HEAVY WEATHER and 6m seas in a 40ft Beneteau | Atlantic Crossing Part 3 - EP 15 - Sailing Beaver
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Join us for the final leg of our Atlantic crossing where we encounter heavy weather and rough seas on our Beneteau Oceanis 40. With 600 miles and four days before remaining a large area of high pressure and strong NE trade moves in, accompanied by a very confused sea state. By far the most hectic sail we have ever experienced and well out of our comfort zone.
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A couple from Australia and Norway who set sails from Norway on a Beneteau Oceanis 40 in late 2018 to explore the world by sailboat. (Yup, another sailing couple doing the standard route and documenting it on film.)
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Wow, that was intense! I liked how you let the wind and the sea state do most of the talking in this episode. I think it captured the mood onboard
Thanks mate! Yeah sometimes its so much better to just hear the raw sound of the ocean, even with our cheap microphone
End of the seat stuff guys.. well done team...👊
Thanks so much 🙏
EXACTLY. Well put.
Wow! I really liked this crew, everyone on the boat is listening to the ocean. Thanks!!!
If you were just another sailing couple you'd be peddling gear, pimping patreon, panhandling for donations and maximizing monetization of your vids. I'm not seeing that so you're the atypical YT sailing couple. Congrats.
Thankyou sir, well worded I must say. All that pimping and panhandling handling sounds like way to much work so we’ll stick to the sailing instead.
Look again....
Appreciate you thorough home work face diaper..
How you think they are able to do what they do
Work hard and save as would be expected…
I enjoyed the video, especially when you got rid of the loud music and just let us hear the sounds of nature. Thanks for sharing. I appreciate it.
Awesome, thank you! Glad you enjoyed it:)
When I have new crew helping me sail by Ben-40, I have them watch this "training video" of how to keep cool in these conditions. Thanks for making this video so that everyone can learn from it.
"The thin line between f***ing sh** up, and f***ing not." Love it!
Quote of the trip haha. Cheers 🤙
Fantastic footage!Very cool,calm and collected.Well done everybody
Thanks for the kind words, much appreciated 🙏
Just found you guys this morning, what an exciting trip lol, great footage and showing how it really is. Thanks for not sugar coating the shit, please keep up the reality of sailing the seas.
That's some really kind words there mate, thanks a lot! We will do our best to do just that
hi guys , great footage of your crossing. we were on the ocean at the same time on our way to st lucia. we experience the same wave height's in a 40ft Van de Stadt,
Thanks 🙏 was a wild few days.
The guy in the baseball cap needs to be deposited in Bridgetown with the rest of the garbage. Your helmsman needs to learn to feel the boat, stop looking at the waves. Anticipate, typical Brit congratulate each other on achievements in failure and seamanship.
Sounds like your a solo sailor there Richard, if that’s how you treat your crew. In our opinion the crew did an excellent job at helming in those conditions. If your attempting to comment on seamanship try something with a little more substance then ‘feel the boat’, then maybe we can actually learn something from you. Btw Aussies mate, not Brits!
Love the bit when she is trying to catch a shark with her feet. Got a friend in California, Stumpy we call him, who actually managed to catch one but had to let it go.
Ooff! I don’t think we would be doing this back on Australia to many big fish!
Mate! That is hands down, the best TH-cam sailing clip I have ever seen. Pure sailing!
Keep up the good work.
Wow, thank you so much! Will do:)
Well done, and you managed to capture the drama well.
Thanks 🙏. Quite noisy and bumpy footage but so was the sailing I guess.
I worried about the girl at the stern. No life vest. If she had slipped into that sea you would never have found her.
Correct you are sir, strict no slipping policy onboard and we have also installed a very good seatbelt system 👌
Wow, gripping to watch and so glad I wasn't there I felt sea sick watching it and felt elated when you arrived, keep safe.
