Ep 15_ Mastbruch auf dem Atlantik

Hello For those who don't know me I'm Martin and this is my Jumbo A Bavaria 34 Holiday I left here this morning from Martinique or rather the I set off towards Azorn but the passage isn't quite as easy as I thought e man particularly in the north with varying winds low-pressure areas I must deal with high-pressure zones So as my first step I am heading north or northeast course The first segment is called the first 1000 nautical miles That means I am here in the Passatwind probably a whole week hard on the wind I have claimed my bunk I'm already on the band here in the salon Lee side is done Yes I'm looking forward to the Trip It's also my first time that I approach Azorn Last time I drove past it I was here from Martinique two years ago non-stop I drove through Helgoland due to Corona but this time I will definitely catch up with the Azorn and am looking forward to the trip and the Azorn Yes everything's fine coffee We're now entering a rainy area it's probably going to last until It rained in the afternoon Earlier the wind had shifted to the northeast and died down but now it's coming from the north Again It looks good but now the next rain area is coming in on the starboard side We're doing pretty well Jumbo and me Yes the sea is a bit rough On one side it is The landing swell coming in from the east and on the other side the current sea state They overlap here very awkwardly which is why it looks like this Yes let's take a quick look here on the Rainfire legend Also actually there's still something coming We are here where the The green mark is and when we zoom in a bit there we can see that there is still a bit more It could happen but looking ahead things actually seem pretty good Let's take a look here on the sea chart ow we have been traveling We are doing quite well right now We started here in the south of Martinique the But here it was obviously crossed out and yesterday we had a day where we made a very good course About 20 degrees The wind has eased a bit today and we won't make the course from yesterday I set a waypoint 500 nautical miles east of Bermuda That's still approximately 816 nautical miles and a course of 18 degrees We can't do that right now but this is how we've already done it 310 nautical miles in two days and two hours I'm already very satisfied with that How does that look Will we also look at it later with the wind Right now there's an east wind of about 20 knots This will look similar for the next few days If we move as similarly as the others here I've already had that It is explained These are good suggestions from other weather models ECMWF is the European weather model and GFS the American Right now they are so similar for the current area here This is what differentiates it in the further course If I let this continue for a while we will see A relatively good wind for next week Then a slight lull comes in up there After that a low pressure system comes in which could also bring good winds but we'll have to wait and see So first of all that's good As I said our plan is now here with a strong wind I have this moment here Set the angle to 42 degrees for the apparent wind 40-42 degrees is what I sail It could get a bit harder against the wind but then we'd lose too much speed and here is where it starts Also a slight current from east to west That means here I have tried to find a healthy middle ground On one side as high as possible with the wind but on the other side also maintaining speed in the ship So that the current does not push us too far off course Everything else is fine On the other hand I have not arrived yet We're just moving too fast for that It doesn't make sense I hope the rain spares us this afternoon That he doesn't come in at all Let's see will it continue here in the next few days hard by the wind As you can see Jumbo has lost its mast This happened yesterday evening at 9 p m just before that I was doing fairly well with small sails in wind force 6 close-hauled and something mus It happened All of a sudden it made a clacking sound and the wind indicator disappeared I still saw 35 or 38 knots out of the corner of my eye When I was up here I saw the mishap I tried to get the mast back on board I actually spent a quarter of an hour on it because I had him here behind me via Dirk-Katte She was hanging on the tree then I had the stern post and he was also lying on the deck in front It initially looked as if he had only bent down and fallen into the water because there was also no very loud noise When I pulled him up here at the masthead I saw That he seems to have broken off somehow above the radar where the radar used to be I don't exactly know why this happened now Actually I was on a conservative path I had set a maximum heel angle of 15 degrees Sometimes you get a peak during that But much more conservative than I am usually used to I had also checked the ring before That's just the way it is there's always some residual risk involved You think you've done everything and then something like that happens I don't know either what the actual wind speed was when it happened The wind vane was gone right away Well I tried to retrieve it and then gave up And finally I cut through all the connections to the boat with my 220-volt flex That took another good hour You