BON VOYAGE PORT ELIZABETH! | Sailing South Africa

We've got a weather window gap. We're heading down to Cape Town. On our way to Cape Town. It's magical. What's happening? Take your Opal and Moses. Cape Town. Moses, do you want to go to Cape Town with us? No, I don't want to Cape Town. Don't leave my family. Paul, are you excited for us or are you sad? Yeah, man. You can't just see I'm jumping in my skin here. You're sitting down Grandpa, I can't see. Are you excited to see us go or are you sad? Yes, I'm excited. You're excited, you're not sad? I'm not that excited. Auntie? Oh, I can't wait to see the back end of you. Because then I can stalk you. On your new little gadget so we can see where you are. Very excited for you. Are you excited, honey? I'm excited. You don't sound like it. Lots of planning, lots of planning. Are you feeling relieved? Halfway there, Grandpa. When we make it to Cape Town and everything went well, I know that she's well tested there. Then we're good to go. We took Moses, my grandpa and my aunt for a bay sale before we left Port Elizabeth. Although Moses enjoyed his day sale, he thought we were partially crazy for wanting to sail around the world. Have you seen the lake at most? No, if you want to go faster then you just cough. Moses, was it like it? Yeah, it was, and again. And we ended off the day with some celebratory champagne. We're doing a provisioning run, extra oil, antifreeze. This is where we're going to store all our fuel. Got a whole bunch of jerry cans here already. Going to take a bit more. And once we have about 300 litres, just over 300 litres it will be full. And then we'll take a couple extra. So the fastest way to fill up our tanks at the moment is just to use a hose and get it all the way in. And luckily we know that the diesel is clean, so we shouldn't have any problems there. And we've just got to top up this tank, and then top up the tank underneath here. And then that will be 300 litres, and then we fill up that full of diesel. And we're good to go. We'll probably have a lot to spare, but we're safe. If it means we need to motor, we can motor it. Provisioning run you'll ever see. And my trip across the Atlantic. Three bags. Just kidding man. Cool, we load it up, we're full. Check it out. Full, full, full. No more space. Ready. Take the Raleigh back. Time to go sailing. Take it back. Too tricky to put the trolleys back. We've got a weather window gap. We're heading down to Cape Town, but there's freaking madness on the boat at the moment. We're trying to tie off loose ends so we can leave earlier. We're only supposed to leave tomorrow morning. But the weather's good now. We're trying to catch the gap and go now. So we've got freaking, everyone came down and gave us a hand. So Peter and Moses are trying to get our new track that arrived yesterday afternoon on. And Basil and them also came and visit. And shame. We put him to work, but he's helping us getting the Victron stuff adjusted. So that I can focus on getting the rudder trim adjusted. We're a little bit out on the rudder trims. But here's everyone visiting. Is it coming right Basil? Yeah, I'm just... Catch of God. Rob's busy breaking the headliner. We're getting it, we're getting it on. Sweet. We're late, but close. Close, close. Simone's taking a shot. Thanks to Aunty Debbie that's a nurse, she can give us some shots. You get your aunt that's a nurse to come. Give you a V12 injection. Give us a bit of oomph. All the work we've been doing. I feel so high. I know. Ricky's acting like he's so tough. The goodbyes has probably been one of the hardest things during this whole process. And so the time came to officially sign out of Port Elizabeth. Farewell. Not in 14 days. Not in 14 days though. As we wait for Port Control to let us exit the harbour, be sure to subscribe below if you haven't already. And don't forget to leave us a big thumbs up. Ready for Cape Town, bubs. Ready for Cape Town. Just got to get out of all this freaking water. We've left Port Elizabeth. We are beating like a beast but we're just running the engines. We've got 20 knots dead ahead of us. And we're just trying to get around the point on the map. And then we're heading south. Rob's snoozing. Rob's chilling. The current sea state that we have. Plenty of potholes. We've got this for the next hour and a half or so. And then we're turning south. Hopefully this will be following us all the way down. How are you feeling, Rob? Dandy, eh? Dandy. As we came past the point, the sea started to settle down and everyone was feeling a lot better. Real bad dream. Sunset on Lady Africa on our way to Cape Town. It's magical. I was nauseous earlier which made me super bummed. But then, you know, it is what it is. And the sea's calmed down and I'm good. Which I'm so happy because I was so upset. I didn't want to miss anything. I'm feeling crap. But all good to go. And yeah, Ricky's busy. We've put up the journey. And probably put up the main now. And then I probably will do the first shift. Because I had a little nap earlier. And then you guys will see. We'll work it out. Thanks to Rob for gifting us this awesome Aeropress coffee maker. Honey. Simone. Morning. You're on your boaty. Where am I? See, you do a real wake-up. You're not like those ones on YouTube where they pick a wake-up and they got their make-up on. I don't know. Yeah? I'm carrying it but Rob made it. Thanks Rob. Ricky made it. Where are we now? Almost in Cape Town, baby. No. I'm awake. Got my coffee. And I won't lie, last night's night watch was a bit tough for me. Twelve to four. So, you know, it's not my strong point that time. I'm more like four to eight. Or eight to twelve. But like that morning I was... But Ricky needed to get some rest because he was awake the whole day running around. So I said I'll take his strong point so he can sleep. Not that he did. And yeah, so I'm just going to make some breakfast and then we can carry on. There were scrambled eggs and bacon for breakfast. Check out that swell. Rob, Ricky's putting you to work. When the sail comes first. So Ricky put his brackets that he was telling you guys about earlier over there. And you can see we've got our priorities straight. We've got a fishing line in the water. Where is that? There it is. Oh, there it is. There it is. 130 miles down, 300 more to go. Stay tuned to the next episode where we carry on with our second leg of our journey to Cape Town. If you would like to join our Patreon family and support our production, you can do so by clicking on the link in the description below.