THE HELL of Solo Sailing - English Channel | Ep. 002
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- Welcome to my adventure, sailing solo 1,000 nm from the Netherlands to Guernsey in the channel islands. A wild trip through the notorious English channel. Underway we encounter sleepless nights, a lot of cargo vessels and numerus problems which may end the trip.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:42 Ijsselmeer (Netherlands)
3:25 Amsterdam
4:58 Leaving the Netherlands
7:16 Engine failure
9:22 Zeebrugge (Belgium)
11:37 Sailing along the French coast
16:35 Buologne sur Mer (France)
20:21 Dieppe (France)
22:05 Passing a lighting storm front
23:50 Crossing to Cherbourg
26:45 Cherbourg-en-Contentin (France)
28:24 Cap de la Hague (France)
29:27 Night arrival on Guernsey
31:26 Work on the engine
32:24 Exploring Guernsey
Thanks for watching!
Hi mate, great video! If I'd discovered you earlier I'd have said let's meet up! I'm based in Guernsey and have a youtube channel :) Best of luck on your adventures!
Thanks mate! Already knew your videos, cool boat project you have going on 👍
Hats off to you (as we say in England), a great solo journey and a very mature attitude towards problem solving. Looking forward to more episodes.
Impressive with 18y having that sense of responsibility and skill - even on the fixing stuff. Congrats.
Thank you
Really? Fixing an empty fuel tank? Battery failure; of course we never discovered why. Maybe you forgot to switch to Batt 1+2 on the isolation switch lol@@jakoblangsailing
@@nickspeller3372how many failures did you get in your life to know everything? Or you were born with knowledge of diesel fuel tanks and meters?
A very illogical reply. Solo sailors require a detailed knowledge of how their engines work. If you do the work yourself you must make sure its fully operational before you put to sea. Otherwise you put yourself and potential rescuers at risk.@@maksimsku3544
@@nickspeller3372he said there was a failure in the battery isolator.
Your an impressive young man and I wish you all the best with your sailing from Australia
hey... stop grooming the young lad.
Impressive! Not just your calm focus on the sailing, but the editing and filming 👌, guess I will see a lot more from you,, fair winds buddy 😎⛵
Great inspirational video. Safe travels, I’ll be following your journeys.
Thanks mate :)
Great post-production and camera work! I love all the small infills you put between main story. It makes video so easy to watch. And I admire your courage to go solo and deal with all the stuff on the way! Every failure makes you a great sailor!
Thank you very much, great to hear!
Respect! Very interested in seeing you manoeuvre these busy ports of the world of which you're from. Stay safe and anxious to see you next videos~
Would have loved to see more of the troubleshooting and repair of the boat. Very valuable information for newcomers and fellow solo sailers
Was focused on getting everything going again in order to stay in my time plan, so didn't film it. But yeah, woul've been great to integrate the repairs in the video
So inspiring. We are just starting out on our sailing adventures and loved this video. Stay safe out there!
Best of luck with your adventures 🙌
Great video, thanks for uploading. Suggestion: learn about sheet to tiller steering so that when solo sailing you don’t need to rely only on electronic self-steering. Fair winds ⛵️ Keep sailing and posting
Great to see the spirit of adventure is still alive. Well done on the wise decisions made when all did not go to plan.
There is no hell to sailing alone ,it's a dream of solitude and peace
Maybe in some places. The english channel looks a bit rough though.
Unless you just want views and like attention.
The reality is, Sailing can be a horrifying and grueling experience. The good days are good, however the bad days can get very bad.
@@SgtTeddybear66 when i bought my sailboat the traveller was ripped out and there was blood on the main sheet winch and every rope. The trail of blood on every white surface required proffessional cleaning.
The worst part was their 8 fingers all permanently stuck at right angles.
This video came up in my YT home feed and I am so glad I clicked to watch it.
Well done young man. I enjoyed your cinematography and narration.
Subscribed and look forward to following your future adventures.
Happy that you liked it, welcome aboard! :)
Epic production! Jakob
Thank you so much!
Well done Jakob, you can only get better with time, keep it up best regards, Anthony
Thanks a lot :)
Great video views good camera work and good commentary. Thank you!
Thanks for watching 🙌
Just found your channel young man and I am so impressed with your boat skills and it comes down to your passion and determination in this second episode. I am also enjoying your editing and especially the back ground music, it's awesome.! I will be following all your journeys where ever it takes you. God bless and stay safe hello from Australia.🙂
Thank you so much! Thrilled to hear you enjoyed watching 🙌
Great video & great effort solo !
