Mistakes we made sailing 9000 miles around the Atlantic

[@langstonholland9272]

Well done. Humility. You guys are wildly better sailors than you let on. British understatement.

[@theoddvoyage]

Kinds words, thanks @langstonholland9272

[@michelnormandin8068]

Simple, no drama, efficient.

[@theoddvoyage]

That's a nifty summary, thanks Michel

[@ScotChef]

'i kept expecting someone to come out and tell us to stop'! felt that a few times in my life lol great vid again 👌🏻

[@theoddvoyage]

I still feel like I'm at school sometimes

[@Mike7O7O]

Great achievement. Well done ! Excellent narration. Much useful information included.

[@theoddvoyage]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@shawnlund]

Fantastic video and some of the most entertaining narration I’ve heard yet. Well done, I’m subscribed.

[@theoddvoyage]

Thanks Shawn

[@donaldbaumgartner9621]

Nicely filmed, edited and narrated ... great adventure!

[@theoddvoyage]

Thank you kindly!

[@IWANVOLLEBREGT]

great vid and very accurate we did roughly same, more or less same route in 2024, including ponta delgado and Plymouth! however not back to Scotland but Netherlands. Going East is so much more of a challenge but loved every mile of it regrettable my family has decided that they had enough with ocean sailing so next time I will have to go solo...

[@theoddvoyage]

I don't know if I have the right personality for doing it solo - but perhaps that's a reason to try it!

[@gsansoucie]

Excellent video and narration. I have zero interest in actually sailing on my own, but love to watch these videos and live precariously through the adventurers. My wife and I actually do fulltime RV in North America and have been doing so for the past 18 months after years of downsizing and selling off everything. While we’ve been on some rough roads and encountered interesting weather, we are always on solid ground…

[@theoddvoyage]

Thank you. A long long time ago we drove a small campervan across the US and down to Guatemala. We used to dream of being in an RV 😊

[@SCBiscuit13]

Congrats. That's the passage that every sailor should make in one point in his life. Great job and a great experience.

[@theoddvoyage]

Thank you. The problem is that having done this one it's become kind of addictive now...

[@SCBiscuit13]

@@theoddvoyage I sail mostly on the Baltic sea. A lot of it is in bad weather and in cold. I used to say that I'm never doing this again coming home. Then 2 days pass and I want to get back to sailing.

[@theoddvoyage]

@SCBiscuit13 All the pictures I see of the Baltic on the internet show blue skies and beaches. That's probably why you keep going back out! 😊

[@SCBiscuit13]

@@theoddvoyage Advertising vs reality I guess. Expensive marinas, choppy waves and there are two modes. No wind or 6B+ and nothing in between :D

[@DirkJacobsz]

Well done guys -what an experience - what a feat accomplished congratulations... I see Svalbard and the Horn in your future..and maybe a Watt and Sea for sailing west - great piece of gear that Hydrovane..

[@theoddvoyage]

Thanks Dirk! Svalbard, yes. I did a kayaking trip there a looong time ago. And the Horn, well, you never know 🙃

[@alokbhatia9081]

This was very enjoyable to watch. Congratulations on completing this amazing adventure. You have a lot courage....... 🍻

[@theoddvoyage]

Thanks Alok

[@PatricioOta]

Maravilloso! Gracias por compartir! Saludos desde Argentina!

[@theoddvoyage]

😊

[@SVTONICBoatWives]

What an amazing adventure, It's a great video to watch can't wait to see what pops up in the future.

[@theoddvoyage]

That's very kind of you, thank you ☺️

[@boatbuilderPortishead]

excellent video, wish there were more like this. Keep up the good work

[@theoddvoyage]

Thanks @boatbuilderjon5636

[@sailingaphrodite4189]

A lovely short summary thanks for posting.

[@theoddvoyage]

Thank you :)

[@chriscollinson1517]

Great video, both entertaining and informative. Well done.

[@theoddvoyage]

Much appreciated!

[@SPSMain]

Great summary! Love the map animation at 07:43 - is that simply animated from your route KML in Google Earth Pro?

[@theoddvoyage]

Yes, in Google Earth, but I just rendered the view twice, one with the track and one without, and then animated it by doing a reveal between the two in the edit

[@SPSMain]

@@theoddvoyage Very nice, thanks again for a fun video

[@bradgunson]

Great Vid! Thanks for sharing. It looked like fun! Cheers from the Chesapeake Bay, US.

