Please wear safety harness with tether

My Autohelm does the same thing, and i find myself yelling "CHILL OUT!" at it often 😉

You two have the best overall Sailing videos on KZfaq Thanks for sharing your life

Other sailing channels whine and cry if the wind is blowing a little too strong or the waves are a little too high but you guys get in this raging inferno and rock and roll. Now that is sailing and you are the best kind of sailors. 🙂

Yahoo!! Eat BIG Meals!!Calories!!!

I was just rewatching the last video over again when part 2 came up. I’ve seen other sailors freaking out in your condition. I mean really freaking out even in less conditions. Your boat handles really well.

Wow! Again.

Go Baby Go!

No one makes gnarly look sexy like Curtis! Superb.

Keep your eyes out for 4 Imoca's headed your way in the next few days. The Ocean Race boats!!!

Can't help noticing you are not hooked up. I lost my great grandfather after he made it through the Horn as a ship's carpenter, only to be washed overboard about 200 miles off of the Chilean coast. Time to clip on. Great videos. Thank you.

Chili. Sailing to the arctic each year NASA Jerry would make a gallon or two in a pressure cooker, bag meal&drop them in boiling water to heat. Add cheese, put on bread and you have quickie sloppie joe sandwiches anytime. I often cook in a coffeepot in an igloo cooler w/ spuds onion garlic, bit of meat, shrimp etc., jalapeno and soy sauce for spicey asian, or herbs&even a leg of lamb for a bigger dish and is unattended and spill proof. I have 2 litle ones-one for coffee, the other for cooking, and a bigger one for larger dishes.The igloo keeps heat in, using barely 35watts-3amps for 2-4 hours. NASA Jerry also rigged a gimbled stainless can w/ a lock for the pot in top and clamp for propane torch, but I built one w/ an old diesel burner that works w/ gas or diesel. BTW I assume the glove drowned.

Lovely sailing, by managing things well you get the rewards, like the awesome rainbow. It's as if you were inside the rainbow. I think you scooped up the gold (off camera). Interesting how you re-trained the autopilot, that must save lots of electricity but crucially preserve the autopilot from excessive use. I remember the answer to a question I posed to an Ex Vendee Globe sailor, what was the biggest priority he had, he said to keep the rig up, keep everything working. He showed me how he continuously maintained the IMOCA 60's rig, replacing soft shackles, inspecting everything. The silence of a rig with no steel was eerie. So, keep Ruca safe and buzzing along sweetly!

wow that rainbow was something INCREDIBLE !!

Curtis and Kate are incredible helmsmen, enjoying their eye-opening experiences into the 40s & 50s. For the viewers you-guys are actually maturing as high-latitude sailors before our eyes. Keep it up!

You guys are gangster! Calm, cool and collected…sweet😎

I love your background music. Thanks for sharing

Oh the music is top shelf… John….

SO SO AWESOME! Love it!

Beautiful sky!!!!

Good morning 👍 and good video footage.

But...did you retrieve the glove?.................WILSON!!!!...........

What a perfect song Uplifter by Conditional to keep your spirits up and to help pull each other through the challenges you encounter each day.

Hola beautiful video’s

Yeah tres tres beau voilier que ce J46, un vrais fast cruser, et un super équipage pour le faire marcher, je vois que Curtis a pensé à tout, ou presque… il doublé tous les éléments sensibles qui se rapporter à la navigation et au pilote, les images du super arc en ciel étaient sublimes. Je suis votre périple avec attention car je prépare un voilier pour prendre la même route que vous en partant de la Méditerranéenne… à ce jour vous êtes sur la côte ouest du Chili, mais je prends plaisir à revoir de vieux épisodes de votre magnifique trip… À vous revoir bientôt pour un prochain épisode, profitez à fond… Cldt Luky

did you rescue the man overboard aka glove? LOL

We really like our pressure cooker recipes and are now huge fans of the air fryer. It is rare now adays that we are cooking using traditional sauce and frying pans for offshore use.

Hi Kate your food looks Great, I do try to keep oils down more when waves are UP, it is ALL in what you like to eat. I would be trying to catch a fish for some sushi... You guys make sailing in rough water Look Easy.

