You could crimp a lug with a vise-grip until you can do a proper fix. If you have no vise-grip, then spread the bare wire into a 'V', and sandwhich between two flat washers and tighten the nut. We used to jump in the ocean, get out a rub joy dish soap all over, then jump in and right back out of the ocean. You come out mostly salt free and clean. Great video guys. Thanks for sharing.
I’ve made crimped connections with a lot of things in a pinch. Vice grip pliers, normal pliers, hammer, hammer and chisel, hammer and flat screwdriver. You might have had to taken the other end of the wire off to get it up on deck where you could work on it (which probably would’ve been a pain) but there’s options outside of an actual crimper.
I enjoy these video segments so much. I amd glad you keep the quibbles and strife in the segment. Life is about struggle. It isn't the movies. I hope you guys sail the world over the next 5 years. Doing what I have always wished I could do.
as a backup for shower water. A 5 gallon spray pump for gardening works great. Can take a pretty proper shower with just a couple gallons. Great as a backup for moral.
with a crew of 50 we only had salt water showers no fresh water rinse during our 20 day crossing, but did have plenty of people for watches. A day before the Amazon it rained, what a pleasure to get a freshwater rinse. Was on 3 mast, Black Douglas back in 74.
I am surprised you don’t have at least 75k subscribers. One of the best sailing RUclips channels with great personality. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing the good, bad and the ugly.
Great video, y’all are my favorites! Some Very bright stars do appear to blink red to green especially when low on the horizon in dark skies. Based on you description it could be the star Capella which is often reported as a UFO. It is in the constellation Auriga.
Very close and I mostly agree but actually, Capella is far too north in the sky at that latitude to be what she was pointing at. She was pointing east to south so if it were a star, it would more likely be Vega or Altair. I looked up the Stars & Planets on that date and in the middle of the Atlantic and it's pretty clear to me that what she was looking at was Saturn and Jupiter. They were nearly superimposed on each other at that time. I was out between Bermuda and Martinique about a month before that and they were pretty close but Jupiter was superimposed with Venus. I couldn't believe how big and bright those two planets were way out at sea (I'm very familiar with them up here north of Toronto. They are very easily picked out by the naked eye and when they are low to the horizon, they often flash different colours as the atmosphere is mixing there so you get a rainbow type effect. They were both low on the horizon just after sunset and would have tracked just like she said. The biggest call for UFO's is usually Venus or Saturn. Any time they are close to the horizon, they also look much bigger and closer (e.g. the moon).
i had to stop video and say this. Sophie , you and Ryan are punching above your weight , Ryan did an awesome job of designing the water maker, yes there will be teething problems but he did a great job.. my family and i think this is the best sailing channel as you both are taking us along with you both.. i was hard to see Ryan so down on himself , hey we all make f**k ups.. i get where Ryan is coming from but in reality he is one very clever dude.. my father showed me a lot of stuff, his moto was “made by man can be fixed by man” keep your content as it is sophie , your supporters love the warts and all content.
An excellent choice of music... classical at 22:44. I wish more sailors would add classical music to their videos. There's nothing like listening to classical music - pump up those tunes! 🎵 ❤️ Happy sailing!
Sorry you had problems with the wire crimp. You can fix those at temporarily with pliers and a hammer. At least enough to get you to port with some fresh water. I am the fix it guy on our boat and just like yours there is always something needing repair. Is it because it is a boat or just a guy thing? Stay safe, healthy and happy. Happiness creates immunity.
Just want to thank you guys for sharing your Adventure. Don’t stop sailing. I wish I could do what the two of are doing. And please don’t listen to what other’s are saying. Love watching
I've never bathed in mid-Atlantic but I have bathed in mid-Med! I had to jump (with a few hundred other souls) from a catwalk on the side of the Commando carrier about 50 feet into the sea. When I came up I swam away from the ship about 50 yards and when I turned around to look at the ship it had followed me and was right behind!! The ship was HMS Bulwark and I think it was 1974... I too had the, 'I wonder what's down there?', thought and the resultant shiver upon the realisation that this water was several hundred feet deep at least...
