Sailing Yabá · vidéo

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Ben departs solo for the first time aboard Yabá, a 90-foot, 50-tonne junk-rigged schooner, after his partner MP leaves to pursue her own sailing and marine-wildlife work.Watch The passage covers 46 miles up the Brazilian coast to São Francisco do Sul.4:05 Within hours of departure, the engine overheats twice; Ben traces the cause to a crack in the freshwater reservoir of the heat exchanger, which drains the coolant loop and leaves the engine unprotected.8:45 He explains the two-circuit cooling system — fresh water circulating through the engine, cooled by seawater passing through the heat exchanger — so the failure mode is clear.10:54 With the heat exchanger too hot for epoxy to cure, he shuts the engine down, opens three sails in 5–6 knots of wind, and waits for the unit to cool before applying Tubolite underwater epoxy and fashioning a wedge plug.11:25 The repair holds; he restarts at 1,500 rpm with sails also drawing, reaches 6–7 knots, and anchors in 30 meters off São Francisco do Sul after dark.24:36 A CPT autopilot handles steering throughout.7:59 Existing sails are badly torn and new ones are being built.20:20 Epoxy on a hot heat exchanger will not cure until the component cools completely.24:47

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