Ep. 44 Atlantiküberquerung |  Zu dritt 3000km über den Ozean !  -Blue Horizon-

In the night strange things often happen What was that First check what kind of heath is floating around here I have a fish on the line And me Not much further just four days Or six or seven or eight We are going too fast Yes we are Stop Everything that can go wrong will go wrong Cape Verde We visited this place completely unexpectedly and now we are leaving it again with good memories Even though we could only visit one of the islands were able to gain an impression of a culture completely foreign to us A place where you don't have to be shy where you should say what you need and wa and where one is warmly welcomed in return We will store other ways of life and new landscapes in our minds and look back on them positively for a long time But now we must look ahead because the greatest stage of the journey lies before us We finally want to cross the seemingly endless expanse of the ocean Tag 1 and it could be nice the sunset is ahead but our weathervane has a problem It doesn't handle properly it somehow doesn't get the pressure on the wheel It might because we took them apart on land and now when the two of them drop a piece Then it will simply drain us of so much strength Great great What's going on now Thilo Where Here Yes it was quite a performance The device worked very well but then it became looser on the first Atlantic to the Cape Verde And that's why I took it all apart and then it just didn't work as well anymore But now I think it's running a bit better But this gear system I must have had it wrong in a noodle one too many on the left Well anyway it's working now So are we commuting or something What time is it I don't know either Eight o'clock He brushes his teeth at 8 o'clock I thought I could go find now We were supposed to take the first shift Leonie or not Yes if she wants But I think if she wants It just takes another 3 hours until Leonie's shift Yes Man man who's staying up until 11 o'clock It was like that now the weathervane didn't work and it was because of these gears from the weathervane But I also believe that the bearings were no longer properly lubricated And everything is a bit rusty because so much salt got into the engine compartment last May All the ladders are now greased and graffiti spray has been applied and the steering is working better now The weathervane is working again And now we're all completely exhausted Thilo and Leonie are sleeping I'm also pretty tired I'm looking forward to being able to fall asleep in an hour or two Let's see Good afternoon it's day 2 and exactly what sailing is like Twenty knots all day perfectly stress-free that's how it should be Blind about 30 hours So for us it's now the third night We've already covered about 250 nautical miles We are definitely sailing today with two foresails and it's going quite well Exactly now it's time to cook We are both cooking the same thing 5.6 knots average speed A bit of Fina-kohl in there The weather is also quite favorable 20 knots if the wave is going it's not always completely wet Then let's see what the night has to offer Strange things often happen at night there was a bit of a lull yesterday Yesterday the wind was 30 knots hopefully the night remains steady What was that Take him take him Where is he where is he Here What the hell Give me a zebra quickly a zebra quickly Is he still alive Yes probably Put him on the camera No no Take him properly Yes then you film or what Leonie your part He's bleeding Take him quickly he's still alive he can still manage it He's dead he's dead Watch out he's twitching there No he's dead Throw him overboard quickly The camera bag The camera bag smells like fish Something has to be done about it somehow I need to move on from here or it will burn Yes I'll wipe it off Exactly as random as that just was it is here on the boat on the water always Just a flying fish and then it jumps in here and lands on the camera bag Aua Today is day 4 of the crossing to Brazil It's incredible that we are just driving to Brazil now We are in the middle of the Atlantic there is nothing around us We have at least 400 miles of distance in every direction or 500 miles to something We have 850 miles left to go We should reach the midpoint around day 5 tomorrow That means maybe we'll get through in 10 or 11 days Although we don't know because the doldrums are coming soon We will reach the equator Also crazy that we are right on the equator then We are sailing with two foresails the mainsail We are going at 5 knots completely relaxed Yes everything is fine Now there's a fresh one on the way We just made pancakes here A bit of bean salad We still have avocados homegrown Now it's time for lunch in the sun on our homemade lounging area Relaxed We took an old field trip And there was a lot of trash in it A lot of flip-flops and stuff A lot And now everything depends on the wind vane And now she does it Yes and there they come again This just fell off the line The fields are behind us And we drove straight through Even if the days sometimes seem to blend into one another there are always events that shape a day There is always a different mood Sometimes we feel like talking And sometimes we just want to sit quietly together And just like that some situations make us think Because you can't always trust your eyes If you find a pile of shoes and other stuff in the endless blue in the middle of the ocean where they don't belong What we all notice is that after a few days we increasingly feel the need to move As the waves allow we cater to this need before we calmly watch the daily sunset and slowly realize how another day on the Atlantic is coming to an end What are you waiting for Until the Doyle Rums finally arrive And I keep thinking maybe I can finally install the autopilot here And we have to go sailing and then something will happen here Nothing is happening at all When is it going to happen The seventh day has arrived I had the last