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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