Thanks a lot!
Great video and great sailing. I agree though with others clip on when going out on deck. Keep the videos coming and hope to see you around the English Channel again soon.
Very inspiring, Thanks for sharing that...
Thanks for watching! :)
Good for you Jacob. Well done.
Thanks!
Great video, impressive cinematography. I’m embarrassed by my scepticism when I clicked on it. I’m middle-aged and need to do something, make a change now I don’t have the responsibilities I had. You have unsettled my apathy and I thank you for that. I’m looking at boats again. Thank you.
Comments like yours are one of the biggest motivations! Thanks a lot and rooting for your plans mate
Grossartig gemacht, Jakob !
Dank dir 😃
Filming and editing is top class👍
Night scenes where amazing🌃
Thank you. Really appreciate it 🙌
You are a brave young guy. Safe travels
Cheers mate!
I wish I'd have done this when I was younger. Good luck on your ventures
Impressive and interesting
I Will follow
Keep it up. I particularly appreciated pictures and information about the marinas you visited.
Welcome aboard!
Hi Jakob,
Great channel! You are right up there with Erik Aanderaa; no bullshit, just sailing! Very well done, I look forward to many more adventures.
Many thanks! Still much to learn 🙌
That's what makes your channel so good; the rest of us get to learn with you!
Not just the sailing….
It is also the excellent vid they both make of it!!!
That’s exactly what I was thinking!
Specially the editing, which is crucial to keep us entertained.
And I hate the vlog style some sailors do, filming their own face all the time. Much better make story’s and comments to the live footage as you do.
just don't fall asleep and run aground. Poor NBJS #expensive
geiles video! viel spass auf deiner Reise!
Dank dir!
Not half way through yet, but this is great, just subscribed :)
Nice story
Good fotografi
Very smart
Thanks for sharing your experience
Fair wind
Thank you 🙌
what a nice movie. great job and good luck
Thanks for watching mate 🙌
Pleasure to watch, you sure have put some effort on these videos! Prost!
Happy to hear, thanks! 😃
Hi Jakob,
Remember the life jacket, and the 3-hooks life line, clicked onto your life jacket and one of the hooks to the boat.
You should has jack line from stern to bov as well as jack lines outside the rails just below the gunwale. The gunwale is the edge where deck and hull meets each other.
Those 2 jack lines are for the case where you somehow got over the railing and can't get back onto the deck. You will then hook you lifeline to the outer jack line, cut the other one. You will then fall into the water who is flowing around the boat. That water flowing around the boat will force you body to the back of the boat, where you can use the bathing ladder to ge onboard.
Don't think that you pull your up onto the deck, because you can't. Don't ask why I know that.
You should also has a PLB (Position Locator Beacon) on your life jacket, so the can click on the big one-and-only alarm button. Otherwise no one will know that you're in need of help. PLB signals are picked up by SAR (Search And Rescue) satellites. You *must* register it, but using it is for free, i.e. no subscription.
Moreover consider using one of the types of survival suit, so you don't die with a few minutes.
If you're neither wearing a life jacket and has a PLB on your life jacket, you are good as *DEAD* if you become a MOB.
Hey, I have a lifeline laid on deck which goes from the cockpit to the foredeck and back to the cockpit on the other side. That is mounted to fittings on deck which are specially installed for it. A PLB would defenitely be a good idea, or a watertight VHF with GPS
Lovely vid 👍👍
Thanks mate 🙌
Blimey! Sailing down the Channel is easy compared to sailing through Amsterdam at night.
The ferries randomly shooting out from the sides with 10 kts at night are like a parkour run 😂 One time (during daylight) I had to go full power into reverse at 6 kt to avoid one
HI, I am litterally impressed ! You are so young and already a real adventurer. I do love this video. I am probably more than twice your age and I also have a boat (south of France). I am quite sure that at your age, I would never attempt such a journey so really : Thumbs Up for you.
Thank you so much!
Great adventure mate. Cheers from australia
Glad you enjoyed it
Courageous nice job
Good content !
Thanks 🙌
Cooles Video. 👍
Dank dir!
I did the same voyage, solo, in 2019 but in day trips. Crossed the Channel from Dunkirk to Eastbourne-Brighton-Portsmouth-Cherbourg-Guernsey. the voyage back along the French coast and even a detour via Antwerp. I'm a bit wary of an all nighter in the Channel as there's too much traffic for sleeping while sailing in my opinion. Even with AIS.
