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A major breakdown offshore forces us to consider heading back to land after a few days into our Pacific Ocean crossing. Will we divert to safe harbor or sail 4,000 miles with this new problem? #sailing #adventure #breakdown Website & Blog: www.sweetruca.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/ruca Instagram: www.instagram.com/rucasailing
It's time to launch into the Pacific Ocean! We battle strong currents and choppy waves as we leave the coast of Chile behind us, sailing towards French Polynesia and around the world. #sailing #thatfeeling #oceanblue Website & Blog: www.sweetruca.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/ruca Instagram: www.instagram.com/rucasailing Contents: 00:39 - Leaving the dock... finally! There's nothing like that feeling of tossing off the docklines and setting your sights on the next goal! 2:07 - A recap of how far we've come to get here. Our bottom paints from International and Akzonobel have carried us a long way and we can't wait to sail into warmer waters! #thatfeeling 4:24 - Anchoring for the night to plan the 20 mile passage down Canal Chacao, famous for strong currents and standing waves in the worst conditions! 5:04 - With the sunrise behind us, it's time to make our way down the channel, keeping an eye on the current speed, which can reach past 9 knots! 5:53 - We are sailing doublehanded, but it takes a village to make this journey possible! Curtis mentions a few people we need to thank to get Sweet Ruca out into open water once again! 8:01 - A flashback from a tour inside the ferry boat that carries double decker busses and cars from the mainland of Chile to Chiloe and how they traverse the currents of Canal Chacao. 9:19 - This is it! The sails are hoisted with the last bit of land behind us! The flat channel has now turned into a washing machine of lumpy seas. What a difference! 10:38 - The closest we have ever come to a whale! (except for that one time...) What kind of whales do you think they are? 11:02 - Grey skies and steel grey water as Curtis give our first ocean update. 14:14 - The start of day two and Sweet Ruca is flying along on passage!
We show you 10 important things we did to prepare our boat to cross the Pacific Ocean as we set sail from Patagonia to sail to the South Pacific Islands of French Polynesia and beyond! If you're planning a long or short sailing passage, there are plenty of good tips to keep in mind! #sailing #explore #riggedbymarlow Website & Blog: www.sweetruca.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/ruca Instagram: www.instagram.com/rucasailing Contents: 0:00 - Intro and about us - After rounding Cape Horn and sailing the fjords of Patagonia, we are preparing our boat to sail over 4000 miles across the Pacific Ocean to French Polynesia. 1:59 - (1) Spare Parts - Carrying spare parts on board our sailboat for long stretches in remote waters is very important. We carry almost everythigng we need to repair our sails, electrical system, engine, and watermaking system. 4:09 - (2) New Running Rigging - After 18,000 miles of sailing and two trans-Atlantic crossings, our running rigging was becoming worn. We replaced our mainsheet and jib sheets with Marlow Grand Prix 78 10 mm dyneema cored lines. We also replaced our jack-lines and made a mainsail/boom preventer from Marlow D12 Dyneema. Dyneema will improve our sailing performance, decrease weight, and increase strength. 8:34 - (3) New Sails - Like our running rigging, our dacron mainsail and jib had seen a lot of wear after sailing halfway around the world. We replaced them with Evolution Sails Expedition Membrane sails custom designed for our boat by Andy at www.180sails.com (Evolution Sails Chicago. 9:17 - (4) Rig Inspection - We aren't afraid of heights! We made many trips up the mast, hoisting both Kate and Curtis to the top of the mast to look over every bit of our standing rigging to ensure there was nothing that would chafe or rip our sails and all the metal and carbon fiber bits were in good condition with no corrosion, cracks, or pitting. 9:56 - (5) Autopilot Maintenance - We rebuilt the autopilot ram for our B&G H5000 autopilot. We also show you the spare autopilot ram we carry, just in case we have an issue, as we rely heavily on our autopilot to steer the boat while sailing doublehanded across oceans. 10:54 - (6) Reliable Batteries - We had a LifePO4 battery failure (likely the BMS) as we sailed up the fjords of Patagonia, Chile. We sourced new batteries and replaced our existing 600 amp hours of lithium power with an upgraded drop-in LifePO4 battery system to ensure reliability as we sail across the pacific ocean. 11:39 - (7) Safe Environment - It is important when sailing offshore that the interior of the boat is set up well for people to move about safely. Our boat is designed to have good places to lean against and may grab rails. However, for our sailing dog, Roxy, it is more difficult to grip the glossy wooden floor. We installed rubber backed carpeting throughout the boat to assist our dog with walking and gripping in the large waves of the pacific ocean. 13:01 - (8) Food Provisioning - Food is double or tripple the price in French Polynesia vs Chile or the USA. We provisioned our boat with at least 90 days of essential foods to ensure we could save lots of money over the coming months. In case of emergency, we are prepared with many days of food aboard. 14:10 - (9) Fuel - Diesel fuel powers our 75 HP Yanmar 4JH3-TE engine, which also powers our alternator for battery charging when there isn't enough energy from the wind generator and the solar panels. We also use diesel if there is an emergency or we need to get out of the way of a large storm, hurricane, cyclone, or other danger! 14:49 - (10) Weather Routing - We carefully study the weather patterns in the Pacific Ocean, which are always changing due to La Nina and El Nino. We choose the best route to cruise across the pacific on our sailboat, avoiding upwind sailing, heavy seas, and dangerous storms. More about us: We are Kate and Curtis, sailing aboard our 46 foot long performance cruising sailboat. Sweet Ruca is a year 2000 J-boats J/46. Before selling our house and cars and buying a boat to sail around the world, Kate was a middle school teacher and Curtis was an entrepreneur. Before setting sail as cruisers both of us spent many years racing sailboats and have earned many trophies, including winning the Chicago-Mackinac race. We are experienced sailors who enjoy the feeling of a well tuned boat, and we love sharing the journey and inspiring you to get on the water. Like you, we watched youtube sailing channels before we left and hope to bring saling to you like other channels such as SV Delos, Gone With the Wynns, Sailing Nahoa, Sailing Uma, and La Vagabonde brought beautiful and relaxing sailing videos to our TV! Click subscribe and come along for the ride as we share our sailing tips, weather routing secrets, and boat rigging and re-fitting projects with you.
