Atlantic crossing - we've hit a whale!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2024
- We lose our engine, escape a small fire, run into a gale, lose our steering and then, to round it off, we hit a whale.
This is our second leg sailing east across the North Atlantic Ocean, from Bermuda to the Azores. Our first leg in the previous video was sailing up from the Caribbean. But we're really not in the tropics any more!
Transatlantic, Bluewater, Offshore,
April/May 2023,
Vancouver 34C sailboat, crew of two
This is peak recording. No women in bikinis, no music. Just vlog and breathtaking views compiled in 1 video
Steve is the sort of crew everybody wants on offshore passages! Unflappable and with an excellent sense of humour! I've always found that the right crew can make or break any passage!
I like Steve 🎉 . Cooks with a sense of humour ! Can’t faze him . Pleasant . Id have him on any trip
Like Sam Holmes Sailing. Always happy no matter happens
I was about to say the same thing. Steve would make things go by quickly, he seems hella chill
Single handing has a lot of appeal.
You guys Are actually showing how it is to cross the ocean…not like many other sailing channels where it is all Calm Blue Water and delfins…Lovely video 👍
thank you
The Sailing Brothers, and Adventures of an Old Sea Dog are really worth the watch too.
@@coffee6783 yes 🤩 they Are also on my Watch list
My sentiments entirely - finally, someone showing what it's really like crossing the Atlantic.....if you thought Jenga would be hard to play, I wonder if darts would be as difficult😎
Plenty of other great sailing channels out there. Great video
Also I am appreciating the lack of music, just the sounds of the sea and the boat. Of all the utube sailing channels I have watched this is the first one that reminds me directly of my experiences crossing oceans. Reading a real book!
Best and funniest sailing video I've seen so far! Thanks for sharing your experiences and the laughs
After 30 years of power boating I finally get what sail boats are all about! I am loving the trip on my 65" TV 👍
So are you tempted? 😄
This is by far the best sailing video I have ever watched. It feels real. Great video, audio and attitude😁 No constant half naked women is a real plus. I am a woman but want to see sailing for goodness sakes. You are hitting it right out of the park!!! Fantastic! Just subscribed! ⛵️🌊🐳
Two excellent ‘real sailing ‘ channels are Christian Williams, and Patrick Laine, sailor.
@@edwardfinn4141 Thanks! Will check them out!
The Sea is always out to get you...often feeling personal at times.
What most people don't understand is the amount of courage it takes to take to the open Sea.
Enjoyed watching.
Awe and respect for the Ocean is .preceded by knowledge and experience .
I Like how you blokes are in tune with the boat and the elements ~ unlike so many that are totally reliant on electronic gizmos, but cannot "feel" what's happening
Like the sights and sound of real sailing, no music is nice, great guys . There is a different feeling to this channel but I can't describe it. Well done 👍
Thank you. Whatever that intangible 'feeling' about it is, I'm glad it works for you😊
@@theoddvoyage The pressure of materialism diminishes away from land-unless, that feeling is shattered by music or some other disturbance..
Your collective calm and positive demeanor is beautiful and confidence inspiring. Thank you for that and for sharing your journey.
Kind, thank you!
That Steve , appears to be just the sort of person to have on a passage like this . He sounds like a right character .
Yes - totally dependable and mighty entertaining
TOV, That was incredible upload, just incredible. Thank you for including all of us aboard. I've never seen a man hug a mast with such content and authenticity. It looked for a moment like it was actually hugging you back. A man and his boat had a moment.😃
thanks Chris😁
Both of your attitudes are so perfect. You roll with the punches and the waves! Taking it all in stride with a sense of humour. Welll done, and safe passage to you!
I’ve never been more aware of my extreme levels of high anxiety as I watch this. Sailing very clearly requires a calm demeanor! Love watching marine channels, as they take me places I’ll never physically see
Steve seems like a pleasant sailing companion! The guy cooks and does the fishing!
Having good attitudes can make all the difference during long passages. You both were great! Safe travels ❤
So enjoyed your journey. Two competent sailors.
Thanks Mary!
