In this episode I discuss more about the fastnet race and the upcoming Expeditions at the end of 2025 and into 2026 and I share with you a problem which together we are going to solve. Find out more about about little Hannah's situation here: https://www.supportnow.org/hannah-seeley Mariner Links If you'd like to buy a piece of the 100,000Nm mainsail that has pulled so faithfully these last 3000Nm, to get me here on time to start the Fastnet, please follow this link to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themariner/shop/own-piece-of-mainsail-that-would-not-die-1996232 If you'd like to sponsor Osprey's west around the world voyage and gain the opportunity to come sailing in a race event, please connect with me at: https//:www.csmthemariner.com If you'd like to gain access to live streams, competitions, win sailing trips, or purchase personal marine consultancy, please go over to: https//:www.patreon.com/themariner Latest Onboard Patreon Exclusive Update : https://www.patreon.com/posts/134488590?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=android_share Sailing Podcasts If you prefer an audio format, try The Mariner Podcast, which now has a library of over 130 episodes, all over an hour and in granular depth about sailing technicalities, stories, interviews, and gear reviews. Everything you could possibly want for an afternoon sanding or painting! The Mariner Podcast: https://www.podbean.com/pa/pbblog-g2yfz-793766 If you have a long drive or a long afternoon sailing ahead, or you are working in the garden and want to listen to some classic sailing books read by an experienced sailor, please check out the Mariner's Library Podcast. The Mariner’s Library https://www.podbean.com/pa/pbblog-n7tfy-d0a868

After a week and 500 miles of crew skill development, we are ready on the last day of the race to hoist the C5 Spinnaker and let Osprey spread her wings. If you'd like to buy a piece of the 100,000Nm

100Nm to Fastnet Rock If you'd like to buy a piece of the 100,000Nm mainsail that has pulled so faithfully these last 3000Nm, to get me here on time to start the Fastnet, please follow this link to

After 300 miles on the beat, we finally round the Fastnet Rock. 102 days after reset the challenge in Nova Scotia If you'd like to buy a piece of the 100,000Nm mainsail that has pulled so faithfully

After rounding The Fastnet Rock in the early evening in fog, we've now started the downhill leg back to Cherbourg. The crew is very happy to have a flat boat, and to be able to learn the basics of run

After 3500 miles crossing the Atlantic I get within 30 miles of the marina and discover that I'm almost running out of fuel. in this episode, I take you through problem solving, which allows me to complete the journey without drama. If you'd like to buy a piece of the 100,000Nm mainsail that has pulled so faithfully these last 3000Nm, to get me here on time to start the Fastnet, please follow this link to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themariner/shop/own-piece-of-mainsail-that-would-not-die-1996232 If you'd like to sponsor Osprey's west around the world voyage and gain the opportunity to come sailing in a race event, please connect with me at: https//:www.csmthemariner.com If you'd like to gain access to live streams, competitions, win sailing trips, or purchase personal marine consultancy, please go over to: https//:www.patreon.com/themariner Latest Onboard Patreon Exclusive Update : https://www.patreon.com/posts/134488590?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=android_share Sailing Podcasts If you prefer an audio format, try The Mariner Podcast, which now has a library of over 130 episodes, all over an hour and in granular depth about sailing technicalities, stories, interviews, and gear reviews. Everything you could possibly want for an afternoon sanding or painting! The Mariner Podcast: https://www.podbean.com/pa/pbblog-g2yfz-793766 If you have a long drive or a long afternoon sailing ahead, or you are working in the garden and want to listen to some classic sailing books read by an experienced sailor, please check out the Mariner's Library Podcast. The Mariner’s Library https://www.podbean.com/pa/pbblog-n7tfy-d0a868

