EPIC SAIL BLOW OUT and ENCOUNTER at SEA. Ep. 143.

Two head sails GONE! While crossing the INDIAN OCEAN we blow out one sail and the tension cord broke in another. But even with theses problems, the highlight of the trip was encountering a friend at sea, Fou de Bassan. Fou is an Allure 52 and we crossed paths on the Captain's birthday.

MUSIC BY EPIDEMIC SOUND
A Bitter Love by Sven Karlsson (Intro music)
Fast forward to you - Airae
Breath - Daxen
A lucid Affair – Dragon Tamer
Stll sleeping – Colors of Illusion
If I only – So Vea
Weather any storm – Cody Francis
Herbal Tea – Velvet Moon
Take the ride - Smartface
A little jar of happiness – Earle Belo
Soleado -Timothy Infinite
Faster car – Loving Caliber
Lost in Atlantis by Smartface (end music)

[ahminmabed]

Wow! One of your best videos yet. My wife normally only watches your video in bits as she gets ready for work. Not this morning. She sat and watched it all. Sailing is rarely champagne and caviar and we could really feel the tension/pressure on board. We could even see the pressures on the the ever cool, calm and collected Pierre's face. Sailing is several parts anxiety and a few parts heaven.
Your 5X is so fast. One of the best boats ever made. We were treated to a show of how fast she is when you came so close to the other boat mid ocean.
We could also see how essential crew are for a safe passage on a boat your size and in such testing conditions, and it looks like your greenhorn did really well. Of course Pierre could slow down a little Well we now have photographic proof of Pierre double reefing.
Sorry to Luma about our immigration. I hope she doesn't take it personally. They made my wife leave the country 5 times to renew her visitor visa before granting her a non worker, 2 year, "temporary" residence visa. Australia is very strict.
Anyway, thanks so much for the work you put in to sharing your adventure with us

[marygracestich]

This looks like quite a challenging one but, as usual, you handled it like pros. I'm glad you arrived safely. Man, y'all have covered some ocean since we last saw you! Hugs to all and pats for Tiller.

[reloadncharge]

Enjoyed….sail repairs/ new sails coming! Great videography, thanks, Andrew

[happysawit]

Yay you made it! What a voyage across the Indian Ocean! Great teamwork! Good idea to have the Net Jib!.

[mosca]

Great movie! I love to see the passages - challenging and interesting.

[paulrise]

Superb video of mid ocean waves. Very well caught on camera, best ever on YouTube in my opinion. Thanks once again. Two reef Pierre.

[JosePedroEspinosa]

So Pierre took two reefs! I think he's getting old...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Sorry for the sail.😪😪😪😪😪😪

[en]

Great video- thanks! I would love to hear a lot of detail on the autopilot limitations. Was it merely related to the very confused sea state moving the boat in too many directions? Or was it related at all to any programming (gain, response) issues? I don’t know what are the limits of an autopilot system like yours in those conditions so I don’t know what is normal/expected. Thanks!

[KeithStrang]

Beautiful video. Thanks for putting in the whole sail by clip with pleasant music!

About how many yrs/miles was the genaker? Thanks!