Little wind when you said the moon was rising, but why didn't you have your jib or spin out? If you are racing you have to be ready to go as soon as a light breeze comes along. When you very light wind you have to heal the boat leeward, to keep the sail shape mate! Why is the traveler car always in the centre of the traveler track? Why are you going wing-on-wing? Don't you have a spinnaker? Flying your ensign creates drag on the boat and flying it during a race is a sign that you have quit racing. Should you have it down? You should not be stearing straight down waves. You should surf, like a surfer on the wave and when you lose it, then stear back on course. Hand stearing is the only way to go in those kind of seas. Contact lenses? Bad idea. Use regular glasses with transition lenses, which turn into sun glasses. Have a spare pair and wear a band around your head to keep them on. No sails up? really? Is this a race or are you just cruising? No symetrical spin? You need a big sun hat mate. Oh... I see you have a good hat near the end of the film. As Jimmy says, "Cheese burger in paridise!"

The quintessential definition of Type 2 Fun. 🙂

I'm curious to understand what your definition of 'homemade' is? Great video, thank you!

Honest story, when a man made a dream come true, starting to to build a boat and crossing an ocean with it, very inspiring.

just today i discovered this type of boat and the rules of this class. I have to say that the spirit of this class is extremely fascinating and i have a great envy and respect for those like you who have managed to accomplish such a feat (even with all the problems and so on). I was wondering what speed a boat of this type can reach in various conditions

The use of acorn nuts is nice for those through bolted items. What you might consider in hindsight is T-nuts. Not as pretty but, they will be essentially flush instead of protruding. I'm sure that you can find them in stainless steel. The downside is you don't get the same diameter as a fender washer.

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Sun ( Halo ) looks flat, flat Earth !

👍 Excellent video, great job on the build and sailing!

Except for the err...err... every other second, it was very informative and nice to see. Great job!

Bottom line - full of sound and fury, signifying very little. I won't say nothing is signified.

I am a professional mariner. On dark nights it’s not unusual for most electronic devices to blind you. What I do is buy temporary window tint. It’s easy to cut a piece to fit the window on the radio, AIS chart plotter or anything else and put it on and off as needed.

Maybe edit out about 4000 of your uuuuuums

Looks like alot of room. DON needs to use lip04 and he will switch. If your going electric the go. Thank you

Ever thought about a bilge keel setup?

Fantastic! Still!

Thanks for taking the time to do this, watched your crossing video and wondered about the detail of the boat and the good and bad. This answered pretty much all my questions and more!

What is the procedure/security/protocol around going overboard? Do you carry some sort of signaling device on your person? I'm picturing a rogue wave knocking me overboard. Is that just game over?

Are you going to do the round the world race?

Just going to piss and shit off the side of the boat huh and not bathe.... gross.

Just wonderful to follow your journey. Thank you. Are you staying in the Caribbean or is it a sail back home next year? Look forward to more videos. Phil, Suffolk.🇬🇧

My last boat was 28 feet, sailed from Miami to Sydney Au, new boat 52 feet. Never looked back.

Blue tape quick solution re VHF problem

This was such a brilliant watch. Is there a return leg or was the boat returned to Blighty on a ship ??

Wow what a journey. Would love to do something like this but not brave enough

Thank you so much to take me on this Atlantic crossing, it is really impressing race you did

Whatever they tell you about scottish weather, it's bullshit, just shitty information. I used to think it was true until I experienced other parts of the UK and continent and realised that, actually, Scotland does rather well. At rugby too apparently.🤭 Quite a good video though, apart from the moaning😒

Good Job 👍respect

This is the real thing! I esp like the euphoria with the “land ho”. Gr8 video. We have Dan Turk from “little bea” #20 coming to speak to us at our local yacht club: wayzata yacht club

very neat mate. Great boat, what did you spend?

I like your boot design. How you can seal it up watertight keep the cabin dry good idea

What happened to the sailing

He's clearly very clever, but all that electronics and we don't even know what it does to the biology of our bodies during waking hours, let alone on top of us while sleeping. Further he has the AIS antenna pointed down toward his body.

Great tour. Loved all the detail and the things that you said you would re-think as well. Definitely on my radar. Building and sailing this would be a pure joy - between the challenges, for sure

Great job and great video, don’t need to apologize for it at all in the description. Congratulations on your first transatlantic. I like these boats, the a cabin looks quite spacious considering the length. A lot of people seem to use jetboil stoves. How long does a cylinder last on a trip like this? Can you share how much you spent on the dried meals… what else did you eat? I can imagine getting tired of them quite quickly.

Thank you for this video. I am a retired sailor, now changed the boat for a camper van, and it is such fun to follow your quest across the sea. Again, thank you.

Congrats that was awesome! You did brilliantly. The end seemed somewhat anticlimactic- you deserved a fleet of boats meeting you out in the bay and sailing you home to the cheers of thousands on the pier!

How did you get the boat back home after the crossing?

It's impressive, but it doesn't make me wanna:-)

Big effort, well done 🏴‍☠️🍺

Nice boat, boat would be a swear word to a yacht mens, certainly looks bigger than than 3'3" yacht. Wonder why you don't carry expansion foam, just in case you start sinking, hopefully not but could fill Ur forward cabin and aft cabin or all ur cabin. U could mount the expansion foam cans in the cabins. Then Ur never lose Ur pride and joy. Have a safe journey God bless ❤️

Nice setup, as you have heaps of redundancy except for only one charge controller? the one thing that can convert your dc power power

Enjoyed both videos. Excellent work. I was wondering, what is the head room in the highest part of the cabin?

Do you feel safe in your sailboat ??

I was wondering who you said hows it going to lol

Superbe images

In 9th Century AD the Romans gave an ultimatum to the Mauritanians to surrender all the king's treasury and submit to their tyranny. They were freedom loving people and chose to take all the $ they had and build ships. They knew the Romans called the high seas "the pasture of fools", so they know Rome wouldn't pursue them. They crossed the Atlantic, went up the Misssissippi River and settled. Roman coins and Mauritanian artifacts were found there.

I'm sure all of us have seen the inside of them boats on video so many times I don't know why people keep making videos about it it's just a boat if you crash it you sink if you don't sink it you're lucky