My 33rd transatlantic voyage is complete and what a fantastic sunrise that is with the crew now ready in Southampton, the mainsail ready on the dock in Cherbourg and 5 days until the start of the centenary fastnet race to get those two essential components loaded onto Osprey before rhe start of the centenary Fastnet Race. If you'd like to buy a piece of the 100,000Nm mainsail that has pulled so faithfully these last 3000Nm, to get me here on time to start the Fastnet, please follow this link to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themariner/shop/own-piece-of-mainsail-that-would-not-die-1996232 If you'd like to sponsor Osprey's west around the world voyage and gain the opportunity to come sailing in a race event, please connect with me at: https//:www.csmthemariner.com If you'd like to gain access to live streams, competitions, win sailing trips, or purchase personal marine consultancy, please go over to: https//:www.patreon.com/themariner Latest Onboard Patreon Exclusive Update : https://www.patreon.com/posts/134488590?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=android_share Sailing Podcasts If you prefer an audio format, try The Mariner Podcast, which now has a library of over 130 episodes, all over an hour and in granular depth about sailing technicalities, stories, interviews, and gear reviews. Everything you could possibly want for an afternoon sanding or painting! The Mariner Podcast: https://www.podbean.com/pa/pbblog-g2yfz-793766 If you have a long drive or a long afternoon sailing ahead, or you are working in the garden and want to listen to some classic sailing books read by an experienced sailor, please check out the Mariner's Library Podcast. The Mariner’s Library https://www.podbean.com/pa/pbblog-n7tfy-d0a868

A modified weather forecast means that's our 35 knot push may only in fact last for a couple of hours before that system stools out west of the British Isles. therefore I'm cutting down towards the coast of France so I can get across the channel at best speed on a beam reach in the lighter breeze in this episode we also get to see a big ship cutting past the bows of the boat I'm not sure if you'll see it properly in this video but it was rolling like crazy! If you'd like to buy a piece of the 100,000Nm mainsail that has pulled so faithfully these last 3000Nm, to get me here on time to start the Fastnet, please follow this link to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themariner/shop/own-piece-of-mainsail-that-would-not-die-1996232 If you'd like to sponsor Osprey's west around the world voyage and gain the opportunity to come sailing in a race event, please connect with me at: https//:www.csmthemariner.com If you'd like to gain access to live streams, competitions, win sailing trips, or purchase personal marine consultancy, please go over to: https//:www.patreon.com/themariner Latest Onboard Patreon Exclusive Update : https://www.patreon.com/posts/134488590?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=android_share Sailing Podcasts If you prefer an audio format, try The Mariner Podcast, which now has a library of over 130 episodes, all over an hour and in granular depth about sailing technicalities, stories, interviews, and gear reviews. Everything you could possibly want for an afternoon sanding or painting! The Mariner Podcast: https://www.podbean.com/pa/pbblog-g2yfz-793766 If you have a long drive or a long afternoon sailing ahead, or you are working in the garden and want to listen to some classic sailing books read by an experienced sailor, please check out the Mariner's Library Podcast. The Mariner’s Library https://www.podbean.com/pa/pbblog-n7tfy-d0a868

In this episode we take a moment for a breather after many days cruising at over 10 knots, but it's only for a couple of hours before 35 knots comes up from the southwest to blow us up the English Channel and into the start area for the Fastnet race If you'd like to buy a piece of the 100,000Nm mainsail that has pulled so faithfully these last 3000Nm, to get me here on time to start the Fastnet, please follow this link to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themariner/shop/own-piece-of-mainsail-that-would-not-die-1996232 If you'd like to sponsor Osprey's west around the world voyage and gain the opportunity to come sailing in a race event, please connect with me at: https//:www.csmthemariner.com If you'd like to gain access to live streams, competitions, win sailing trips, or purchase personal marine consultancy, please go over to: https//:www.patreon.com/themariner Latest Onboard Patreon Exclusive Update : https://www.patreon.com/posts/134488590?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=android_share Sailing Podcasts If you prefer an audio format, try The Mariner Podcast, which now has a library of over 130 episodes, all over an hour and in granular depth about sailing technicalities, stories, interviews, and gear reviews. Everything you could possibly want for an afternoon sanding or painting! The Mariner Podcast: https://www.podbean.com/pa/pbblog-g2yfz-793766 If you have a long drive or a long afternoon sailing ahead, or you are working in the garden and want to listen to some classic sailing books read by an experienced sailor, please check out the Mariner's Library Podcast. The Mariner’s Library https://www.podbean.com/pa/pbblog-n7tfy-d0a868

