1 Month Alone at Sea! (Sailing on my 60ft Trimaran)

The sail area of the mainsail on this boat is double that of the Ultramarine so many people have commented that the boat can't be single-handed or at least not by me anyway. In this episode I'm going to spend a month on board testing that out and spoiler alert I definitely get caught with 28 knots and the entire 125 square meters of sail up in an area marked dangerous waters. So I've been at this anchorage for a few days now and I have been obliterated by mosquitoes it's been absolutely ridiculous. So I'm gonna head off now I haven't done a very good job of filming but this place is very very beautiful and with the winds the way they are I've been pretty protected apart from last night. Because of the season that we're in here now let's call it stormy season there's normally the whole time that we've been here the winds have been out of the north east. As a sailor I'm thinking of getting a tattoo of a compass because I legit I'm like never eat soggy wheat pigs. North east is where the winds were coming from and now it's southwest and with that the winds come out of the equator so they're hotter which causes more storms so the atmosphere is less stable there's more gusty winds and then and there's these giant storms that are going around. Last night I heard two of the loudest cracks of thunder that I can recall ever hearing it was terrifying. But mostly I'm leaving here because of the mosquitoes because they're just yeah. So I'm gonna pull up anchor and I'm gonna be motoring because I need to charge the batteries and there's not very much wind at all. This is honestly there's probably enough to sail with this boat but I need to charge the batteries so I'm going to do that come up on the engine motor out then pick my destination I don't know where I'm going yet I need to reprovision at Boracay because I've just hung out north of Boracay. So my goal is to get the boat to Subic Bay in about a month so that I can get it ready for our trip to Japan. We've got some very special guests coming with us there I'm really looking forward to hanging out with with a couple of those people again so that's going to be exciting. So I need to get the boat 100% before we start doing those real hardcore offshore miles. I've got a good team of people that I'm working with at the moment I'd say especially Dylan from OBMG. I just send him messages about the electrical system and he just gets straight back to me. Also the guys at Vetus have been really helpful. That's one of the main things that has changed for me is just having good people in my corner but also Mark from Rapido is just always super super helpful. I love that dude. Much wind, apparent wind speed 0.1 knots. I'm just swimming to the reef over here to see how close we are in the night because I'm anchored in the middle over there I can see the reef but I can't really tell the depth so you know it could be 20 meters to where we're running around or it could be 40 meters 40 meters would be a lot better. This is where the reef starts. I'm probably 40 meters from the boat. I need to get low tide with a just touch here with the rudder. It's about, if I'm, what am I six foot three? I'm not. Hi this is Kim and I'm back with your next mindful cardio session. I've gone pretty heavy on wellness lately. It's been great. I think that if you want to test yourself and spend some time in solitude then you do need to be exercising and meditating for sure to give yourself the best chance at maintaining pretty good mental health. What are we if not the contents of our mind? The way we frame things and the feelings that we have color our perception of our own realities every second of every day. 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Dante's both of the alternators stopped working which is bad because I need power to make water it just means that I couldn't be as remote as I needed I need power to cook food yeah this is a situation on board that is not very good so we've got there's a it looks to be an incomplete circuit so it'll the multi I'm not good at this stuff but with Dylan I'm handy enough to probably get to the bottom of it he's gonna give me some more information soon but in the meantime I've turned the fridge off I've turned the inverter off star links off um and uh yeah it's we're basically a dark ship at the moment which is good I like it washing the dishes with salt water it's like being back on the monohull hear the thunder woke up this morning and there are storms everywhere that won't look too bad on camera it never does but I'm in a very protected anchorage but I don't have far if I was to drag anchor which I probably won't because it's a sandy bottom um but yeah I'm just getting gusts of wind I felt it get really cold I slept inside last night um because I knew that this was going to happen but there's like lightning over here then lightning over here and um yeah I actually I sailed into this place last night I didn't get any on film because it was too hectic and last night I was just like really tired I was like I need a good night's sleep and I just followed the line straight in and managed to um get in there's a few more fishing nets here than there was last time so it was very tight in here but managed to nail a good anchor