Thank so much for this comment and glad we can put you in the moment with us like that. Cheers and fair winds. 🙏
That was amazing. Really feeling the emotion onboard; that’s good filmmaking 👍🏻
Thanks so much for this comment and your feedback. Glad you enjoyed 🙏
Love the buzz of a good swell. Nice helming. When things get lumpy ‘follow the mast’... when the boat starts to lurch to port - steer to port. Use the mast as an indicator, especially at night. You probably know this anyway with how you were doing - great job.
I meant to say, when the ‘mast’ lurches to port, steer to port.... and vici versa
Thanks for the nice words. I guess we do this but yeah at night it’s tricky to see the instruments so that’s a good idea to follow the mast at night. Cheers.
Thanks for the info. Just found this. I've no idea about sailing and was wondering what they were steering towards. I'm a flier and you basically do the opposite in a plane to level the wings in the bumps (but you don't fight it too hard - ease your way through). I guess if I was steering that boat I'd end up rolling the thing.
That looked lively, i have been there too, fear and adrenaline, nothing else matters but the next moment, at the front of the train, not many people get there! Thank You and well done.
Hi Guys n’ Girl. I Saw this video trough, an felt very intens about it. I took in companionship with my nephew , his wife and their 2 daughters, the same tour Cap Verde/Mindelo to Babados November 2019, and we had about the same experience the last 4 days out og 19 days. Very heavy wind swirls with heavy rain,- in wich the boad 38food Benetton first, kind of surfed. After about an hour the rain stopped and the wind got a bit down, and very big waves 5-6 m cought up with us. Some crashed down in cockpit, and one smashed so hard at the rear end of the boad, that we got a crack, and began to take water in. We also lost power for some hours before finding the problem. We glued and repaired in morning light, and sawed courage for next swirl. The swirls had a kind of cycle thing,- and went back 2-3 times every Night. Our wind at highest before loosing power mesured 38spm. But in Night swirls was the Wind much higher. We kept calm and all went well. After arrival at George Town /. Babardos yacht club we slept 18 hours, and got drunk for the next 24. Kind of taking pressure I gues . Regards Jens-Otto. Sailing Embla. DK
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Wow this sounds like a very intense crossing And a very wild arrival into Barbados. Power failure and taking on water, the worst. Thanks for getting in touch we will look you up on fb.
Best yet. You’ve done it justice. I’ve watched it 5 times now and I get goosebumps every time. Trip of a lifetime for sure yewwwww
Yeeeww
CAN'T imagine myself There .with my Albin VEGA 27 haha. Is this possible?
Probably a good boat for that. I heard they are super strong!
You just can’t begin to understand how scary this can be until you’ve done it. We had the same conditions but with a counter current coming in to Isla Mujeres when we lost our steering. Thank God we had an emergency tiller made before we left the US. We didn’t have so far to go fortunately. We literally surfed into Isla. Never been so relieved to put down the anchor! Great video and am looking forward to following your adventures.
Wow that sounds like a scary experience, lucky it went all well. Thank you so much, glad to have you here!
Well done guys, You deserve a few drinks after that. Epic video..
Cheers George 🍻
A great boat is at her best with a good crew! This is a great video of heavy weather sailing! Great job!
Good to see a Benneteau handling those conditions ( also a clearly competent crew !) ... if we believed everything we read by the purists they should have gone down with all hands !
Hahaha 😂 thankyou sir for the kind words. The purists will be most upset that we are still floating alive and well. 🤘
The purists are old farts!
Please stop sailing "Wing on Wing" Broad Reach then gybe, chicken gybe if you have to.!
We change that around depending on our angles and swell/wind to get good speeds and stability. Wing on wing works great for us mate but it does have its limits so on the final day we switched to deep gybes.
Like the lack of music...really captures nature. Not all daiquiris and margaritas... you guys show the sacrifice
Thankyou sir, much appreciated!
Well done guys, Excellent Video. I know from my own experiences how it is very difficult to capture wave size from on board and the pictures never quite do justice to the reality. Enjoy the stopover and a few cold ones!
Thankyou sir! Yeah your right, somehow the camera always flattens the seas. We almost drowned the camera and got saltwater all over the lenses but atleast we got a few good shots.