I think you two just showed me the bad part of cruising. Needing tools in the middle of a passage... even worse than not having a shower... darn tooling... 👍🙂
Skuli Jakobsson , I used to worked as an avionics tech with a tool crib stuffed with tools at work what they didn’t have can be brought in the next day from which ever station had them. Now, all I have are 1/4” drive sockets, a Mac ratcheting screw driver with multitude of different tips. Can’t even change a turn signal light in my car 🙂
Just listened to the Andy Podcast while putting in my replaced ports and Ryan’s comment about working on a sailboat taught him to take apart his sister’s dryer. Skills are so transferable! Some happiness at a perfect time and I hope so many more find your channel. Thank you for sharing. So many trials to get to this point and I think you share the real person’s journey from not knowing where to buy a boat to crossing an Ocean! 🍾❤️⛵️
Merci beaucoup! great video! i have fished in the ocean and pulled serious toothiness up on a hook.... deinitely makes you think about whats under the water before jumping (in the frickin middle of the ocean). Bravo for being brave and keeping a grip on that rope! :-)
If it didn't move in its relative position in the sky, then it was definitely a star. It is unusual to be able to see a satellite or the space station with the naked eye, and even then they are only visible for a short period of time (definitely not 4 hours). When you see a star flickering and changing colour (red, blue or green) you are seeing the effect of the refraction of the light through the earth's atmosphere. If the position of the star is low to the horizon, the effect will be more pronounced because the light is travelling through much more of the earth's atmosphere than if it were directly overhead. In the same way that the sun looks less yellow and more red when it is low to the horizon and the moon appears bigger when it is low to the horizon. All are results of light being refracted through a very thick layer of atmosphere.
As stars come up over the horizon the atmosphere refracts the light given off by the star. I’ve seen this so many times in my career as a pilot crossing the Atlantic. I used to think it was another plane (red and green) until one of my more learned, more experienced colleagues taught me that stars close to the horizon tend to change colors as they rise. BTW, really enjoy your channel.
Murphy strikes!!! but you guys handled it pays to be prepared and all those hours prior to departure payed off. Ryan you put an awsome system together and the part that let you down was not your doing.
I’ve built and wired countless motorcycles, some with hidden wiring through bars and frames etc, I hate crimp only connections, they can’t be trusted, they need to be soldered as well just the solder flux is corrosive so the connections need to be properly cleaned and have short section of shrink fit over it to help brace it as they can snap: it can take a fair bit longer to do it but it’s well worth the bother. A mate had a new Series 60 Detroit engine installed in an old truck, the auto electrician who wired it was the fussiest ever but when done there was no way any of the connections would fail, he said the new electronically managed engines have to be wired without fault so not even WD40 could get in.
@@RyanSophieSailing - I would like to do it today. But I cant. I need to lose A LOT o weight first, and my kids need to finish school. So 5 years from now.
Not to beat a dead horse or anything, but if you need a tool to do a job, borrow it to get the job done, but buy one for your own tool kit. I can't think of how many times I needed a tool I once borrowed from someone who I couldn't rely on later. To be fair, my usual rule is if I borrow a tool twice then I need to buy it, (but that's for cars) the reality is that once I've bought it I don't need it and only loan it (in the USAF we call that the umbrella effect). Trash... if it's got any organic sticking to it (aka cans) drag it in a mesh bag to clean it (kinda like lifting most of the chain and dragging the chain to get rid of the hairy stuff).
I hope to sail one day. And swimming in the middle of the ocean has to be one of its main rewards. I’d do it even if I ever sailed alone. But I’d definitely wear shorts
I have would rip the other connector for the watermaker out then crimped the 2 together with a pair of vice grips to make it work. Any much say how many times I've done this for cars bad starter relays Are faulty battery connections due to oxidisation overtime. Only in emergencies though.
Yeah you shouldhave 200 k subscribers. But you just started as far as I know.Ryan's mood is a bit better. Sophie is the ideal around the world sailor with her pos attitude. Great video.
Ryan, DUDE when it comes to boat repairs on the fly you have got to learn to be more creative and adaptable. There are so many ways you could’ve created a reasonable connection so that Sophie (goddess of the mid Atlantic, Or anywhere else for that matter) could’ve had water for a shower.I would’ve held the two cable ends together with my teeth for that woman :-) cheers and I hope you guys are holding up well during the quarantine :-)
Lovely episode and you make this all seem so real. I would love to do an Atlantic crossing a lot of my friends have but getting a bit old for that now, but at least I experience it with your video diaries. Thanks really appreciate it.
