Thank you, statistically the risk was pretty low but it was real and we didn’t really want to be delayed in Gibraltar for rudder repairs. Glad that’s behind us…
here you got .... that moment of realization you are starting to fulfill your team have come .... and it was faster than waiting for the sandy beach .... that can be the next dream. Congrats.
I was all big smile seeing Stephane hoisting enthusiastically the main! One of your earlier blogs made me snort my coffee through my nose: next time I have good reason to panic I picture my amygdala doing a tap dance in white shoes all over my brain😂😂😂
It would be neat if you show your polars now and when you arrive in Miami to see how "smart" the system is and how good the estimated polars are right now.
That’s a great idea but it’s a bit complicated as we’re not using theoretical polars as a reference. We ultimately need to sail a lot in different conditions and build our own overtime.
Thank you Holly & Stephane for recording your plans and traffic on the map, the beautiful dolphins, sure the meditation helped you sailing the Med safely with a good weather forecast, along the cost of Morocco, in Africa 😉 Glad you are near Zatara Crew, it should be easy to sail faster as your Cat and Sails are new ! Keith switched off probably to avoid Orcas for a safe crossing Gibraltar....Looking forward to seeing you next week in the Canaries....
Salut les amis, Enfin dans un vrai océan, avec de « vraies » conditions de croisière au long cours. Vous allez y prendre goût 😁. Stéphane, tu vas lâcher prise avec les routages météo, tu vas découvrir le plaisir de la lenteur de la navigation sous voile et la joie d’oublier les moteurs. Holly, tu vas enfin profiter de la vie en mer et de son rythme doux et paisible. Je vous souhaite une bonne traversée. Profitez des Canaries, c’est un vrai paradis. Et on espère vous croiser un de ces jours dans les Antilles !
Merci pour ces mots. On est heureux de redecouvrir les joies de la croisiere apres cette pause entre les 2 bateaux, mais je vais quand meme continuer a m'amuser avec tous ces reglages possibles, ca m'occupe ;-) A bientot aux Antilles 👋
Must be nice feeling to get finally out to Atlantic! :) How far from Morocco coast you need to stay at Gibraltar strait? And how far you should/want to be from the coast when you go south from there?
Here’s our tracks so you can see. forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/SV_AWEN/?mapMode=useGoogle&windSymbol=WindStreamlines&weatherSource=ECMWF&trackDuration=0
In one of the first episodes, you explained your rational in taking an experienced captain with you. Your explanation and logic made tons of sense to me and I think I would have done the same... But I do have an honest question to ask... Does having a captain, in fact two in back to back are forcing you to a schedule and a route less than ideal which in normal circumstances you won't take? There are pro and cons with everything, is this a real con?
It is a very valid point, but at the same time it puts you through conditions that you will typically try to avoid but that you will eventually have to face one day, so gaining that experience in a 'controlled' environment is useful and makes you a better sailor in the end. The same applies when you do sailboat racing as you don't get to choose the weather. There were different factors in us deciding to push through to get out of the Med but that was an obvious one. Also, we had already delayed our start by a week because of crazy conditions for days in a row all over the western Med and knew this type of weather could potentially come back. At one point our weather router made a comment that the Med had been awful this year, including this summer. We purposely wanted to have about a month in the Canaries as a buffer between leg 1 and leg 2 for boat improvements (small personal projects) and potential boat repairs as it is a new boat and a new model, but so far everything is looking great. When Nikki joins us for the Atlantic crossing we will be back in sync with the season so it will be much more straightforward weather wise. The tradewinds will be well established by then. Happy to answer any question! 👍
The only hard date we have is meeting Stephane’s daughter in mid-December and being on the other side before the end of week 2 in January. We wanted to get on our way from La Grande Motte and that was a good window. I suppose we could have stopped longer along the way but it was a group decision to continue. It’s not a great time of year in the Med at all so we needed to leave one way or the other. Hope this helps.
Lol Stephane. It's not a project, it's called cruising. You have ups and downs, but your journey towards Gibraltar could be one of the lowest, hopefully. It surely will happen again though. A shame you don't have time to visit Morocco a couple of days. Bon voyage and many good weather forecasts 😁
Good point and you’re definitely right, it will happen again, and again the good times will make us conveniently forget the down days 😉 We skipped so many beautiful places to visit along our journey west so far but we should soon be able to slow down.
