The Coast Where the Orcas Attack || Sailing SV Goat ep 114

Barbate is where the boats the orcas have attacked end up. We left Gibraltar at sunrise and sailed straight past it. This is the stretch of coast every sailor going to the Atlantic has to cross, and there is no answer to it. The advice is to hug the shore in about five metres of water, so we did — hand on the wheel the whole way, because if an orca hits a boat with the autopilot engaged it destroys the autopilot too. Flat sea, clear sky, the kind of day you should be sailing for pleasure, and instead we spent it watching the water for fins. Before any of that could happen the wind instrument had to be fixed. It was reading five knots in thirty, the only chandlery in Gibraltar sells almost nothing, and there is no crane in the yard to get anyone up the mast. So the Furuno sensor went on the stern arch two metres off the deck, which meant cutting into the cable — a thing I have had to do once before and was hoping to avoid twice. Then Cape Trafalgar, where the fishing nets run all the way to the beach and push you out into exactly the deep water you have been avoiding all day. A regatta none of the competitors seemed able to navigate. A week anchored off Rota with a dead watermaker and no showers. And, at the end of it, another sailboat leaving harbour a few minutes ahead of us and unknowingly doing us an enormous favour. Next week we cross into Portugal. CHAPTERS 0:00 The wind sensor that lies 1:01 Under the floor, before anything else 3:08 Cutting the Furuno cable — again 4:09 “If it was easy it wouldn’t be an adventure” 5:19 Anchor up before sunrise 6:04 Out into the morning 7:44 Sun-track on flat water 9:07 The lighthouse island 9:59 Past the lighthouse 11:08 An afternoon off the boat 12:08 The boat ahead is the bait 13:06 The orca conspiracy theory 13:57 A question for Spain about the nets 14:53 Into Cádiz 15:49 Vlad at Rota 16:45 A new boat makes new noises 17:52 A sporty day 19:04 Cheap rope Filmed aboard SV Goat, a Lagoon 400 we live on full time. Vlad supervises. #SailingLife #Liveaboard #CatamaranLife #Lagoon400 #SailboatLife #SailingVlog #Catamaran #Orcas #Gibraltar #Tarifa #Trafalgar #Cadiz #Atlantic #BlueWaterSailing