Just stumbled upon your channel. Love the sailing footage!! Thanks for the much needed fix since my sailing season doesn't start until May... 😁⛵
Glad you found us and thanks so much for this comment 🙏. Fair winds!
i don t know if it is your lense, the colour grading, your accent, the cutting, or just you as a human but i must say i love your videos and the vibes you are able to catch and put into a video. i crossed the atlantic ocean this year as well and i know exactly how you feel (-; thank you very much for sharing.
Wow this is an amazing comment! Thanks so much for your feedback and such kind words. All the best on your trip, fair winds. 🙏
I sailed on a Beneteau 40, what a crappy sailing boat, ato pilot didn't work so we had to hand steer, that boat was all over the place no way to keep it straight, sailboat data gives it a comfort rating of 26,33, I own and sail a Bristol Channel Cutter a 28' boat, it has a comfort rating of 37.20 sails like it's on a rail, much better cruising boat
Hmmm 🤔
Judging by the fact that waves usually look much lower on video these are really impressive. Well done!
True that, cheers 🍻
Well articulated ya swabee...I was thinking the same thing.
I got sea sick while im watching this from bed .. great video, you deserve sub. waiting for more videos :) have a good sail .
Thanks 🙏
Fun video..maybe adding a little more sail would have help to stabilize the boat so it got close to hull speed. I raced a First 40.7 to Hawaii in 40-45 true and in appearance it looked a lot more stable than yours.
40-45 is quite windy but our boat on this day was having more problems relating to the sea state rather then wind. Obviously that was dictating sail choice. Cheers for watching 🤙
It boggles my mind how those wooden sailing ships of the 1600s crossed the pond, every feature of today, and the sea will still end you if it chooses to.
Bro the sea sinks ocean liners. That little 40 ft boat ain’t shit
We appreciate your comprehension of the matter. Let’s just say you feel rather small out there.
We appreciate your comprehension of the matter. Let’s just say you feel rather small out there.
Just recently found you guys and I’m loving the channel! Keep up the strong work and safe travels and fair winds!
Welcome aboard mate 🤘
Nice images! No offense meant but I suggest you cut the sound and listen to Erik Satie's Gymnopedies & Gnossienne. It suits well the video.
I’m not sure on that one, but we’ll take your word for it. Thanks for tuning in 🤙
What time of the year was this crossing? We have a small 32' catamaran, and hope we don't get much wind on our crossing. Currently aiming to leave early to avoid strong trades
This was early January so still rather early. This was strong trades resulting from a squash zone.
This was intense and raw. You all handled it well, kept calm and prevailed. I experienced that sail with you and that is the first time ever when watching a small yacht sailing video. You earned those survival shots at the end!
Wow cheers mate for the lovely feedback! Glad to have you onboard
Wonderful footage of sailing the Atlantic, thanks for sharing.
No worries glad you enjoyed. 🙏
You guys did a great job of capturing just how rough those seas were! Fantastic job of steerage and the camaraderie between you was evident and an obvious factor. Good episode!
Thanks a lot for this lovely comment. It was a great experience and even better to share with some good mates. 🤙
how much sailing experience do you all have between you.
Our sailing started when we departed Norway. So not much.
I would never ever cross oceans in a production boat build at minimal CE levels.
Yes, you probably won’t! Surprising though after a quick glance around any remote anchorage in the Pacific or Atlantic, most boats have done exactly that.
What do you do if that happens in the middle of the night? Let Jesus take the wheel?
We do, (and did) what ya gotta do my friend! Steer the boat and deal with it until the weather improves.
Awesome. You promised a bumpy ride and you weren’t wrong😀 as lots have already said- great video capturing the conditions perfectly and the team work that made the dream work. Well done all.
Thanks mate very kind words. Glad we could deliver on the expectations even if the footage is a little shakey and noisy. We are all amateurs but the team did a great job. 🤙
Its hard to capture wave height on camera. You nailed it. Well done!