Real nice footage, Jakob and compliments to your efforts and - as far as your current age is concerned - i only may say: WOW ! Wishing you always fair winds and sending you best regards (from Germany), Linus!
Thank you so much Linus 🙌
Nice video mate but always wear a life jacket, have a hand held VHF and GPS watch. If you go over board solo sailing you are in big trouble without pre-cautions.
That‘s why you have to avoid it at all costs in the first place 😉 But yeah, a PLB and VHF is surely not a bad idea
the people who run the visitor marina at Boulogne-sur-Mer are really nice and accomodating, its easy to get into same with dieppe, that wind farm near le-havre is massive i had to draw the proper borders of it on my charts as its poorly represented on the carts
Beautiful video, well-done! Music was fine, , f ex 31.17 dramatic. (Only 1 music segment 2.13 'Leaving Amsterdam' was probably som warning signal from overheating in the bilge :-)
Thanks for this amazing video.
Bery ciol.
Ehat devices you use for filming?
Hot tip,
A little bit of motoring can help you sails, so you will get propulsion from both the sails and the engine.
My rule of thumb is staying under sail if I'm doing above 2.5 kt SOG (if I'm not crossing a TSS or something like that). While motoring I often leave the mainsail up to stabilize the roll, but sometimes the boom begins smashing into the rig so hard, that it hurts to hear after a minute 😂 So I usually also take down the main in that situation to not risk damage in the rigging
So after Carlton Drake CEO of the Life Foundation fell of the Rocket, he survived and started sailing? :D
Thanks for the video, actually Rotterdam is by a large margin the busiest port in Europe, and a dozens of miles south you have the second busiest, Antwerp. Fair winds!
Thanks for the info 🙌
It is most important when solo sailing near the coast to keep watch, sleeping on coastal routes is not an option, big ships cannot steer to miss you. Why not drink coffee from a flask or boil water on deck with a gas camping stove, use pre- prepared food or sandwiches, perhaps tinned rice pudding, corned beef etc., eaten cold, but fills the gap. Navigation needs to be done on deck with plotteror chart/gps so you can see exactly where you are. Preparation is so essential, fuel cans were seen sliding around the foredeck, they can easily rupture!! Next time, PLAN to stop off en route, and SLEEP in port. Sailing is much safer 3 nm plus from land remember that, and you get consistent wind. Motor sailing is best even in near calm weather, and is good for stabilization of the boat. I hope you learnt from your experience. At least you stayed with the boat without a safety line - don't risk this though, there is no way back to boat for a solo sailor. Your watch words are "Preparation, Safety, Route planning" - then there is no challenge, and you will enjoy not having to ENDURE you sailing adventure.
The thing with motor sailing is different everytime. Sometimes it can help to stabilize, other times the boom just crashes into the main sheet every few seconds, which can‘t be healthy for the rig in a long term. Why use a camping stove if I have have one below deck? The diesel cans can barely be stored anywhere else then on the foredeck, if you don‘t want the risk of diesel fumes under deck. And in my opinion that‘s the thing that makes an experienced sailor, if he knows that it rarely goes according to plan :)
Completely new to sailing here. What would be the average price of a boat similar to this? And what are the expected running costs? Seems like a really interesting hobby as you have so much freedom traveling on the wind; especially going from A to B.
Well done Jakob. As a sometime singlehander myself I know it’s not as easy as you made it look. Ignore the silly comments giving you advice you don’t need, you’re inspiring.
Well stated. Too many armchair sailors in this comment section.
Thanks mate! Feedback is always there to make you better, but yeah, solo sailing is often way different than in theory 🙌
You surely made a great vid!!!
I’m sure that once you’re fed up with sailing the movie industry will welcome you!!
On top of that I envy you for living my dream!!!!…. (being 40 odd years younger of age then meself…)
But please be careful my friend…. It IS a good advise to be attached and to don a lifejacket….. the moment your life depends on ‘em is unpredictable!!
Thumb+subscription!!
I will follow your journey with a lot intrest!!!!… (and even more jealousy…..)
Be GOOD!!!….ENJOY!!!!
Kindest of greatings and admiration from the Netherlands!!
Love jour boat I also have a dheler ❤
Dehlers are truly amazing boats
Ahoi Wolf! Interessante Serie. Kannst Du mal bitte etwas auf Dein Boot eingehen? Ist das eine Contessa 38? Wie würde die sich bei einer Atlantiküberfahrt so machen? Hast Du Erfahrungen mit ihr in Schwerem Wetter? So "Hölle" war die Tour aber auch nicht;)). Seglerische Grüsse und Mast und Schotbruch!
