SOLO Atlantic Crossing on an TINY 18ft(5m) sailboat - Part 1/4 - Gibraltar to Lanzarote
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- Crossing the Atlantic SOLO on my 1970 Hurley 18 (5,5m) sailboat called 1/4 Life Crisis .
This is Part 1 of my Atlantic Crossing in Winter 2021/22. It took me 8 days from Gibraltar to Lanzarote.
Einhand Atlantiküberquerung auf meinem 5,5m Segelboot 1/4 Life Crisis. 8 Tage allein auf See von Gibraltar nach Lanzarote.
I have seen many sailing ⛵️ videos. Therefore, I'm not surprised people cross the oceans in small boats or even motorless. What amazes me is how someone could handle this sort of voyage mentally.
You try to prepare for whats coming ! You know that youll be alone for some time befor you leave :P for me one reason i did this trip was to find out how i would get along with myself for this long and it was a great experience !!! if your not interested in this kind of experience i wont recomend leaving n a voyage like this :P
Good point and great response @sailing.oneworld
Very impressed, what an adventure on such a small craft, well done sir.
Hi Nico! Thanks for taking me with you on your atlantic-crossing. Great Job! You´re a tough sailor! Cheers Chrsiian!👌
Petit bateau; grand plaisir.
Merci pour la partage de ta traversée; l'aventure, la vraie!
Great videos and a great adventure. Getting into the final stage where the waves ease off is such a great feeling.
Great video. Always good to see the smaller sail boats achieving great things. Subscribed and look forward to following your adventure 👍
Great video, respect to you. I have a Hurley Alacrity 18’, similar to yours but mine is bilge keel. Maybe one day I follow your journey, but it might be in my Rival 32. Andy UK
Just got introduced to your channel and I love your videos. Looking forward to more!!
Hallo, Hut ab !
Ich hatte lange Jahre eine Hurley 18 (Scampolo) und habe sie geliebt…Die Hurley packt das locker wenn vorher die Schwachstellen gecheckt sind. Genieße die Tour….
Immer ne handbreit…
Gruß Bent
the hurley is a great design. sailed with a 24' and always feeling safe. follow your dream! Safe miles👍
Hoping to do the same next year with my Albin Vega starting frome Den Helder Nederland. Bravo sailor 💪
You have a lion heart 🦁
Sam Holmes style…best of luck amigo!
You are Very brave nicolas...respect
Great video .Good luck
whoop whoop great job!
Amazing man, respect!
Great Video !! Brave doing it on an 18'
Alter Respekt, komm gut an. Ich wünsche dir alles gute. Lg Tomy
Reading HARARI on a boat on the sea - you do it right!
Viel Glück!!
Wow. I'm impressed. I plan to be doing similar trips in a few years but not in such a small boat! I'm looking at boats around 25', anything shorter doesn't have the headroom I want. I have to be able to stand up or I'll go mad. 😂
For sure more comfortabel in an bigger boat 😅 I think i would Go For 26ft (Contessa, Albin vega)
You are a madman
Big balls mate but a bit small for the Atlantic, glad you got across safely
Brave man, respect
I’m preparing to do this on a 25ft sailboat everything nearly ready for the summer
Habe a good trip 🤘🏽🤘🏽🥳
Großartig!
Nice, freu mich auf die Videos :)
amazing
Hope you plan to spend some time cruising the Inner Banks when you get here: Cheseapeake Bay, Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds.
Was ein Abenteuer, genial!
Pon un balcón de proa. Por favor. Los hay baratos. Soy una admiradora tuya.
I would like to see a closer view of that swing stove, looks DIY.
Way to GO!!
Geile Leistung mit so einem Boot
This is so gnarly! This channel gonna take off soon, what's not to love here! Did you have a bilge pump onboard or just sponge out the water every so often? Very cool boat. Again, this is so rad! 🤙⛵
Darwin approves. Keep up the great work
You got Balls of Steel.
Great nice 👍👍
Nicolas, this require or a lot off selfconfidence doubled by real aptitude, or to be crazy ...
What your background in sailing ?
When I look at your boat, most of people, whon t even dare cross a lake with it
Thunbs up this is real adventure !
I bought the boat and started sailing 2 years ago in greece ans tought myself everything before deciding to croas the atlantic 🥳
@@sailing.oneworld Nice 👍, fair winds Nicolas !
@@sailing.oneworld Another question Nicolas : don t you have the video from Greece to Canaria ? Would be nice :) many thanks for your answer
Amazing! Found you on the other YT channel that interviewed you, incredible feat and very inspiring. I have tons of questions and can't find a website for this project that explains everything, for example about how you got this boat equipped and learned to sail etc, only these few YT videos which are very short and abbreviated and do not have much details. (For example, what model of windvane is that?) Anyway, wil be watching all of these videos of yours, small boat sailing intrigues me tremendously! Also cool that you are a paragliding guy, I've been a commercial pilot all my life but am retired now and planning to get back to sailing and fulfil the lifelong dream I had of sailing the seas. Plus learning to paraglide. So thank you for the inspiration!
