Ep 37 Sailing Solo France to Iceland Exit fm France
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- I start my trip to Iceland by sailing up the West coast of France; I make an awkward arrival at a port due to tidal current; I manage to change a speed log without sinking the boat; and I divert from planned destination due to high winds and lee shore in the anchorage.
Great to see you back on the water!! Fair Winds!
Run both of your headsails, the venturi effect between the two sails will give you some extra drive, really makes a difference on a long passage.
Not sure I would want to put the power of 2 head sails on a backstay designed for 1 headsail.
I enjoy being one of you phantom shipmates, Patrick. Thank you for bringing us along on your journeys. I will hoist an IPA to your health this evening.
I take it on the through hull you have one of the newer non-return flaps that slow the pace of water down, nowhere near as bad as having a fountain...
By far my favorite sailing channel on youtube! A great inspiration.
We love watching your videos Patrick, We are chewing at the bit waiting for the holidays to come so we can get out there ourselves.
Haven't even watched it yet (playing now), and already know it's going to be great! Thanks for the new video Patrick!
Patrick great to have you back. I was worried you might have been caught in “one of the deepest North Atlantic lows in March for 25 years” that the UK Met Office wrote about on Saturday 23rd March. Stay safe.
both head sails trimmed is the way to go. Check out this storm sail... www.sailboat-cruising.com/storm-sails.html
I have a storm jib, thanks. :-)
Great to see you back on the water Patrick. Have fun... and if you choose to go home by going around the other side of the UK besure to pop into the Medway. It would be great to shake your hand and buy you dinner
With great pleasure my friend, but think I'll be calling in on Wales ont he way home this time. I used to live in Cardiff. Fair winds.
And always remember... Guin-less isn't good for you.
Looking forward to following your 2019 adventure.
"Always a scary moment" no s**t! I'm surprised how little water gushed in though, given the pressure...
Enjoy your time Patrick!, thanks for sharing.
Thank you Patrick. Another great one ;-)
Didnt see anyone mention it, so I have to admit,- I took the song quote. Fair winds ,,,,,,,,,,,,,/),,,,,,,,,,,
Patrick I love your videos. You have a sort of poetic way of being informative. My only wish is that you made more of them
Far too kind Joe. :-)
I have just installed a solent stay, just like yours. Except that it's removable from the deck fitting. If I need it to tack in high winds, i roll up the genoa, deploy the stay and set a staysail on hooks (if that's the right term). I also have a storm jib for the solent stay.
I enjoy you videos very much. Happy sailing to Iceland!
A question about that as I'm looking to buy a boat that has this solent removable stay: can you have a furling sail as Patrick on such a stay? Or do you have to clip the sail Everytime you need it?
@@RayUbik I would say yes, you can. But you would need a smart way to stow it against a shroud when not using it.
Oh so you think you will be drinking stout in Scotland for sure do you? I wouldn't temp Neptune like that ... fair winds Patrick, great to see you out here again.
Many thanks Kevin. I'm in Ireland now. Will lift a Murphy's in your honor.
@@patricklaine6958 Good to hear, enjoy the stout..
Thank you Patrick for sharing this adventure I'm looking forward to it.
By the sound of it you will be sailing past my place wed/Thursday of this week. I'll give you a wave as long as you are within 20 miles of the coast :)
Hi Patrick, thank you for the movie.
I crossed the raz de Sein yesterday on a leg from Camaret to Viveiro and had similar weather. Calm, sunny and cold.
Safe journey!
Rgds Berend
s/v Oqre
We crossed then Berend.....but how can you be in Viveiro already? Say hello to the marina staff there. Love them.
@@patricklaine6958 I arrived this morning early in Viviero and it feels like I left Camaret yesterday. It was 3 days ago. I will say hi to Fernando
Bonjour, bravo pour toute vos très belles vidéos. Je suis basé à Bourgenay, a côté des Sables d'Olonne. Bon vent a vous a bientôt sur TH-cam.
