ATLANTIC CROSSING: Overcoming the mental challenges of Ocean sailing.

[@jedoyle6]

Sophie you are my new favorite youtube sailor!!! Morale and food are two of my main concerns about planning an ocean crossing, so thankful you have created this series!

[@jhsrecordsentertainment4972]

Two forms of anxiety..1) free floating..meaning nervous energy with no job to do..so put it to use. 2) more common anxiety is always about a future whether next minute, day, or longer..it is always about future..never present moment. Get in the present moment. Its hard to stay positive if persons around are down. Hats off to you Sophie. Its just as hard on you too. Your spirit shines and your awareness to try to lift others lifts you as well. Love you guys. Stay safe and ENJOY the journey.

[@RyanSophieSailing]

If anxiety was so simple, I believe the world wouldn't be nearly as complicated as it is ;)

[@CaptainJohn1972]

Sophie: Respect girl!!! On your ability to keep things moving forward, your narrative approach, and your storytelling...best in the sailing KZbin genre.....hats off!!!!

[@karitane]

Sophie: Ten out of ten for empathy. Caring what goes on, people's feelings in situations you understand and last but not least, doing something to make people's lives happier. xx

[@RyanSophieSailing]

Thanks Derek ❤

[@jhsrecordsentertainment4972]

As also a semi retired therapist and dad was a shrink...simple doesn't mean easy....we over complicate things.. 🤪

[@demale1]

When you said, "Time to make more bacon bread," the look on your face - that smile with a bit of pain - broke my heart a little. That said, I would watch the heck out of a Sophie Cooks At Sea channel. You lifted my spirits too!

[@paulsj9245]

Thanks for telling me that it was not "baken bread" - I had lost some in translation!

[@dalewatson7982]

We crossed the Atlantic twice back in the 80s,no instruments like today,they make sailing a lot easier. Good luck.

[@meestahwah]

Sophie... I have watched your guys' channel off and on over the years, and I have come to TRULY appreciate your sense of humor and wit. I actually laughed out loud while at my computer alone on this one. Thanks for the smiles and chortles!

[@RyanSophieSailing]

aaaah thanks for the lovely comment! so glad you enjoy the channel! :)

[@johnw6538]

The member of the crew who makes the effort to ensure that all member's spirits and attitudes remain high are as integral to the success of a passage as the captain and navigator. You have always been a strong team, but each plays an important role for the success and safety of the others. Truly Ryan and Sophie sailing +1. Documenting and sharing such a personal experience simultaneously is next level. Avancer

[@larrycase2762]

Sophie, I like the way you lift spirits. You are the moral officer for this crossing. 😶

[@RyanSophieSailing]

I'm the moral officer of life in general, and I take it VERY seriously :p hahaha!

[@blt1]

Making Tiramisu while under way crossing the Atlantic?!? You Rock, Sophie!!

[@dunkie976]

Bacon bread??? What the heck is THAT? But sounds AMAZING, you need to share how you make it!!!! Another great and challenging episode guys, it is great to see people sharing the difficult (normal) situations that we end up in and how our own brain can try to screw us over, but that can all be washed away witha bit of empathy, Tirimisu and Bacon Bread, top work Sophie.

[@JustMe-pp1mp]

Now THAT'S the way make Tiramisu!!! When the going gets tough, the tough get going. You made it to land. Well done.

[@nick.caffrey]

Now I understand Ryan so much better. And now he seems much more 'sympa' to me. And braver. And just all-around competent!

[@kiki.arielscrystalco]

Sophie! You are just the best! 'Everybody is sad, so I'm making tiramisu' 😂🥰 Bless ya, so cute! (Also Ryan's cue: 'hello' haha lost it!) Good one guys, looking forward to the next ep as always! 🌊🌞

[@donnasingleton6320]

You're so nurturing Sophie. Kudos on taking care of the crew. Mother Sophie

[@pataulson]

As usual, a GREAT episode that reflects the real deal. Love Sophie's outtakes and sense of humor. Awesome!

[@RyanSophieSailing]

Aaaah thanks Patrick! :D So glad you enjoyed it!

