That's the best sailing video I've seen in months. Proper on board balls to the wall racing in enormous conditions. Well done.

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Thank you so much, I’ve watched it a few times myself lol just to relive the experience

Great stuff! For anyone watching who doesn’t sail, it’s worth noting photos and videos always make the sea state and wind strength appear much milder than reality.

@Steve-ul8qb

8 күн бұрын

I have filmed 25 knots on the nose in bass strait and it looked like a 10 knots on a pond

Very well done. We bailed at Yarmouth. We'd only met as a crew the day before and the boat was set up for cruising. It was supposed to be a jolly! We we're struggling to point accurately on reef 3 and with sea and wind getting worse. We decided on a pleasant surf back to Hamble. Disappointing but totally the right call for our boat and crew.

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Thank you! Yes we weren’t really moving when we have the no. 3 jib I’m so changed for no. 2

Get On Nestor! Scary at the time but I bet you've had many a laugh about it already, great vid!

Well done guys. That will boost your confidence no end! Terrific experience.

Weather like that can make even a large boat feel small and vulnerable. The upwind leg was not much more hellish than the ugly rolling downwind segment, and I bet that headsail change was fun! The waves were really ugly as well. What a relief to get back into the lee and the shelter of the island. Racing in conditions like that is definitely not my idea of fun. Look fwd to your full vid and impressions.

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

The rolling downwind was definitely the scariest! As we would come down a wave the sails would lose power due to the next one behind it and so the main would collapse and almost jibed a couple times! Yes I got that second bowline on the headsail on just in time, wasn’t too wavy by that point as we still had the shelter of the island. Thanks Rip

You got some decent wind out there, and some scary heeling! Well done enduring it.

Well done for getting around. A tough boat with a tough crew😃

@Cyrusmagi

8 күн бұрын

Not a tough boat but perhaps a hardy crew.

Thanks for sharing, it was fantastic to watch and brought back many memories sailing on Sigma 38, just loved the rollers on the south of the island. Great crew work. Thank you

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

That's reminded me why I live and sail in southern Europe. Last time did the round the island was mid 1960s with hardly a breath we abandoned around Bembridge and motored back to the Hamble.

Hats off. Great footage. I know just how sketchy those conditions feel and how the camera belies the reality. Superb, really enjoyed watching this.

@nestorandhisboat

8 күн бұрын

Thanks david!

Well done Nestor, Im proud of you!

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Thank you!

Definitely different than watching Mapperton live 😳 You are definitely a thrill seeker and so fun to watch! Can’t wait for the full version with your narrative 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Thank you!

Great video, looked like fun

Amazing footage, thanks very much for sharing.

@nestorandhisboat

2 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Seeing those waves beam on @9:21 gave me palpitations! Recently went through the Solent in a gale and was terrified by looking at the breaking waves over gravel bank as we went around Hurst. Kudos to you for getting out there and doing it!

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Yes the overfalls by the needles looked very scary, so we stayed away! Thank you

I’m now 73 and sails Ike that stay wonderfully preserved in my memory! One hand for the boat…👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

it's a fantastic, raw video. love it. It's all great fun, but all you need is a failed part and the fun becomes dangerous

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Very true, that or a crash jibe so I was holding on quite a bit on the downwind!

@carsoncambodia

8 күн бұрын

@@nestorandhisboat we got squalled two weeks ago(35knts), in a narrow passage in Scotland, trying to hang back for the car ferry. The crash jibe caused by a swirl was so vicious it smashed the traveller (balls everywhere) and broke 1/3 of the slugs on the mast.

Better footage than I managed to capture!! Nice boat for the conditions. Well done.

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Great video! Felt like I was right there! Thank you!!

@nestorandhisboat

7 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great to watch , you certainly gained some experience there and nothing like pushing yourself out your comfort zone more than what you would do normally ,you will feel a lot more confident now.

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Unbelievable! Gutsie! Well done!

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Thank you!

Congrats on finishing! We were right with you on the beat to The Needles, but unfortunately had a few breakages, so had to turn back. Gutted not to have completed the race, but your footage really gives a feel for what is was like onboard - horrendous but awesome in equal measures!!