Having just seen a cruise ship almost wreck on the coast of Norway I wonder what kind of weather you expect to encounter in April on your way to Iceland?
My 34 foot boat has such a tiny staysail I don't think it would be effective in less than 20-25 knots.
I dont think Patrick is going out in that kind of weather.
It was a day where another Norwegian cruise ship (Hurtigruten) delayed the departure 24h.
Its a known aera whith shallow wather. And a cruise ship whith total engien failure is a sitting duck.
Chapman's Book of Sailing would be the Glenan equivalent and is probably much older!
I have read both. The Glenan I actually read in 1988-89 when I bought my first little sailboat, a Tanzer 21!
The Chapman I borrowed from the library just a few months ago....always hoping to find my way on another boat!
Surprisingly or not....not much has changed since if only the electronic and newer solar & wind energy systems.
You are always fun to watch in any case....Well done videos!
If ever you so decide to sail this side of the Pond...let me know I will pilot you around our magnificent St Laurent, Saguenay and of course La Baie des Chaleurs!
Cheers
et...Bon vent!
Thanks André. I haven't heard of Chapman's book. I'll certainly check out Amazon. Much appreciated.
Great to hear from you again Patrick, and welcome to Ireland!
Using both Genoa and stY sail you will be sailing a cutter rig which I think is very effective aerodynamically....better sailing into the wind....I'm not as expert as you...for sure....but it's my two cents worth.
Well yes Angelo, but as my two sails are connected to the mast at nearly the same point, I'm sure the air flow through the slot is very disturbed as the sails grow closer. That is the advantage of the cutter --- the two sails remain parallel and relatively distant form each other. I'm going to do some testing on this topic, but probably not while am in the North Atlantic.
Love it. Thanks for the Glenans book info - that's the kind of detail one doesn't pick up on many sites, and very interesting to see other countries' classic manuals - a different perspective, and perhaps a good way to develop French maritime vocabulary. Great videos, Patrick, I'm binging them all in UK lockdown...
Much appreciated KA. Let's hope this virus nightmare ends soon so we can all cast off lines again.
Good morning Patrick, Thanks for the new videos. Are you going to stop in Kinsale? If so I can point out a nice watering hole up in Scilly called The Spaniard. And a restaurant called "Man Friday'. (Next to each other). It is a while since I was there, but worth trying. Keep well and kind regards. David.
Thanks David. My initial pan was to go to Kinsale --- but I let the wind decide --- and it has taken me to Dingle instead (where I am now). Maybe on the way home. :-)
Great video Patrick, fair winds⛵️👍
Fun video! Murphy’s.......not the Guinness! Will be following your passage, always enjoy the dialogue and learning opportunity! Thanks! Andrew
I'll have a Murphy's in your honour tonight. :-)
Well done, Congratulations!
Hi Patrick,
Knowing that you ARE fond of company when occasionally ashore, let us know if you are coming through Dun Laoghaire or Greystones when passing through Ireland on your way up to or back down from Iceland. Would love to buy you a pint or two of the black stuff.
Perhaps on the way home inniu!
Hi Patrick, this trip must have been very exciting for you. The preparation, a new “toy” and right weather slot. Aqueous to try and see if all the work and expectations come true. But there you go! And seeing your video you must have survived and have found a lost moment to edit and upload the video somewhere, still unknown to us.
Happy to see you did! And share your thoughts and moments with us in a way that has become, amongst 9 million:) other video’s a typical honest Partick Lane-isch sailtime video! Thanks. And about the marina landing... very smooth and with a nice feelable touchdown! Perfect in my thought.
