Our Roughest Anchorage! [Ep. 3] ⛵ Sailing Britaly ⛵
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ต.ค. 2024
- Have you ever been in a 'rolly' anchorage? We thought we had, then this happened! Join us on our honeymoon sailing trip to Corsica, where we continue West along the coast of the island, find a beach with no-one else on it, and then explore the historic town of Calvi. 🔔 SUBSCRIBE ➜ bit.ly/SBTH-cam⛵
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Chris and Rossella
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i loved it and the best music you could have used fit
perfectly . really was a great video any imperfection barely noticeable would not have changed a thing.
Thank you so much James! Fair winds, Chris & Rossella 👍
Just found your channel this morning and have binge watched 14 episodes and will continue. I’m impressed with your Italian Chris and your English Rosella. Thanks for sharing 👍⛵️⚓️
Warren s/y Legend
Welcome aboard Warren - thank you very much. We have tons of videos in the pipeleine so we hope you will enjoy them too! Chris, Rossella & Emma 😊👍⛵️
Another enjoyable video guy...love the old buildings and scenery, also awesome that you guys respond to comments...I learn from reading others comments and your responses to them...great job and favorable winds!
Hi there, thank you for watching and commenting. We learn a huge amount from our viewers and we really appreciate the lovely comments we get from people in different parts of the world. Good luck with the refit of Oria, all your hard work will be well worth it in the end. Fair winds, Chris & Rossella 👍
Just watched your 1st episode and watched 4 episodes so far, Congrats newlyweds, hope more to come, get a dingy with a motor!
Hi Roby, thank you very much! We have an electric motor and an inflatable dinghy on our new boat. We will still be paying very close attention to the weather, and the state of charge of the battery, but it's an improvement on rowing alone... :-) We hope you enjoy the rest of our videos. Fair winds! Chris, Rossella & Emma 😊
Love it!
Thank you!
Beautiful area. Rough anchorage. Nice vid!
Thank you Joel! Fair winds, Chris & Rossella 👍
another very nive Video of Corsica, I've seen all theese places from the landside. Nice to have a look on the other side now. You could spend an inflatable pillow to your dinghy. push it between the Mast and the bow from port to starbord to stabilize it. That could give you a bit more Speed and less drag of your boat. Fair winds and following seas.
Hi Klaus, thank you very much for watching and commenting and thanks for the tip for our tender. Fair winds, Chris & Rossella 👍
Sometimes I get seasick. My doctor said best thing to do is get in the water on a tube and it will help while at anchor. Patches help me, but they sometimes blur your vision if you happen to rub your eyes after touching the patch
and can make you sleepy. Enjoy your videos.
Hi Randall, offshore the medic can give out patches but I have also found that people often feel drowsy when using them. Here is a really useful technique to avoid seasickness: th-cam.com/video/hmQMUdZgIMA/w-d-xo.html Thank you for watching and commenting. Fair winds! Chris (& Rossella) 👍
Great cruising ground, look forward to the free diving vids, just to say , boom preventer rig, and I always wear a head torch rowing at night, seems you need a leecloth on one of the berths, would an opi make a good tender it would whizz into shore
Hi Sean, thank you for your comment - it is great for us to receive intelligent suggestions like this from viewers who have obviously paid attention to the video and know what they are talking about!
The boom preventer would have been a sensible precaution, next time we will use one. Head torch in the tender at night is also a very good idea. We did have a hand-held torch but a head torch (of course) frees up both hands - and is now on the on the 'to get' list. A leecloth is something I would add if we were keeping the boat. As it is currently for sale, I will leave this up to the next owner to add one. This is something that I will look into on our new boat.
We would really struggle with space for an Optimist on this boat as the baby stay reduces the storage area forward of the mast. The rudder mounts were very experimental (I had made the rudder assembly by eye and was testing it using two small stainless steel eye hooks and a section of copper pipe as rudder attachments. One of the eye hooks snapped when the wind unexpectedly kicked off! I've since changed the eye hooks out for substantial stainless steel eye bolts and this will not happen again! I also made a polytarp sail which has half the sail area as the Opi sail in the video, for sailing in stronger winds.
