Clipper Race: Pacific Crossing and Huge Waves

Filmed on board our boat, Singapore, during Leg 6 of the Clipper Round the World Ocean Race 2011-12 in the middle of the North Pacific.

[@user-tu8zy5bv9x]

Still the best. Wish I was on board. The helmsman response at the end says it all. If you have been there you know, a thrill like no other :-), love the footage. Thank you, makes me feel young again.

[@bloomheller22]

Good music choice. Awesome sailing footage, wow!

[@justinf1343]

Thanks for sharing that. Watching that makes you feel alive!

[@stargatetarot]

amazing!!! hands down!!! thank you!!! I cried!!! amazing have no words!!!

[@lasolanaau8642]

absolutely fantastic footage - loved it. Great skills and cooperation, endurance and strength of character. well done to you all.

[@ChefonaBoat]

Thanks so much! 🙏

[@sydneygrimes1132]

no guts no glory proper sailing awesome my kind of stuff thank you

[@christinehammell6365]

Amazing and loved the music !!

[@gregkylenyc]

Thanks! It’s a song from a friend’s son’s band. I think they may have also played that on the David Letterman show when they were on

[@JessBartonMusic]

Awesome! I look forward to taking this challenge this year onboard CV27 Garmin! :)

[@pawelcichy2347]

thiis live💪💪💪

[@thebear6529]

Yes me too!

[@songsmith31a]

Extraordinary stuff. A great example of human fortitude allied to supreme confidence in ability plus boatbuilding design and craftmanship.

[@benjonnyshirley4203]

Blah blah blah.... they just sailing dude... beautiful

[@benjonnyshirley4203]

Stop writing songsmith and go.do.it

[@songsmith31a]

@@benjonnyshirley4203 Then there's climbing the Eiffel Tower and climbing the Matterhorn!. ..

[@benjonnyshirley4203]

All the best to you buddy... I am afraid last night I was over-endulging in a not-so-wholesome part of sailing tradition envolving liquids of a non-salty kind!

[@songsmith31a]

@@benjonnyshirley4203 I'm partial to a little of the "Yo-ho-ho" myself - no problem. 🙂.

[@DonnaChassie]

Donna sits in Her lazyboy chair, indica in the pipe, daydreaming of surfing the waves, like in all the sailing books talked about. Thank You. Miss Donna Chassis Honeyflow Galley Sissy

[@gregkylenyc]

There is something exiting about surfing down a wave at 29 knots! (And scary too!)

[@garyjensen3414]

WOW, I'm a sailor and I really appreciate your Video..Rough sail

[@gregkylenyc]

Mostly rough on that crossing but also very beautiful!

[@jamola1096]

great video those waves look huge. the surfing footage is awesome

[@sivayamsiva9343]

Thrilling experience, great escaped, very impressive photography congratulations 👌👌👌

[@rockdoctormusic]

What I wrote about this posting on Facebook: Downwind sailing is a balancing act between keeping your nose out of the wave by turning upwind, and preventing broaching by turning back downwind. This video captures it: no matter the boat design, the greatest thrill is turning downwind off a reach to prevent a broach. When you're finally set neutral again, the boat is screaming fast into the next wave. [see 1:45 to 2:15 and 2:40 to 3:10] Now I've never sailed a yacht with a keel like this, but the technique is the same, and I will say (and Todd Haines can verify), it's actually harder to keep a scow's nose from submarining in waves than just about any boat out there. Why? It's shaped like a submarine. 🙂 AND, there's no keel to help keep you upright!!!!

[@number8485]

Wow you must be piling on the knots in all that!Amazing footage.

[@margaretalarson7451]

Thank you and I'm in tears

[@nicholasforman1195]

Fantastic stuff and the music goes brilliantly with it!

[@rogerweston3707]

Amazing footage of an amazing race.

[@scifredelys8784]

Très belles images, et très bel hommage à votre mère. On a qu’une mère.

[@rogerprout5574]

In big waves like this you need the best helmsmen. Inexperienced people tend to overcorrect then fight the wheel to get back on course. That's how most rudders break.

[@ChefonaBoat]

Yup, and too much can also end in a crash gybe

[@number8485]

Love the soundtrack...

[@ChefonaBoat]

Thanks! It’s from a friend’s son’s band

[@thanostheodorakopoulos7992]

@@ChefonaBoat They play nice tunes ! I am a cpt myself, great seas there , greetings from Greece

[@thanostheodorakopoulos7992]

@@ChefonaBoat can you provide band name, bandcamp link etc ??

[@thanostheodorakopoulos7992]

@@ChefonaBoat Oh man, seems you cook really great !

[@ChefonaBoat]

@@thanostheodorakopoulos7992 thanks! I do have fun 😊

[@francisling3196]

No music required

[@kailaniandi]

The boat is flying, but the music drags it down

[@jamesofallthings3684]

It was 10 years ago I think stupid music was required on everything.

[@skyolson3905]

I'm going to hazard a few guesses and I'd like your feedback/correction! 1. Wind was 30 to 35 knots? 2. Significant wave height was 6 to 8 meters? 3. Boat speed whilst surfing was around 30 knots? Great video, brave crew!