Very kind Luc. Not one of my better dockings, but I didn't have to swim away from it. :-)
Hi Patrick, I’m a firm advocate of cutter rig. Would be surprised if a combo of the Solent and a part-rolled Genoa didn’t give you real advantage. Worth a play to find the best slots, adjust with the main - two slots can be better than one. Best wind angles will be relative 80 to 50; in apparent winds between 18 and 25 knots. It’s how I sailed north up the Atlantic from the equator one year. The NE trade winds are so steady. Love the beat or a close fetch with a cutter rig. Sail on, sail well ... 🤙
I get it Roy. I didn't want to mess with running backstays, so went with the Solent. (May not have been my best decision.) I'm going to ask my rigger (Selden) if I can try using a partially furled genny and the Solent at the same time (without overstressing the rig). I have already run dead downwind (wing on wing) with the Solent and genny out (short video clip in my next video), but am nervous about overstressing if I try to use them both heading upwind.
Hey Patrick, the new stay sail looked gorgeous at the end of the video. Thanks a lot for sharing, always a pleasure.
Hope you don’t mind but was quite excited by following your adventures so I took a peek at the FindShip app and there she was, Isabelle docked in Iceland! 👌🏽
Yeah -- I use Marine Traffic to follow friends. It works as long as they are close to shore.
That would seem to be an easy decision to make. Have a Guinness or not. Humm. Have a great trip to Iceland. And don't hit any icebergs, promise! I do like the new stay sail and furling jig. It should improve the boats overall speed. I assume you used a SS wire for it.
Yes --- SS on the inner stay. The sail came in very handy when I got beat-up by Icelandic winds of 25-30 kts almost every day. I was very glad I made the investment.
Great stuff Patrick, splendid to see you back!
Just wondering what weather prediction aid you ended up with. It looks like predict wind am guessing that's come out on top above 4D?. Just about to renew subscription but 4D want to quadruple price should I be looking atyour choice
I am using Predict Wind Offshore for long passages Martinij, and Meteo Consult Marine for on-shore passages. I have looked at a couple of other systems, but could never justify the time it would take to learn the new systems, when I am fairly content with PW...….. I am sure the others are excellent, but there is an intellectual 'cost' of switching.
Patrick, Nice video. The question on how to tack a large genoa on a cutter. In the masthead raceboats, we would tack a 150% Genoa using this process. Take a snap block just aft of the forestay, the more closer it is to the forestay the better. Take a line from the large Genoa clew eye, outside the shrouds, then through the snap block, then back to the cockpit. When you tack/Gybe, you let the loaded sheet, as the boat turns, haul on this new line. This will pull the clew forward so that it will get forward of the staysail for the tack. Then as the genoa tacks/gybes you release this additional line ( I cant recall the name of this line in my old age), and haul on the new lee sheet. And it works. Unsure how this would work with a single handed, but I am sure you will work it out. Fair winds. Jonathan
I love this idea my poet friend. I'll give some thought to this and try to work out something when I get back from my current adventure. (I already have a small spaghetti factory of lines --- but it is a pain completely furling the genny each time). Many thanks for the suggesiton.
Hi Patrick nice to hear that you are on your way to Iceland !!! good idea to stop over for a Guinness !! good winds
Patrick, I’ve been thinking a lot about the advantages and liabilities of cutter and Solent rigs. I can see from your videos that you are a technical problem solver and you have probably given this some thought as well. Given your boat, original sloop rig, and the fact that you singlehand most of the time I likely would have made the same choices as you. After this journey I would like to hear your critical thoughts on the Solent rig in comparison to the weather that you incurred. Great videos.
I am still very much in the learning mode Gary, but once I put a few more miles under the keel, I'll probably do a short video summarizing my 'learnings' with the staysail.
You definitely don’t need anybody to sail with but I can’t help but think it a bit sad for another human not to be sharing your company and fabulous boat. Obviously you must not like company but it seems such a shame for your experience not to be shared in person. I guess we viewers are the beneficiaries so that is a positive. I love to watch the precision of your dock parking. Thanks so much for the video and cheers from western Canada.
I have a very disagreeable character David. Other would not tolerate being in an enclosed space with me! ;-)
Hi Patrick,
This is Boby, I sent you a link to a video of a storm we encountered on a passage from the Caribbeans to Boston. Saw another video of yours about a storm bag. What changed your mind to add a staysail? How difficult it was to get it installed on a boat that was not designed for that?
