Sailing across the Pacific on a million dollar sailboat (pt 1)

what's up everybody so it's the day about eight o'clock in the morning my plane leaves in three hours from seattle this is my wonderful mama i love you mama whatever you said i'm sadly saying goodbye to her but we got a month together that was fun and i'm going on another adventure the sea here we come i've been offered to board a plane bound for hawaii get on a boat i've never seen with people i've never met and sail 3 300 nautical miles across the pacific ocean what would you do the boat in question is at 1984 mason 63 designed by alvin mason in the late 1970s mason had in his early career worked for john alton whose famous designs include the bristol 35 fuji 45 and many custom schooners having also been the head draftsman for sparkman stevens he took many of the design elements from the yachts he penned over his career and put them into his legacy boat the mason 63. the crew includes mark the owner of the boat his daughter erin her boyfriend jake and my buddy ryan yeah okay i know one of them needless to say after 30 000 miles on a catamaran i was more than a bit intrigued to see how this beautiful yacht would handle herself in the deep blue this boat hadn't been out on the water since her crossing to hawaii over a year ago so we needed to go through and check to make sure she was seaworthy for the journey the first thing we did was take the sails down to simultaneously check them for wear and check the halyards for chaff for you non-sailors hallyards are the lines that hold up the sails okay so we found our first problem here this is the jib halyard it goes on to the top swivel of the hearken roller furler and pulls it up so this is stayset and this is dyneema chaff sleeve and there's a pretty good this is worn through all the way to the stay set this will break underway if if it gets enough strain on it so what we need to do is to take this and move it so it's on the block up a little further so what we're going to do is cut off this one i'll i'll cut off all the whipping and then um probably just pull the whipping out and then we'll tie it in a bowline that'll that'll make that this block right about here instead and then we're going to lock wire all the shackles because one of the shackles was just completely it was about to fall off make sure all your shackles are lock wired because this one was like on the hairy edge of the next step was to lube the sails as we raise them back up that way if we have any problems offshore it'll be that much easier to get this big piece of dacron down in an emergency checking the mizen that's the rear mast on a two-masted boat we found a very similar problem where the chafe was even more significant we handled this halyard in the same fashion and the mission sail was ready to go i just got off the phone with eric we're getting our iridium uh that's amazing thank you eric you're the man he he went and dug through all my crap from zingaro like seven boxes [ __ ] [ __ ] to get that iridium so now we're gonna make a list of what we need from the parts store we need some 5200 and some butyl tape to re-bed anything that's leaking mark says that there's a couple of leaks which means that there's probably going to be more than a couple and one of them is going to piss water because that's always what happens on a plastic boat and then there's a couple lines we need replacing and fishing line because fishing is very important got to make the crew happy right ryan yes sir i'm going to catch some fish some mahi mahi and some tuna maybe a sailfish what's your favorite fish ooh i gotta say mahi dorado that is a good one how about you mark some blue fan some yellow fin either one black fence and i like ono so it doesn't matter what fish we get it's gonna be our favorite one after we dealt with all of the sails and gave the rigging a good inspection it was time to visit the generator and the diesel this boat has an absolutely breathtaking engine room with full access to everything making oil changes and maintenance very easy the deck is even designed to come off in the area above the engine so you can pick the engine out with a crane this bad boy is a two-stroke detroit diesel 453 arguably one of the best diesel engines ever made as it's just been rebuilt it looks beautiful here you can see us cleaning out the seawater cooling strainer that little basket will suck up anything from sea grass to jellyfish yup you heard me we found jellyfish in there the last engine maintenance item was to change the fuel filters and change a cracked filter housing we found in our inspections [Music] after seeing to the engine maintenance we were ready to take the big girl out for a shakedown sale we wanted to check that everything was in fact set up to do what it was supposed to do and test a few things we couldn't check at the dock after raising the sails the wind really piped up and we got a chance to do some training on reefing the sails we also started the water maker to make sure it was making us the oh so important shower water people get pretty stinky after three weeks on a boat okay the day's over we took the sails down and now we're beating into the wind 23 knots probably two meter waves and it's not really fun but the boat's handling it well we're doing five knots like straight upwind i could never do this with zingaro so you