Sailing To New Zealand - How To Avoid The Storms?! - ep 82

Sailing down to New Zealand is a notorious passage. How do we avoid the storms, well speed is your friend. We sail from Minerva reef to New Zealand. The decision to go is a hard one. A tropycal cyclone is coming our way. But leave now and we need to sail through a ¨Trough¨ with bad weather like thunder, lightning and strong winds. And we need to be in New Zealand within a week. Otherwise we get caught is a massive storm with 7 meter waves!! Can we make it in time?
We are the smallest in the fleet and some people worry we are not able to get in in time. We are sailing as fast as we can and explain how we do it.

episode 82

00:00 Intro
00:52 A cyclone is on it´s way
02:11 We are going anyway
08:29 Our route tactic explained
16:21 The trough
20:29 Autopilot break down
26:22 faster (cheating) upwind tactic
37:03 How do we sail so Fast?
42:55 Perfect sailing
48:30 New flag
51:28 Arrival in New Zealand
57:36 The storm!

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We are Bart, Kim and Liz and we are sailing around the world!

We met on a sailing school (Zeilschool de Veenhoop) in the Netherlands, where we were both sailing instructors. We were both in love with sailing and soon after we were in love with each other ;)
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