Downwind foiling from the Isles of Scilly to the UK mainland unassisted

Yeah, no emissions on, that's for sure. I'm going to try and make it from the Isles of Scilly back to the mainland tomorrow, put the ticket this afternoon, and we're on. The forecast is looking pretty good. It's a little bit changeable, but I've never been over there, well, never been over there to do anything like this, and I think it's the first time anyone would have foiled from there. I know people have paddle boarded, and I think there must have been a paddle board race, but I think it's about 60 or 70 k's, so I'm just going to go from there to Marrazyne, hopefully, if it all goes all right. But we'll see how it all goes. Just packing everything up. Got similar setup to last time, maybe a few little tweaks, a few refinements. What are the tweaks? Well, I've got, hopefully the Garmin's going to connect to the maps, and that's going to give me some better direction, so I won't have to keep getting my phone out. And then other tweaks, I've got that Ozone, what's it called, the Mission Pack, which is a bit smaller than the backpack, so that should reduce weight. But other than that, basically all the same. I've really wanted to do this run for a while now, especially after I did that, the big South Coast Downwinder, I've been like, oh, I really want to try and fit this in before the summer's over. So I've been really looking at the forecast recently, just trying to get a good weather period to do it. But tomorrow looks pretty good, I think. But I've never really been over there, or I don't really know what it looks like. Doing it unaided as well, so kind of just trying to pick the weather for that to be safe as well, which is definitely a thing. It's quite tidal over there as well, isn't it? Yeah, I think there's a big rise and fall, I think there's like five metres of rise and fall. And we're on spring tides, which, I don't know. We'll see how the water looks tomorrow, because there's so many unknown, which is really exciting. I'm just interested to see what it looks like out there, really. But it should be a great day and a great run. It's going to take like three hours on the ferry to get there. We're going to wake up here at 6am, going to travel two hours to Penzance, take a ferry, which is going to take three hours, and then hopefully get in the water about 12.30 or 1 o'clock. And then hopefully get back here, I don't know, get back to... We're going to come in at Marazine, which is pretty close to Penzance. So yeah, it should be a great day, a big day, but really excited. Got the extra edition. We've been trying to bung her up for the chat. Hey! Bombing it down the 8.30. We're already running late, hopefully we can make it on the ferries. Big day. Almost didn't make it on with the power wing. I managed to chuck it last minute. Pretty hectic. But we've got everything on here now, and I've just left. So yeah, I'll get a few shots of us leaving. Sit Michael's mouse just over there. Right, we've made it to the Isle of Cillia with the local legend, Jimmy. He's just shown me a spot to launch from. What do you make of it, Jimmy? All good, all good. It's going to be a good day? Yep, epic. Yeah, frothing. Going to somehow get through this weedy patch and then head out and straight gone. That's the claim. Alright then, here we go. Just leaving St Mary's now. Oh, that's exciting. Hopefully there's kelp for us. Off. Going to get my power wing up. I've just left, just paddled out from that beach there. Just found some wind here. Going to power wing out into the bumps over there. And then we're off. Can't believe it, I'm so frothing for it. Wind seems pretty good here. I've just power winged out from St Mary's. I'm going to start paddling. So yeah, this is where all the fun starts. Had some good lumps there. That was hectic to top that. I'm so stoked to get going. Just, I can't see land quite yet. So we're just all in the unknown. But conditions are really fun already. We've just started. Some really nice swells out here now. Yeah, just kind of kicking my line. And I can't see land quite yet. So I'm just trying to get into the conditions really. Trying to get the pressures right on both feet so you're not burning your front leg or your back foot. So yeah, just trying to move your feet around. You know, later on in the run you'll start feeling that. So that's always something to keep your feet going before you get bad cramps or whatnot. So yeah, but yeah, there's loads of energy out here. It's so nice. It's so nice just to be like stand still for a bit. Not like have to read books and whatnot. It's just, yeah, beautiful. Woohoo! Alright then, let's just chat about the kit that I'm using for this downwinder. It's pretty much the same as my last big downwinder. So I'm using the UHA 670 front wing and then the Performance X Mask 795, Dart 120 and the 60 Fuse. Then I've got the 8.2 Downwind Ocean board. Yeah, I generally like smaller boards but for this kind of thing in like proper ocean conditions, just being able to paddle up so easily with the longer board makes such a difference. And it's just that extra bit of safety as well which is pretty nice. So yeah, that's the gear. Talking about... Alright, we've got the silly plane coming overhead. Don't they see me down there? I must go past it from here. Alright then, it's snack time. And yeah, this is definitely no paid promotion by M&S. But yeah, we're heading straight in for the big dog, the big daddy. Looks pretty good. Not quite sure what to expect here. I'm expecting something quite chocolatey. Looks like pistachio to me. I've never actually had a big daddy before. It's pretty good. That's going to be a real morale booster. Not that I really need a morale booster but still, that's nice. If I was to describe it, quite soft, quite sweet, bit pistachio-y and quite chocolatey. I guess they're pretty good attributes for anything really. Making pretty good progress. The bumps have definitely got smaller. I feel like the wind's