said the propeller gives you the push not not the engine yeah the propeller a good propeller makes all the difference in the world this is a max prop four blade four blade horribly lots of traction maybe i'll go down below and show you guys what's hanging around down there well this is why you do a sea trial we found many broken latches leaking deck hardware and other points of maintenance we needed to deal with and after we got into port mark and i had a meeting to make a list of everything we needed to do before departure we tested the e-perb sealed the mast once again replaced the weatherstripping on the aft lazarette hatch for young sailors lazarette is a fancy word for locker and rebetted a few of the deck protrusions now we were finally ready to go go go go go go okay hit it it's working we did it we're just getting some fuel here before we leave we should be leaving around uh five six o'clock so we're getting everything prepared ready to go [Music] it's said that the hardest not to untie is the cleat hitch that's the not tying the boat to the dock it's a very exciting and scary time to finally leave the dock and after stopping to fuel up we were treated by an absolutely amazing sunset our first night out to see [Music] during the night we noticed that the breaker for the navigation lights kept tripping and for the life of me i couldn't figure out why so the decision was made to stop at hanalei bay on hawaii's kauai island to troubleshoot so the reason that the breaker kept tripping for the navigation lights is the stern light has a wire that goes through the stern pulpit and the stern pulpit is connected to the lifelines and that whole thing is charged because somewhere in there that wire is frayed and it's touching the stern pulpit which is and then grounding to the lifelines so as long as they're floating they're fine but as soon as we put these whisker poles on they started touching the standing rigging and they were sparking and the only reason i saw i saw it was because it was really dark last night and i thought there was a light going on up here it was like light light light light light light light and i was like what is that and i saw the sparks and i was like oh [ __ ] we're gonna catch the boat on fire so i moved the whisker poles up and that solved the problem of it overloading the problem is this whole thing all of these wires and these extensions and the whisker poles are now charged well it's not going to start a fire unless there's some kind of like grease or oil or diesel on on your clothes but uh it's it's still a problem so we've got the rest of the pacific to figure this one out these are my friends jen and john from carl bobbo this is the second time we've met and we've been friends for a few years uh john has a blog and you are an ex-journalist printer that's what we say newspaper industry he's got a strong command of the english language good to see you buddy good to see you thanks for rowing over yeah we see you in different places yeah yeah very cool yeah what are you monkeys doing so using my monkey toes to pull things out of the chain locker after fixing the navigation lights and playing in the water for the day we were ready to raise the anchor and head out on what would become a 3 300 nautical mile journey all the way from 21 degrees latitude in kauai to 48 degrees north that's vancouver island and back down to our final destination san francisco at 37 degrees we didn't know what we had in store but we were all saying a small prayer to neptune to get us through safely [Music] all right it is officially day three uh we left kauai yesterday it's about six in the morning i'm just getting off watch ryan's up here to relieve me we've been doing eight knots all night traversing between like three three five and three four five which is actually better than i thought we would do i thought we'd be at like three two zero or something but we've made it 110 miles and we left at uh like four so in 17 hours we've done 110 miles so we're not we're not breaking any records but we're averaging probably seven seven point four knots something like that so oh no wait it's only been 14 hours so that's even better 7.5 7.6 the wind has been pretty constant at 18 knots and every once in a while a wave will just hit the boat and it'll come through here and it'll just splash this entire area like this is all wet here on the table i had to get my foulies on last night because i was freezing cold but now it's going to warm up so ryan should be fine i might bring a sweater up here on night watch from now on though yeah it's not that time yeah we is going to go do some lure fishing al sprague made for us this thing just rigged up ourselves a little wire leader with a uh swivel and some 250 pound test trolling line this thing is the craziest thing to me like look how far it's going it's like it's like 90 degrees to the rest of the i don't know if i'll ever get used to that all right guys so one of the things about being on a boat is always having your awareness of where your lines run and what's going to bind up with other things so i was looking at this line right here this is called a preventer and what a preventer does is it prevents your boom from swinging the other way and slamming in case you had a wind switch or somebody wasn't paying attention at the helm so what we're gonna do is we're going