Sailing The North Sea | Sailing Florence – Ep.183

Sailing North up the North Sea overnight, dodging windfarms and bouncing through wind against tide on our way to the Historic and Famous port of Whitby. Sailing Florence around Britain.

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We have been sailing around the world for 8 years after setting off from England in 2016 on board our 37ft sail boat Florence. Now we sailing around our homeland of the British Isles as a shakedown cruise for the Next Adventure. Join us as we share the highs, lows, and challenges of travelling around the world by boat, Sailing offshore across the Oceans and exploring remote locations with our own little tiny house.

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00:00 – Intro
00:50 – Sailing North from Lowestoft
02:27 – Wind against Tide in The Wash
08:25 – Dodging Wind Farms
10:43 – Where Amy Learned to sail
13:00 – Sailing to Whitby
19:21 – Onward Passage Planning
21:09 – Next Time

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[Music] feels so good to be sailing love it for the r okay yeah we are Matt and Amy we are sailing our 37t sailboat Florence on an anticlockwise circum navigation in the UK in the last episode we received our new sails and sailed round from Portsmouth on the south coast to lowestoft on the East Coast this episode sees us navigating North up the North Sea overnight dodging wind farms and dealing with with tidal currents to reach the beautiful Port of [Music] Whit it’s been a really short but sweet stop here in low stuff we’ve literally just had enough time to eat dinner sleep have a shower and now the weather is looking like we should be setting off this morning but it’s been a really good stop because not only has it allowed us to set off fresh uh with a good night’s sleep but it’s also improved the conditions or the state of the tide as we’re coming out of here and it hopefully also means that we’re going to be arriving in our next port in daylight instead of during the night so yeah all around a very short but very good stop going to go backwards a bit [Music] okay thank [Music] you sailing North from looft we will be rounding the coast of Norfolk and crossing the wash as we sail 150 Mi to the historic town of Whitby this should take us around 30 hours and we’ll take a look at a place along the way which is very close to my [Music] heart we’ve been having a beautiful sale along the coast up from Loft all morning we’re just getting to the point where Norfolk curves around away from us and we’re going to be heading out into the North Sea you can see up ahead of us it’s quite a lot of white water and that’s because we still got the tide with us which is really great we’ve got two and a half knots of Tide with us but then once we get out of here the wind is against that tide so it sets up a a steep choppy sea so we might be bouncing around a bit already starting to now [Music] well we needed a bit of a Shakedown sale after our refit and Florence seems to be taking it well it’s a relief that this is not causing any leaks in our new to rail stanions or Windows [Music] [Music] I think this is why they call it the wash it is definitely like a washing machine Lawrence knows what to do L knows what to do we got 19 knots maybe gusting 20 through just giving us 25 knots over the deck stay sale and two reefs in the main at the moment considering going three week of the mat cuz uh you don’t want to push her too hard this is really nice though it’s nice to be in these sorts of conditions and actually feel refreshed and I’m enjoying it you might not say that tomorrow morning I might not say that tomorrow morning but at the moment I definitely enjoying it feels so good to be sailing love it [Music] it’s getting Breezy so we’re going to go for the third reef we don’t need all this Moon sell anymore going to go for the reath okay yeah [Music] [Music] okay that’s cool yeah [Music] [Music] say when now okay I think that do okay not brilliant we have to have a little look at that when it’s calmed down I think it’s just the way that the sails folded it’s okay can I come down now y well that wasn’t as smooth as normal the glue for the third wreath didn’t come in very ni needly I don’t think I had it in quite the right place in the boom so I had to go and Fiddle with it quite a bit should have put it up checked it all when we first put the maina back on the boat instead of waiting till now okay put it on say uh yeah bit laughing a little bit at the moment what that that was you just pressing that [Music] yeah that was the right call yeah it is freeing think we’re going to get wet as well put leash line on that well it’s an absolutely beautiful evening for sailing now just changed so much when the tide turned and then the wind dropped off as well and I mean we were drifting for a while but now we got a nice little bit of Breeze not quite from the right direction just listened to the shipping forecast and we’re supposed to have a lot more wind than we do at the moment but at least we’re still moving so just enjoying what we got in that weather earlier unfortunately beautiful now but when we’re going over those waves early we did actually have a little bit of damage the uh dingy on the for deck the blocks it’s attached to broke so when we get over to Whitby we’re going to have to do a bit of epoxying and screwing I thought we were done with that from the refit but clearly not but if that’s the worst we have that’s not too much of a problem to fix [Music] It’s a beautiful morning this morning and we’ve made our way through all of those oil rigs and wind farms and we’re making really good progress towards Whitby our destination but we’ve just tacked in Shore to make a little detour into a bay which is very special to me and I’m not sure exactly how far we’re going to be able to get into the bay because it’s actually spring tides at the moment and we are just approaching absolute dead low water but I’m hoping that I’ll be able to show you a little bit of where my love of sailing began we’re heading into a little Bay called filey in the corner of the bay is my first and favorite Sailing Club we joined there when I was about six as a family and we used to live nearly 30 mi in land in the Yorkshire Countryside but we didn’t have a car for most of my childhood so we’d spend our weekends cycling here camping over the weekend and then just sailing and playing in the sea I absolutely loved it we started off sailing boats that my dad built the Wooden