shift again as always so far We somehow fell into a routine where Leonie always does the first one Jonas is in the middle and I am last I find that definitely very relaxed I agree Enjoying the sunrise is always a good thing Did you sleep well No Why not It's wobbling too much It's not wobbly at all today Something is wobbling the most in this back bed here and then the body moves on its own and then I can't sleep Hard life isn't it You're doing nothing I spent the whole night sitting in the front seat We are really lucky to be traveling with such a big moon these days Because it's quite bright here you can see everything and it's not so pitch-black We are now entering a calm zone This was all planned we already knew that before the route because we get into other winds there and that creates a lull and thus clouds form What are they called again Cumulus clouds which are so high up to 8 km and bring lightning and thunder and rain Don't look to see if it will really be like that I couldn't explain that perfectly right now but Leonie can explain it again in the background How we do it now Let's go The Doldrums refer to a zone where the trade winds of the northern and southern hemispheres meet It is therefore also called the intertropical convergence zone There the air masses converge meaning they come together This leads to the formation of many especially very high clouds The area is also characterized by high humidity The water is between 27 and just under 30 degrees resulting in a very high evaporation rate The air temperature is between 35 and 40 degrees Thus the air can absorb a lot of moisture Tropical showers are inevitably formed during cloud formation The region is generally very unstable and as a result very variable in the wind It is difficult to predict how the wind field will develop especially We are now at the point where the two trade winds meet and the doldrums form So we have to start the engine now no more wind We estimate about 100 miles that we have to motor Then the other trade wind should set in And we can take the last leg with the wind to the island Then we need to lower the sails and connect the car lock That didn't work at all We turned the engine off again The top fuel tank is leaking and diesel has just poured out in liters Simply dangerous because we have an exposed heating element here If this catches fire the whole place will burn down The tank support which is made of rubber has completely slipped off and torn at the compression point And now it can't be fixed again because the crack would remain I take these supports off once cut off the top 2 cm with a utility knife Put it back on that the tear is gone in this case Oh man it would be nice if something would work So that's how it is when sailing right Everything that can go wrong goes wrong This is the culprit he has crashed in here and is completely out of control regardless of the one who crashed in Now we'll cut this with a utility knife to make it shorter so the tear disappears Then tighten the bells back on properly and that should actually fit Sail a little more It's just crap And do you think that's long enough Yes this support already fits properly even without the rubber on it So the tank support is repaired Now we are waiting for a small shower cell But Inga let us down first Just barely missed We're barely making it and now we're trying to get into the second one because we need fresh rainwater We need rain here now real heavy showers I never really thought I'd wish for rain But it would be a nice thing right now But just for an hour like a little shower It's also important to note that we have wind again A while ago when we decided to start the engine we had 5 knots But now it's increased again maybe because of this thunderstorm We have 13 knots now and we're sailing again But we could start the engine now if the wind would go away But sailing is of course more beautiful He jumped up did you see What 's wrong Leonie I had nothing to do with it You don't want to say anything about it Have you got the dilution ready And a cloth we need to numb it directly now This is a huge device It is one meter long Stop talking nonsense He's not even a meter long Yes he's really fat He's blue turquoise Is that a Maimai Yes I do believe so We got the fishing rod from some angler there And we don't have the slightest idea about fishing Damn the first time That doesn't help yet just take him now Yeah you have to lift him a bit higher Change Take him by the tail from behind Now hit the boat hold on Do you have it Let go of the line Yes take a look so we can filet the device I just managed to fillet the fish All of a sudden the doldrums are here And now we are already under the motor we are already driving That's amazing there's a whole line of clouds back there It stretches all the way to the horizon And on the other side too It also retracts completely And that was the moment when we had absolutely no wind anymore We still sailed Then suddenly the wind vane spins in all directions completely still Now the only question is when the South Trade Wind will set in The PIN pilot reacts poorly The steering wheel is not turned as a result Okay I'm securing it It's still raining what's that The steering wheel has come off I was just about to put the camera away but something else happened What we've been waiting for all along it's raining And that's really cool because we'll finally get rid of all this saltwater this sticky stuff And the deck the entire boat will be cleaned with such freshwater Rain is a blessing on a tour Watch out What is he doing there No no Now he's starting to shower In the cockpit Wow That's really a Hey that's To hell what's this Fresh water showers are free here at the equator It's crazy how dark it's gotten isn't it I have exactly that And how is the fish It tastes very good Let's go Hey is that warm Is that warm Hey dude Cool First check what kind of sharks are swimming around here right Endless amounts of water far and wide Six