to move this preventer on the inside of our safety lines so in case the wind switches or we have some kind of a problem um it's not going to rip our barbecue off and pull on these so what i'm going to do is i'm going to build a little line that's going to go around here to attach our preventer so it goes from here to here instead of from outside of here to out here so we're going to take this little piece we're gonna do a regular little knot okay i'm gonna put this through here we're gonna make another little overhand knot and what that is we got these two knots you pull them together those are levers gnats fisherman's not or a fisherman's not now we got ourselves a loop now what we can do fall off the boat try not to do that what we're gonna do is we're gonna loop this around here we're gonna do another pass through like that and you're going through itself right just through itself yeah and that should be enough put tension on it that sucker is not gonna slide anywhere so now we've got this guy fixed to where we want it we're gonna take this preventer off and we're gonna move it in front now if this boom swings this way this is going to prevent this boom from swinging that way and ripping everything else off yeah that'll be a lot easier to attack now too because we can just disconnect it from here and then bring it over here and connect it to the other one before we had to whip it around the entire backstay and like lean out over the boat so nice job ry good good on you brother this stuff is called spartite it seals the mast in this little boot and i think what's happening is every time it's loaded down it's separating the mass from the spartite and it's just leaking a little bit because we sealed it here on the back but we haven't sealed it all the way around the mast so i'm going to put a little bead all the way around the mask and i hope that'll fix it i think it will so a little trick with this 5200 stuff keep it in the freezer it'll make it a little harder when you're in really hot climates otherwise it gets really runny another little trick that you've seen me do if you've been paying attention is to lick your finger before you touch the adhesive that way you can make it nice and pretty without getting any on your hands because as all of us sailors know that 5200 is some nasty stuff it's such good adhesive that we often call it screw the next guy so this is a series of knots i guess that after said and done we call it the butterfly testicle hitch and it's for fastening something cinching something down towards a cleat so you start off by making a loop some people might call this a perfection loop run a just kind of like a pretzel there back through your main loop and then around your main line tag end around the back side of the main line through your main loop and then around the two strands where your bite or our final loop is gonna be just get that tag end to stick out and cinch it down nice so ryan if you can hold your finger there like your finger is the cleat right then you're gonna take your main line and run like you're a bite through it like you're making a trucker's hitch there's your butterfly testicles okay so then i'm gonna be the object we're cinching down to the cleat and you're just gonna you can run like a clove hitch off of this or just loop around whatever you need to do to fasten your object down we'll do a clove hitch around my arm it's the object and then you finish it like a trucker's hitch just like that cinch it down ryan is the cleat remember just tie a bite to finish your trucker's hitch bam bam complicated series of knots that we call the butterfly testicle hitch mostly for boat applications so things like that oh yeah that's just like a main line just a mainline bite quick release system if you tie it from this end it doesn't work right a lot of people know that you have to just play with it so you know which side you're tightening oh i see otherwise if you if you cinch this down and you pull on it it just cinches down to your other line say my finger is the line so if i tie this the wrong on the wrong side of the line just make a slip loop it's going to cinch down to my line and it's going to be a pain to get out later so you always have to tie that down see how it cinches yeah you guys have to tie the start of that like trucker's hitch on the right side of the line otherwise it's going to cinch down so you want your main line to be able to pull that trucker's hitch loop like free so i'm pulling the main line it's all a matter of where your tension is coming from i like that knot pitch around your arm or whatever you're cinching down to the cleat back through i can kind of cinch that and tie a regular bite so it's all easy to undo later i love it cool all right so what we do is the fireman's carry fireman's scary yeah so if you were to do that and just loop them across and get yourself a clove hitch right but instead of overlapping them like this like this see how this will lock together this way it doesn't work gotta go this one under and that one over and through the loops like that cinch down once you get that make a half hitch and throw this loop through that half hitch and then this one make another half hitch throw that loop do that half hitch all right now you can pull on those and those loops don't tighten up it's still the same size and like this would like