and had an incredible night's sleep I'm heading to Apo Reef which is a very beautiful and famous um part of the Philippines it's unprotected of course um but yeah I'm gonna hang out there for maybe four or five days and do a little bit of diving just close to the boat because again I'm by myself so it can get a bit hectic it just won't stop raining I've had 12 knots behind me for ages and I've been like oh no I'm not gonna do anything because um I'm gonna get as soon as I hoist the main I'm gonna get smashed I'm just like I'm just gonna do it the world famous Apo Reef I was so happy to be able to dive this place some of the aquatic species that I was told to expect here uh yep here we have the hot and top button quail followed by the uh yep this is the monotonous lark that is actually legitimately a parrotfish and this is an aquatic chicken taking a bit of a step back from my desire to spear these fish I can honestly say that these corals were diverse in shape and color and a stark contrast from the many other coral reefs around the world which this past April were hit with the fourth global coral bleaching event on record decimating them Apo Reef is lucky to have escaped this fate declared a protected area in 96 this reef is home to millions of marine organisms including thousands of fish species marine mammals turtles and sharks the reef comprises three different islands and the vis can be up to like 30 meters so I left one place this morning and I'm going to another as tends to happen when you're on a sailboat there are squalls everywhere and it's going to look terrible on camera again but I'll show you anyway and there four squalls going along very nicely there's one more anchorage that I've got until I get to Subic Bay which is where we're going to get all of the work done I've probably said that 400 times I've got a full main up and the normal headsail the genoa I was gonna put the gennaker up this morning because it looked yeah there was like it was nice and sunny and I'm really glad that I didn't because um there's just been squally squalls everywhere I get caught in one of them I'm trying to pull that down by myself that's going to be quite heavy out here bringing you guys a shot nothing stands in the way of me and a couple of good shots not even a squall squall see what the ocean vault's doing very good SOG 8.4 14 knots of wind that's pretty good wind pilot we've got on 115 so we're headed very far downwind 145 I've been thinking I've been thinking I've been thinking of one of those you know on Instagram when you see there's a comedian and they're like different people and they're responding to each other and so like one dude's wearing a moth and it's his wife you're supposed to be in a coma at Sinner Sinai who are you I'm her husband my husband it's quite well thought out and clever I'm not clever enough but I thought of I thought of one character you know and it's on Saturday Night Live and and there it's the like the California people it sounds so good I'll bring some California grapes for us to share so imagine someone comes and says to me oh how are you sailing at the moment I'm sailing at 150 and sorry I was really freaking out about going through this passage here if you look called Goma passage and I haven't checked it on either of the cruising guides for the Philippines from they're amazing those guides because this is the wild west out here so I haven't checked that passage um so I was starting to stress I didn't know whether to trust my navigation especially when conditions are like this and then the wind changed direction with the angle of the wind coming here now I could get up around this coastline and just go around the whole thing and you might be thinking oh yeah you know but if things had been a little bit different I could but then all these clouds came and the rain and I was concentrating on that and I was just like I'm going to go through this passage and I forgot that I didn't have to and then when the wind changed direction I was like all right uh that gives me some more options here the wind's coming here so I'm going to come around this coastline here jibe come this way and anchor in here I've checked that on google earth and it should be not too bad or even very good but I've got mark on this crossing here um third day passage very very rough which was some advice that was given me from some people so I'm looking forward to traversing this at night time in 20 knots so I was trying to explain on the GoPro before I would definitely would not have done a good job sorry everyone um that I didn't go through golfo I didn't go through golfo pass because I was terrified of what that might look like at night time so I had 20 knots for most of the day or most of the afternoon and then it blew up to 28 I had a full main up so I put the headsail away and just went dead downwind with that and the boat handled that really well that was in the passage calavite passage which was the place that someone said was very very rough but I must say the current coming with me because it wasn't too rough at all but wind was definitely funneling through there and I can imagine what that would be like that would it's a notorious stretch of water so I was pretty lucky there you can see my line here I came along here I've gybed