@nestorandhisboat

7 күн бұрын

Thanks! Shame you couldn’t make it, glad the footage somewhat makes up for it!

Congratulations you guys! That was some sail in challenging conditions !

@nestorandhisboat

7 күн бұрын

Thanks!

Love it howling in the rig.. sadly I would have been sick as dog. Grt video.

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Thanks! Yes 5 people were sick overboard lol…

Will someone please close the coach house roof!

That looked like a blast! Wish I’d been theyah to shayah it with you. Made me feel like I was home again, done a lot of that, it nevah gets old.

Incredible achievement, congratulations!

@nestorandhisboat

2 күн бұрын

Yes! Thank you!

A day to remember and a tale to tell!!!

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Definitely

Ha ha .....You're building a life for yourself with great stories to tell.

Great video and well done making it to the finish. We had an incident of Yarmouth and had to retire. Was looking forward to the run but didn’t get there. Sigma 38 great boat for the conditions.

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it, the run was really fun but a little scary at point!

Respect crew!

Thank you for sharing, this is really impressive and I’m pretty sure that the GoPro’s lens doesn’t make justice to the waves’ size. Definitely a very unique and valuable experience for a young sailor like you!

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, and no it certainly doesn’t! It was a great experience

just ave to add the driving rain and the fog and it was like every 2nd year we did tenents west highland week haha nice vidieo!! one year maden the witbred 60 was raceing it was just a light blow for them haha did make us laugh when we found out they were in the restricted sail class tough.

Epic! How come such a big crew?

Lovely toasty British summer weather

Nice bit of swell off Ventnor!

Lovely : )

Well done! It was worse the earlier you went round at the Needles.. (we got round too in a First 31.7.. not really recommendable as an offshore racer...). On the downwind leg, we sailed the angles to keep the jib full (No3 on a roller furler) , so the boat was more stable in up to 40 knot gusts..paid off in up to 14.5 knot surfing...

@nestorandhisboat

8 күн бұрын

I can imagine doing that in a first 31 would be the experience! We tried to do that but sometimes the waves would push you down! And wow 14.5kts is impressive

That looks like it’s the pea green sigma 38! I sailed many many miles on that 20+ years ago. Great boat for the conditions. I’ve done RTI many times and in similar conditions which is pretty spicy. As a skipper I would have got everyone hiking properly - safer & better righting momentum; using a preventer in case of an unplanned gybe; & keeping the hatch closed. Well done though, no injuries and no breakages so a successful day.

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Was waiting for someone to comment that! Just about everyone seems to have sailed on this boat!

Wow! what an incredible video, scary but I would imagine thrilling and exciting. What was the rough maximum wave height and the round trip in Nautical Miles? Great boat by the way. Keep well and safe. James.

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Very thrilling! Maximum wave height around 3meters, and we sailed 70nm. Yes I was glad to be doing it in such a solid boat. Thanks!

Very interesting, I have the same boat, Sigma 38, tell me did you make good use of the running back stays ?

@nestorandhisboat

7 күн бұрын

Perhaps the main trimmer did… I didn’t notice!

Great video, I was also taking part and we had the best result ever. I regret I did not have the body attached camera

Upwind can be hell in real life but looks so damn good on video

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

First upwind was quite enjoyable but second one from bembridge was just brutal! Just enough chop to splash us on every one

Wow be careful of your thumbs! Be good to keep them on the same side of the line as your fingers on bigger boats 🙂 Feels a bit awkward at first but keeps your thumb safe. RTI is a big day out!

WOW!

when I think of scary yachting, I think of marine electronics, twin tether harnesses, new keel bolts, and INSULATION. that 2#/ft^3 spray foam can really keep a cabin warm, ( or cool ), but there are other types of marine insulation which can add up to positive buoyancy also.

Impressive video! Is your boat a Sigma 38?

@nestorandhisboat

8 күн бұрын

Yes, thanks!

All that exrtra ballast of bodies hanging on the toe rail over and above design displacement slowed you down

Sigmas are great boats, great sea boats, one of David Thomas's finest

Too much people on this boat. And never hold on to the reling. 🙈

I get sea sick just from the cabin footage :) What true wind were you reading? At 3:35 the main is backwinding. Are you pointing high just to depower the sails?