my upper body my end shoulders this would rest under my armpits yeah and then i would be like i'll see would sit right there yeah and then ryan could pull me up the side of a building or the side of a boat just like that or lower me back down using that main line yep up or down now go away pretty cool mate a main round [Music] can you guys see the rainbow that's a pretty one so i just reefed down the whole boat uh mizzen's on the single reef remains on a single reef stacy's put away and the jib is fully out we are doing 9.2 knots on a course of 340 and the sun's about to set it was a beautiful day today this is like what sailing days should be sunny good wind 15 knots of wind all day just picked up now that the sun's going down so hopefully that'll actually stay because we want to be trucking uh wind forecast comes out in an hour and we might see the green flash tonight have you ever seen the green flash aaron yeah yeah yeah how about you mark yeah several times she's pretty wet we've been taking waves all day we're kind of beating up wind uh we're keeping the wind at about 60 degrees so we can make some northerly progress because there's a big high coming through on the north and then there's the low up there by canada so we've got to go all the way around that and kind of shoot the gap and split that and come back down i'll show you guys unpredictable all right guys let me tell you a little bit about this mason and what i'm thinking about we are doing 10 knots right now 10 knots with a reef in the main and a reef in the missing and the gym fully out uh this is the nicest 10 knots i've ever done on any boat um be that as it may this is the biggest sailboat i've ever taken a passage on so i don't have a lot to compare with but if i had to choose between this and zingaro doing 10 knots i would choose this any day whoever gets this boat is lucky she's a stout good sailing uh very very nice sailboat and i'm not just saying that because mark said he'd give me five percent on the sale because he didn't say that uh seriously yeah i'd love this but if i had an extra 150 grand i would buy this right now i don't know if i'd want the maintenance on a 65-footer but this is a nice boat i can't believe we're doing 10 knots we're doing 10 knots reef down it's insane who built this they did a good job what's your thoughts man is this a common thing for you to be doing over nine knots average yeah we we had many days where we were doing over nine knots on our first pacific crossing yeah yeah and you hit 10 knots on that crossing too several times yeah not a problem going upwind because we're pretty much going upwind right now yeah yeah and the motion i mean i just fell off five degrees i went from 340 to 335 and we are just kind of cruising doing between nine and ten knots and that's impressive this is that's one thing about 70 000 pounds it goes through the water it doesn't go over the water yeah yeah so the sails are trimmed as about about as good as they can be and we're ready i just put all the reefs in myself i feel pretty proud about that this boat can be single-handed uh it would be a pain in the ass because it took me about 15 minutes of working to get all the sails down just for the first reef to get the station and get the main down to the first reef and get the miz into the first reef took about 15 minutes uh it would be a little dangerous to single-handed this thing but it can be done how about you mark what do you think single handing yeah too much work for an old man what's the matter buddy we are making pizza tonight and i think the last one is ready to come out of the oven [Music] oh yeah look at that beauty wow what is it that one's got barbecued chicken and pepperoni some cheese uh pre-made crust standard uh sauce on there oh it's good all right it's morning day four um it's about five o'clock in the morning the sun's just coming out um we've been doing three five three all night which is north northwest and there was a system that just came through right when i was coming on watch and now we're going a little bit farther north the wind is coming from over here before it was coming from kind of right right forward of the beam now it's our aft starboard quadrant which is the right backhand side i'm just waiting to turn the boat and back around a little bit and watch the sunrise so you can hear the sails kind of luffing because we would just pass the system and it actually just ran over top of us got us a little wet that's been happening all night it's been a couple beautiful days of sailing and now we're starting to get into the storms just because i think this is where the temperature is going to start cooling down a little bit i'm in my follies and uh i think that will be in those for a little while we're still heading north right towards alaska right where we want to go and um the new forecast comes out in half an hour so i'm gonna download that and we'll see what we can see so right after sunrise the wind let up and i needed to shake the reefs out of the sails so that's what you can see me doing here i'm taking the halyard down unhooking the sail from the reef hook and raising it up the rest of the way after that the wind was at a good bearing to put all the sails up so i loosened the staisel sail and then there was four but no rest for the weary the refrigerator was causing us problems [Music] so