Boats and that my mom made the sales for and the biggest of those that we had was a Ticky 21 that we sailed up and down the coast we didn’t have an engine for a lot of the time with that boat so we’d often get into anchorages and the harbors by uh having one of us on each hle uh paddling the boat in but here in filey we mostly sailed dingies and uh different dingies as we got older no matter where I’ve sailed FY Bay will always be a favorite place of mine because I had such a good time sailing here it really set the course of my life and I knew that whatever I did I just wanted sailing to be part of it unfortunately today we are a bit pushed for time and so we’re going to have to head on to Whitby because the entrance there is tidy uh dependent we need to get through the bridge at a specific time so we’re going to head on to whiy we’re passing inside the bell boy which when I was little used to be this really far out mark that I occasionally used to sail sail around if I was feeling brave and today it feels a very long way in Shore from FY Bay we sailed close along the coast to wh me [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so this is Whitby Harbor it’s a little bit of a sketchy entrance we had tide ripping across the entrance so we had to do quite a few TXS to get up and in but it’s absolutely beautiful and flat calm once you get in here really historic place I’m really looking forward to exploring around here so this is North Yorkshire which is the county that I grew up in we’re about an hour away from the tiny little village that was my childhood home it’s an absolutely beautiful spot and uh we’re just waiting for the bridge to open before we can head into into the town itself I can [Applause] smell I’m not sure whether I can smell fish and chips or a pint and a pie but something very similar to that I think definitely need to do that here it’s actually quite a lot of ice cream shops along the S as well oh are they you spot those of you yeah I think we can spend a few days here quite happily [Music] [Music] first ice cream in the trip yorksire ice cream as well delicious [Music] with Matt’s ice cream craving satisfied you had to wander around the narrow streets to find Whit’s unique jewelry [Music] industry so this is whet it’s a fossilized driftwood from the Jurassic so it’s about 183 million years old um it’s Unique to this area of of the world really in this particular form so we’ve got about 7even miles up and down the coastline where the Jets in the cliffs potentially and as the sea roads the cliffs are where we now collect it Beach come for it and turn into jewelry so if you’ve not heard of Whit jet you might have heard of the term jet black and it comes from this material courtesy of Mr Shakespeare it’s been using for jewelry for about 5 and a half thousand years most again if you’ve heard of it you probably heard of the fact that victorians are really into it for the whole morning fashion um that they were into so jet was perfect because it’s the epitome of black and it’s very light in weight as well it’s low density so that doesn’t doesn’t it looks heavy and almost quite miserable but it’s not it’s quite a it’s a very lightweight lightweight material so nowadays we set it in silver and gold’ got quite a decent industry still in Whitby um lots of little businesses collect their own Jet and bring it back to the workshops like we do and uh and work it here [Music] one of the brilliant features about sailing around the coast of the UK is that wherever we stop we’ve got this fantastic Coastal path running the entire way around so we just need to choose whether we want to go left or right and there’s somewhere to walk to [Music] h [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] whippy Abby was originally a Christian Church that originated here in the 7th century and then it later became and Abby it was abandoned when they had a lot of Viking raids in this area and this whole area actually some of the names of the places still have Viking names so there’s a lot of thorps around here which is a viking name for Village I believe and then like all of the monasteries in the UK this Abbey became a ruin in Henry VII’s rule when they had the dissolution of the [Music] monasteries of course pit is also famous for being the place where Captain Cook learned his seafaring trade before setting out to explore the globe and also where the ships he sailed on were built just next to where Florence is [Music] mored well the wind has been howling through the rigging all day here today Florence is snugly tied up at the dock in the Mariner in Whitby we’ve been looking at the weather for sailing on and at the moment it’s it’s blowing 20 gusting 25 knots in here so definitely don’t want to be out there cuz it’s also blowing from the north which is exactly where we want to go we’ve already been here for a few days it looks like we’re going to be here for a few more until the wind finally looks like it’s going to turn around and come from the south should be a much more comfortable onward passage not sure at the moment where we’re going to head to whether or not we stop a little bit further up this Coast or whether we just go straight up to the Scottish islands which is where we ultimately want to get to and spend some time in more remote anchorages up there sailing North up this Coast you seem to get little Snippets of southernly Breeze for like two or three days and it turns around and blows really hard from the north again and you end up waiting in Port for a week for it to turn around we could sail up wind in this Florence could do it but ah it would be really really uncomfortable would be put a lot more strain on the boat and when we went through that uh windy patch just off of Norfolk we broke the Dy blocks and we had a big wave come over the bow fix them whilst we’re here much more prudent to wait out Breeze like this and and carry on when it calms down a bit which as say hopefully happen in a few days time it’s not just the wind that we have to worry about getting out of Whi be it’s actually quite a shallow entrance to the har here so we need to time the tide as well and also we need to make sure there not too big a sea Stak so youve got a big sea steak coming in that can prevent anything from getting out of this Harbor entrance as well so there’s quite a lot to think about when passage PL ring up this ghost next time we push on sailing North to Scotland and receive a very warm 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