@nestorandhisboat

2 күн бұрын

I felt more seasick while editing that footage than actually doing it lol. We had peak reading of 42kts. Yes exactly, and the gusts would bring us up into the wind

"Full video coming soon".....gets the popcorn ready.

There was a 3m swell running on that Saturday. The wind where we are, in the southeast, was gusting to 40knots+ all day, so it was very extreme for yachts.

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Yes pretty crazy stuff, at one point there seemed to be more boats coming against us than with us!

@TheWaltonius

9 күн бұрын

@@nestorandhisboat Yes, we noticed the bigger boats ahead of us turning round , and wondered what they had seen that we hadn't!!!

LEEEEECH LINE!!

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Ha! When the longer version comes out you will see our struggle with that! Kept tightening it but it would undo shortly after and wasn’t worth the danger of standing up there to do once we were in the bigs waves

Ah 2 reefs and moving fast - hang on!

great footage, even unedited. but racing would not be for me, too many hands, too much stress. I love solo sailing, or at max two pairs of hands. But well done, great sailing and interesting conditions foir sure! :-)

@nestorandhisboat

7 күн бұрын

Thanks!

Real blue water sailing. I hope to see you at some point, I'll be in the Hamble in July if your there (in or on the Hamble? I'm French so correct me)

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Bonjour! I easily could be, I can let you know closer to the time

@theart8039

9 күн бұрын

@@nestorandhisboat I will let you know when Im coming over..I'll buy you a coffee and give you my WhatsApp at the same time..cheers Nestor

At 3;37 .. it is a lot safer to sit legs and body out over the side .... and a lot better for the boat and rudder behaviour..

Sigma 38, the best boat for the conditions. A friend told me 50kn was seen off the Needles. Think I'd be using a storm job if I had one? Wish I'd been there this year.

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

We started with the no.3 jib but just weren’t moving so changed to no. 2. Were overpowered at some points but just dumped main.

Jeezus! How much experience are you supposed to have to skipper that!? I love boating but could not remotely endure it!!

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Skipper was really great, he had done round the island 20times before so to answer your question; pretty experienced!

Well done Gents , rather stick with a rib and 300 hp and only one lever to control , the wind is free though ? Magic all the way , hope you finished ok .👍👍👍

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Fair enough! Yes we finished all ok, just a few sea sick but no damage to anyone or to boat

I'd have a new Sigma today if they still made them. Sailing boats, not floating bungalows.

@dickenscider7328

Күн бұрын

Yeah but my floating bungalow has taken my wife and myself safety half way around the world and back, shrugging off 10 metre seas off Biscay and lightning storms off the Dominican Republic, that would of killed your fragile race boats. “ Horses for courses” 20 days non stop across the Atlantic, we do tough as well.

Very inexperienced crew I have sailed the 7 seas and spliced my main brace more times than I can remember.

Honestly,it doesn’t look that bad! The sun being out destroys the effect. I think a lot of people will be regretting abandoning even though they probably made the right decision

@nestorandhisboat

8 күн бұрын

I think it’s mostly the go pro that makes it not look that bad- it really was by needles and on way to st Catherine’s. I would not have done it in a boat smaller than 35ft!

why is your crew not hiking out

Where is the storm jib??

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

We started out with the no. 3 jib but we actually changed it for the no.2 which you can see me doing in the video. We were just falling behind with the no.3 up, if we were cruising then yes a storm jib but we were going for victory!

Did they have a preventer on the main? Really dangerous otherwise.

@TheWaltonius

9 күн бұрын

Not always...preventers can help to stop an accidental gybe, but in a big blow, they can also pin a boat down flat on her side in the water . If I was using a preventer it would be led to a winch near the mainsheet/helm, so it can be released easily. The Sigma 38 has a low, long boom.....just about head height...

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

I thought about suggesting it but after some thinking, the danger of going forward to rig one just wasn’t worth it. We weren’t on a dead run and helm was very attentive.

@rrmwa1524

8 күн бұрын

@@nestorandhisboat It is really dangerous to sit in the "kill zone" of the boom on a run, especially in strong winds and large seas. An accidental gybe can happen at any time and result in serious head injury.

