Trans-Atlantic crossing by catamaran

[averredude101]

why take boats, when you can take planes 

[jimmyg197]

Keep these movies coming for those of us that don't take the chance to get out their sad but true !!!!!! GREAT MAN !!!!!!!!!

[brief420]

ocean life nothing better!!!

[erihama]

I can see you had lots of time ti edit the film

Nice thanks

[skillzflux]

pretty good taste in music for a bunch of old farts

[14degrees]

@skillzflux Cheers.

[Andreaslillfreakact]

My dad, my mother and I sailed around the world in a sailingvessel, my dad wrote

a book about it (mal seh'n wie weit wir kommen) (by Hans Habeck), but it's in German, check it out on Amazon. Bye

[bambinochulo]

Exelent video. That's my plan for the future, I made a mistake buying a searay 3855 which is a good boat, but not for cruising like that and that is my dream God bless you guys

[lapere]

What a life!

[MovieMad007]

Bet thats highly edited version!! Whatabout storms - swearing when the rig snaps from storm damage !!!!

[14degrees]

@perininavisailing No need to use a pole...well, that is, the railing becomes the 'pole'. Just attach the reel to the railing and you're done!

[Dustylaign]

looked a littel sunburnt

[Hyper92793]

I already did that swimming

[TheSerenity63]

Someday .... I hope... I will !

[QQmelo]

Guys this is amazing!!!!! I've always want to do a trip like that...

Tell me, how were those nights? Cold I guess :)

How did you handle with the nights sailing? Always 1 person every couple of hours, while the others were sleeping?

The video is awesome!! :D

[14degrees]

@QQmelo There were three of us on board, with four-hour shifts each. If I remember correctly, my shifts were 12 noon till 4pm, and from 12 midnight till 4am. The night sailing was absolutely magic. Quiet, dark, moody, sometimes with phosphorous illuminating where we had been....very cool. I did the trip through Reliance Yacht Management in London...looking them up if you're keen for an adventure :-)

[PGTIPMONKEY1]

what was the cost of this boat?

[14degrees]

@PGTIPMONKEY1 I have no idea.

[pack0314]

Great video...nice choice of Lemon Jelly.

[riftshighway]

Ouch! Sunburn at 6:07

[LesCrapio]

Isn't the Atlantic supposed to be green?

[maxmaxsport]

Awesome! Trip & video!

Bravi!

Ps

Next time you'd go.... Call me!

[Russfromozzyland]

Very entertaining, you really captured the feel of sailing.

[AnthonyPDR]

you guys could have reached 10 knots easily if you had the BMW ORACLE sails with a dual mast like the dragonfly 3500

[pedro4374]

look's like you guys had a wonderfull time.

[tobigforyou]

What is the name of the first song?

[14degrees]

@tobigforyou Hmmmmm....good question. It may be a song by Lemon Jelly, but I am not sure....very bad of me not to credit, I know...

[HJanV]

@14degrees ramblin man lemon gelly

[SeanOBriain]

@tobigforyou It's called "Ramblin Man" by Lemon Jelly

[tobigforyou]

@SeanOBriain THANK-YOU! You rock!!

[SeanOBriain]

@tobigforyou no probs buddy :)

[picklesidekick011]

@tobigforyou

It's "Ahoy There" by Mr Scruff

[JustWonderingHowToDo]

What boat is this?

[14degrees]

@JustWonderingHowToDo It is a Lagoon 420 catamaran.

[Fugsy07]

Looks epic

[svprovidence]

16 Knots!!! you catamaran sailors are having a good time. We're aboard a lovely monohull and JAZZED when we're getting six and a quarter knots.

Thanks for posting.

Ray & Karen

[14degrees]

@svprovidence Hi Ray and Karen....I think you may be mistaken...the 16 knots at 3:45 in the video is the wind-speed. It is more or less on the beam, and we can only get 5 knots of speed out of that 16 knots! It was a very slow catamaran. We too were JAZZED when we got 6 knots!

[ANICON2006]

@14degrees ..you're right on about the speed, the 420s were nortorious for being under powered so you couldn't have picked a slower cat to make that trip on.. good cats should avg.10/15 knots in a good blow any day, but those Lagoons were made for chartering, not breaking any speed records crossing the Atlantic..