So enjoyed your journey. Two competent sailors.. So enjoyed your journey. Two competent sailors..
Overkill in preparation for a potential gale is proper seamanship. Great video & storeytelling from a cracking seaworthy boat.
Great video! Well done, informative and exciting to watch! Loss of engine power, gale force winds, rain storms, high seas, hitting a whale, and all along you two are so calm and under control. Thank you for sharing!
thank you - glad you liked it!
Great camerawork and oh so dry humour, well done lads let's have some more.
Thank you😄
Yes ty for the absolutely infamous dry humor. Very needed today!.!
Very good footage of calm, resilient, salty sailors on a good boat. Thanks.
thank you
I watch a few sailing videos. I am not a sailor but this is so good to watch. Really enjoyed it thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
So very cool. My brother used to run yachts back and forth from the Caribbean... some insane passages! Bermuda saved the day more than once. Nice to have that beautiful odd little island off the East Coast. I'm sure it has spelled both doom and salvation to many a mariner. You are living the dream, gentlemen. Am I jealous? A resounding YES!
Fair winds and steady as she goes (with an engine and spare parts, please!) 💖⛵
thank you!
Nice and chilled out upload. Enjoyed it immensely. 2 blokes having a bit of a sail, you wouldn't even think you both were in the middle of the Atlantic.
Just a sequence of regular days out on the water, all squashed together
I really enjoyed your video. Well done. Thank you
Great video. Steve is hilarious 😂 loving the positivity ❤
2 lovers that also love the sea, it doesn't get better than this.
As someone who loves to sail, this was pure joy to watch! And such a handsome skipper and crew. Well done.
Fantastic video. As someone saving up and learning how to sail to buy a boat, it’s great to see the mindset when things go wrong.
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Just found this channel. These guys are funny unlike other sailing channels who continuously enlighten us with their existential drivel
Some of us live for that existential drivel😊😊😊.
@@jpkatz1435 From sailors? Fair enough
As a few others have said, I really appreciate that I was able to watch this without that annoying music other utubers always add. Im not sure why they do that, but its one of my biggest peeves. It was so nice just listening to the waves, and made it feel more real, if that makes any sense?😊
Lol...setting your clock according to dawn and breakfast, reminds me of Churchill's habit of traveling by "stomach time."
I am pressing thumbs, Steve, that you keep your humor and need still more than throwing shells through triangles to keep your mind sufficently occupied. Very intersting commentary. And nice work-split. Skipper more concerned, Crew more relaxed. Opposite would let the skipper stay in deeper sleep during the night, but I think you managed it. - although 14minutes still to come. Very refreshing content. Chap haut!
Thank you for a very enjoyable 37 mins, you captured sailing across an ocean, and I'd be happy to crew ( or have you two as crew) on any upcoming trip. Paul SF bay, Alubat Ovni 56
Thank you - and very kind - there's an offer I'm not going to get every day! Ovni - fantastic boat
Excellent episode. What an adventure.
thanks Joel!
15:22 - "...we're doing about 7 knots." "...yeah, good - but are we going in the right direction?!" LOL - priceless sailor dialog.
WEATHER HAPPENS - it doesn't wait for you nor ask for your permission... as you have experienced. :0/
As a 24/7 carer I often daydream of adventures, the Canadian Rockies, the Grand Canyon or sailing across the Atlantic! I think I got pretty close to the latter after I watched your video.
Thank you I enjoyed it, a life on the Ocean waves! Tremendous!
24/7 care has to be a really tough road. Nice to hear that TH-cam can get you out a little
@@theoddvoyage Thanks, means a lot.
U tube is a god send for carers . I ve been there 👍
Adore your videos, plz make more... very raw, autobiographical, no voice overs and background music… just sounds of the waves & wind creaking of the ship, speaking to the cam, I feel like I’m am there. Reminds me of Sam Holmes Sailing, bravo🥂
Thank you - more coming before winter sets in, time and weather permitting...
you guys are great .. thanks for sharing !
that looks awesome. I'm envious.
Some time since I visited this place. Love how you present your days onboard. Calm, friendly and nice. I'll be back. Tank you!
