Wind, Waves and Fire! OTB 105

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Closed Captions (CC):
hi there

in this week's video we have wind

and we have waves

and

fires

yeah it's been pretty warm in greece

and pretty windy and we've had some big

waves so

enjoy the video

and uh we'll see you later see you at

the end

[Music]

so we just settled down

on zanzi at the first anchorage which

just saw behind me there

and out of nowhere

came 25

30 knot

constant wind

gusts some more

uh david was just getting his anchor

down i've got mine down seven meters of

water

a lot of other boats here

all hunkered down

about to see we can see lots of white

horses

and some waves breaking over the

headland there

[Applause]

[Music]

7 30 in the morning

we're up and up

we took oscar out this morning didn't we

had a

walk

a tupu's la trek

and uh

hosted the dingy up

put the engine on

we got uh what we got 1.5 knots of wind

on the nose on the nose next boat's

going to be called on the nose

generators

wind generators on the top of the hill

and over there

are actually turning

um

obviously a lot more wind higher up

we've got nothing

it's absolutely flat calm

there is a ferry just going past the

headlands

david's in eternity over there

solar panels are packed up

got the inverter on charging up

everything that's uh

220 volts

another ferry over there

hatches open because it's warm

downstairs front hatch is closed so if

we put the jib out we don't tangle a

line

and the wasps are back

we're about two miles off land and

they're still following us

but hey-ho or god's creatures i guess

it looks like there's

a bit of wind on the surface

in front of us there see that

um

slightly longer passage today

30 miles

well we'll do the big reveal of where

we're going in just a few moments

yeah moore's point i can't remember the

night

i'm the captain i'm not supposed to

remember names remember what barry said

it's a test for your crew

we continue to travel south

along the east side of mainland greece

by having to go past the peloponnese the

southern tip of mainland greece because

the corinth canal has been closed

it was closed at the end of last year

due to landslides

and this means some additional

miles that were having to travel by sea

now while it isn't a lot further in

seymours to go down and round the

peloponnese are known

for their strong north westerly and

north easterly winds but can come up at

a moment's notice

now that's a big cat

70 foot

must be 70 foot something like that

big enough to have

stern anchors as well as

big bow anchor see the stern anchors at

the back

that's big

flying a portuguese flag and russian

courtesy flag

so we just settled down

on zanzi at the first anchorage

just behind me there

out of nowhere

came 25

30 knot

constant wind

gusts some more

uh david was just getting his anchor

down i'd got mine down seven meters of

water

40 foot of chain out because there was

nobody around

and boy did it suddenly blow from

nowhere

the winds in this part of greece can

develop very quickly

generally they come from the north

but often exceed 40 knots in the

afternoons and die away in the evenings

it's calming down around this headland

now

you can see behind me look at all those

white caps

unbelievably quick within three minutes

that came up

and then of course we had to try and

pick the anchor up mugs are over it four

old oscar

doesn't like the engine revving up the

best

to drive fairly hard into it to get the

chain up

um

we've just gone around the corner we're

gonna have a look to see what it's like

here it does look flatter

if not we're gonna go down to the main

town i think

excitement

another relatively uh early start

we were actually

where that cave is

there

just in the corner of that bay

no protection from the north so

we were rocking and rolling until about

1 30 this morning um

couldn't get

our stern anchor out to bring the boat

round

mainly because there just wasn't enough

room we needed

35 40 meters of chain out it's good

holding

but uh with 30 knot gusts

uh

in the late afternoon we needed to have

that much chain out just to be secure so

got up early this morning took oscar for

a walk

um

the sea is pretty smooth

there's david over there

on eternity

um

we had uh

two of these kind of local touristy

ferry boat type things come through

yesterday afternoon one of them was so

close i could have handed him a copy of

the collision rags

quite literally um

and he literally

from

we were in there he was a boat length

away from us four foot of wash

three three

uh waves and he went into here into this

beach so he slowed down about there

just

absolutely

no forefoot consideration or anything

and that seems to be a

an ongoing theme here

the commercial guys just do what they

want to do

as long as they're all right

so we're off back to the mainland now we

were going to zante and i'll tell you

why we weren't um

we're not now going to zante

we were going to zante but

we've read so much about people being

ripped off

with

imitation poor police

taking your lines and then insisting on

a 10 euro fee

people being

overcharged for diesel

um

et cetera et cetera et cetera poor

police don't do anything customs don't

