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- Continuing up the Western Coast of Portugal I call in at Nazare home to the largest wave ever surfed over 28m. Join me on my voyage aboard Awanui NZ from Istanbul, Turkey to New Zealand #adventure #boating #cruise #suf #surfing #nazare
Tough departure - great that you showed it. Appreciate how you can share even the tough moments.
One suggestion- great for single handed ops. Prior to departure, one technique is to rig a brest line midships from midships, around a dock cleat and back to the boat. It will allow you to release fore and aft lines (including springs), then when ready you can release the brest line from midships without having to leave the boat. A tight breast line isn’t good for general rigging, but is great to set up just prior to departure.
Absolutely hear you - I am dead keen to try midships. I knew I should have done that but just got overloaded. Wind coming off the dock was what confused me but should not have
Well done on the fact you kept film during the "minor panic".... love the warts and all approach. Bravo!
Only way to keep you all in touch with what’s happening
What an amazing geography lesson you're giving us Mark! Just stunning drone work and loving your commentary. Keep 'em coming!
Will do, working on the next one
Bloody awesome Mark. You clearly learning as you go but living within realistic boundaries of safety.
Love the history narratives. Keep up the great work.
Thanks David. Hope all is well
just a little hint if i am allowed, once you have docket single handed, i would reset all ropes in slip mode. Then you don't need to leave the ship at all once you un dock. and usually with two tide set cross springs, the ship should be leigh more stable for undocking too. Sorry i don't want to bother, just giving own experience.
And at last great footage you always show us here, love to follow it.
Yip agree totally….need to be more careful
Always loved Nazare. Did you know the reason the waves are so big. It has the biggest submarine canyon in Europe. 5 kilometers deep and 230 kilometers long. So therefore the waves come all the way into Nazare as though they were still in the middle of the Atlantic. They gradually bottom out on the shallow bottom as they come out of the canyon. Cheers
Yes it was amazing to see. The canyon shows up well on the plotter. It would be an incredible thing to see drained
@ it would
Love these videos. Very inspiring to see a boat like that can be single handed. 👏
No worries…will work on doing it better though
Ok, that sunset at the end was Stunning!!! You are really doing great at solo Mark, I have to say I am glad you went solo, I was searching for solo sailing when I found you. without "Solo" in your title, I would have missed out. I enjoyed it so much as you know from my comments on every episode, I watched from episode one! I have my house for sale, once it's sold, I will be setting off around the world "solo, plus one" my mini-me, my daughter. I think once you add in lines, sails, rigging, etc, paying fuel would have to come close in cost? You are doing amazing Mark.
How exciting……where you starting from what boat are you looking at
@@AwanuiNZ I'm Australian, I live in the USA. I need to learn about engines and systems. Your videos are very detailed. My attitude is I don't know everything, I do know how to figure it out! My first choice was a power boat, solo, less to learn, taking the cost of fuel long distances I moved to a sailing Cat, given the cost of fuel, long term it made sense. After watching your costs, honestly, I know people who have spent more on rigging and sails than your fuel cost. So now I'm back to a coin toss! 🤪🤪🤣🤣
Another thoroughly entertaining episode, thanks Mark, loved your Nazare footage, fantastic. You're doing great single handed, fair winds.🙃
Thanks so much…I am enjoying making the videos and so pleased watchers enjoy them
Hi Mark, it's a pity we didn't meet!)) This is my N41 Gitan de la mer, I spend the winter in Nazaré for learning surfing. This is the amazing Marina with awesome people ❤
Let's meet in Amsterdam! Fair wind! ⚓
Done…did not realize you were there
Glad to see you had sometime off Mark great video keep them coming and your doing well and thank you for sharing all this with us.
Absolutely my pleasure
Entertaining and educational, as always. I miss seeing Fiona also! Happy New Year to you!
