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This Is Harder Than We Thought (Christmas at Sea)
25 December 2025 · 24 min · 5K views · Grand Bahama
What this video covers
Plan and Jeff depart Grand Bahama aboard Plan C, routing west to West End and then north toward the Abacos via Great Sail Cay and Angelfish Point.▶ 0:52 The passage turns rough: 20-knot headwinds and 3–4-foot swells reduce average speed to 3 knots over six hours, the crew misses the high-tide window for a shortcut, and seasickness hits despite Dramamine.▶ 5:34 Instrument failures compound the difficulty — the depth sounder drops out and later returns showing a 30-foot discrepancy against the chart plotter, leaving the crew navigating shallow, unfamiliar water on the chart plotter alone.▶ 8:35 A cold front forces an unplanned overnight passage rather than anchoring.▶ 9:51 The crew anchors at Great Sail Cay before dawn, then continues the next day, but a fuel-estimation error runs one tank dry, pulls air into the diesel Yanmar's fuel system, and requires bleeding the engine underway.▶ 15:36 They anchor at Angelfish Point short of the Abacos.▶ 17:22 Plan speaks candidly about low morale and doubts about continuing the sailing life.▶ 18:37 The crew eventually reaches Green Turtle Club and Marina ahead of incoming northerly storms and spends a week there, renting a golf cart to explore Green Turtle Cay.▶ 19:57 Bleeding air from a diesel fuel system after running a tank dry is a practical skill the crew learns on the fly.
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