[@theoddvoyage]

Ah, Chesapeake Bay. Now there's a place to live 😊

[@ViajerosPorMaryTierra]

Excellent video 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 we are crossing for the first time this late January 💪🏼⛵🏴‍☠️🦜🌎❤️

[@theoddvoyage]

@ViajerosPorMaryTierra fair winds!

[@paulmerrick9065]

Brilliant. Enjoyed every moment.!

[@theoddvoyage]

Thank you Paul :)

[@chopper3lw]

Super nice video, and major kudos for your accomplishment. Although I really did appreciate the brevity, a little more coverage of the problems you encountered on the last leg would have been fun to know.

[@theoddvoyage]

Thanks @chopper3lw. The last leg is here with considerably less brevity: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKrLp2msZt14d80

[@oldshipmatesadventures]

That's wonderful; thanks for sharing. I envy the experience ;-)

[@theoddvoyage]

Thank you :)

[@eddiegribben1397]

Aww man as a series than would had been wonderful to watch and why the rush did u not stop to enjoy it

[@theoddvoyage]

It really does look rushed, doesn't it? It was 70 days at sea with lots of pauses. But it would have been great if we could have taken breaks from "normal life" and spent more time exploring as well.

[@brunomendonca5967]

Well done. Thanks for sharing, greetings from Lisbon!

[@theoddvoyage]

Lisbon! A great city worth returning to

[@MrSimonious]

Great video. Really enjoyed it.

[@theoddvoyage]

thank you!

[@Iearningcurves-q4n]

That was over way too quick! Subscribed. Just the kind of information I was looking for without the drama. Who did you insure with?

[@theoddvoyage]

The insurance aspect is almost worth a very brief video by itself! If only I understood it. This is only going to be relevant for UK-registered vessels. But long story short, I ended up with a broker at topsailinsurance.com who did all the legwork, and they ultimately arranged most of the legs for me with admiralyacht.com. I guess I could have contacted Admiral directly, knowing this, but there was a huge advantage in having that named person at Topsail who was aware of the whole plan and helped chop and change things as we went. As I understand it, a lot of website requests we all fill in end just up with the same very limited set of underwriters who probably get tired of saying no, so having a human on the inside who knows the system seems well worth the admin fee they charge. I should have mentioned it in this video, but it would have been good to start the hunt 6 months before departure, to avoid the rising sense of panic.

[@Blueybob]

Of course you will. Or further afield. Well done you lot.

[@peterkadelbach7010]

Perfectly informative. Thanks.

[@theoddvoyage]

Glad it was helpful!

[@sanmarco594]

Excellent narration!

[@theoddvoyage]

Thanks Marcus

[@jhenderson1644]

Amazing video, well done!

[@theoddvoyage]

😊

[@pukeko_pooh6245]

Great video! Thanks for sharing

[@theoddvoyage]

😊

[@SailingIntoOblivion]

Great video, loved the Q&A narration .

[@theoddvoyage]

thank you :)

[@JJ-sq9sy]

Brilliant video. Very informative. Thank you. When stopping briefly in Portugal were you required to clear in and out or could you claim you were "in transit", thus avoiding the formalities?

[@theoddvoyage]

@JJ-sq9sy We wanted to be tourists, so we cleared in. I've also decided by now that you can't get too much paperwork in your hands, just in case, so I'd clear in. Some detail... - We cleared in at Vigo (just up from Baiona) and they seemed very surprised that we wanted to do such a thing. We tried for customs clearance too, but they just shrugged (with a smile). - We didn't clear out of Lisbon, because we were heading straight to the Canaries. But in retrospect I would have cleared out of Lisbon, as there was a small chance we would stop in Morocco. And that would have been a problem without paperwork. - We cleared out of Fuerteventura, but again struggled to find anyone interested in doing a customs clearance. Maybe a language barrier for me too. This was a bit of a disaster in Antigua, who then asked me to write an essay about our voyage and frowned at me for three hours until they let us in. - We cleared out of Barbuda instead of Antigua, which was swift and easy, and the paperwork from there and everywhere else (including Portuguese Azores) was also efficient and complete. - I phoned the UK authorities on our return (having submitted their online forms beforehand) and they seemed most relaxed about our arrival.