[@norml.hugh-mann]

Bit high estimate for boat speed

[@dougsrepair1060]

Great footage.

[@scomo532]

Photography never does Justice to huge seas. You need to be there in person to appreciate the conditions.

[@kone.linngus3651]

Would love to experience this!!!

[@CERCARIA]

This one got more monkey sounds out of me than have in a long time. Talk about courageous!

[@jonwallace7015]

A man could lose his bearings in weather like this

[@peterthorn6395]

Just awesome!

[@treywest268]

Awe-inspiring!!!!

[@evankrhodes]

I can't wait man!!

[@braddetez8785]

Droping in to a troff and seing nothing but blue,only a sailer noes that felling of being so small and insignifican't.thanks for your footage,

[@JodiRoberts11]

Amazing filming and racing!

[@jamesanding9019]

Who is the music by? It's awesome

[@sanfranciscobay]

In my youtube channel, I have about 10 videos of the Boats at Dock when the Sailboats stopped in Oakland Jack London Square/San Francisco California April 2012. Take a look see. Was this the same year?

[@gregkylenyc]

Oh yes it was! I was sailing on Singapore that year

[@enriqueocanaguerrero356]

dificolt control of the chip.CONGRATULATIONS. THANYOU.

[@ElCanalDeJulca]

I'll experience this one day.

[@jabulanijakes]

Hi Greg, do you miss it?

[@gregkylenyc]

I do, but then have done other fun adventures like sailing Iceland to Greenland last summer (do need to get the video posted)

[@jabulanijakes]

@@gregkylenyc amazing man 💪🏼

[@saraw8503]

Would love to hear the wind and sea.

[@gregkylenyc]

Wasn’t always picked up. Other times it was deafening!

[@philmccrevis4493]

Oh my starz....whoa!!

[@rudbeckia885]

I've never seen the B&G go above 99 k ! I wondered at the time...do they ?

[@gregkylenyc]

Good question. It was interesting seeing the rollover from the Eastern to Western hemisphere. The instruments didn’t show 180°W, just 179.99°E to 179.99°W

[@corvavw6447]

Lekker wat rondzeilen, wie wil dat niet?

[@777johnpowell]

Things you remember the rest of your life.

[@ruthnagarya2028]

TERRIFYING FOOTAGE, WHERE DO WE GET THESE SAILERS WITH SO MUCH TALENT AND BRAVERY?

[@andypughtube]

Anyone can do it. It just takes money. (well, maybe it takes a bit of bravery too) I did exactly this in this same race, and had never sailed at all until I signed up for the training course.

[@jacobuszwanenburg1629]

Amazing ! But how did you choose this music 🤪

[@gregkylenyc]

Favor to a friend (his son’s band)

[@socalledsound]

HOLY COW

[@harveymorgan1749]

Honest question,wat happens when wind stops

[@tristan640]

you drift for a while till it comes back. Usually for around the world races you have wind almost all of the time from natural air currents from the motion of the Earth, but if you're around the equator or somewhere near land, wind can get light.

[@harveymorgan1749]

@@tristan640 thank you for informing me. Would love to go sailing.

[@rockdoctormusic]

That said, there are whole novels written about mutinies when sailing ships got stuck for weeks in the "horse latitudes" (30 degrees north and south latitude) with no wind, Hadley high pressure cells with no wind between the trade winds and the westerlies. I've heard various etymologies for the term, but I think it's because they ate their horses if they had any aboard.

[@Gottenhimfella]

When strong winds which have been steadily increasing stop suddenly, the results can be very ugly: the waves will often steepen for a short while and may become somewhat disorganised. Luckily this is a rare scenario.

[@pretzel9000]

Unreal! What kind of numbers were you getting surfing those monsters?

[@ChefonaBoat]

pretzel9000 we hit 27.8 kts at the end of the video (with Will pumping his fist in the air) but had regular surfing speeds of +20 kts

[@christianbesse2297]

It's grazy! I like that💨🙃🥳

[@Achab724]

grandi. beati voi.

[@poly_hexamethyl]

0:07 How come they're "corkscrewing" so much? Is the wind not aligned with the waves?

[@rogerprout5574]

Unless you have experienced offshore sailing in big seas it's hard to explain but the waves throw you around. Especially the breaking ones. See my comment at the top.

[@sanfranciscobay]

@@rogerprout5574 It's called Yaw, correct?

[@rockdoctormusic]

Repeating my post here from the main thread might get it deleted here / there, so see my comment on the main thread. In a nutshell, you have to shake every wave off of your bow (nose). To do that when running downwind, you alternate turning slightly upwind and then back downwind.

[@Gottenhimfella]

These boats (2nd generation Clipper) were somewhat difficult to control in a steep following sea. The forefoot (under the bow) tended to take a grip as the stern lifted and the boat had a slight predisposition to "broach" unless the helmsman had the boat in perfect balance at that moment. In reality, and for practical risk management reasons, the tendency is generally to be sailing a bit shy of the optimal dead downwind angle. This is because to be sailing *past* downwind, (ie "by the lee") by even the smallest margin, is to invite a crash gybe which can be very ugly. A keelboat which is shy of dead downwind is inescapably heeled as the stern is picked up by the wave, mainly due to the velocity gradient (with depth) on the face of the wave, and that heel projects the "centre of effort" of the sailplan out to leeward, so that the sail area acts on the rig like a wrench trying to screw the hull around on the face of the wave with the bow coming towards the wind.

