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ALMA Class Globe 580 / 2025 - 5 80 m Bateau en contreplaqué de fabrication artisanale Naviguez autour du monde Interview d'Adam...
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00:00Adam, cool glasses, you've got an eye problem, and we're in Fiji.
00:18Yeah, it's hopefully just a very temporary one.
00:20I was having to take all the antifalant and primer off my keel,
00:27so there's a lot of grinding, and I think I've got something in my eye, but I'll live and it'll be fine.
00:32You look like a blowfly, it's okay.
00:33Okay.
00:34So how do you feel besides that, you know, like being in Fiji?
00:37It's a long way from home, even though they're in summer and probably hotter than us.
00:40Yeah, they're having a good summer back in Blighty.
00:42I think it's a nice English summer, but it's really, really great to be in Fiji.
00:49I was really, got quite nervous in that short last stop from Tonga to Fiji,
00:57because it was such a goal to arrive in Fiji that you didn't want anything to go wrong.
01:02Yeah.
01:02And we had a few difficult sailing conditions with quite a lot of headwinds,
01:08and then we had reefs to get through at the end, so it was just a joy to get here,
01:13and the welcome we got in Fiji was amazing.
01:15Yeah, pretty cool.
01:16Yeah.
01:17Singing and dancing, and they're such a good team here.
01:20Yeah, absolutely.
01:21Yeah, no, it's a nice place to be.
01:24Anyway, so were you a daytime or nighttime arrival?
01:28I forget.
01:29I was daytime.
01:30Sorry, I was early evening, if you remember.
01:32Early evening, that's right.
01:33It was late in the day, and you came straight in.
01:35Exactly.
01:36So that must have been a buzz.
01:37You came through the reef in daylight.
01:38Yeah.
01:39I tried to get through the first reef, and then it allows you to kick Plan B in if you need to.
01:49So I kicked Plan B and went through the second reef, and then lost a little bit of wind,
01:54but then we got a sea breeze in the afternoon and had a nice calm sail down to Wunder, so it was great.
02:01Yeah.
02:02Okay, that's cool.
02:03So, and now, you know, you've got a complete perspective on what you've, you know, what you can see the MGR is,
02:12even though there's a long way to go.
02:14Was that, you know, part of your plan from the beginning was to build the boat, do the MGR.
02:21Yeah.
02:22And in the beginning, when you decided, okay, MGR's for you, compared, you know, your dream compared to what's happening now,
02:30is it better, worse, indifferent, the same, whatever?
02:33How do you describe that?
02:35I think if you'd asked me that question after the first leg or when I arrived in the Marquesas,
02:41I would say it was not what I was hoping it would be. The sailing was great, but just settling into the MGR,
02:51the race aspect, has taken me a little while. Now, I can safely say it's surpassed all my expectations.
03:02I'm absolutely loving it. I'm in love with my boat. She's really looking after me, as I think all the 580s are.
03:14And I've settled into the race aspect, because I've never raced before, I've only cruised.
03:20So having that extra dynamic was something that was very foreign to me. And I struggled with that a little bit at the beginning.
03:27But now I'm absolutely loving it. We've got a really good mid-division in the race with four or five of us.
03:34And we're having a great, great fun racing against each other in the middle. And, yeah, I'm absolutely loving it.
03:41It's right up there, really is.
03:44Interesting comments, you know, saying that getting used to the whole idea of the MGR and so on.
03:50I'm just going to expand on that a little bit, because it's something that a lot of people forget.
03:54You know, it's a huge investment in time and money and effort.
03:57But also, it's coming to terms with what the reality of the dream really is.
04:02Yeah.
04:03When you're torture boarding, it's a horror show.
04:06Yeah.
04:07Sanding the hull and all that, you've got to keep pushing through.
04:09Yeah.
04:10So can you just expand a bit, you know, like the challenges of the event?
04:13I'm imagining it's getting all the safety gear together, doing all the paperwork, all the regulation stuff.