Me too….I have a plan to solve that for this year….just got to get through till June
I love your description of flying into Rongotai, I've flown in there (in the back seats)100-plus times, and it can be really hairy sometimes. Love your channel Mark, you tell it as it is, and embrace the learning curve, it's great to see. I did my sailing out of Cockle Bay Auckland in a small keelboat, and my flying in a Micro-Light Tenam P92 at Ardmoor I have just entered my 90th year so I am not allowed to do that anymore, so I get my fix vicariously thanks to You-Tube. Have fun, but take care. Kindest Regards. Noel currently in Melbourne
Hey great story Noel….you sound right on top of things…at it at 90 eh?
Look for Dockmate twist joystick for parking it is very easy you will be happy 👍
Ta will check it out
Great video, as always, and some beautiful scenery. Looking forward to the next one.
On its way
Great video Mark, glad your coping well on your own, ever day is a school day. Loving the tutorial side of your videos. All the best cheers 🥃🏴
Thanks so much. I really enjoy making each one and love the feedback. Get some really good ideas
Hi Mark, I use the short mid-ship spring line as the last to release. I definitely do not leave the engine in gear while steping off to the dock!
Agreed
Yep, you are on the right track Mark. Starbound idle ahead and rear spring line looped by itself on a cleat. Rudder amidships. This should hold you against the wharf, loosen stern and bow lines so rear spring is holding everything. Adjust revs to hold. Then drop all other lines off. Then drop into neutral, and wip the spring off, and hopefully away you go. Cheers Rick
Yip now all I have to do is try it again….it was a stuff up but learned heaps
Hi Mark! What great video for a grey sunday. Funny how the Dolphins always play around the bow... interesting how close they come, it almost look like they could hit the boat sometimes. An impressive departure you made from Peniche, very well done one man. Maybe it could be considered a cockup, but you made it without a scratch, Just like a crosswind landing where you touch down off centerline and correct it...
Nazare was very beautiful and one could see the potential roughness it can turn into once the waves pick up.
And such a nice river drive into your night anchorage... the footage of you instead of outside didn't matter, as you describe the scenery outside.
Your videos never gets boring! It is like being on the boat with you! Thank you for your extensive descriptions and filming.
Hey no problems so pleased you enjoying them so much
Some more nice drone work Mark . .
Take care . . Bye from NZ👍👋🇳🇿🍻
Thanks Roger
MARK
Watched you struggling to depart the dock!
You have worked out that mid ship spring is the way
Hold the boat against the dock with forward power and steering set to push the stern against the doc
Use a lot of fenders!
You have all the time to disconnect all the other lines
Next with the spring still attached reverse rudder settings and then the stern moves away from the dock
Go stern slowly and slip springline
You can then back away from the dock
Once cleas use bow thrust to push bow away from the dock
You are now clear and can leave the dock!
Wind direction and strength complicates things a bit but the same principle applies
Rod Sumner
Canada
PS it is imperative when soloing in the tender to use the dead man's lanyard.
A wave could easily bounce you overboard then the tender runs in circles so the tender is difficult o avoid!!!!
Absolutely
N41 was the boat I was looking at but after watching this channel may have to upgrade to N51
No1 is great too and much more affordable. Kind of depends on what the adventure is you want. Coastal, Med or fiords I would say N41 but live aboard or long distance N51
Fantastic video. A pleasure to watch 👏👏👏
Many thanks
Gosh how did you dock with no help? My nerves would be frazzled let alone getting off the dock .. 😮 just watched the rest .. eek that was a tad stressful!!🙈🙈
Yip was that…….just have to give it best shot with a backup that usually includes anchoring if it does not work. As long as you get midships line in place it works. Wind always makes things harder.
It's definitely a challenge that you meet and won. Great drone video also. All the best and safe travels.🙂👍🇨🇦
Thanks so much
When you shorten up along side tie off after quarter stern line , put engine ahead to hold you along aside, remove all other lines stow on deck, take out of gear remove stern line pull in and you are away. Enjoy the videos may try and meet up in UK when you get up this way. Doing delivery uk to med in May/june.
Thanks Bruce. Seem to get mixed feedback between stern line being last and midships stringer being last?
You are having to much fun and all by yourself 😊 must be nice 👍
Yes it’s good but do miss Sweetie
Hi Mark we are in a state of envy- well done 👍 regards Harold and Wendy ( AU)
Just enjoy
Hello Mark
I have after 2wks of watching your 1st videos and now being caught up just want to say your are very inspiring. I even got my wife somewhat interested. Hopefully in a few years I will be ready to get a Nordhavn till then I'm gonna keep watching you 😊. Stay safe and sleep well!
