In my sailboat dreams I never figured on a Tri, however, your wonderful videos have certainly changed that, wow. Oh and another thing, I love that you know when to talk and when not, the sound of the sea and the gentle banging round of your boat is my ASMR moment, who needs the sounds of pretty girls brushing their hair when you have the ocean singing in the background. Good on you, mate, just sayin.

Watching the dogs anticipation for a proper walk, marking, and dumping, sums up the whole adventure for our intrepid canine....

great Video!!! highly therapeutic especially taking video on the bow. Thanks.

✌👍👍👍👍👍 saving that poor turtle 🐢 from the rubbish. God bless you! 🙏🏼🕊

8 to 10 meter swell and your boat seem extremely stable! Crazy about those guys rowing.

I love that Neel design, I could not imagine trying to make crossing on a mono haul. Thank you for taking the time to record and upload your adventures. It's nice to get a peak at how the Neel handles and living day to day can be. I think the basement LOL on a Neel is the best space allowed for an engine room. It must be nice to actually have some room when she need a repair. It's not all rainbows and butterflies out there. Crap has to break down a good bit. Keep up the good work bud. I am currently trying to find someone who needs a working hand on a crossing so I can get my wife out and see how she would deal with it. Im sure there are some moments on your first big crossing that might trip some folks out. I think I would love the peaceful space sailing brings at times.

Great Video. I like the Neel, looks like the best of both worlds. Looking forward to more adventures. Thanks for taking us along. Fair winds

The neel 51 is a very impressing vessel! I really love it.

Glad you got the electronics finally saughted out hopefully on newer Neel 51,s they will check the electronics out more before final handover.

It's just mega real sailing video and exactly where I need and want to be .thanks so much for real utter genuine cool video , all the best matty

Great passage bro, vids are getting better. I’m keeping an eye on you. You’re the only KZfaqr with a Neel 51. Your channel has potential.

Subscribed. The Neel 51 is my dream boat.

James, as always great shots but more important; great and helpful information!

Great video! One of the few upsides of corona is you having the time and opportunity making this. Cheers.

This was just what my isolation ordered. Thanks for the ride!

Thanks for sharing!!

Fantastic trimaran 👌🏻

Wow we just crossed the Atlantic ocean. Yeah baby right on

Great info and video. I've been trying to decide between monohull, catamaran, and tri to get into longer voyages and extended time on board. They all seem to have little advanteges that make it hard to decide. I'm seeing more and more reasons to go with multihulls though. Your videos on the Neel have been very helpful.

OMG !! At 28 mins, she sure can sai !!!

HI James! Thanks for sharing the Atlantic crossing. It really made my day to escape the confinement reality. Great video! It really gave a feel for the boat in those conditions. It would be great to do a live session. Carry on!! May I ask why you seem to be having your jib much tighter than the main? Is it an impression? It looks like the main is set for downwind and the jib for closed hauled...Does it balance better like this? Which shackles do you want to change for? All soft? Do yo even need those very expensive plotters anymore when you can have a computer and a bunch of tablets with open CPN and others...Ovital,..and the einstruments, radar, AIS on wifi?

Well done, finally a good video on the performance side of the Neel. What shackles did you change to? I heard some people had build quality problems? What about yours? Cheers

i really wish i could join you on passage some time!

thank you very much for this information. I have just returned from a 3 week holiday on a Neel 51 and I am disappointed with the speed and tacking performance does not go higher to the wind than 60 degrees without very considerable loss of speed) compared to the Neel 45 I had a year before. I noticed that (at least up to the max speed of 11 knots at TWS of 25 knots coming from 90 ° under small front sail ("Jibe", is that the word?) and Main with 2 reefs) the ship built up a big bow wave and a big turbulence at the stern. This is a sign of a boat that does not manage to pass hull speed and sign of a bad design of the main hull which should be way longer and much more pointed than it is. In Comparison to the 51, the 45 easily transferred to gliding at 30 knots of wind coming from strictly astern and producing a speed of 14 knots with only the Genua. Under 25 knots of TWS we achieved 12 knots of speed at an angle of 45° to the true wind under 2 reefs in the main and small front sail. Overall I consider the 51 as too complicated for me, sporting a lot of room and showing disappointing sailing performance.

