Baptism of the Ocean: A wet start to our Torres Strait passage | S2 Ep.14

Hello there, welcome to Sailing NV, We’re a sailing family pursuing an unconventional dream of sailing around the world in our recently converted ex Vendée Globe Open 66. Join us this week where After years of refit work on the hard, months of some warm up cruising around Vanuatu, and weeks of battling through last minute breakages, it was finally time to put our open 66 to the test on our first big ocean passage to Indonesia through the Torres Strait Join us for some epic ocean surfing 00:00 - Intro 00:31 - Setting off 01:12 - Hoisting jib on middle stay 01:29 - Short history of our sails 02:24 - Ripping the luff 03:32 - Night sail 05:08 - Day 2 07:28 - Crew introduction 09:37 - Epic ocean surfing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you enjoyed this video please consider supporting us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/SailingNV or with a one-off donation via https://ko-fi.com/sailingnv or paypal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/sailingnv #sailing #boatlife #oceanpassage #sailingvlog #oceansailing #oceanwaves #oceanlife #passagepreparation #project #refit #sailingnv