Bluewater SAILING passage Majuro to Ailuk Atoll SAILING the Marshall Islands Two nights to Ailuk Atoll This week we leave Majuro and travel 240 miles north to Ailuk Atoll, in what we think is a good weather window. It turns out that we time it perfectly so that we have to dodge squalls that come across every hour or so! Mark and Angie from 'Uno Mas' were about five to ten miles in front of us and missed just about every squall, so if we had started our trip an hour earlier we would have had a much smoother trip! Once in the shelter of Aur and Maloelap atolls we have some lovely sailing and the squalls lessen as we near Ailuk. After waiting for good light we negotiate the reef pass and drop the hook in front of Ailuk Village on the South east side of the atoll. We celebrate with an early night after a very tiring two days! Footage from May / June 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ☕️ Want to Buy us a Coffee? Support our videos: https://ko-fi.com/sailingdoubletrouble 🌎 Blogs and updates on the website: https://sailingdoubletrouble.com 💁🏼‍♀️ Photos and real time stuff here: https://www.facebook.com/sailingdoubletrouble/ 📷 Random Travel Pics and updates: https://www.instagram.com/sailingdoubletrouble/ 👉Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingDoubleTrouble?sub_confirmation=1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 👩‍❤️‍👨About us : Hello and welcome to our channel! We are Jo and Rob and we are here to share our sailing adventures with you. In 2016, inspired by the likes of ‘Delos’, ‘Sailing La Vagabonde’ and ‘Gone with The Wynns’, we sold up everything we owned and bought our 40ft, Fountaine Pajot ‘Lipari 41 Evo’ sailing catamaran ‘Double Trouble’. We had no sailing experience whatsoever, so the past few years have been a huge learning curve. We thought it might be fun to document our travels for anyone thinking of following a similar lifestyle. So far we have visited 7 different countries and sailed over 13,000 nautical miles. We have had many unique experiences that would not have been possible in our prior life and we don’t regret a second. We're both super keen on protecting our precious environment, so amongst other things, we both follow a plant based diet. You wont find any fishing footage on this channel! Subscribe now and join us as we continue our salty travels around the world. https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingDoubleTrouble?sub_confirmation=1 👏Credits: Thanks to 'Shure ' microphones for voiceover sound. 🎼Music: DT Theme tune - 'Happy' by MBB https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/g6swHZbWtRc 🎧Other Music: Epidemic Sound Library SQUALLY sailing in the Marshall Islands EP77 || Sailing the North Pacific #sailingdoubletrouble #AilukAtoll

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five o'clock in the morning

and we have had a united

we've got 30 knots at the moment or 31.

uh and we've got three weeks in and

we're surrounded by schools

and it's horrible it's pretty gnarly out

here

yeah not this stretch of water yeah

yeah we're sitting under the convergence

zone which doesn't happen and it's

just

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i look lagoon lies 240 miles north of

majoro

it is known as the island of sales due

to the large number of traditional

canoes used there

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we allowed one and a half days for the

passage and planned to leave measure in

the evening

in order to have good light on our

approach to the pass at ilook

and it was a little bumpy and busy on

the helm for the first 60 miles between

major and our atolls

with a suitable weather window showing

moderate winds from the northeast to

east northeast

it was going to be a close hauled trip

but hopefully a lot calmer than our last

trip to malou mololappatol in march

the seas here tend to pick up due to the

currents and prevailing winds

along with the added effects of any

squalls due to being right in the middle

of the convergence zone

well that was a wild and woolly night

lots of squalls lots of rain lots of

reefing in

out shake it all about we now have

a sedate 10 knot breeze

hopefully now the convergence zone is

behind us

and blue skies ahead so yes

looking forward to enjoying our day

today we're also in the

lee of our so it should be nice and

smooth

and champagne which is just how we like

it

oh

yeah just uh it's 30 knots

but it's somewhat the edge of it

hopefully

we're kind of keeping the hammer down so

that we can

just scoot in front of it or see how we

go so it doesn't get completely over us

quickly we'll see

it's a little bit gray ahead

bit of a contrast

that was a big squall that's just kind

of all pushed off that way now

but there's another one dead ahead we've

slowed down

and it's pushing this way

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we'll just let him carry on on his merry