[@caromarco6315]

Really good explanation of how you guys feel over the course of the ocean crossing. Love your sense of humour Sophie! And amazing cooking 🧑‍🍳 !

[@RyanSophieSailing]

Food is life. One can't simply skimp on the food in the middle of the ocean :p

[@armorguy1108]

I love how you share all aspects of your crossing voyage and are honest about the difficulties you encountered. Thanks for sharing and be well!

[@wk6976]

Hi Sophie, thanks for sharing the good and bad of your voyage. I would be going out of my mind with the pitching and rolling. Your spirit would help anyone get through a rough time. Great cooking with alcohol helps also!

[@familyupgrade]

Oh, Ryan, sweetie, I'm so so sorry! But please look at it as a HUGE win, you are doing SO much better now than 2 years ago! I have panic attacs and my meds just...(having a mental pause here) changed my life. From debilatating to excellent. From "let me die" to "I want to LIVE!" My medication turned me into a emotional zombie for a year, but it turned and made me a normal person with no panic. I still have worries, but I dont get frozen up or totally bedridden by them. Good luck, you are such a sweet person, I don't want you to feel this EVER again. mvh/Catta från Sundsvall

[@eldridgerawls4983]

I could not cope with my sailing life without Zoloft.

[@kerwin715]

Sophie, when are we going to see a sailor's cookbook? Your recipes look wonderful.

[@BillB23]

Sophie, you can be an absolute hoot! Thanks for the chuckles. Fair winds and following seas.

[@matt8474]

What a lovely piece of story telling

[@kjelpeterson5236]

Fabulous episode, a fresh peek behind the curtain from the usual day in the life we get from many crossing videos

[@allanmoore7790]

Yuuuuuum! Bake bread every other day and I would be smiling all the time!

[@svoceanskimmer7073]

You are going to love the Azores

[@richardherndon1541]

Wow! Another awesome video! The mental part of ocean crossing isn't often discussed on KZbin channels. You did a great job of showing some of challenges and stresses that play on a crew's mental health. As usual you did it with style and humor. Thanks for sharing this!

[@RyanSophieSailing]

Thanks Richard!!!

[@Tim8mit]

Sophie a damp cotton dish towel will help keep your cooking prep dishes in place. 64 years ago on a trans atlantic passenger/cargo ship ride we had rough seas and the porters poured water on the tale clothes to keep our dinners from sliding off the table

[@RyanSophieSailing]

I know... I have tons of stuff to make sure nothing glides. But for some reason that day, I didn't take it out :p

[@Tim8mit]

been there and done that LOL

[@mz2288]

A very spiritual episode! Must be so frustrating to be sailing in fog for days. Love your humor Sophie 😂.

[@walterelmore1017]

The down to earth (pun) realism makes the video so interesting. One of your best. Tx

[@SailingwithScott]

So then it dawned on me... that the reason why we never see much of your crew doing much is the title of your channel. It's "Ryan and Sophie Sailing"! I got it. and you got the comment. Good for the algorithm.

[@graemeday4195]

Not only does Sophie have a great sense of humour, she also has a very expressive face....and is truly beautiful.

[@herbescobar4548]

Cool watching all this old footage after watching the live stuff a few weeks ago.

[@michaelphilip9378]

Love the humour

[@bobbiejay2085]

Lifting spirits by galley and love.

[@chrijoh3011]

Sophie, you’re a little star 🥰

[@peterrichards8762]

Well done Sophie cooking baking and always smiling Passages can become very ground hog day but you are keeping up a great attitude thanks for all the work you are doing to take on the journey with you

[@RyanSophieSailing]

Thanks Peter! :)

[@JakobEngl]

Great Video !

[@johanmarais9950]

Great stuff - give the next one quickly please!!!

[@francismontocchio9910]

Sophie, you are so funny!!!!

[@Outrageousconduct]

Nice video !!

[@jameschen9099]

Sophie, I see a bit of Celine Dion in you ! thanks for the vlog.

[@agawesomeness101]

Great episode. You guys make sailing look so easy. Would love for Sophie to share more some recipes. I’ve made your lasagna and peanut butter energy bars! Both were fabulous!

