In this episode we sail across from La Palma, Canaries, to Funchal, Madeira which takes us 2 and a half days in the end. We explore Madeira then sail around ...

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Brian tell us about the journey we're

gonna head out quite a way to get around

the accelerations doing something might

be about 30 knots that's at the north of

the Palmer pop you ready

and then we'll turn to our course and

head to we're gonna aim for puncture I

think it's cool but we're not actually

going to that marina

we're already everything sty

that's the planet that way how many

miles have got de 254 and how many hours

roughly averaging at five knots 51 51

Alan goose I hope you'ii be there by

Friday Pony lunchtime would be nice

today

just that the Palmer sees pretty good

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drama

besides I'm invited to hang

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so what we don't stay right in we are

sailing but we're just trying to outrun

this rain cloud at the moment I don't

want to get wet full set sails are we've

been practicing our failings you still

pretty new on me we are heading way of

course I'm like the wind right angle see

say is okay quite nice actually

so two days might turn into three I

don't think he'll be free days I think

it'll be Friday night we get there

hopefully it's not bad beating into the

wind in the way I don't think that's too

bad

no I don't other people

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I see him coming from miles away

Ward's clarinet

yeah

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absolutely nothing surround us there's

no wind so it stopped sailing

these guys show up we had some friends

on board Adam and Amy and they wanted to

know what a lot of the ropes do on board

chassis there's actually no ropes on

board about they're called halyards and

sheets halyards are what hold their

sails up and sheets are what control the

shaft their sails on this side we have a

spinnaker one this is the halyard for

the light wind cell which is the cell at

the very front of our boat we have the

genoa and this is the halyard that holds

up to the gym so these ones go up this

is the main sheet so this controls the

boom which moves out and in depending on

where the wind is this is the bang that

controls the boom and it either lowers

or high as it so it flattens the sail

this is reef too we also have reef one

and roof three we use the roofs when

it's there's too much wind and we need

to make the sail less make the sound

smaller so we have three some boats have

two but that's what they are

we've got the outlaw that is a sheet

that runs all the way along the bottom

of the mainsail and we don't really use

that but it just keeps the the bottom of

the sail flat main halyard this is the

line we've got on the winch at the

moment this is what we use to raise the

mainsail we normally do it by hand and

then we chop the last bit because it's

really heavy but we've kept it on

because sometimes it slips down a bit

and we want the sail as tight as

possible and we have our tack line and

that we use we winch out when we get the

jib out and it unfurls the jib

and then we use it to control how much

do people have out an angle so 6 o'clock

we're going into our second night we've

had a good day sailing made up a few

miles but the wind has completely died

now we've got about 8 knots which is a

ain't no as a parent so we're making 4

knots of that wind we've got the main up

but we don't really think it's doing

much so we've got the motor on we've got

to get there really quite quickly

because there's a storm coming in on

Sunday the car wants to get there Friday

but we've had to come about 50 miles out

of our way and I went so it's not ideal

so we are having to motor but it would

love to sail but it's just not possible

with the storms that's predicted who

knows people actually come in we just

pass out so yeah bit rubbish but it's

beautiful these days quite good so we

can't really complain just see what

happens

we are 80 miles from Madeira

and go sailing because there's an

athlete's body not wind do that's more

evening I'd slow it down and sit-ups

outside material

until the early hours Saturday morning

don't approach is art you don't know

anything crap walks around

we don't know the marina's so yeah we

might come on just Southside tomorrow

night

go in first thing Saturday morning carts

getting there

yeah basically be there tomorrow evening

just shooting stars tonight pretty cool

bit chilly sun's just coming up and I've

been looking out all night for boats on

the AOS and their navigation lights and

there was nothing and I've just seen

this guy on the horizon with no lights

on and no I is that got a bit a bit

scary in the middle of the night

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we are nailing it's not too great 3.72

and we have eight point seven knots of

wind

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we're just coming to the end of our

crossing we've got about two miles left

this is Madeira

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so in pancha marina we just come out to

have a bit of an explore the way that's

not very good it's really windy so you

can't go out sailing so I've just said

to Fay look at this cool looking done

Faiers then said it's a turkey now I

don't know what it is well I know it's

probably not an aquatic turkey well if

anyone does know last night I think

that's the turkey duck a turkey duck

yeah very happy to be

we are it's nice but expensive very well

it's more expensive than the Canaries

were like double guards you can get out

to the top of the mountain it's 16 euros

for a roundtrip and 11 euros for one way

we wanted to do this morning but we

didn't

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so we've just been walking on the back