Thanks
Two different rationales Boby. The storm jib (Storm Bag) is for use when the situation is really grim --- just something to keep the boat stabilised and pointing more or less int he direciton I want. The staysail is to allow you to head faster, more comfortably, and higher into the wind. I made too many passages where my big bag of a genoa just did not let me point high enough to make any meaningful progress on tacks. I show in Ep 38 how the new, flat sail, allows that very nicely.
Great stuff Patrick! Looks like it's going to be an exciting voyage! If you are ever sailing around Denmark, specifically Sealand (the island where Copenhagen is located) hit us up! We'll show you around! :) - BrotherBoat
I noticed your comments on other sailing channels but wasn’t sure it was you til now
Good luck from Marseille and the 'Bonne Mere'. We are all eagerly awaiting your super vidéos they give us all Travel fever :)
Salty guiness or salty red wine.... Try the Fish and chips :)
Christopher
Many thanks Christopher. I'll stick with the Guinness!
Great stuff wishing you the best trip and fair winds. I enjoy watching your videos. The new look on the bow looks great. We just started to thaw out here in Ontario. Cheers
Welcome back George. Thanks for hanging in there.
Love your perspective on sailing. It is a dream of mine to retire in europe and explore every inch. In the mean time I'm happily a "phantom" crew tagging along your adventures.
Thanks for the kind words JS.
Docks should have arresting cables and boats should have tailhooks.
It was damn poor engineering design that they weren't built that way Hanford!
I usually set my staysail while the genoa is still fully out. Then I reef the genoa as the wind picks up, until it gets to the point where I feel it's getting ineffective due to poor sail shape/too high etc. Then I roll it all the way in, and move on to reefing the staysail as needed. Of course, the main is being reefed for sail balance throughout. By the time I'm down to a reefed staysail, the main has been put away completely (usually).
Very interesting AVS. Do you have a cutter rig?
@@patricklaine6958 Yes, so my staysail represents a smaller percentage of the foretriangle than your solent setup, but I would think the concept would work well all the same... plus you gain the "venturi effect" that other posters have mentioned. I learned my reefing scheme when I sailed with John Kretschmer on his cutter, Quetzal (or, Sloop Cutter, aka "Slutter" as he calls it). His staysail is hanked on, while the genoa is on a furler. Even though it's hanked on, his staysail has reef points, like a mainsail, so he can drop it down to basically storm jib dimensions.
when you say 9 million, are you saying exactly 9.000.000? that is a bald claim to call a fact sir..
Google "Nine Million Bicycles in Beijing" and all will be revealed. ;-)
Looking good. As at least one commenter mentioned, we use both of our headsails together in order to create increased velocity along the backside of the main, thus generating additional lift. We've tested it and it seems to add about half a knot, or a little less, but we'll take it. Our staysail is hanked on, so kind of a hassle to use unless we see several days or more of windward work coming. I'll sew up a turtle bag if I have enough time and fabric before we go back to the boat.
Do you have a cutter rig Kevin? I would be a bit worried about putting out the solent and genny at the same time (other than wing on wing downwind). I'll have to ask a rigger if that would overstress things. ?? My next video will show a short clip of wing on wing with the two headsails out. I hadn't thought to try on another point of sail. Fair winds (from Ireland).
@@patricklaine6958 If you don't have running backstays you should install them. This is the support for the mast we use when either using the inner forestay/staysail, which in our case is removable via a large adjustable pelican clamp, or when using both the staysail and genny at the same time. You only deploy the windward running backstay as they'll interfere with the boom on the downwind side. The idea is to keep the mast from "pumping" under gusty loads. I already have Dyneema backstays to the mast, but have been using the old blocks from Oyster that are huge and have 12mm lines. I have a new set of self-cleating Lewmar blocks and lines that I will install next month.
I purposely chose a Solent rig rather than a cutter rig to avoid having to install running backstays…….. It only takes one 'senior moment' to whack the backstay with the boom, and I am experiencing more and more of those 'moments' Kevin. :-) As a single hander, I want to simplify, rather than add complexity, and yet another set of lines to manage. Hope you show your new deck gear in an upcoming video. Best.
