7000nm JOURNEY BEGINS | Pregnant & Sailing Across The Atlantic - Ep 444

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]We're sailing. We're sailing. Sailing to an island.

[00:00:05]>> How good's cruising? Welcome back. This is sick. There's like multiple whales over here in the corner.

[00:00:16]>> For months, Nancy 2 sat still, held fast to the dock while we tore her apart, and brought her back to life. But now, she's moving again. The lines are off. The engine is purring. And we're finally back where we belong. Out here on the open ocean with nothing but horizon ahead and miles disappearing beneath the keel. This is the beginning of a 7,000 plus nautical mile journey across the southern Atlantic bound for the Caribbean. After not sailing for so long, it's a distance that feels almost too big to comprehend unless we break it down one passage at a time. And it all begins with the first step. 50 miles north to a small island off the coast of South Africa.

[00:00:59]>> How good's this?

[00:01:00]>> How does that feel?

[00:01:02]>> Yeah, it feels so good to be back out on the water. Just leaving Cape Town. We're moving forwards. We've got new places ahead of us. It just feels amazing.

[00:01:11]>> There's so much buildup to now be motoring with a new motor.

[00:01:16]>> I know. Yeah. Stoked. And like I think the motor it was going to go soon anyway, you know, and so it's probably best that it happened in the marina. It's going to be such a great year for us. So we've got a lot of hard work ahead though. Um, a lot of miles to cover. So >> yeah, >> let's get him started.

[00:01:52]Yeah, our main doesn't look too grubby considering it's been sitting in its cover for I don't want to express how long. Way too long. And I really like that we try new things and we test stuff out and we explore went over land and we did different things here in Africa. But I tell you what, right now under brand new motor at 6 knots with a small prop, second reef in the main for stability, life is so much sweeter when you're underway on a boat. Hey, Seal.

[00:02:23]Hey, buddy.

[00:02:26]Oh, N too. I have missed you.

[00:02:34]Life just feels normalish again.

[00:02:38]I could probably shed a tear. That's how stoked I am right now. A huge thanks needs to be said to Yanmar and Secape for the assistance with installing the new motor. And whilst nothing is for free in this world, it was great that these guys have jumped on and wanted to assist us. We're probably the best Yamar representatives because after installing the Yamar into OG Nani from there on in, we instantly said never have a sailboat if it doesn't have a Yanmar in it. And that was a big point why we bought Nani 2 was the fact that there's a Yamar inside. But and now to have a spanking new one, the reliability and the peace of mind that that's just given us to move forward for the next years of cruising.

[00:03:25]NG2 is our home.

[00:03:28]We don't want to change boats. We love this boat. I know we we shop around and we go sailing on other things, but that does not mean that we are interested in purchasing or changing vessels. Ninja 2 is ours. Just got a new rig, new motor.

[00:03:43]Sail's looking good. Little grubby.

[00:03:47]Nothing wrong with that, mate.

[00:03:50]Happy family.

[00:03:52]So stoked for what lies ahead. 2026 is year.

[00:03:57]Bring it on.

[00:03:59]Cape Town has been incredible. Truly good to us in so many ways. But as special as it's been, nothing quite compares to this moment. watching the table mountains slowly fade into the horizon behind us. The journey has begun. And just like that, welcome back to the cruising life.

[00:04:27]You go. Whilst it was pretty hard to hold ourselves back yesterday from leaving, you know, just the anticipation of wanting to get moving. But when the weather says something different to your own thoughts, it's probably best that you do listen to technology. You weather routing is such a huge part of sailing, especially passage planning. And it has such a huge influence upon how your trip is going to go, whether it's going to be enjoyable or whether you're just going to get smoked. It's just a simple decision of whether you stay or whether you go. So being the best informed you can be with the tools on hand, the more beneficial it's going to be for your passage. And so recently we've started using the Weather Pro app to help us make that decision and be well informed.