"the boat will still continue to move forward with 1-2kn because of the current ..." - in this case, you will move also with 1-2kn because of the current ;) The difference in drag is not really significant and there is no wind. But admitted, it feels a lot safer if you can grab this line in the middle of the ocean.
Oh man ryann that electrical fitting is held onto the switch with a nut ? Bare the wire and sandwich it between two flat washes ,,, yes it’s not right but it’ll get you through
Could you have been looking at Sirius also known as the dog star. I describe it to my wife as the traffic light star because it appears to flash red and green . If I look out the back of my house in the uk I can see it on a clear night. Does anybody out there know if that is possible, keep up the good work.
I would agree it is probably Sirius. I recall seeing the same phenomenon looking East over the Indian Ocean while at Mombasa, Kenya. I’ve also seen it low in the eastern sky while sailing the Gulf of Mexico. I used to be a C-130 navigator and taught celestial navigation, so it was easy enough to confirm using the charts and almanacs I had at hand. Now, it is MUCH easier to confirm by opening a star finder app on a smartphone.
thats exactly what I was thinking if you were worried about the funk, just becareful you don´t get left behind and either bucket or rinse off in the ocean. Its salt water so its good for you, or one would think
Ryan! You need to stop putting yourself down, we all make mistakes it's how we learn, the great thing about mistakes is only an idiot makes the same one twice, 👍👍
Gotta remember, he's a pilot. His training was ya mess up, ya die. Not an easy mindset to get out of. Yeah he's critical of messing up, but at the same time self criticism is often the best. Haven't seen him make the same fuck up twice, so it's working.
Any time you want to put yourself down or think bad of yourself in any way just look over at your First Mate and her attitude towards you: she’s an absolute angel, most men would give both nuts for a woman like her, myself included: she’s totally gets you and loves you to death.
Its a planet. Low in the horizon, there are many atmosphere striations you are viewing the light through. This is bending the light into different parts of the light spectrum. This creates the different colors and blinking effect.
Have you ever successfully done that on cables that size? If you have I'd love to see a video of it. I would almost have to burn my boat to the ground using the stuff I have on board, to solder that gauge cable. There again my apprenticeship was 48 years ago when we could use real lead solder and heated our irons in a gas stove. I was thinking of buying a big heavy duty soldering iron, but I am hoping Ryan will demo his crimper instead.
Men get hit by lightning more because of that Scottish curse called GOLF. 😔 could that flashing light be a satellite? An airplane would only have either port or starboard nav light pointed at you so it wouldn’t be flashing both colours at you... used to see them flashing red green thingies too always wondered.
By the way Sophie describes the movement throughout the night, my guess is that you were probably looking at a star. By your position at the time and the date, my bet is that you were actually looking at Capella, the brightest star from the Auriga constellation, which explains why when Sophie sees the star at the start of her watch, the star is appearing at the east (even though she says west), and by the time her watch is over, it appears to have moved to the south. I live in Costa Rica, so I'm close to the latitude you had while crossing the Atlantic, and at the time, the rain season was finally over and I was able to stargaze all night, I remember seeing Auriga in a similar position as described by Sophie, which makes believe that it was in fact Capella. I can't be 100% sure but that's my take on the mysterious blinking light. Oh, I almost forgot. When the light from the star enters at a low elevation at the beginning of the night, the atmosphere refracts the light (like a prism) and the red and green are the result of the refraction
High 5 Sophie COUNTing the positives...useless to whine about some bad stuff. Believe me you got a great passage. Have seen some where there was one storm and squall after another. You guys are blessed. Just a few little things wrong
DUDE.. grab a pair of pliers and a hammer or whatever and make that connection rock.. Sophie can't be without a shower and you know it. Seriously though, this is not an airplane its a sailboat, rig-it-up and it will work. :-) You literally have all day to mess with that connection.. closing the hood and putting a crimper on the shopping list is now how you operate in the middle of the Atlantic, improvise, adapt, overcome.. just keep improvising until it start working. you can do it. Once got back to the boat after finding a old nail in the sand and using it to replace the broken cutterpin to the prop. tools involved, a screwdriver, piece of metal, a rock and a nail, not pretty but saved me from swimming 10 miles. edit - sorry for ripping you on this, you are my favorite RUclips (right after Sophie naturally) and you are lightening smart, no reason to not sort this in route. Edit 2.. damn funny to realize that everybody is ripping you on this.. you will get over it.