do anything i'm sorry coast guard don't

do anything

you know what we're going to vote with

air hook

got a bit of a blow coming through today

is

thursday

wednesday wednesday today's wednesday

we've got a bit of a blow coming through

on

friday afternoon evening up to 35 knots

on predict wind and windy so

that's from the north

generally from the north a bit of

easting and a bit westing in it as it

comes through

there is no

good anchorage here

with protection from the north

we're going to anchor this evening we've

got about six hours to go

about 35

nautical miles so

about five to six hours there's no wind

so we'll be motoring

get there at least we've got a cool

breeze on there

so we headed here cater cola

now obviously we didn't cross the

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anyway

back to the story this is what we found

in catacolo

so we're in ghost town qatar

i'll put it down there

um

it may look like it's a bit um

foggy or hazy the reason for that is

the forest fires a few miles away

and near olympia

and it's all blowing all the smoke this

way so

look

this way

see it's really foggy

bargain dog

camera goes on dog starts barking

just wait for a weed whacker now

the uh

cruise ships normally come in here

but of course because of you know what

no cruise ships

so the town is

the ghost town ghost town we are early

and nothing's open yet what not seven

what is it 9 30.

a few little shops open

generally the place is closed up

oh

yeah see if we can get a coffee and a

question

basically deserted the fires up at

olympus have stopped

um the cruise ships coming in

and people going up by coach to

look at the ancient uh

site of the olympics where it all

started

um smoke out to sea

looks like it's fog

and we've got a big blow coming through

tomorrow

sorry friday evening today's thursday

so what we've decided to do is do a 48

mile dash

further down the coast with no wind with

no wind no motoring get into uh

the next port and then a 10 mile dash

the next day

um hopefully

that will uh help us out

with the uh

the wind not not help us out but

we'll be in a good harbor this one's a

bit open

um to the south and to the

east

37 degrees in the cabin poor old oscar

we've got two 12 volt fans and one 240

volt fan

i'm sorry 220 volt fan working off the

inverter

to try and cool him down and we've

sprayed him down with a shower cold

shower and then rubbed him down which

calls him down a little bit

um

there's a castle let me show you

on top of the hill

there

there's a little gap

and if we had a lifting kill we'd get

through it's uh

it's actually about a meter

0.5 of a meter deep there

and although it's sandy

we draw 1.9

so we're not going to make that

and as a consequence we have to go

down here

down the coast

to where the bow is i don't know if you

can see that white power boat there and

just where the nose of the boat is now

around the peninsula

and back up into the harbour now this um

quite a big open harbour

but lots of protection from that

direction which is generally north

um

tomorrow morning we're gonna leave early

and get down to the next one

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um we're approaching the peloponnese now

and

there's not a lot of good anchorages

with protection from the prevailing

north westerlies

and this time of year they do kind of

crop up

in the late afternoon early evening up

to 35 knots or so

um so you need to be somewhere that's

protected land on the north of you not

on a lee shore

with good holding and plenty of chain

out

again you might not see it i'll try and

zoom in

post-production and there's fires

on the mountains at the back there

there's been

it's been 42

to 47 degrees in parts of greece

for about a week now and

started some forest fires

so

that's the gap the chart says is 11

meters

and that's the alternative rounding

outside of the island

so what would you do how much do you

trust your charts

[Music]

guess where we're going

around the outside of the island

it does say

around

11 meters

shallows to 7 meters in places

you just don't know how much of that

rock pinnacle there is falling in or

that one there or bits off the end

some of these charts you know are 100

years old and

taken by men in rhyme boats with

lead lines and tallow ends

so um

we're going around the outside

discretion is the better part of valor

so we've arrived

talking to the camera darling

we're in this big i guess you'd call it

a lagoon

uh the gap that we were looking at going

through

originally was that one but when we

looked on the chart

there's only half a meter in there so

we're gonna

the other gap was down there

at the end of this peninsula here

extinct volcano there

another one there

forest fires there

oh beers here right oh there we go beers

here

uh i've had enough for one day to be

honest we were up at half six this

morning

um

and we've been out in the heat all day

long and there's a cold beer on the

table so it's good night from her

and it's good night from him

i'm just sitting at anchor it's um

sun's gone down about an hour after

sunset

and um

try and get the camera on this is gonna

be really tricky

stay with us

[Music]