[00:05:09]You know, I've talked about it quite a lot. The weather in Cape Town and South Africa, this area can be extremely volatile when it chooses to be. You know, lucky we made that decision and went into the marina last night because it was 50 knots in the marina. Now here we are out here on a nice glassy ocean motoring along. The app has realtime radar tracking so we can see cloud cover and any potential rain clouds that are inbound. Then with a programmable hourly update, we know if anything is to change and we'll be instantly notified on the phone. So whilst smooth seas never make a better sailor, rough seas are also best avoided, the poking your head outside and seeing blue skies is always better than seeing rain.

[00:05:49]Even for you guys that are landlock and that aren't sailing, it's still good to be advised of what's going on outside so you can wake up in the morning, check the app, see it's clear skies, go have some fun. So give the app a try, download it. There's a link in the description down below.

[00:06:08]Now, it is kind of good that we are motoring for this passage, too. Even though how much I wanted to sail yesterday, it was stalking windy. Being under mode today is a good thing because we need to get up our hours so we can do our first service before we go to sea across the Atlantic. It is good to understand exactly all the parameters and the dynamics that is going on with the engine as well. you know, like right now. So, we're doing 2 1/2,000 RPM, which is high, but it's good after that for the that first 10 to 30 hours to sort of use the engine not at full capacity, but use it through different RPMs and sort of as you're wearing it in, I guess, is the best way to say it.

[00:06:48]So, we're doing 2,000 RPM and like our speeds aren't terrible, you know, like we're doing 8 knots, between seven and 8 knots, sometimes over 8 knots, sometimes below seven knots.

[00:06:59]say like 7 1/2 8 knots we'll say as a consistent but the big thing is that you need to look on here like 2 half,000 RPM with a prop that matches the boat we'd be expecting to be going a whole lot faster. I would have thought at 2 half,000 RPM that we'd be doing like way over 9 knots and that was the whole point of having a massive motor cuz we do have 110 remember. So we are overpowered. The key aspect that's to take out of that at 2 and a half th000 RPM is this little figure right here. So the load on the engine at 2 and a half th000 RPM is only 36%.

[00:07:37]So if we have a full throttle with a prop that matches, we should be up around 3,100 RPM and that load should be in the 90s.

[00:07:49]Whereas we're only we're 2 and a half thousand. So really the load on it now should be at least 70 80. So that just says that all that power is just getting wasted. The props too small. It's just probably creating heaps of cavitation.

[00:08:02]Even though we can't hear cavitation, but it's just over spinning and we're not getting that propulsion that we should get out of a motor this big. It's not much except for me. But I look forward to putting on the new prop. And then the Yanmar is installed, finished, new sit prop, maxing speeds out. The optimum is is to get the RPM down to like 1,400 and then that load up around like the 6070 at like such a low RPM. So then our fuel fuel efficiency is so much better. We're still torquing the motor and we're getting that propulsion because then we'll be flying. So just a few little changes still to make, but we're on the edge on the cusp of something amazing.

[00:08:45]I am so happy.

[00:08:48]Heat.

[00:09:04]Heat.

[00:09:19]We sailing. We're sailing. Sailing to an island.

[00:09:28]We're sailing.

[00:10:13]Oh yeah, there. Oh, there they go.

[00:10:16]>> There's a whale.

[00:10:18]>> How's this joint? How good's cruising?

[00:10:22]Welcome back. Oh, there's whales over there. You can see them puffing. There's all these dolphins.

[00:10:29]So, we anchored in behind Dustin Island.

[00:10:31]We were told this is really good in the Stherly, and the Slyies picked up now.

[00:10:34]And it is a perfect anchor, which would have been great for the strong winds that we had yesterday, but here we are today. This is sick. There's like multiple whales over here in the corner, and we can see dolphins as we're coming in. There's seals over here chirping.

[00:10:51]Oh, this is insane.