[14degrees]

@ANICON2006 Very true. The 420 was a beautifully comfortable boat (even though this one we were on only had the bare essentials).

[Ermintrude75]

If were to buy a 36 ft monohull and did some intensive training how long would it take me to be competant enough to sail a circumavigation (avoiding the capes and southern ocean)?  I am a very fast leaner, not afraid of taking risks and have spent a lot of time on boats doing liveaboard diving so I'm used to life at sea as a passenger. I would be training in the north sea / english channel which has challenging conditions.

[RdRash22]

I would love to have done that

[ramirov97]

jelly belly lol  super

[lar5220]

do they sail all night long  are stop at night and drift ?

[14degrees]

@lar5220 There were three of us on board, so we sailed 24 hours a day on 4-hour watch rotations.

[OHFORSTANG]

She's cleaning the poop deck

[OHFORSTANG]

@OHFORSTANG Haha poop deck

[Trey3j]

@TheTroglodyteKing

It's referred to as a binnacle compass, but that's only because of its location...on the binnacle. More specifically, it's a gimbal-mounted, liquid filled compass. Hope that helps.

[NicSchumi]

Great Impressions :-)

[Xen5s]

the fear of being at sea on a tiny boat excites me so much i have to sail to australia. what an odd feeling. being completely terrified to be so far off land and away from any humans and excited to get to this point.i have to do this no more procrastinating

thanks for the inspiration.

[carlsetzer]

I want to do that! I only have one concern: does having nothing but ocean all around for so many days get tiresome?

[andybon17]

did u guys get any storm on the way??

[aukanmeister]

Looks like an great experience!

[puffrooster]

This looks like so much fun...

[Clearly69]

It's a typical compass, they are fairly simple objects.

[hanaichigo1964]

nice!

[tildenm]

Great video, thanks for posting it!

[AmericanRaven19]

if you jumped off the bow do you think the dolphins would swim / play with you?

[14degrees]

Hmmmm...dunno. I think they just liked the novelty of a fast-moving object...

[Simirial]

thats what i was going to do, right off the front of the bow in front of them. i want to get 5 people together to buy a sailing cruiser.

[matthewpost1]

excellent job.

[14degrees]

I'm not sure what that compass is called....a sailing compass? Sorry, I've never been much of a sailor...

[Hedgehoggy1983]

Great video and great music. What are the songs called (the first and second)?

Thank you :)

[trozza]

Living the dream..

[starnino19]

very nice video

[zohan1393]

how dose your yacht cole plz tell me

????

[LiaBia1010]

Terrific!!! I love it....

Good winds,

Lilian Bianchi from Brazil

[larasa007]

JohnKible, I seriously doubt you ever did anything with your miserable life so who are you to tell others about theirs!!!!!

[juncode]

where'd you get power from, on such a crossing (for GPS and such)? Did you just conserve battery, or got sun energy?

Was the weather that good all the way? Didn't you get some high seas on the way?

[14degrees]

The yacht was a Lagoon 420, which has a diesel generator on board. We took quite a lot of extra fuel!

The weather was absolutely perfect the whole way. We never got any really bad weather. Tailwinds for over 2 weeks, and only one week of very calm weather where we had to motor for most of the time - it was a yacht delivery, so we had to keep moving.

[juncode]

shock treatment =)?

well Digitize may also need some funds,

but yea, that's all it takes - a sailing course to kick off.

[ElenarMT]

Why are you so hostile? Geesh man, chill!

[Digitize69]

A really great video that made me daydream as I sit in my office :)

In my 30 years I have only been on boats for periods of only a few hours. Still this is my lifelong dream. I hope that I will one day also experience the thrill and adventure of crossing the atlantic ocean and living on a small boat for a prolonged period of time.

[larasa007]

Digitize69, Hope that your dreams come true one day, don't let jerkoffs like boy JohnKible and their kind stop you from reaching them. Good luck

[tex2alaska]

I 1st mated for reliance and did les sables to st. lucia on a lagoon 420. we pulled in the day ike hit houston. hurricane alley was nice to us. i just posted my halyard line breaking video.

[jimmyg197]

I love to watch your videos it is real sailing. Now that I know how to find your videos

[jimmyg197]

I love watching this. This is real sailing now that I know where to look

[corletors]

Greaaaat! I want be there

[santana123123]

thanx for sharing

[freewheelin173]

Was it really a good idea to put white letters over a background of the sun?