Thank you to everyone who’s already signed up to receive a piece of Osprey’s mainsail—the same sail that’s carrying me toward the UK right now. Your $100 pledges at the 'solo' tier on Patreon, are going straight to my beautiful tnew 197 sqm /2150 sqft mainsail that was just finished, that we will be using for the Centenary Fastnet race, next week. https://www.patreon.com/posts/own-piece-of-not-134326761?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link But the sail we’re saying goodbye to is no ordinary sail. It was originally built for Dominique Wavre’s IMOCA 60 'Temenos' in 2000, and it’s done more than 100,000 ocean miles—including two Vendee Globes wth Dominique, two solo transatlantic voyages with me, and the 2024 Newport–Bermuda race. Now, it’s taking on its final challenge: driving Osprey home across the Atlantic, one last time. Out of respect for its legacy, I’m not asking more of it than it can give. I’m reefed down through this last weather system, running a reaching headsail to keep the pace without flogging the main. I want it to finish this journey with dignity. If you’d like to be part of this story—and own a piece of it—you can. I’m cutting the sail into hand-sized 8-by-12-inch pieces to share with supporters once I make land fall. For a $100 pledge on Patreon, you’ll get one of those sections. A real piece of sailing history, a talisman of Tenacity, something tangible you can hold in your hands, or contemplate on the wall, as you chase your own dreams, whatever they might be. This isn’t just a fundraiser—it’s a continuation of a legacy. This old sail, through you, helps pay for the new sail, completed yesterday by the sailmakers in Italy, that will power Osprey, solo, non-stop, West around the world. Your support would be very much appreciated, whatever you can spare, Cheers, – Chris Support the Mariner's solo, non-stop, West Around the World voyage on the 85ft Maxi 'Osprey' at: https//:www.patreon.com/themariner

This is specifically for someone who connected with metheough the comments and said that the the 360 videoa were the best thing he'd seen, to remind him at 77, of the feeling of being out on the ocean doing the Transpac, something he might not do again. This is how it is to be on a boat, at sea, chatting through the options for the next 24 hours. --- Check out the website at: https//:www.csmthemariner.com 10 x sponsor places available for Fastnet- $3000USD. Training begins 21st July in Southampton, UK. includes 300Nm qualifying voyage. Contact me via the website contact page or or at: csmthemariner@gmail.com Want more? 📻 Mariner Podcast: Behind-the-scenes stories, seamanship breakdowns, interviews, and Q&A. This is where I unpack what really goes on at sea and in the boatyard. Listen here: https://themariner.podbean.com --- Support this Project Join me on Patreon or YouTube Memberships for $5/month. You’ll get bonus content, narrated technical videos, live Q&As, merch, and—if you're up for it—sailing adventures with me. Patreon: /themariner --- Boat Insurance Deal I use Edward William Insurance, and I’ve negotiated a discount for the community. 💸 Use code MARINER10 for 10% off at checkout: https://www.edwardwilliam.com 10% of every policy goes to supporting this channel. Feedback welcome. --- Hashtags: #sailinglife #offshorework #yachting #boatmaintenance #stayfocused #buildthedream

