BIG SEA ADVENTURE
10 April 2026 · 23 min · 63K views · Mid-Atlantic Ocean
Sailboat at sunset with dramatic clouds and moon above
What this video covers
Barry Perrins sails his boat Schadmeister solo across the North Atlantic toward the Azores, then England, enduring a 10-day becalming in a roughly 1,000-mile windless zone where he drifted close enough to Newfoundland that it became his nearest landfall.▶ 8:15 Speed dropped to 1.5–2.5 knots for days; his best 24-hour run during the calm period was 70 miles.▶ 8:02 He discovers a tear in the mainsail with 777 miles still to go, repairs it at sea by hand-stitching through the torn section and around the batten pocket, reinforcing it with sail tape — a fix that held to the finish, though the sail proved worn out beyond further use.▶ 9:03 Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish appear in numbers, ruling out swimming.▶ 3:10 A large ship passes dangerously close with no audible warning, triggering the collision alarm.▶ 6:41 Perrins sets wing-on-wing by hoisting an inner forestay sail given to him in Panama alongside the headsail.▶ 17:05 A chronic leg injury sustained in Australia adds urgency to reaching England.▶ 10:37 He announces this around-the-world voyage will end on arrival — two years longer than planned due to COVID and a stranded season in Darwin.▶ 11:16 The passage ends in a violent squall with 9-knot boat speed under reduced sail.▶ 21:58 A field repair using sail tape and hand-stitching can hold a blown mainsail together for hundreds of miles, but a worn-out sail will not survive another passage.▶ 13:39
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