Out Sailing a Hurricane and Bagging our Biggest Fish Yet! [EP 31] _ Sailing Millennial Falcon

I do not know what's going on with my hair. We're on the move again. We are heading further south. It's just past lunchtime. We've had our morning snorkel. We've packed the boat up to ready to go and we are heading south down to Carriacou, which is part of one of the Granada Islands. We decided to motor a little bit. We also need to kind of rush there as well. As Adam's mentioned, there is a bit of a bad weather band coming towards us, which means that we have about three and a half days to actually get to Carriacou before any bad weather kind of hits us. And this bad weather is scheduled to hit us in four days. So we are cutting it mighty close, which is why we are motoring, to make sure that we actually get there in time. Oh, no barra. Naughty barra. It knows it's nearing its end. I think it is. Yeah, it looks like a barra. Stop it with the barra. There we go. There we go. It's a happy snap. Hey. Look at the chompers on this guy now. Gertrude's got a fish. Yay. She can officially be called Gertrude now. Allure. We've decided to call her Gertrude to name all the colours. Red and white is Alfred. We are now on Alfred the Second. And our pink one, he's a little bit flashy, is called Gertrude. And if you get a fish worth eating, you get a title. So Arthur is well on his way to being Alfred. Sorry, Arthur's got to go on the list though. Yeah, he must have to now. Alfred is well on his way to becoming Sir Alfred the Second. Yes. On another note, how close are the islands here? This is another Netherland-owned island called Sin Egostius. I never know how to say it, but it starts with an E. But it's so close. There's one. There's the next one. I'm quite liking this island hopping thing. If only we could actually island hop rather than leap, as we have to now. Oh, bad. Not too bad. The first night is always the worst. Gaff pole required? Nah, didn't get a load of that. My money's on Farrah. Oh no. We're so far out. What are you fishing? What is it? It's tiny. Nah. You'd think you were fishing off a jetty. What are you doing out here, little guy? You're supposed to be- Tucked up safe in bed. We're just waiting to live another day. Yeah. It's not a lot of- We get a feed, but- Yeah. It's not worth the life. See if we can hold onto this one. This could be the win. The mahi-mahi you've always been waiting for. It's going to be Lord Bartholomew the Third. Lord is about to be born. Wow. He's so far away. Gaff pole is at the ready. It's like swimming hard again. I swear that's mahi-mahi. I swear. It's so colourful. I swear. Come on. Please don't leave us. I'll be so devastated if he goes. I'll be so unhappy. Oh, hello. Just started swimming around a bit. He's running. He's running hard. No, the clutch can't keep up. He's running so hard. Shit. Don't you do it. Come on, buddy. It's that last little step. Oh, look at the colour. So beautiful. Dolphin fish. Oh, my God. Are you ready to pull? Good job. That's it. Good job. Yes. Look at that magnificent creature. First of what I hope will be many dolphin fish. So good. What a fight. I would have sworn he was as big as you, Chiara. Yeah. Wow, my hands and arms are knackered. This thing is spectacular. Show a proper sideways view of it. Yeah. Look at that. So good. Good job. This is going to be great. Justin, I was wondering, what should we cook us tonight? Hey, he jumps onto our plate. I have no idea. Okay, I know that for everyone watching this, we are absolutely butchering it. However, this is probably our first big. First and largest fish. Just don't judge us just yet, okay? We'll get better, I'm sure. Adam, the lure now needs a name. Since he caught us a fish. He caught us a fish worthy of a meal. And the most almighty fish we have caught yet. He will now henceforth be known as Lord Bartholomew the First. He is the only royal on board. And he bloody well earned it. That fish was awesome. I can't wait to eat it. Brilliant. How was it? How did it go? I don't know. I haven't eaten one yet. Definitely not. Yep, it's hot. That turned out better than I thought it would. And I had pretty high hopes. Oh, that's really good. Good job. Mahi-mahi cubes. Yes. So good. This needs a beer. It wouldn't be right. It's day three. I've just swapped for my shift change. It's 6am in the morning. And last night we actually had a fairly good night. The wind behaved itself a little bit. And we managed to sail with like 12 knots of wind maybe. Which is pretty good. The seas are still pretty flat because it's just been so calm the last few days. None of the swell has picked up at all. So it's actually not too bad out there. We have 100 miles to go though, which is pretty good. Out of our, I think it was 325 mile journey, we still have 100 miles. We've passed Martinique and Dominica, which is where this hurricane was expected to hit. We've just passed them though. Which is why we're kind of glad now to be sailing and have locked ourselves up. We're not going to necessarily take our time. But it's okay if we do less than 3.5 knots now. Or less than 4 knots maybe. We don't actually need to rush there. I'm going to lie down now in my spot. And pretend I'm not asleep and set an alarm for every 10 minutes. Just in case I happen to fall asleep. It is one fine looking juke sheet. I do say so myself. Looks like we've come far enough south that we will avoid any drama. And so we'll just have to leisurely cruise the remaining 85 miles to Carriacou. Meanwhile, I'm pretending to be on shift but also being lazy and sleeping. No, not sleeping. I've just woken up from my sleep. It's 6am in the morning. Adam's had an eventful night. This morning we had a flying fish leap into the boat. Via a ricochet off the roof. That left a scaly print. And just about took me out in the process. Where did it go? It just bounced off the floor there and just started flittering around here. And I was sat here and I was like, what is that? And it was pitch black dark so I couldn't figure it out. So I'm scrambling for my phone and then I... Yeah, it was the fish going nuts. So I think I got it back in the water before it died. And we also got a text. I got a text through to the home base with the travel sim. And the Hurricane Isaac is still tracking 270 degrees to make landfall in the Lesser Antilles, Dominica, through to Martinique. Now, Hurricane Isaac as of 11 o'clock. This storm is at 75 miles an hour. It's moving towards the west. It will move over the Lesser Antilles which are right into here. So yeah, we've allegedly come far enough south. We're going to go ashore in Carriacou and check in and get a local sim card so we can keep abreast of the situation. But none of the islands south of Dominica are on storm warning or storm watch. So I think we're okay. I've never seen a whale and I've never seen an underwater volcano. So I have no idea. But what is this? Apparently it was a whale. I saw its head pop out. It did like a little splurt and then its head popped out. But I was a little bit concerned that it was also an underwater volcano because a little bit further on down the Grenadines, they have an underwater or they have an exclusion zone which is because of an underwater volcano. So I was a little bit worried that we were getting too close to that. Checked on the map, we definitely weren't. And so yeah, it was a whale. My first sighting of a whale which is pretty cool. We've arrived. Finally. Three days, three nights and 325 miles it will take. Yep. At lunchtime it will be the third day. The end of the third day and then the fourth. Yep. I'm pretty happy. We really, really hoofed it down here. Thank you Millie for doing us proud. It's not breaking. Nothing's broken. We've got a mile to go. Don't. Touch wood. We are going to anchor in a place called Tyrell Bay. We're just able to view it now out there and it looks like the busiest anchorage we've ever seen. So many new friends to make, right? Yes, exactly. I was going to say we'll put an anchor down there and we will need to go to immigration and then we will sleep. I want to sleep so long.