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good morning welcome to uh cactus

sailing so today we are going to be

sailing to

portsmouth or crossport and um or we

might stop at cows along the way we

don't know yet but um

those are our options we've got the tide

going with us so we're going to be

sailing

uh east through the soland so join with

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to be leaving from yarmouth over to

portsmouth and again if you want to play

the game with us then

um we'll give you a bit of information

today is the

third of august and if you don't then

just skip to the um

number i'm going to tell you down there

to start adventure straight away

so today is obviously the third of

august i've just said and we want to be

leaving yarmouth over to portsmouth

um i mean there's going to be two

correct answers for this i guess

um but i want to be leaving uh roughly

early-ish so we can get there

in a decent time rather than wait until

the afternoon

so we just need to work out what tide we

can get without getting up at

a crack of dawn i suppose so third of

august if we're looking at third of

august

we have a high water of 10 56

so let's call that 11 o'clock and again

we've got our standard time so we need

to add an hour to that

now this title at this is not

particularly

that great um showing you exactly what's

going to be happening in the solon

um so i'm going to show you a little app

i use up in the corner there

and so basically um what we want to be

doing is we want to i mean high water

sorry the tide is going to be turning um

eastbound

uh around 4 40. so i mean we don't know

we're getting up at 4 40 not again

we did that yesterday so we want to be

getting up or only be leaving

roughly around six o'clock um i think

we've decided on

and that gives us up until roughly

around 10 11 o'clock to have favorable

water all the way

up to portsmouth so that's basically

what we've decided

in terms of hazards along the way if we

look back to our chart

um there's not really a great deal to be

honest in the solar other than lots of

ships that are around there is the

bramble bank the famous bramble bank

where they have a qriket match

every year um at uh spring tide

but um other than that um

there's plenty of water in this island

so there's not really

much to worry about because we're not

going to be going near any of these

shallows anyway because we

want the tide with us so we're going to

stick pretty much in the in the middle

um because we want that tied with us

rather than hiding near the edges where

you can sometimes get some blackheads

down

so so that's what we're gonna be doing

now

the forecast today was gonna be a

reasonable 20 knots of

wind hopefully from the northwest we was

hoping because we didn't want to be

beaten into it

but it turned out the wind was actually

coming from the northeast and it was a

nice good

20 knots gusting into the 25s which mean

we set off with a first reef in the main

and a little bit of reef in the genoa

so we sailed along um we're doing we're

doing like eight knots

this is unheard of outside of this flat

knife

15 to 20 knots of wind and

first reef in the main i find if i put a

first reef in around 15 to 20

boater sails a lot better i mean you can

get your rails in the water and all that

kind of stuff a lot of people kind of

want to do that stuff but

you don't tend to sail faster in a

straight line so we tend to stick a reef

in

in the main a bit reef in the general

and she sails quite nicely

yeah we're doing eight knots um but we

have got a bit of tied with us

uh but still eight knots on a 30-foot

boat is pretty fast to be honest

i'm happy with that um we're not even

you know trimming ourselves from for a

race perspective we're just

cruising trimming them sort of thing so

we're not trimming them to the gloss or

anything like that

but yeah we're just stomping up the

solenoid um

i forgot how flat the sole it was it's

just

so calm isn't it nice

i don't think we've ever done anything

well not for a long time

not for a long time yeah

normally the waves keep stopping every

time every time we're um

every time we're going down the water

through the water and everything it's

normally quite choppy if it's windy so

we're always slamming against the wave

um so yeah we normally we don't normally

get above six and a half seven

even if we've got tied with us so this

is good

ceilings

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some of you might notice that rope cord

up there hanging down that's the genoa

halyard

and it's usually tied to a little um

tidy on the mast

um but i've been meaning to put a cleat

on this tiny or better because it keeps

falling off as you can see here

so that's the job i got planned later

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so we're just coming up to cows um and

we're just passing

uh just the beach before before cows to

be honest

uh we've we've been doing like nine

knots through the water which is just

unheard of

um sorry not through the water across

the ground so we've been doing about

seven and a half through the awards

which is

are pretty much our maximum hull speed

um

yeah it's flying along can't believe how

quick she's going but um

yeah it's been a very good sale this

morning

i mean we are beat we are beating into

it but

you can see that i'm just getting a bit

of weather helm on because she is going

back faster

but it's great

come on focus

as we headed further up the east of the

solar the wind started to die down a

little bit

so it's about time we shift that rebound

just going to take a reef out we're just

going to line the boom into the wind and

then we're going to pull it for this

you um take the no check repair please

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okay

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so

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so the winds have died down a lot in the

eastern solent um

we've only got about six to seven knots

of wind now so

just enjoying the sun on this attack and

uh so yeah we're just passing stokes bay

and we're just gonna go around um the

headlands of stokes bay it's not really

headland

but um and then we'll go into portsmouth

and we're going to stay there tonight i

think in portsmouth because we're going

to run out of tide to get out of the

stolen

so we can't really go to brighton or

anything like that

and there's not really a great deal of

wind anyway to get us to brighton so

although the wind is coming from the

northeast it was meant to be coming from

the the west or north west

so it's different to forecast i'm

struggling with their windy this week

and even predict wind um don't seem to

be doing what's uh forecast

but uh yeah we had a nice nice decent

sale at the west solent but

east is completely different

oh we'll get there anyway we're only

doing about four knots across the ground

if that

um probably not in half is tied the rest

is probably sailing but

yeah we'll be there soon hopefully

hello what's going on we are

just coming up to

portsmouth and i'm trying to

direct the boat that way

into the small boat channel i think

that's what you called it

yep it is there you go

and we're going to be stopping in

hasla or gosport for the night maybe two

nights

who knows but most importantly we're

going to casa brazil

for those of you who don't know what

casa brazil is it's a restaurant that

sells

semi-traditional brazilian delicacies

oh my god it's amazing you need to go

there

and try it everyone does oh

can you taste it already

distinct lack of wind

going so slow we might be reversing

we're doing 0.5 knots 0.7 knots across

the ground

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so

so we've arrived at haslow and we've

been uh googling for casa

uh brazil casa brazil yeah casa brazil

brazil casa brazil um we found we found

one in portsmouth so that's where we're

gonna head

uh later today i think yeah who needs

brighton yeah who needs brighton

so we found one in portsmouth instead

that we're going to go to instead um

and yeah so we're just in hassle now and

uh which it's about lunch time so we can

have some lunch and then we're gonna

have a wander around and then go see if

we find this casa brazil

tasty

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what are you doing now i'm putting some

uh

cleats on the mast because i'm sick of

all this

flapping around so that's the plan

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just out of camera shop there i put an

umbrella upside down to catch all this

war

and then just out of interest i was

using mono rivets here

um because i read that these were the

best ones for the mast and i'd also put

a bit of duralac paste on them

to stop any dissimilar metals or any

corrosion in there when i've got the

cleats off

the cleats where aluminiums are quite

happy with those ones

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