[@poly_hexamethyl]

@@Gottenhimfella Very good explanation, thank you!

[@christuttle3980]

Cool Where do I sign up😎

[@gregkylenyc]

Clipper Race 😁 they also started doing high latitude sailing with Skirr Adventures

[@davidnixon-ky3mi]

Why oh why the music, nothing to do with the video

[@ChefonaBoat]

It’s from a friend’s son’s band, so there’s a reason 😊

[@duded2268]

Anyone know what size boat this is

[@ChefonaBoat]

68 ft. It was from the 2011-12 Clipper Round the World Race

[@nitheeshrapheal1636]

Oh Rough sea

[@vincentdevitt7685]

Great video but ; I'm afraid I much perfare the Sound of the Wind on the Ocean , that soundtrack has done the great coverage no favors ! Never mind Eh !

[@claudebrigato3412]

Chapeau les mecs…

[@zuheyr1]

This horrendous noise necessary??? The sea would be great. Atrocious

[@adrianwesolowski7457]

Madness...

[@muhammadkandacong6733]

Best broders

[@waynemorrison5204]

Get on with it FM

[@user-yrlqInjdl]

одни из самых ярких впечатлений когда смотришь на зад влюблённой женщины и когда смотришь назад с несущейся по штормовым волнам яхты ;)

[@gregkylenyc]

Yes! In particular when you’re surfing down at wave at 29 knots

[@markmark2722]

The video is fine however the music is totally wrong for the video

[@ChefonaBoat]

The music was a friend’s son’s band, wanted to feature them 😊

[@x049pig]

I love the music and works for me! Nice video thanks

[@rogerprout5574]

Mute button....

[@charlesabramson9492]

Why the music?

[@66elarmadillo]

I find this particular music lovely with the footage, besides it seems this music was made by sailor's friends.

[@gregkylenyc]

A good friend’s son’s band. Was happy to honor the request

[@isbjrn4626]

But why the musik? Music can we hear on other chanals

[@berndrickert5510]

Terrible and exhausting! That's why I like the baltic sea.

[@margaretalarson7451]

My brother is going this time and I'm just deathly scared for him

[@gregkylenyc]

The training is world class, and the boats are built very strong. You can have trust in that. The only recommendations I would give is that sleep fatigue is a real issue so tell him to practice always clipping on (with the safety tether) until it becomes automatic. And, when you're sleep fatigued, don't rush around on the boat and always try to think of the safest areas to move and stand. It's really a wonderful experience that will test his limits, and he will have memories of a lifetime and a new appreciation for what he is capable of in grueling circumstances.

[@r.b.3666]

Does it cost much to do it?

[@Steve-wz5pz]

Nope!

[@johnpotts7846]

The seas are not huge. Looks like a great day of sailing for a multihull. Surf, surf, and surf some more. GPS registered 24 knots in a Cross 39/42 on a sail from Seattle to Nova Scotia.

[@falfield]

Are you just looking for an excuse to boast? This combination of belittling others' achievement in order to bray about your own wins you honorary membership of the small willy club. If you can't change your attitude, you need more guile...

[@johnpotts7846]

@@falfield Sir, I was a Paratrooper in the American Army. I call them like I see them. Don't let your butt-hurt feelings get the best of you. Indeed, I was once labeled The Leonardo of Azzhules. I wear that moniker with pride.

[@markg272]

in the first clip wouldnt you say that was horrible helmsenshib in those conditions

[@ushoys]

I might if I had a clue what “helmsenshib” was.

[@craigfair3153]

Skipper lost concentration and caused a major loss of helm control.

[@jamesknight4633]

Jesus , what’s with that horrible soundtrack .

[@stevehelliwell9101]

Turn that ruddy music off, you are spoiling good footage.

[@gregkylenyc]

There is volume control. Favor to a good friend (his son’s band)

[@unclegeemus]

Who would blam out music to this? Serious Ocean footage then put sound on. Poor weird seems like a challenged bunch. I would not pay to these people to leave 100 ft from the dock. Stay home get your own boat and survive

[@southernboy7791]

I thought that the music was very well suited for this video and I am pleased to have discovered a new band. If you can't make an objective comment, don't bother. Just watch something else.

[@harveymorgan1749]

Whats wrong with the crew?

[@lasolanaau8642]

love love love the music - who is it ? goes perfectly with the vision :)

[@patriciocarvajal3490]

40 LN navegando de california a japon

[@patriciocarvajal3490]

Yo hice un viaje de circunnavegacion. Tifon pacifico norte monster waves 30 mts h. 400 LN

[@gregkylenyc]

Yes the North Pacific does have large waves 🌊!

[@gregkylenyc]

Hope you had a great adventure!