Thanks for joining us on our Sojourn to the islands of the Caribbean! In this video we do the Cape Cod Canal then make for Bermuda only to discover our Satte...

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last time on on Sailing Balachandra we

traveled from Portland Maine to Boston

Massachusetts and I dived into frigid

waters to deal with a fouled prop. So

we're now well underway we left

Marblehead this morning at like 3:30

a.m. pretty early but we need to make

Cape Cod today so we had to leave that

early and there was better wind in the

morning. Just sailing past the city of

Boston. We're gonna get through the Cape Cod Canal hopefully today and into

Buzzards Bay and tomorrow head for

Bermuda

what are you doing?

sleepy dog. He's under there somewhere.

He's bundled right up. You can see

his eyes.. Hello Zu...

we're really lucky that we left

Marblehead at 4 a.m. today. We made it

here just in time to catch the tide coming in

hey guys so we're in Newport Rhode

Island right now this is where we were

going to jump off from the United States

to Bermuda we kind of hauled butt getting

down from the Cape Cod Canal through

Buzzards Bay and then we spent the night

in New Bedford because it was dark and

we wanted to get a little bit of sleep

before we made the crossing to Bermuda

so when we pulled into New Bedford we

just hung right and pulled up along all

these massive fishing boats they're

ginormous! Yep! we got in there so late

we just found ourselves a slip tied up

did we lose our dinghy? oh we did!! oh thank you!!

what happened?

our dinghy just went adrift! yeah oh my

goodness I can't believe what just

happened!!

The guy that retrieved our dinghy

brought it up to us was like "where are

you headed" and he was just like "where

you headed?" and I was like "oh... well

Bermuda." and then after that the USVIs

and he's like "no way that's where I'm

from!

here's my card I have a mooring it's

really close to shore it's yours free of

charge." and shit.. yeah that was awesome oh

my god we we got ourselves a connection

in the USVIs and we have a free

mooring! Everything happens for a reason

folks! We woke up at like 3:00 or

4:00 in the morning it was dark out so

we didn't shoot any video. We sailed

out into the open Atlantic Ocean to meet

with one or two other boats we knew that

we're heading to Bermuda

during this weather window. We made

amazing headway we were going like seven

knots. We had bought a satphone and we

were going to use that Sat phone to get

our grib files and have weather updates

for the next five to seven days when we put

the SIM card into the Sat phone

there was an error and the Sat phone

didn't work so we didn't have a Sat

phone so we made a judgment call to tuck

in... Our hearts were just broken when

we found out that our cell phone wasn't

working. it was a depressing night. I was

very very depressed coming into Newport...

as we were going we thought that there

was only gonna be one boat heading out

during this weather window and when we

saw the second boat the third boat the

fourth boat we were really really

starting to kick ourselves. Nothing is

for sure in the open Atlantic Ocean.

Having one big problem like a Sat phone

that's not working is one problem too

many I stand by our decision. Our

alternative plan is to leave here and

head down to Norfolk and cross from

Norfolk which is apparently a much safer

and easier way to get to Bermuda

I'm sorry we didn't get a lot of

footage of some of these things that

we're telling you about but most of it

happened either at night when the camera

wouldn't pick up on anything or when we

were under a lot of stress sailing

in really harsh conditions having a

camera running on deck was not something

we could have had time to prepare for.

hey guys

we're just sailing through Long Island

Sound right now on our way to New York

City we figured either we stay in

Newport and wait for the next Bermuda

window which may or may not happen.. it's

getting colder every day you know... or

head for New York and make our way down

to Norfolk where we can cross with a lot

of other boats that will be doing the

same thing. We chose to go through Long

Island Sound as the tide was coming in

we have a good 14 knots or so on the

beam which is pushing us right along

here at about 6 knots which is awesome

What did we do today? We got caught in a

squall. The one day - the ONE day that we decide to take out a reef... Yeah we took out the reef for the

first time I think I've ever taken out

the first reef. EVER. and we were like oh

it's gonna be nice a good day let's take

out the reef... SQUALL! Of course we didn't re-reef before this squall, we didn't think

it was gonna be that bad. 31 knot winds!

yeah 31. Next time we're gonna reef-

REEF EARLY! I know everybody says it but

if there's a reason. Long Island Sound we

had a really rough morning this morning

getting out there was a nasty headwind

and a pretty big swell but we knew we

had to get moving there's a storm tonight and we

wanted to get to a safer port than the one that we

were at, and further in cuz it just

looked like the storm was going to hit

where we were and not where we're going... so yeah we pretty much motored most the day. I got the

Jib out now and New York City is on the horizon.

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