@@perrydiddle3698 Helicopters do have radar as well as the naval vessel, the ship may be over the horizon and your probably seeing a helicopter out there making its rounds.
Before reverse osmosis became standard, waste heat from engine was used for desalination. Some survival packs also had small inflatable distillation units which used sunlight. Quantity of water produced was small but they were quite reliable (and big). There are also manual reverse osmosis pumps, do you keep them as backup. How easy is it to collect rainwater during passage? PS :- was it possible to use pudding as fish bait? ;-)
We knew from the get go that we didn't want to rely on the watermaker for our water, so we weren't too bothered (minus the showers!) and apart from the crimper (that we now have) we have everything we need to repair anything that would break, so we're pretty good :) I think the fish would have FLED if we had used the pudding as bait! 😂 /Sophie
What is it with french peeps and Christmas Pudding? My french family look at it as if it's something from the deep too. You needed custard. Or brandy sauce. Flaming Cognac. But seriously, a hint of cinnamon and it's too "épicé" for y'all. What a waste. At least the fishies were able to celebrate Christmas with a bit of pud. Then again I almost vomit with even a whiff of truffles, so your pasta last episode would have made me barf, berk! 😁
I was okay with the broken water maker, the broken spinnaker, the broken whisker pole and questionable hygiene, but Christmas pudding overboard was too much.
How about a Ryan's tech video showing us what kind of tool he used to get bad crimps, and what a good diy crimp tool looks like And how to tell the difference between a good crimp and a bad crimp before you have a problem.
You could crimp a lug with a vise-grip until you can do a proper fix. If you have no vise-grip, then spread the bare wire into a 'V', and sandwhich between two flat washers and tighten the nut. We used to jump in the ocean, get out a rub joy dish soap all over, then jump in and right back out of the ocean. You come out mostly salt free and clean. Great video guys. Thanks for sharing.
I’ve made crimped connections with a lot of things in a pinch. Vice grip pliers, normal pliers, hammer, hammer and chisel, hammer and flat screwdriver. You might have had to taken the other end of the wire off to get it up on deck where you could work on it (which probably would’ve been a pain) but there’s options outside of an actual crimper.
A jumper cable would do too.
I enjoy these video segments so much. I amd glad you keep the quibbles and strife in the segment. Life is about struggle. It isn't the movies. I hope you guys sail the world over the next 5 years. Doing what I have always wished I could do.
as a backup for shower water. A 5 gallon spray pump for gardening works great. Can take a pretty proper shower with just a couple gallons. Great as a backup for moral.
Great to see how much a dip in the ocean cheered you both up!
with a crew of 50 we only had salt water showers no fresh water rinse during our 20 day crossing, but did have plenty of people for watches. A day before the Amazon it rained, what a pleasure to get a freshwater rinse. Was on 3 mast, Black Douglas back in 74.
I am surprised you don’t have at least 75k subscribers. One of the best sailing RUclips channels with great personality. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing the good, bad and the ugly.
Great video, y’all are my favorites! Some Very bright stars do appear to blink red to green especially when low on the horizon in dark skies. Based on you description it could be the star Capella which is often reported as a UFO. It is in the constellation Auriga.
Very close and I mostly agree but actually, Capella is far too north in the sky at that latitude to be what she was pointing at. She was pointing east to south so if it were a star, it would more likely be Vega or Altair. I looked up the Stars & Planets on that date and in the middle of the Atlantic and it's pretty clear to me that what she was looking at was Saturn and Jupiter. They were nearly superimposed on each other at that time. I was out between Bermuda and Martinique about a month before that and they were pretty close but Jupiter was superimposed with Venus. I couldn't believe how big and bright those two planets were way out at sea (I'm very familiar with them up here north of Toronto. They are very easily picked out by the naked eye and when they are low to the horizon, they often flash different colours as the atmosphere is mixing there so you get a rainbow type effect. They were both low on the horizon just after sunset and would have tracked just like she said. The biggest call for UFO's is usually Venus or Saturn. Any time they are close to the horizon, they also look much bigger and closer (e.g. the moon).