[00:10:53]See the whales, Lola?

[00:10:57]>> We have a whale right behind our boat.

[00:10:58]He's coming at our boat. Nie's got a black butt, too. So, they look very similar.

[00:11:08]Nie is damn sexy.

[00:11:11]Wonder if that whale is going to mate with our boat.

[00:11:25]There's two in here.

[00:11:35]Like we are properly surrounded. What?

[00:11:37]Look at him. He's right there.

[00:11:48]It's just full sun baking now, eh?

[00:12:09]>> They're surrounding us.

[00:12:12]He's like right here on us.

[00:12:14]>> Are we insured for whale breaching?

[00:12:16]>> We're insured.

[00:12:18]Don't know about whales.

[00:12:20]>> The minute we see any kind of It's only like 7 m here, so I don't think they're going to be breaching here. But if we see anything like that, we are out of here. Yeah, they're just like chilling and just doing circles really around this area.

[00:12:36]>> There's one right behind you. Hey, are you kidding me? What a way to finish off an evening.

[00:12:45]Nice, beautiful little test sail. Tucked up in the island. Got penguins, seals, saw dolphins on the way in. Whales galore. What better day to cook a barbie and watch some whales.

[00:13:01]Cook a bay.

[00:13:04]Oh, it's a Barbie cuz it's gas, mate.

[00:13:08]Get out of it, dude. You ain't getting that steak. That's dad's.

[00:13:13]Wow.

[00:13:17]Whale right there.

[00:13:33]Penguins.

[00:13:52]Man, it's good to be sailing again.

[00:13:55]Whale.

[00:13:57]>> That's a big whale.

[00:13:59]>> Oh my gosh.

[00:14:04]What's that one doing?

[00:14:05]>> They're banging for sure.

[00:14:16]What?

[00:14:20]Jeez, we must be like the summertime of Antarctica. There's whales, penguins, seals, iceberg, dead ahead.

[00:14:31]Yeah.

[00:14:35]Oh, this is gnarly. It's cool to be cruising. Being at anchor in South Africa is a rare thing, but this is a cool spot to be anchored. I know why people in Cape Town wouldn't sail anymore. Joint's sick. Oh, the whales are going ham.

[00:14:51]Oh, what a tail. Oh my gosh.

[00:14:58]Better get a cold and frothy one for this one.

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[00:15:11]Oh, those whales. Oh, another tail.

[00:15:14]Yeah. Big shout out to all the Froth family. Hey, been a bit of a journey to get up to this point to now be anchored around penguins and whales. And we couldn't do it without the support from our patrons that enjoy our videos, support our videos, watch, comment, like, subscribed, and choose the fact that our videos are appeal to them that much, and they enjoy our content that they want to support us. And it really is amazing that we've been able to do this for nine years, coming up 10 years, and it's all because of you. We keep pushing. We keep pursuing and chasing dreams and you know what's an engine at the end of the time when you can be anchored in a bay with whales and penguins and seals and no one else around. Like this is what it's all about. Thanks to all our patrons. If you want to support the channel, get more videos, get more perks, check out the link down in the description below. I haven't cooked a steak on this before, so Oh, the whales are coming over.

[00:16:15]So hopefully I don't ruin it.

[00:16:27]Oh, it's looking good. It's looking good.

[00:16:31]Hello, whales. Here they come, Lula. See him?

[00:16:35]>> I see his hair.

[00:16:37]>> Yeah, he seems squirty.

[00:16:54]is purple. You see just everything.

[00:16:57]>> How's us bird watching?

[00:17:01]>> Are we showing our age?

[00:17:03]>> Look at us just watching.

[00:17:09]>> You get out.

[00:17:11]>> Can you see him?

[00:17:13]I can't wait. I saw them.

[00:17:19]>> Have we ever just sat and watched birds?

[00:17:23]>> No.

[00:17:24]>> These are penguins. Everyone loves penguins.