Well done guys 👌🫶🏼

You two are awesome sailors, talk about edge of seat watching , and how you managed to film at the same time amazing, thank you both for sharing you journey

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That was some exciting sailing there. I can feel the butterflies in my stomach.

What a freeking adventure

The sights and sounds of your journey are amazing. What a team you 2 make. Through your trip i've seen things That were unbelievable. As always be safe.❤

Nice video cuz and Kate!! Awesome sunset. And Curt, strap in more man!!

Always good stuff..!! ✅ Not many people Go “ THAT WAY.. 😎👍👌👏🥳

@18:40 totally get it! Those offshore moments of madness 😂

I just can't imagine sailing in these conditions. The waves look so huge. The rainbow and sunset so beautiful. I can't wait to see what the next video brings

No. It is NOT Chinese! Mandarin or Cantonese or some other language. Understand that those two languages are spoken in China, but they are mutually unintelligible. Nice Sailing! Thank you! Love the experience.

I do-know for sure but I think I'd feel safe sailing with you two. Make sure you mark that Curtis, indelibly. You were on the bow of your sailboat, in the roaring southern ocean, observing the Promise sign in the sky - and that sunset!!

Awesome video. The way y’all stay calm in adverse weather conditions and look for the beauty while surfing big waves shows what a great people y’all are. That quadruple rainbow + the sunset were outta this world. Thanks for having us aboard with y’all sailing through the roaring, and the furious, and the unpredictable seas.

The Quartermaster* First-time viewers! Your videos are very similar to "Sailing Beaver"". That's a compliment as they are also extremely qualified Blue Water Cruiser's! I see you sail a J 46! It's definitely a great choice, comfort and speed, hard to find in an ocean-going cruising boat. Safe travels and fair winds!

Thanks for the great video, like the piano music too ,👍

No way to catch wave height on film. when Kate had the camera inside the dodger the flat hatch way did give one a flat line to follow to see more of the waves. Most of the border of the US & Canada is on the 49th so you all are more than 90º from your old stomping waves.

Not a cook but did enjoy the classics and blues. Been a vegetarian for 50 years. Don’t think I’d last out at sea. Wild rainbow. Can’t wait to see you make port

Your keel must be made for the waves. I’ll never understand how your auto pilot works but what a great thing to have.

Fantastic! Looks like a blast. Wish I was onboard. Keep Rollin Malizia!

I sent a message to BandG about the H5000 autopilot, hopefully they will be in touch with you to help you out. Be safe.

More sail area will help the motion of the boat. Quite often the boat is well well reefed down (not a criticism) but it makes the boat wallow, rolly esp in a quartering sea way..dropping the mainsheet traveller all way down help unload the helm too. Brace yourself the southern ocean gets much much bigger than this on a mild day.

Guts. Pure guts. Prayers and support for the rounding.

Love the sound of wind and waves. Be safe. Thank you for taking me along.

Nice work with the little piano sonata interlude, btw ; )

Your last 2 uploads have my vote for the best soundtrack/score.. You've got me listening to jam bands on Spotify! ❤

Cape Horn AWAITS!!!

Thank you so much for to auto pilot discussion. I would love if you could do a tutorial/explanation of what you do and just general set up thoughts

Not saying I told you so but the weather down in that part of the world, can change in minutes. But it is exciting.

Epic!

Yours are not the most relaxing videos to watch, but are surely are high on my list.

Did not disappoint! I recognize the steady pragmatism that accepts: these are the conditions, our experiences are the tools to accommodate them. Analyze, anticipate, respond, repeat. Those I met as a kid who’d sailed big seas seemed subtly re-calibrated; little mishaps onboard barely registered. For food, I rather liked marrowfat peas and sausage! If you ever find somewhere selling Cassoulet in a can, grab it! Fatty sausage, garlic, ham hock, confit duck, and white beans - great stuff.

Recipe: Kitchen sink curry 1 serving 1 can coconut milk 1 can beans or veggies (any kind) 1 can chicken or tuna Ginger Garlic Thai paste Red chili to taste. 1 pot heat n eat, fits nicely in your sundowner mug, add leftover quinoa or rice to beef it up.