[@JJ-sq9sy]

@@theoddvoyage Oh many thanks for such a swift reply. I'm always complaining about the problems presented to Yachtsmen due to Brexit. Would have been a pain to clear in and out for a 24-48 hr stop-over. Does not clearing out of one country present problems when trying to clear in to the next country on the visitation list?

[@theoddvoyage]

For a short stopover, clearance sure would have been a pain. I think clearing out of Portugal before clearing back into the Canary Islands would have been legit to save some Schengen days, if I was saving them up. But I felt lazy, and didn't want the hassle of clearing in again somewhere in Lanzarote.

[@sailinghaldis]

Well done! I bought a new boat and now I prepare for things to go wrong. Electricity was also my biggest concern. We have pretty big tanks, but I wish I had a little bit more solar. Despite the Mediterranean sun, it’s not enough to keep up and we are obligated to run the generator which we had to run anyway, because I underestimated how hot it was in the Mediterranean and it was a sauna bath inside the cabin.

[@theoddvoyage]

Gorgeous looking HR on your channel - congratulations 😊 Most jealous. Right now I'm DREAMING of being too hot again.

[@askbelga]

Great short story of a not so short crossing! What was the cause of the engine failure?

[@theoddvoyage]

Thanks Laurent! The ignition key jammed in the 'start' position one night, and I didn't notice for a while. So the starter motor ran on while the engine was running, and cooked itself.

[@joshnoonable]

Amazing effort. Also appreciate the story telling and graphics and the lack algorithym triggering gimics.

[@theoddvoyage]

😊

[@TattoosAndGin]

Loved it, great vid.

[@theoddvoyage]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@AfricatwinJK]

Thank you very much for this informative video. We are planning something similar and start with the same limited amount of knowledge. Therefore I really appreciate the clear and non-clickbait like information. Let‘s see whether we can achieve the same.

[@theoddvoyage]

Thank you - I'm glad it helped. It does seem like a lot to get your head around. Good luck with all the planning!

[@johnnierainey01]

Loved it all, every nautical mile, each port and of course the best and worst that Mother Nature could throw at you. Thanks for the ride! PS Where is your home port these days?

[@theoddvoyage]

Glad you liked it! Our home port is Oban

[@johnnierainey01]

@@theoddvoyage Oban, gateway to the isles...or, in your case, the world.

[@phillysailormac]

@@theoddvoyage Just did a sailing trip from Oban to Stornoway this spring. Great cruising grounds! Thanks for sharing.

[@keithandrew4985]

Enjoyed the video. What was the cause of the small fire?

[@theoddvoyage]

@@keithandrew4985 we had a cushion pressed up against one of our few remaining non-led lights. It melted the light fitting into a black blob and burned a hole in the cushion

[@keithandrew4985]

@theoddvoyage wow, the littlest things have the potential to cause the biggest problems. Every day's a school day! Safe travels.

[@benh9928]

Thank you for that, very informative. If you get a minute I would be very interested in knowing more about your solar: all flexi?

[@theoddvoyage]

Hi Ben - yes, they're Ecoflow foldable panels. We've mounted them on slim aluminium channels, so the whole thing is light and can be easily stored below. I'll try to dig up some photos tomorrow

[@benh9928]

Thanks: sounds more seamanlike than a huge, heavy thing permanently fixed

[@theoddvoyage]

@benh9928 Yes, I didn't like the idea of adding a lot of permanent weight. Or maybe it show lack of commitment on my part! It works well though. On the downside, it does get in the way of taller folk because we have it on quite a low existing frame! I've put some pictures for you on a post which fingers crossed you can find here: www.youtube.com/@theoddvoyage/community

[@jonathanmillen1991]

I hope if you do go again please spend a season in the Caribbean. You won't regret it.

[@theoddvoyage]

I really need to do that. Reason enough to cross again, surely?

