This Decision could have SERIOUS Consequences

oh wow, we went so fast, holy smokes, 17-7, now we're going 16-4. Magnolia has ever gone 17.7 knots at any time until now, as we sail towards the Cape of Good Hope, we do so with deep respect for the history of

this

place and the many sailors who

have

lost their lives here, but We also do it out of a sense of excitement and adventure, ready to face whatever comes our way and emerge from

this

experience stronger than before the brutal East African coast. and unforgiving place known for its rough seas and unpredictable weather patterns. Sudden changes in wind direction and strength challenge even the most experienced sailors, but we know that fear is not something to be feared, it is an asset, probably our greatest asset, it helps us pay attention and avoid fatal accidents. mistakes for our little family and I am very grateful to be traveling miles along the coast towards Cape Town and there is a lot of thought in this passage by all the Cruisers and there is a lot more thought that goes into it and there is also a lot of really important reflection because if you're not comfortable navigating a window that's pretty narrow then you shouldn't go and that takes us a few weeks back and almost I stuck with the forecast that called for 50 no Gus ah it's been two hours and we're still sitting here watching the weather and I think that's a good indicator of how

serious

the problem is there.

The problem is not that the ship can't handle it, the problem is not that we can't handle it, the problem is that we

have

two very young crew members on board, is it the right

decision

? I don't think it's the right

decision

for our family, so the situation is four meter waves eight second period is a two to one ratio between the height of the waves and the distance between the troughs or crests, we don't know how it works. What would the boat do in this, it's downwind so it shouldn't be dangerous but if we go too far we go down these huge deep waves fast and our intestines

could

sink and that's scary and we

could

also get poop from behind so yeah it's down, 30 knots to 40 knots is totally fine, but not without the height of the waves, so I think we'll do it. wait, the time has finally come, oh my god, you got the camera back.

I hope so. I'm supposed to talk to her. How do you do this? I almost forgot to tell you how to turn on if you remember from the last video. I don't know if it was actually the last video we had Charlie playing the Spinnaker in, so I'm just trying to clear that up. There is a lot happening today. We're supposed to leave in an hour. It still blows pretty hard. Southern Man. Oh ok. We're supposed to be heading there and the wind is coming from there. The problem is that there are many systems moving up the coast of Africa and with each one comes a front with super strong winds from the south.

We are trying to head south and also there is a southerly current so when there is a wind against the current there are waves breaking on the boat so today we set sail for a place called East London before the next one arrives. south and, uh, we can do it. on time with three to six hours to spare, if we don't make it in time I don't know what we'll do, we'll probably have to run back to Durban or go out to sea even further, so it's a mad dash to get out of here, yeah, like that that if we can't get to east London, which is our current plan, we will come to you and we hope we don't have to, but I really appreciate that there is space available for us, so I will.

I hope I don't see you tomorrow, but if I do, I'll go when the office opens. Great, thanks, thanks, eh, let's see East London, maybe we'll see where we land, that's it guys, we're off the dock and I'll see what happens here, but it'll be an interesting 36 hours to see if we can get to the next port, which is east London, to exit via the land yacht club. I really appreciate it and we'll see you next time we can go. Are you ready for this? I'm not entirely sure I'm ready for this, but let's go anyway.

We literally haven't tested the boat. We haven't been to a Shakedown sale in I don't know how long it's been. probably like five six seven weeks um so we'll see what happens. A huge freighter is arriving right now. Yeah, we're just going to wait until it passes and then we'll head out. She didn't seem worried, so I guess we should. It won't be how you feel about things either. I don't know. I feel very frustrated for not making a decision and the climate here is like that. We have never sailed this coast before. We have no idea what the current is going to be.

I like it and this current, if that's what everyone says, we shouldn't have any problems getting there, other than I think we're losing a knot in the butt right now, the growth, I didn't think it was that bad, but actually it is. It looked bad once I saw the sunlight so yeah I'm a little nervous like not but at midnight tonight we have to make a call to go to Durban basically or not but I've called both ports , we can go to Durban or we. You can continue to east London, we'll see what happens. The thing about any adventure or any type of expedition is to always have your departures ready, so whether you are flying in a plane, driving in the countryside or sailing, you know what you are doing.

What we know is that you may not reach your destination, but you may reach an alternative destination not as far away or in a different location and that is what we have done here to minimize our risk. It will work? I hope so. The problem is that if you pass or exit in this particular case, there are no more exits, there are no more exits, so it's complicated. Our first departure is at midnight tonight and then if we commit after that we pass the point of no return. It's a tough spot that Flint doesn't speed back to Amy, not because we can, but because we're testing the ship, we want to break it while we can still get back to port, so if we discover a problem, we'll find out. now hopefully when it really stops is when the sediment in the tank stirs up enough when we're bouncing and climbing and need to get somewhere, well we have our first victim, this little guy is out cold, he just woke up from a nap, a three-hour nap, about an hour ago, but he has what I have if he can hear it.

I modified my larynx, yes, I'm kidding, no, I caught a cold on the plane. Coming back from Canada and all the places we travel to, like Madagascar Village, Seychelles, My Yacht or Africa, the place where we get sick is the plane every time, so yeah, we didn't think it would be that bad because it didn't sound that bad and it's not really that big, but it comes from every direction, each one is like a giant washing machine, we go from side to side and front to back and I'm going to go to bed early. Good thing Ben doesn't get dizzy one bit, it's okay, good night guys, good night buddy, well, it's just a matter of going to bed, well, he's already in bed and Ashley is about to go to bed. bed.