It was my fault that we were caught out like that.. Earlier in the day when we saw the waves picking up, we weighed anchor and headed over to the NW of the bay of Calvi to seek a more sheltered anchorage. As we beat into the waves to get there, Rossella was of the opinion that we should have just stayed where we were (I suppose when you have been anchored in the same spot for a few days it feels safe). Instead of sticking to my plan and finding some shelter in the lee of a nearby rocky peninsula, I changed my mind and we headed back to where we were previously anchored. This was a lee shore and there was a rocky breakwater not too far behind us. By the time we got back there conditions were horrible and Rossella was out of action with seasickness. It was an enormous relief when the anchor set on the first attempt and I swear I could have kissed that Bruce the next time I saw it on deck! We didn't film any of the above so didn't explain this in the video as I'm trying to talk a bit less in our videos!
The conditions don't look as rough in the video they were in person. I attached a 12 mm nylon line as a snubber which ran from the anchor chain to a halyard winch and with the surges it was stretching as though it was an elastic band!
Thank you for watching and commenting. :-)
Fair winds,
Chris (& Rossella) 👍
Hey thanks for your reply yep in ten years time you will look back and sat why did we stay on a lee shore!Sea sickness or not just get out of there it's not worth it!
I'd be a nervous wreck without a life jacket.
Like you I change yachts this year , and I like your folding dinghy ,I shall go for the seahopper scamp used of course better for kedging out an anchor,I've got a yam 230 which carries 250kgs usually the crew to the chippy,and an old black red rest so they can't leave me marooned , check out any keel bolts before you go cheers
Congratulations on the new boat Sean! Folding dinghies are brilliant. The website I bought our plans off sells plans to build various different kinds of boat so if you fancy a wee project check them out via our link: www.woodenwidget.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=219
All kinds of adventure. I love that you can edit and create such a great video from what you have. Just had our first couple blizzards here on the North tip of Alaska. Hope you're staying warm. How far along is baby Britaly now? Thanks for
sharing. Cheers!
Hi there, thank you for your kind words. It has been hard work trying to make videos from what we had from that trip and now that the final Corsica video is online our next vlog will be with our new camera, but more importantly will be made with footage we took specifically for TH-cam so we hope that the videos will be more enjoyable for viewers, even though they will be much easier for us to edit! The weather is cooling down here too but snow is still a while away yet for us... The bambina is great thanks - judging from the amount of movement in Rossella's tummy she's going to be a lively little baby! :-D Alaska is somewhere I've always wanted to go: I've been to the extreme North of Norway in winter (Arctic Survival Training in the Forces) and have done some solo hiking in the Canadian Rockies (holiday when I was 19 years old) and those kind of wild landscapes are absolutely beautiful to me. Fair winds! Chris (& Rossella) 👍
So are you guys going to get a better camera?...hehe. Even more determined to visit Corsica again after seeing this. Look forward to the newer vids! Nice "Madmen" summer hat by the way. Great story about the Tender.
Hi Ian, you'll be glad to hear that we already have a better camera, so we hope you will enjoy better quality videos in future. :-) I will wear anything on my head - I once spent six weeks wearing a pair of thermal long johns wrapped around my head every day, shemagh style - when I went away and forgot to pack a hat. 😂 The madmen hat is tame by comparison! The fact we didn't have an outboard only added to the adventure on that trip. Our every movement was dictated by mother nature and we will always remember that feeling of being in tune with nature. Fair winds, Chris (& Rossella) 👍 p.s. Did we tell you that we have got a new camera?... 😂
To be honest I liked this as much as your latest videos although your daughter definitely ups the cuteness factor exponentially 🙂❤ *edit* lol Rosella in the net. It looks like you went to Italy to kidnap a wife 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nomad Equipment Thank you! p.s. Let us know your name and we'll call you by it. Chris, Rossella & Emma 🙂
A sausage on the boat"😂 LOL... at least you're gorgeous classy sausage😉
LOL...Thank you :-)
well done guys..... :-)
Thank you! Fair winds, Chris, Rossella & baby Emma 👍
Hard to tell from the video, but possibly not using a snubber. 10metres of nylon rope with a chain hook, and take the load off the chain to boat connection (though leave the chain tied on for extra security). This absorbs those shock loadings you're putting on your anchor rode and reduces the change of anchor drag. There's an article about it here...www.knoxanchors.com/wind-forces-and-snubbing
