Viviendo Hakuna · video

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Andrea and Alejo, a Colombian couple sailing their catamaran Hakuna from Brunswick, Georgia towards Fort Pierce, Florida, complete their first overnight passage along the U.S. East Coast Intracoastal Waterway and offshore. About 30 minutes after departing Brunswick, the starboard engine's drive belt snapped; Alejo replaced it underway — the first time he had changed that belt — using one of two spares carried aboard.▶ 5:25 In Brunswick, the crew passed the capsized cargo ship Golden Ray, a Hyundai-owned vessel carrying 4,200 cars and 300,000 gallons of fuel that had caught fire and rolled, requiring Coast Guard helicopter rescue of four crew members.▶ 0:30 After stopping in Jacksonville and St. Augustine, the crew decided at the 10-hour mark to skip Daytona and push 24 hours straight to Fort Pierce to beat forecast 3–4-metre head seas arriving Saturday.▶ 19:59 The overnight watch ran motoring into headwinds and contrary current at roughly 3.6–4.6 knots, with Andrea solo at the helm from 2000 to 0030 and Alejo covering 0030 to 0500.▶ 26:54 Dog Ozzy had to be confined below because his anxiety on night watches disturbed the off-watch crew.▶ 24:55 Planned three-hour watch rotations stretched to five hours when fatigue set in.

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