We begin our quest to sail west over to the isles of scilly, (well thats the plan) the first few days hit a snag in the marina due to a storm passing over an...

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welcome back to cactus a limb as always

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give it a thumbs up so this this next

series of videos is basically going to

be our trip hopefully to the Isles of

Scilly that's the plan but as somebody

once told me the Isles of Scilly is more

of a bonus because you basically you

need a bit of a weather window to get

there and you shouldn't really plan on

it only if you've got a finite amount of

time obviously you know if your season

cruises and that's all you do then you

know you can people just wait out the

weather windows and obviously get there

but we've got to do is we've got to get

to the Isles of Scilly

and we've got to get back within three

weeks so a bit of a tight window that's

initially the plan so that's what you're

going to be joining with us along the

next next couple of videos and basically

we will show you life on board how we

plan our passages basically how we sail

the boat pretty simply awesome for

rigging these kind of things we'll show

you a few tips along the way as well

the first thing you need to look at is

basically the weather or that's why I

look I'm like this let's see what the

weather's doing so I use an app and

obviously you can use it on the web as

well it's called windy windy calm I'll

quickly should quickly to show you what

icon is that's the icon there that's

windy there and basically all this says

this is an app that basically shows you

what the winds doing it gives you a

basically a good forecast where the

winds coming from and what strength is

going to be also gives you a bit little

better indication whether it's gonna be

sunny rainy whatever I like this app

because it's basically it's fairly

reliable you know hasn't really let me

down so far and basically what the

initial plan was is we was gonna I mean

you can hear the wind there we was we

was planning on leaving first thing this

morning but obviously you know we're

here on on the Saturday we wanted to be

leaving here and we've got 31 knots and

goes to 45 I can tell you now in the

marina where we sat in we have basically

we do have we have laws around 25 knots

and and then we have a constant in the

ground 35-ish and then you know it

doesn't go stop to 40 45 is what you

probably just heard just that last night

was a bit of a bumpy ride for the same

bed and the boats really straining on

its lines but we like to think we know

we've tied off plenty line so we're

secure it's not going anywhere and but

obviously that's in the marina out there

in in Weymouth Bay is gonna be a lot

worse that's out there so basically

looking on the weather today is not

going to be a day for going out so

basically what we're planning on doing

now is we're going to spend the day in

Weymouth and we're hopefully gonna leave

first thing tomorrow morning so tomorrow

morning we'll want to catch the tides

I'll show you another app I use as well

and this is all about tight timing and

everything else

I basically use an app called tide

planner because basically on the

currents you get a tidal atlas and it

shows you an icepick station of actually

what's happening so if I'm looking at

some date Oh tomorrow

yep and then basically I just run the

clock back we want to believe it roughly

around roughly around seven o'clock

because that brings us here around eight

o'clock to start catching the tide going

west

so that's the basic plan in a minute but

it all relies they all relies on the or

relies on the weather to be honest

because it is like this tomorrow then I

don't think we want going out in that

because then you end up with a because

the winds come in from the south from

the southwest and the tide will be going

that way as well as gonna be really

talked about there so as you can

probably hear hopefully clearly it is

quite windy out here haven't hauled off

my hat and I was over in the saying his

foe's them if they get into singing it's

probably not not best to go out anyway

I know if you stuck out in this kind of

weather it's a different thing but you

know you wouldn't knowingly head out

into a for safe I'd like to think you

wouldn't anyway especially with it's

because we've got your kids on board as

well so it's not really nice for them so

yeah today is gonna be a long day

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Wow

to wake the waves download that bad

it's very windy though yeah there's

nobody bumps out so I'm glad we didn't

go out or anything like that yeah

wouldn't think of anyway but yeah it

looks surprisingly calm you know on the

water that I was expecting bigger waves

when we came out here but to be honest I

think a lot of it because it's coming

from the southwest it's going to be it's

going to be coming into the into

Portland so if we are still sheltered

wave wise here from Portland say looks

looks quite flat all the way along there

but I'm pretty sure when you get out of

there it will be

well the wind doesn't seem to have

calmed down so we're all taught us at in