A quick update now the heavy weather has passed, we took a bit of a pounding in short seas made worse by a backing breeze. as I said recently the maximum speed up wind in heavy conditions is 10 knots unless you want to be launching out the top of the waves that's much harder to do when a safe path across the waves is that 45° to the crest but that puts on a beam reach. --- Support me without needing to run away to sea: What if a piece of torn sailcloth could remind you what commitment looks like? This mainsail is on its final run across the Atlantic, flying torn and tired but still holding Osprey steady at 15 knots. It’s not a perfect fit—it’s 15 feet too short for the rig. But like me, it keeps going anyway. It’s done over 100,000 miles. It carried Dominique Wavre to a 5th and then 4th place in the Vendée Globe. It saved my solo crossing in 2018 when my “new” mainsail exploded off Land’s End. You can watch that whole mess unfold on YouTube. In 2024, it stepped in again after Osprey’s big sail blew out just before Newport–Bermuda. Now, once it finishes this delivery and we hit the Fastnet start, I’ll retire it. I’ll cut it into signed 8-by-10 pieces, scars and all, and stick on a label with the story of every mile it gave. A daily reminder that things don’t have to be perfect to be powerful—they just have to keep going. If you want one, join the $100 tier on Patreon for a single month, & I’ll send it anywhere in the world. Let this scrap of sailcloth remind you what perseverance looks like. Visit : https//:www.patreon.com/themariner

In this episode we get to look around the boat as she starts to power up in 25 kts of true wind, and we see a repair I did on the autopilot's connection to the rudder stock, a few days ago. --- Check out the website at: https//:www.csmthemariner.com 7 x sponsor places available for Fastnet- $3000USD. Training begins 21st July in Southampton, UK. includes 300Nm qualifying voyage. Contact me via the website contact page or or at: csmthemariner@gmail.com Want more? 📻 Mariner Podcast: Behind-the-scenes stories, seamanship breakdowns, interviews, and Q&A. This is where I unpack what really goes on at sea and in the boatyard. Listen here: https://themariner.podbean.com --- Support this Project Join me on Patreon or YouTube Memberships for $5/month. You’ll get bonus content, narrated technical videos, live Q&As, merch, and—if you're up for it—sailing adventures with me. Patreon: /themariner --- Boat Insurance Deal I use Edward William Insurance, and I’ve negotiated a discount for the community. 💸 Use code MARINER10 for 10% off at checkout: https://www.edwardwilliam.com 10% of every policy goes to supporting this channel. Feedback welcome. --- Hashtags: #sailinglife #offshorework #yachting #boatmaintenance #stayfocused #buildthedream

COG 070 SOG 10 TWS 25 AWS 30+ I'm going to create these short , on deck, 360 videos as a way of providing a real-time log of conditions as I sail Osprey towards the Fastnet event. A longer video will drop this afternoon. Check out the website at: https//:www.csmthemariner.com 7 x sponsor places available for Fastnet- $3000USD. Training begins 21st July in Southampton, UK. includes 300Nm qualifying voyage. Contact me via the website contact page or or at: csmthemariner@gmail.com Want more? 📻 Mariner Podcast: Behind-the-scenes stories, seamanship breakdowns, interviews, and Q&A. This is where I unpack what really goes on at sea and in the boatyard. Listen here: https://themariner.podbean.com --- Support this Project Join me on Patreon or YouTube Memberships for $5/month. You’ll get bonus content, narrated technical videos, live Q&As, merch, and—if you're up for it—sailing adventures with me. Patreon: /themariner --- Boat Insurance Deal I use Edward William Insurance, and I’ve negotiated a discount for the community. 💸 Use code MARINER10 for 10% off at checkout: https://www.edwardwilliam.com 10% of every policy goes to supporting this channel. Feedback welcome. --- Hashtags: #sailinglife #offshorework #yachting #boatmaintenance #stayfocused #buildthedream

