Bring Extra Fuel and Water or Get Stuck!

"No yacht should attempt the rhumb line course without considerable range under power. Carry all possible fuel and water." This is stated in the Pilot book, and we can confirm that it's true. Small boat crossing the Atlantic Ocean in calm weather and strong winds. Helping another yacht in need of fuel in the middle of the Atlantic. Sailing from Antigua in the West Indies, to Horta, Faial, Azores. Joined by Dolphins and Whales. The yacht is a Comfortina 32, made in Sweden for coastal cruising and racing. This boat, with it's fin keel, spade rudder and 7/8 fractional rig was never build for crossing an ocean. Only problem was that we were young and unexperienced, so we did not know. Luckily we survived and came home to tell the story. I told the story in several Norwegian sailing magazines and I also wrote two books about this voyage. Some years after our trip, Youtube was launched. Now, 22 years after the last ocean crossing I have got time to edit and publish on youtube. The playlist of Thule sailing around the Atlantic is soon over, and this episode is showing our sailing back across the ocean from the Caribbean to Europe. Next episode will be from the Azores to the UK and then finally back to Norway. Stay tuned. The music in this video is dowloaded from Youtube Studio, and I need to tell you the following: Jenny's Theme by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://audionautix.com/ If you have any thoughts, comments, questions or similar, please do not hesitate to write a comment below. I really like to inspire you to sail further. Best regards from Jarle "Charlie", Skipper of the S/Y Thule (And now, 2025, skipper of the S/Y Maja, a 1982 Nauticat 38) Fair winds to you all. See you at the sea!