NEAR GALE Sailing Conditions! Our ROUGHEST PASSAGE Yet Sailing Marquesas to Tuamotus
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NEAR GALE Sailing Conditions! Our ROUGHEST PASSAGE Yet Sailing Marquesas to Tuamotus
We’re sailing 400 miles to the Tuamotus, a group of coral atolls in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, to experience the incredible marine life, unspoiled beauty and off-grid lifestyle. Circumnavigators have stated this was the worst passage of their entire world voyage and unfortunately this trip turns out to top our worst journey list as well. Winds gusting to 37 knots, sustained at 27 for over 12 hours with 10-12 foot seas. Plus we need to perfectly time our arrival after a 3 day passage to enter the atoll at low, slack tide to avoid 9 foot standing waves and a 5 knot current against us. Join us for the adventure we didn’t see coming.
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TIMECODES
00:00-09:47 Provisioning + Preparation for Off-Grid Life
09:48-15:05 Sailing Nuku Hiva to Ua Pou
15:06-23:14 The calm before the chaos
23:15-28:07 Our roughest time at sea
28:08-31:54 Navigating the Raroia pass
![From SQUALLS to SERENITY: Sailing Upwind to Marquesas [Part 2]](/img/n.gif)
Fantastic sail and episode guys!!! If you every get your camera gear wet, wipe it off and quickly throw it into a plastic container of rice asap! for 12 hours. I would always hand steer in rough waters if at all possible, I know it can be tiring but the weather helm from the rudders can really put a huge load on the steering ram/s and associated gear over long hours of rough weather. This will accelerate wear and tear on those systems bringing breakage etc. all the more sooner. As you may know, it's not always the big expensive items that suffer (although it's bad when they do), but sometimes it can be just the smallest of things that can sideline things and cause huge disruption to your ability to steer; raise or drop sails; monitor wind and weather, etc. This is why helm choice is also critical. As you would be well aware, because of your previous sailing legs from Panama, etc., it is so important to have a protected helm and to look after your systems as much as possible. Fair 💨'sand following 🌊's. 🙏
Thanks so much! We’re glad you enjoyed the video. Great tip about the camera gear. We’ll keep that in mind but hopefully it will stay dry. We agree it’s best to hand steer in rough weather. To your point, the equipment really takes a beating. Thanks for watching!
You guys are animals! Nice job on the reefing. I felt so bad for you on such a long passage with rough weather. You guys really need a third crew member to make cruising easier and less stressful. Otto is a very trusted friend of mine and would be available to you for your long passages. We had Otto on board crossing the 100 miles from Key West to Marco with 25 knot winds on our beam. Otto navigated our 41 foot monohull like it was on rails. With such a nice vessel you guys should really consider taking Otto on board with you. Once on board Otto is really cheap. He doesn’t use up your fresh water and eats little to nothing. PM me and I will hook you up with Mr Otto Pilot. 😂🤣😂
😂😂😂😆 finally Otto is on board and we put him to work! What a relief to have a crew member! Thanks for watching! 😊😊
Professional filming, interesting edit and story lines makes for a good overview of the sailing life.
Thank you Thomas, we really appreciate your comment and feedback! 😊😊
You're welcome@@HarborsUnknown
Thanks heaps for the video.
You guys hands down make the most interesting and honest videos on CZcams
Thank you John!! This comment is really appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to watch our videos.
Thank U 4 sharing your passage with us! It was quite the experience. Safe travels ❤
Thank you for watching!! 😊😊
Great video. Play by play. Wave heights never come out on video. Keep it up.
Thank you for watching and for your comment! It’s nearly impossible to document wave height 😳
Good to see you made it! Another step forward on the adventure!! Well done, can't wait to see this new amazing place. See you on the next video! Fair winds!
Thank you Jose, your comments are alway appreciated! 😊😊
that timelapse was super cool! ... it's taken me 3 days watch get to that point in the video... finally the weekend and some time... I hope y'all are doing well... I plan to go with seawind... however our timeline isn't for quite awhile before we have early retirement. I can't wait to see the tough sailing later in the video... those kinds of things really speaks to me because I'm eyeing a different (smaller) seawind cat and although our initial years will be coastal and Caribbean we want to circumnavigate... it's important to see details on a boat and a company that can push blue water... I want to be able to go to iceland, and down south where y'all were, maybe even cape horn. really push those latitudes... no ty on the south ocean and the arctic however lol.