Hey, dank dir! Das Boot ist eine Dehler Optima 92 (31 ft). Mehr infos zum Boot: thesailingwolf.com/the-boat/ Cross-Atlantik, sowohl Passatroute als auch Ostwärts sollte kein größeres Problem sein. Ende der 80er ist das Ehepaar Klee auch schon mit einer Optima 92 rund Kap Hoorn gesegelt und in einem Herbsturm vor Alaska durchgekentert. Bis auf Mastverlust ist nichts weiter passiert. Wir sind kurz vor dem Törn nach Guernsey zu zweit nach England rüber gesegelt, mit in der Früh Böhen bis 10 bft. In den Bedingungen sogar noch gegenan 👍
Hallo Jakob, toll! 👍 Du weisst was Du tust und machst Deinem Weg! Hat nur 3 sek gedauert fürs Abo. 🙂 Darf ich fragen wie alt Du bist und seit wann Du segelst? Die Sequenzen mit Eindrücken, Zeitlupe und Musik finde ich sehr schön, gerne mehr davon. 👏⛵️🐺
Hey, danke! 🙌 Bin 18 und segle seit ca 5
@@jakoblangsailing Mein Gedanke war schon Du könntest auch mal bei Team Malizia anklopfen. Da würdest Du super passen. ⛵️🍀
Looks more like solo motor sailing hell actually. It confirms my observations that owners of small sailing yachts fitted with a steering wheels instead of a helm have a motorist mindset and that will bring only trouble at sea.
Well, I would‘ve gotten in way bigger trouble without engine and wind with 3 kt of current towards shore and some 6 nm distance from it 🤷♂️
Hi, your an impressive young man, however unless you have learned to run on water, in Order to catch your yacht, where your harness or lifejacket on deck, if you want to make it to a old age. Regards from Australia.
Dammit there’s another Sailing Wolf? Jk man, great video. Awoo.
Life jacket and harness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bananas? Now you know what was the problem with the engine 😂
I used to adopt the rule 'no bananas on board' but I recently relaxed to ''no bananas on board during a passage'. So far, so good.
Well done!
Please be aware that the Argofet requires a small fuse (1 or 2A) in the NEGATIVE lead. This is unusual and therefore often overlooked!
Thanks for telling! The manual doesn‘t say anything about that but better a fuse more than one less 👍
We Just found your Channel. 🎉
Welcome onboard! 😄
I'm so over light winds..when that happens I get so frustrated
It‘s a part of sailing
Typisch Wiener halt! Einfach nur mega sympathisch 🤗! Handbreit weiterhin! Machst Du super!!!
Eigentlich Steirer, aber dank dir! :)
How long did the the trip take? I have to take the exact same route except I have to continue down from Guernsey all the way to Portugal 🥲
Why a sad smiley? Wish I could do that 😅 It was planned nonstop so it would have taken around 4 days. With all the stops underway it ended up taking 6 days
Nice video brave that you make a wunderfull trip . I have a question witch navigation programme you juse ?
Do you juse a laptop or is a navigation brand ?
Enjoy 😊😊😊
Instalate 2 solarpanels and a windmill for you electric stuf.
Witch City you come from Holland ?
My harbour is Volendam i have a Bavaria 38 full equipt i start with training for to make a trip to Finland in september .
I give you on tip juse always a lifeline and a vest because when you go overboard you lose everything with cargo ships around you have big waves and can be dangerous .
Do you have a second boat or raft with you ?
Regards ,
Frans Boddeke
Hey mate! Glad you liked it! So I primarily use a Simrad Plotter with the Navionics charts (pretty much the best ones out there). For route planning I use OpenCPN with Open Sea Map on my laptop. I will soon install two solar panels to make up the current loss of the autopilot 🙌 Of course I have a liferaft onboard, stored below deck. Will install a mount for that on the stern since I takes up a lot of space below deck in the aft cabin and in a real emergency I don‘t think I would be able to haul it on the deck. Hope to never have to use it though…
Best regards 🙌
you are brave and beautiful !
did you know your compass was nackered?
Always wear a life jacket when sailing alone, please. 💪💪
Will defenitely do that consistently from now on
How is your channel undiscovered? Interesting content and looks expertly produced and scripted "Oh no I am having an engine failure," "oh wait let me explore this town that was unplanned, oh and by the way all it was, was I ran out of gas" sounds like some reality TV type stuff eh. LOL keep up the videos good content, looks like a fun lifestyle especially if you had a wife or girlfriend (or babes at each port.)
