99cm Boat - Atlantic Crossing.

[Mark-1]

Micro-Yachting: UK Man to Cross the Atlantic in a 3ft 3in boat » Explorersweb

I have so many questions. Water, presumably desalination? What if he vomits or misses the poo pot? Can he reach down far enough to clean it?

It doesn't feel like a "sailing" challenge it feels like a squalor and discomfort challenge.

 

[lustyd]

It doesn't feel like a "sailing" challenge it feels like a squalor and discomfort challenge.

Have you tried sailing? ?

 

[Mark-1]

Have you tried sailing? ?

Well I haven't actually gone sailing, but I did watch Howard's Way so I'm very familiar with the spotlessly clean boats and well dressed women typical in the passtime.

 

[savageseadog]

We know him very well, a very tough guy who dealt with serious rig issues on his Iceland trip. He's been trying to organise a Fastnet style race around Iceland. He's come to us a few times with various lunatic race ideas which we have so far (easily) managed to resist.

From a previous thread:

Who needs a big boat?

 

[KompetentKrew]

Those nav lights look just plain wrong:

 

[Bajansailor]

He has a Facebook page -
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Maybe the Big C could inspire a design for a new type of 'solid' (ie non inflatable) liferaft, which would be more like a survival pod?

Here is a promotional video about Big C -

 

[Mark-1]

We know him very well, a very tough guy who dealt with serious rig issues on his Iceland trip. He's been trying to organise a Fastnet style race around Iceland. He's come to us a few times with various lunatic race ideas which we have so far (easily) managed to resist.

From a previous thread:

Who needs a big boat?

Ahhh thanks. I did look for an existing thread, I'll pop over there.

 

[Stemar]

Who needs a big boat?

Maybe not big, but I want to be able to lie down in comfort and have a proper loo. Cooking facilities are nice too.

He's mad, but the world needs that sort of madness, just like it need people mad enough to restore classic wooden boats

 

[ProDave]

My more simple and fundamental question, is just how do you store enough provisions for an Atlantic crossing in that small space?

Is he "cheating" by having a support boat shadow him to bring his meals each day?

 

[st599]

The article says he has 90 days of provisions on board (some in the capsule, some in the outriggers).

 

[Bajansailor]

I think he might find that the anticipated 60 days at sea could be rather optimistic - my pal Stein rowed across the North Atlantic in 2016 (at the age of 70), and 80 odd days after setting off from New York he was still about 500 miles from Lands End.
And then he encountered a storm which repeatedly rolled his boat and broke his 4 oars, so he had to activate his EPIRB.
Stein spent a lot of time riding on his sea anchor / drogue when he had headwinds, and I have a feeling that Big C will have to do the same when he has easterlys - Stein's tracker at the time showed a few big circles and many significant squiggles.
Stein Hoff - Atlantic Row 2016

If Big C sailed across in the tradewinds further south then he would have a better chance of doing it in 60 days, but then he would get cooked in that tiny cabin.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Probably hoping that the golf stream will drift him across more than sail across.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Probably hoping that the golf stream will drift him across more than sail across.

But that heads the wrong way - he'll end up around Spitzbergen if he catches the North Atlantic Drift!

 

[Fr J Hackett]

But that heads the wrong way - he'll end up around Spitzbergen if he catches the North Atlantic Drift!

Perhaps he will try to break out of it off Ireland 1.5 knts too good to ignore

 

[capnsensible]

Probably hoping that the golf stream will drift him across more than sail across.

Will it take 18 holes?

 

[DownWest]

There's bananas and then pointless bananas. Bit later some loon does it in a 'boat' 2mm shorter. Does he count the big rudders in the LOA?

 

[Bajansailor]

Does he count the big rudders in the LOA?

I am sure that any yard that hauls the boat out will do so, absolutely!

 

[Minerva]

Looks like the chap made his grand depart yesterday. Boat sadly started sinking on first day, returned to port to repair and during crane out, was dropped writing it off.

I’m sure he is very disappointed

 

[paradave]

A very short lived trip After 3 years of planning. It looked very low in the water prior, surely obvious it was a problem?

 

[DownWest]

A very short lived trip After 3 years of planning. It looked very low in the water prior, surely obvious it was a problem?

Planning varies a bit.. But, he would have to have spent the whole time with the lid sealed with that freeboard. Sorry, but a dreamer.