Jakob Lang Sailing · video

What this video covers

Jakob Lang prepares his 31,000-nautical-mile solo circumnavigation aboard the sailing vessel *Wolf*, departing his home port of Lelystad, Netherlands.Watch After a multi-year refit, he motors to Amsterdam for a media engagement before timing his departure into the English Channel to coincide with a wind shift from southwesterly to north-northwesterly.6:46 During the transit, he replaces an aging Eberspächer diesel heater with a new Autoterm unit to manage temperatures near 5°C.13:11 Navigating the busy shipping lanes near Rotterdam and the Strait of Dover, he maintains a watch schedule of 15-minute intervals.16:44 Despite favorable downwind conditions along the Belgian coast, he encounters a tear in the spray hood and decides to divert to a French port to avoid an incoming low-pressure system forecast to bring 37-knot winds.19:23 He manages fuel logistics by manually transferring 40 liters of diesel in cans after finding a defective marina pump.8:52 The passage continues toward the French coast as he prepares for subsequent heavy weather.

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