thousand meters deep beneath us We feel incredibly small and almost a little lost in the meadow of the ocean When you start thinking it's frightening to swim here Countless unanswered questions swirl in our minds After all who really knows what's down there The water around Cape Verde was still relatively cold But we are now also at the equator One could almost say We simultaneously feel the sense of freedom Free from any duties free from rules and free from human-made influences Here we can just be ourselves for a long time That 's crazy What a mood here So back to idling around Change strange things are growing down there These are just little things like snails and such They live with us at the boat Interesting Conclusion Definitely great water The Equatorial Current is visible now We are drifting exactly westward 90 degrees from where we came from We have been carried 0.3 miles downstream during the last quarter of an hour were swimming But it's not a problem when swimming because of course the swimmer is carried away If you stay 10 to 15 meters away from the boat the entire device will be pulled over That's why everything is fine Today is the 11th day I think Yes the 11th And were just woken up by a really heavy downpour Somehow this Doldrum scene seems to have expanded a bit We still need to be outside for a while The caravan failed for sure We need to take a shower which isn't bad at all And then were rewarded Monday morning And now it's time for breakfast Yes now it's time to have breakfast first Alcohol is actually forbidden on a sailing trip But to celebrate the occasion because we have crossed the equator One must indeed bless celebrate and pray to Neptune I don't know what either Better no Neptune with this I bless you Dear Neptune no one He is really big He is an old man and I am not a classifier Cheers no one Neptune We certainly don't have any high-proof alcohol that's outside the scope and is obviously why So we only have beer let's go Prost We could no longer recall the exact tradition which many sailors follow when crossing the equator To have greeted the sea god Neptune at least once we gave him a sip of our bear can Brazil Brazil Not much further just four days Or six seven or eight it doesn't matter I already really like sailing it's already good here Nice sailing weather the beer is good As you probably saw in the background the mast which you saw in Atlantic Crossing Part 1 He's completely wrecked and junk That was way way too expensive to have done We reinforced it tightened everything and driven in wedges so that it won't sag Again pulled up the walls We also always put a little more cloth on it when there was too much wind and we have to make it to Brazil with this for now and hope that we can get a favorable crane a more favorable workshop and that we can fix it properly And thus it will also hold well for the coming years Let's see how we can finance it because this is really another one of those things You can't really plan for it and it's just unnecessary But that was our mistake again we had way too much sail area out Learning from mistakes one must not make them again Now we know and can only make the best of it Therefore it goes on Good morning it could look like the last great day at sea There are still 150 miles left and we are now sailing again at five knots We have been sailing really really hard against the wind for the last two days sometimes only at three knots Twelfth Twelfth day I think I already said thirteen It's the twelfth day today Damn the same old discussion Everything has gotten wet again and things have escalated a bit here Hopefully we will arrive tomorrow I knock on wood It's a relief that were able to reach the island It could have also happened that we drove past it We have gone this far east for that reason and now we are sailing relatively safely at five knots on a fairly relaxed reaching course It's crazy that it's already taken 13 days We had actually wanted to do 10 11 12 but that's just how it goes After 14 days at sea we see Fernando de Noronha The outline is emerging on the horizon There are still 16 miles 4 hours but it's sick Always only blue always blue blue And suddenly it's over There's something there That 's where it's going now I'm jumping into the water now I'll swim ahead first No you' re going too fast Stop That guy is losing it again This is stressful We're going too fast But we are Damn We have to act quickly No he's naked He's naked That was so easy for you not to come up Of course it was nothing We are arriving soon Finally to the nicest anchoring spot The most beautiful island in the world were told Check whether this corresponds to the truth This is really surreal because we left at the end of July at the IJsselmeer in Holland and now it's the beginning of February That means we really made it sailed all the way to Brazil within half a year 5000 nautical miles without any sailing experience That's come a long way A time that has brought so many different facets lies behind us Curiosity fascination and speechlessness we have felt in recent days But also exhaustion impatience and a feeling of having to persevere Shape this era And now we are here Inexhaustibly relieved and also a bit proud we look at the landscape on the small island of Fernando de Noronha We gave it our all and stepped far out of our comfort zone yet each of us feels this time has been enriching We know that being cut off from any civilization allowed us to learn incredibly much And we think about it at we had to expect a lot of headwinds at the beginning of this project and not just at sea And yet we stuck to our goals and learned as long as one believes in oneself anything can be achieved The only thing one has to do for that He lives for his dreams Thank you all who have supported us up to this point and believed in us Every form of support is very valuable to us Why we are happy about every new subscriber about every like and 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