00:01So now, this sail is always going to be liable to tear right there.
00:08We have 20 day passage. I'm not really nervous about it actually. I'm mostly just excited.
00:18Hello there, my name is Kate.
00:21And my name is Remy. We live on the sailboat Zatara, which is where we met exactly one year ago.
00:27But after a month on the sailboat, we left to build a barn and explore America for the next eight
00:33months.
00:34Then, we decided to head back out on the boat to sail to the South Pacific.
00:38And recently, Remy proposed in Bonaire, to which I said yes.
00:45And finally, we crossed the Panama Canal to start a 30 day ocean crossing,
00:52which is where this video will start until we catch up with the present.
01:00All righty guys, we just left Panama, and we're starting a 28 day passage to the South Pacific.
01:09French Polynesia, let's go!
01:13My dad has this quote. He says, you can't know what you don't know.
01:17And in preparation for this crossing, there was only so much we could know to think about ahead of time.
01:27So, today is the day we're leaving to go across the South Pacific.
01:32And we're doing last-minute repairs on a bunch of random stuff.
01:35None that we have to do these now.
01:38It's just that if you don't repair something that kind of needs to get done, it turns into a much
01:43bigger project.
01:45On day three of our passage, we were met with the first of our troubles, a four knot head current
01:51in the doldrums.
01:53Which means when we usually would have been sailing at six knots, we were now sailing at three knots and
01:59using the same amount of gasoline.
02:01Which ended up turning our five-day trip into a ten-day trip through the doldrums.
02:15Well, we're tying fenders to this line so we can sit on them.
02:20There we go. Okay.
02:22And then there's a little line tied to the bow.
02:24We got off.
02:25What the hell!
02:43Oh!
02:45That? Yeah.
02:52Right there!
03:05On about day five of going through the doldrums, I made a friend named Freddy.
03:10We had three of what I think to be juvenile red-footed boobies stay on our boat for about five
03:15days.
03:16And with nothing else to do, I spent a lot of time filming them and learning about them.
03:23Contrary to the adults, the juveniles use our boat as a sort of resting point and will hunt the flying
03:29fish and squid off the bow of our boat.
03:33The adults, on the other hand, won't land because they are great at conserving their energy and see the boat
03:38as an unnecessary risk.
03:40Which brings us to the next decision we had to make.
03:43We spent a lot more time than planned crossing the doldrums, and with food and gas doors running low, we
03:49decided it would be smart to stop in the Galapagos to restock supplies.
04:09Okay, so we're about to get to the Galapagos, and the hole looks terrible, so we have to clean it.
04:16And we're in like 6,000 meters of water, so hopefully we don't see any big sharks.
04:22Alright, here we go.
04:28What? What?
04:49Alright guys, so we just made it to Galapagos. So excited. There's a surf break right over there.
04:55Maybe. We're going to get some surf. We can't ding anywhere here, and we've got 72 hours, so we'll see
05:00where we can go.
05:01Here we go!
05:07That looks like surf over there.
05:10Wow, look at that coming in.
05:156 a.m.
05:22You want to keep snoozing, or do you want to go surfing?
05:26Let's go surfing.
05:28Okay, let's go. Come on.
05:38We are off, hopping on the water taxi.
05:49We got to land, and we thought we had Ecuadorian dollars, but they're actually Panamanian dollars, so paying the taxi
05:55took a little bit, too, because you had to take a taxi from our boat to land, thanks to the
06:00Galapagos' very strict rules.
06:02But now, finally on the trail. We're walking. It's like 10 o'clock. We were trying to wake up at
06:086 o'clock, so we could get there early, but that didn't happen, so now we're on our way.
06:16All righty. We're here. What do you think?
06:18I think it looks big, but I think I'm not used to waves yet like that, so.
06:23Here, keep going. Let's see what it looks like.
06:26It's definitely sandy, which makes me a lot happier. If it was rocky, I think I'd be a bit nervous.
06:33This looks so much like the Oregon coast.
06:35It does.
06:41Okay. All right.
06:43Post-surf update.
06:45The surf was like 4 or 5 out of 10, but it was fun.
06:49I haven't surfed in a long time.
06:52The bird's talking.
06:53We'll be out of here.
06:54How many waves did you catch?
06:56Too many to count. Probably 10 or 10 to 15.
06:58How many waves did I catch?
07:00100.
07:01Okay, Kate, what's right behind you?
07:04It's a massive cactus tree.
07:07So, we already walked down this whole entire trail, and I never noticed it, but these cactuses
07:13growing up here, I thought were just cactuses, and I thought those were just trees, but in
07:18the reality, this is a cactus tree.
07:21It's like got bark on the side, and it turns into cactus at the top.
07:25It's bizarre looking.
07:29The Galapagos are beautiful, but with only 72 hours we were allowed to stay, we didn't
07:35get to explore much.
07:36Safe to say, Kate and I will definitely plan a trip back in the future.
07:40The day we left the Galapagos, we had another unfortunate event.
07:44The winch to pull up the dinghy ended up winding in backwards, and breaking off the plate in
07:49the interior.
07:50But, since we had already checked out of the island, our only option was to rig it the
07:55best we could, and continue sailing towards the Marquesas.
07:58Wonderful.
08:15Thanks.
08:17Woo!
08:18Woo!
08:18Woo!
08:42Yes, two days later, we put a rip in the
08:46only sail we needed for this crossing. But fortunately, we had the tools on board
08:51to repair it and get it functional again. One of the many things I've learned on this
08:56trip is how to be frugal with our time and resources, and additionally, be
09:01accountable to fix any problem we create.
09:08If you want to see more of how we did this repair, check out Sailing Zatar's
09:12YouTube video this Thursday.
09:25So now, this sail is always going to be liable to tear right there.
09:31Most of our days on passage are the same. Breakfast, lunch, workout, dinner, night shift.
09:38Day in, day out. Only things separating this monotonous routine are small things like
09:43seeing false killer whales or catching a fish. And as I'm sure you can imagine,
09:49this is the kind of thing we look forward to every day.
09:57We got a mahi. Our first full-size mahi of the trip.
10:02Finally got fished on this passage. Been waiting for a long time for this.
10:07Long time. There you go.
10:10On the same note, one night I had the brilliant idea of climbing to the second spreader for sunset.
10:17Fortunately, I had the forethought to tie myself in. Because the second I got up there,
10:21I realized every swell turned the top of the mast into a massive, unpredictable pendulum.
10:33The ocean crossing has made us appreciate the little things more than ever.
10:37A full night's sleep, eggs and milk, fresh food, and even standing still.
10:43But it was the next day that made me appreciate life.
10:47We found out one of our best friends had broken both of his ankles free soloing up a waterfall.
10:53Which felt entirely unreasonable because he's one of the most capable climbers we know.
10:59After a month-long passage where things went wrong and a close friend at home got seriously hurt,
11:05we've come to realize how much of life we take for granted.
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