Cheers 🍻
Truly! I have been at 4.5 meter sea and filming it looked like 1.5 meter!
12:01 Looks like a bomb went off, but at least the kettle is where it should be!
Old girl had her seatbelt on!
Only 1 big wave
One of the best sailing vids I’ve seen.
Thankyou sir, glad you enjoyed 👍
That was some arse kicking sailing mate. Good job👍👍
Cheers 🤙
when do you know to take it from auto/wind vein to manual
Depends on the conditions and if we are concerned of a broach we will just hand steer. 👍
This Beaver seems to have felled few trees.
Nicely done guys, thanks for sharing this. For those of us who haven't been to sea in ages this is really special. Really great piece of filming too.
Cheers mate, glad you enjoyed it!
Way to go! We crossed last year on SV Otoka in very similar conditions. Your video captures the waves much better than our footage. We to had a rocky ride into the north of Barbados at night. Thank you for sharing you made laugh and cry out load at the memories.
Thanks for this, lovely comment. Glad you also arrived safe into Barbados. 😀
Brilliant footage, best I have seen on TH-cam so far. Best wishes and fair winds for you future travels, I'll be strapped in for the ride..
Wow thank you so much for your kind words, means a lot to get feedback like that! Truly appreciate it and glad to have you onboard🙏
Hey guys, nice sail....I dump the main (early) and carry more headsail, ideally twin headsails. It settles the roll, and naturally balances out any tendency to round up.....you would be more comfortable and lose no speed if you just dumped the main.
Thanks and glad you enjoy. We sometimes use the twin headsails and your right it does completely stop the rounds ups.
Yes I agree with that comment. Like a wind surfer to lean the sail forward makes you turn downwind. Carry any sail on the mail will bring the weight back and it will be easier to unintentionally round up. But nice one guys and girls. Certainly a trip you won’t forget 🙂
Trysail and headsail(s) also works in that setting...safer with easy sheeting, no boom motion, simple jibe, less roundup, still plenty of speed
Wow! Great job! I thought the Beneteau did a fantastic job. Think will be my next purchase. Comfort 95% of the time for me!
Cheers mate. That’s good to hear, I believe the Beneteau has performed very well for us!
4:14 is wonderful sailing!! Good breeze, down wind, minimal white caps, that is some good stuff. That's in my 26 foot Pierson! Happy to be here. However, a couple minutes later in the 9:00's that's a bit more robust, but still!
Yes sir, it’s all about perspective I guess. Robust is of course one way to put it but we are glad to have not been there in a 26 foot.
Serious sailing! nice video guys!
Thank you sir 🙏
The rum well deserved , Well done , Nothing wrong with a bit of shit in the undies , Good for the soul & makes the rum taste better .
Haha you could be right there, well said 😂
Oh man! That's what I like to see a rough sea, and calm crew. Cheers from Brazil.
Cheers 🤙
Going to say that was an excellent video, found you by accident, good stuff
Thanks you very much, very kind words! Welcome aboard 🙏
I reckon that with landfall imminent, you were keen to finish the passage and reluctant to wind away that boomed out genoa a little. We did the same on the last day when crossing to St. Lucia on the ARC in 2018. It is human nature I suppose.
For the last 4 days of the passage that would have been the staysail on the pole but we eventually switched to a reach for the last 24 hours... but your right arriving safe is everyone’s main focus.
Bloody hell, , Did you have to alter the course to keep the waves 90 degrees off the back, rather than coming across you... I am. novice skipper so interested...
7:34 death grip! Wicked stuff guys!
Haha very true, cheers 🤘
😳😲🤢😱.....Now hurry up and get here 😉
Hahah save us a spot 🤘
Great vid guys! That looked scary but fun! Can’t wait!
Cheers 🙏
Held it together well guys, glad you made it safely.
Let the party commence xx
Cheers mate, it was a great feeling to arrive! Yew 🍻
5-6mrts glad nobody told me size of waves I had in February mine were stopping boat dead Climbing up was not my idea of fun
This makes me think of Shackleton's crossing with Frank Wild in the James Caird, a 22 ft open lifeboat which they had added a crude deck to so they could escape from Elephant Island by making a 800 mile crossing in high seas with only a sextant.