"there's a lot of growth under the boat" and some "shrinkage" behind it. LMAO.
i had to stop video and say this.
Sophie , you and Ryan are punching above your weight , Ryan did an awesome job of designing the water maker, yes there will be teething problems but he did a great job..
my family and i think this is the best sailing channel as you both are taking us along with you both..
i was hard to see Ryan so down on himself , hey we all make f**k ups..
i get where Ryan is coming from but in reality he is one very clever dude..
my father showed me a lot of stuff, his moto was “made by man can be fixed by man”
keep your content as it is sophie , your supporters love the warts and all content.
Love the french accent, Sophie cute upbeat , makes me smile, yo chaps have a great life
An excellent choice of music... classical at 22:44. I wish more sailors would add classical music to their videos. There's nothing like listening to classical music - pump up those tunes! 🎵 ❤️ Happy sailing!
Can't you try crimping with a pair of vice grips (temp fix)?
All class! Air on the G string .... the classical music at the end. Love what you’re doing.
Sorry you had problems with the wire crimp. You can fix those at temporarily with pliers and a hammer. At least enough to get you to port with some fresh water. I am the fix it guy on our boat and just like yours there is always something needing repair. Is it because it is a boat or just a guy thing? Stay safe, healthy and happy. Happiness creates immunity.
I'm sure it was probably wave action, but that fork/spoon moving on it's own at 21:53 while you're talking about the lights was spooky.
Just want to thank you guys for sharing your Adventure. Don’t stop sailing. I wish I could do what the two of are doing. And please don’t listen to what other’s are saying. Love watching
I've never bathed in mid-Atlantic but I have bathed in mid-Med! I had to jump (with a few hundred other souls) from a catwalk on the side of the Commando carrier about 50 feet into the sea. When I came up I swam away from the ship about 50 yards and when I turned around to look at the ship it had followed me and was right behind!! The ship was HMS Bulwark and I think it was 1974...
I too had the, 'I wonder what's down there?', thought and the resultant shiver upon the realisation that this water was several hundred feet deep at least...
Bless you Sophie for the swim segment. 67 and Locked down.
I think you two just showed me the bad part of cruising. Needing tools in the middle of a passage... even worse than not having a shower... darn tooling... 👍🙂
Skuli Jakobsson , I used to worked as an avionics tech with a tool crib stuffed with tools at work what they didn’t have can be brought in the next day from which ever station had them. Now, all I have are 1/4” drive sockets, a Mac ratcheting screw driver with multitude of different tips. Can’t even change a turn signal light in my car 🙂
Just listened to the Andy Podcast while putting in my replaced ports and Ryan’s comment about working on a sailboat taught him to take apart his sister’s dryer. Skills are so transferable! Some happiness at a perfect time and I hope so many more find your channel. Thank you for sharing. So many trials to get to this point and I think you share the real person’s journey from not knowing where to buy a boat to crossing an Ocean! 🍾❤️⛵️
This is so impressive how you go through all these issues with great spirit !! What great mental you both have :)
Merci beaucoup! great video! i have fished in the ocean and pulled serious toothiness up on a hook.... deinitely makes you think about whats under the water before jumping (in the frickin middle of the ocean). Bravo for being brave and keeping a grip on that rope! :-)
If it didn't move in its relative position in the sky, then it was definitely a star. It is unusual to be able to see a satellite or the space station with the naked eye, and even then they are only visible for a short period of time (definitely not 4 hours). When you see a star flickering and changing colour (red, blue or green) you are seeing the effect of the refraction of the light through the earth's atmosphere. If the position of the star is low to the horizon, the effect will be more pronounced because the light is travelling through much more of the earth's atmosphere than if it were directly overhead. In the same way that the sun looks less yellow and more red when it is low to the horizon and the moon appears bigger when it is low to the horizon. All are results of light being refracted through a very thick layer of atmosphere.
As stars come up over the horizon the atmosphere refracts the light given off by the star. I’ve seen this so many times in my career as a pilot crossing the Atlantic. I used to think it was another plane (red and green) until one of my more learned, more experienced colleagues taught me that stars close to the horizon tend to change colors as they rise. BTW, really enjoy your channel.
