Storm sailing, injuries, and running from PIRATES! Our SCARIEST EVER SAIL.

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11 күн бұрын

Bryony here... I'm not even sure what to write! We always knew that if we sail long enough and far enough, eventually we'd be badly caught out with incorrect weather forecasting, equipment failures, and a little human error in the mix. This was that time. Exiting the Gibraltar Straits was terrifying, we are still not 100% sure how we managed to crash jibe (we presumed but don't recall heavily broaching when it happened, unless it was all just a massive gust of wind from a different direction - or the genoa sheet was the first thing to break and with that we suddenly shifted our angle to the wind?), and injured crew is never good!
As for the pirates... we will never know for sure, but honestly we were already exhausted, broken (I actually injured my back somehow in the chaos of the Straits and wasn't sleeping well with the pain), and kinda just... panicked! But when you are warned about pirates whilst you're in the area and three vessels suddenly seem to be converging ahead of you in the dark, the adrenaline gets going.
We survived. We learned. And it was reassuring knowing how much the boat could handle, even when things were going wrong, and keep going on course.

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@patrickandmichaela 9 күн бұрын

This was too intense! So glad you were able to make it through it in one piece! Shows how quickly things can go from seemingly fine to everything breaking very quickly. Excited to see what you get up to in Gran Canaria, it was definitely one of our favorite places that we have been!

@CutterboveSailing 9 күн бұрын

The speed at which things can escalate onboard never fails to amaze! I'm looking forward to editing the Gran Canaria episode, it was exciting doing preparations for the Atlantic and we met some REALLY cool guys there that I'm excited to show and support. Should be a nice vibed vid, with no near-death experiences included!

@mathieut3197 9 күн бұрын

F.. me dead - you were promising adventure and mishaps, and boy did you deliver...

@CutterboveSailing 9 күн бұрын

We like to reassure people that we don't do clickbait. If we promise something, it's real 😄 Although times like this, we very much wished that it wasn't! A few lessons learned the hard way, and a stretch of water we don't want to see again in a hurry.

@psystealth 2 күн бұрын

by the sounds of it ...I hope you are re-planning your Atlantic crossing!

@CutterboveSailing 2 күн бұрын

@psystealth We took a while to sort everything out in the Canaries after this 🤣 Weren't going to rush across before we knew the boat was happy again and ready! It's not the type of scare we ever want to have a repeat of. Ever.

@AnthonyParr-do5jk 8 күн бұрын

Wow what a trip 😬 . Your nursing skills seem to be required fairly often on this channel. Fair winds.

@CutterboveSailing 8 күн бұрын

They're needed across the Atlantic too 😅 Thankfully, since then, the medical kit has stayed in the cupboard.

@KP_1843 9 күн бұрын

Teamwork! 🌊🤩👍

@CutterboveSailing 8 күн бұрын

Very much so this episode! Thank you for watching 😊

@paulkent5755 3 күн бұрын

I cant understand why you were there in the straights , those strong winds are always predictable, you should have waited .

@CutterboveSailing 3 күн бұрын

@paulkent5755 Hey! That's a fair question. We have gone through the Straits in 30kt winds safely and happily before, and pretty much the same conditions (wind and seastate) were predicted this time. Unfortunately, the predictions were quite off with winds above 40kt and a high seastate, and we were caught out. It simply wasn't the weather window that we had waited for and expected. Additionally, I think that had we not been overcanvassed with a mainsail car jammed, even in the sailing conditions that we did have... it would have been a much more pleasant and safer sail, albeit rather more sporty than anticipated.

@paulkent5755 3 күн бұрын

@@CutterboveSailing ok thanks i understand now

@CutterboveSailing 3 күн бұрын

@@paulkent5755 you're more than welcome 😊 Thank you for watching!

@01dumbfrog 5 күн бұрын

With Paul on shift also gives you time to get a little, if you catch my drift… You should tie a few safety lines to the boom incase the traveler gives way again.

@CutterboveSailing 5 күн бұрын

@01dumbfrog sleep, right... I know you're just talking about sleep 😄🤣 Oh, 100%! We tied off the traveller to backup cleats after that chaos... we were NOT trusting only the camcleats for the rest of that passage. And then we threw the lines in a washing machine in the Canaries to rough them up a bit. That was a hard way to learn a lesson!

@hippo0fr 8 күн бұрын

Don't understand. There are no pirates in this area. Orcas, yes but pirates?

@CutterboveSailing 8 күн бұрын

Hey! This was further south, off the west coast of Morroco. Honestly, we didn't think there were any pirates around there either, but the message we received with a report from the sailor that had run into trouble 48 hours before seemed so genuine and sincere (and appropriately detailed) that it felt anything short of foolish to not take heed! We could only go by the information we were being given, and with that decided going further offshore was the appropriate move to make. There's always the chance the report we got was made up, of course, but we really didn't think that a respectable sailor would do such a thing, or that it was a risk worth taking at that point.

@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665 6 күн бұрын

There have been more and more human traffickers trying to escape west africa and Sub sahara africa by going round the outside rather than cross the Med . Meantime some have been Sticking large nimbers on yatchs anything they can get .. one with 55 people on a yacht this size sank a week ago off Greece. It was floating and upright but had sunk above deck level in the water . Most of the 30 odd fatalities were below deck

@CutterboveSailing 6 күн бұрын

@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665 yes! I meant to add this in but didn't, so thank you 😊 It's a prolific people trafficking route now. I (Bryony) worked in a refugee camp for a while, and so this did cross my mind whilst we were in that situation 😅 There was also a piracy charge related to this just a few months beforehand from this area. However I think due to the report we had through saying that the problem vessels both had AIS with the same MMSI numbers bar one ending in 2 and one in 3 (and pretending to be a large pleasure vessel), I felt it was probably more of an organised crime than desperate migrants. But people smugglers are parts of multimillion dollar operations that no doubt have fingers in a lot of pies, so I expect there's some relationship there.

@CutterboveSailing 6 күн бұрын

@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665 I'd also like to thank you for highlighting the fatality rate this week in a singular incident in the Med. I think that regardless of people's political views on the matter, we all have enough humanity in us to know that's 30 souls lost-at-sea too many.

@mikew3194 23 сағат бұрын

@@CutterboveSailing Hmm good to know in general. I only knew of the piracy in the red sea and around the horn... Hopefully by the time I could dream of such crossings the regions have been pacified.

@01dumbfrog 5 күн бұрын

With Paul on shift also gives you time to get a little, if you catch my drift…

@sedalia9356 4 күн бұрын

I wish you the best, but I can't watch videos with annoying music, cutaways, and cutsie talk. My fault, I fell for the clickbait.

@mikew3194 23 сағат бұрын

I would go with cutesy. Cutsie is like... cut-see. Totally different. Eh, what did you expect anyway? A video of them getting robbed? I consider it valuable info that there is piracy around the western coast of africa. You only really hear about it on the other side and south america. Just further douses any naivety about the world.

@christip20 10 сағат бұрын

That’s mean, that being said…. go check out Sam Holmes Sailing. No Music, no ads, no cutaways, etc.

@sedalia9356 9 сағат бұрын

@christip20 I certainly did intend to be mean. It looks like someone spent a lot of time editing these videos. And thank you for the recommendation. It looks like his channel is very popular and more like what I was looking for. Best wishes.