[@TheNicombraun]

Great video Guys! Thank you! 🇦🇷

[@theoddvoyage]

😊

[@t3chnoArt]

Lovely guys ! Kudos. That’s me in the next 24 months 😊

[@theoddvoyage]

Fair winds @t3chnoArt

[@pedroredondo3713]

You make it like if it was something normal out of the ordinary 😀which clearly it's not... I'm taking the steps to follow similar journey but, I feel overwhelmed with the amount of things you need to consider and the preparation itself. This was definitely a great video and, gave me a bit more insights on what to expect. Again... for sure there are much more to add and this was just an VERY high level overview of what you experienced through the entire journey. Nevertheless... quite insightful. Thanks

[@theoddvoyage]

@pedroredondo3713 oh yes, for sure the scale of it is overwhelming because it's such a surreal thing to do. But the ocean seems full of ordinary people on ordinary boats, just taking it one day at a time until they get there. Good luck!

[@B_Ruphe]

Apologies, ignoramus here, but what would it be like just to push ahead (east) through those early winter months? Seas too rough, wrong currents, winds too strong / weak?

[@theoddvoyage]

@B_Ruphe It's a great question. I think at the heart of it, winter weather in the northern part of the North Atlantic just can be severe - so there's a greater probability of high winds and therefore also rough seas. And there's less daylight. But to counter that, once you get later into the summer, the hurricane season further south can also spin off remnants that affect the north. For example, "Ernesto" hit Bermuda in August this year as a Category 1 hurricane. So if you want to play the odds, it does seem best to sneak across in between winter and mid-summer. Our end-of-April crossing here is maybe a little early. I see May & June are recommended. The whole thing is a dice roll though - you can never be sure what you'll actually get!

[@B_Ruphe]

@@theoddvoyage Thank you for the interesting explanation. If I ever had the courage to do it at all, I would be timing it for the quietest and safest season and route. The unpredictably of weather and sea at any time certainly must add an element of adventure/ scariness.

[@markrabone6584]

Great trip - seemed to been hurried - didn’t want to add more stops?

[@theoddvoyage]

It really does look rushed, doesn't it? It was 70 days at sea with lots of pauses. But it would have been great if we could have taken breaks from "normal life" and spent more time exploring as well.

[@mlegge]

Excellent! Well done.

[@theoddvoyage]

thank you 😊

[@gregsutton2400]

Great video thanks.

[@theoddvoyage]

😊

[@jport3707]

Congratulations guys

[@theoddvoyage]

😊

[@enrique-y6e]

nice! How did the whale do after the encounter ? ;)

[@theoddvoyage]

They seemed okay 🤞

[@Skargardsmatte]

Superb video.

[@theoddvoyage]

Thanks @Skargardsmatte

[@bobbyshields58]

Great video

[@theoddvoyage]

😊

[@DARTHDANSAN]

Looks like fun

[@theoddvoyage]

😊

[@csf5538]

You forgot to mention the cost of the trip and where the money came from ??

[@theoddvoyage]

The cost is about the same as keeping a boat in your home marina, and sailing it a couple of weeks every summer. But I guess add 30% for increased marina costs, increased insurance costs and accelerated wear and tear for offshore. We work for a living, so time spent away from work doing this instead is probably an additional cost - it took up something like 70 days at sea over two years

[@icecreamlifer123123]

Two thumbs up!!

[@theoddvoyage]

That's a generous lot of thumbs, thank you

[@nicholasforman1195]

Anyone who is big enough to admit and understand their mistakes will be leaders in their field and become expert professionals…

[@MultiBmorgan]

very cool

[@theoddvoyage]

Thanks Brandon

[@fredflintstone8664]

Nice. But I must have missed the mistakes.

[@nothinghere1996]

Would you do it again?

[@theoddvoyage]

I will!

[@nothinghere1996]

@theoddvoyage wow. means you loved it. i learned to sail at uni. without doubt one of the best memories i have. the sounds. smells. the power of the wind. unpredictability. wet. dry. salt everywhere. Stay very safe on your next voyage. 🙏

[@BobbieGWhiz]

Most KZbin videos are way too long. This certainly wasn’t.

[@theoddvoyage]

Making it short was surprisingly hard! 😊

[@timfranklin1]

Dear Sir I watched your video expecting girls in bikinis crying bitterly about it raining or that the sky is blue. I was sadly disappointed, how dare you call yourself a sailing channel? Yours sincerely Upset of Tunbridge Wells PS I have subscribed because of all of the negatives above ;-)

[@theoddvoyage]

Dear Sir, Your business is important to us. I am taking steps now, personally, to remedy this regrettable situation. Yours etc