Great job, but please, the tortellini be cooked in boiling water, like any other pasta! LOL
Soak in salted water for 2 hours, then bring to a boil for a minute. No need to waste energy cooking pasta
@@TheCornucopiaProject-bd5jk In Italy we put you in jail for such a shame!
@@WarandherGio I know. It works great with dried pasta. Fresh pasta cooks so fast you don’t need to pre-soak it.
@@TheCornucopiaProject-bd5jk 15 more days in prison🙄
@@WarandherGio fine. Instead of soaking in water, add 2 ounces of water to your spaghetti sauce and let the pasta soak in that.
Don’t forget to top it off with a sprinkle of fresh Italian parsley 😃
Where was the "hell" part, again?
Jakob, why use we all time while you are all alone? In Holland 'we' is for the king😁
It is meant for the boat and myself, since we are kind of a team 😉
@@jakoblangsailing Didn't think of that one; we it shall be.
This is great viewing and I'll look for more of your videos but as others have said keep your lifejacket on and clipped to the boat. Do not allow your legacy to become a warning to others..👍
Thanks a lot! I have to give you right, lifeline should be worn 🙌
Which song is that?
Which one?
you look sometime a little bit tired😁
I ran on mostly under combined 1 hour of sleep per night, so that would explain it 😅
Sleep management is the key with coastal cruising (much easier offshore). I personally cannot go more than one night at sea (ie a 36 hr passage). Beyond that I have to find somewhere safe to sleep, even if it is a rolly roadstead anchorage.
Very brave and impressive sailor, well done. But, no safety gear that we see. Solo, self steering if , you were to be pitched overboard, what????? Please put on you PDF. Be safe fair winds.
Thanks for the concern, will definitely wear a lifeline way more frequent from now on
Max Verstappen of sailing
If it's hell, why do it?
Why not?
Walking around on deck with no harness or life jacket is a dumb move. Although I admire your intentions, your inexperience may get you killed.
You‘re right about that and it definitely is a bad habit. I never leave the pit if I don‘t have to. In rougher weather I wear a lifeline most of the time. Just wearing a life vest has pretty much no point when you‘re solo unless you‘re wearing an AIS locator
A bit harsh but true I guess.
Anyway a superb and bold voyage. Very well done. Fair winds, hold on tight and stay safe.
@@jakoblangsailingwhen your doing anything solo like sailing cycling kayaking mountaineering you have to evaluate risk differently and think much more about redundancy . An epirb on your body not on the boat is definitely worth it, only a few hundred pounds ,even a small garmin inreach mini that can fit easily in pocket👍 , Especially somewhere around Europe one can be rescued quickly so worth it , great sailing though top adventure 💪🙂
Don't get killed by the safety authorities.
I won't wear dangerous harnesses ever. 57 years and still hanging on.
Every sailor has to make their own decisions. When you live full time on a boat, it simply isn't possible to be tied up all the time. I personally only wear harness and life jacket in bad weather, outside the cockpit. In good conditions I might go on the foredeck in nothing more than a swimsuit. One has to judge the risks involved.
where did you learn to do shit like fixing batteries? 4 days of work?? must have been a big job! It seems that to be a good boat captian you need many skills..
I refitted the boat during the winter a year ago. That way you learn a lot about electric stuff (and lessons 😂). It took 4 days (even tough it was a relative simple installation), because I haven‘t touched the engine cabling until now and the pre-owner mixed the color coding of some cables up which resulted in mixing negative and positive cables up resulting in a short circuit
@@jakoblangsailingjesus... gotta be careful who you buy from I guess! Hope you've made it all clean and color coded now ;)
I don’t understand why you don’t wear a life west. Statistically the chances of survival without a poor, should you stumble and fall overboard.
You‘re completely right. Only wearing a life vest when you‘re solo doesn‘t make much sence unless you have a PLB with you. But yeah, I should wear a vest with a lifebelt all the time when leaving the pit.
Music background is awful, shame, I couldn’t watch🤔
Should of watched! Music got a lot better and his a really adventurous young man.
I have over 40,000 offshore sailing miles. It is dangerous enough to cross an ocean with a skilled crew. It is foolhardy and irresponsible to be a 'solo' sailor in one of the busiest shipping channels in the world. It is somewhat different to leave the west coast of Europe and sail to the Caribbean solo, as there is nothing out there with which to collide. When folks like this fool get into trouble, I recommend no one come to their assistance. Totally irresponsible behaviour.
Wow!
I doubt you have sail 40 miles never mind 40,000 hahha