Hi Geoff, we are inexperienced sailors but on this occasion I was on the money: I am a climber so I understand shock loading and elasticity quite well. It is very difficult (almost impossible) to see in the video, but we had the following set up on the anhor rode: All the chain out, made fast to a cleat. Our 'standard' snubber (which is made from a cheap, but strong and elastic) car tow rope, attached to the chain and made fast to another cleat near the bow. This was a backup and wasn't under tension: because of the conditions I added a Nylon line which ran from the anchor chain to a halyard winch in the cockpit. This was 12 mm Nylon and with the surge it was stretching as though it was shock cord! Fortunately our Bruce anchor did a brilliant job and didn't drag at all. Thank you for your comment as what you said was very valid (both for us and also for other viewers) so please do the same in the future so we can all become better sailors! Fair winds, Chris & Rossella 👍
Its good to see that some understand this problem. Some do add a snubber but don't use stretchy rope (such as nylon), and so gain no advantage. Most ropes on boast are polyester, and that doesn't have enough stretch for the snubber job. There are then people who do add a snubber but of about 1-2m length, and that's not much use either. About the length of the boat is a good approximation. If that snubber rope goes over the bow then watch for chafeing. A good way is to use a short length of hose (plastic, rubber whatever) at the point thr rope goes over the bow, but remembering that the hose needs to be half a meter or more, as the rope at that point is stretching a lot. It's good to swap ideas and knowledge between us all, that way we can spend more enjoyable time, and less time rescuing each other! Keep the good videos coming!
Love your vids guys. Don't get too hung up on having the best gear. While I know some think you have to have it, I disagree. I watch for the interesting content and perspective. You can film dog crap in 4k and its still crap ;)
Thank you for watching and commenting. We have lots of videos coming over the next few months and we hope you will love them too! Fair winds, Chris & Rossella 👍
I forgot to say congrats on the upcoming bundle of joy. Having two myself, I can truthfully say, best thing I ever did. Best advice I could give is to have heaps of patience and start buying diapers now ;)
Lol a town of 5500 people sounds huge to me🤣
Great sausage solution.
:-D
Just read your reply again could you not have motored straight into the wind don't worry about sails in those circumstances!
Being well anchored on a lee shore on a sandy beach is a whole lot safer than motoring out to sea in horrible conditions when either side of the bay there are potentially boat destroying rocks everywhere. At least that's how I see it... Perhaps sailors with many more years of experience than I have would disagree and I would love to hear any opinions on the above. Cheers, Chris
I don't understand why you stayed anchored in that shit.Why didn't you just set sail on a good angle and come back to where you want to be when the blow eased!!
Hi Mike, I didn't explain this in the video for the sake of brevity, but here is a paragraph copied from our reply to another comment:
"It was my fault that we were caught out like that.. Earlier in the day when we saw the waves picking up, we weighed anchor and headed over to the NW of the bay of Calvi to seek a more sheltered anchorage. As we beat into the waves to get there, Rossella was of the opinion that we should have just stayed where we were (I suppose when you have been anchored in the same spot for a few days it feels safe). Instead of sticking to my plan and finding some shelter in the lee of a nearby rocky peninsula, I changed my mind and we headed back to where we were previously anchored. This was a lee shore and there was a rocky breakwater not too far behind us. By the time we got back there conditions were horrible and Rossella was out of action with seasickness. It was an enormous relief when the anchor set on the first attempt and I swear I could have kissed that Bruce the next time I saw it on deck! We didn't film any of the above so didn't explain this in the video as I'm trying to talk a bit less in our videos!"
In order to get out of the bay we would have had to beat directly into wind and waves, making multiple tacks to avoid going into the rocks. Rossella was completely incapacitated by seasickness and If we had started beating into the weather like that then things could have got quite ugly pretty quickly. (We were, and still are, inexperienced sailors)
Riding it out at anchor was very uncomfortable, but in my mind it was also the safest option once we had been 'caught with our pants down' with a strong wind blowing towards a lee shore. Ask me this question again in ten years when we have a lot more experience and I may have a different opinion. I would hope that 'next time' we would be in a more protected anchorage as referred to above.
Fair winds,
Chris (& Rossella)
Poor little Italian sausage. 🤢
😂