[jasong19711]

pretty brave to cross the Atlantic

[TheCrazyFinn]

I guess you krauts are into that kinda thing... ;)

[SteveTatz]

Congrats on the journey! Really cool, hope to make a voyage like that of mine own some day. Until then, I'll keep pipe-dreamin' and livin' through the adventures of others on YouTube! LOL!

[arkretzer]

Awesome.....love it....big hugs'

[dalediamonds]

WOW! Great weather!

[weatherrouter]

nice cut! - it´s great the atlantic! ;-))

[pisiki]

WOW !!! absolutely fabulous! I wanna have a yacht too :)Great video!

[pvillalobos17]

Hey!Put more videos!!!

[george456789]

Hey Rob, I'm from auckland and want to get some cat sailing experience - eventually to sail round the pacific, any ideas on where's best to look? Cheers - great vid btw

[Dann1403]

wow you were going pretty fast. I think I might need one of these boats...

[dale3858]

Real nice...

[gencymeri]

same here...I wish one day will have my cruiser and cross the atlantic.....

[54spiritedwill54]

Very enjoyable viewing experience. :P

[BeSmartBeVeg]

Oh, Rob, just love your videos! And you always find this funky music maching it. Made me discover new sounds.

May the universe watch over you.

[erpoioloco]

these things in life are priceless

nice trip ,

wish i can do this before i die..... [2]

[praslin83]

love it :)

[ekek888]

wish i can do this before i die.....

[wickedale1176]

Great clip---but no one really wants to video when the weather turns nasty.

[Motu2008]

Hello, this is most motivating video, i have ever seen before! We also plan a long sailing journey from Germany this year with our cat (Wharram Pahi 31). Best regards, Eva

[dumalucky]

what was that cat? how big? thanks

[Glider87]

Says in the video description: Lagoon 420 -- means its a 42' cat.

[kommos]

Thanks for sharing! I'm preparing myself for a circumnavigation that will start in 2012. Maybe we will meet in some bay!

[crazycougar23]

what do you do at night

[orhangumus]

Idon t no which TENERİFE

tenerife cordoba ? 700 mil

tenerife valle del cauca ? 15000 mil

tenerife magdalena 800 mil and no sex how is it?

[kyleleigh06]

ahhhhh wish i was on that boat with you ,,, how adventurous!!! any big boating adventures after this?

[Hemulen40]

Come and sail in Swedish EAST coast archipelagos , most beautiful and most challenging in the world .

Need to be a real good navigator , though .

In Sweden most guys know how to do it . In America you´re not even certain where EUROPE is ?

Lived in yer country for a couple of yers .Prefer Swdish barrenness , though . And ... Swedish chicks .

Love to ye all ,

Swedish Pete .

[14degrees]

Hmmmmm. I think you may be mistaken, Pete. I am a Kiwi. From New Zealand. The Skipper and First Mate are from London. Pretty sure we know where Europe is. Somewhere near India, isn't it? ;-)

Cheers,

Rob

[airborne373]

lol

[14degrees]

Thank you! Much appreciated.

[Hemulen40]

Niiiiice ! Some boat you´ve got there , guys . Almost a ship !

Envy envy envy envy ...

Signed

Swedish Pete

[14degrees]

Yeah, it was a nice big stable catamaran all right!

[wallygrundle]

Outstanding! Glad you made it across. Now where will you start riding/skating, and where will you ride/skate to?

-TimmyC

[14degrees]

Hi Timmy, I will be heading up to the Bahamas to get my US extended tourist visa, then head to Florida, where I will start skating across the US, from Florida to California.

[donwholio]

cool vid, nice work bro.

[BlueCatrike]

Looks like the life alright! Still following your travels Rob and your beer is still cooling in my fridge in-case you make it up to Western Canada!

[14degrees]

Great to hear! Pity I doubt I will make it up to Canada this time - winter is coming on!

[harwig]

Steve and Elly were lucky to have you on board !

Great video.

Now on to your World Record..........

[Daveeindeed]

That comment was me, damn I should really use my proper account when commenting :)

- David

[RealHustleTV]

Go Steve!