definitely got lighter here. But it's still alright. It's a little bit crossed out but I guess it's just the island here. There's two ships here and I think my tactic's going to be just to duck in behind both of them. You beauty! How good is the score? Bloody tuna! I don't think I've done it on camera. But still. I'm basically in the middle now. I can barely... Well, the clouds are really coming over here now. And it's kind of cloudy over the mainland too. So I think I'm basically in the middle. Which feels pretty good. It's pretty fun to be out here. Yeah, it's pretty soft but it feels great. The conditions are so good. Just for doing it solo without any boat assistance or anything like that. I don't think you want it too nuclear. So this kind of like, I don't know, what's this, two minutes slow or a little bit more? It's perfect. Lots of luck into one here. The wind's going up and down. Oh my! We're on to the second bit of energy that I've thought out for today. One thing I must say is the packaging's kind of let it down on the way out here. That's really had a shocker. But hey, that shouldn't affect the taste too much. Maybe we've got a bit of salt in there. It is a bit salty. It's like we're back into Oh yeah, it's had a shocker, hasn't it? It looks like we're back into kind of Mars bar territory here. It's quite good though. Yeah, it's definitely taken on some flavour. Pretty dark clouds in behind me now. There's land. Land's end somewhere here. I think Cortana's our end point. We've got a way through. Just saw some more tunas. Oh my lord! See that? Huge animal. Alright then, we're 40km's in now. I reckon there's another 30 to go. Wind is from the south-west at force 6. Sea state is moderate. Air pressure 1-0-0-8 megabytes. Visibility approximately 20 miles. So we're ashore now. I can really feel this wind against the tides. It's getting really, really steep again. I think Emma's got my tent somewhere here, so I'll just see if I can find them. Land's end's just over there. Just in the mist now. We're just hitting this tidal rate and it's just going crazy! Check out the whitewater! I want to hold you now Crazy skies are wild above me now Winter howling at my face And everything I held so dear Disappeared without a trace Oh all the times I tasted love Never knew quite what I had Little darling if you hear me now Never needed you so bad Spinning round inside my head Sail away with me honey I'll put my heart in your hands Sail away with me honey now Sail away with me What will be will be I want to hold you now I've been talking drunk and gibberish Falling in and out of fire Trying to get some explanation here By the way some people are How did it ever come so far Sail away with me honey I'll put my heart in your hands Sail away with me honey Sail away with me What will be will be Sail away with me honey Sail away with me honey now Sail away with me What will be will be I want to hold you now now Sail away with me Nice to be going to find some land Oh we've got fishies There's that squirrel Hectic It's going to turn westerly here But there's still loads of energy out here so it should be alright There's a poor kerner here Here we are then, poor kerner It's not as beautiful on a day like today but still Just cutting back out of the sea now to try and get into some smoother It's still big though Well that vis is all gone I hit that really hard and came down My foil is feeling all a bit weird right now I'm just going to have to keep going Last but not least is the jack which in turn is a shocker Not travelled well It's going to be quite salty I'm going to try and get this camera out so I can really do a few reviews Bloody loads of crap Wow that's really good It's peanutty chocolatey It's like a set of Snickers What a beauty M&S done us proud once again The wind's definitely coming a bit more south here now This is terrible I'm going to try and swing in the general direction What it says I'm on course I can't believe that 70km's in now Oh yeah It's been a real test of this last bit There's really not many bumps I'd like to finish it on my stuff foil There we go We're not far off Woohoo There we go That's us almost done Such a fun trip So calm Woo we're in That was a long hard way I think it took about 3 hours, 2018 Almost 80km's But yeah incredible What a day, such amazing conditions Couldn't have asked for much more I mean the end bit was a struggle but All the rest was great It's nice to have that challenge at the end Yeah so cool Emma nailed it as always Got some shots and did the hardest job looking after the baby Oh yeah that is the real reward I've done the easy job, just had a couple of hours out the house You made it! And the baby's asleep You've really been the hero I've had a good day Thanks for taking me It was a really good day You loved it Yeah it was so good, amazing run The conditions were incredible Was the forecast as you predicted? I wasn't expecting it to rain quite as much as that But the wind was perfect It wasn't crazy, it was just really really good conditions A bit washy but it was good There was loads of energy It's good that the weather only closed in once you were at the land as well If I was out in the black when it was at the end I would have been like How did this garment thing work? I don't know You kept telling me I was going wrong I needed to be a bit more lax The bumps looked amazing Yeah they were That spot where you were was so cool There was that crazy tidal section Yeah and it was so close to the beach as well there Did you see how much reverb there was? Yeah it was nuts, it looked really really cool Yeah it was good You did so well Big birthday send For the journey She loved the powering onto the ship No not as it was driving off It was not At the start we forgot the powering I was like ringing her ringing her trying to get the powering I was chatting to one of the stewards I was like when are we going? Because I had forgotten so She was bringing it We put the bridge up and then she lobbed it It's really hectic