Sailing The Bermuda Triangle and The Sargasso Sea

Hello friends This is my latest video. It's a documenting a recent trip. I did accrued on a yacht delivery from Puerto Rico to North Carolina Ended up being by way of Bermuda due to a storm so this is That trip took us seven days to get from Puerto Rico to Bermuda and then five days from Bermuda to the Outer Banks, North Carolina As I mentioned we were sailing from Puerto del Rey direct to the Outer Banks and we're about two days from landfall and commander weather service Contacted us and said if you can't make it by tomorrow night. You need to run for Bermuda due to a storm So we turned and ran for Bermuda, which ended up being really really cool and Spent a day in Bermuda let the weather pass over us and then headed back out and Pushed on for the Outer Banks, so this video documents that as best as possible I hope you enjoy it if you like it, please subscribe and Enjoy We pushed off at around 11 a.m. And made our way to the fuel dock where we topped off our tanks fill up our 12 jerrycans Stowed them and made our way out The cunning plan is a 45-foot Dufour it has a in-mast furling system and a temporary interforest day Which you'll see us rig up later in the trip. She's a beautiful and fast ship in the right conditions We don't miss the rivet when the boat was over The boy says way all the way we will always you way soon we were rounding Cape San Juan and Making our way into the Atlantic Ocean Down in New Orleans get a big ship driving over to Mexico Boys this way all the way we'll always you Down in New Orleans up Canal Street Get a boys trying way all the way we'll always you Way all the way we'll all but better Way all the way we'll always you be shiny boys Way all the way we'll always you When the boys all get tight and some of them don't give down Way all the way All the way you Way all the way we'll all for better Way all the way we'll always you By far my favorite Watch shift was the 3 a.m. To 6 a.m. Shift you get the Sun rises all to yourself It was quiet and beautiful and the flying fish were very active in the mornings Every time I saw one it was it was like the first time I'd seen them They'd fly to the water flapping furiously and then glide above the waves Truly just a obvious step of evolution that we were getting to experience We were blessed with the trade winds as sailors have been for centuries It kept us between you know, five and seven knots. Sometimes it'd be less sometimes more but It was really really a blessing Considering our engines stopped working About the second day out and we would only run it to charge up our batteries There's no way to describe the feeling of being that far from land. I wasn't sure if I would have anxiety about it or what my feelings would be but It just felt completely peaceful and I really felt at home there Pick up in the morning love and the sunlight hurts my Something without one bears heavy on my Then I look at you And the world's all right with me Just one look at you And I know it's gonna be When the day that lies ahead Seemed impossible to fit Someone else instead of me always seems to know the way Then I look at you and the world's all right with me Just one look at you and I know it's gonna be And When the day that lies ahead of me Seemed impossible to fit Someone else instead of me always seems to know the way Then I look at you Just one look at you and I know it's gonna be On the 16th of June, we got an urgent email from our weather routing service commander weather Telling us of a storm that was heading our way That had come off the east coast and out of the Chesapeake They told us that if we couldn't make it to the Outer Banks, North Carolina in the next 24 hours that we needed to turn And run from Bermuda immediately so Captain changed course and we ran for Bermuda contacting our friends and family of our decision and soon we had 10 to 15 foot following seas and Ran dead downwind for two days till we made landfall in Bermuda I'll see the stars come out of the sky Yeah, the bright and hollow sky You know, it looks so good tonight Passenger I stay under glass I look through my window so bright As we fought our way into the Channel in Bermuda our engine begging to give out the captain did a fabulous job of persuading it to to get us in we were surrounded by reefs and had the anchor at ready and It was a very narrow channel we had to navigate and everyone at customs was super nice really amazing And they let us tie up across to the old ferry dock for free for the night and The next day we had the entire day to explore Bermuda while the captain found a mechanic and he came out and Worked on the engine until about 10 p.m. And We got the fuel filter situation worked out so that we would have it as a Auxiliary on our way from there to North Carolina spent the day hiking in a park Bluehole Park, I believe was called exploring the limestone caves and caverns and Watching parrotfish and a variety of different exotic fish swimming around in the different pools and In the protected sound near st. George's It was unique to feel like you were walking in a small village in Scotland but know that you were in the middle of the Atlantic and First thing next morning we pushed off and headed for North Carolina The I'll tell you how The clouds above Midday on the 21st of June we came across an adrift sailing vessel The captain saw it first and was confused as to why it appeared There was a wave breaking in the middle of the ocean So he got the binoculars and we watched it and as we grew closer We could see that the stern pulpit was peeking out of the water and that it was a half sunk adrift vessel As we got alongside it we called out and blew our air horn and No one answered. We could see that it was dismasted and Had some barnacles growing on the deck. So it had been there for a minute Can't see the whole number, but it says Pogo 8-3-0 We contacted Bermuda Sea Rescue they thanked us for the call and Said that it had been reported once before but they didn't have much information about it it was really eerie to see a Vessel adrift out at sea like this We just hope that Whoever was skippering it and on board Made it off safely If you're watching this and you know anything about this Vessel, I would love to find out more The Atlantic was born today and I'll tell you how The clouds above Standing on the surface Filled every hole Thousands upon thousands made an ocean making islands where no Island should go They took to their boat Nice like It seems Before The defore being a very flat-bottomed boat if you were beating into headseas it was Not the most comfortable vessel a lot of the times it felt like we were inside a snare drum I've edited a few clips together and some of them repeating to show effect But it was really it felt like your teeth were out of your head when it would slam down While these clips are edited for dramatic effect it gives a better feeling of what it was like in inside the ship and poor Eve was Trying he slept in the Bieber through a lot of it I'm not sure how but eventually it got too bad and we took turns hot bunking on our Watch rotation as we approach the North Carolina coast. We got a fun little show from a fighter jet We had heard the military on the radio telling some some vessel To divert their course for one hour's time due to military exercises Luckily, we just got a show Making our way under the bridge at Oregon Inlet. We were excited to finally be coming home and the captain had all the printouts of The recent dredging and and all the charts and everything you can imagine Because it was it's a really tricky thing to navigate the moving sandbanks in the Oregon Inlet and and the North Carolina Coast We made our way through and we were just shy of one of the buoys and we ran aground and in the efforts to Get us off the sandbank. We lost our rudder so Within an hour or so of being being in and tied up at the marina Now we had to drop anchor and wait for Cito. I Felt so bad for the captain. We're so close to home after so many days Cito showed up tried to figure out how to tow a vessel with no rudder which took a couple of attempts in different ways and Finally we were making our way to the marina and the boatyard that was going to be repairing I can't thank the captain enough for having me on board to crew for this delivery wonderful crew and Really beautiful experience. I hope you enjoyed the video She says way all the way