A quick upload for those who wanted to see more of the 360 views on deck. I have another 'normal' video I am.working on, but sailing got in the way :) ! I'll have that out in the next 4 hours. in this video I had just finished putting the reefs in and am tudting up after myself. The wind is due to increase here to 30 knots in the next 12 hours. --- Check out the website at csmthemariner.com 8 x sponsor places available for Fastnet- $3000USD. Training begins 21st July in Southampton, UK. includes 300Nm qualifying voyage. Contact me via the website- it comes straight to the boat :) Want more detail? 📻 Mariner Podcast: Behind-the-scenes stories, seamanship breakdowns, interviews, and Q&A. This is where I unpack what really goes on at sea and in the boatyard. Listen here: https://themariner.podbean.com 📚 Mariner’s Library: Classic sailing books read aloud. Start with Weston Martyr’s The Southseaman, a lost voice from a century ago whose stories still resonate. Search “The Mariner’s Library” wherever you get your podcasts. --- Support this Project Join me on Patreon or YouTube Memberships for $5/month. You’ll get bonus content, narrated technical videos, live Q&As, merch, and—if you're up for it—sailing adventures with me. Patreon: /themariner YouTube Memberships: /@csmthemariner --- Boat Insurance Deal I use Edward William Insurance, and I’ve negotiated a discount for the community. 💸 Use code MARINER10 for 10% off at checkout: https://www.edwardwilliam.com 10% of every policy goes to supporting this channel. Feedback welcome. --- Hashtags: #sailinglife #offshorework #yachting #boatmaintenance #stayfocused #buildthedream

Today, I take a walk around the boat yard at Portland Yacht Services, and look at all the interesting details of the boats that are stored there and discuss with you, basically, anything that comes to my mind about boats. It's offbeat and super nerdy just as it should be when noodling about 'in the yard'. Please remember to like, share and subscribe. if you do want to sale in the fFastnet the Middle Sea Race the Caribbean 600 or the Newport Bermuda Raxe, please get busy as quick as you can, go to https//:www.csmthemarina.com, drop me an email via the website 'contact' page and let's get it lined up ASAP because there are very limited availability for these places on board Osprey. --- Check out the website at: https//:www.csmthemariner.com Juat 10 x sponsor places available for Fastnet $3000USD. Training begins 21st July in Southampton, UK. includes 300Nm qualifying voyage. Contact me via the website contact page or or at: csmthemariner@gmail.com Want more? 📻 Mariner Podcast: Behind-the-scenes stories, seamanship breakdowns, interviews, and Q&A. This is where I unpack what really goes on at sea and in the boatyard. Listen here: https://themariner.podbean.com --- Support this Project Join me on Patreon or YouTube Memberships for $5/month. You’ll get bonus content, narrated technical videos, live Q&As, merch, and—if you're up for it—sailing adventures with me. Patreon: /themariner --- Boat Insurance Deal I use Edward William Insurance, and I’ve negotiated a discount for the community. 💸 Use code MARINER10 for 10% off at checkout: https://www.edwardwilliam.com 10% of every policy goes to supporting this channel. Feedback welcome. --- Hashtags: #sailinglife #offshorework #yachting #boatmaintenance #stayfocused #buildthedream

A 360 video giving you an opportunity to join me for a little foredeck work, on a beautiful afternoon, as I hoist the staysail. --- Check out the website at csmthemariner.com 10 x sponsor places available for Fastnet- $3000USD. Training begins 21st July in Southampton, UK. includes 300Nm qualifying voyage. Contact me via the website! or at: chris@csmthemariner.com Want more detail? 📻 Mariner Podcast: Behind-the-scenes stories, seamanship breakdowns, interviews, and Q&A. This is where I unpack what really goes on at sea and in the boatyard. Listen here: https://themariner.podbean.com 📚 Mariner’s Library: Classic sailing books read aloud. Start with Weston Martyr’s The Southseaman, a lost voice from a century ago whose stories still resonate. Search “The Mariner’s Library” wherever you get your podcasts. --- Support this Project Join me on Patreon or YouTube Memberships for $5/month. You’ll get bonus content, narrated technical videos, live Q&As, merch, and—if you're up for it—sailing adventures with me. Patreon: /themariner YouTube Memberships: /@csmthemariner --- Boat Insurance Deal I use Edward William Insurance, and I’ve negotiated a discount for the community. 💸 Use code MARINER10 for 10% off at checkout: https://www.edwardwilliam.com 10% of every policy goes to supporting this channel. Feedback welcome. --- Hashtags: #sailinglife #offshorework #yachting #boatmaintenance #stayfocused #buildthedream

