Piratas Aderivavideo
What Moving a Sailboat Really Entails | Part 1
30 January 2026 · 17 min · 4K views · Las Palmas, Spain
Elderly woman hoists sailboat hatch on sunlit deck
What this video covers
A delivery skipper prepares an old steel sailboat, Cainos, for a passage from Marina de las Palmas, Gran Canaria, to Porto Santo, Portugal, with the owner — a Californian woman in her late 80s — and two large dogs aboard.0:01 Pre-departure checks on the 1972 Perkins diesel reveal minor oil and water leaks the skipper corrects before departure; parts for the engine are scarce but Ford and tractor components are compatible.2:43 The manual bilge pump is found completely failed — a broken diaphragm — and the owner declines to replace it before sailing, leaving only two electric pumps as backup.12:14 Inflatable life jackets are tested by oral inflation for air retention, CO2 cartridge condition, and water-activated light sensors.8:52 The skipper programmes the route on the boat's ageing chartplotter and backs it up with Navionics on a tablet, plus paper charts marked every three hours with position.14:31 After two weeks weather-delayed in the Canaries, the crew departs into headwinds, estimating four to four-and-a-half days to Madeira.15:51 The skipper identifies managing crew dynamics — not boat handling — as the hardest part of delivery work.6:00
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