I thought I’d deal with it better after the 7 days at sea to sail from Southern Spain to Gran Canaria. Which makes me feel even worse about feeling like this! 🙁 That sums up how both myself and Emma are feeling today!Īnd it’s been over 15º Celcius (59º Fahrenheit) most of the time, the wind is less than 20 knots, and if you add up all of my naps I’ve slept over 8 hours. Day 2 of Sailing Across the Atlantic I’m feeling cold and nauseous on day 2 of sailing to the Caribbean Thankfully the rain didn’t last too long and the rest of the day and night offered us light winds. I wish I had a proper bimini ( a sun shade) to hide under now! But that’s one of many projects still left on our to-do list… We woke up early to get to the fuel dock, got 140 liters of diesel (both for those days without any wind and to be able to recharge our batteries on days the solar panels aren’t producing enough), and made some final preparations.īy the time we were done, it was somehow 11AM (so much for leaving early) and started to rain. We had some issues with crew we found online, but I’ll spare you the details. With four cabins I hoped to be at least a crew of four, but it turned out more difficult to find reliable crew than expected. It’s going to be just the three of us – myself, Matt, and my good friend Emma – sailing across the Atlantic. But some of our lows included the solar panels failing, the autopilot overheating, and our forestay breaking! Day 1 of Sailing Across the Atlantic Sailing into the sunset on our first day crossing the Atlantic
Spoiler alert: one of our highs was having whales swim around the boat. Sailing Across the Atlantic: The Highs and Lows I can see why and can highly recommend reading it while you get yourself and your boat ready to sail across the Atlantic. Tip: Matt gave me the book The Atlantic Crossing Guide because he believes it’s the best book to help prepare for an Atlantic crossing.
I hope you’ll find it both an entertaining and helpful article! But for now, you’re stuck with just my points of view and a day-by-day report of what happened while sailing from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean.
#Atlantic canary professional#
Later on, I hope to get Matt, who is skippering the boat and is a professional sailor, to write a more practical article with tips for crossing the Atlantic. In this article I want to share my personal experiences as a novice sailor, sailing across the Atlantic. This shares all the ups and downs of buying this boat and fixing her up.
Under highlighted stories you’ll find the selection called ‘’Buying a Boat’’. Note: If you’d like to know more about all of our preparations to get the boat ready to sail to the Caribbean, please go to my Instagram account. So the boat has been tested and I got to experience what it’s like to be out at sea for several days on a boat that looks quite sizeable in a marina but feels tiny out at sea! In those 2 and a half months we did sail the boat from La Linea in Southern Spain to Gran Canaria. Naive, I know, but if I would have known beforehand just how much work and money would have been involved I would have never done this, so I guess in this case my naivety was a good thing! I bought a 36-foot catamaran that only ever did coastal cruising and I guess I underestimated just how much more you need to cross the Atlantic. It’s taken us two and a half months of pretty much non-stop work to get ready for crossing the Atlantic, to sail to the Caribbean from the Canary Islands. Are you thinking about sailing from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean? Then you might find my experiences useful.
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