Sailing the UK coastline in our small bavaria 30 cruiser, the weather is being a right pain, with various weather warnings for wind and rain putting a real s...

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you last joined us in Dartmouth and this

is where we hid from the worst of the

weather and this seems to be a

reoccurring theme this week

unfortunately we have to deal with

whatever we've dealt with and with the

rain lashing down we opted for a few

more nights and darkness I didn't want

to risk putting the crew op sailing by

taking a man miss bull rain and the West

View illness Thomas is quite a nice

place especially if you've got a dinghy

though but this will help you cross the

river because the ferry can become quite

expensive if he didn't keep crossing and

also is great for exploring at further

up the river if you're so inclined

we did see a boat sat on a concrete ramp

while he was out in town and we didn't

think too much of it at the time but

upon returning the tide had come in and

it actually sank due to the angle that

it was tied up a boat was even tired on

top of it we felt a bit bad for the

owner and collected a few floating

things around before sticking hatches

back on the boat we later found out was

okay in the end and it did dry out

eventually the weather was really

started to impact our schedule with a

week already drifting by a less than

favorable forecast was on the horizon

followed by more foresake gales and rain

are you doing Kenneth I'm just popped in

dinner a firm put a man some tacos maybe

you're cooking tacos yeah what goes in

them

how'd you make that goes Kenny wanted to

use corn flour yeah

75% of them yeah and then some sunflower

oil more why is he looking at down there

nothing what is it all on groan hey look

the forecast for tomorrow wasn't great

it was a force 5 to 7 with 8 at times

but on many do the forecast sites it was

giving it out as a force 67 at worse so

he decided actually we should challenge

ourselves and go ahead with this one so

we decided to we'd actually head towards

liver but it did actually mean that was

gonna be beaten into it the reason we

wanted to do this is because there was

gonna be even more gales coming along in

it and the days to come

and we thought actually we haven't

really made what the progress west so

the more progress we could make west and

the better that would be for us coming

after Dartmouth we saw some dolphins

which delayed getting the sails up and

this was because we was all marbling

them swimming with the boat it's often

said this can be a good omen for the

trip unfortunately I don't think that

was the case

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so we've just left tapas we're heading