Thankyou for this comment mate. Shackleton’s journey was one of the wildest journeys we have ever read about and although this one doesn’t compare it may have felt like it to us at the time! 🙏
@@SailingBeaver Hey, you might have had modern technology, but you are still just a boat with sails and thousands of miles of ocean all around you. It's not that different!
Thankyou sir 🙏
!!! Pls ... Tell me what you do if your boat is floated.
scoop a bucket at the time?
~ what is your best preventative measure to rescue yourself and the boat ?
Thanks
hi guys love your videos . awesome journey i subscribed
Cheers mate glad you enjoy and welcome aboard 🙏
Man, think I'll stick to river sailing.
Congratulations on your passage. It looked like you guys got beat up a bit. The design of your boat is not ideal for ocean work but hey, you are out there doing it. Good on ya' for that.
Cheers. Your probably right. Quite tail happy and a little on the sporty side but I think we came out ok considering the conditions.
@@SailingBeaver Dont listen to them. Maybe a small drogue may have made life a little easier otherwise there no where your boats not suited for.
@@SailingBeaver Dont listen to them. Maybe a small drogue may have made life a little easier otherwise there no where your boats not suited for.
That looked a really hairy passage on Beaver
Haha touché
The Quartermaster•
This is the difference between your sailing videos and others who don’t want you to see how they show poor judgement and helm skills when the weather continues to deteriorate and things start falling apart. You guys are truly competent sailors! It’s the price you pay knowing that this is the reality when blue water sailing. Great Job!
Was she secured when dangling her feet off the back of the boat? Kind of makes me nervous to watch.
WOW!! Well done!! crazy sea state!! add 4 fantastic sailors!! Well done!!
Thanks a lot, fair winds 🤙
I wonder when looking back on those waves if the "we should have gotten a center cockpit" pops to mind. Just found you so clicked the like and bookmarked. Gives one an appreciation for the old timers wooden ships and lack of instruments. Fair winds.
Three crew and a skipper in a 40 ft centre cockpit - they'd be sat rubbing shoulders and knees? Not very often you take one over the back and that's what wash boards are for. For me a centre cockpit doesn't begin to work till you get past 45ft. depends on how important a centreline double bed is versus room in the cockpit and what type of sailing you do i suppose.
@friarfox yes on this day a certain type of center cockpit would be nice it also made us appreciate heavier displacement boats more but we are still very happy with this setup. @Adrian your right about the large aft cabin it wouldn’t serve much of a purpose for us. 🙏
Hello guys. Just found you. Greetings from Ireland.
Cheers mate and welcome aboard 🤙
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Almost lost my stomach on that wave 😳
We are the same every time we watch it.
CONGRATULATIONS ON THE PASSAGE!!
Thanks mate, fair winds 🤙
Felt that ,thanks !
Okay, who won the pool about the arrival date???
None, but Sir Ceri was closest predicting the 9th and we arrived on the 11th!
very good video. one of the rare ones that capture the mood and the tension of handling the boat, in high seas and high wind. felt the boat was running too fast and too much sails though, perhaps there was some pressure not to arrive too late. prefer to slow the boat down in high seas and not force her into surfing, slowing helps also to mitigate her breaking out to the side (and then knock down)
Congratulations guys on your successful crossing. Sam I think you are an epic skipper, very cool under pressure. Great helming between you an Kerry. Well done. Stay safe.
Everyone onboard did a great job this day mate it was a wild day for our little boat. Thanks 🤙
Getting into shallow(er) water will do that lol nice trip, wish I could have joined you!
Cheers 🤙
That was one of the best sailing edits I've seen. Wow! That was intense! I've been following plenty of sailing channels, and I have to admit, your channel is by far my favorite. I very much like the raw sailing mixed in. Especially in these types of situations. Well done! Great editing!