a couple of times as you can see I probably I gybed there as well I did a Chinese gybe and then came around here and behind here yeah that was really stressing me out for the whole trip and I think it was the same distance or because of the angle of the wind I got there just as fast going to this place anyway so anchored up in about 16 meters of water um it's now only true wind speed is four knots stoked that was a massive awesome day sail ten and a half hours 81 nautical miles average speed 7.6 max 15.9 that's the day 81 miles in a day is pretty damn good especially the wind was so light early on I was heading dead downwind it just we weren't we really weren't going anywhere I am going to sleep sorry well tonight do you find yourself consumed by worry well you're not alone the struggle is real I haven't seen that many fish anywhere in my life holy s**t I can't spear them look at this silly fish I make you s**t just by pointing my finger I sailed a couple more times edging closer and closer to my final destination when all of a sudden my anchor chain became completely tangled so I've just pulled up to my anchorage here and the piece where the road joins onto the chain where I thought I'd done a really good job has got caught I didn't notice now it's all jammed up and the chain is like kinked in on itself so I can't anchor so I've locked it off here I can go neither up nor down so what I'm going to do there are two allen key bolts that I need to remove here here and here you can see where it's jammed up in here so I'm going to remove the housing there and then hopefully I can sort of yank it free so yeah anyway that's what I'm doing now whilst I'm just drifting out to sea okay here we go yeah come on come on I've been into the marina here and they've got a slip available we're quite wide we're 12 meters wide so they've got a spot available I've been in there a couple of times now to make sure that everything's all good then I'm going to have to motor in here in reverse with the tender hanging off the front um and weave my way in and um yeah that's it I don't know how to use this thing hey seaport seaport this is sailing vessel lavagabond we're about to head into sbyc okay so yeah I'm just gonna go down and reverse in so the bow losing the bow will be the thing because the wind's sort of blowing us onto that wall can you do you want to call barry or do you want me to I just want to have someone on that wall there with a fender all right this is my helm in the middle this is that way this is that way I'm just trying to get a feel for it before I get in here now the wind is going to blow me onto the dock so I'm going to lose the bow so when I go to reverse I've got um ray over here and I've got this lad on board thanks for your help mate and uh not enough fenders not enough lines and I'm just going to see how I go if we lose the bow it's going to land on uh the port side here forward he's going to land on some concrete um which I don't want but um yeah once again just sort of doing the best that I can I am freaking out can you get that line to them get the lines get the lines over okay stop now I'm sure that I would have done a terrible job of filming me getting in here that was hectic and it's just the eyeballs you ask like especially Elena of all the things that we do uh reversing a 60 foot trimaran with a that really gets caught by the wind into a marina when you know for sure that people people there already know who you are is nerve-wracking worse than a storm but we're all tied off now looking very good I don't know who did that that was not me and so yeah I've just spent the day packing and folding and cleaning and tidying and getting these boxes in and talking to people I don't know if you can tell but my if I talk too much for too long my voice gets kind of funny from when I broke my neck and damaged my vocal cords during the spinal surgery so yeah I've had one of those days when I've been just talking all day long which is great but I'm not used to it so yeah there's a lot to do to get the boat uh ready so we're gonna I'm here now so everything's great everything's amazing and then um I've got a whole bunch of boat jobs to do there's a there's a guy who is a friend of Jamie's who's coming over to help out with a bunch of that sort of stuff so that is greatly appreciated his name is Jai he comes highly recommended so I'm looking forward to having him get a jump start on some of the jobs and I'll be joining him I want to weigh the boat that's that's one of the major things that I want to do and then we need to tighten the rigging which I know how to do but it'll be good to have a proper rigger there with me Dylan is going to send a couple of his boys over to finish up with some of the electrical stuff there's a few things that we want changed and a few things that we need to have a look at the toilet we're getting some parts sent over for there's a bunch of stuff like there always is on a boat guys thanks so much for watching the next time you see us we're going to be setting sail for Japan with the whole crew again and it might be the most excited that we've been ever for a voyage please take a second to like the video and give me a comment as well that always helps out the channel and we really really appreciate it thanks so much