Another cracking video thanks for posting
Onboard I always keep to UTC.
Thank you!
And I think you're right, UTC would be more logical. Secretly, the tiny display on our VHF is always UTC, just so I don't lose my grip on reality!
Educational, thank you good effort
Thank you!
Just twigged you've both been on this incredible adventure! Legends!! Lovely to see you both again after all these years..🥰 Looking forward to watching from the beginning..way better than a Netflix doco
It's not all with Steve. Wouldn't that be too much of a good thing?
@@theoddvoyage Ah yes it certainly would!! Now I'm really curious & dying to start from the beginning..no spoilers! 😁
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Excellent, thanks.
Big thumbs up !...
Thanks Michael!
Enjoyed it guys. Keep the sense of humor up👍🏼
Proper saling guys.👍👍👍
great vlog, a joy to watch…glad you had a bunch of guardianangels with you on this passage
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Nice trip, beautiful boat! Well done guyyys.
I really enjoyed this video. It is my first time watching your channel and I plan to go back and watch them all. I hope you start filming again as your content is enjoyable and educational as well. Thank you for taking the time and effort to create and post this.
OMG, this brings back memories! Great crew! I was out to sea with my husband and 2 children. My husband yelled and panicked often. He was awful as crew...lol
No, I divorced him...lol
Superb video gents, it felt like I was on board with you. Loved the humour and mutual mickey taking. Subscribed and looking forward to seeing more! Fair winds, Chris 👍
Thanks Chris!
Nice passage! All the "things" that happened make it great right. Nice job with the flag Steve!
19:53 "I really am just clinging to the mast...its really quite wild.." completely understated and dead pan. Here on sofa watching mast angle is giving me vertigo 😂 Great video. Just discovered your channel , have pressed the button. Thank you!
thank you 😊
I'm still laughing
Fantastic thank you. Great calm skippering, (and crew), great commentary.
Thanks Markus!
Enjoyed the footage of your passage and the boat in those conditions,Robert B Harris designed great Boats..Thanks!
thank you!
The lack of noise down below while sailing in gale force conditions is a testament to the quality of your yacht.
It was a little uncanny. I did wonder if it could make us careless - you could almost pretend there was nothing to keep on top of, back up on deck
It’s definitely NOT a yacht, it’s just a boat
@@kenttegneskog The definition of “yacht”‘is subjective. This Vancouver 34 looks like a fine little yacht to me.
@@TheCorsair not it’s not subjective, and to call that boat is the same to call an apartment for mansion. Look it up, what a yacht is.
That little boat is about 30 foot and a yacht need too be at-least 75-100 foot. Look it up….
For some reason, the waves look almost realistic in your footage! Well done!
thank you!
Steve, the perfect crew.
What excellent videos you produce for us. Always look forward to them. Many thanks.
Thanks John
Enjoyed your crossing. Reminded me so much of our crossing in 1989. Luckily we had sunny weather. Thanks for a memory boost.
Hello sailors this is a great reportage of your trip to my island. Good seamanship, right decisions and a great speed. - I sail a Contest 38s Ketch myself. And in such conditions I appreciate the mizzen, which gives more stability in the direction of cruise. What happened to you with the Hydrovane fortunately does not happen with my Windpilot Pacific. Well I have chosen this equipment. I hope this is not the last video from you. Have a good trip, good wind all the time.
That's a great looking boat, Thomas!
Hydrovane customer service has been great. I think the problem is mine as the skipper - the part that came loose has suffered in the sunshine for 7 years and just needed replacing sooner. I should have gone over the whole system before we left.
Very nice video. I am preparing myself and boat to cross Atlantic soon. Hope to have good weather!
Fair winds!
Totally enjoyable
Thanks for sharing. I really enjoyed the video.
Thanks Dawn 👍
My ex husband wanted to live at sea and raise our children there. I said only when they invent the hamster-wheel-child-on- board-exercizer! Thanks for the real deal. Quite exiting. The running winds are the most fun, aren't they? You're humor is wonderful. Next clickbait title..Caught no fish. Loook.. dolphins!Take care. New subscription.
