CROSSING THE ATLANTIC OCEAN As you know we want to sail around the world and our dream is to sailing across the Atlantic Ocean. We are curious about what life on board Atlantic crossing looks like and sailing the Atlantic Ocean. One of our friends Brend did a sailing across the Atlantic on a very special boat – a Volvo Ocean 65 a real volvo ocean racing sailboat. He has been an onboard report during the Europe Ocean Race. And get got the opportunity to be an onboard reporter while crossing the Atlantic Ocean. It was his first Atlantic crossing as part of the Janssen en de Jong team and go across the Atlantic on a VO65. Do you want to know what it takes to cross the Atlantic? The challenges that the team had to face during their transatlantic sailing. What life on a race boat is like?
Join us in this special episode where Brend takes us onboard Atlantic crossing sailboat. He tells about pushing the boat to the limit, sailing 28 knots of wind, crashing into waves and sleeping on the floor. He crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 10 days, his first Atlantic crossing by sailboat.
Special episode
⏱ Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:33 Meet Brend
03:12 The big dream of Brend | Sail the Volvo Ocean Race
04:12 Onboard reporter for the Ocean race Europe | The best job in the world
04:35 The V065 carbon race boat
06:45 Make a decision in a hard time to join the volvo ocean race
08:08 Where the sailing adventure started
09:43 Build in 1943 Brend’s great grandfathers’ boat
10:35 started restoring the boat
11:49 started the Ocean race Europe | the first sailing trip with the V065
12:56 My experience during the Ocean race Europe
15:30 Getting myself on the boat for the transatlantic
17:42 The transatlantic | The start of the Atlantic Crossing
19:00 The watch system | How it works crossing the Atlantic Ocean
21:49 Time it takes sailing from Lanzarote to the Caribbean
23:46 What you see during the Atlantic Crossing
24:36 When you see the island crossing the Atlantic Ocean
25:07 Fun thing | Anything to cross the ocean
26:00 Dream to be the onboard reporter for the Ocean Race
29:41 Sneak peek next episode
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