Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat

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143 points protonbob | 1 comments | 02 Apr 25 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source

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for1nner ◴[02 Apr 25 19:19 UTC] No.43560455[source]▶

A while back I stumbled upon a youtube channel[1] dedicated to just solo sailing trips. I'm not sure how much is him/his video composition vs. just the subject matter of filming one's seemingly minuscule progress across the vast reaches of ocean, but I became entranced by just the calm plodding-ness of his days. Did a great job of breaking down trips and prep in some of his videos.

Can't speak to his latest stuff, so YMMV, but for a while it worked for me as incredible background. I imagine there's more and more content like this on YT, what with more powerful technology becoming more ubiquitous.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@samholmessailing/videos

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efavdb ◴[03 Apr 25 00:54 UTC] No.43563541[source]▶

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Thanks watched one and it was neat!

Q: can anyone tell me what these solo people do when they need to sleep and it’s too deep to anchor?

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1. throwaway2037 ◴[03 Apr 25 07:32 UTC] No.43566104[source]▶

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Basically, as a solo, you can only safely sleep/rest when the weather is calm (day or night). So, yeah, if the weather is rough, you don't sleep. That is why many solo sailors with YouTube vids look like shit the morning after an all-nighter!

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