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Reality Is Making Me Change Course.
April 15, 2026 · 9 min · 6K views
What this video covers
Sven Yrvind's US visa application failed after multiple sessions totaling more than four hours, repeated photo rejections over background color, glasses, file size, and aspect ratio, and an inability to book a Stockholm interview appointment — forcing him to abandon a planned shakedown cruise to South Carolina.▶ 2:27 The revised route now follows the Atlantic coast of Europe and then south: departing around 1 November from Muxia, Spain, continuing to Porto Santo, Madeira, and then onward, with a possible stop in Cape Town, South Africa.▶ 4:40 The November start is deliberate — orca attacks on boats near Muxia diminish after October when the animals move south toward Gibraltar.▶ 3:26 A new AIS unit with 15-mile range replaces the previous one, giving ships roughly one hour of warning.▶ 3:54 Three untested systems on the nearly complete boat add uncertainty: a small rudder of unproven design, a sculling oar mounted in a hanging configuration nobody has used before, and a rain-catching boom with a furling system.▶ 5:55 Yrvind draws on past experience — a 1885 riveted iron hull converted in six days in 1968, and a 15-foot boat with a bow centerboard — as evidence that untested ideas sometimes work.▶ 6:57
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