Atlantic Crossing Sailing Cape Verde to Brazil
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2017
- 2017 passage across the Atlantic Ocean and the Equator! 18 days, average daily run of 112 miles. A great passage for Dawn Treader and crew! sailingdawntreader.com.
Music: “Eventually” by Lemont. Find more at lemontmusic.com.
You guys are really bad ass, but I've to admit, I got seasick just by watching.
You guys are super badass, and the soundtrack is ripping!
Thanks! The music is from Lemont. www.lemontmusic.com All their stuff is great!
So clean and organized your ship comparison to some ships.
These are fantastic, thanks. 😁
Thanks! We will try to keep making them. We do enjoy filming.
Nice sailboat ✌
Another nice video. Seems like you had a fast crossing. Must have had some good winds the whole way...?
It was a fast crossing for us. The NE trades were strong and from astern, then we crossed the doldrums in just over a day, and after the SE trades were light for a comfortable close reach. The last few hundred miles were coasting downwind in light ENE'lies. Other than the equatorial heat, it was probably the most comfortable passage yet.
Amazing guys! Wich windvane does downtreader has?
Nice
Hi DT...that journey looks amazing! I was wondering if I could ask you about the average speeds you maintained, and the hours you sailed? Now I know NOTHING about sailing but 112 miles seems very slow for a 24 hour day's sailing, from the video it seems like you had pretty strong winds. Do you sail for 10 hours or so during the day at 11 knts then just drift/anchor through the night and if so do you get pushed backwards. It may sound a bit odd but someone is using this video as evidence the earth isn't a globe, they're saying it's impossible to take this long in a boat this fast meaning the distances must be "much further than we've been told". You're probably well aware of Fedor Konyukhov's 102 day 14,600nm trip around the Antarctic, well they're also saying that's impossibly slow with that boat and tail winds of 50mph but only a daily average of 5.8 knts. It would be great to have a real sailor's opinion of how hard sailing is and how little wind speeds have to do with progress.
You raise some very interesting points about speeds and distance. And no response. Added to my 'Flat Earth Evidence' playlist. It will make people curious. :)
Max (displacement) boat speeds are primarily determined by water line length. A 30ft sailboat will have a max of about 6 knots (a longer sailboat might get to 7 or 8 knots). The only time you exceed this is if you have the tide or current with you, which they didn't have. As you might imagine, you cannot go at max speed 24x7 so most cruisers assume something like 4.5 to 5 knots average. That is 108 to 120 nautical miles a day. Offshore, boats sail 24 hrs a day but If the boat is short handed and/or concerned about a weather change, it is common to shorten sail sunset through sunrise, further reducing average daily runs. All in all, they made good progress for a 30 ft, short handed, displacement, vessel.
When are you doing it again
18 days! Nice fast crossing, no time becalmed near the Equator?
We managed to cross the doldrums at a narrow spot and were only becalmed for half a day or so.
I was trying to figure out how ancient people got from the Black Sea to Peru / Bolivia after the end of the Ice Age. I wondered if they went from around Cape Verde to Brazil, so I searched to see what that would look like and found this video.
Cape Verde (or anywhere from West Africa and Iberia) to Northern Brazil, say around the Amazon Delta, is easy in the winter as it is downwind, with the current, and never crosses the doldrums. Making a landfall father south is more difficult because of the doldrums and strong currents. Assuming the weather patterns were similar the voyage seems possible.
Or alternatively, they could walk eastwards, cross the strait, and walk a few thousand miles further to the south. There were no borders back then, and the only hindrances were the natural predators, tribal mating and anthropophagic rituals along the way.
Don't forget sea levels were much lower then
What boat IS she?!
Hello, Dawn Treader is an Allied Seawind 30 sloop. Built in 1966.
Beautiful footage, could have lasted for at least an hour, but the music is terrible. Why not just leave it to the music from the wind and the waves?
Amazing guys! Wich windvane does downtreader has?
Amazing guys! Wich windvane does downtreader has?
Bruno Morino thanks! Dawn Treader has a Norvane. It has been reliable and was relatively inexpensive.