In this video, Everything is Breaking, Sailing to Cuba, we set sail on our 6 day down wind passage from St. Martin to Cuba! On the very first day we tare the Jib sail, followed by our traveller catastrophocally breaking during an accidental Jibe! #CruisingCuba #accidentaljibe #sailingchannel If you like our videos and want to see more/better videos, more often you can become a patreon supporter: https://www.patreon.com/sailingbalachandra If you haven't yet SUBSCRIBED and want to see more please click the SUBSCRIBE button above, and be sure to give this video a like! In August of 2017 we sold everything and moved aboard Balachandra, a 1986 C&C44 sailboat, then sailed it over 300 nautical miles to Halifax Nova Scotia to spend a cold Canadian winter in the frozen waters of the North Atlantic. Sailing Balachandra is our YouTube sailing vlog inspired by other great channels such as Delos and La Vagabonde, which documents the sailing adventures of myself and my partner Nawal as we navigate the globe. We also dive into lots of DIY boat projects both above and below decks, and share with you all of the pros and cons of living aboard full time. Sailing Balachandra is published weekly so please subscribe so you don't miss out on future videos! This video was shot with equipment from Optrix by Body Glove, Nikon, Apple, GoPro, and Polaroid Opening Theme Music: License Info: Beautiful Story / Taketones.com Used with a Paid Licence / Permission PURCHASED MUSIC: LINK: https://taketones.com/track/beautiful-story LICENSE N: TTEXTENDED157339559892860327 EXTENDED Special Thanks to our Cuban friends Group Nucay for giving us permision to use to use their album "Tropicalissimo" throughout our YouTube series. Other Music: the YouTube Music Library Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sailingbalachandra Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sailingbalachandra Instagram: http://instagram.com/sailing_balachandra

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in this episode we sail from saint

martin to cuba

tear our jib and have to switch it out

we get slammed by

massive waves and our mainsail traveler

catastrophically breaks

from an accidental job

last time on sailing bella chandra we do

all of our planning in preparation

for our long passage and extended

cruising of the country of cuba

hey everyone if you're new to the

channel i'm dan and my partner is noelle

and we are sailing bella chandra we

sailed from nova scotia canada to the

caribbean we've been sailing around the

caribbean for well over a year now

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all right day one sailing from saint

martin to cuba

we left st martin around noon

and we're doing great we're only in

about 15 knots of wind but we've got

both sails up

straight downwind believe it or not we

are directly downwind sailing wing and

wing

there's a little bit of roll so it's

making it a little difficult to keep the

wing away but the autopilot's performing

great the sails are great everything's

good

it's really important if you're going to

go wing on wing that you have a

preventer

on your boom and you're going to need a

whisker pole or a spinnaker pole on your

genoa

or your jib because it's just going to

flood like crazy so that's our setup

right now we've got the polo

we've got a preventer on the boom and

it's holding pretty good right now but

we're debating whether we're going to

keep it like this overnight because

you know there might be squalls or

something and i wouldn't want to have to

deal with all this

extra rigging that we've put up

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good morning everybody it is day two of

our trip from saint martin to cuba we

woke up this morning to

a little issue we have a small tear well

actually a fairly big tear in our jib

and uh we need to change the jib that's

really hard to do at sea especially if

you've got

wind any wind at all so we're just

getting close to the usbi's here now

and i'm considering just dropping the

hook somewhere here

for a couple hours just to change the

jib and then continue on our way we have

another jib

it's a larger jib i usually don't fly

because it's so big

but it should be okay if we need it

smaller we can furl it half in

and go from there and we were talking

about putting that bigger gym on anyways

so

you know we're gonna have to do that

because if we get into any more

serious winds these tears in the chip

that we have right now

could just destroy that gym you know

we're not ready to say goodbye to this

one yet so i think

we're gonna try to stop and change it

and hopefully won't take that long and

take too much time out of our journey

and we can continue on our way

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we're sailing past puerto rico right now

