Single Handed Offshore Sailing-St Marten to Bermuda-2nd transatlantic crossing-squalls-lightning

[@hughburgess4168]

I don’t seem to be notified when your videos come out as other channels do. For that reason I have lost contact with you since you arrived in the Carribean. Lots to catch up on then! ⛵️

[@hughburgess4168]

Well that was worth waiting for. Now to backtrack and watch your videos in the Carribean. Great footage and very easy listening. Thank you. ⛵️

[@SoloSailingSapphira]

Glad you enjoyed it Hugh! Thanks for watching, hopefully you get the notifications when the next ones come out. I'm in Flores in the Azores at the moment so will try to get a video of the crossing at some stage soon.

[@SailingYachtZora]

Nice to see this side of it, and looking forward to the next bit!

[@ScotChef]

Longtails and singing frogs lol worked at the white horse in the late 90's best fish sandwich during the day 👌🏻 probably still expensive at night 😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@SoloSailingSapphira]

Haha I had a few good feeds in there alright, eye wateringly expensive like everything in Bermuda, but good fun

[@mixey1]

Well done, Carribbean looks super, fair winds 👍🍀

[@aubreyocallaghan4539]

Wonderful sailing footage

[@brandonshaw536]

Very cool. Keep up the vids👍

[@jcfgh]

Great sailing. Thank you for puttong the video out. Best wishes

[@brendangearon2678]

Hey mark, great to see the video. All looks fantastic. Totally jealous. B.

[@SoloSailingSapphira]

Thanks Brendan!

[@RoryL83]

Really love your videos!! Thanks!!

[@kevinconway3979]

Good to see you on route home. Your AIS is not showing for some reason. Have a great time there.... love your adventure.

[@SoloSailingSapphira]

Yeah, I'm having range issues, possibly some water ingress in one of the VHF cables. Thanks for watching Kevin!

[@johnbuckley744]

Mark Barr, you should have brought your mammy with you!! Best of luck, Tom Crotty

[@SoloSailingSapphira]

Haha, thanks Tom!

[@roadboat9216]

I have sailed thunderstorm areas a lot in FL, Bahamas and Caribbean. Although the E Caribbean doesn’t have a lot of lightning in their squalls. FL and Bahamas have LOTS! I hate them and never get “use” to them. But I guess you get to tolerate them better. Fl and Bahamas get a good number of super cells. Bad stuff. I have seen 60-75kts in these super cells. Along with full fledged tornados a half kilometer or more at the base. Not just the snakey water spouts, they’re bad enough. Very scary stuff, no thanks.

[@SoloSailingSapphira]

Yeah that sounds really horrible! Glad I only had a few distant glimpses. Thanks for the comment, interesting to know

[@MikeSantis]

How many watt is your solar panel?

[@SoloSailingSapphira]

It's 100w Mike.

[@MikeSantis]

thank you so much. I will probablly do the same. My boat is a 28 foot. I hope there is space enough to mount it the same way you did. @@SoloSailingSapphira

[@roncanizares9966]

Great video. A sleep question: What is the longest time you sleep without getting up to check everything?

[@SoloSailingSapphira]

Hi Ron, on this passage the longest was 45 minutes, on the 5th or 6th day. Up till then it was 20 mins. On my east-west atlantic crossing I started to sleep for an hour at a time roughly midway.

[@roncanizares9966]

@@SoloSailingSapphira Do you have AIS and an AIS alarm? I ask as some single-handers who have sailed your recent route either north in the spring or south in the late fall, sleep as long a 1 1/2 to 2 hours with both the radar alarm on and the AIS alarm on. The thinking, I believe, is there out there one will only encounter big ships that will pop up with time to deal with any potential drama. Your thoughts?

[@SoloSailingSapphira]

@@roncanizares9966 yes, I have AIS and a loud alarm set up. I trusted it completely across the atlantic, and my sleep patterns were dictated more by wanting to check everything was ok with the boat rather than checking for ships. Recently I think I've had some water ingress into the coax cable somewhere, so my range has been severely limited. So far, ships will alway pop up once they get within 4 miles, however I don't fully trust it so hence the shorter sleep schedule. I have a radar and radar alarm zones set up too, and when I'm running the engine or have lots of charging due to wind and sun, I use that and trust it much more at the moment. Need to get the VHF cable replaced in the Azores as I know the current situation isn't great.

[@roncanizares9966]

Another question: Did your solar panel provide enough power to run all of your electronic equioment or did you needed to run the engine from time to time? If you did, how often did you need to run it?

[@SoloSailingSapphira]

On this passage the wind was on the beam, so my wind generator was actually very effective. With the wind gen (Rutland 1200) and solar (1x100w panel on the pushpit rail) I only ever needed to run the engine for charging in Biscay, where a combination of a few overcast days with dead downwind light wind sailing, and me using every electronic device onboard, meant I needed a few hours of engine running to top up. On the atlantic crossing, I had generally good sun, and I turned off everything but the chartplotter while I was awake, so I never dipped below 90% charge.

[@sailingaphrodite4189]

It won't be long until you will be looking for some warmer clothing!

[@SoloSailingSapphira]

I know! It's crazy, due to the pretty awful weather here in Bermuda I've had to get the duvet out of storage already.