We continue the epic adventure, exploring places where no sailing channel has gone before. We stray far off the tourist track on a solo sail and dive into the unbelievable & amazing local sailing culture! This episode is packed with sailing action and amazing adventures! We make an expedition to a mysterious island (Isla Kent also known as Isla Alien) to investigate rumors of UFO sightings, aliens, & World War 2 gold, sail gaff rigged wooden boats and witness old school wooden boatbuilding, and go singlehanded sailing up the coast of Chiloe along with a wood sailboat rally to experience the real Chilean island culture and the way the islands were accessed in the age of sail, as we make our way from Cape Horn and Patagonia to the islands of French Polynesia in the South Pacific under sail. #sailing #woodenboats #solosailing #history #mystery Website & Live Tracker: www.sweetruca.com Support Our Videos on Patreon: www.patreon.com/ruca
We take you along for the ride to the most amazing places in Patagonia as we catch you up to our real time location! Hot springs, volcanoes, mountain lakes, glaciers, & rarely explored national parks only accessible by boat! #sailing #explore #adventure Website & Blog: www.sweetruca.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/ruca Instagram: www.instagram.com/rucasailing Contents: 0:00 - Intro: Where are we now? Where have we come from on our sail around the world via Cape Horn, Tierra del Fuego & the canals of Patagonia. 1:46 - (1) Sailing from Puerto Montt to Hornopirén & Isla Pelada 3:23 - (2) Sailing to the hot springs of Cahuelmo in Pumalin National Park. We don our bathing suits and enjoy the thermal pools, go on an epic hike to a mountain lake, and find our dinghy left high and dry so we must white water raft our way back down a glacial river to our boat. Fiordo Cahuelmo Termas y Parque Pumalin 7:14 - (3) Accessible only by boat, we visit Termas de Porcelana and grab a mooring ball to bath in these amazing volcanic thermal pools. 9:05 - (4) Isla Pelada’s secret anchorage. We meet some local fisherman who we share this quiet anchorage with and have a wonderful time trading beer & wine for Centolla and fish. 11:16 - (5) Sailing to Bahia Edward’s on Isla Talcon, we stay here for the night on our transit south to take shelter from a storm moving in from the north and take the dog for a walk on the beach. 12:24 - (6) Anchoring in Puerto Santo Domingo on our treck south. 13:29 - (7) We enter the small lagoon of Pozo De Oro (Gold Well) and dodge rocks to shore tie our sailboat securely in the mountainous are. We don’t find any gold, but we explore the small town of Melimoyu, and Roxy the sailing dog makes a few new friends during our hike. 15:26 - (8) We sail to the Chilean 5 star resort of Puyuhuapi Lodge where we indulge in a little bit of luxury and swim in the amazing thermal hot spring pools. 16:56 - (9) Visiting the town of Puyuhaupi & Caraterra Australia. We drop our anchor in 90 feet of water and shore tie our J Boat in front of this great little tourist town in Patagonia and grab an amazing desert as a special treat. 18:23 - (10) Sailing Seno Morras on Isla Magdalena. We meet the most amazing woman who lives off the grid alone on this island. We spend several days with our new friend Blanca, who cooks us an amazing meal, tells us about the history of the area, and shows us a rarely visited ecotourism area filled with rare & beautiful trees. Roxy makes some new dog friends as well. 20:58 - Puerto Aguirre. We meet up with some old friends in this familiar place we visited as we sailed north through the fjords of Patagonia. This time we are here to stage for our expedition sailing adventure to the glacier of Laguna San Rafael. 21:06 - (11) Caleta Ubaldo: We take refuge here for the night as we navigate the fjords to make our way south. New friends visit us on the Ketch rigged sailing vessel Candine. 22:57 - (12) We enter Bahia Sisquelan where we find an abandoned sawmill with antique steam engines, belt driven saws, and abandoned railways. We also take a look around an abandoned fishing outpost in this natural harbor. We wait here to time the tides correctly for the entrance to Laguna San Rafael. 25:00 - (13) Our expedition climaxes at the world’s northernmost tidewater glacier, Laguna San Rafael. We navigate between enormous icebergs and growlers as we work our way precariously in our fiberglass sloop to the head of the glacier, witnessing it calving in front of us. 29:25 - Patron Thank You! We list the names of all of our supporters who make these videos possible.
We are ready for bluewater sailing in the South Pacific Islands, but after our long and challenging upwind adventure, rounding Cape Horn and sailing the Beagle Channel, Straight of Magellan, and the fjords and canals of Patagonia, we needed to do some boat work to get things ship shape and ready to sail the pacific. #boatlife #project #sailing Website & Tracker: www.sweetruca.com Support Our Productions: www.patreon.com/ruca Facebook & Instagram: @rucasailing In this Video: Mainsail Batten Installation Wood Working - Panel Door Repair Rebedding Chainplates Rig Inspection Stack Pack Repair Boom Vang Repair Yanmar Engine Maintenance Adding Line Clutches Moving Refridgerator Compressors Meeting Solo Sailors Sailing with New Friends Testing New Membrane Sails Exploring Chiloe Island
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