04:18And then all the, you know, the whole thing settling into the boat, you know, the whole pressure of Panama, you know, out of the water, in the water.
04:25Is that, can you expand on the, those things that maybe you weren't expecting that made you say it's not quite what you thought early on?
04:32I think that the build was technically and physically and time more than I'd expected.
04:40So that, that was hard.
04:41And I'd still say of everything I've done within the MGR, the build was the most difficult part.
04:47Because it's nervous, you know, if you haven't done, done it before, you want to get it right.
04:50You know, you're not having a day sailor, you're sailing oceans, so you can't get it wrong.
04:55Um, and, um, I think, uh, the sailing, I hadn't sailed the boat very much before.
05:04So I felt slightly that perhaps I, I was, shouldn't really be here.
05:11I didn't have the required skills.
05:14I was a little bit nervous.
05:16I was quite unsure of myself.
05:18So an imposter syndrome, a little bit of that.
05:21Um, in fact, probably quite a lot of that in reality.
05:24And then, you know, it just does well with me anyway, it just does take time.
05:29And, uh, each leg, each pit stop, um, you know, one self confidence grows.
05:35Um, and, uh, I think from Tahiti onwards, um, you know, with a camaraderie that we've all got, um, everybody's helping each other.
05:49Um, it's just, yeah, it just surpassed all of my expectations now.
05:54Yeah.
05:55Plus everyone's again, it's really interesting part of it because I mean, you turned up with one of the best prepared boats, the whole fleet, best built, best prepared.
06:02I'm not saying the best, but it was right up there.
06:05You're a sailing instructor with the sailing.
06:07Uh, what I see is something that evolves around the lines of, um, I haven't done it before.
06:13So, you know, can I do this sort of thing?
06:15It's the challenge.
06:16And that's interesting to hear it because that's one of the things with all our events, we have these little qualifying bits.
06:22So we don't say no straight away because we, as you probably know, I won't say we took a lot of flack, but we had certain comments from people with Jasmine, for instance, when Jasmine said, Oh, I can't sail, but she's off around the world.
06:33Yeah.
06:34But in my mind, she's always been perfectly safe.
06:36Yeah.
06:37You know what I mean?
06:38Yeah.
06:39So you've been drawn in to the point where you can finally see that you can now do this.
06:44And in my opinion, you've always had the ability to do it, but you've got a normal human reaction where you haven't done it before and you think, Oh, it's around the world and so on.
06:52So it's very interesting.
06:53You're the first one that verbalized that, but I'm sure a lot of others have gone through the same thing.
06:57Yeah.
06:58Yeah.
06:59I think, yeah, I think it's, um, you know, never having sailed across an ocean and also up against some didn't take me long before you realize you've got some really top class sailors in, in the, in the competition.
07:13And, um, I think that just was all a little bit unsettling.
07:18Yeah.
07:19And then, as I say, you ease into it and now it's, it's just wonderful.
07:22Yeah.
07:23Well, you're doing well.
07:24So, um, so that's cool.
07:25What do you, you know, we were only like, well, we're about 12,000 miles into it from Portugal.
07:31Yeah.
07:3224,000 miles around the world.
07:33So let's just say it's halfway and it's not.
07:35Yeah.
07:36We still got about 16,000 to go.
07:38Yeah.
07:39But where's the big highlight?
07:40What's one of the big wow moments of, of, that's happened between, you know, say Panama and here just in this second leg that it was sort of like the peak.
07:48Wow.
07:49Do all you could scream, whatever.
07:50Well, I did a lot of whooping and screaming when we left Antigua because that was, you know, the, the, the worry about all of these sort of big projects that you do is you never quite get to the start.
08:00Yeah.
08:01Something goes wrong.
08:02Plenty didn't.
08:03Yeah.
08:04Well, I'm sure.
08:05So, so that, that, uh, little parade we did in, uh, in Falmouth Harbor and crossing the start line and getting going was a real, real highlight.