Please post an update. I especially like more details on the Neel 51. How does the machinery and engine room get fresh air?

Terrific. It's great to be along for the whole voyage. I'm used to seeing a video with some European start point and some name, like Cartegena that as an American I think, Colombia, and then its some place 100 nMiles from the start. 17 days crossing, how trimaran do you think this video will wind up selling? You can put me down for one.

On an actual passage, would the front center bunk or an ama bunk be prefferable for a guest?

The dog was keen to get up front and be the first of, bet it enjoyed pissing on a tree.

I cant find out anything about the "Squidio?" app. Do you have a correct spelling or further info? I use deepzoom to determine normal wind activities for route planning. Is squidio like that?

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Not a sailor but looking at moving to work, live aboard the Neel 51 with Spacex satellite Internet out pretty soon. Need to earn first anyway. Thanks for making this video! I want performance and livability. Really great to see you operating and in seas. Enjoying this trip. But I have to say, going solo, you probably should be tethered when outside. And I also read a good comment about dragging a couple lines about 3-400 yards behind you so you can swim and catch them if you did go over. I know next to nothing so cheers!

I've just done almost the same passage on my monohull (Hanse 461) and I'm shopping for a multihull. Neel 51 is one of choices. To be honest the speed is not really impressive. I've had almost the same speed (but much less comfort of course). I have been told that Neels can do more but I don't see it in this video. IMO the sails are not perfectly trimmed at some time. I'd ease the sheets more. Other then that the layout of the boat looks perfect for me. If you're still in the Caribbeans and want to sail her please let me know :-) Your OpenCPN setup is not perfect too. I'd recommend the following: Throw away B&G GoFree and put in a normal cheap router (I have TP-Link Archer C7). Then connect Zeus and the radar directly to the router (you can crimp the cables into RJ45 jack). Then get a NMEA2K to Ethernet gateway (ex. YDEN-02 from Yacht Devices). This way you don't need to have the USB cable connected to laptop and can use it anywhere in the boat. Also OpenCPN works perfect with B&G radar and even better then Zeus.

Is it just me, or does the kitchen stove change mid passage from a Gas top to an Electric???

The balance of the boat seems to be bad compared to the catamaran, as I see too much of side roll in rough seas. I am planning to buy a Neel trimaran in the future, is it better to install a gyro stabilizer to reduce the roll?.

shouldnt a trimaran not be way faster in those wind conditions? why are you reefing in, when an increase in speed means that the aws and therefor the pressure on the mast reduces? im a bit confused as it says everywhere "windspeed 15knots = boatspeed 15knots"

This was awesome. I’ve wondered about the motion of a tri with big seas. Especially surfing down waves that are hitting at an angle like 150 or 220. Just wondered how easy it would be to bury an ama and find yourself in real trouble. The center of the boat looks really comfortable.

Good saving. Hope you didn't throw the net back into the sea.

Love the Neel and I enjoy your real world videos and opinions. 17 day crossing from Malta puts average speed in the teens! Or was there a different port you started the day counting? What was the final average speed for the crossing?

What is size/ eight of anchor?

Ok I know this is a weird question, but where does the doge go to the bathroom?

Why are you not sailing? The instruments say a close reach? 🤷‍♂️

On voudrait voir la position sur la carte…..

Did the turtle just jump on the boat?

Thanks for saving the turtle..first thought you were butchering the poor thing....btw love the tri ....get your finger off the microphone...

Only problem with video taping with a cell phone, fingers over the mike.

Dommage qu’lil n’était aucun détails en français…

8/10 meter swells u must have very small feet

Il manque le français 😢

Encore l’anglais 😢

THANKS for rescuing the turtle. PEOPLE !! STOP EATING FISH AND STOP THE FISHING INDUSTRY, ITIS DESTOYINGOUR OCEANS AND WE ARE GOING DOWN WITH OUR OCEANS !!

get a better mic and a dead cat muff... go Neel 51 !

Camera, 🧐

Wow we just crossed the Atlantic ocean. Yeah baby right on