We had an interesting final sail on Peter's Firebird in the most wind I sailed in when in Barbados - we sailed with 2 reefs. Peter's friend Eric has a foiling waveboard and he wanted to foil behind the Firebird. In the end he managed it, but there was lots of falling in at the beginning. It was hard work for Peter and I as we had to start at near zero speed, so Eric could grab the tow rope, then slowly accelerate to about 7 knots so he could get ready for lift off. Then accelerate to 10 knots very quickly, so he could lift out. And then control the speed at 10-12 rather than surge up to 15-18. But of course the wind would drop, or he'd fall in or.... but, as I say, after 2 hours he did manage to fly for maybe 30 secs. Although, if we were quick enough, we could stop and heave to after he fell in, sometimes we sailed on too far and then we had to pull in the tow rope (we discovered it was too easy to get it entangled on rudders and daggerboards), tack round and sail back. As always it was scary how quickly a head disappears from view. But interestingly we could easily see him when he was in the sun, it was when he was north of us that he became invisible (one of his sons kept a very close eye on Dad, religiously pointing to his position). Flat water helped, and lots of passing day charter cats got a bit confused by seeing a swimmer apparently a mile out to sea but happily waving!

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Diving the Banda Sea - Shorts - The Forgotten Islands - Banda Sea, Indonesia. A Diving Trip with Master Liveaboard into this amazing region. We had a UW-photography workshop with Gerald Rambert. IG - https://www.instagram.com/gerald_rambert/ . I hope you'll enjoy this video! If you have any questions, please leave a comment down below. Music: https://www.storyblocks.com/audio Voiceover: https://murf.ai/text-to-speech AI Invideo (10 minutes are free!): https://invideo.io/i/pyu Join me on Instagram: Everything big - https://www.instagram.com/project_yet_unknown_all/ Everything small - https://www.instagram.com/project_yet_unknown/ Check out my pictures on ... Scopio: http://bit.ly/2OtkRLg Wirestock: https://wirestock.io/peter.jantsch

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There are some big spiders in San Diego. This is one of the biggest. This is the Ebony tarantula. We see them all the time on our hikes. If you are nice to them, they are nice to you. ?

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Motor sailor - Både sælges, Motorsejler Træ, 1982 DKK 147.000 Scanboat https://www.scanboat.com/en/boat-market/boats/motor-sailor-motorsejler-trae-17483161

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???Write one sentence only a sailor would understand.????? #sailing #sailor #sailboat

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