Murphy strikes!!! but you guys handled it pays to be prepared and all those hours prior to departure payed off. Ryan you put an awsome system together and the part that let you down was not your doing.
Put the 2 together with a u bolt for temporary! Just a switch! Wrap with paper to pad then cover with electrical tape!
I’ve built and wired countless motorcycles, some with hidden wiring through bars and frames etc, I hate crimp only connections, they can’t be trusted, they need to be soldered as well just the solder flux is corrosive so the connections need to be properly cleaned and have short section of shrink fit over it to help brace it as they can snap: it can take a fair bit longer to do it but it’s well worth the bother. A mate had a new Series 60 Detroit engine installed in an old truck, the auto electrician who wired it was the fussiest ever but when done there was no way any of the connections would fail, he said the new electronically managed engines have to be wired without fault so not even WD40 could get in.
Sophie is so calm, lessons learned to have the proper tools on board because you never know and it might help someone else.
LOVE this. Just love it. And I cant wait to swim in the middle of the atlantic! (5 years, just 5 years. OK, 7 until this, but 5 until boat.)
It will come! You wouldn't want to do it this year :(
@@RyanSophieSailing - I would like to do it today. But I cant. I need to lose A LOT o weight first, and my kids need to finish school. So 5 years from now.
Ryan & Sophie Sailing if you happen to have vice grips, they work very well for crimping
Not to beat a dead horse or anything, but if you need a tool to do a job, borrow it to get the job done, but buy one for your own tool kit. I can't think of how many times I needed a tool I once borrowed from someone who I couldn't rely on later. To be fair, my usual rule is if I borrow a tool twice then I need to buy it, (but that's for cars) the reality is that once I've bought it I don't need it and only loan it (in the USAF we call that the umbrella effect). Trash... if it's got any organic sticking to it (aka cans) drag it in a mesh bag to clean it (kinda like lifting most of the chain and dragging the chain to get rid of the hairy stuff).
I hope to sail one day. And swimming in the middle of the ocean has to be one of its main rewards. I’d do it even if I ever sailed alone.
But I’d definitely wear shorts
I have would rip the other connector for the watermaker out then crimped the 2 together with a pair of vice grips to make it work. Any much say how many times I've done this for cars bad starter relays Are faulty battery connections due to oxidisation overtime. Only in emergencies though.
You could make a crimper with a large g clamp and some small diameter rivets or something to push the sleeve in . Itll be alright
Y'all are funny as hell.. Thanks for the laugh! 😉
Scary subject. Your boat takes off.
Put a fender in the end of the line and you always know where the end is.. 👍
Oh that's a good tips! :)
Yeah you shouldhave 200 k subscribers. But you just started as far as I know.Ryan's mood is a bit better. Sophie is the ideal around the world sailor with her pos attitude. Great video.
Ryan, DUDE when it comes to boat repairs on the fly you have got to learn to be more creative and adaptable. There are so many ways you could’ve created a reasonable connection so that Sophie (goddess of the mid Atlantic, Or anywhere else for that matter) could’ve had water for a shower.I would’ve held the two cable ends together with my teeth for that woman :-) cheers and I hope you guys are holding up well during the quarantine :-)
You can use Star Walk app that runs on phone to help aid is star identification
always enjoy watching your video's, they never get bored, must be a great feeling swimming in the middle of the Atlantic
20:49 Port and starboard lights are red and green so it must be an aeroplane?
Lovely episode and you make this all seem so real.
I would love to do an Atlantic crossing a lot of my friends have but getting a bit old for that now, but at least I experience it with your video diaries.
Thanks really appreciate it.
Blow torch, solder ! Always solder connections, never rely on a crimp.
"the boat will still continue to move forward with 1-2kn because of the current ..." - in this case, you will move also with 1-2kn because of the current ;) The difference in drag is not really significant and there is no wind.
But admitted, it feels a lot safer if you can grab this line in the middle of the ocean.
Oh man ryann that electrical fitting is held onto the switch with a nut ? Bare the wire and sandwich it between two flat washes ,,, yes it’s not right but it’ll get you through
The red and green low on the horizon lights are low orbit satellites.
Could you have been looking at Sirius also known as the dog star. I describe it to my wife as the traffic light star because it appears to flash red and green . If I look out the back of my house in the uk I can see it on a clear night. Does anybody out there know if that is possible, keep up the good work.