@@patricklaine6958 Yes, I did know that you went the Solent route, and should have known that you wouldn't need a running backstay. My error. I would imagine your standing rigging would be strong enough to handle two sails at once, but you could call your boat manufacturer or a reputable rigger to ask, I suppose.
Very inspiring Patrick. What type of boat do you have?
It is a German-built Bavaria 40 Cruiser, vintage 2008. Thanks for watching Richard.
Our typical setup good for 8-11m/s: One reef in mainsail, staysail, open up the genoa as much as required for good balance. 7m/s and under: Full main & full genoa. 12m/s and over: 2nd reef in main & full staysail.
I didn't show it in the video due to time constraints, but I am experimenting with it exactly in the manner you describe. Thanks for commenting.
@@patricklaine6958 Forgot to mention, we have it cutter rigged. Hopefully it works for you too! By the way I can keep both my secondary backstays tightened when on second reef, so the mast can take a hurricane with that setup! :-)
Excellent, Patrick. Glad to find you at sea again!
Many thanks Patrick.
I just found this channel and I would like to watch them all. Where is EP 1?
Too much wind noise centermind. It was the first time I used the GoPro on a boat, and it was just too paninful to watch, so I didn't publish it.
Always enjoy your videos Patrick👍
Very kind Norman. Thanks.
Hi Patrick. What kind of weather program did you show at the end of the video? Recently I bought my own HR Monsun and I was very inspired by your videos and follow each one you release as they are very informative and well presented :)
I use Predict Wind Offshore (subscription) for my longer 'blue water' passages, and Météo Consult Marine (free) for coastal passages throughout Europe and the UK. Thanks
What kind of boat do you have? Beautiful videos, great adventure.
Thanks J. It is a German-buit Bavaria 40 Cruiser fro 2008. A very comfortable crusing boat --- ideal for a solo sailor.
Hi Patrick I can easily come to Dingle which should be on your track Dan
Sorry I missed you Dan. Time, tide and weather wait for no man! Thanks for watching.
what device do you use for recording video ? great videos i do enjoy watching them
It's just a very unsophisticated GoPro Hero Session 5. The sound quality is terrible if you get out in the wind, but the images are great.
Wowwww 🌹🌹
En effet, les conditions sont bien meilleures que celles rencontrées l'an dernier! En vous souhaitant qu'elles se maintiennent. Car vous allez naviguer dans des eaux capricieuses. Bon voyage!
Merci Jean, j’utilise tout ce que la technologie et la science mettent à ma disposition pour que le temps soit un peu moins capricieux. :-)
Call into Schull Patrick. One of the nicest sailing grounds on the planet.
But no marina to tie up at. It's cold rowing the dinghy into shore. :-)
Off to Iceland then! Excellent. Even a wee bit of techy detail too on the new inner forestay.
Many thanks RW.
Oh Patrick, you didn't show how you manage the new sail, just talked about it. I would love to sea how the genoa handling, and the staysail handling works in practice.
I edited out a sequence Ian where i was very close hauled in strong winds with the staysail pulled as tight as a razor blade. I said, "Wow, this new sail is allowing me to do 6.5-7.5 knots where i would have done 4.5-5.5 before .....and 7 degrees closer to the wind." I'll show this more in a future video. Best.
@@patricklaine6958 Hope so. I don't think I can fit a stay sail like you have and gee, I would love to be able to point higher if nothing else. I just don't see where I anchor the stay without fitting some sort of brace in the "middle" of the front cabin. I would look at something like an inhaulier, to improve the pointing, but I think the genoa is just too big. Real pest with very heavyweight sails and a furler - just too hard to change sails.
Actually looking at a cruising spinnaker to "fix" deep reach/downwind performance, where my genoa doesn't help much either. Not sure whether to have a top-down furler or a snuffer, but, either way, this is not a sail to use in other than very favourable conditions, as you said in your description of your spinnaker.
