Sailing Alone Across The Pacific

[@From_Refugee_To_Yacht_Owner]

You did inspire me to my next adventure. I love every aspect of it. Thanks for Sharing.

[@sandybinbedford5512]

Fabulous welcome !

[@coocoocachooglin]

This man out here living his best life, the dreams of my youth, single handing around the world, sadly stripped away from me by health issues so I had to sell my boat. Do it for all it's worth, live while you can! I loved every minute of this. Fair winds and following seas!

[@virginiai.3632]

I needed to hear that message!

[@fredrossman1189]

Just happened on your video. Welcome home ,,, It was a very welcome video by an exleant sailor...Brought back many good memorys for me. Thanks

[@askingforafriend6540]

I only intended to watch a few minutes, but ended up watching the entire video. Awesome adventure! I'm a newbie, just bought a sailboat and will be sailing the Great Lakes next year. Your video had some great lessons. Thanks for sharing!

[@sedataybar871]

I come across this by chance. I am hooked immediately as I am also a solo sailor. I like your style, your knowledge of the sea and sailing. At one point you mentioned Nurcan. Now you are part of the family. Greeting and Nurcan'a çok selam. Congratulations for this excellent video.

[@57wombats]

Teșekküler, Seda! Nurcan da selam dedi

[@youtubechannelname111]

Excellent video. I couldn't help but watch the whole thing!

[@PrettyOkayAtBoats]

This was a great video to document your journey

[@Stievan1989]

I love that your audio is so rough. No music, just the Sound of you, the wind and the ocean. Your captures where you can just see the boat and hear the ocean makes me feel awaysick (Opposite of homesick, german: Fernweh). Greetings from Germany.

[@57wombats]

I'm glad you like it! I mostly filmed it on a phone (a little on a Sony A6400). In hindsight, I wish I'd brought an external mic. Less wind crackling would have let more of the real sound of the sea / boat come through.

[@virginiai.3632]

I'm adding that word to my vocabulary!

[@jefffromjuneau]

Great video, deserves more views. Get yourself a code 5 spinnaker to avoid another blow out. Welcome home!

[@SAILBOATJACARANDA]

Cool stuff bud, Ill join you soon enough.

[@georgelesdeplorables7583]

Nice job, greetings from the (steel) SV Poldi (PNW). Congratulations to your successfull solo passage. I like the honesty and the absence of bs. fillings. It is refreshing to see something like this in the endless stream of those generally fake 'reality show sailing videos' made mostly by patreon sponsors collecting millenials full of happy dolphins & rainbows.

[@blackadder35235]

Love this!

[@cryptofool7247]

Thanks for sharing your experience with us. I'm a newbie living in the Bay Area, still dreaming of my first boat, and of having the confidence that you do in my sailing ability. I'm learning to sail with the Cal Berkeley sailing club. The obvious big sail from here is to do your trip in reverse. One can dream.

[@jonathanoasis]

41:00 Happened upon your video as interested in single-handing and see this includes yet another story of a boat-in-danger because of a bad or lazy mechanic doing a bad job leading to significant risk to sailors. "Forgot to tighten the hose clamp" should never happen. Really a worsening situation, the maritime trades people seem to be getting worse at their jobs every year, and of course yards can't find qualified trades people either.

[@psystealth]

Well done, you handled it safely. What design boat is sheby BP?

[@bigguyoclock7472]

how much did this boat cost if you don't mind me asking.

[@virginiai.3632]

Technical question from a newbie: how did the high water alarm register if there wasn't water at the bilge at the time?

[@57wombats]

That clip was after I cleared the debris that was blocking the water from flowing back to the main bilge. That's why I was not too scared (I was pretty sure it was just water flowing back)

[@Tdawg90]

when sleeping in the cockpit, did you do it in 45min/1hr sessions? or just relied on the alarms?

[@57wombats]

I always set a timer and only slept for a set period. The longest I slept the entire trip was 90 minutes. You get pretty good at not really waking up 100% for the checks, however (especially when sleeping in the cockpit). I'd sometimes keep one of my eyes closed. But there are too many ways things can go wrong to sleep longer than that

[@CB-qb8hj]

Why aren’t you fishing?

[@kyrrekarlsen]

the filming and sound was terrible

[@affalada6868]

Werido rich kid