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for two days now we're caught on a thick

layer of sahara dust

and this fine dust goes pretty much in

every little corner

every every surface and it works

together with the wind it

works like sandpaper so it's actually

not that good for the solar panels

and a lot of surfaces during the summer

time it's

not unusual that some thunderstorms over

west africa

and the sahara pile up a lot of dust

in the atmosphere

this dust is traveling all the way

across the atlantic

it gives a pause in the hurricane season

because the

environment is way way too dry

for development of tropical storms but

uh

this present from west africa just

arrived yesterday here in dominica

and it looks so hazy out there

it's a real spooky atmosphere

uh you can't see anything it's really

really hard to breathe so right now

uh the masks become a whole new meaning

we used the COVID19 time and the lock down

in dominica to work on the boat enjoy

time with our local friends

and discovered more of this gorgeous

island we fell in love with

nature provides all healthy fruits and

vegetables you can dream of

and were perfectly taken care of by the

local community

and very very good friends

this is a fire hahaha

look at this

to say goodbye we all met for our last

barbecue on the beach

and had an awesome party before heading

out packed

with provisions for quarantine time

ahead of us

We are leaving dominica going to Carriacou

need to go for quarantine and my heart's

crying because dominica was so awesome

we love the people

greatest experience best place to be for

the COVID19 madness

and now we hope to have a safe

trip and

enjoy time down south to be safe from

the hurricanes

some sperm whales

you get them close? yeah but it's weird it's

always

it's two of them yeah but it's always

the one is constantly on the surface

it's not going down at all

Well they are just chillin sometimes they do that for a long time

okay so do you think it's not hurt

I don't think so they gonna be fine

so cool i wish we could get closer

probably a mother and a calv

right next to dominica

Hold on, this are three

yeah it's more cool

nice yes

that's so cool

happy captain?

more than happy

and i'm happy we didn't go in the

end to trinidad what we usually said

because

the climate i think i prefer

the drier island of Carriacou

Also we wanna stay rather low in the Hurricane Belt

september is going to be wild

september?

yeah maybe, we will see

poor fish landed on deck, so now he is gonna be bait

in dominica you're far from professional help for rigging

so i had to do the stuff myself

and take the book i was a little

concerned if i did

everything right and now we are actually

on the sea trial

but i'm pleasantly surprised the boat is

performing very well and we gained some

speed

and actually it's sailing much more

comfortable than before

it's actually that comfortable that

joanna found very decent sleep

so now it's the end of my morning shift

and i will have a look where she is

with all fruits and bananas and vegetables on

board

i had the feeling to add some protein to

our diet and get some fish

but apparently my lure was not okay some

fish took it and spit it out right away

it has some

bites but nobody really wanted it

i heard bananas on board is bad luck

fishing

it'd be interesting if that's true

what are you doing

trying to get to know where we are

imagine one day there is no gps anymore

it's always good to know without

electronics how to find port

and that thing works just with the sun

also i always thought you'd use it at

night with stars

it works at stars with planets and so with

the sun

it's a russian-made model okay

russian military

how much wind was that? hu?

How much wind was that?

the same as we have now, about 20 kt

yeah let's take it down

right in that moment when the sail ripped

the fishing line went out and yeah

there is

no it's gone

gone

he is gone

unfortunately this time we don't have a

cameraman or

camerawoman with us and in some situations we need

all hands on deck

so we couldn't show you how we took down the sail

and what we did exactly but

what we gonna do now is

we took the main down to the third reef

so the cut is tied away

and we'll sail carefully the last 70 miles to Carriacou

uh it's not really professionally built

in because

there was a line missing for the third reef

and we had to kinda improvise

it doesn't work too bad so at the moment

we're doing still between five and six knots

and i'm quite confident that we're gonna

make it nice and sound

okay now let's sail to Carriacou

oh wow

big big big

big big big big big

juhu

it's 3am in the morning and we just got

i'm still wet we just got in from taking

down the

foresail

the leftovers of the foresail i didn't

say that way we

just had 14, 12 to 14 knots of wind calm

everything and within seconds

Andy realized the

skies the stars disappeared

and within seconds we were up to 33

probably more knots of wind

everything started to shake we

lose the lines to get off the pressure

but

to not lose the mass and rigging but the

foresail got shredded

and it's gonna be

some hours on the foredeck repairing and

a few yards of new material to put on

I hope it's

just that we gotta have a look again on

in the morning when we

see something and i had to get

everything in

all the lines got entangled and crazy

we got beaten up all night by squalls

but this amazing

sunraise just over Bequia pays back everything

in the meantime we also can see over

here the place where we want to go

Carriacou

what a mess

the whole sail is ripped in pieces

sea trial alright

so the rigging was the point i was

worried about

looks like the rigging was the only

thing that made it our sails are all

torn they're all shredded not really

usable anymore i'm sitting here the last

last

last leftover of sails what we have

the main triple

reefed

and also the foresail is not

really the newest anymore so

but we're coming close to Carriacou

we're almost there

nothing to worry about and in Carriacou

we're gonna spend anyway ten days in quarantine

and got plenty of time to fix that ship

seriously?

come on

I'm wondering if there's anything on a

boat that doesn't break

on this trip, we broke a lot

looks like a hell of a ride so far

get close to the Tyrell Bay our hurricane

shelter for this year

and that is Carriacou

Hillsborough

and the north of the island

all right, I need to take your temperature

okay stay there

okay so this is a provisional health

clearance

that you would hold on to for 10 days

while you're in quarantine okay

at the end of 10 days they're going to

call you in

and you're going to do a pcr test and a

rapid test

both?

rapid test okay at the end of which if

the results are negative

you're going to get full health clearance

so after this wild ride we arrived nice

and safe in Carriacou

had to take a place into the mangroves because of quarantine and

we just learned that there is hurricane

Gonzalo on the way to us

about two days we got left so basically

we where running away

to get a little bit out of the red zone

and now we ran right into it

it's supposed to be the center right

here so

like every year's exercise we're going

to tie Bamba Maru into the mangroves

a lot of ropes what do you need the

fender for

i think there's a bunch of it's coming

our way here so i better have some

fenders here and

tons of lines in this direction the wind

supposed to come from over here

and then in the back system that way

so i think it's a nice little corner we

got here

and now we just make sure nobody can

crash into us

so that is usually the quarantine bay

with few boats

in quarantine but

apparently as we just learned this bay

will fill up because it's the

only safe mangrove bay

that far south and as there's

a bunch of boats out there in the bay

they might all want to squeeze in here

so we are lucky being one of the first

and right into the mangroves right right

into

like

gotta prepare everything for ants and

critters

not coming on board

that's what it looks like down there

now as we're safe in Carriacou, we are checking

all the damage

see the mainsail the seam got open

just above the second reef it's not too

bad i think we can easily fix that

the head sail looks much worse it's

literally in pieces

the whole section is missing

it's not just a seam so

much more damage yeah the tropical

squalls especially in the caribbean in the

summer time they can be

really really dangerous so in this

moment we knew it early

we saw it early but we were not fast

enough to get the sails down

now we have 10 days of guarantine time

to fix all that

well part of the game