08:15So, you know, even, even if I only made it to, to Panama, then I'd, I'd, I'd achieved half of what I wanted to achieve, which was enter the race and get there and be prepared to get through the start, get through all the safety checks, do all the, you know, the, the hoops that you want to jump through.
08:33So, uh, that was a big highlight.
08:35Um, I really enjoyed the doldrums actually, because I'm a, I'm a, I'm a lover of wildlife and, and you were seeing so much in that flat water around Galapagos.
08:45Um, and the whale that came up alongside little Wren was, was a real highlight, probably twice the size of my boat, only 20 yards off the boat.
08:53So that was a real highlight.
08:55Um, and I think, you know, I have to say my, my little, uh, current record of 160 miles in 24 hours.
09:03Um, you still got it.
09:04I keep chatting to Renault about that.
09:06And, uh, he, he hasn't given up on trying to, trying to beat it as I'm sure everybody hasn't, but that was quite fun.
09:12Yeah.
09:13I enjoyed that.
09:14And that was sort of a little bit of planning that came right.
09:16So that, that was great.
09:17Um, I really enjoy the, you know, when we get that sort of 18 to 25 knots of wind and the boat really flies.
09:26Um, you know, you, it just feels like you're getting the best out of the boats in those conditions.
09:31And when you're, you know, you're averaging six knots for, you know, eight hours, 12 hours, it's, it's very exciting.
09:38Uh, so, uh, yeah, there's lots of highlights, but I guess those are probably the best.
09:44Yeah.
09:45I'm seeing really good social media posts from you and filming and stuff.
09:47Are you planning to make a film or something or at the end, do you think?
09:50Um, I don't know what my, my partner and charity Ella Dawson foundation are, are, um, talking about putting something together at the end.
09:59We're going to try and do a really big push when I get back, um, with some further fundraising activities.
10:04And I think there's maybe some media going to come together for that.
10:08Yeah.
10:09Um, I, I've got plenty of footage, but I don't have any of the skills to, to put anything together, but I think they'll help.
10:15And, and maybe something will come from that.
10:17Yeah.
10:18I hope so.
10:19It's all good fun.
10:20Yeah.
10:21It's cause, um, you're a sailing instructor.
10:22Yeah.
10:23And I noticed just part of your students, many of the students, probably all your students think you're suitably crazy.
10:28Yeah.
10:29And, uh, you know, how do you, how do you quantify that situation?
10:33You know, have you seen the change since you started, you know, or since you're into it?
10:38I keep in touch with quite a few of my students and, um, they're often messaging me following.
10:44And it was one thing, you know, on a day skip, of course, chatting about what my plans are and building this boat.
10:49And everybody was quite excited.
10:50And what I'm really looking forward to is being able to share some of the, the stories when I get back.
10:55And, uh, um, I'll have, you know, I'll be the real deal at that stage rather than just talking a game.
11:00So, uh, uh, but yeah, I think with day skipper students, it's the start of their journey on, on the sea.
11:09And, um, yeah, I'd like the idea that I could inspire a few people here.
11:14I am 61, nearly 62, um, never sailed an ocean.
11:20Um, haven't really done many long passages.
11:24And, um, I'm in the middle of a single handed round the world race.
11:28So this is really doable for, for Joe blogs, for the man in the street.
11:34It really is.
11:35Um, and I think sailing does have that, that, uh, elitist feel to it.
11:42Certainly in the UK, um, lots, you need lots of money.
11:45You need lots of money.
11:46You need to be really well connected.
11:48And, um, what this races has provided is, is a relatively manageable in terms of money.
11:55Um, way of, of doing what I think an awful lot of people would like to do, but just think it's way beyond them.
12:02And I'd say my message is it isn't way beyond them.
12:05Yeah.
12:06I agree.
12:07You can even put it on a trailer and take it home.
12:08Yeah.
12:09You know, it keeps the cost down.
12:10Yeah.
12:11All very interesting.
12:12I just want to ask you about, I mean, sometimes I feel a bit embarrassed.
