eight people and a dog on a 14m boat cross the atlantic

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an interesting film

an old live-aboard german yacht owner takes seven people - mostly sailing neophytes - across the atlantic

the narrator, one of the crew, sounds as though he has sucked a few too many spliffs in his life - or maybe that is the mid mercan accent

it is 1 minute of film from each day of the trip

The pressures of sharing a small space with so many people took its toll and they were all heartily pleased to be ashore at the end

 
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Thanks for that I love the White Egret on the boat. On our crossing we a had a Brown Noddy land on our boat, they are pelagic birds and only go on ashore to nest. It stayed overnight and we think it was having a rest.
 
KellysEye said:
Thanks for that I love the White Egret on the boat. On our crossing we a had a Brown Noddy land on our boat, they are pelagic birds and only go on ashore to nest. It stayed overnight and we think it was having a rest.
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this one was killed by the yacht owner once his dog had savaged it

lots of light and shade in this simply told narrative

fair bit of wind noise but that is par for the course
 
dylanwinter said:
an interesting film

the narrator, one of the crew, sounds as though he has sucked a few too many spliffs in his life
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His "At Lan Tic" is pretty annoying at the beginning but I stuck with it and really enjoyed it in a strange sort of way. A very open and honest account of being in close proximity to a bunch of strangers for 3 weeks. The skipper doesn't come out of it well.

Thanks for posting.
 
davidjackson said:
His "At Lan Tic" is pretty annoying at the beginning but I stuck with it and really enjoyed it in a strange sort of way. A very open and honest account of being in close proximity to a bunch of strangers for 3 weeks. The skipper doesn't come out of it well.

Thanks for posting.
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Joshua is parked across the way from us as I write. It was here when we got here last year. The dog was around but has disappeared, Claes has spoken to us a few times, seems ok!
Stu
 
I enjoyed it but the thought of being stuck on a small boat with a load of strangers and not being "in charge" definitely does not appeal to me. :ambivalence:

I zoomed in on the instruments at one stage when the girl was helming to see if they were exactly the same as mine and the video was a mirror-image. That seems strange. I wonder if it was deliberate? :confused:

Richard
 
To me there was something intensely depressing about this video. It identified a problem we all have at sometime in our life, 'a negative spirit' that destroys the experience.
 
mainsail1 said:
To me there was something intensely depressing about this video. It identified a problem we all have at sometime in our life, 'a negative spirit' that destroys the experience.
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It would also be my idea of hell

and having your girlfriend there and not being able to sleep with her must be frustrating

when Jill and I were younger we spent a week on a westerly 33 with one old bloke and three other young people -

a boat can be a very claustrophobic place sometimes

that week were both very happy to get off and get on the train back to London

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congratulations to Captain Claes for getting 7 landlubbers across the Atlantic ocean safely.... and with some fun along the way - remarkable really .

i wonder if he charged them something ? - I bet he did ...

the narrator was a bit of a misery guts and i wonder if being coupled up was a pain -

great film though - and a bit of a myth buster .... and of course i have shared many of those sorts of feelings
on some of my longer trans Solent crossings.
 
Cloona said:
congratulations to Captain Claes for getting 7 landlubbers across the Atlantic ocean safely.... and with some fun along the way - remarkable really .

i wonder if he charged them something ? - I bet he did ...

the narrator was a bit of a misery guts and i wonder if being coupled up was a pain -

great film though - and a bit of a myth buster .... and of course i have shared many of those sorts of feelings
on some of my longer trans Solent crossings.
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Nicely written

it would be good to know if any of these people ever go sailing again.
 
Hope it doesnt put anyone off! The two times I took a yacht across with larger crew were great. Lively people with lots to talk about, cooking and fishing competitions,mid atlantic disco, swimming in awesomely blue sea, its all there. :encouragement:
 
dylanwinter said:
Nicely written

it would be good to know if any of these people ever go sailing again.
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Perhaps it's easy to write this with hindsight and a bit of experience, but maybe doing an Atlantic crossing as a first sailing experience was not the wisest idea. When I did one of my RYA courses we had a crew member who had spent £500 on gear even though he had never sailed before. We sailed from Plymouth to Guernsey (as we were all keen to do some mile building) and he suffered from sea sickness dreadfully. He flew home the next day. That was just 75NM and maybe that was a bit long as a 'first' sail.

I hope they do go sailing again. Hopefully on a boat with more personal space, less swell prettier scenery and a more conventional captain.
 
RobF said:
Perhaps it's easy to write this with hindsight and a bit of experience, but maybe doing an Atlantic crossing as a first sailing experience was not the wisest idea. When I did one of my RYA courses we had a crew member who had spent £500 on gear even though he had never sailed before. We sailed from Plymouth to Guernsey (as we were all keen to do some mile building) and he suffered from sea sickness dreadfully. He flew home the next day. That was just 75NM and maybe that was a bit long as a 'first' sail.

I hope they do go sailing again. Hopefully on a boat with more personal space, less swell prettier scenery and a more conventional captain.
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I got the impression that the spoilt drawler was the issue!
Stu
 
TonyBuckley said:
Just watched "Between Home" - the story of a 26 year old who bought a Contessa 26 and decided to go to Oz by sailing the Atlantic and Pacific. He had no previous experience. Quite fascinating.
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Where did you find this? I can only seem to get the trailer. Vimeo seems to have it but when I click on it I only get the trailer.
 
dylanwinter said:
an interesting film

an old live-aboard german yacht owner takes seven people - mostly sailing neophytes - across the atlantic

the narrator, one of the crew, sounds as though he has sucked a few too many spliffs in his life - or maybe that is the mid mercan accent

it is 1 minute of film from each day of the trip

The pressures of sharing a small space with so many people took its toll and they were all heartily pleased to be ashore at the end

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He is not that old, about mid 40s, and he is Swedish I am told.
Stu
 
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