Sailing Safar Ep 8 - Sailing in the Mediterranean (SOLO)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- In this episode, I rejoin Safar after a 2 month hiatus while I have been at work in the South Pacific. During this time, Safar has also undergone some work to her hull to ensure she's slippy and ready for the fourth coming season.
I'm a little rusty, both with my sailing and with my filming, but my skills sharpen throughout the episode and together me and Safar press East into the Med.
21:35 Was my favourite part of this episode! I rewatched it so many times during the editing
Fully understand the need to go and make some money, but, please keep making the videos. I watch scores of different sailing channels, but, yours seems far and away the most relatable. I had hoped to make a very similar trip to yours in my own boat this year, but I continue to have concerns about the Orca whale situation, as I think do many others. You seemed to have been ok, in that regard. Good luck in the new job and keep the videos coming, even though they may be less often.
Really appreciate this Chris thank you! I’m hoping to keep some videos coming when I return to work, so I’m doing plenty of sailing and filming now, but obviously I don’t want to water the content down, so I’ll only put a video together if I think people might find it interesting or helpful 😅
The orca situation was/ is a concern and I was certainly worried about it, I made the mistake of joining the FB groups with all the damage reports and then had visions of what I’d do if I got attacked, but ultimately 100s of boats seemed to be sailing the coast and very very few get attacked, so I think you’d have to be fairly unlucky, that being said I went well Offshore to avoid everything and everyone during my trip down the Portuguese coast. Good luck with your trip though! Keep me posted of where you end up!
Another great video !
How much difference did the staysail make to the roll sailing ‘wing on wing’ ? I have just bought an old Westerly Sealord with a staysail on a removable inner forestay. Anything to help / slow the roll would be worth giving it a go I guess..
Always liked the Sealords, look forward to seeing some pictures of yours when you get sailing!
To be honest, I’m sure the staysail must help to a degree, but the heavy roll when wing on wing was still a problem 😅 my search for a perfect downwind set up continues!
Hi Morgan. Great video. It was an absolute pleasure to meet you at Alcaidesa, sorry we didn't get a chance to say goodbye. Best of luck with your adventures and good luck with your new job. All the best. Kind regards Daryl.
Thanks Daryl! The pleasure was all mine and hope to catch up with you and Shirley on the water in the future! Stay in touch and If you ever need a second opinion on anything boat related don’t hesitate to drop me a message sailingsafar@gmail.com
Hey Up Morgan, it's good to see you back and Safa, seems to be going very well with her nice coppercoat bottom. Still too cold up here for boating, very envious of you wandering around in a tea shirt. It's "big coat" weather here. Take care .. Dave
Thanks Dave! Looking forward to your next adventures! Hope you've enjoyed a good winter back in the Uk. The weather has been a little hit and miss here since I departed, some days it double jumpers and a coat and some days it's sitting in the cockpit in my underwear basking in the sun 😂(Those clips don't make TH-cam)
Great to see you back again and where have the last two months gone? I have heard your theme music on a few other youtube channels but every time I hear it I think of Sailing Safar and looking forward to your further travels 👍
Thanks Alan! Great to see your still tuning in!
The title song has very much become Safars theme song hasn’t it? I pay a small fortune in licensing fees to use it, but It’s uplifting rhythm really adds life to my footage.
great video! should add more sails to help you go faster! saw it on wikipedia
Nice to see you back 🙂. Time goes quickly. If you need to return to a job again, good luck. Hopefully you'll be back on your boat and keeping us informed soon. Wish you good luck.
Thanks Neil! I’ve still got a little bit of time on my hands before starting another work rotation, so hopefully I’ll have some more adventures to film over the next few weeks to keep you entertained this January/ February. Thanks again for the support!
Another great episode and good to see you back and sailing Safar again. Quite envious of your sailing conditions... we are having a shocker of a summer for sailing with frequent rain and strong ex-cyclone winds in Auckland, NZ so enjoyed being reminded of these more favourable conditions.
Thanks Paul! Great to see you’re still watching after my time away.
Sorry to hear about your sailing season, the weather was also a little hit and miss while I was in French Polynesia. Hopefully you’ll manage to get some quality time on the water before the season ends.
I’ve been very fortunate with sailing in Europe so far with the conditions being quite mild. My latest passage (Next weeks episode) had almost perfect weather, the footage of Safar sailing under full sail was a joy to film!
Great film, happy sailing x
glad to see you back ,as always great content and will always look forward to future episodes.
Thanks again for the support Craig! There’s a bit more wind in the next episode, so you’ll get to see Safar pressing hard under full sail!
You've producing great videos. Unfortunately it does take working to support our lifes. Just keep doing great videos whenever you can and i'll keep watching.