That’s fantastic!! Thank you for taking the time to watch our videos!! Good luck on your plans, Seawind makes great seaworthy vessels! 😊😊you will love it!
Terrific episode, very good sailing! I was watching in anticipation the whole time. Great job taking in that 3rd reef, didn’t realize the 3rd reef was slab reefing setup
Thanks for watching! We changed the third reef to a slab reefing trying to minimize the length of line we had to wrangle. With a single line reef on third, every time we took a reef we had a length of rope hanging from the end of the boom. 😊😊
I have enjoyed your videos from the day that I had discovered them
Thank you so much!! We really appreciate it!😊😊
wow fantastico sonho💯💜
😊😊😊obrigado por assistir nosso vídeo e pelo seu comentário
Excellent video! You guys are amazing! Stay safe
Thank you Mom!😍
Good video. Good sailing clips. Third reef (always seems to happen in the middle of the night.) Heaving to on the 1260 was difficult (self tacking jib), but we could get turned completely around and not even be aware. Usually to get back into the wind we had to turn on an engine. On my monohull, I can heave to and then just turn the rudder and wait a few minutes and the boat will turn around and get back into the wind so I can get back on course. (It's easy. I did it the first time I tried.) Just the difference between cats and monohulls. (I don't do ten knots)
On point!! Coming from a monohull and a trimaran I share your feelings!!
With the self tacking jib we used a barber haul to bring the windward sheet hard to windward and it seemed to work well. Third reef on main and we moved downwind (rather than the expected upwind) but I liked that because the reefs were upwind about 8nm and I wanted to sleep 😂😂
When I came on board Kiskadee with my carabiners., everyone asked, "What are those for?" Later I asked, "What's a Barber Hauler?" Somehow I'd looked that up and didn't find a clear enough answer. These two worked worked well together. For the main we tied an alpine butterfly in the middle of a rope, carabiner'd it to the main. Same with the jib. We liked our barber haulers. We also learned (painfully) to always pin those end blocks on the self furling track. @@HarborsUnknown
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There is a trick that is used when the wind exceeds the range of a sail, and that is to partially cover it with another smaller sail. If you put the jib on at the same time as the screecher, the jib will take a good part of the pressure off the screecher, and you will also increase the total surface area of your sails, increasing speed without risking damage to the screecher.
Thank you Jose! We have used the jib to blanket the screecher in the past, mostly to furl it when there was too much pressure on it, never to keep sailing with increased apparent wind. Something new to try! Thank you!
@@HarborsUnknown Look at this video, full main, jib and gennaker at maximum speed with strong wind, I think it must be blowing far more than 30 knots due to the state of the sea. czcams.com/video/Ann4_5KTc68/video.html
Looks like you both handled that significant weather really well. I'm sure hand steering that long had to be really exhausting!
It was very tiring. It made us appreciate our autopilot that much more!
Just discovered your channel. Been following SV Delos for years. Glad to subscribe here, also.
Thank you so much!! Welcome on board!!😊😊
Wow what a ride. Great job guys.
Thanks so much!
Fantastic, great sailing 8 knots in 13 knots! Must be nice having such a shallow draft going through shallow passages. The 1600 is such a great yacht (except perhaps the autopilot?).
😂😂😂😂 she is a great boat! The autopilot on the other hand 😳. It was undersized to the vessel performance, even though it is correct for the weight the amount of pressure on the long rudders was too much. We now have a T3 (which has not caught up in the videos) and so far it’s working like a charm. What a difference it makes to have a functioning autopilot 😊😊
Thanks for watching!
Beautiful recording, thanks for sharing...Love the mountains, the views are majestic!!! Prayers for your passage.🙏
Thank you Sofiya!! We love your comments😊😊😊
I admire you guys so much!
Thank you so much!! We appreciate your comment😊😊😊
Fabulous episode guys ‼️ And very well curated 🎉🎉🎉 Love your boat's heels. They look very comfy. See you next time.✨ 🌊 💨 ⛵️ 🏝️ 👙 🌞 ✨
Thanks so much! We're glad you enjoyed the episode. Wanderlust is very comfortable even in rough conditions. 😊 Thanks for watching!