towards Plymouth quite windy today this

trial augggh us again so we've got two

reefs in the main and a little bit you

know route and that's only purely

because of the gusts they keep really

you know not in the boat down so yeah

we're just heading towards a start point

and to be honest we're just going to see

what it was like when we get to start

point and make a decision from there not

one of the better forecasts but we're

just trying to get out before the next

lot of storms come in oh yeah we'll

catch up with this later and see where

we are

alright so we as you know we've left

Dartmouth this morning as you might be

able to hear it's choking it down out

high so we tried in here a bit as well

as we on our passage this is why you

might see the towels in the background

as well this just partly living on a

boat it's supposed to run a dry things

so I thought I'd just share with you

basically a bit of our passage planning

and how we're going to get around this

headland here which is start point and

basically you know what we're planning

to do so basically the wind is all

coming from the West

so it's all coming from this direction

as to what we need to do is we need to

get far enough south to be able to tack

back up this way away from these

headlands and away from the over Falls

that snare there and get into Plymouth

which is up up here basically but that's

not on this job I mean it was we're just

really basically just coming down down

by start point

so if you come and have a quick look

here I'll share with you what we

basically be doing so I do like to keep

my own charts nice and nice and clean so

I don't I don't particularly do fix

positions on here unless I have to

because we use GPS and everything else

so basically what we've done is we've

left Dartmouth which is up here and what

we're doing is we wait we're roughly

around on this contour here on this lot

line here and basically what we're doing

is we're we're getting farther north

south so we can basically tack back up

in this direction because as I mentioned

the winds come in from this way so that

means the closest we can sail is here

and the nettle tech is around these

headlands and then optic limit the areas

that I want to avoid is basically this

scary's Bank and that's basically

because it's not because it's too

shallow or anything like that for us

that's basically because when you have

these shallow grounds here and you've

got wind against tide these can get a

bit rough as well so we keep away from

that probably just I mean we did nip on

the inside of this scary Bank boy here

but we keep away from that and then also

these are the over Falls around start

point I can say we got the wind coming

from this direction and we got the tide

coming around this headland here so

that's a win against tide scenario so we

can have lots of over Falls and big

waves there so the this was the

reasoning why I wanted to come far

enough south and then away from this we

did see one boat

he was motoring and he was going very

close to this shoreline to start

pointing and he looked like he was

having a really rough time of it so glad

we did come out this way all those that

said it is very rough out here and so

what we're gonna do is we didn't keep

going south a bit further and roughly

around down to about here and then we'll

make our tack up this way and that'll

take us all the way to climbeth plymouth

oh sorry and yeah we won't have to keep

tacking all the way there and that'll

keep us far enough away from the

headlands so that's roughly our passage

plan and then catch up with isn't it in

a bit when we're further round welcome

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we pressed on paths outcome

where we did think about pulling in but

decided against their the ways built up

and the wind increased further which

made it difficult to film anything past

album that and looking after the crew

with copious amounts of ginger biscuits

to combat the mal de Mer with a priority

even trying to make a cup of tea was a

low on the list with the reluctance to

go down below lunch was made on deck and

consisted of dried bagels with some

hastily thrown cheese on them so we all

huddled behind the spray head and kept

out the worst of the weather while the

waves broke over the bow and washed

right over the spray hood first for us

on our boat but unfortunately we didn't

manage to capture any this cottage

that was a bit of a rough crossing so we

did film a little bits of it but to be

honest when when the waves are that bad

and you know it's they work quite bad

Richardson we were hanging on to be

honest I mean it's our first time you

know in the channel properly other place

exposed and also on this boat is off so

many larger boats but but but around

stop point the waves there can get

choppy anyway we had the tide going

against the wind so it's very very

choppy and then we was gonna check it

out and go into this album

but then we thought better not and we

carried on so yeah then we carried on

all the way to Plymouth and ghost it was

pretty rough so there's a lot of green

waves over the depth or do you know were

fairly low and decided to break so that

caused a few havoc that luckily it was

only 40 minutes away from Timnath

Havoc's

havoc yeah so we're Chuck had to go up

and and wrestle the Genoa bucking I

genuinely thought I was gonna die yeah

and obviously green water was coming

over the deck at the same time and the

boat was really pitching my fires on

and because of that then we have the

engine overheating as well basically

because it was healing over so far and

there was pitching around and everything

else I think they can get into the sale

drive coffee because later on we put the

sails away not too far outside of

Plymouth we pretty much had enough by

that point and yeah moated in and it was

pointing then mostly the dog was sick

again twice it twice doctor sick and

then crapped and he crapped and then

other way another way yeah took was

second and Jeff was sick all over the

back of the boat he threw up into the

window so that was a disaster so yeah

it's all of all in all it was a very

eventful cross into Brazil lot longer

than what we thought and I suppose our

kind of teachers for beating into the

wind so that's that's the lesson we've

learned is this you know it doesn't

really matter if you're of you you know

if you're cruising because then you can

wait for the right where the windows but

we can't really do that you know we've

got finite amount of time so you know

we've taken whether we dealt with

although today we're a bit hairy I think

it's the strongest stuff with burns the

the most ways we've we've sailed it

today and you know wind wise it was a

four six question for seven times so you

know is it it's challenging for us put

us outside our comfort zone but you know

at least we can we can come away from

this venture knowing that actually we

can we can do

out there and you know any problems that

we do encounter we can solve with let's

see political you can find a hotel yeah

um so yeah catch up with his next

fireman and see where to see where we're

heading next hopefully on a train home I

hope now hopefully the winds are going

to be a lot better but we'll see

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