Atlantic Crossing Preparations - Sailing Trial with our Crew - Ep.23

We are currently cooking for our crew to come because we start to Sardinia. We have not had crew on Fortuna for some time now and so we're really looking forward especially because this is a really really special crew. It's actually the same crew or a part of the crew that we're going to do the Atlantic crossing together. So this is our first kind of trial crossing and we're actually going to sail from Poppea to Sardinia. Hello! And we are finally sailing after having to motor for about yeah almost 20 hours because we had no wind at all. We have finally about seven to eight knots so we decided to take the sails out and are now sailing with about three knots slowly towards Sardinia. On the other hand we took these calm times to show our crew all the yeah little sneaks and peeks of Fortuna, all the security equipment obviously which is very important when you come on a boat. We normally do that before we leave port but we were on a really really tight schedule so we immediately left port once the crew arrived and yeah we're getting all along well and that's really good because as I already mentioned this is going to be part of our Atlantic cruise so we are really looking forward to enjoy some good sails together. So this is our magical table Greta made like after five tries she managed to get it somehow right. Now we are doing thirds of three hours so everyone like in pairs does three hours with four hours sleep and once five hours sleep so everyone can do night, day, sunset and sunrise and we got always two people in charge on deck basically. Yeah we are actually already over one third. No it's not the whole table it's only until Saturday. Looks very good. Yes we were called to one finalist which was on our fishing rods and it's a tuna. Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome. Wow three tunas, small ones but three. What a morning, what a morning. After the tunas it was like crazy because like after the first tuna there was something swimming behind our boat and it was a turtle like I thought what the hell is going on. I did not see it. There was a turtle and it was like swimming out with the head in the water and turning all around. Unbelievable and then like five minutes after the next tuna, crazy. One minute after the next tuna. We had wind the whole night which was really nice so we had always wind from the south bringing us. In the morning when the tunas came also the wind changed. Now we have wind from the north but it's okay it's about 14 knots so we're quite going speedy. What are we about five knots? Five to six knots with 12 to 15 knots of wind on the nose and we still have about 150 miles to go so we are over halfway. Well this was a busy day. We went from tuna to dolphins, from zero wind to 30 knots, from wind from the south, wind from the north, waves, snow waves, turtles. We are so dirty. But yeah the day is slowly coming to an end or kind of it's five. It's so strange with this new shifts that we kind of brought up. The days kind of blend into one another but it's still going good and we are a little bit more stable now. Unfortunately the wind went down so we're motoring. We have no actual weather report anymore so our weather report is now three days old. So let's see how true it still is and it's looking a little bit dark around so hopefully it doesn't rain too much. We made it to Sardinia safe and sound. We arrived at about one o'clock in the night so we decided not to enter directly harbor but to stay out for a night. So we managed to go swimming in the morning before we headed into harbor the day afterwards. I hope you liked this episode. Give us a thumbs up if you do and don't forget to subscribe. See you next week!