12:15You know, we, the event has a, a charity, which is Citran, you know, which is motor neurone disease, Sheffield Institute in the UK.
12:22Uh, you know, really good stuff.
12:24Alzheimer's, you know, Parkinson's, dementia, all those sorts of neurological issues.
12:28And I'm always so busy.
12:30I forget to promote and, you know, push it as much as we could and should, because we've only got a small team and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
12:37He is you.
12:38You're the one in the fleet.
12:40That's really, you know, some of the others have got support causes and things like that, but you're really doing a good job.
12:44And I must admit, I'm starting to think because I watched the ocean rowers, you know what I mean?
12:49Yeah.
12:50And it's mandatory more or less to have a charity to enter the event.
12:52Yeah.
12:53And, and I'm seeing what you're doing and thinking, oh, you're raising some, you know, quite serious money.
12:59Yeah.
13:00You hope to raise more.
13:01Yeah.
13:02It's creating awareness and that's just one entrant.
13:03Yeah.
13:04Um, how much work is it?
13:05You know, how, how, how do you feel about what you're doing and things like that?
13:08Cause I mean, who knows, you know, we may say for 29, so okay, we, to enter, you've got to pick a charity.
13:13And maybe push it because I think it's a good way to do just a sideline thing and inspire more people and work together on stuff.
13:20What's your take?
13:21I think for me, the, the, the important thing is, is the Ella Dawson foundation is run by Jane, Kevin and Tasha Dawson, and I know them.
13:34Um, and they inspire me and they're in my thoughts a lot.
13:40Therefore, I just talk about the Ella Dawson foundation a lot.
13:44And, um, it's not a sort of faceless, large charity.
13:48It's a very small charity doing a really, really important thing.
13:52Um, I've got a personal connection because my mother lost her brother from leukaemia as well when he was just seven years old.
14:00So that, uh, that, that, that was another reason to, to support.
14:05And I'd been looking for a charity for a while and met, uh, the Dawson's fairly late on about six months before the race.
14:12And, um, we just hooked up, got, got together.
14:16Um, we all get on very well.
14:18And, um, I would say just, you know, I'm in contact with them at least every week, um, messaging, uh, doing videos.
14:27So they're friends really.
14:30It's, it's not, you know, any, anybody raising money for charity is great, but I find it's easier because of the dynamic between me and them.
14:37And, uh, in terms of the work involved, 99% of it is a Dawson foundation.
14:44I just respond, I keep in contact, I provide as much content as I can.
14:50And whenever they asked me to do something, I say yes.
14:53So, but they're, they're doing all the grunt work.
14:55Yeah.
14:56Yeah.
14:57Yeah.
14:58I'm thinking we will just make it very clear.
14:59We'll encourage people to pick up a charity.
15:01I think it's a good idea.
15:02Yeah.
15:03Yeah.
15:04Um, okay.
15:05So, um, uh, do you think, you know, ask us what potentially is a silly question because it's the most common one,
15:13but I'm trying to get a bit deep in that.
15:15Why are you doing this?
15:16Why are you doing this?
15:17Yeah.
15:18Um, I'd say, I'd say if, if, if I was to pop my clogs tomorrow, would there be anything that I would be really proud to leave as a legacy for my kids to inspire them?
15:38Um, and, um, two years ago, I wouldn't be able to put my finger on anything, but, uh, this, I think if I can complete this, um, and everything that's involved in it, the build, the, you know, self massive story of self motivation all the way through.
15:54Then, uh, that's probably the reason.
15:56Yeah.
15:57Yeah.
15:58So it didn't, it wasn't at the beginning at the beginning, it was just a fun idea, but now you consider it to be life defining.
16:03No, it was always the beginning, you know, I started building the boat because I wanted to do this and that was in my mind right from the beginning.
16:12Yeah.
16:13Um, so what's become life defining is the actual experience of doing it.
16:17Yeah.