Everyone is dizzy. It's bad here, no. Very nice, it's okay what happened to your suit. There are a lot of decisions to make tonight, so we'll look at the next weather and then decide whether or not to go to Durban or east London. Big Orange is pushing us downhill now we're pulling away, we're doing 14 or even 15 knots, a lot of that is current, but a lot of that is this huge Spinnaker, very sweet man, foreign, what a day, what a day, just needed share that. It's been a super amazing passage, apart from the first full day, which is half of the passage because it's only a 36 hour passage and we only have like 40 hours to get in, so yeah, it's tight, it's tight, um, yeah, We are happy to be able to do it.

We're happy we did it, fingers crossed it stays this way, the flying fish are jumping, we don't have our lines and that's the only problem at the moment and Ben wakes up, he goes to put a line in, we'll see what we can do. fishing for dinner oh what happened, what happened, we were attacked by a school of flying squid, we were just talking about all these big flying fish we saw, not fish, squid, it was like quack, quack, quack, quack, all over the cabin and it was like I was hit. in the face for these things, good thing our ship is dirty anyway, they're great, man, foreign squid, you can eat them, yeah, yeah, holy smoke foreigner, wow, well foreigner, it's kind of gross up here .

I knew I heard something, there's one here that's not the first time it happened last last uh what didn't I find? I just spent 30 minutes hosing it down and it's basically blocked in a lot of places, but I'm sure this isn't the last, I'm sure I'll find more things that were fun. Hey the coastal weather bulletin and navigation warnings will now continue on the next HF frequency four three seven five eight seven four zero and one three today we've had a big c running we've got about three and a small Half meter coming from Civ and then we have wind waves coming from the north, so sometimes they double and they are really big, but the space is quite wide, regardless of that when you get to a port, sometimes it gets a little complicated because Well, there are a breakwater and you know, shallow water and all that, so, yeah, don't expect to arrive at 3:30 a.m. m., what impresses me and I will show you here is the weather forecast in South Africa and there are super super.

Exactly, so we will arrive at three in the morning at 3 a.m. and at seven eight a.m. The wind will change to the south, which makes me unable to imagine what it's like out here, completely evil with the current against the waves and the wind. It has changed to South just now as it was sailing 15 minutes ago and it is now coming from a southerly direction at about seven knots, so it changed quickly, we went from seven knots behind us to seven knots in front of us in about 20 minutes. let's say and we knew this was going to happen, it's a little or a little early or maybe just in time according to the forecast and that's why we have to get in here now East London Port Control East London Port Control East It's a sailboat.

I don't think they're awake at 3:30 in the morning, that's what I suspect. Good morning, we are five nautical miles away and we are requesting permission to enter. Where you come from? Richards Bay, okay, I wanted to send. your flight plan to the port yes affirmative okay thank you we found the lights we found the cold we found land that was swept south by whoa whoa three times 14 15 not south we are already in London East London is not part of the United Kingdom it is part of South Africa we just came from Richards Bay and the stretch from basically Durban, which is just south of Richards Bay to here, is called The Wild Coast.

It's crazy, we had an incredible deal the last few days here and what we're doing is we're positioning ourselves to move and keep a good hope that's here in Cabo Fabulous, which seems to be even more sketchy for some reason, yeah , yeah it's getting colder, we've got sweaters on, we've got pants on, so cool today like socks I put a duvet on our bed like I really have to go. I had a package that I bought in Thailand and like Ikea in Thailand, I thought it would be cold soon. It was never cold until now we just look at the weather we look at. to the weather for hours almost every day here and it's a bit painful for the poor kids.

I was thinking about Santa and her children look at us and say: Can we do something? Can we do something now? But we're literally just watching. in the weather trying to pick the right weather window to go around the bottom of Africa and I think we found it, yeah, I mean, I don't know if there's ever going to be the perfect window around here, but we found one that doesn't look threatening and actually looks okay to Cape Town, but we can head to Simon's Town beforehand if we don't feel like going upwind a bit, like it's too unpleasant, the thing is you leave a little early, like tonight, we'll go and be unpleasant again and it's only because you leave a little early so you get hit a little so you have a longer window, yes it's not dangerous, it's just not comfortable, you take the paint up front instead of the risk and pain at the back final. final, yeah, I don't know what I was going to say other than yeah, we're excited to be here, we're really excited for the next passage because the last passage to East London was a bad weather sail and we really enjoyed it, I mean, I had Spinnaker up and windy conditions too strong again, but we had to add miles to get there before the southerly winds hit, so it was great and we are really looking forward to these next three day passes around the south end. from Africa for several reasons: one, it will be windy and two, we will go to the Atlantic.

It's actually amazing to think that we've come this far and we're back in the Atlantic as if a long time ago. five years, yes, it might be longer, maybe six steers, yes, since we've been in the Atlantic and it's quite momentous, it's actually a huge thing, yes, it will be really cool to see that they have the window down here, this It's squid ink. The squids have completely destroyed our boat, it is absolutelyscandalous and, yes, disgusting!