Tremendous episode, as always. 👏. You really have captured the power and speed of Sweet Ruca and the power of those huge rolling waves passing underneath, great job. You guy's are awesome, just watching you both helming with great skill putting the poor old autopilot to shame was a joy to watch. Loved the narrative explaining the subtleties of your passage planning, really helps me understand the decisions you make........and wow what a sunset, never seen anything like that before . Thanks for taking us along.....

The BEST raw pure sailing video , Loved and enjoyed tremendously with no music just pure real sounds of sailing and the ocean ❤ Ye lot are awesome 👌 Super 🆒️ and very well experienced💯 💪👌👍👏 ✌❤🍀 🌬⛵

You guys have away with doing it !

Great video, full of action, thanks Curtis and Kate!!

The heavy conditions are for the IMOCA 60's with full crew....Seamanship challenge for sure.⛵Good surfing with that clean bottom... This IS sailing. Videos don't capture the true wave heights.Pushing SWEET RUCA to the limit.

Enjoying the video & tips on sails , thank you for sharing

What a ride!

Wow it keeps getting better!! Amazing how calm you are under these weather and sea conditions!!👏👏👏

Good to see you OK out there be safe and enjoy

Another incredible edit. So much great sailing coverage. Here I am sitting on a flat water anchorage in an atoll in the South Pacific burning my precious amps to watch you sail in rough conditions with the help of Starlink. I do not waste my time watching other channels as I am currently living the normal tropical cruising lifestyle. I do want to explore South America though. Keep ‘‘em coming.

Great video again guys. Every vlog I watch...yeah, they are doing the same thing. You are different in a positive way. And as for food in cold and gnarly conditions: Be sure you always have a good stack of cans of "Unox Stevige Erwtensoep" on board. I never leave without it. No cooking, just warm it up and it keeps you going. However, may be tricky to get it delivered where you are.

Thanks for the ride guys, enjoyed every moment… John and Penny… Ontario, Canada…

Great sailing video

That rainbow is pretty epic. Definitely don't see that very often!

wonderfully exciting to follow your sailing towards the horn👍 how is Roxy the dog doing in the high waves? if you're lucky, maybe you'll meet the Ocean Race boats coming from the other side around Cape Horn😊 have a continued exciting sailing⛵️😊👍Rolf

Re-watching to see what I missed, and it's an awesome episode. Cold weather recipes Cook peeled patatos and ham in water, salt and pepper. When patato are almost done add green beans and finish cooking. Mash patato with your fork add pot juice, ham, green beans. Enjoy this one pot PA Dutch meal. Hope you are in warmer weather. It is a cold rainy fall day for me!!

Sausage and peas. I don't recall Julia Childs doing this one. I guess we all have to improvise. Heh.

Hope you had a preventer on!!

This is like the first time Kate wasn’t like faster. Shows the real conditions that they were experiencing. Great job on editing and sharing. Your great partners. Be safe, enjoy the journey your both mastering.

run for it !! great one

I was worried until Curtis donned his safety gear! Safe travels ❤️

Guys! What was that rainbow!!! Worth all the water slapping on Curtis, I believe! Amazing! And what a sail, too! I don't know about you but I don't like how shaky things get downwind, specially with waves adding to the mix :) Sorry for your sail and gone glove. That things happen. Enjoy! See you next week! Fair winds!