Ok...love the videos...but no more eating being recorded. The sound of that is not pleasant in headphones. Please read as positive critique :) as it was intended. You are quickly becoming one of my favorite channels as a listener of your original podcasts.
Ten knots of wind? Open the genoa! If there are more than five knots of wind, I always put the genoa on to help the gennaker, it is worth the increase in speed, and it doesn't bother me at all.
@@SailingAWEN On the contrary, it was very good that you published it. I like to see real people, not those highly edited videos that look like advertising for car salesmen. When things are not perfect is when you feel like commenting, it is more entertaining, it is more like how I navigate and live myself, with my mistakes and all that.
I posted a short video on both FB and Instagram of the speeds we are getting with our A2 in about 10 knots of wind. It is a big sail and get us moving pretty quick at about 140-145 TWA. If it gets lighter we can always head up more and head down in stronger winds. I feel the genoa will mostly likely disrupt the air flow, just not enough gap between the forestay and bowsprit. One thing we will definitely play with in the future is the Code 65 with the Staysail. 😁
@@SailingAWEN I am a racing helmsman, and I am always watching what the professionals do, it is the best way to learn, just watch the top racing videos. For me, what classes like TP52 and Melges 24 do are a great source of knowledge.
Hey what weather routing software is that as I’m always using predict wind but yours takes into account the sails you have onboard etc which looks far superior ?
It’s called Octopus from Adrena. It’s the cruising version of the application Adrena which is used by most French professional racers. It’s a good software but the user interface needs a major revamp.
Do you prefer it over using predict wind routing ? It does look good but almost 6 times the price. I do like the look of it so interested if you recommend it or not after using it now for a while 👍 well done so far things are on the up now 👏
It is definitely not the same budget when you count the software, the windows PC (no Mac version), the charts (as you cannot reuse the charts from your MFD) and training. It’s interesting to us, for a boat like ours and the way we intend to sail but otherwise predictwind does a great job. I can give more feedback and show the capabilities after I have used it a lot more.
i don't like the F bomb word. If you are doing that i dislike and unsubscribe and leave. Profanity like that should not be on a public channel. I had to put up with that in the navy. NO MORE!!!!
it was at the part when you just got the sails up and happy with that. You need to pay more attention and bleep or edit this out. I hate that. Played it back to make sure what i heard so i don't falsely accuse you. Others have stopped doing that and you can to or i'm gone for good.@@SailingAWEN
@@SailingAWEN feedback is feedback and I respect Randall feedback. Sanotice will give you mine .... i did not notice or cared... keeping it real is keeping it real and I love this about this series. You did warn you will have limited editing ...
Woohoo!
🙌 that is the feeling!
Congrats on getting through the Straits without being messed with by the Orcas.
Thank you, statistically the risk was pretty low but it was real and we didn’t really want to be delayed in Gibraltar for rudder repairs. Glad that’s behind us…
I've spent the last two hours listening to The Teskey Brothers. Thanks for the heads up.
This is your gain after the pain of the last few days
Exactly, it all averages out, plus the orcas let us go by 👍 huge relief !
What a relief indeed! And a milestone for Awen. Wishing her and her crew many oceans and many calm seas but good winds.
Thank you so much 🙏
here you got .... that moment of realization you are starting to fulfill your team have come .... and it was faster than waiting for the sandy beach .... that can be the next dream.
Congrats.
I was all big smile seeing Stephane hoisting enthusiastically the main!
One of your earlier blogs made me snort my coffee through my nose: next time I have good reason to panic I picture my amygdala doing a tap dance in white shoes all over my brain😂😂😂
👍😁🤙
It would be neat if you show your polars now and when you arrive in Miami to see how "smart" the system is and how good the estimated polars are right now.
That’s a great idea but it’s a bit complicated as we’re not using theoretical polars as a reference. We ultimately need to sail a lot in different conditions and build our own overtime.
Which polars are you using ?
fantastique ! je vous souhaite une bonne nav sur les canaries
I hope you don’t mind too much that I plugged you in multihull anarchy.
