Would love to do Atlantic crossing

[alant]

We had SSB & VHF - but that was over a decade ago.
Found Herb invaluable.

Herb has gone.
Rumour has it, that he was an automated CIA drone, checking boat movements off Bermuda & East coast.

 

[prv]

Yes, you are missing that most people don't have a sat phone..........

Then they can't call Nautibusiness either, can they?

Pete

 

[tcm]

I would love to do an Atlantic crossing but what is the reality?

Have spent countless hours watching YouTube videos of people crossing it looks like the hardest part is the boredom?

But what is the reality?

Lots of replies but no response from the oriinal poster? Do you have your own boat in which you might do a transit? Or would you want to crew in a boat making the trip?

The query is "What is the reality?" - what specifically are you asking about?

 

[saab96]

Do it. It's great. Try reading "Your First Atlantic Crossing" by Les Weatheritt 4th edition 2015 from Adlard Coles

 

[tcm]

Do it. It's great. Try reading "Your First Atlantic Crossing" by Les Weatheritt 4th edition 2015 from Adlard Coles

Um, perhaps DON"T bother reading that book for much real info on actually going. Or at least, don't pay proper money for it. It's rubbish. He buys a small ferro boat and the book goes through all the options for boat choice and decides that yes, a canoe-stern ferro boat is the very thing, especially a small one like his. He has a young crew guy but decides he needs three people, and the young guy suggests a girl who can cook. She joins the boat and off they go. Much discussion about crew dynamics, they not getting on with him a lot ... then they arrive and the young couple decamp and get married - and he has had no inkling nor does he mention that haha he's been playing gooseberry the whole crossing, haha.

 

[Sybarite]

Five major ocean crossings, SWMBO said she was getting bored by the last but I never did. Certainly not at all on the first. I miss it now.

We did 3 hour watches by day, 5 hours by night. That leaves a 2 hour shared watch in early evening which was about the only time we saw one another!

I imagine a crossing with 4 people. 3 x 3 hr watches with the fourth person getting a full night's sleep every 4th night? Workable?