#21 List of repairs in Valdivia - The Vertical Hour
20 May 2026 · 35 min · 1K views · Océano Pacífico
Sailboat Alborada Mariposa nears Valdivia at dawn, crew on deck.
What this video covers
A seven-person crew aboard the Vuelta Vertical is 1,000 miles from Chile, completing the second leg of a round-the-world circumnavigation that has covered more than 20,000 miles since departing Castellón on November 15.▶ 0:05 The leg routed from Uruguay, circling Antarctica, and required an unplanned stop in South Africa for communications and renewable-energy repairs after a large wave struck at 52° South in the South Atlantic — adding a month's delay.▶ 0:17 The boat is now making 200-plus miles per day in 30–35 knot average winds with gusts to 60 and seas of 3–4 meters, sailing with four reefs in the mainsail and the Yankee and Genoa at 40%, averaging 9.5 knots.▶ 3:57 Pedro and Paula detail the repair list for a compressed one-week stop in Valdivia: autopilot hydraulic pistons (three units, serviced by Hidráulicas Pascal), sail repairs to the Yankee, Genoa, and mainsail (Pacific Sailing traveling 200 km), engine and generator oil and filter changes (16 liters per change, three to four changes' worth of supplies needed), a broken Genoa furler Dyneema line, a suspect mainsail halyard, electrical panel water-ingress fault, and a winch button replaced at sea.▶ 7:22 One Starlink unit broke; a replacement is being shipped to Chile.▶ 22:54 The crew drops from seven to two — Pedro and Paula — after Valdivia, then targets Nome, Alaska by late July for the Northwest Passage, which typically opens in early August and closes in late September.▶ 2:24
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