we figured out that the uh strainer is not clogged something's wrong with the compressor maybe it's not getting power maybe it's we're trying to figure it out we're gonna prime it and try it again [Music] so this would be a problem that would haunt us for the entire way what we ended up figuring out here was that the boat was going fast enough where the water moving past the through hole was causing a vacuum and actually sucking air through the line and unpriming the pump so we needed to prime the pump every time we went over nine knots which was really a pain in the butt the way to remedy this would be put a check valve on the exhaust water for the refrigerator or close the inlet when you were done running the refrigerator the problem with that is the inlet was underneath the engine and we would have had to crawl in the engine room every time so this will be an ongoing problem you'll see okay false alarm on the what's it called what's that working on other printer false alarm on the refrigerator it looks like we just preemptively started working on it without checking to make sure it was not below the temperature it needed to be to click on so i think it's actually at 13 and a half now it was at 12 before so it should turn on now you want to try it [Music] let's see what's here it will be right under here yeah that's it not staying on it's not staying on it's just the crime oh it's the prime oh they picked it up there it goes yeah look i fixed it mark fixed it okay i just took the first shower i've taken all trip look at my hair it's so silky smooth and uh i feel great that's a great shower all right okay this is our first uh catastrophe we're three days in and this is really messed up so we were going to take a second reef on the on the main and the second reef line got wrapped around the boom got stuck we had to undo the jack stays that got let go of and got went all the way up the mast so we just took all the sails down the wind is about 21 knots and it's you know it's not like life or death but it's it's kind of scary you know i'll show you guys this mess this that's the line we need on the second spreader [Music] let me down oh get down okay stop okay down hey wait wait wait wait whoa what side of the spreaders does it need to be on look at it uh this side what this side are you sure yeah are you sure my side yeah at all okay [Music] that was not cool don't try this at home oh my god i don't want to do that again this trip let's not do that again from now on these get hung up they just need to we just need to go up when we need to turn the okay crisis averted we have uh all the sales back up i went up the mass got the thing down we fixed the jack stays but in the confusion someone was in the shower and she has a capalamine patch on us capalamine patch is a little patch you put behind your ear to help with seasickness and what does it say on the box um not to if you if you touch it you gotta wash your hands and if you get it in your eye you have to seek medical attention so did you get in your eye i sure did have you have you seeked medical attention no show everybody oh my god your left people is so much bigger than the other one you need to seek medical attention yeah i mean do you want to like call someone i think i'm the closest thing to a medic we have on the bus do you want to like call use the sat phone and call no it'll go away i mean my mom are you sure my mom did this you have a brain injury oh at least you're clean yeah i'm clean okay status update it's still day four uh everybody took a nap right after lunchtime after we had some sandwiches we had some trouble this morning where we were trying to get the main double reef down and i let go of the jack lines and it just went all the way up to the second spreader and then i had to go in the boseman's chair we had to go upwind and it was just the worst time it was like 24 knots of wind and so after that everybody took a nap mark was up here and he noticed that we had a fish on the line so he woke everybody up and said hey are you guys ever gonna come up here and get this fish and we caught a sailfish and uh none of us knows really if sailfish is gonna be good i've had it before smoked and i've heard that it's bad um as sushi we tried it all raw and it was a little gamey and fishy so we're going to try it marinated as steaks and grill them and then we filleted some make it into like i don't know pasta sauce or something or maybe just like bread it and fry it and have some fried sailfish pretty fish uh them two are cleaning up all the sailfish this guy in the cockpit doing more lures because he's a fish maniac and overall it's been a great day great day i'm tired today though going up the map was scary okay it's sunset we've got rice cooking downstairs and we've got the sailfish grilling in the back after marinating for about an hour and a half come on let's go see oh my god that looks good a little shake extra shake there yeah now we're living you happy buddy that's some good eating right there see how my secret sauce comes out that's teamwork right there well that fucker's hot so cute i don't want to be wearing this thing man okay you can let go now ryan but i just don't want to [Music] foreign [Music]

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Length: 39min 15sec (2355 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 15 2020