Anyway, good luck to you on your trip to Iceland. If you sail into the Denmark Sea, please give a thought to all those souls lost when HMS Hood was destroyed.
Patrick Laine and you edited it out!?!? Lol, I see the sock around the rear mounted GoPro is gone, no more vignetting, yeah!
Great video Patrick. Bon voyage.
Nice job my friend ! It’s beautiful marina. All your videos super awesome I am really enjoying watching videos. Many thanks to you captain.
Ciao Patrick, very interesting your video as usual. I have a question: does your new stay sail is self-tacking? I did not see it very well this time .... maybe next time ? Thank you so much for the time and efforts you spend into this channel. Take care and buon vento, Elisa
Hello again Elisa. No, I did not get the self-tacking staysail. My next door neighbor has one and loves it, but I went for the traditional model. There is probably a good rationale to get one rather than the other, but I am not aware of it (other than heaving to with a self-tacker might require some manual blocking of the rig). I don't like all of the extra sheets in the cockpit now ----- so maybe I should have got the self tacker…… :-)
@@patricklaine6958 Yes four more sheets and jammers in the cockpit, but much safer to deal with than going forward in heavy seas to work the jib. I vote for safety.
Super to see you off on another adventure
I remember taking the speed over water sensor out on my last boat. My buddy decided to have a laugh at my "greenhorn" expense. He told me to unscrew it an remove it and the held the plug over my head and kept shouting, "quick, she's sinking, plug it! plug it!". I got the plug in but it was a bit pannicky for me!! suffice to say I gave him a load of crap over it and we had a good laugh after !!
Good to see you back on the water.
Very nice to see you back. Nice and safe travels
Much appreciated Ranieri.
Very educational. How to scuttle a boat!
I was joking, but if you have to abandon your boat, the Coast Guard will ask you to scuttle it to avoid creating a hazard to navigation….. Hopefully, I'll never have that discussion with them.
Good day Mr. Laine! Which books about sailing can you suggest to me? Have a good time, appreciate the inspiration
So pleased you're off on another trip. Forget the guiness it's black porridge! - stick with the chateau neuf du pape, j'ai fait le vendange '76 dans cette région - Ahh... lovely memories....
Magical stuff, I don't know what it is that you have, but you have it in spades. TH-cam need a double thumbs up icon.
Read your new episode this morning, very good as usual. I understand completely weather dictates, hope you enjoyed Dingle
So whats the postion,- in Iceland ?
I'm in SW Ireand now Betamax. Will inch up the coast a bit, and then when a good weather window arrives, make the leap for Iceland.
I’ve been waiting for your next epic trip ... brilliant!... greetings from Inverness in Scotland... welcome back....
Great video Patrick, wish it was longer😒. Anyway, looking forward to your next instalment, safe seas.
Let me know if you need a retired Air Force Vet who know's Zippo about sailing for a trip. I added sailing to my bucket list.
I'm no sailor but doesn't changing between genoa and staysail affect some sort of center of pressure and the balance of the boat?
Don't forget to sing Spanish Ladies on your Ushant to Scilly leg...
And don't do a Shovell.
Bon Voyage
Exactly right Mark. The center of effort with the staysail is lower and aft ----- so the mainsail needs to be adjusted (perhaps reefed) to keep things in balance. I saluted the God's of Ushant as I skirted by……..
Thanks Pattrick!
That's not a boat, it's a floating villa.
Wait until you see the inside of a catamaran!
Such a good call to continue sailing rather than anchor on a Lee shore - it sounds obvious when you say it, but after a day or so at sea, the temptation is to rest. The drama when replacing the log had my attention . I am very much looking forward to the vicarious passage - Yours , a phantom crewmate
Thanks Richard. I have diverted quite a number of times in my life (in aircraft as well as boats). You are exactly right --- fatigue or a desire to meet someone at the original destination can cloud decision-making at just the wrong moment. I force myself to ask, "What would you do if there were no other considerations?" Inevitably, the right decision is to divert…… sort out the other stuff later. When I was in the Navy, we would ask, "How would you explain your decision to continue rather than divert to the accident board?" :-)
@@patricklaine6958 indeed, I call it the panorama question , an investigative programme on UK TV that is famous for asking questions like , knowing what you knew , on what basis did you put your crew and vessel at risk ? :) I trust you have reached the emerald Isle.