16:18And I'm, as I, as I mentioned before, my level of enjoyment and sort of deep satisfaction is just growing and growing and growing and, um, that took a little while to, to, to, to, to start happening, but, uh, it, it, it's there now.
16:33So, yeah, in, in terms of personally, yes, I think it's certainly become life defining.
16:38Yeah.
16:39But in terms of the reasons for doing it at the beginning, I think, um, yeah, a bit of a legacy would, uh, of this sort would do no harm to inspire.
16:49Do you think it's changing you in any way, in some ways?
16:52No.
16:53I guess.
16:54Changing who you are.
16:55I feel like I'm, but I'm, you know, I'm just a very relaxed person right now and I hope I'm pretty good company.
17:01And there's times that all my friends will and family will tell you that I'm not very relaxed and not very good company.
17:07So I think the, the real, the real, uh, question will be answered when I'm back at home and what I'm going to do then.
17:16And I have no idea right now, but, um, yeah, if I could retain this level of satisfaction, enjoyment and contentment, then, uh, that would be amazing.
17:27Yeah.
17:28Yeah.
17:29So do you see, obviously it's good.
17:31Things are going to get tougher as we get further around, but everyone's more competent because they know their boats now and all that sort of stuff.
17:37What do you perceive to be the biggest risk between here and the finish, the risk to you?
17:44Um, I would say, um, more navigational rather than weather based.
17:53So, yeah, I would say getting, making sure you don't hit rocks, uh, in one form or another is probably, as I would see it, the biggest risk.
18:04I think heavy weather is a risk, but it's a risk of very different sort.
18:08And, um, you know, these boats are designed to be able to back down the hatches.
18:13And if that's what we need to do, then we do that.
18:16But, uh, if you get caught with, in a, in a situation near reefs with either little wind or tide against through whatever reason, then there's, there's, you know, we just don't have that ability to motor out of problems.
18:33So that I would see that as the biggest risk hitting, hitting rocks.
18:36Yeah.
18:37Okay.
18:38That's interesting.
18:39I think it's a feedback from sailing in England, UK, all the tides, currents, all that sort of stuff.
18:44Cause reefs are like, you can anchor behind every reef.
18:47It's like a free break water all the way through the reef.
18:49Yeah.
18:50Yeah.
18:51We can talk about that more, but anyway, but there's a very interesting.
18:54Okay.
18:55And, um, uh, so what about your, give me a run through of your typical 24 hour day from sunrise to sunrise.
19:02Okay.
19:03What happens?
19:04Um, so I, I normally wake up at first light and, um, check, check, check the boat out, um, make myself some breakfast, which is normally some muesli and a cup of tea.
19:19And then, um, turn on my star link, check for messages, um, send a message back to Kerry saying, everything's okay.
19:29Um, and then, um, check all the weather forecasts and see what I'm expecting for the next six, 12, 18 hours.
19:38Um, and then do a thorough boat check in terms of fittings and, um, any particular chafe problems or furler problems.
19:48Um, and then just ease into the day in terms of the sailing.
19:52Ideally, um, it will be a day that I don't have to have my hand on the tiller very much.
19:58Cause I'm not a fan of, of hand steering.
20:00Um, so set setting, you know, setting the, the wind vane, um, hoping that the, the speed and direction of the wind doesn't change too much.
20:12And, um, ease into a, you know, relaxing morning.
20:16I tend to be sort of fairly busy in the mornings.
20:18Um, from midday onwards, when it gets very hot, I'll have something to eat and then sleep for an hour or two in the afternoon.
20:25And then be on call again, pretty actively until, until dusk.
20:30Yeah.
20:31Yeah.
20:32And then during the night.
20:33I, yeah, during the night.
20:34So I have, uh, I have a two hour watch system if I'm not anywhere near land.
20:42Um, and, and I very rarely need the alarm to wake me up, but I set it for every two hours.
20:47Um, sometimes I didn't get out of bed.
20:50So I'll look up to see the Windex.
20:52Um, which, which, uh, gives you lots of information.
20:56What do you got?
20:57You've got a skylight.