You two are just too real to let the sailing world not be aware. Cheers! -Greg
Thank you Greg!!! We are so glad to have you on this ride with us. 🤗🙏
Thank you Holly & Stephane for recording your plans and traffic on the map, the beautiful dolphins, sure the meditation helped you sailing the Med safely with a good weather forecast, along the cost of Morocco, in Africa 😉 Glad you are near Zatara Crew, it should be easy to sail faster as your Cat and Sails are new ! Keith switched off probably to avoid Orcas for a safe crossing Gibraltar....Looking forward to seeing you next week in the Canaries....
As early as later this week ;-) Looking forward to feeling the cruising vibe in those islands.
Ahh the sails look great!
Great video
Thanks!
I like how you have your sheets attached at the bow. Easy to attach them to the kite/code sails
That big trampoline is such a great platform to prep the sails you might use and do sail changes.
I bet you could put out a net and just catch what is coming in towards your boat from the Atlantic and have dinner. Glad you saw dolphins.
Otro objetivo logrado , bienvenido al Atlántico .
Salut les amis,
Enfin dans un vrai océan, avec de « vraies » conditions de croisière au long cours. Vous allez y prendre goût 😁. Stéphane, tu vas lâcher prise avec les routages météo, tu vas découvrir le plaisir de la lenteur de la navigation sous voile et la joie d’oublier les moteurs. Holly, tu vas enfin profiter de la vie en mer et de son rythme doux et paisible.
Je vous souhaite une bonne traversée. Profitez des Canaries, c’est un vrai paradis. Et on espère vous croiser un de ces jours dans les Antilles !
Merci pour ces mots. On est heureux de redecouvrir les joies de la croisiere apres cette pause entre les 2 bateaux, mais je vais quand meme continuer a m'amuser avec tous ces reglages possibles, ca m'occupe ;-)
A bientot aux Antilles 👋
I wait it... Yes... I M first this day !!
Must be nice feeling to get finally out to Atlantic! :)
How far from Morocco coast you need to stay at Gibraltar strait? And how far you should/want to be from the coast when you go south from there?
Here’s our tracks so you can see. forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/SV_AWEN/?mapMode=useGoogle&windSymbol=WindStreamlines&weatherSource=ECMWF&trackDuration=0
In one of the first episodes, you explained your rational in taking an experienced captain with you. Your explanation and logic made tons of sense to me and I think I would have done the same...
But I do have an honest question to ask...
Does having a captain, in fact two in back to back are forcing you to a schedule and a route less than ideal which in normal circumstances you won't take?
There are pro and cons with everything, is this a real con?
It is a very valid point, but at the same time it puts you through conditions that you will typically try to avoid but that you will eventually have to face one day, so gaining that experience in a 'controlled' environment is useful and makes you a better sailor in the end. The same applies when you do sailboat racing as you don't get to choose the weather.
There were different factors in us deciding to push through to get out of the Med but that was an obvious one. Also, we had already delayed our start by a week because of crazy conditions for days in a row all over the western Med and knew this type of weather could potentially come back. At one point our weather router made a comment that the Med had been awful this year, including this summer.
We purposely wanted to have about a month in the Canaries as a buffer between leg 1 and leg 2 for boat improvements (small personal projects) and potential boat repairs as it is a new boat and a new model, but so far everything is looking great.
When Nikki joins us for the Atlantic crossing we will be back in sync with the season so it will be much more straightforward weather wise. The tradewinds will be well established by then.
Happy to answer any question! 👍
The only hard date we have is meeting Stephane’s daughter in mid-December and being on the other side before the end of week 2 in January. We wanted to get on our way from La Grande Motte and that was a good window. I suppose we could have stopped longer along the way but it was a group decision to continue. It’s not a great time of year in the Med at all so we needed to leave one way or the other. Hope this helps.
Phew, could feel the stress lifting….Zatara should help with your views too. Sleep well..tmg
Yes, it’s a good feeling to leave the Med and the angry Orcas behind us. So nice to be looking at an open ocean and its possibilities.
Lol Stephane. It's not a project, it's called cruising. You have ups and downs, but your journey towards Gibraltar could be one of the lowest, hopefully. It surely will happen again though. A shame you don't have time to visit Morocco a couple of days. Bon voyage and many good weather forecasts 😁
Good point and you’re definitely right, it will happen again, and again the good times will make us conveniently forget the down days 😉
We skipped so many beautiful places to visit along our journey west so far but we should soon be able to slow down.