our morning's been okay we did do wing

on wing but he wanted to leave it up all

night

and then eventually he said no it's too

noisy and too frustrating which i'm glad

he put it away

but as we were putting it away a squall

hit and we ended up doing like three

360s

because we couldn't keep the boat

straight that was fun we flew the main

pretty much all night alongside with the

jib just to get that extra windage

because

it was pretty light winds all night

pretty much

we had maybe like two accidental drives

dan lost his always on day one he's the

worst

we managed to drop the anchor and the

usb eyes and

switch out our jib sails as the tear in

our previous jib was like about that

long and

we've been sailing on it for the past 14

hours so

it was time wind's light enough to be

flying the 135 so

we're happy to be flying it and i'm glad

that the wind died down

in order for us to do that that's pretty

awesome and

i got a chance to get some cooking done

and got our lunch in us

and that was great happy to be using the

whisker pole

although dan's been cursing and

all frustrated with it he's not used to

changing it over

so often we actually forgot

to switch sides and ended up losing

our baby stay kind of just snapped right

off

that was fun i don't think it's a big

deal though

uh dan jimmy rigged it so it should hold

up just fine

well dan was switching out the sheets so

i had some down time to do some meal

prep

and made juice a gourmet meal of peas

and hamburger meat he's so fussy when

we're underway he won't eat his regular

kibble he has to have something

extra special this has been good he had

the shakes a bit yesterday

but he's feeling much better today he's

realized that this is what sailing's all

about it's been a while since we've done

a long trip

so buddy

buddy hi the caesar calmed down so much

it's a lot more comfortable than

yesterday

yesterday it it was a bit of a confused

cc

today it's much smoother we didn't sleep

much

i always find the first day of passage

very hard to get

into that rhythm but today we're feeling

a lot better and a lot more confident

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this is day three of our passage and

it's been good and it's been bad we did

get our jib changed as noel told you

and that's been really good uh we're

happy to have the big jib up

and i recently refurbished this jib just

before we left nova scotia

at north sales and uh so we know that

this jib is 100

there's nothing wrong with it so it's

nice to have that and not worry about it

and we're doing like seven knots and

we're going downwind

and that's fantastic so we're really

happy we're right in between

puerto rico and dominican republic and

the mona passage right now we're just

above the mona passage

and we're looking for whales because

this is the part of

the mona passage where you can spot

humpback whales

so we're hoping to see something and we

got the camera ready so if we see it

we'll capture it you know we didn't even

notice it until this morning like

yesterday

we once we had the big jib on we took

down the main and

didn't think anything of it so i got

looking at it and on our traveler

where the car attaches to the main sheet

there's a shackle there

that's built into the car and it's

snapped

and we're really lucky it didn't happen

while we were underway

with the boom taking full force because

whoa oh see it did that again

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all right so i had to take the wheel

because um the autopilot

didn't really hold the uh course really

well and started setting us on a vm

reach and we're supposed to be going

downwind

we're at least 20 20 to 25 knots of wind

right now going downwind

and uh our auto pilot's actually been

working really good i learned that if i

change the response time to

one that going downwind it seems to work

better it's more responsive and keeps us

on track which is nice

so yeah we noticed that that connection

piece had broken

and it's a really good thing that we

noticed it and didn't try to sail on the

main because if that snapped underway

or gave way while the full force of the

wind was on the main

your boom could just swing right out

wildly and it would be a real challenge

to try and bring it back in

and it could actually snap the gooseneck

right off the mat

worst case you could take your mask down

so it's really bad so it's a good thing

that we noticed that

so we're going to have to jimmy rig

something with

lines and pulleys to act as a traveler

for us until we can get our traveler

repaired but

i don't see it as an emergency at this

point because first off we're mostly

downwind sailing so we're going to sail

on the jib

and there's a lot of boat rigs that

don't have travelers that just use lines

and pulleys to

control the boom so we'll just rig up a

very similar system until we have a

chance to

repair our traveler

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busy bear

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