Hey that’s great news. Thanks so much for your support. Go do it
Try using a fore and aft spring line from the bow and stern to the middle of the boat to a bollard when you tie up initially.. you will have more control when you loose the fore and aft lines on a departure casting off the spring lines last.
Nice film Mark, Happy New Year, don't be so hard on yourself, at least you didn't bend anything... single spring will hold her with hard over. I always try to do more and make a mess, while watch the trawlers they only hook a single line until finished... wait until you see the breakers in Biarritz..
NB the whole way up now you will have pots and long lines on buoys off the full coast to North of Tromso out to 50m-100m depth for big pot boats...
Yeah they are crazy eh…you got me nervous about that coast
@@AwanuiNZ You've got a Nordhavn! see you are using the anchorage predictor... will be fine. as i said "Advise" is bilbao straight to la rochell if you want a real easy life, no tidal ports. the rest are all doable but need to engage brain.,. Im coming the other way so thats the only over night if i get scared.,.
The waves in Biarritz are not bigger and more powerful than at Nazare. I have surfed big Biarritz before and I will never try to surf Nazare. Biarritz has max size waves of about 6 meters and at this size they are not good to surf, whereas this size at Nazare is when the big wave riders come out to play. As Mark said there is a very deep trench where the swells come in and then all of a sudden the water gets shallow to produce bone crunching waves.The waves at Nazare have more energy than in Hawaii. Biarritz is a good surfing wave but Nazare is in a completely different class and only experienced big wave riders that have the guts to surf mother nature when death is staring in their faces surf there. If you get caught in the impact zone and cannot get rescued by a jet ski then chances of getting smashed against the cliffs is high. Drowning is another fear amongst the surfers. Most surfers there wear a special lightweight inflatable lifejacket, and inflate it when they are trapped underneath tonnes of turbulent water.
oh wow when
@@brianbarbarich1401 notr my field, just saw the international championship or something, last time i was there..
Well done Mark for coping under pressure when things go t*ts up - must be the experience gained as an airline pilot! 🙂😊
No point panicking it only makes things worse and you stop thinking staright
Thank you Mark. Excellent stuff.
👏👏👏
Beautiful small Ports along Portuguese coastline with amazing lighthouses.
Safe travelling.
Cheers from Durban
Cheers…looking forward to heading north in a week or so
As someone who's done a lot of single-handed boat shuffles, that springer is the key. have it ready to go pull up slowly drop it over a cleat or bollard. and then just in to gear.
Yip I hear you
Another great movie Mark. A question, if you started water maker whilst anchored in river with fresh water would produced water taste better?
The water is distilled so effectively has no taste salt or otherwise
Hi really enjoying watching your learning experience, however I know it’s another expenditure but have you thought of buying something like dockmate, really a great tool if you are going to be single handed . You really are encouraging people to take on an adventure like yours. Keep the vids coming. Have you managed to sort out your Garmin problem.
Nope Garmin issues still alive and well…struggling to get the help I need….I won’t be giving up!
Happy New year. Enjoy each episode thank you for sharing Mark
Regards Ron
Cheers
keep em coming mark - thanks for sharing. I don't know if its me or your mic but awanuis horn sounds a bit like a poorly donkey - maybe room for an upgrade there :-)
Oh I thought it sounded like an elephants trumpet
You have my sympathy regarding the slight adjustments necessary whilst casting off. I have experienced the same challenges myself. That’s the fascination of boating. You’re never bored and always learning.
Oh ain’t that the truth…dragged anchor today at mouth of Douro River!
Eyes are bluer than ever bro 👍
Cheers
Might be worth having a slip line midship from boat to boat around cleat release all lines and you can let go slip line from boat easy this is what i would do and have done, As this would hold you until ready to go also if you use locks
Absolutely…learned so much and great feedback from watchers
Well done Mark not easy single handed but you seem to have handled it ok. preping the boat is imporant before entering harbour. Glad you had help
mooring once again well done.😅
Absolutely agree
Those are some amazing sunsets.