20:58I've got a little hatch just to think.
21:00I can just lean through the hatch and have a quick look.
21:02Yeah.
21:03Um, I'll check my track on Navionics, um, check my average speed for the previous two hours.
21:10If I'm happy and if everything looks okay, put my head back down.
21:14If not, I'll go.
21:15And I probably 50% of the time I need to get up and do something.
21:18Yeah.
21:19Um, and then back down and, uh, I'm dozing.
21:23I don't have a particularly great setup for sleeping.
21:27I've got, I sleep on the bunks.
21:28A lot of people in our seats sitting sleeping crossover.
21:31I still sleep on the.
21:32Yeah.
21:33I like the bunk.
21:34You know, the windward side.
21:35Yeah.
21:36Um, my Lee club's not overly tight.
21:38Um, so I do roll about, but I don't mind that I don't ever, I haven't ever felt fatigued.
21:43So I'm getting enough sleep.
21:46I don't want to fall into deep sleeps.
21:48Um, and it just works for me at the moment.
21:51So I'll, I'll, I'll be dozing and waking all through the night.
21:54Um, if it's, you know, if there's land around, then I'll be, um, you know, I'll be, you know,
22:00coming in here for the last 48 hours.
22:03I didn't, didn't sleep at all.
22:04I was, uh, just watching everything and keeping an eye on stuff.
22:08Yeah.
22:09How much sleep do you normally get?
22:10So you reckon you'd try for during the middle of the ocean?
22:13Uh, I would say over a 24 hour period, I'll get easily six hours, if not eight hours sleep.
22:18Yeah.
22:19Easily normal.
22:20Yeah.
22:21Don't, don't, don't feel a problem with that.
22:22Yeah.
22:23Yeah.
22:24Too true.
22:25Okay.
22:26So, um, uh, the, um, the scenario now with your navigation, like, uh, you sort of enjoyed,
22:33you know, you did pretty well with your celestial navigation.
22:35You still use it a bit?
22:36Um, no, I haven't, uh, it's in a, it's in a locker.
22:40Um, but I've got everything.
22:42And, um, we were chatting about that a couple of nights ago saying some of the guys are
22:47doing fairly regular, um, sun sights and I probably should do that.
22:52But, uh, I'll be honest.
22:53It's interesting to see who's enjoying the ride.
22:56Yeah.
22:57Yeah.
22:58That's cool.
22:59Yeah.
23:00It was a bit of a misery to start with the celestial, but, um, eventually I gave myself,
23:04uh, a stern talking to and got on with it.
23:06And actually it was, it was, it was, it was, uh, rewarding.
23:09Yeah.
23:10That's cool.
23:11So what about, uh, electrical management, you know, like how, how's that going?
23:14You know, like, and it's been, it's been okay.
23:17Um, I've got a, I've got a multimeter that if anything happens, which so far it, it hasn't
23:22touched wood.
23:23Um, I've had a cigarette lighter charger fail the actual, um, female part that you push
23:30the thing in failed.
23:32Um, I've got spares of pretty much everything.
23:35It's, it's been great.
23:36My, my lithiums, uh, a good, um, you got enough power to do what you want.
23:42Yeah, I do.
23:43I don't really use the telepilot much.
23:46Um, Starlink takes a little bit more cause you know, you're inclined to leave it on more
23:55than you would do the rhythm go.
23:56Yeah.
23:57Um, but so far it's been good.
23:59It makes a huge difference if the sun is shining obviously.
24:02Um, so if you get two, three bad days, then you've got to be a bit careful, but rarely
24:08do I get anything below.
24:10I normally have one full battery.
24:12There's the, uh, telepilot battery, which I can use if I need to.
24:17Um, that remains at a hundred percent nearly all of the time.
24:22And my other one very rarely gets down below.
24:24So you're really running off a hundred amps or something.
24:26Pretty much.
24:27Yeah.
24:28Yeah.
24:29I wouldn't want just a hundred amps.
24:31No, no, no.
