30 hours so we're excited i think it's going to be good we're going to raise the main saving
a little bit just getting out of the port and it's all good so we're gonna enjoy the sail today
oh
giving all my heart to
faraway
so this is not that bad uh we have only six knots of true wind and uh we're sailing at five
and a half so we have this gennaker up which is 140 meters and uh it has been pretty good to us
because uh the angle that uh being using it was it is all the way from 50 to 160 degrees it's uh
it's pretty good but i have ordered a code zero and a code zero is gonna be a little bit more
it's actually gonna be better for this type of angle that we're selling right now but it
is what we have so i put it up and uh it's better than motoring so we're moving along at five and a
half knots and today we're breaking all types of records uh we fished our actually we caught our
first tuna it was mini but uh yeah it was fine we felt sorry for it so we threw it away actually got
to and now we're gonna pass the first sailboat in the history of joy we're always being passed
so actually we sail very slow so it is the day of records here at joy
is
and in about two hours it's gonna be night uh we are sailing at eight to nine knots
uh of speed with only ten and a half knots of true wind and apparent wind so it's pretty
good has been a pretty good sail today uh not a whole lot of waves actually no waves whatsoever
we have our tennicare up our main sail and we're truly enjoying the sail today
and whenever you're sailing at a nine knots
it's almost like you're like in a motor yacht because you can see the water going by so fast
it's awesome whenever you go faster than six knots so we're really enjoying the day
couldn't be better than that for our first uh night sale alone just me and patricia
so we're having a good time it's a good sale good conditions and tomorrow morning it will be
so
and i went to put the vhf radio back over there in the cradle and for some reason i pressed the
distress button oh my so i had the coast guard calling us uh requesting all types of information
about our distress which was a mistake so i told them that uh it was a false distress
they were very understanding that was very good because that way we were able to actually test
the radio so they um you know they were very responsive i think uh
less than a minute after the stress signal went out they called it
and that's how our night shift started weather forecasting was showing a smooth
sail all the way to ibiza but things changed and at 1 am the wind died out
and the wind turned against us so we had to turn the engines on
oh
and it looks like this next week's gonna be a tense one here in ibiza i don't know if you guys
uh saw this video but uh about two three years ago i guess whenever we had the lagoon 42 i was here
in ibiza and i got caught in a huge thunderstorm electric storm it was a very very tense moment for
me i'll tell you i had no visibility whatsoever it was so much rain that the water would come
inside of my jacket down i felt like i was if you want to watch this video now just click here
i'll see you guys next week as we deal with the good bad and ugly here in ibiza
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