What a big difficulty you overcame !!! You guys really got used to it !
I was relived until the middle of video but it was exactly rough conditions but you guys were managed well at finale !
God is always watching your guys diligence. Never let your sony camera broken!
😊😊 thank you Hiro! Your comments are always welcome!
Eccellente! Grandi!
Grazie!! 😊😊😊😊
Groovy video
😊thank you !!😊😊
A belated happy birthday K, I saw F's wonderful and beautiful poem on Fb post. Rooting for you guy's.
Thank you Mark! I was very touched by Fabio's heartfelt words.
@@HarborsUnknown It was heartfelt and powerful and I can only hope that you are both on an upward trajectory.
😊😊 thank you! Always!
@@HarborsUnknown I truly hope that it was heartfelt and not something for FB.
Your relationship has been truly tested beyond normal boundaries, and that is sailing. A truly fresh unique take on the world.
Not for everyone and certainly challenging. Only you know what is correct...
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Tuamotus is the head of a dragon as seen in the intro and google earth.
I’ve not heard it referred to as that. Thanks for the interesting factoid!
9' standing waves never hurt anybody, quit your whining! ;o) Looks like a great trip! And you can't complain about the wind when Fabio specifically said beforehand, "Hopefully it'll be like this, maybe a little more wind." :o)
😂😂😂 the boat handled like a charm, the crew was weak 😂😂. Thanks for watching
You're not weak if you're still doing all that hand steering! Has a T3 given out on you yet, or just being extra careful?
Lift your solar panel up by 10 to 20 mm so that you have more cooling underneath. Solar panels flat they get too hot and stop working. As for your engine control, can you make a cover over them when you are not using them???
Yes on the covers for the VC10 controls!!!
Thank you for the tips on the solar panels.
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Great video- thanks! I don’t know if this is feasible on your boat, but can you tie a knot in the topping lift so it can never get too low and hit the coachroof (this assumes the knot would not fit through a jammer before going to the winch)?
Thank you for watching and thank you for your insightful suggestion!! It is a great idea and difficult to implement on our boat. On the SW 1600 the topping lift comes down inside the mast and in a conduit in the nacelle. When exiting there are 2 separate turning block only a couple of feet apart before going through a hole in the floor of the cockpit. When exiting the hole there is a jammer about 8 inches away and then the main central which less than a foot away. Putting a knot in between any of these stopping points would be rather difficult and prone to getting stuck areas that are hard to access.
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Who needs to catch tuna when you can buy it for $4 a pound. 👍
Yes!! And we would like to be better at catching not just trailing fishing lines😂😂
So you've been handsteering because the steering still needs to be refit by seawind, correct? What is the ETA of that? Do you plan to sail to Thailand for that refit? Maybe you mentioned that at a previous point.
😊our videos are about 3 - 4 months behind. We now have a new T3 RAM (which was in back order) and it’s working like a charm. The refit has not happened yet (Seawind is ready for it) but we have not found a place to haul out). We are planning to sail to Thailand after Australia and Indonesia, so it will be at least a couple of years from now. Are you in Thailand?
@@HarborsUnknown negative ghostrider. I just knew seawind is based in Thailand
The factory in is Vietnam (and they just opened a new one in Turkey) Thailand is where boats commissioned in Vietnam are delivered (as opposed to the ones like Wanderlust which was commissioned in the USA)
We are looking forward to going to Thailand. Thanks for your comment and for watching out videos!
22:00 incredibly complicated reefing setup. is it just this boat ?
It is a single line reefing set up for 1 and 2 and slab feeding for 3rd.
Bring sail to center (optional) but easier to handle for us, tighten topping lift, drop main halyard to mark, reef Into desired reef, retighten the halyard and re trim the sheets. For third reef (slab) we have to go to the mast to hook the luff. Do you have a different technique? Thanks for watching
Do you have to turn upwind when you want to bring your screecher in and out?
No, to furl the screecher you need to go downwind and decrease apparent wind. It’s a powerful sail, sometimes we need to unfurl the jib to canvas it and start the engine to further decrease the apparent wind! Thank you for asking and for watching!! Your comments are appreciated 🙂🙂🙂
You can never capture the size of the waves on a camera.
You are absolutely correct!! Thanks for watching and for your comment 😊😊