the boat now did a bit of wander around

Weymouth but we've been here quite a few

times so there were things to do so yeah

we get a bit of marina fever now so we

just want to get out sailing but yeah

somebody did go out in Salem or somebody

was sailing outweighing the bay area but

their life they went to actually work

there so don't think it's price to go

out there as you can add up here the

wind it's not really calm down I would

hope to use to calm down a bit by now

but yeah so it's looking like we'll see

what's happening in the morning now it's

just artistic kettle on and a bit

I think cavity Versailles Li got to shop

if I'm on a trumpet we finally left

Weymouth after three nights of high

winds mostly of the boats heading east

though but we was gonna be punching west

against the wind but we had the tide for

this we were aiming for the ensure

passage but in the shelfs channel pilot

died by tong Cunliffe it suggests the

inshore passage can get quite hairy in

wind / tide scenarios we were quite

nervous because of the things that

actually said in there something along

the lines that portland race is the most

dangerous extended area of broken water

in the English Channel it just so

happened to be spring tides - you have

to venture through these things to gain

experience only then can you learn from

them and now we know what it's like in a

southwesterly or a Wesley force five

just passport the milk i kept the engine

on all the time

Tom's right can get a bit hairy I mean

the wind was gusting 20 knots and we had

a 14 not constant as I was going around

little more than what was forecast I

don't think I want to take the inshore

passage in any more than that it is very

narrow and very much what the the

channel pilot says and there are some

quite big grades in that did see some

dolphins it was coming through but I was

in a bit fun some train like to say I

was on my first time that's the Portland

Bell so you know it's there's a bit of

nervousness about it but I'm glad I'm

glad we did it so the end is off now

we've literally just come around the

back of it we're sailing sailing across

the line Bay one good thing about all

those waves and the bow slapping around

it's fixed our speed log so that started

working again which is nice yeah every

time we clean that it works for a week

and then it stops

so it's somehow it's it's repaired

itself so that's good

yeah so yeah we're now we're now sailing

across like they

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just pay for a bit of a school there and

that's basic that's the basically the

school over there if you can see

literally K that literally came doubt

descended on us very quickly

yeah the winds got up to about 30 40

knots

and yeah absolutely took it down

and the way you sit flames obviously

bigger say we took the sails down

so down a second

we've got the sails down

yeah because we didn't have time for a

refill I can't believe how could that

Spokane there you know I mean we kind of

saw it and we did actually research an

hour already ready but

yeah we just drop the me go ceiling

rather than five to five without because

it literally went from ten nos deserty

within

exactly this was madness once the winds

died down a bit we got the sails back up

and we carried on a long line back

wind turnaround right on her nose just

who is coming into the bricks and area

so we decided to the motor back on just

so we can get there a little bit quicker

than actually sayin attacking with the

wind

well that was a long old sale weed yeah

beat it into the wind all the way so

we've been beating all the way to bring

some in a westerly and we had a few

schools along the way we a couple of

rain showers but obviously that's lovely

and sunny now a bit cold and waste on

the house but yeah they're all means

with the crew got sick so Jack got sick

well factually first he was a doctor got

sick and then then it was Jeff that got

sick and I think he took off sick as

well

me and some kind of battled it through

someone was looking after everyone she's

been their little they'll help her and

helping everybody out which is really

nice yeah and long old sail

I suppose I suppose that's why you know

if we don't you don't beat into wind

with all the time we need to it took was

just taken nine ten hours here I think

now is ten hours to get here I should

have took us at least seven a half seven

seven seven hours spared the tide with

us obviously the wind was coming

directly from where we wants to go so we

had to tack which meant it's doing more

miles across the ground and but also

that the chop out in line Bay wow it was

really stopping us at some point the

waves were smacking against the hall and

it was a stopping as dead in the water

so even though we was having a fantastic

sale doing like you know six six and a

half knots through the water they you

know who's stopping us dead in the water

and we know he's dropping down to about

three so our average wasn't particularly

great but we're here now so we're gonna

go and get some food cause absolutely

starving I'm gonna get off this boat

okay we're gonna get off this boat right

see you in a bit

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