I would agree it is probably Sirius. I recall seeing the same phenomenon looking East over the Indian Ocean while at Mombasa, Kenya. I’ve also seen it low in the eastern sky while sailing the Gulf of Mexico. I used to be a C-130 navigator and taught celestial navigation, so it was easy enough to confirm using the charts and almanacs I had at hand. Now, it is MUCH easier to confirm by opening a star finder app on a smartphone.
thats exactly what I was thinking if you were worried about the funk, just becareful you don´t get left behind and either bucket or rinse off in the ocean. Its salt water so its good for you, or one would think
Ryan! You need to stop putting yourself down, we all make mistakes it's how we learn, the great thing about mistakes is only an idiot makes the same one twice, 👍👍
Gotta remember, he's a pilot. His training was ya mess up, ya die. Not an easy mindset to get out of. Yeah he's critical of messing up, but at the same time self criticism is often the best. Haven't seen him make the same fuck up twice, so it's working.
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Any time you want to put yourself down or think bad of yourself in any way just look over at your First Mate and her attitude towards you: she’s an absolute angel, most men would give both nuts for a woman like her, myself included: she’s totally gets you and loves you to death.
Its a planet. Low in the horizon, there are many atmosphere striations you are viewing the light through. This is bending the light into different parts of the light spectrum. This creates the different colors and blinking effect.
we learn from our mistakes .... some one on that boat is now a very learned morale sapping genius!
Usually Pulsars are what cause the blinking star light.
"men are six times more likely to be hit my lightning".........must be because we are better grounded. :-)
I so look forward to these videos!!!
So happy you do! :)
@@RyanSophieSailing Question are you 2 planning on going to the BVI Baths?
The most authentic sailing channel on the planet. Love it.
Is that not a connection you can solder? What about alligator clips for situations like this?
Great Job Guys you're almost there!!
Everybody...that is how you start a video.
I know you probably fixed it by now but you could have soldered the wire and put it back in the switch.
Have you ever successfully done that on cables that size? If you have I'd love to see a video of it. I would almost have to burn my boat to the ground using the stuff I have on board, to solder that gauge cable. There again my apprenticeship was 48 years ago when we could use real lead solder and heated our irons in a gas stove. I was thinking of buying a big heavy duty soldering iron, but I am hoping Ryan will demo his crimper instead.
Maybe while you are shut in, you can watch something on you tube that shows you how to solder an electric terminal
Thanks, at last realistic passage on RUclips! SV Brooklyn PNW
Nothing like swimming in a 7,000' deep pool, and though it is very unlikely watch out for the fishies!
Men get hit by lightning more because of that Scottish curse called GOLF. 😔 could that flashing light be a satellite? An airplane would only have either port or starboard nav light pointed at you so it wouldn’t be flashing both colours at you... used to see them flashing red green thingies too always wondered.
Where is the armed Shark Watch? 🤔
I never mind a salt water bath and fresh water rinse. I think my skin prefers it that way.
By the way Sophie describes the movement throughout the night, my guess is that you were probably looking at a star. By your position at the time and the date, my bet is that you were actually looking at Capella, the brightest star from the Auriga constellation, which explains why when Sophie sees the star at the start of her watch, the star is appearing at the east (even though she says west), and by the time her watch is over, it appears to have moved to the south.
I live in Costa Rica, so I'm close to the latitude you had while crossing the Atlantic, and at the time, the rain season was finally over and I was able to stargaze all night, I remember seeing Auriga in a similar position as described by Sophie, which makes believe that it was in fact Capella. I can't be 100% sure but that's my take on the mysterious blinking light.
Oh, I almost forgot. When the light from the star enters at a low elevation at the beginning of the night, the atmosphere refracts the light (like a prism) and the red and green are the result of the refraction
Thinking it's a Satellite?
Use a lead crimper like on fishing leader s
Why do you not fix the watermaker ?
@Jim Nickles Really? went to sea without a basic toolbox?
High 5 Sophie COUNTing the positives...useless to whine about some bad stuff. Believe me you got a great passage. Have seen some where there was one storm and squall after another. You guys are blessed. Just a few little things wrong
DUDE.. grab a pair of pliers and a hammer or whatever and make that connection rock.. Sophie can't be without a shower and you know it.