way i think

some blue skies coming up now so

shouldn't be too long away

well after all that school action

earlier it is now

clear blue skies we are

pottering along at just over six knots

very very pleasant and uh i've just made

a rather nice

bean salad for lunch so

i'm going to get into that

very pleasant

sailing attire sailing in your pants

too much information well it kind of

goes together doesn't it you know

wife beater dodgy undies

and uh and attach

it's four o'clock on sunday afternoon

and we are having a lovely sail now

there are

so far no more schools on the horizon

and it's beautiful out here we're

cruising along at seven and a half knots

we've got 16 knots of wind just on the

beam

it's just lovely it's lovely to be out

here

which is the last island that we visited

and it's amazing we can't

see it at all it is we know it's there

because it's on the map

these islands are so low lying um

there's literally no

sign that there is uh any life over

there whatsoever

it's a lovely sunday afternoon

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it's just gone midnight day two where'd

you arrive

at about nine in the morning

a little comment about squalls

this area is a pain in the arts

we've been looking to predict wind we've

been doing as much as we can

to choose a good weather window

and um none of the schools are forecast

really so we have just had

um our third swallow of the evening

we've got

uh two reefs in now and uh

we were on the edge of having to go to a

third but uh

i just slowed the boat down and just

waited for it to pass really

that's the other challenge with this um

two-handing thing is that

uh if both of you are up doing three or

four

sail changes every single night then you

don't get

good rest so you have to compromise

either the sailing performance of the

boat

or the fact that you're going to put the

boat in the position that it's

safe while things blow over so

yeah just wanted to let people know that

sailing up here

is pretty challenging to be honest

well it's quarter past three and my

clear skies didn't last long i

just fired up the road up i've got more

squalls

so i'm just waiting to see what they're

going to do there's two roofs in the

main so that's okay

um i've got full head sail out so i

might just roof that if the wind gets

off but yeah i

am so over schools on this trip

well i am experiencing a lazy equatorial

sunrise this morning

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had a rocky rolly night last night a few

schools on the way through

but we made it and there are blue skies

ahead it's glorious out here this

morning

joe's getting some much-needed rest and

we've still fairly heavily reefed but

doing good speed that will get us to the

reef entrance just on

high tide slack so we're not really

rushing

too much just want to time it for that

really

and it's nice and quiet so

just going to enjoy it with a morning

cup of fatigue

pretty much approaching the atoll of i

look

got a couple more turns to do before we

get to the past that goes into the

lagoon

we can see the very low-lying eyelets

that start to make up this uh this

lagoon

very very low-lying indeed

sail down beating into it

you smell delightful darling i've had my

first shower in three days

i feel wonderful we have it just before

we're gonna be started on the bell come

on

sunscreen yeah it should be right it

does smell nice

just going into the uh the pass

it's the arupu channel i am being told

sorry it is the arapu channel is where

we're going

and it's just over there is lagoon

covers a 70 square mile area and has

three main passes the irapu channel is

the most southern and has an interesting

dog leg once in the lagoon

as our garmin and navionics maps were

known to be incorrect

we cross-referenced google maps

satellite images to our gps position

and got corrected waypoints into the

lagoon

we then stood lookout and made our way

into the lagoon with no problems

we intentionally waited until after 10

in the morning so we had good light to

transit the lagoon

and dodge a few bombies on the way into

the anchorage at ilook village

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we just had a lovely lunch

after putting the hook down in a lovely

anchorage in

i look yep yay tomorrow we are going in

to meet the mayor well we've met the

mayor already but we've got some stuff

for him i'm going to go and pay our

uh visitor permit fee

i don't want around the village i think

do you think we think

that's what we'll do tomorrow but for

now it's going to be dinner which is a

red curry

and then bed early night because i don't

know why because it was only a two-night

passage but we are both knackered

it's like a real jet laggy thing hey

yeah

short passage is worse than a long

passage isn't it i sound through that

doesn't it

i prefer a long passage to a short

passage um but yeah because like two

nights you

you kind of just the second night you're

just getting into it and then you hear

so it's all a bit odd really but there

i'm waffling now so i'm going to say a

very good evening

from the of eye look where we

will be spending the next

six or eight weeks

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