Sailing across the Atlantic Ocean: Travel vlog of our transatlantic journey  - Ep.44

Because today is my birthday! This is the Atlantic Ocean. And this is us on our home fortuna. We have lived and sailed for two years on the map. Now we are ready for new horizons. Follow along as we prepare ourselves and our sailboat for the Atlantic Ocean. If you are new to this channel, five days ago we have left the safety of the harbour of Las Palmas to venture across the Atlantic Ocean to Santa Lucia. So far the sea was calm, but in the next day wind and waves would gain force and we will gain speed. Happy Sunday! We already wanted to see if we find Radio Maria on VHF, but unfortunately it isn't there. Does Radio Maria exist outside of Italy? Do people know what that is? Yes, Radio Maria is worldwide. Yeah? Yeah, yeah, for sure. Good then, happy Sunday! Cheers! Greta just screams like a baby. No, I just saw an elephant. We just saw an amazing elephant. It woke up. Like you couldn't sleep with this. But everybody was happy to wake up. Yeah, it was crazy. It jumped like... It was just one small elephant, but probably the whole family was somewhere back down. Eating sardines. Eating because we saw sardines jumping up. Yes, so there might be also some tuna or something here. And we might be lucky because so far we got like five mahimais and nearly a tuna and nearly a scorched fish. But we saw dolphins! A jumper. A real jumper. He jumped three times in total. One time when I screamed, one time when everybody looked, and one time when nobody looked. Besides Simon. Simon never looked. Right, Simon? No dolphins. No dolphins for Simon. Simon is sad. He caught a mahimai instead. Yes, a big one. Day six is slowly coming to an end and it was just a wonderful day here out at sea. We didn't have a lot of wind, but enough wind to still go with five knots. But having a very, very calm Sunday, we enjoyed a nice lunch together. We caught a mahimai. We saw dolphins. And yeah, if you hear noises around me, it's because the guys are now preparing the sails for the night. So we always try to have a sail set up during the night, which is as secure as possible and that nobody has to go outside of the cockpit to be able to reef the sails or to adjust the sails. Night shift is just over and I'm now happily going to sleep after finally having seen some dolphins. Good morning on day eight on Fortuna. Good morning. Captain, what's the word of the morning? Wow! We just put out the main and the genoa on the other side and wanted to hoist the heavy wind ship. We had 15 knots and we were flying and we had to take it in and out and in and out again. And then the first fishing rod started and then the second one started. So we had to take everything in again. And now we see what happens. And now we see what we got! This is the tuna! Please! That is the tuna. It's got to have some. I can feel it! I can feel it go! That's a dolphin. New safety hooks, basically with one for the fish, one for me and one for the boat. You're a happy fisherman! It's sushi time! Wow! Another beautiful day here out in the Atlantic. It has just been amazing. The weather and wind gods have had so much mercy with us. As you can see, there is almost no wave right now. I'm almost scared to say it. I hope I have not jinxed it. But it has been just amazing. Also today we were sailing maybe a little bit slowly with about 5 knots, but we have now about 9 knots of wind so we're hoping to slowly gain a little bit of speed. It has been another exciting day here on Fortuna. Honestly, we were all scared to be bored after days here out at sea, but it's day 7 and it has been one exciting day after the other. The fishing rods are now in pause and we'll take a short holiday until we manage to eat all the fish that we had the luck to fish in the last days. And yeah, we're now enjoying a very nice day towards Santa Lucia. We still have a lot of way to go. The negative side of calm winds is that we're also proceeding very slowly. But we have a great crew on board and we're enjoying ourselves. We have good food. So we are not really in a rush and just enjoy to be out here and be able to live this experience. And when you think the day cannot be better, dolphins come by. We have finally some wind. And all three sails are out. We put a reef in both Maine and Genoa. And the waves are rocking and we are finally flying. It's time for racing mode again and we still are not fishing and Greta is steering to save some energy. Because the main issue so far is the batteries because they are not able to keep up during the night so they are getting discharged too easily. And we lose a lot of power so we have to motor one hour a day or hand steer. Welcome to day 10 on the Atlantic Ocean. It's a pretty special day because for the first time we actually have proper wind. So about 20-25 knots so we have real action now on board. And secondly because today is my birthday with the wind obviously also the waves arrive. They are not pretty high. We have between 1-2 meters of wind. But they are very very short. We have a period of about 7 seconds which is actually pretty short for the Atlantic. In the next 48 hours wind and waves will be slowly increasing. Hopefully stopping at about 30 knots and not going farther. Also the waves should go up to 3 meters but still the period should be about 8 seconds. So that could be a little bit uncomfortable but we will have to see. Hopefully the wind and waves will give us a little bit of rest for birthday celebrations. Happy birthday! Hello! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Greta! Happy birthday to you! Let's go! And we have a nice weather today. I don't care if it's sunny or rainy. I don't care. At a certain age you are no longer a normal person. At this point I would love to thank the love of my life who managed to bake a Sacher in the middle of the ocean. Everyone who ever made that cake knows how hard it is to make. So imagine baking it in the middle of the ocean with 20 knots of wind and 3 meter waves. How's your birthday morning? It's wavy. Wavy, not stormy. How do you feel? 28 years old. So cool! As long as the wind stays under my ears, we're fine. Unfortunately my birthday wishes were not heard and the wind and waves just went on rising and rising. Read birthday activity! I've been reading a good book! We will get there eventually. Jeez, that was just one of the craziest moments right now. I think we were surfing for 4 seconds on the wave, literally going up to 60 knots of speed. At least according to our instrument. But besides the speed, it was an incredible feeling. During the next hours, the wind and waves got stronger and stronger. But before we get into rain, squalls and harder problems, we will call it a day for this week. If you like what you're doing, subscribe to the channel and check out our next video. See you next week! Bye!