Rain Storm at Sea | Solo Sailing | Antigua to Bermuda
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2023
- This episode, sailing the awesome Formula 40 Trimaran 'Spirit', I pass through a series of squalls, rain storms & areas of lightning as I close in on the Atlantic island of Bermuda.
Things are going well. I'm safely 700Nm out from our departure point in Antigua, but with on-going solar charging issues the prolonged overcast weather could prove a major problem.
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Thanks for sharing your huge knowledge! I have been leisure sailing for 40+ years but every video from you is like adding 10 years extra of knowledge, thank you Mariner!
Cheers for the tips an tricks of the trade⛵️🪢🇬🇧
My Pleasure!
Good to have you back.
Good to be back!
Love it. Good laugh and also bloody good advice.
Very happy to share all that I have been lucky enough to learn so far!
Great explanation and value in your lightening talk. All electricity wants to do is go to ground. Don't be the best source of it.
Thank you for the wonderful video. I listen to your podcasts. You have such a fabulous personality and obvious love of sailing. Fair Winds.
Hi Chris, I second these sentiments, and thoroughly enjoy your humor, wast experience and humble outlook. Thanks for taking us along on this amazing tri. Fair Winds 😋
Great video … „buffering“ 😂😂😂
Nice one.. such a comfortable liveaboard cruiser...
Yes indeed!
Great video's with an unique perspective on sailing. Keep it up!
I watch a family doin there dream sailin, an in the rain, mum would grab all the dirty washin up, put it vertically in a old dishwasher tray she’d bought with her.
This was then tied to the boat an put the lot on the back step an let the rain do the washin up.😂😂😂
Stinky clothes were hung on the boom to wash overnight too.
It all worked too.
Many thanks, always wondered about lighting at sea, but more over great to see what life on board is like. I'll be updating my underpants strategy.......clearly!
You should always make sure your underpant game is en pointe before departure!
Ummm, holy shite, you've got some serious experience under your belt, eh... I'm all signed up. Waiting to win the lottery, and buy a Neel 51. I know, I know, but a guy can dream...
As always, some good nuggets of knowledge. Looks like some Ronstan constrictor jammers on the boat. How were they? Used for reef lines?
7:28 Put bi-carb soda in the tanks, about 1 tablespoon per 20L or 5 gallons every top-up. Clean the tank first obviously.
Buffering.... 😂😂😂😂
Very interesting videos thank you
One point I was trying to understand your timing of the lightning being at 5miles per second
I wonder where this info came from because I’ve a couple of very sound sources that state it’s 1sec a mile and I was personally taught to count 1000
2000 3000 4000 ect
Fare winds
I always want to be corrected if I am wrong on something so thank you for taking the time to write a comment!
I learned this as part of being a bosun's mate on tall ships way back at the start of my career. It being prudent of course, to know the proximity of lightning when faced with the daily task of scaling 100' masts!
Of course time corrodes the circuits and its easy to fall into a mistake, but I did a google search 'How to calculate the distance to lightning'- and the results were pretty straight to the point.
4 seconds per km, 5 per mile, 6 per Nm.
Not sure where the confusion slipped in. 18 count as per the video = 3 Nm.
Hope that helps!
Every days a school day !
Definitely a lot of UK Sailors I spoke with this week were in the same boat with my knowledge about lightning ⚡️
thank you for the detailed reply I stand corrected
Where are you based