Ep. 33: 24hrs Before Knockdown. Bilge Pump/Self Steering Failure, Crossing Atlantic Solo,Contessa 26
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- Part 7: Having crossed the Atlantic from West to East in 2019 she is now crossing from East to West. Departing from the Port of Calero on the easternmost island of the Canaries.
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I really admire how you rigged everything on wave rover to be simple and be able to be fix everything on the fly......
A man of my own heart. Kudos! You cleaned the mounting location before you installed the new pump.
I think that you could fix the crack of dawn. You are a wizard!
You made me laugh with that comment, thanks.
I followed this tough little boat and it’s tougher skipper. A wise decision in the end. Well done and congratulations on what you achieved. The video’s were brilliant. Thank you very much indeed.God luck in the future .
Much respect for your endeavor and self reliance. I am aspiring to do an ocean passage and I learn a lot from your videos.
A real sailor! My compliments.
The bilge is leaking.... no problem, I have another one. Well done.
9:53. Nice entrance!!!!¡
Dang, a knockdown? Glad your ok, cant wait for the next episode, must have been really ruff, never heard of a contessa 26 being knocked down.
Thanks for sharing your adventure! good winds from Porto, Portugal
I got sea sick watching this
I've been knocked down on the great lakes and it was a frightening experience. High winds ahead of a thunderstorm caught me completely off guard. I never want to see a micro burst after that experience. Looking forward to your video and watching how a master handles the crisis.
What type of sailboat was it? Did you suffer any damage? Where did the knockdown occur?
Coronado 25. We were coming into port Bay City Michigan. I did several things wrong. Started the engine my inexperienced brother was on the tiller. I raised the swing keel, dropped the jib and hooked the boom onto the aft stay in preparation for dropping the main sail since I had no topping lift at the time. The wind struck off our starboard beam and knocked us down. I was hanging from the aft stay and my brother was standing on the port rail. The mast and main was bouncing off the water. As she was trying to right herself the gusts would knock her back down. Hanked onto the aft stay there was no releasing the boom. I screamed to my brother to turn into the wind. When it bobbed up and the rudder entered the water it turned and immediately weather vaned into the wind popping back up. The Coronado will right its self up to 120 degrees from vertical which means the mast would be 30 degrees underwater requiring a combination of wind and waves to get there. We apparently had 30 degrees to spare.😊😊
No damage other than throwing everything about the cabin.
Mast head sloop.
Looks like some nice sailing is going on there. Sometime simple task that would take little effort on land can take a lot longer on the ocean due to the waves.
Addicted, need another video, soon or withdrawals are going to set in.
I've heard the Contessa 26 described as a "wet boat", as in you get pretty wet on board. Any thoughts? Also, could you expand a bit on the companionway with the portholes? I assume this was a later alteration? Thanks.
Yes that whole "doghouse" is an addition. The factory companionway is simply an arched opening, and doesn't have a sliding hatch overhead as found on most sailboats.
I believe I remember him going over the modification in the first or second episode.
Drama on the high seas!
Thanks for the upload mate.
Use vaseline on rubber parts to keep them from getting brittle and crackiing.
SV Chineel, Junk-Rigged Schooner Sailing . No no. Not Vaseline as it’s a petroleum based product and it attacks some rubber . Use a rubber lube to be on the safe side.
Use whatever you want as it will have virtually no effect, good or bad, on EPDM synthetic rubber diaphragms. Vaseline use to be an easy way to destroy real rubber o-rings, seals, and diaphragms. Since real rubber is rarely used anymore you will have to find new ways to destroy o-rings, seals, and diaphragms. 😁
What about a silicone gel?
@@Sailspirit99 That'd be my go-to as well. Loctite makes a good silicone spray.
Rah-row! Scooby says to your serious knockdown comment.
Glad your ok.
Of course you’ve got a spare,because your professional! So no drama.....
Have you found out where the water is coming in from? That was a lot of water..
Great ,100 Likes ! ..
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Nice work!
wave rover is definitely a ocean vessel capable is it ?
You have probably been asked this already but I did not find it. You must get plenty of sleep on board, but do you time your sleep or sleep light? I would be scared something would go wrong while I was catching shuteye?