24:32Yeah, obviously.
24:33Yeah.
24:34Yeah.
24:35Okay.
24:36So, I mean, when all this started, you know, right up until the very end, Starlink was not
24:38on the agenda, you know, then mini Starlink turned up and a couple had it at the start.
24:41Yeah.
24:42Panama for 200 bucks.
24:43Pretty much everyone bought one.
24:44You got one.
24:45I got one.
24:46Yeah.
24:47I did.
24:48It's a game changer, but do you think it's good, bad or indifferent?
24:51What's your take on that?
24:52Yeah.
24:53I think I'd have to come down on the side of definitely good because I can communicate immediately.
24:58and efficiently back home, particularly with Kerry to let her know everything's okay.
25:05So there is a, there is an argument that you're in the middle of the ocean.
25:09Do you really want to be, you know, looking at the racing results and football results and,
25:14you know, movies and this sort of thing.
25:17Um, you, I think the purist would say, and if I'm feeling in the purist mood, I just don't
25:24turn it on.
25:25Um, but on balance, uh, yeah, it's a, it's a game changer and it's a, it's a game changer
25:31for the better.
25:32Yeah.
25:33Okay.
25:34So how's your relationship with your South Atlantic wind vein and, and you know, how you're
25:38managing that and keeping it going and all those sorts of things.
25:41Um, yeah, it's, it's again, it's continued to improve.
25:44Um, I find it, uh, um, I haven't got anything else to compare it with, but I find it absolutely
25:52excellent.
25:53Um, South Atlantic have been a very good support team when things have gone wrong.
25:57And I think a few things have gone wrong and they continue to upgrade the South Atlantic
26:02wind vein.
26:03Um, I find it very, very good.
26:06Um, I used to have the control line on a chain.
26:09I've changed that to control lines on cleats now, so I can get very marginal adjustment.
26:15Whereas before I was finding the chain link, one chain link was giving me too much adjustment.
26:20So I find the control lines a lot better.
26:23Um, it's, it's a much lighter unit than everybody else's.
26:29There's only two of us now left with South Atlantic, myself and Josh.
26:33Um, so there's no shortage of spares knocking about.
26:36Um, but I find it good.
26:38It's a, it's a lightweight bit of kit.
26:40Uh, it's very simple.
26:42Um, uh, I think the dis a major disadvantage is, is that we don't have a second rudder.
26:51Um, so having two bits of wood in the water.
26:55Um, I think this is in comparison to the hydrovane or not for the sailing of the boat, but yeah.
27:01Yeah.
27:02The hydrovane.
27:03I think you can probably get a bit more sail up and keep a straighter line.
27:05And yeah.
27:06Um, but, uh, yeah, that was, that, that, that was my choice at the beginning.
27:11And, um, I'm very happy.
27:13Yeah.
27:14Okay.
27:15Yeah.
27:16I think that's a good point because I know a lot of the guys that are swapped out of the hydrovan.
27:19I said, look, the South Atlantic is okay, but obviously the hydrovan is more expensive.
27:23Yeah.
27:24Maybe solid or engineering and you don't have to think much about it.
27:26Yeah.
27:27Stick it there.
27:28Did you find that you, uh, at a disadvantage when you left because you hadn't sailed under a windvane before, you know,
27:34it's taken a while to settle in and understand all the tweaks that you need.
27:37Yeah.
27:38I'm sure.
27:39I think, um, the, uh, I had, I, I sailed with it, but not, not to the extent that I have now.
27:47So yeah, I've, I've learned and learned and learned.
27:49And I was, there was definitely a disadvantage.
27:51And I think the guys that have put lots of miles in on these boats before the start have, have done a really good thing.
27:57And they're, you know, that's showing.
27:59Uh, I think my main disadvantage was, was, uh, was leg two light winds.
28:05I couldn't get the boat to go.
28:06I was going around in circles a bit and I lost a lot of ground in leg two.
28:10I lost my telepilot, which I really needed then because it was light winds.