[@RyanSophieSailing]

I am months late on my recipe book.... :/

[@dobie2times]

Sophie, your fingers look like you should have played a string instrument or maybe the piano. Very nice well sculpted fingers! Nice job with morale on the cruise also. You my hero

[@RyanSophieSailing]

Aaah thanks :) I would have loved to learn the piano when I was a kid but unfortunately did not have that opportunity. I tried to do it as an adult, but time is lacking unfortunately!

[@tammy6992]

All right looking forward to this

[@paulsj9245]

That was a very French way of making sailorized Tiramisu, combined with a very Italian way of sticking to the no-booze-on-passage rule ;) I might add hints to the German way to deal with liquid in a rolling boat but I refrain. Love you guys!

[@RyanSophieSailing]

lol :D

[@timtwinam9851]

Sophie: being the rainbow in someones' storm. :-)

[@edl617]

Those North South swells are tiring when goin East or west

[@andrewgrindrod1292]

Totally admiring what you have been doing. It's one big learning curve. I have not seen early videos but can you explain the background to the French connection the swedish boat and I'm not sure where Ryan is from? Would be interested in the background...sorry if you have already covered this

[@RyanSophieSailing]

It's in Episode 1... which is very old and also, I was not at the peak of my production skills :p I moved to Sweden from France in 2010, about the same time as Ryan (who moved from the US), but we only met in 2015!

[@suzannecole9044]

great video - thank you

[@kerwin715]

Sophie, I so admire your attitude. How is the motion sickness when you are mid-crossing? Have you wrestled it under control?

[@ffarag]

Sophie many thanks for your vids, love them , when cooking why dont you use anti slip mats ? the are quite useful though! cheers and till soon.

[@RyanSophieSailing]

I normally do, but I have to be honest, I have no idea where they went that day! :p

[@brennigjones]

Sophie is a rock 👍

[@eldridgerawls4983]

My question is why leave the Caribbean to sail to Europe in the fall .winter. Great video of your journey.

[@RyanSophieSailing]

because... why not? :)

[@danschertner]

Awesome vid as usual. Been watching you guys since the beginning. Glad you are so real about everything that goes on and you actually sail. Unlike some others on the tubes... Anyway, I am wondering if you can walk through in an upcoming vid as to why it takes a half hour to jibe the boat. Looks like you drop the pole, furl, jibe, unfurl, and then reattach the whisker pole. Wondering why you have to furl and not just drop the pole, jibe, and reattach the pole. On another note, I look forward to your vids each week because its November here in MN and as Ryan knows being from IA, the water starts to get hard this time of year and my boat is in storage until probably late April. Keep it up!!

[@RyanSophieSailing]

Hi Dan! You are 100% correct about the gybing process. The reason why we need to furl is because we have an emergency forestay right behind the primary forestay. so the pole needs to be droped and remounted on the other side, with control lines redone. Same with the main, we need to untie the preventer and re-tie it on the other side. It does not always take half an hour, but when the sea state makes the boat roll (which it did a lot in the Northern Atlantic due to crazy gulf stream currents), we need to take the time it takes to keep everyone and everything safe. Hence sometimes up to half an hour.

[@danschertner]

@@RyanSophieSailing Ahh OK, makes perfect sense! Thanks for the info.

[@tomriley5790]

I see what you mean by "lifting the spirits," lifting them and pouring them in :-0!

[@RyanSophieSailing]

;) you gotta do what you gotta do!

[@grahamlongley8298]

Brilliant videos as usual. I have been really looking forward to these past few episodes & how the extra crew would work out. I guess that before she came on board she must have asked what her job would be. You obviously told her that her principle tasks would be to do all the sea sickness, eating and sleeping. It is clear that she has completed these tasks very well because she seems to have done very little else.This has enabled more time for you & Ryan to have more time for work, cooking etc. Although shore side she has helped out with the partying, which must be a boon to you and Ryan. Good on her. definately a crew to be recommended.😁.

[@lindawoodall822]

Bacon bread!!! I have never heard of this. Add a fried egg and you have something heavenly!

