Back on the horse, it's a Class 40! - Ep196 - The Sailing Frenchman

all right race time

so

well about 4 days ago I was doing my

thing uh just laying some fiberglass

into molds uh at mer concept when uh

this guy called me because uh he was

ghostkeeper on this boat for the nored

CH race and the skipper had all things

to do so they needed another

coastkeeper and since then I arrived in

K prepared the boat and here we are

we're going to take the start of the

Normandy Channel

Race um it's going to be English Channel

and Celtic Sea sailing at its best

including uh schools are coming already

and then a big low pressure over the

Celtic Sea that might make things

interesting uh so yeah it's going to be

fun fun fun nice class

40 that's actually the one we delivered

a few months ago bugs from

guad Loop to friends so yeah fun fun fun

let's see how we do cuz we don't quite

have uh

satellite connection so we don't quite

have access to weather forecast or

course changes if there are any except

when we get close to land and get onto

the 4G um

Network so it's going to be fun

okay that's 30 minutes 30 seconds to the

4

minutes a fling

10 3 2 one ping

all right two

minutes 2

minutes all right let's uh get the the

the G

out yeah yeah yeah go for it go for it

up

up right go go

go 2 1

out get ready like we need clean air

yeah ready

ready y ready y 3 2

1 days

right good let's prepare for the next St

y good we right where we want to be y

we're good good job

mate all right that was a good start but

now that's where we're liking training

to be ready at to have a KBS quick but

Ryan the Sailor is working on that

woo man balancing those

sails behind you there it's super

annoying what we DP a bit bit more

weight and the tank yeah

yeah all right so wind is easing a

little so I'm going to dump some of the

ballast we have two ballast tank one on

each side and we can both close them in

the middle to feel either the forward or

the back part now we have full rear part

uh cool and going to empty some of it so

I have these that are set to empty with

gravity I push this snor call down with

this facing rear it's a little old scoop

that is going to go below the H like

this and now I open

this there we go and I water it stamping

I'm going to wait until it goes here see

now water is

about off the T so I close

here pull the snow Co back up and on all

right that's all the tank full uh empty

so all full and half one

full uh forward one is empty oh okay so

just half half one half of the rear one

okay okay perfect so see even he knows

what he's talking about and he's getting

confusing so imagine

so part of our [ __ ] up um on the start

was because the we could not uh get

Spiner on because the bucket you know

there it's a sock the bucket came undone

from the head so making a new stroke and

this should not happen again we're doing

good now catching up oh yeah hope it

stay this way

that's it new Loop is down I'll go

install it now

Ryan loves getting

wet all right it's going to be going to

be Dr time I think it's going to be bit

tricky not sure how long we'll hold it

but all the boats are holding it so we

must try let's

see that's

up yes

sir a few moments

later so this is quite scary there is

like massive lightning like on both

sides of us as we entering the solent

which is not a place you want to be like

messing

up

soooo and we have like two competitors

like within like 20

M how far to the

drive minutes all right so get let's get

ready

so it's been about an hour that we in

England it's pouring

rain thank you a lot thanks a lot

UK with go sport in the

back how much do you like England Ryan

[ __ ] love it

but doesn't love get hit by lightning

and pouring rain

well we had the kite up and

now because there's this

massive Thunder thunderstorm scho around

us just snuffed it into the

sock

and playing it

safe play is safe to leave another day

and fight another day another time

that was

crazy w

s

right the night has been quite

actic uh the solent we went through it

with like a dozen

thunderstorms happening was really

beautiful and quite scary at at the same

time uh Ryan said he got uh hit by a

lightning we'll have to double check

this

information um but yeah know we did

quite good on that despite all the

sunstorm and after the needles we we

struggled for a few hours to to find a

good speed this goed us a few a few

spots but now back and running it's uh

beating along the south coast of of

England and uh yeah we'll see uh we'll

see how it goes um hopefully we'll be uh

by L in tonight or or during the

night so yeah going

good all right so that's the English

Channel leaving up to his reputation

we're down to J2 and two

rfts uh it's not exactly the most fun

but it is what it

is just finished to take the J2 on and

the second re pretty sweaty

well the English Channel has really been

a beach as it's most of the time but

we've been doing like really good Gams

in the solent in the beginning of the

night but then lost huge ground

today got unlucky With the Wind shifts

probably didn't think the good options

either and now it's just like going up

wind beating or certainly not earlier

now it's fine it's came down to like

1520 but yeah just the English chel you

know banging in the

waves not fun at all

right so all these Mas CU I was sitting

here in this

sprayhood

uh taking a break from eling Ryan was

below sleeping and then suddenly we felt

like a roller Co poster we went airbone

for a few seconds and then B the boat

slammed uh on the slamming the running

back stay cover broke so went off the

constrictor uh this CS probably the m to

pull

forward and the constrictor of the main

Hood uh to break and the the whole main

Cil to fall

down surprisingly we haven't broken too

much important beats but we've just been

reorg reorganizing lines doing a few

safety stropes stuff like this and now

we need to fix the computer because also

we don't have any more internet on adren

on the nav

software and we don't have that many

charts

either

so we need to do some

fixing and now some spicing

yeah even with that little swell it's

crazy H but it

is yeah I current like through a hard

this way

a few moments

later I downloaded it but I'm still

working on new

phone 10 minutes

downloading the

GFS fire

okay