Thank's Edward! Heading back to work again this week, but I've got one more episode to make and then that's a wrap for Safars 2023 sailing season. All the best, Morgan
6.000 💶 for antifouling? 🤯🤯DUDE I would have done it for 5 🤣🤣🤣 💶
You’d of done a better job as well! Alas Coppercoat is expensive stuff 😳 That included the blasting, sanding, primer and clean up, but still very expensive! So much so that I need a job again 😂
Perfect blend of feminine beauty from the Ocean and rugged masculinity from the voice over!
8/10, table for two please.
I’m not quite sure what that means 😂 but I’ll take an 8/10 review all day!
This is absolutely great. You deserve a much bigger following.
Thank you and really glad you think so! I’ll keep chipping away between work and share the adventures when I can ⛵️
Good to see you back on the water. It's a shame how work can get in the way of our lives.
Really appreciate the support! Hoping to find a nice balance between both, with working as a seafarer, although I often have to work long periods away, it also grants me long periods of time off, so hopefully I’ll have a cracking spring and summer sailing Safar
I'm rather jealous, I'm in offshore land West Africa since August and still no reliever - wanna go and sail my own boat!
I definitely feel your pain here! I sometimes have to restrict myself watching sailing on TH-cam while at work otherwise I get depressed 😂 Hope you get swapped out soon and get some good time off!
Welcome back mate !!! (happy new year.....maybe one day....)
Enjoy !!
Thanks Jorge! Hope you and your family had a great time!
2023 should be a big sailing year for Safar, not sure if I’ll get your way but I’ll let you know if I do 🙌
Your headsail Yankee looks really small for the boat? I had a Tradewind 35 for 15 years and I’m pretty sure it was much larger.
I think you’re right Richard, This one is a bit on the small side and not quite what I had envisioned when I had It made, but it seems excellent when I’m in a blow and working to windward. I do have a older larger yankee and a Genoa, I’ll probably swap them out now that I’m sailing in the med and I can pick and chose my weather windows a little better.
Nice one 😎
Great video Morgan. Did you have any concerns about Orca’s? We wanted to take our boat from Northern Ireland to the Med this summer…but just can’t entertain the thought of having the boat damaged by Orca’s.
We are more likely to head for Madeira and the Canaries.
Lovely video. Lovely clean, well maintained yacht. What is she?
Happy sailing. ⛵️
Thanks Hugh! To be honest, I was terrified of the Orca situation, I made the mistake of joining the Orca Attack FB page and it gave me the impression that I was almost guaranteed an encounter. On reflection 100s of boats were sailing each day, and only a very small percentage even saw Orcas and that was mostly around Sines, I looked at the data and decided to sail well offshore for my passage south along the Portuguese coast, roughly around 50nm, this kept me well clear of ships, fishing boats and fishing traps… it also meant I could relax a little more for sleeping while solo. I thought about the amount of time you sail and don’t see dolphins, and they’re far more widespread, so for an Orca encounter you really would just have to be in the wrong spot at the wrong time.
Madeira and the Canaries will be amazing and the route from Ireland should also keep you clear of any trouble. Good luck if/ when you do make the passage, and let me know how you get on! I was hoping to get there myself to line up with an Atlantic crossing, but I was running low on time with work, so I’ve decided to delay a year and do some cruising in the med, but I’ll sail towards the canaries at the back end of this summer I think.
Safar is a Saltram Saga 36, very few made, She was the first of her type and to be honest I’m very pleased with her.
All the best, Morgan
@@sailingsafar very comprehensive answer putting the Orca issue into perspective….and the 50 nm offshore makes perfect sense. Thank you. Hugh ⛵️
Hello Morgan, nice to see you and Safar back together and sailing.
Can you tell me what AIS program you were running ? It looked like you had it on your iPad too.
All the best Richard
Hi Richard, hope you’re well.
I have the Raymarine AIS700 unit, at the time I thought this was best because it came with the integrated splitter, but I wish I had done more research as this unit isn’t Wi-fi capable and the only way to use it on your tablet is by using the mirror screen function via the chart plotter, which nearly always disconnects and causes problems.
I think if I had my time again I’d look at fitting an em-trak B924, that seems to tick all the boxes and is only around £100 more. Hope that helps
@@sailingsafar Thanks Morgan. This is very helpful as I have been looking into the ‘em-trak a100.
Thanks. Richard
Hi Morgan, great to have you back on your lovely boat. Yes the work life balance is so hard to get right on a boat, and we all know that boats chew money up and spit it out with a total disregard to our financial situation! I was a yachty for 30 years and even on 2 and 2 I was not really using the boat well enough. You will figure out what works for you and of course the Med season is much longer than the Baltic where my baby lies ……. For now anyway.