Thank you. You're right about the hamster wheel
@@theoddvoyage Aye. I was. More sailing?
@@karenatha7890 Soon!
Exalint informative entertainment video 📹
Great adventure guys... well done. Dolphins are just BEAUTIFUL!! Thank you for that amazing footage!!
Throwing some "The doors" lyrics. My kind of guy right there. One day id love to be able to have adventures like this. Until then im thankful for wonderfully edited videos like you have here. Much love and safe voyages
that's kind - thank you!
Your living the dream guys. Nice job.
I realy enjoyed your vid!!!!
Keep it up!!
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Just found this and I'm stuck watching can't put it down, I'm not a boat person ferries would make me sick as a child, even being a passenger in a car too. I love the sea from on land and have slept in my van by the sea the sound of the waves love it, I can hear the sea from my house. Love the video I'm now stuck watching your adventures.
I would _love_ to live by the sea, but somehow it has never happened
Beautiful Kaptain 🌍 the high shot's were very cool 😊
Just now finding your channel! Love it feels like we are right there with you. Thanks
Great film, thanks
Burning out a starter motor and losing all engine power a few days into an Atlantic crossing, I would have returned and repaired the engine. Imagine being becalmed with a ship bearing down, or running aground on the Azores due to hurricane force winds. Disasters are usually the result of a number of small contributing factors.
Great ocean photography, well sailed.
I agree with your point - a return might just have been more prudent. But for me the primary concern was entering port, which had to happen once either way. Either behind us in Bermuda or ahead of us in the Azores. The Bermuda reefs and narrow entrance to St George's felt like a risky option, and I saw from the pilot book that our target in the Azores was easier to enter and could offer tows. If we had to continue past the Azores for weather, there were a lot of follow-up options as we were prepared to stay out much longer.
And you're right about the cascade of smaller things creating larger issues. We were just lucky that none of our separate issues cascaded.
That view from the mast. Blimey 😵
Best analysis of the Atlantic Ocean I've heard yet
thank you!
Great video. Really enjoyed that crossing - looking forward to the next installment!
thank you!
Well done, the Click bait worked and now I have another channel to watch😂 - very good filmed and edited- especially the Slow motion of waves! … and you‘re enjoying tea
Enjoyed that, thanks!
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i have enjoyed every second of this, good job.
thanks Omar!
@The Odd Voyage thank you, keep it up, i hope your channel prosper. You obviously enjoy what you're doing.
Great content guys
thanks @ellaskins
Really interesting video…… thanks for sharing, subscribed.
Very nice video of your trip across the Atlantic, glad all went 99% good and those other issues didn’t cause any trouble. Thanks for sharing with us!
Totally loved your video. ❤
thank you!
(my comment after his beginning comment) Steve is funny & smart !
"So we're having fish for dinner, right?"
"Eggz actually".
Damnit, you're right. That IS what he meant 🤣
Great upload. Saw the first one. )
Excellent video!
Looking forward to reading Steve's first book.
Any TRUE sailor doesn't want any background sound copy-pasted from a heavy metal band or Mozart for that matter. Obviously many cross Oceans like they bask on a beach in Spain with blasting speakers all over…
So this is an excellent video of people who are true sailors… although I quite don't understand how you can cook a starter engine just like that.
But after 62 years of mistakes on many type of boats and seas who am I to put the blame on good sailors who post relevant videos?
PS. To catch fish in high seas try to tow different lines at various depth… I always felt that three are best. Don't ask me why, its just an impression based on practical experience. Then again 3 a knots speed would work better than 6 kn. unless you wanna catch the rare kind of fish training for the Olympics.
Thank you for sharing and please post more.
Cheers
Thanks @vincent7520
Awesome journey !!!
I really enjoyed the video and the speaking to camera parts were very engaging and pleasant to listen to. Great stuff. Please keep it coming. A new subscriber here.
thank you!
"I just don't know what to wear." Always the biggest problem on an a transat. After making tea.
Nice 👍⛵
nice sailing.