Crossing from the INDIAN to ATLANTIC Ocean _ Sailing South Africa

It's the morning of the third day and we're just passing Bettys Bay. Where's the wind at? Nowhere. Let the adventure begin. And so the second part of our journey to Cape Town begun. We got that inner jetpack made up for us. We like the rickety design. It's pretty beefy. Maybe a little over beefy. But that's Ricky's style. Over engineer everything. I think it's going to be a nifty little system. Shall we fly Dini? 7.8 knots. Yeah baby. And they say you're a slow boat. Not if you're pulled by the mires. Not if you over engineer everything. It's going good. Nice conditions. There's land there in the distance and we're just starting to break away from it now. We're heading for Gullis. How many miles to go? 204.3 204.3 miles to a Gullis point. And then to Cape Town. Going very nice. Very nice. Sending birthday messages. They've got a little signal now. Yeah that's what I'm sending him quickly. While the two men nap. Ricky can't sleep during the day. He's struggling. I told him he must make his little bed behind me. The sun is nice and warm. And now we're going to rock and roll to Cape Town. Is it comfy? Way better. I told you it's nicer there. And the sun keeps you warm. So we're on end of day 1. Is this considered day 2 or day 1? The first day we left kind of at night so this would be end of day 1. End of day 1 and we've got 165 miles to go to the most southern tip of Africa. Oh my gosh. I think it's the south. The southern tip of Africa. Southern eastern tip. And then you get the further southern western tip. Good. It's been better than I thought. Very good. She's performing very well. I'm very happy so far. But we'll keep on testing and see what else we can throw at her. But she's been performing very well. Got a good weather window. Looked at it well. And chose a good time. It's good sailing. It's been good sailing. The way your dress looks like it's cold. South Africa. It's the Indian Ocean but it feels like the bloody Atlantic. It's far south. Might as well say it's the freaking South African Atlantic. It's cold cold. We get to the Cape of Colours. Where's the wind at? Nowhere. Wind died down. Nowhere. No Cape Town. The forecast for 15 to 20 today. And we've got 4 knots. Making Thai green curry. Thai green curry. Hopefully Ricky's stomach can handle the curry. Green curry is good. We have a little brunch snack. Making good headway. 5.5 knots. The temperature is shooting down. The temperature of the water was 20 degrees celsius this morning. And now it's sitting at 16 degrees celsius. With a whole fleet of guys chasing us. Here we go. Baby. We got food. And another one. Beautiful. So we thought we needed some shade on the boat. Put the tent up. Got the shade. So what's shade like this worth in the middle of the ocean where there's no shade? What are you doing? Well there's a bit of condensation on the panels. I'm getting them nice and clean. Kirik. How was last night? Long. A good long night. We got some weather. But we're making some good progress. And we're expecting some proper wind today. Awesome. It's around the Cape. So we're expecting to get about 20 knots. Come in with a stiff breeze. Into Cape Town. Woohoo. But I like what you've done with the place. I see my friend is back. When I went to bed he wasn't there. Yeah. The wind changed and picked up a little. So we've got a little bit better wind conditions to fly in. Still nice and soft though this morning. Hopefully it'll pick up later. It's the morning of the third day. And we're just passing Bettys Bay. And then we've got False Bay. And then Cape Town. And it's been a good sail. Could have asked for maybe a little bit more of a breeze. But 3 days. I think our ETA. Well our total time was 3 days and. Or forecasted to be 3 days and 16 hours. So let's see if we can keep up to that. It was overall a good sail. And one step closer to it. One step closer to getting to some beautiful tropical place. Rob's working up a brew there. Oh yeah. This is the start of the day. Gotta go for it. And how has the sail been for you? It's been such an awesome experience. I've learnt a lot. Flipping green green. Frustrated Ricky Plenty. Wrong lines. Pulling on the wrong lines. Yeah it's been great man. A little bit less sleepy than what I'm used to. But great company. Learning stuff. Seeing new stuff. Awesome experience. Awesome boat. It's been a pleasure having you man. Good coffee. And hopefully we're going to fly this baby today. Yeah. Oh yes. We've got to get out. I must say one thing about this cruise. They're super economical. I just checked the water tanks and I don't think we've used a third of the tanks. And everyone's been showering every day. Smack that thing. While Ricky acts like he's king of the world. Be sure to click on the subscribe button below if you haven't already. And don't forget to hit the notification bell to alert you every time we upload a new episode. And don't forget that like button. It's a free way you can support our production. So for those of you that want to know how we slammed the tuna. We caught enough that we started putting back. And then we ended up pulling in the lines because we didn't want to catch more. This is my secret go-to kind of lure. It's a daisy chain bunch of squid heads. Red and white. The usual favorite. With a 2-0 size hook. And all of them are hooked up. And this is the go-to thingy. They slammed it every single time. Six knots. On. Show you how it works. And then yeah. What I ran it off. I don't know if everyone's familiar with it. But this is a KPE reel. It's like actually used for doing bottoms and stuff. At a later stage I'm going to get two of them and attach it to the sides there. And then literally all I'll do to hand line it in with crank it. And I'll put a bungee on the line. So the line will have a bungee. And then when I want to reel it in I'll just crank it by hand. Very efficient. Easy way to do it. No maintenance on this. There's freaking no bearings. This thing's like a brass bush in there. Good to go. So this is my go-to tip for whoever wants it. And then when we're motoring in that then we pull out the rods and do all of that. Obviously the rods got a little bit more tip action. So the bait swims better and all of that. But when you're sailing you don't want to put sails down. One of these. Let me just warn you. If you get slammed by three tuners at once on this like we did yesterday. You're going to have a tough time to bring them in. Stay tuned till next week's episode as we arrive in the beautiful Cape Town. And see all it has to offer. If you would like to see your name appear after every week's episode. Be sure to join our Patreon family and help support our production. You can do so by clicking on the link in the description below.