Fair winds at work and play, all the best Jon
Thanks Jon! Good to hear from you and hope Mandala Is doing well over the winter season? When are you able to get back to her and start sailing again? I know you talked about Norway, but after a winter in the Baltic some sun must now be appealing? I was fortunate enough to have 2/2 with my last role (Bosun) and that's become a bit of a deal breaker for me now purely because of Safar, but things are looking good for the next role which is 8 weeks on/off so that's should give me plenty of time to continue cruising this year.
@@sailingsafar we are loving it there in the North and will do more exploring this summer for 12 weeks- launching early June can’t wait -bliss!
I think Norway may now be Next year and for sure the sun /warmth ☀️ is very tempting. We shall see but I now have more flexibility working for myself, it’s all good as they say. Good luck in the new role 👏👏👏
When we do eventually head down for all ports South I hope we have a better understanding about the reasons for the Orca attacks, as that certainly a worry with my spade rudder 🫣
Welcome back. Cracking sailing footage. I'm looking to fit a boom gallows to my 31 and would be interested to see how yours are fitted.
Thanks Craig! If you can find me on Facebook I’d certainly be happy to send you some pictures of my gallows for inspiration. Search “Morgan Cole” and I should pop up
@@sailingsafar That will be great. Thank you.
Have you any plans to visit Mallorca? I'm living on anchor I'm Palma nova. It's amazing here and we'll protected from the wind and swell
I will definitely be heading your way, but it likely won’t be until early May as I need to head back to work for a few months and I’m hoping to spend plenty of time in Mallorca,
I have been keeping a keen eye on the weather though and maybe I’ll dart across from Alicante for a short visit just before I leave Safar. Good to hear that Palma Nova is the spot to be, what boat do you sail James?
@@sailingsafar Hi, that's great to hear please come and say hi I'm really interested in seeing a saltram up close. Palma nova bay is special it has protection from North,south west, and if an east wind comes there's another bay about 1 mile away with east protection and great holding, I live here on anchor full time. The area is really nice and friendly and predominantly English speaking.
My boat is a moody 36s sv Lady Joyce.
Thank you for bringing us along your voyage once again. I love watching you sail and make decisions along the way which is so real and honest. As true as the sea and the wind as I could ever imagine. I am curious though... did the staysail give any added stability to the wing-on-wing downwind sail as you have envisaged?
Thanks Joseph! I don’t think I’ve ever received a nicer comment!
My pursuit for low roll down wind set up continues unfortunately, I’m sure having the staysail up, sheeted in hard does help to slow the roll to a small degree, but it adds nothing to her passage making. Next up I’ll try twin headsails and a triple reef main, that’s looks good in my head, but could upset the balance 🤔
I think the only way of avoiding the roll is to crack off a few degrees and not sail dead downwind.
@@sailingsafar I think you are definitely right getting less roll some angle off downwind. Thanks again and hope to 'hop' onboard on your many future voyages.
Hey where is you deck crew shoutout 😄
Episode 11 😂
Hi , just started watching your channel , enjoy it a lot , we are in Gibraltar , just did the journey from Uk so a few weeks behind you … cheers
Phill
Thanks Phill! Glad you’re enjoying the episodes so far, I’m starting to get the hang of it now. Great to hear you sailed from the UK, what’s your plans for the season?
@@sailingsafar
Hi , we hope to leave Gibraltar mid March , just getting some work done etc. We then hope to cruise a bit of the Med then get to Montenegro. Hope to winter in Turkey , maybe try to catch up and buy you a beer at some point. Happy sailing and we will watch your videos. Cheers
Ah great stuff! Hope all goes well in Gib!Montenegro and Turkey will be my plans as well I think, I briefly sailed through Montenegro a few years back and it was stunning and with the EU limitations for British passports, it certainly makes sense to go back! Look forward to seeing you down the line! Morgan
I always found I was left with a profound sense of loneliness when a dolphin pod leave after being with you for a few hours
Nice to See you sailing again. Directly down Wind, wing in wing the Saltram rolls quite a bit, at least mine does. I am still looking for a solution for that.
Thanks Claudia! Let me know how you get on with finding a feathering prop, that’s something I’d also like for Safar.
I let you know, what I find out. Can you geht me a Link to the sailmaker you have, please?
@@claudiadienst886 He doesn’t have a website as such, but here’s his FB page facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057635313344
Sailmakers of Polruan
Thank you so much, I will contact him.
The coast is much better after cabo de gata ,
Very much looking forward to discovering more of Spain! I know there’s some hidden gems around!
@@sailingsafar cartegena is a must , visit the Roman theatre ,