Atlantic crossing South Africa - Brazil ⛵️ - We thought we were going to die‼️
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Welcome to the first part
Welcome to the first part of the story of our Atlantic crossing, South Africa to Brazil (Part 1)
This is the first week or so of the trip after leaving SA and their were times that we thought we wouldn’t make it!!!😫
We provisioned the boat in the weeks leading up to our departure, watched for a good weather window and tried to prepare ourselves mentally for what was to come. Little did we know we were about to enter the scariest 72 hours of all of our lives!!!
Autopilot failure, Steering failure, banging and crashing, and all round fear.
The first 2 days after departure were fine and we settled into our watches and were feeling quite confident, but then the sea state started to build and the storms arrived - we chose to go off of our originally planned track because of the sea state and the fact that we are a catamaran. But this just meant that the storms forced us north instead of the planned westward track, which kept us close to the African coast and stuck in the storm conditions. The details are all in the video!
We made it through, somehow, were not put off the plan to continue sailing, although it has cemented the fact that none of us are fans of big passages.
Watch the video to see a bit of our 72hours where we thought we were going to die along with all the things that went wrong in that time!!
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