Thank you for the info. It looks like a really good unit I have a boat a little bigger than yours and would like to fit one
👍
Nice film,,, what boat is that,,? It looks a little like a Hurley 18 , made 60 years ago in my home town of Plymouth
Yes very true its a Hurley 18 !
@@sailing.oneworld ahhh, good choice,, a tough little vessel,, and cheap to buy,,, they even give them away over here now,,, the boats have outlived their owners
@@marmac567 I should check it out😀
great video - I have a hurley signet 20 - inspiration - thank you! have you done a video on the boat set up eg lifelines. noticed the shroud covers - did you make them? And it looks like you took out internal cupbaords?
I expect the trade wind will blow you along at more than the average of 3nm/day but surely it will still take you 20-30 days to cross Atlantic. What nav equipment do you have and does the boat have space for water, fuel & provisions? How rough do the wind/seas need to get before you are very worried?
🤩🥳👍
Would be so fun
👍⛵️❤️
How much do you usually sleep at night. Have a Cornish Shrimper 19 and looking at doing an extend trip in the med from Gibraltar to Canal du Midi in France.
Near the coast and shipping lanes 20-30 minutes... offshore as long as i can 😅✌🏽
Are you still planning this?
@@nkdoherty Yes. It will be my longest so far. Before I go I'm buying the Icom m94d Vhf it's the only handheld AIS receiver on the market that I know of. I'll wait until next fall for cooler weather and less boats in the Med
How amplified the water sounds inside boat.
How many miles a day on average?
Perhaps you mentioned this in your videos, but were you ever afraid for your life, ready to turn back, hopelessly depressed? Is the loneliness sometimes emotionally draining?
This is amazing! You said you learnt how to sail in Greece before your trip. Did you just learn by yourself or did you have to do some kind of license?
Great to watch! What kind of cameras did you use?
Did you just sail back the other way recently? I’m pretty sure I met you in Cloggy’s in Antigua a couple of months ago, the day before you set off west to east.
Yes just arrived in france 🥳🥳🍻
Hi nicholas i have a small Hurley myself how can I get out into the ocean with it while avoiding the larger waves?
You can't ... but the little hurley can take alot !!
I guess Ill start with the bay on a windy day then just try it out!@@sailing.oneworld
What are those blue polyester webbing straps on your shrouds?
Is your 18ft sailboat made by Compact Yachts ?
No its a hurley 18 build in the UK
Oh ok, thanks. Great videos.
Hi, erstmal Hut ab für Deine hervorragende Leistung!!!
Meine Frage an Dich wie hast Du Dein Boot versichert und wenn ja - vielleicht eine Empfehlung für mich
Nette Grüße
Sven
ich brauche auch gerade eine versicherung für mein boot, nur wenn ich mir so ansehe, was die alles wissen wollen, da bleibt für mich nur der ADAC übrig, ich kann einfach mit meinem alten boot die anforderungen der anderen nicht erfüllen
Hi. What make of self steering do you have on your boat
Its a windpilot pacific light ... i love it !!never let me down
All fun and games until you get caught up in a bad storm,that craft would surely disintegrate in rough sea 😮
The EPIRB is bigger than the boat
🤣🤣
What about a 18ft Hurley probably less than cost $5000
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SOLO Atlantic Crossing on an TINY 18ft(5m) sailboat - Part 1/4 - Gibraltar to Lanzarote
how wide is the boat ?
What's funny is people think boats under 30ft aren't capable of ocean crossings... Do you really think the ocenas of the world Care about 12 feet. You'd ve just as scared in a 40ft boat as you would be in a 18 feet boat except the 18ft boat would be much stronger
Very cool. But how is your boat able to stay on course while you sleep? I noticed you didn't use any navigation lights at night. Why is that?
I have a windvane selfsteering which does all the steering day and night :) and in German law you dont need nach Lights below 7m/23ft vessels :D
I am still confused about the windvane. I get it works off the wind, but it sets you in the direction of the wind only correct? And I get that in Germany, you don't need nav lights. But you was crossing the Atlantic and not having nav lights and being so low in the water kinda made it dangerous especially at night. It's still cool what you did though.
Which windvane brand and model are you using on that little vessel?
@@thadmoore3239 Windpilot pacific light best Service from Peter and it works perfect
I wanna buy a boat so bad
Do it :D go small as it will be more expensive then you think at first 😅🙈
Good morning Nicolas
Just found your vlog and am hooked already! Stay safe and fair winds amigo….check my first sail boat bought a few days ago …Westerly Tiger 25!…SUBSCRIBED to you!
Congratulations on your purchase. And what is there to do?
You should not throw away the garbage overboard. Shame on you.
you should mind your own business
@@melvynparkerson9984 Yeah, without pigs.
Jit trippin😊