i are calling these conditions not only

extremely dangerous but unprecedented

and you know dan everyone we speak to

says the same thing they've just never

seen anything like this we're in the

middle of a heat wave that's something

that they haven't seen in nearly three

decades so these are conditions again

that are dangerous and firefighters can

barely keep up

oh come on modern media never let the

facts get in the way of a good story

they've been forest fires for over 2

500 years in greece just half an hour on

a computer do a bit of research here's

something from the third year of the

pelopolisian war which is 429 bc

valkyries reported i mean by the hand of

man for this time past in the mountains

when dry branches have been rubbed

against each other a forest has caught

fire

spontaneously they're from and produced

a great configuration

as a fire

there's absolutely no doubt that these

fires are causing hardship and

disruption to people families and their

homes but it's nothing new

look at the light of all fire events in

the last hundred years

bad news and scaremongering make good

headlines but they don't make good facts

me when it comes to facts i'm doing my

own research i don't believe what's on

the news

well sunrise over the mountains there

turn the tay there

rocks over there

fires in the mountain over there lots of

smoke

castle over there

mountain over there

clouds around it

and the island over there yeah it's

morning we're up

bright and early

up at sparrows far apparently is what

the aussies say

so we've got a quick dash

at 10 miles

down to the next safe harbor the weather

has changed it looks like

this bad weather's going to come in a

couple of hours early

so we're um motoring we're at 2000 rpm

doing just under seven knots

uh

just over i think

yeah we're doing just over seven knots

and

we are chugging a lot

could have done with another couple of

hours in bed i hope

looks like somebody else is

making a run for it they'll be going

through the gap there

which would mean they are going north

and the next safe haven

is 50 odd miles away 58 miles which is

the run we did yesterday

and good luck guys can't see any flags

on the boats

i don't know if there are

locals don't recognize them

but hey ho

really is pretty here i wish we'd uh

got the time to to spend

have an explore get the drone up

but unfortunately we can't do it

so we're in safe and sound winds come up

now it's uh

averaging about 22 knots that's 27

we're about 500 meters off of the beach

other boats here

all hunkered down about to see we can

see lots of white horses

and some waves breaking over the

headland there's a big four over here

castle

another one there

i think it's all part of the same

thing you see the ramparts at the top

we're not going to uh

we're not going to go ashore again we've

taken oscar

for sure for about half an hour

we're not going to go short until we're

uh

until the winter baits i don't like

leaving the boat

if you can hear

strong

winds

another boat coming in

i've got our anchor watch on

we're not moving we're dug in pretty

well did go and swim the anchor and then

david swam it

as well

when we first came in we anchored

over in this empty spot

in front of us here

the big pebbly rocks and the anchor just

draped across the top of them

so we moved

to where we are now we've got

good holding in sand

right

the sun is just setting over the

ramparts of the

town wall and castle

and the boats just land its anchor a bit

calmer tonight than it was last night

at three o'clock this morning we

eventually

managed to get some sleep

um

i sat up till one

and uh made sure

that we were holding we had ankle arms

on sorry two two anchor alarms on

but the sun's just setting i just wanted

to try and capture

this light

here on the hills

and out across the bay

because it really is spectacular

it looks like there may be some rain

over

there job to tell

sam's nearly gone

yeah very very pretty

what do you think oscar

what do you think

what are you sniffing

well you saw us having a barbecued

really yeah i can smell sausages

and cheddar cheese

cheese

you can smell cheese

yeah

i can smell cheese over a thousand

meters mate

huh that's

interesting

very sensitive nose

where are my dog

you still smell that cheese

yeah i don't think he said it might be

red lester

see if i can get a better sniff

yeah it's definitely red lest up

what are you sniffing now

what can you smell

that's definitely a beef burger there's

definitely a beef burger with red

leicester on top

are you sure

yeah and sausages

you've got a fixation with sausages

haven't you

well

i don't get them very often from you

god

next time we get to look at the castle

well bits of it

looks like you've got to pay and no pets

and we find a fantastic anchorage where

we hang out for a few days sitting out

strong winds

well that is

until the winds change direction as they

often do

down in the plant penis

in greece

oh well i hope you enjoyed this video

big shout out and thank you to all our

patreons

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and quite a few of them have commented

on the previous videos if you go back

and you'll see in the

descriptions it has been a blustery week

we're in the beginning of a melt hemi

and although we're tucked away at the

moment we need to move tomorrow

so the next few days could be rather

interesting could be interesting we're

in a very industrial port aren't we

um we've managed to get some uh

video footage of the port and we've

managed to get some

uh drone footage as well i managed to

get some driving footage this morning

um we won't tell you is it where it is

because it will ruin the next video

but we're tucked away it's cheap there's

no electric on hand no water and no

water but we think we found a source of

water

so um

from uh from a standpipe but we'll tell

you more about that next week next week

until then folks sound safe sell safe

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