streets of Madeira to see explore and

hum we've just come down this street

here adjacent to it and there is soaks

in every garden and some of them are

trying to get over the walls to pop in

like huge guard dogs very scary to me

these house had like free guard dogs in

their room they seemed really boiling

you're right in your paws

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which is that fun charm arena we've been

here about four days really lovely but

we're going to lose some courage

muchacho we think but if you obey there

is a marina there but it's a commercial

port so just heart go in there we're

gonna anchor hopefully this won't be

that bad the winds predicted to be

fairly hard for next few days but Lucy

just raised domain and got the jib out

and i'll speedrun what's our speed flat

six between five and six knots and the

windmill between 8 and 11 so we're not

doing bad going into the wind which

isn't our favorite we just might run

into the anchorage where we're going to

be for definitely tonight maybe a few

days

it looked really beautiful but we can

see your helmet on flight caps out the

front the front of the little Sally pit

and so we're not sure if it's actually

gonna be that protected so we're going

and look so we made in drop the anchor

and this place that's really really cool

there's our friends on board Sheila

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so I'll explain what just happened

Simone is Ravana on Sina and Simone was

out quite surfing with he's not with

someone but it was someone else out

there sorry wind surfing and the wind

changed direction and they couldn't get

back in so Anna got a phone call from

Simone asking for help and we went as

well when we got to Simone the other guy

had drifted around the corner so I went

to go and get him and dragging dragging

her the other guy back turning him back

our engine overheated and cut out so

then Simone and Anna had to come and

rescue us and their engine is a free

horsepower I think it's a free

horsepower but by now it's it's got them

on their boat it's towing our tender and

the guy with the to wind surfs in the

water so it wasn't doing much and the

wind was pushing us onto the rocks

just raise our anchor and go and get

them is there too close to the rocks

as they were trying to pull us as we

were trying to head off the rocks their

engine started cutting out this is

phenomenal

I think both tenders have run out of

petrol so we started rowing with the

engine for as long as it would last and

then we was just about to make a

decision to Simone and Ana to come back

and get their boat to come back and

grabbers I'm not sure if that would have

been a good idea to be very close to the

rocks I'm not sure the angle would have

got up in time and what happened so then

I took the I had the cap off of our

engine to help it cool down it started

and then as I started going the guy fell

off of his through the - to windsurfing

boards are now together on a ripe and

he's fallen under and got stuck on there

windsurfing boards is if his day wasn't

bad enough

anyway he then got out we released from

them we come back dropped off the

windsurfing boards and the Portuguese or

Madeira and guy and then headed back out

to help these guys and now we're all

back safe and sound having a drink and

Simone's just taken the guy to the port

over there celebrating the only live

yeah see you guys anyway faster chill in

here it just shows you gotta be a bit

careful even if you go now rescue

someone goes in you could end up needing

rescuing yourself today we're going to

Porto Santo which they island just north

of Madeira we're leaving from machito in

Madeira it's a small little town

of the fishing town the wind and waves

aren't perfect so we've got a head north

east and the wind is coming from the

northwest it's predicted to gusts up to

25 knots sitting around 16 normally

that's quite a big range I think we'll

probably go on a reef to move the

apparent would be looking over 13 hours

the swell maybe 10 foot but once we get

around the Cape we can have a look and

assess the situation from there it's

about 32 miles and we as we're hoping to

do it in six hours that's averaging

around five knots but with the wind

you may go faster but with the swell it

may make us go slower

depends how steep tower and how close

together they are and this guy's the

interesting day

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so you've got 18 miles left to go so

we're not quite halfway yeah and three

quite good we've got about 24 knots

roughly which is one of the strongest we

have a bit of both sails up so yeah

we're pretty pretty please

you've got roots to in the main and

we've read the gym as well because we

are getting gusts much higher but yeah

it's been quite well these these day is

quite graphic execute but it's okay

Chelsea's handling it so good

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vanilla here now we've got four miles

there we've got about 26 knots of wind

now so we think there's been an

acceleration zone around the island but

it's looking good secedes day is still

pretty bad folks but a good sound but

averaging about five to six knots which

we're quite happy with

let's good

we're just coming out of the wind design

so in a minute we're going to take the

brief at the jib just maintain that for

a bit just to make sure that no wind is

funneling on the other side of the

island or the little island just off of

port Santos and once we're sure that out

will shake the creeps out of the main

they just died

we'll take the reach out of the main and

say all the rest of the way

so we're nearly home for tea santa is

taking just under six hours

our friends Anna and Simon are here

already and yes we get it

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