[00:17:27]>> Oh my god. I'm so excited.

[00:17:28]>> It's normally really hard to do just because the beach.

[00:17:32]>> What are you talking about? We love penguins.

[00:17:34]>> Yeah.

[00:17:35]>> It's so interesting. Oh, >> this is so interesting.

[00:17:42]>> Yeah, look at that.

[00:17:47]>> Oh, they're all running together.

[00:17:48]They're coming back over the journeys.

[00:17:50]>> Yeah. Oh, the other ones are coming.

[00:17:51]They just don't know what TO DO WITHOUT EACH OTHER, do they?

[00:17:53]>> Together. Take a look out.

[00:18:00]>> Soon as one of them takes the lead somewhere and they're not all following, >> they will bail. They all come back again to >> They're all coming running back over the sandune. They all just went over there.

[00:18:10]Now they're all running back.

[00:18:12]>> They're racing.

[00:18:14]>> Go.

[00:18:16]>> See those two L that are coming back over the hill.

[00:18:24]>> So we're into bird watching now.

[00:18:28]>> Penguin watching.

[00:18:29]>> Penguin watching.

[00:18:30]>> Penguin watching.

[00:18:31]>> Very specific bird.

[00:18:34]This is what cruising South Africa >> would be like if >> for sure. Hey, and imagine if there was like an island off of the um the east coast >> or just multiple islands. Hey, like like >> sardine run, you know, that would just be insane.

[00:18:55]>> That would be insane.

[00:18:56]>> Yeah. But how many whales we've seen and >> so many whales in the bay here. Yeah, >> that one that like was like 2 m off the stern.

[00:19:05]>> I heard it. I came up >> there.

[00:19:09]>> Oh, there's another whale.

[00:19:10]>> There you go.

[00:19:12]>> You see them, Lula?

[00:19:14]>> They're running.

[00:19:15]>> They're running.

[00:19:16]>> Yeah.

[00:19:19]>> Cheesy.

[00:19:20]>> Cheeky fellas.

[00:19:22]>> Cheeky fellas.

[00:19:23]>> What are you doing? They have TO BE ON THE ROCKS.

[00:19:27]>> That is sad.

[00:19:29]>> Are they on the rocks?

[00:19:41]What was that?

[00:19:42]>> I wish we could have a bigger boat. I hurt myself with this thing. I wish I wish we have a different boat has none of these things.

[00:19:51]>> But a catamaran or boy this big boat. Cheeky fella.

[00:20:03]>> I love Sing. I love Fox and W. THAT'S MY BEST FRIEND EVER.

[00:20:08]>> YEAH.

[00:20:15]>> WOW.

[00:20:17]I can't believe we're watching penguins and whales.

[00:20:22]>> That's amazing.

[00:20:26]Here goes the sun.

[00:20:37]>> It's come back up again.

[00:20:41]>> It actually did, didn't it?

[00:20:43]>> It did.

[00:20:45]It's going to be a beautiful sunrise tomorrow, too. Hey, >> the whales behaved themselves tonight.

[00:20:53]Stay away from the boat.

[00:20:55]I'm just so amazed by this whole anchorage day. It's beautiful afternoon watching.

[00:21:12]This will be our first night on either actually calm and enjoy our last two attempts.

[00:21:24]>> Yeah, they >> was rowdy.

[00:21:45]Hey son.

[00:22:04]Well, good morning from Dassen Island.

[00:22:06]We had such an amazing sleep last night.

[00:22:08]This anchorage was perfect. The boat was flat. I ended up doing a workout on the back at like 9:30 last night. I could hear the whales around the boat. Oh, there's a whale right there right now.

[00:22:20]Holy smokes. And I could hear seals last night as well when I was out here. But um it's about 8:00. We've had breakfast.