I have a Guinness hangover already.
I learned to sail at Glenans, Ireland. They had a number of bases in Ireland for many years, sadly, they are no longer here.
I didn't know they had been there John. The organisation is very well-known in France (though of course, many excellent schools exist).
@@patricklaine6958 Yes. Les Glenans have bases in Baltimore and in Westport. I trained with them as well. Very socialist in their attitude in that you all had to clean, cook and sail. Great organization and helped a lot of French kids recover after the Second World War
Have a good and safe trip. Looking forward to meet you when you arrive to Iceland.
Excellent video of pure sailing, and a most entertaining chinese end, wonderful, set me in a good mood tonight, thank you for that!! Have a good onward journey!
Great start to a wonderful journey Patrick. It will be interesting to see how you actually decide to use your new sail in practice - I am sure you will want to try out as many different configurations as you can. I would put money on seeing some video footage with both foresails being used cutter style.
Ha! I filmed wing on wing on my trip to Ireland from France. I'm a bit nervous about trying them both headed upwind…..so will ask my rigger (Selden agent) if there is any danger. I suppose a partially furled genny and the solent will work fine. To be continued Paul……. (Great job on the heater install by the way. By coincidence, I filmed my using the heater underway here as it was quite cold….)
Excellent, 2019 here we go! Where are you stopping in Ireland? Also have you got Ais? I,m in West Wales so I might follow your ais track if you got one? How long do you expect the trip from Ireland to Iceland and are you going around West Coast of Ireland or up St George's channel and Irish Sea? I'd like to do this run to Iceland so I'll be watching progress closely, fair winds Patrick!
I'm heading up the west coast of Ireland Ray, but plan to return the other coast so I can make a stop in Cardiff (where I lived for 7 years). I'll wait for as perfect a wx window as one can hope for before leaving for Iceland from Ireland. I'm in no hurry, so want safety and comfort over time…… We'll see how this plays out.
Patrick, wonderful video. Thank you. You are a man of my own age, sans peur et sans reproche. I just bought a heavy weather staysail myself with the same purpose. Here on the northeast coast of the United States we await le sacre du printemps! Fair winds.
Super on the staysail cbrey. Let me know how your experience with it plays out, and if you find any special 'sweet spots' for its use. Bonne navigation.
Great to see you back out Patrick! One more month to go over here before we splash! Safe travels.
Patrick's videos make me always crave for more, thanks Patrick!
Sweet sailing, wise decisions and a little poetry to top it all off :-) I'm looking forward watching your next episode Patrick. Good winds to you!
Great stuff Patrick! I shall look forward to every sitrep from the comfort of my sofa! Take and have a safe trip.
Another fantastic episode Patrick. I’m following your progress on the Marine Traffic app. Stay safe and fair winds. Don’t be tempted to stay too long in Ireland - always a problem to leave the great hospitality.
I'm already experiencing the warm Irish welcome in SW Ireland. I won't be complaining if I'm delayed by weather. :-)
Great as always.
Bon voyage Patrick! I'm in Ireland this week.... let me know if you plan to stop in the northwest. Fair winds!
I'm in SW Ireland too Darren (Dingle). I'll hoist a dark one for you.
Joined your channel late last year, and a novice sailor living near Falmouth UK. So looking forward to watching your trip to Iceland unfold. Great videos, especially for someone like me looking to see, hear and understand more about handling a cruiser. Bob voyage à vous!
Much appreciated Peter.
Aye m8, This looks/sounds like you have some story to tell about this trip, right😉
Anyway I really like the way you combine humour, camera shots, explaining, deliberating, testing etc.
Thanks for returning MiQ. Much appreciated.