I couldn’t agree more
Love it, thanks! Hey when your giving helmsmen directions, what is it that's informing your calls?
Thank you so much! We were just watching the waves as some were breaking and we needed to be dead down for that to avoid a broach.
Great job not fucking shit up! Intense. Good learning vid on challenging sea state. Thanks
Haha 😂 thankyou sir. We are more then happy to have kept our shit the right side of that line.
Looks like a great downwind sail to me wouldn’t like to be going upwind though
Not the ideal vessel for the trip, I'd prefer a Hallberg-Rassy, but no big problem ... harden up.
Wouldn’t we all. There is many pros and cons but the wallet always makes the decisions and for all the money in a HR they still have there own problems.
With the model named Oceanis you would think she'd handle breaking waves better. Boom dip could pull the rig down with that kind of stress. Looks like you made the best of the situation. Best to avoid inclement weather perhaps.
Would have to agree with you there. When the wind forecast came in it didn’t look to bad but the sea state and squalls was the issue. We dipped the boom after rolling off the back of a wave loosing too much speed so the next one just got us. Cheers 🤙
@@SailingBeaver Your boat is really a Med cruiser. Have you considered adding the rigging to allow for a better sail arrangement for winds above 25 knots during passages? The freeboard alone has enough windage to limit control, let alone the fact that your sails are really not useful once fully reefed. A trysail and inner forestay with staysail and storm jib would do you a lot of good. You could set the boom to center while flying loose footed trysail, and furl up the genoa and fly a staysail or storm jib, thus keeping your boat in control and safe from rig failure.
Yeah it is for sure, does the job offshore but not designed for it I don’t believe. Before departing Norway we installed an inner forestay with a heavy weather jib on a furler and running backs and this helps a lot to stiffen the rig. We don’t have a Trisail but a very small 3rd reef is what we have been using. Many thanks for your informative comment mate 🤙
If those waves don’t put hair on your peaches I don’t know what would
Thanks for sharing! Pretty hectic there. And it's hard work to keep the boat upright. In the outskirt of the fjords in west Norway towards the North See I have encounter 35-45 Knot wind with 6 meter steep current waves against the tide in a 35 feet old wooden slow motorboat. It was a pretty "exiting" experience.
No worries at all. Your right it was quite hectic but no comparison to heavy winds on the west coast of Norway that’s for sure! Always worse with the heavy cold air. Thanks for watching 🙏
The least you could have done is throw out a line or three to troll for wahoo, tuna, etc. Great promotional for proper sailing in those conditions. Really impressive handling of that vessel. I would venture to say that most would not fully appreciate how challenging that was.
Very kind words here, much appreciated. 🙏 for us it sure was a challenging experience and I think abit preoccupied to throw a line out.
Let's face it, would the hydrovane have been able to do it all by itself or not? or was the problem always the rudder wheel coming loose?
Yeah for the most part yes. The Hydrovane is the best helmsman but once the breaking waves were creeping up behind we chose to hand steer. Btw your correct about the helm coming loose a couple times, we have bungee which maybe need to be changed.
I'm New to the chanel. Really like how you film your videos. I'm going to binge watch for sure haha.
Thank you so much🙏🏻
Bad ass I love it and im subscribing cheers from Texas S/V oceancowboy
That’s the go, welcome aboard Oceancowboy 🤘
Now close your eyes, do it again, and welcome to fastnet.
Haha no thanks, we’ll stop at the rock for a breather.
Loved it !
Great, thanks 🤙
Excellent job! It would be easy to say don't put yourself in that position, but sometimes it happens and you handled it well. I am impressed with the camera work, it is so hard to catch actual sea state on camera so I can only imagine it was much worse than shown. I would have wanted a different boat than that for those conditions, but she appears to have weathered it just fine.
Thanks for this comment, really kind words and we appreciate it. Yeah we feel the same about the boat in them conditions, something big and heavy would be more comfortable for sure.
Good video,
how well did the windvane cope with the waves - rolling, yawning etc ?
Cheers mate, it did an excellent job our favorite piece of equipment onboard.