Seriously though, this is not an airplane its a sailboat, rig-it-up and it will work. :-) You literally have all day to mess with that connection.. closing the hood and putting a crimper on the shopping list is now how you operate in the middle of the Atlantic, improvise, adapt, overcome.. just keep improvising until it start working. you can do it.
Once got back to the boat after finding a old nail in the sand and using it to replace the broken cutterpin to the prop. tools involved, a screwdriver, piece of metal, a rock and a nail, not pretty but saved me from swimming 10 miles.
edit - sorry for ripping you on this, you are my favorite RUclips (right after Sophie naturally) and you are lightening smart, no reason to not sort this in route.
Edit 2.. damn funny to realize that everybody is ripping you on this.. you will get over it.
Did Ryan end up sodering the connections, or just re-crimp em?
Not normal this lady🤣🤣🤣🥰
Concerning the blinking lights, its probably a helicopter off of a navy ship.
jeffrey foy do they have radar? If so, wouldn’t it show up there?
@@perrydiddle3698 Helicopters do have radar as well as the naval vessel, the ship may be over the horizon and your probably seeing a helicopter out there making its rounds.
How long does it takes you to cross the Atlantic from you area of departure?
Well... you'll find out soon :)
Finally got rid of that pudding! ;)
why don't you solder the wire in ???????? Or don't you have a solder iron ????.
Aren't there reports of deep water sharks (that are very hungry!) that are very aggressive?
Does Ryan speak French or any other languages like Spanish perhaps? I think on long passages it would be cool to speak another language for a week.
Just use some vacuum bags for the trash 😎 Air tight
Vac bags and no air in them. No smells less space.
M&M's don't melt. Just keep them dry.
Do you have internet when you are out at sea? I know nothing about sailing but interested.
Before reverse osmosis became standard, waste heat from engine was used for desalination. Some survival packs also had small inflatable distillation units which used sunlight. Quantity of water produced was small but they were quite reliable (and big). There are also manual reverse osmosis pumps, do you keep them as backup. How easy is it to collect rainwater during passage?
PS :- was it possible to use pudding as fish bait? ;-)
We knew from the get go that we didn't want to rely on the watermaker for our water, so we weren't too bothered (minus the showers!) and apart from the crimper (that we now have) we have everything we need to repair anything that would break, so we're pretty good :)
I think the fish would have FLED if we had used the pudding as bait! 😂
/Sophie
Did you say cardboard? Should dispose of cardboard before leaving ports. Bugs, waste, etc.
Omg you are almost in the area titanic sank holy
What is it with french peeps and Christmas Pudding? My french family look at it as if it's something from the deep too. You needed custard. Or brandy sauce. Flaming Cognac. But seriously, a hint of cinnamon and it's too "épicé" for y'all. What a waste. At least the fishies were able to celebrate Christmas with a bit of pud. Then again I almost vomit with even a whiff of truffles, so your pasta last episode would have made me barf, berk! 😁
Sophie showing the love! such a wonderful woman!
The 'light' in the west sky will be Venus ! and it'll traverse further west as the night progresses -
Could that light in the sky have been the Space Station?
if your in the middle of the ocean how do you have cell service, i cant get it 20 miles from a city.....
They use a satellite phone ☺️
I scared a lot 😬😬😬😬😬
😂😂😂😂😂 "Shrinkage! There was shrinkage!" - Geo. Castanza
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Nice video like always. Good choice on the red bikini.
if you swim south of the canaries you will find the water warm
I was okay with the broken water maker, the broken spinnaker, the broken whisker pole and questionable hygiene, but Christmas pudding overboard was too much.
But Christmas IS your middle name.
;-)
@@_______- Nicely played.
Salut, toujours aucune piste pour ces feux de position ? Il y a pourtant bien une explication simple là derrière (que je ne connais pas).
Why not take a bath? You can bathe in the sea, and rinse the salt off when you get fresh water.
How about a Ryan's tech video showing us what kind of tool he used to get bad crimps, and what a good diy crimp tool looks like And how to tell the difference between a good crimp and a bad crimp before you have a problem.
WHY DID YOU NOT JUST HOLD THE WIRE IN PLACE LONG ANOF TO MAKE WATER OR TEMERARY JUMP IT
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