[00:22:28]Got some emails done. Sun's shining. We got about 25 nautical miles to our next anchorage, which is where we'll stay for a little bit and get ready um before we cross over to St. Helina and then onto Brazil. It's called Sana. It's a a really protected anchorage. It's close to the shops as well. So, yeah, it's going to be really cool being there.

[00:22:50]Apparently, it's really beautiful as well. Wow, there's a wow right near the boat. This is just magical.

[00:22:58]This was such a cool little stopover.

[00:23:01]Mother Nature just put it on for us since we've been here. And it's just such a nice welcome back to sailing and living on the pik again. The bank account is going to be very happy not paying for marina fees. Holy smokes.

[00:23:20]>> Are you captain today?

[00:23:23]>> Oh my gosh.

[00:23:26]Wild.

[00:23:27]There's everywhere.

[00:23:30]>> There is. All right.

[00:23:42]>> Anchor's up. Let's go.

[00:23:45]>> Oh, whale in front of us.

[00:23:46]>> Wow. He's had a big feast.

[00:23:49]Can you see that whale out the port?

[00:23:52]That was like a full whale head out of the water.

[00:23:56]More whales over there.

[00:23:58]Whales here.

[00:24:01]Wales over there. Oh my gosh. There he is. Look at that.

[00:24:07]>> Wow.

[00:24:09]That was insane.

[00:24:11]>> Right there.

[00:24:16]>> He did, didn't he?

[00:24:19]>> Oh, it's a seal. It's okay. Keep going.

[00:24:25]Let's get him. Think we're going to need a bow lookout exiting here.

[00:24:31]Too many animals. What a good problem to have.

[00:24:37]>> Did you see him again? There was the whale. See him?

[00:24:48]>> Yeah.

[00:25:08]I think we're going to be quite hungry today, so I'm just going to start lunch early. Um, I've got these potatoes that need to be cooked, so I'm going to make a potato bake that can just cook away in the oven. And we've got some chicken in the fridge for Yosh. And I might have some tuna or something like that.

[00:25:34]Man, it's such a beautiful day. It's just so nice sitting here and looking out for the whales. They are beautiful creatures, but they can cause a lot of damage to a sailbo if they breach on you or get in the way. So, just keeping an eye out. Haven't seen any breaching yet.

[00:25:51]We've seen lots of like tails up in the water, but yeah, no silly business.

[00:25:56]It's just so nice looking out on the ocean. You feel like you could pass time forever.

[00:26:02]It's really lovely. The sun is warm, but the air is still very crisp out here.

[00:26:09]Just a little bit in between.

[00:26:11]>> Hey guys, how you going? All right, mate.

[00:26:16]Well, >> we've done half an hour of reading and these are some of the words that we've read. So, now Tula is um learning how to write themself. So, what's this word?

[00:26:36]>> Yeah.

[00:26:42]Wakey wakey.

[00:26:46]Wakey wakey wakey.

[00:26:55]>> We've arrived at Salana, but we've still got to get into the bay. We've got to get around this headland here and then this little island here. Once we get past them, then we can turn inwards. And it is a pretty big bay as well. So, it's pretty cool because uh the area around it is national park and so there's a lot of just beautiful landscape here. Uh I can see the little village up on the hill as well. It's just really cool.

[00:27:23]We've gone from like the populated Cape Town down here where there's just a lot of nature, a lot of marine life, and this bay is like uh really protected as well. So we can anchor here and live on the pig again. So gross iron or porn.

[00:27:55]Oh, might be a bit close. They're picking up anchor.

[00:27:58]Look at that big anchor. Lea, you go.

[00:28:22]If this isn't the ultimate welcome back to sailing life, then we don't know what is. What a place. What an experience.

[00:28:29]After spending so much time in the city of Cape Town, this felt like a reset, a reminder of just how raw and unbelievably beautiful nature can be and just how special Africa really is.

[00:28:42]Thanks so much for coming along with us.

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[00:29:00]Until next time, we'll catch you out there.