A quick rundown of some of the decisions and tasks I'm dealing with today as I step off the North American continental shelf, and head towards Europe for the 100th Fastnet race. --- Check out the website at: https//:www.csmthemariner.com 10 x sponsor places available for Fastnet- $3000USD. Training begins 21st July in Southampton, UK. includes 300Nm qualifying voyage. Contact me via the website contact page or or at: csmthemariner@gmail.com Want more? 📻 Mariner Podcast: Behind-the-scenes stories, seamanship breakdowns, interviews, and Q&A. This is where I unpack what really goes on at sea and in the boatyard. Listen here: https://themariner.podbean.com --- Support this Project Join me on Patreon or YouTube Memberships for $5/month. You’ll get bonus content, narrated technical videos, live Q&As, merch, and—if you're up for it—sailing adventures with me. Patreon: /themariner --- Boat Insurance Deal I use Edward William Insurance, and I’ve negotiated a discount for the community. 💸 Use code MARINER10 for 10% off at checkout: https://www.edwardwilliam.com 10% of every policy goes to supporting this channel. Feedback welcome. --- Hashtags: #sailinglife #offshorework #yachting #boatmaintenance #stayfocused #buildthedream

A couple of days out into the Atlantic and it's time to cross over the confluence of the warm Gulfstream coming up from the Caribbean, and cold waters coming down from the Arctic --- Check out the website at csmthemariner.com 10 x sponsor places available for Fastnet- $3000USD. Training begins 21st July in Southampton, UK. includes 300Nm qualifying voyage. Contact me via the website! or at: chris@csmthemariner.com Want more detail? 📻 Mariner Podcast: Behind-the-scenes stories, seamanship breakdowns, interviews, and Q&A. This is where I unpack what really goes on at sea and in the boatyard. Listen here: https://themariner.podbean.com 📚 Mariner’s Library: Classic sailing books read aloud. Start with Weston Martyr’s The Southseaman, a lost voice from a century ago whose stories still resonate. Search “The Mariner’s Library” wherever you get your podcasts. --- Support this Project Join me on Patreon or YouTube Memberships for $5/month. You’ll get bonus content, narrated technical videos, live Q&As, merch, and—if you're up for it—sailing adventures with me. Patreon: /themariner YouTube Memberships: /@csmthemariner --- Boat Insurance Deal I use Edward William Insurance, and I’ve negotiated a discount for the community. 💸 Use code MARINER10 for 10% off at checkout: https://www.edwardwilliam.com 10% of every policy goes to supporting this channel. Feedback welcome. --- Hashtags: #sailinglife #offshorework #yachting #boatmaintenance #stayfocused #buildthedream

We meet a pod of dolphins whilst crossing into the Gulf Stream on my first solo transatlantic voyage of 2025 on the 80 foot sloop, Osprey --- Check out the website at csmthemariner.com 10 x sponsor places available for Fastnet- $3000USD. Training begins 21st July in Southampton, UK. includes 300Nm qualifying voyage. Contact me via the website! or at: chris@csmthemariner.com Want more detail? 📻 Mariner Podcast: Behind-the-scenes stories, seamanship breakdowns, interviews, and Q&A. This is where I unpack what really goes on at sea and in the boatyard. Listen here: https://themariner.podbean.com 📚 Mariner’s Library: Classic sailing books read aloud. Start with Weston Martyr’s The Southseaman, a lost voice from a century ago whose stories still resonate. Search “The Mariner’s Library” wherever you get your podcasts. --- Support this Project Join me on Patreon or YouTube Memberships for $5/month. You’ll get bonus content, narrated technical videos, live Q&As, merch, and—if you're up for it—sailing adventures with me. Patreon: /themariner YouTube Memberships: /@csmthemariner --- Boat Insurance Deal I use Edward William Insurance, and I’ve negotiated a discount for the community. 💸 Use code MARINER10 for 10% off at checkout: https://www.edwardwilliam.com 10% of every policy goes to supporting this channel. Feedback welcome. --- Hashtags: #sailinglife #offshorework #yachting #boatmaintenance #stayfocused #buildthedream