28:14Um, but since then we've had better trade winds to, to sail and to use the self steering gear.
28:23And, um, I'd say I pretty much nailed it now in terms of understanding how to get the best out of it.
28:28Yeah.
28:29Have you had much of a work list to do here?
28:31You know, get ready.
28:32Um, so I put copper coat on the boat, uh, which has been brilliant, but, uh, the steel keel, um, has reacted with the copper coat, which probably means I didn't put enough primer on rather than anything else.
28:48Um, Kerry, uh, had the same problem on origami.
28:52So my big job, which I've just finished was, uh, grinding off the copper coat and the primer from the back down to the bare steel on the, uh, on the keel and on the flange that sticks to the, to the hull.
29:05Um, and I've just finished repriming and put a hard anti-file on that now.
29:10So that will, I'm sure stop.
29:13Cause there was quite a lot of pitting in the keel actually.
29:15It would have only got a lot, lot worse.
29:17And, um, I'm pleased I've got that done.
29:19Uh, the other thing, other main thing, only other main thing was, uh, South Atlantic sent me a beefed up bracket to hang the hydro vein on, which, uh, I didn't get a chance to fit in Tonga, which I've fitted here.
29:33So yeah.
29:34So yeah.
29:35So I'm pretty much done now.
29:36I can relax and enjoy, uh, the Fiji sun.
29:40Okay.
29:41So what are you looking forward to most going forward now?
29:44You know, what's the, where's the buzz?
29:46Um, I'm really looking forward to the next three weeks for sure, because, uh, Kerry's coming out, we can relax.
29:53Um, we'll have, you know, we'll have great time.
29:55I've got some other friends coming out from New Zealand.
29:58Yeah.
29:59So that'll be a great, I'm slightly apprehensive about when that all finishes and getting back into.
30:02I'm getting back into, into, into race life.
30:05Um, I'm actually really looking forward to, to leg three because I think it's going to have different challenges than we've had.
30:14Um, I really enjoy navigation.
30:16Um, and there's all sorts of different options to get, uh, through to Thursday Island or Darwin.
30:22So I'm, I'm really looking forward to doing work on that.
30:25Um, the Indian ocean is, you know, Pacific ocean for me at the beginning was, was amazing.
30:31Cause I've never been in the Pacific.
30:33I've never been in the Indian ocean either.
30:35So, um, I'm, yeah, I'm, I, I feel the next leg is going to be, there's going to be more for us to do.
30:44And my biggest, um, difficulty on the boat is boredom.
30:50Um, I don't ever feel lonely, but I do get bored.
30:53So that, that for me sort of should work quite, quite nicely.
30:57Yeah.
30:58I don't want too much adrenaline, but just a little bit.
31:01Do you, do you, are you a person that visualizes things to make it happen?
31:06Like have you visualized, you know, coming to the end and all that sort of stuff?
31:09Have you that far down the track?
31:10No, no, no.
31:11Yeah.
31:12So what's next?
31:13One leg at a time.
31:14What's next after this?
31:15When you, when it's all over, you must think about that a bit when you're out there.
31:18Yeah.
31:19I think I said to you before, ask me a bit later and I'd give you the same answer.
31:24Okay.
31:25So, uh, just to remind everyone, I forget, I meant to say this at the beginning.
31:29We did a great chat in Panama, uh, before you left there.
31:33Yeah.
31:34Which gives all your background and all those sorts of things.
31:36So if you, if you enjoyed this, go and have a look on the file of all the entrant, uh, interviews we did in, in Panama.
31:42Okay.
31:43That's all good.
31:44So I better let you go.
31:45You got to launch your boat in about 20 minutes.
31:47Yep.
31:48All right.
31:49Good job, Adam.
31:50You're doing great.
31:51And, uh, happy to have you on board Bristol.
31:53A British Bristol fashion and all that sort of stuff.
31:55You really are well organized.
31:56So good luck, eh?
31:57Thanks.
31:58Yeah.
31:59See ya.
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