Just wondering, will your journey take you by St. Nazaire? I’m a bit of a WW2 buff, and the Brits pulled off what is know as “The Greatest Raid of All” there.
If you’ve an hour or so to kill, and an internet connection, check out Jeremy Clarkson the greatest raid of all time. It’s quite an incredible story.
I will thanks
See previous advice. When docking, make first line a midships SLIP line. Control the man on the dock - you are the captain, not him and he will understand. Then rig all the other lines at leisure during the engine cooling down period. Ideally, springs should be run from the ends of the boat - the longer the better to allow for movement. Slacken off the midships line when finished and leave ready for departure when procedure is reversed.
Great advice thank you
Great video Mark. Quite dramatic footage when the dockline got snagged -- I hope you can stay in marinas with dockhands from now on. Much easier and safer! Navare very scenic.
Yip would certainly help if there were dockhands available
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Can you show more footage of entering port and exiting port thanks, keep them coming .
Yip stuffed that up by having second camera facing the wrong way
Overly complicated leaving dock. Could have used loop line midship to dock cleat while removing bow, spring and stern lines. Then midship line off cleat from inside boat, just outside bridge passageway, and away. I single-handed a 42ft, 51ft and then 57ft over about 7 years as liveaboard. Sorry, you got it in your spoken review. Want to avoid panic sprints if possible. Enjoy your post, subscribed. Liked video, Nazare seems great place entering in fair weather, don't know if stormy with following sea, scenery gorgeous.
Yes to everything…welcome aboard
Excellent video Mark, if you double the lines up back onto the boat you can untie everything from onboard, sorry to be "That Guy" safe journey 😎🫡
No I hear you and always grateful for suggestions….particularly when good ones!
Always lett the lines go from the boat trouhg the clamps at shore back to the boat , then you can stay on the boat ! But you are honest !!
indeed I will
surely conditions can and will change overnight. A rearrangement of the lines just before the departure.?? The bow thruster got a workout!. Perhaps a release type knot on the last springer? well done anyway...no harm no foul! You showed the swell very well!
Not a boater but love hearing exactly what you doing and why with Awnui NZ
Yip departing so different to being tied up….learned a lot from the experience I had. Was worried electric bow thruster would not keep coping. Last resort I could have let the line go.
If you intend more solo mooring and departure may suggest remote yacht control unit.Not cheap however could save you and your yacht.Brake a leg with running and or damaging the yacht. Succes from aussie
Mmmm…..not sure I like those…will think on it
ah learning first thing in the morning, have a good one son, if you don't bump into anything is a good day ya
Absolutely it is
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Cool
When coming into ports, is there any way we could have the camera facing outward so we can see the beaches, entrances etc etc?
Yes I know I can go watch other channels, but just trying to give some constructive criticism....
@@thisisntgood71absolutely….I had another camera setup but had the lens facing the wrong way so only recorded the same as the one beside me….dumb
Yip
Mark did you have much experience on a boat prior to embarking on your trip? Trev Ebygum in Oz
My uncle flew for pan am. Everyone on that side of the family was in aviation.. everyone on my side was nautical.. I grew up on large fishing boats since before I could walk.
I haven't been out on the water in years. So I'm really enjoying your journey.
How cool…Panam what an amazing airline
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Cool you liked it?
@@AwanuiNZ I watch you tube all the time.. Yours is the only channel I watch from start to finish every time.
Thanks Bob really appreciate the support. I am trying to keep as accurate and honest record of this adventure as I can. Looking forward in the future to watching the episodes myself as will likely have forgotten so much….
Mark needless to say now you've got 3000nm of fetch now, be careful with your stops and back up stops with respect to entry with wind & wave onshore... as you get up to northern spain , france, UK etc some are fucking deadly unless offshore prevailing winds..
Yip will watch that and doing my research as I head that way. Not rushing I have time now
Can't your bowthrusters keep you against the side automatically whilst you do the lines? Or do they not have that feature?
Nope don’t have that feature. My problem was the lines were not set right. I understand now what needs to be done to ensure a safe departure.