have to be very careful Always being picked on and the opportunities to be picked on are naturally much fewer now because the mast is missing But it worked out reasonably well I was pretty shocked last night The night was of course completely sleepless logically Then the autopilot stopped working I had initially thought I would have to control this entirely manually My current goal is St Martin Selected That's about 175 nautical miles now Last night I think it was 230 As I said then the autopilot didn't work and I was already quite desperate 220 nautical miles ultramarine manually controlled as a mooring buoy I actually did it for 20 minutes and it was really bad I kept drifting off course and then had to make major corrections That was first of all very exhausting Now not physically but to be careful enough to always stay on course Secondly it was really such a zigzag in the course Maybe it would somehow be like that a little bit of practice Maybe I would have been better off going there In any case I have myself en I had many thoughts about what I could do to get my autopilot back in operation Then I removed everything up here shortened the network and brought the Triton very close Set the plotter below and removed some things Of course the wind generator anyway But it didn't help Then I checked the diagnosis and found the error found Bus system off This means the bus system itself did not work The device list e ones that were displayed were just the device drivers that the customs now have on at I didn't know what to do with it at first Then I called Tobias Lepper from The Kleppermarine is trying to reach him I then also contacted him via a text message We got in touch a bit back and forth and explained it regarding the bus system off and said watch out maybe the fuse is through The bus system itself has its s own power supply and its own protection I first looked where the Security was on I did install everything myself back then but it wasn't that simple ot even to find I found her then and indeed there was the fuse down That must have happened somehow when the mast fell here and then the The cable seems to have been torn off by the wind generator somehow Then it apparently caused a small There was a short circuit in the bus system and therefore the circuit breaker tripped It was all good and nothing else went wrong I then just took a break again everything was rebuilt assembled again to the previous condition I have the backup Switched and there it was my autopilot was back and then it started heading here o take the direction of Sinn Maden I wanted to go to Sinn Maden first but I am now I have not decided yet and I will probably end up going to Marigold Bay Sinn Maden has I chose it therefore first of all that is the next goal or one of the next goals I think it's the next one and secondly there is a relatively good infrastructure where man can handle and have fixed here Yes I'm curious to see how it goes It continues Naturally I also took another close look at my conditions this morning We have dealt with the insurance policy but in my opinion it looks very good The damage should be covered naturally excluding the deductible Yes It's not nice when something like that happens to you but it's not the end of the world either What matters is It's always when nothing has happened to me What's important is that I have everything here withou Injuries I had no problem getting off and now I'm going down I'll try to get a Requesting a quote I don't know who can do that now but we need to start with that first Get smart Then of course contact the insurance company and send them a message yes and then hope it doesn't take too long although of course the items are ordered I don't indulge in the illusion that it will happen relatively quickly I hope however that it will somehow be resolved before the hurricane season I would say Maybe by the end of June two or three months well I just hope so Otherwise that would be It's already getting tight coming into July Everything can still fit nothing needs to appen but then I don't know if I don't have a guaranteed commitment that it will somehow If it's not ready by the end of June I'll actually have to look further south again to see if there's someone there I can do it but I don't know yet I'm trying it here for now to see if it makes sense Remind and hope that it will work out and also happen in an acceptable time Yes I don't think the second city will be here for the two Atlantic crossings Good fortune on the other hand I am glad it happened so early and not later ow somehow stuck halfway then it would have been very difficult to do now acceptable harbor or any harbor Yes okay now I'm heading to the Marigold Bay and see how it goes from there Fortunately I also have this one The antenna is here on board exactly for this case if the mast breaks and I I no longer have antenna I have the AIS running over it or also the radio So I am seen here and can also see the others Yes that would be similar to the Life raft you have it on board and hope you never need it but today it is being used here Done I'm now here in Marigold Bay a small German colony located here Starboard and ahead the imagination They have warmly welcomed me Recently I was very happy Yes for now just take a deep breath here and continue tomorrow