ANGRY SEA
27 March 2026 · 20 min · 76K views · Atlantic Ocean
Storm cloud rolls over sailboat on churning sea
What this video covers
Barry Perrins sails White Shadow solo northward in the Atlantic, roughly 900 miles from the Azores, hunting westerly winds for the passage home.1:09 After a week of frustrating calms and heavy rolling, he swims off the boat to inspect the anti-fouling applied in Cape Town — still clean — then nearly encounters what he identifies as beluga whales surfacing alongside moments after he climbs back aboard.2:56 An unforecast storm builds rapidly: a near-collision with LPG tanker Elas Poseidon is resolved when the tanker alters course after Perrins raises them on VHF.5:24 He turns White Shadow downwind to spill pressure, stops the Turby wind turbine to prevent overspinning, and goes on deck in harness and headcam to secure flapping rigging.6:02 The Hydrovane steers through the night.10:23 Multiple squalls follow over subsequent days — one looking severe but dissipating quickly, another carrying real wind — interspersed with flat calms, a large wind hole, and a rotten egg disposal.15:02 Perrins compacts plastic waste into water bottles, bakes bread, sprouts mung beans, and charges auxiliary batteries and a MacBook via solar panels and an inverter.17:02 Running downwind in deteriorating conditions reduces load on rig and self-steering gear more reliably than holding course.5:35
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