@@AwanuiNZ Well either way, great video as always. You are living my ideal retirement.
Don’t beat yourself up about leaving the dock, I’ve did far worse when I was young, singlehanded.
Thanks so much
Those that have and those that will
My 2 cents worth … docking/mooring lines and departure lines are 2 very seperate entities and should not be considered as 1, they are sequential. Docking lines are safety, security and robust. Departures lines ( always assume you will reposition ALL lines prior to departure) are about process, cause and effect, especially when you are on your own. In this specific instance I would have considered all lines single loop round dock bollard and secured back on board. Stern and bow lines direct to stern and bow bollards and back to stern and bow on board cleats through the fair leads. Once you release these lines from on board you can pull straight back on board. Spring line from a midships to forward dock bollard. When stern and bow released Awanui would pendulum away and forward with wind ( if I understand this circumstance)control angle and pressure with thrusters and then release, retrieve and move off. Easy to say from here, you did a great job and didn’t see any panic. Kia Kaha
Hey thanks Tony…excellent advice which I will heed. Treating departure as a totally seperate issue to being secured to the dock is so obvious but missed at the time. On reflection the problem started getting on the dock with others helping secure the lines. I need to be more diligent and make sure after I have had help I take the time to better ensure I am secure but in a manner that allows me alone if necessary to reposition lines and set up for departure. Fundamentally this is where I went wrong. Can you talk a wee bit more about the midships springer being attached to the forward dock cleat….i have always thought better to go aft dock cleat and use forward idle and port tiller to hold the boat against the dock?
@@AwanuiNZ Morning/evening Mark. As mentioned departure lines should be specific to the individual circumstance each time - especially when shorthanded. If I recall correctly the wind was blowing you off the dock, there was a vessel behind you and clear water in front. Running a springer from amidships (easy access from the bridge) to forward on the dock would prevent rearward movement but allow the wind to pendulum out and into clear water. To stop Awanui skewing on the line I would think the thrusters would be sufficient however you know your boat better than anyone and how she responds. Personally I have never been a fan of having engines holding against dock lines when the bridge is unattended, one element is pulling against the other - and as you mentioned the lines became difficult to release under load. Maybe a product like Dockmate or Glendinning wired remote or similar could provide a safe alternative. Either way I am loving what you are doing, how you are doing it and how you are enthusiastically embracing the challenges and learning moments. Cheers Tony
Hey, Mark! Hold position is cheating eh? Always a way . Aus Won 👍
Haha yeah it's the way to do it!
You should get yourself a pod coffee machine
Trying to keep the boat minimalist…good reason to get off and go find a coffee shop too
@ keep the videos coming love watching them
I will
work to a system to make it "easier " you ,You understand what you want do Docking is not the same as Departing conditions change as the Captain you are the boss of the crew (you) experience is learnt through time .... bottom line is YOU sorted it out and no one got hurt or damaged anything ....
Yip I hear you. Certainly made memthink
Mark do you have a Patreon account?
No have never set one up
Take in springs, single up fore and aft, let go forward, let go aft. Simple??? (satire)
It certainly should be simpler than it was….all about preparation….I will video closely my next effor
Do you eat well if i may ask ? Fish etc property hot meals. Vitamin D tablets 😮
I think I eat well…porridge for breakfast, Vitamin D from the sun and meat/3 veges for dinner. Could do better at lunchtime
Kia Ora Capt Mark
Could you please when entering harbour, show a bow shot more than your handsome face, you are talking as if you are on the radio and we are your listeners,think visual show the vision and voice over it, as a viewer very frustrating you yakking and no picture to relate to.
All a learning curve.
keep warm cheers
Hey 100%…I stuffed up with the other camera facing me as well and not out the front…..like the handsome face though!
If you've got 10 to 15 thousand dollars burning a hole in your pocket you could have Dock mate remote helm installed, you won't have any problems docking by yourself
Ouch
Happy New year. Enjoy each episode thank you for sharing Mark
Regards Ron
No worries Ron it’s my pleasure. I really enjoy editing each episode. Sometimes when I start it seems difficult to get the story going but always comes together in the end