In this video we continue our long distance off-shore sail from Madeira to the Azorez so come along to share our experience it will be relaxed, exiting, fearful, tiresome and just fantastic join us in rain and sunshine further off-shore than ever before. Our buddy boat get engine problems and we share 4 lessons learnt.
Sorry no subtitles I spent 5 hours today to fix the subtitles but it all disappeared in the Youtube time slot generating and I don’t have time nor energy to do it again so this video has no subtitles except the YouTube autogenerated ones
00:00 Atlantic sail intro
00:39 How is the Solar panel doing off-shore?
02:14 What about the wind?
04:19 Night watch what do we do?
05:16 Are our buddybooat in trouble?
07:42 Night watch continues I am really tired
10:28 Problems again? We can’t hear them
11:06 Sailing strategy and boat performance
13:27 Lunch time
13:45 Rain
15:38 After rain comes sunshine
18:40 Dinner time gourmet food at sea (check out episode 63b to see the cooking)
19:04 Settling in for the night
19:59 3:d night at sea
20:29 Close encounter morning day 4
21:52 We still don’t know where we are going
25:47 We all got to eat
27:26 Great blue water sailing and we see a whale
28:57 One more evening
31:57 5th and last morning at sea
33:52 Finally arrival at Ponta Delgada Azores End of 530 NM passage
We are a middle aged couple that has left our hectic business lives to go sailing with our boat Fridá af Wisby and our cat Litza. Our goal is not to go to a specific place but to reach a state of mind where we can really enjoy life.
Anders has been at the sea most of his life and sailed for the Swedish national dingy sailing team as a young man. Gitte has also grown up with boats and spent every summer sailing with her father as a teenager but made a pause of about 15 years without sailing as an adult, had just begun to pick-up the interest before she meet Anders in 2017. Onboard we also have our cat Litza a 4 year old Devon Rex we call her the cattain because cats always decide over their humans.
Fridá af Wisby is a Wauquiez 47 pilot saloon that we Gitte and Anders bought in UK in 2019 and that we have sailed to Gotland and in season 1 2020 we sail in the Baltic Sea. During season 2 We sailded south to Dieppe Normandy France. After a winter in France in Season 3 we started to sail the Atlantic coast of Europe to Xufre in Spain where we lifted the boat over the summer while we where back in Gotland to work at our hostel we got there. Season 4 got a short sailing season where we only sailed to Lagos on the Algarve coast of Portugal where we hauled out once again this time to go throug a long list of boatwork and to build a solar arch to make the boat more self-suficient with electricity. After 6 months in Lagos we kicked-off season 5 with real bluewater sailing first to the northerly Atlantic island Porto Santo and Madeira and then further out to the Azores that lays in the middle of the Atlantic ocean before turning back towards the mainland and south coast of Portugal again.