[@RyanSophieSailing]

Absolutely :p

[@tedcowart3647]

I just discovered your KZbin channel and have been watching some past videos. I was curious about your communication loss. Do you have a HF or amateur radio transceiver on board? You could communicate directly with land with one of those. Great video!

[@stony7827]

3:08 waaaahhhh Sophie - grin grin grin ... ROTFL

[@RyanSophieSailing]

hahaha :D

[@stevenplancich6449]

I’d miss Cheesecake or Cheese Fondue😜 Eh? Sofie…But at lease ya got “Connected”…Continue to Stay Safe & Enjoy😎

[@WildEdits08]

How did you get across without getting eaten by the enormous Atlantic waves??? I’m happy you made it but that little boat won’t protect you if a big wave hits

[@patrickmaloney6440]

Wait... Bacon Bread? You can't casually drop that one in and then just move on! We need the recipe!

[@rumblechick73]

That's what I want to know too!

[@RyanSophieSailing]

I promise I will. I am super mega late with these things, that's all :p

[@SailingOTR]

Makes you wonder just how the hell did Joshua Slocum sail around the world solo with an old wooden boat that he rebuilt himself. He did it with no engine, no electricity, no electronics, no stainless steel, no synthetic sails or lines and only a sextant, an old hand wound alarm clock with no minute hand and a life time of sailing experience.

[@carenclemmons5002]

He seems to have just committed to handle any random occurrence knowing that he would simply do his best to handle whatever. The belief he had in himself didn’t seem to make him any less humble either. A truly remarkable soul he was.

[@RyanSophieSailing]

He had his style, and other people have theirs. Just like we have one way of living life and you have another one. Nothing wrong with that!

[@samuaarnivuo4113]

Is that a safety rule, or are you unable to hoist the main/gybe solo?

[@RyanSophieSailing]

It's a bit of both. In order to gybe with this configuration, someone needs to go on the foredeck to lower the pole and change the control lines. So we wouldn't let anyone go on the foredeck without someone checking them out.

[@stephenmahoney9531]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@bryrensexton4618]

👍!!!

[@C_C_SEA]

✊Such a badass, Lady Sophie! - steely-eyed missile woman - all of you performed admirably ✊... ✨💯✨🖖

[@timdunn2387]

Maybe just a touch more rum?

[@gerhardvanwaltsleben8944]

Lekker man lekker

[@Bri-wi8kq]

Sophie - yummmmmmmmmmmmmy !!!!! Tiramisu with rum, OMG that's so hot.... Cheers Brian, Top Hat 25'

[@gwynroberson198]

Cooking at sea is always an adventure. Share your gybe process/rigging layout may be your team of followers can put some collective brain power/experience into making it easier.

[@RyanSophieSailing]

Someone needs to go on the foredeck to drop the pole and change the control line. It does not always take half an hour, but when the sea state gets the boat to rock and roll, we gotta take our time to make sure everyone and everything is safe. With the crazy gulf stream currents in the Northern part of the Atlantic, the motion of the boat was quite rolly. In a calm sea state, gybing goes substantially faster.

[@josepla9797]

Long passages..... 50% boredom 30% routine but pleasurable 18% high adrenaline 2% heart pounding.... oh shit!

[@RyanSophieSailing]

Hahaha! Accurate :)

[@dutchglobetrotter4513]

The more booze you can smuggle into food, the better it is for crew morale.

[@ellabella2603]

One of the best things about watching a French sailor is you know how to properly pronounce Voila! Walla just sounds wrong. I’m guessing you never caught your 🐠 ☹️ but you did get some dolphins. 😊

[@RyanSophieSailing]

Indeed, we never caught the fish and that was a bit disappointing :(

[@joecucch8261]

Now I know why the British Royal Navy gave the sailors a mug of grog every day. It's because they didn't have enough rum swizzle to go around...

[@JustMe-pp1mp]

@16.55 - That was sooo mean. You know he'll get you back don't you ???

[@RyanSophieSailing]

Hahahah! He watched the video before it was published and said it was OK ;)

[@AlsinoFerreira]

:-)

[@tammy6992]

Sophie your so sweet

[@fernandocardoso4272]

this crossing is gonna end in divorce...