... also it will be interesting how much faster you are vs Zatara on this passage
They have one motor on and a code zero, we just talked to them. 👍🏻 but yes, it’s still a race because it’s two boats.
@@SailingAWEN Keith always turns his nose up at "Performance Catamarans". So keep those sails optimally trimmed up and kick his ass 🤣🤣🤣
🤣
Finally sailing!
The AIS of both Zatara (1 hour) and Looma (2 hours) seem to been turned OFF according to VesselFinder.
We see Looma, not Zatara
music could also calm down a pack of Orcas …some classical Wiener waltz music could make them happy and let them be calm and nice
Not convinced it would work with those Gibraltar orcas though 😉
Ok...love the videos...but no more eating being recorded. The sound of that is not pleasant in headphones. Please read as positive critique :) as it was intended. You are quickly becoming one of my favorite channels as a listener of your original podcasts.
Roger that!
You all are the best!@@SailingAWEN
Ten knots of wind? Open the genoa! If there are more than five knots of wind, I always put the genoa on to help the gennaker, it is worth the increase in speed, and it doesn't bother me at all.
Oh I know, I shouldn’t have posted that. We just put the A2 up and nothing was trimmed. I was just so excited to be sailing! -H
@@SailingAWEN On the contrary, it was very good that you published it. I like to see real people, not those highly edited videos that look like advertising for car salesmen.
When things are not perfect is when you feel like commenting, it is more entertaining, it is more like how I navigate and live myself, with my mistakes and all that.
I posted a short video on both FB and Instagram of the speeds we are getting with our A2 in about 10 knots of wind. It is a big sail and get us moving pretty quick at about 140-145 TWA. If it gets lighter we can always head up more and head down in stronger winds.
I feel the genoa will mostly likely disrupt the air flow, just not enough gap between the forestay and bowsprit. One thing we will definitely play with in the future is the Code 65 with the Staysail. 😁
@@SailingAWEN I am a racing helmsman, and I am always watching what the professionals do, it is the best way to learn, just watch the top racing videos. For me, what classes like TP52 and Melges 24 do are a great source of knowledge.
Hey what weather routing software is that as I’m always using predict wind but yours takes into account the sails you have onboard etc which looks far superior ?
It’s called Octopus from Adrena. It’s the cruising version of the application Adrena which is used by most French professional racers. It’s a good software but the user interface needs a major revamp.
@@SailingAWEN of course.... its French UX :)
🤣
Do you prefer it over using predict wind routing ? It does look good but almost 6 times the price. I do like the look of it so interested if you recommend it or not after using it now for a while 👍 well done so far things are on the up now 👏
It is definitely not the same budget when you count the software, the windows PC (no Mac version), the charts (as you cannot reuse the charts from your MFD) and training.
It’s interesting to us, for a boat like ours and the way we intend to sail but otherwise predictwind does a great job.
I can give more feedback and show the capabilities after I have used it a lot more.
Do you delete questions and comments selectively? I asked questions and they are gone now .
We don’t delete questions at all. Which question did you ask?
I see two questions you asked that were posted in the last video. One on marina and one of performance/comfort.
Apologies, I totally missed the latest video and thinking the previous was the last one. Duh. Thanks for the answers.
The only problem with your manifestation is that Orcas are dolphins
😳🤦♀️🐬
i don't like the F bomb word. If you are doing that i dislike and unsubscribe and leave. Profanity like that should not be on a public channel. I had to put up with that in the navy. NO MORE!!!!
I might have used one (don’t honestly recall) out of frustration from the past few days but it’s not part of our regular vocabulary.
it was at the part when you just got the sails up and happy with that. You need to pay more attention and bleep or edit this out. I hate that. Played it back to make sure what i heard so i don't falsely accuse you. Others have stopped doing that and you can to or i'm gone for good.@@SailingAWEN
It’s Holly, I do the editing. I respect your preferences and thanks for the feedback.
@@SailingAWEN feedback is feedback and I respect Randall feedback. Sanotice will give you mine .... i did not notice or cared... keeping it real is keeping it real and I love this about this series.
You did warn you will have limited editing ...