We are all waiting for news. Are you Ok and how about the boat?
wow amazing !! but when you are down below doing stuff or sleeping how do you avoid other boats or floating debris
...didnt see an answer to this as yet, but I would say he has a de ice w an alarm that let's him know when a boat is within 10 miles. Re debris, I think the sailor is suppose to get up and look outside about every 20 minutes, even if it means waking up 3 times an hour to check things out. Not sure everybody does that. Maybe Wave Rover will chime in.
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I've crossed the Atlantic on a Sunbeam 36, there were four of us aboard so our time was divided by watches, but in all honesty the only time you sleep is due to total exhaustion, because of the movement of the boat rolling around sleep is more or less impossible, crossing oceans on a small sailing boat is not a pleasure cruise in the slightest, and it's not for the faint hearted, five weeks at sea is incredibly hard
Your Mk 3 gear is really great. I'm about to fabricate my own similar system for a 44' steel boat. One thing I have been wondering about...what do you do with the trim tab when the vane isn't in use? Is it just left to float around in any direction the water pushes it?
I have a way of locking it in the midships position. Good luck with your project. MK3 steered 7800Nm over the last year
@@RoversAdventure Any chance you could share a picture of your locking mechanism? You can send it to cleveroctopus19 at gmail if you don't mind.
o man the fast movements make me dizzyyyyyyy
Stupid question, having watched all your videos, and now brainwashed with the music :-D What is the music you use? Thanks!
Do you use a whisker pole or anything for downwind?
Does anything get you frazzled?
I embarked on this voyage with the mindset that I would embrace/accept all aspects, including calamitous events. I always tried to keep that idea forefront in my head when things became more extreme.
I tried to get on your patreon site. No luck so far.
Curious if you ever set fishing lines when the seas are calmer? Hope your well on your way back to PEI
A lot of people try fishing off the back of sailboats, but are usually unsuccessful. Most trolling on the ocean is done in the 9 knot range while Wave Rover would probably struggle to get over 6 knots. It is simply too slow to interest most ocean fish. It can be done, but the success rate will be so low it may not be worth the effort to most sailors.
I love spare anything but why not have spare bilge pump already installed
If you're single handed you can only use 1 manual pump at the time. 1 more pump = more holes in the hull more hose etc. Its only 4 or 6 screws and two hose clips. The diaphragm allways fail.
Hey Mate are you okay?
Just getting some last minute things done and watching the weather. Should be leaving in the next 48 hours.
Sailing Wave Rover, Wishing you Safe and great Sailing.
It would be nice if your videos were on bitchute or dlive, so many commercials here on YT
I agree. I will have to check out bitchute or dlive, thanks.
@@RoversAdventure I am a senior, but still just getting started with an Aquarius23 trailer sailboat...you videos are a wealth for beginners. Not going offshore, lakes only, but still, water is water.
@@pvb9964 Good for you my friend and thank you for the comment. Fair winds
Allen, Is it hard to capsize a boat of this size?
A small boat like Wave Rover is a good candidate for capsize while on the ocean. One must always keep one's wits about themselves and have everything stowed to help mitigate the chances of even more damage post capsize. One then has to put their mind to surviving and continuing post capsize if possible.
@@RoversAdventure Great advice. I'll keep this in mind while finishing my boat this year.
Checkout a great book - The SeawothyYacht- at the end of each chapter, the author has a note called - Think Inverted - very good advice for offshore sailing.
Can you put your camera on a stable surface please!
He is on a rolling sail boat :)
I understand what you are saying, but it still made me chuckle. A stationary camera would have made the timelapse easier to watch.
As I said in comments in a prior episode... no primary/secondary electric bilge pump? Why? They are cheap and will alert you to a problem early.
Yeah I know, “it’s your boat... so piss off.” You’re doing the singlehanded crossing and I’m a chicken shit and will never have the guts to do what you’re doing.
A bilge pump is used to clear nuisance water from the bilge. A crash pump is used to clear the vessel of water in the event of a crash that has breached the hull. In my opinion his bilge pump is sufficient, but he really should install a crash pump.
An electric pump is fine if you have enough power for it at the time you need it. No engine or generator here, just solar. Even with power you really need a manual one available. This one looks to be efficient, when it is working!
Please please please don't do another time lapse with the camera not in a fixed position. I was starting to feel sick whilst sat on my couch
Man crosses oceans single handed and pits himself against the world. You complain about feeling sick on the couch.
Bless your being prepared.... I'll be praying for you till you hit Nova Scotia or FLORIDA under TRUTHBOOMER LOCKDOWN