Autopilot sensors and calibrations got me thinking ( hard to do sometimes) and I brought the subject at a vitual meeting the other day about auto pilots issues. Stan Honey, one of the world’s leading ocean-race navigators, in which he confirmed that even the best autopilots in the world (think tens of thousands of dollars) can’t steer as well as a skilled helmsperson in daylight, although said autopilots get competitive in the black-dark when the human can no longer see the waves. Stan also opined that the next big advance will be when cameras, like those being used for collision avoidance by racing boats (OSCAR), are interfaced to autopilots, and that will result in automation being able to beat a human helmsperson in all conditions, because the pilot will be able to see the waves, even at night. Probably not applicable to any of us, but interesting. Now we can improve its steering a great deal, by first being realistic about how badly it steers using the default settings, and then learning how to improve that by hand-tuning it for the conditions. Here are some notes I took on from people a heck of a lot smarter than me, on settings if you have the sensors to work on. 1.) Automatically change from apparent wind when steering upwind and reaching, to true wind when broad reaching and running. And changing the angle when that happens. 2.) Configureing the routine to change steering behaviour in gusts. 3.) Have wind and boat speed sensors that can be calibrated for different heel angles. 4.) When reaching, automatically bear off from course in the gusts and come up in the lulls. 5.) Allow the angle of the auto tack and jibe routines to be adjusted to match the boat’s optimal angles. You must have good polar information. 6.) Automatically drive off a bit to build speed after a tack, and then come back up to course. 7.) Have inserted a good target-boat-speed table of wind directions and speeds, again derived from polar curves.

You're having a great experience there hey. For 50+ of my 80+ yrs I've lived in Australia between Quensland and Adelaide.(Sth Aust) did most of my sailing t'ween Adel and Strahan on West coast of Tassie (girl friend. and round the Southern tip to Hobart. All in the Fourties. Which are great sailing breezes in a well set up boat and common sense it's a great sail by yourself. in either my 32ft or later in 42 ft. Both Steel Cutters. PS Learn to Heave to as well when you need a rest in serious stuff. I don't know what those plastic buckets are like but in a good steelie is like curling up in a nice bed. No sea room. Drogue off stemhead Bows into weather. Getting shallow. drop ALL your picks off the stemhead and hope they snag and hold on something till it blows over. In the real rough. Run with small drogue or ropes, knotted.and hope you don't get any hollow backed bitches. They hurt when you hit the bottom. in the '50's when I was a deckie on North Sea Trawlers from England. We used to dread the top end of Scotland, the North Sea in winter coming round the corner off the Atlantic.would be probably one of the worst 3 sea states to be in on this planet..ALL big and black. all vertical and 25% with hollow backs. coming from all directions at same time believe me.. We were in Trawlers. and when it got bad enuff. we either trawled. or Headed into whatever for the 3 or 4 days and just steamed ahead at 3-4 knots just holding station, Till it blew out. Sometimes they were rolling over the deck from the bow at wheelhouse level. We just prayed there was no Black ice about. You little yachties have nooo idea what is out there wailing for you. How do you think Containers get ripped off the decks of huge container ships?. Ask some of the deckies on them. Have fun. and get used to a bit of bouncy water. it'll come in handy when it catches you one day.

Curtis kicks beehind for being out in that wild weather and taking care of the boat! He sure looked bashed early in the video!!! I wish I still had the strength he seems to have! My Cshot took me out. I am getting better, but I have trouble under strenuous physical activity.

Quite the passage! While watching you rock and roll I’m listening to the beautiful piano piece you’ve used as background. What is it?

What an amazing video. The rainbow and sunset were really epic. Yep. Best sailing channel on KZfaq. Keep having fun and stay safe. Bill

Kate and Curtis’s wild ride. This was a great video, thanks for sharing the rainbow and sunset. I can’t wait for the Furious Fifties!

Excellent video probably best yet big seas are fun

I love your explanations about your sail plan changes and why you make certain selections. Best in industry.

Great episode...magnificent sunset rainbows illumined clouds scene.

I have been saving your videos, and now is the time to get up to speed on how you are doing. For my surprice, Tom Selleck has joined the crew with his moustache ❤😅.

Great content, God bless you all.

Amazing video, beautiful rainbow. Did you get the glove back?

Wonderful episode. Loved hearing the natural sound of the ocean. i could watch the boat surfing down the waves for hours.

Beautiful rainbow & sunset! Never seen a rainbow like that. Just beautiful!

A long way from The Otter 🦦 Creek Bar and hot turtle 🐢 🥣 soup.

You guys do great. I like the way you guys are really roughing it and doing hard core sailing in such a raw place in the world. Watching from Orlando, Florida.

I love your videos, you are fantastic and thank you so much for giving me this super nice time every week. Be very happy😁

What a sick video! Great job guys, that footage was amazing, felt like I was sailing, bravo. :)