Thanks for joining us on our Sojourn to the islands of the Caribbean! After our failed attempt on Bermuda we turn south for Norfolk with hopes to try again. ...
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when hell of a night last night like I
thought fighting hurricane Esther is
probably the hardest thing I've ever
done on this sailboat and it was but
last night it was it was all the way
through it all the way
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last time on sailing Bella Chandra we
traveled the Cape Cod Canal had a failed
attempt on Bermuda lost our dinghy but
then got it back
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I don't know it's my magic on it was
amazing there's Manhattan that is ice we
are in Manhattan and there we are
anchored out on the Hudson River there's
a crazy current here we're just heading
out here soon we've been kind of hanging
out in Manhattan for a couple days oh
it's really cold it's like zero degrees
Celsius we're leaving tonight we're
gonna head down the coast in New York's
pretty cool we'd like to stay longer but
we just got around 11:00 p.m. I think
it's good to leave we were so cold and
our furnitures on the fridge
the last night was brutal sailing we
were supposed to take this but Dan
didn't wake me up and I woke up and I
looked at 5:00 and it was daylight and I
was like what I needed to sleep and
honestly I don't know how he did it like
it was full we had a sleeping bag down
below so he brought it on that night for
me to get up take my time brush my teeth
let me coffee get on deck and pointed me
in the right direction
I just took over has a way to fill up do
you eat about 6:00 not the motor is
going to our parent a wind is like 15 16
right now we're on our way to Atlantic
City or Cape May
there's the Stewart coming so we want to
make our way over
get there as quickly as possible find
the same acreage hey guys we're in Cape
May that's where we put in after sailing
down the Jersey coast we sailed straight
here we started in the mill the night
sailed a whole day and then sailed a
whole night and pulled in feels like
4:00 in the morning and we need the
anchor to about 6:00 in the morning
we slept and then we came in here and to
Cape May for the afternoon got our
diesel got our water we're not worried
about the storm
wearing Cape May and we've talked to a
lot of the locals and everyone said that
we're perfectly fine on anchor yeah and
they're not concerned so I don't think
we should be either yeah and the storms
pretty much offshore from what I've read
and what the people have been telling us
Cape May here is pretty well protected
now there's something you don't see
every day
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we made it out of Cape May yesterday
around 1:00 2:00 p.m. we were watching
the weather really closely and it looked
like we have a Bermuda window it only
works if we time it perfectly we had to
leave Cape May at that exact time
following a big storm that just passed
through the planet Earth we had to
anchor zones that was a bit of a
challenge but we were able to do it what
we need to do is get past Norfolk and
then south of Cape Hatteras and if we
can get to that area
and we have the rest of the week to get
to Bermuda without any storms or bad
winds at all the oil is hand student the
boat past Cape Hatteras which is great
over there
can't really see it but that's Kate it's
dangerous it's notorious for being you
know a crazy place big wave shifting
currents shallow waters and all that
stuff but we were blessed with a really
nice day so far anyway so crossing the
Cape
hopefully with those two input
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I went hell of a night last night like I
thought fighting hurricane nestor is
probably the hardest thing I've ever
done and it was but last night it was it
was all the way it was all the way I
mean all the sailing stories you hear
about from people when they say it was
hard you know we've hit the worst
conditions and the road out storms like
it was one of those very serious it was
a life-threatening experience I said it
several times during and we needed to do
something because our lives were in
danger otherwise the weather window
looked really good for Bermuda this time
like our second shot at Bermuda and we
were pretty excited we tried to cut the
land a little closer use our cellphones
to get an updated with the report and we
got our weather and it looked like
things were turning a little for the
worse with our plan for Bermuda we knew
that we had to go south to get away from
a low-pressure system but the system had
changed while we left and to make this
opportunity we had to go even farther
south like farther south than Cape
Hatteras we've got to Cape Hatteras
great for that matter that you actually
crossed the Cape it got really Riley the
sea state wasn't terrible but there was
those two opposing currents one is I
guess the Gulf Stream we work from the
other would be
a Northport waterford living South it
would meet there at Cape Hatteras mitten
it is insane
like we couldn't record that thing we
couldn't even we couldn't take our hands
off my fake equipment it's hard to steer
you've got one current pushing you one
way the autopilot doesn't nothing so you
basically have to hand steer through big
waves then we came out the other side of
that and things looked like they were
manageable the water turned this
beautiful royal blue it's been turquoise
here all along the coast but out there
man it feels like you're on another
planet it was brutal I think it was like
the opposing currents I think it was the
Gulf Stream and this wind that was
picking up at the same time we had large
breaking waves these waves will up
probably 20 feet high at least breaking
waves we crashed into the mall like they
would hit us on the beam they'd hit us
on the stern like no consistency it was
the washing machine like the safes waves
from all directions and one in every
fifth wave was a roadway we just looked
at each other and said if we're gonna be
fighting this hands Terry because the
autopilot can't take it what the hand
steering because of craziness
the ocean dan and I were taking like 15
20 minute rotational like no one was
nobody was I'm really glad that Dan had
set up our storm jib like he rigged up
the whole boat before we even considered
like you know going out in that
direction
we had the drogue ready to deploy off
the stern that we built even watch that
another video here we've always had a
storm jib on board and I rigged it all
up before we even left Cape May thinking
like this is something we might need we
ended up rolling up our jib is we just
heavily overpowered we had almost 40
knots of wind on top of that wet washing
machine effect that the ocean had yeah
like our arms were jello so we had three
reefs in the mid low in like seven knots
downwind which was you think downwind be
more comfortable when you're falling off
every way if it's not so the choices
were hoped to or head back to shore and
we hadn't hardly gone out that far like
the Gulf Stream there at Cape Hatteras
close right away this is a recipe for
disasters like those conditions we were
in if you weren't properly prepared if
you didn't have a storm jib if you
didn't have several reefs in your
mainsail that you could then you could
bring down and you would approach for
sure brought you could have been
dismasting so today we're heading into
Beaufort we had turned back we sailed
all the way down the coast from Hatteras
to Cape Lookout and we round to Cape
Lookout last night and we got really low
on fuel so I realized that three of the
little clips that hold the main inside
the track we're broken in the extreme
way you know whether we had I'm pretty
sure my chain Locker is flooded with
seawater so that's something you got to
take care of and hopefully it didn't
damage the windlass uh
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we're pretty much good to go so we're
just coming up on the Beaufort Inlet now
and get in there and be safe take a
break because we need us thanks for
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