Great video, thanks for sharing. Sure looks like an adrenaline high.

@nestorandhisboat

7 күн бұрын

Thanks!

Don’t You have gemaket?

I see your problem You need a contessa 32😂😂😂😂😂

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Ha! Or a 26! They were beating us upwind and they had their full jibs up and were healing much less than us!

Somewhat crowded. Intrepid camerawork. Thanks for going to such trouble. Some puzzling down wave antics but at least no broaches.

A WAVE TO SEA I am a Wave of the Sea and the Foam of the Wave and Wind of the Foam and the Wings of the Wind. My soul is in the Salt of the Sea in the Ways of the Waves, the Bubbles of the Foam in the Ways of the Wind. My Gift is the Depth of the Sea, the Strength of the Waves, the LIghtness of the Foam and the Speed of the Wind. ~~~ unknown author. Offered by Enda O'Coineen, Irish Sailor, Near Cape Horn, 2016-2017. Vendee Globe. Mr. Not Worthy, New Hampshire USA.

From the other KZread vids I’ve now seen of this race, alot of boats were DNF and no criticism for that call, either.

@nestorandhisboat

8 күн бұрын

Yes, we thought about it once we were at the needles, but felt that at that point we were through the worst of it.

probably could find a more suitable boat for the job

Heyyy GBR 924…….. Beefeater Sig 38… I owned her for 5 years…. Cant see her on the RTIR results??

@nestorandhisboat

2 күн бұрын

The lime green hull??

@nestorandhisboat

2 күн бұрын

The name of this one is aspiration

@davidjones480

Күн бұрын

@@nestorandhisboat Pistachio Green! Great to see she is still strutting her stuff after all these years…. 👏🏼 who owns her now? When she was owned by the Aisher family Prince Philip regularly sailed on her !

Wooooo. . . . A Sigma 38! Blast from the past. I guess the boat is perhaps more than 30 years old. Looking very good though. Super happy I don't get into wet clothes any more. I used to think sailing and club racing was the stuff of life until I was 40 - then the penny of sense dropped. Definitely a great thing to do when you are young. I couldn't imagine doing anything else, total addiction from age 10 to 40 and then stopped like a light switch getting flicked off. No regrets either. However, modern multihulls are getting my attention now, so who can say what the future is for this quitter. Have you seen this from last year's ROI race? Also a breezy event and look at this wee boat handle it with aplomb. kzread.info/dash/bejne/YnqCttqyY5vIm5M.html I've had the pleasure of experiencing the origin of multihulls - as in Pacific native outriggers and Proas. So very very basic and they are fabulous. A few thousand years of something that is right.

@nestorandhisboat

7 күн бұрын

Yes great boat, I’m certainly just entering my club racing days! Always wanted a wharram catamaran- maybe a next boat! I also did rti last year but in a rs21 so we stopped by the needles!

Hatch should have been closed with wash boards fitted to prevent sinking in the event of a broach or knockdown.

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Yes you’re right, hatch was actually closed for most of it but not shown in video, but yes washboards as well

Why are these guys so nervous? If you have an arcona 38 nothing can happen: that is a fact.

Everything ok until the moment comes to visit the head...

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

Haha, yes that was a bit tricky, I talk about that more in the longer version which will be coming out in next few days

What boat was that? Stack pack, so not one of the sigmas I know.

@nestorandhisboat

7 күн бұрын

Sigma 38

@Lightw81

7 күн бұрын

@nestorandhisboat8172 yes, I know, but which one?

Learn to hike properly!!

Well done, there's only one way to really improve and that's doing it for real. Most gave up and fair play they wren't confident in going round and those that did probably enjoyed every second, surfing down those seas must have felt fantastic. Please close the companionway though!!

@nestorandhisboat

9 күн бұрын

It was absolutely awesome, and a great confidence inspiring experience. And yes about companion way!

@paulmahy

9 күн бұрын

@@nestorandhisboat Superb.

@nestorandhisboat8172 We finished in 8:24 and that was gnarly round Needles, videos don’t do it justice! A lot of boats turned back, came 2nd in our class in the end 🤙🏽

@nestorandhisboat

2 күн бұрын

Nice!