In this episode, we stop in Gibraltar – a unique place that connects Europe and Africa, and the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean. During our stop at the marina, we replenish supplies, refuel and prepare the yacht for the next stage of the journey. We will share our impressions of this iconic port and reveal a few interesting facts about Gibraltar itself. And then… sails up and we set off on another cruise! What awaits us on the route? See for yourself! Have you ever visited Gibraltar? What were your impressions? Share in the comments! Link: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18Jy... #yacht # Description of the situation according to Szczepan Twardoch Quote. I will allow myself to supplement the story described by Conceptsailing with a few important details. Conceptsailing writes that “the yacht encountered a storm”. This is a charming form. You can meet a squirrel in the park or a friend in a pub, and you could meet a storm two hundred years ago, before the invention of modern meteorology. I saw the storm that skipper Janecki "met" on the weather forecasts, I also saw the current position of the yacht Nashachata II, which interested me because together with our skipper Dominik Bac and a great crew, who had come to Iceland from three continents, I was to board this solid yacht in Reykjavik and sail it as the officer of the watch to Greenland. From the beginning of the passage of Nashachata II from the Faroe Islands to Iceland, it seemed strange to me - why sail at all when you can see that 40 knots of wind base is going to blow from the north, straight into your mouth? Good sea practice is not to sail into a storm. Just like that. Period. Storms pass, so when you see a storm - and you can see it! - then you don't sail, you just wait. Two days after Nashachat II, the not-so-expedition yacht Marauder entered the port in Vestmannaeyjar with a 4-person crew, consisting of two older couples, which also sailed from the Faroe Islands. When asked how it was sailing, they replied that it was excellent, a pleasant passage, two days and they were there. That is exactly what skipper Andrzej Janecki should have done. There was also another Polish yacht in the Faroe Islands, Inatiz, which also decided to wait out the storm and reached Reykjavik without any problems. However, Janecki decided to sail. And that was his first mistake. He did not check how much fuel he had. He did not change to a smaller sail and in a storm that was clearly visible in every application, he sailed out with a 90-meter yankee on the first stay - although there are two smaller ones on the yacht. Why? It is not known, probably because the Polish yacht captain of the old school is not afraid of any storm. So he sailed. The wind started blowing. The skipper, however, is going with this yankee and mainsail on the third reef. The wind is blowing even harder. Changing the sail in difficult conditions is out of the question, so captain Janecki tries to furl it on the furler, which has no chance of success, because everyone knows that in 40-50 knots of wind the furler halyard (the line that winds onto the roller under the staysail) will simply snap. This is not Croatia, you don't reef on the furler in such conditions. So of course the halyard broke. But! On the second stay captain Janecki had another staysail, much smaller, maybe not yet storm-proof, but definitely one that would be much better suited for these conditions. Why the yankee wasn't furled? We don't know. Small sails are probably for pussies or something like that. After the furler sheet broke, captain Janecki continued to go upwind, with 90 square meters of rag in front. So the sheet snapped, a thick, twenty-millimeter rope. Change tack, repair the sheet. After a few minutes, the second sheet snapped. Change tack again. Generally, the sea, wind and yacht sent very clear signals to the captain, but the captain did not acknowledge them. As a result, the clew snapped, the sail went to shreds. And that was eighty miles from Iceland. So it was necessary to turn around and sail downwind on anything, on a small staysail, back to the Faroe Islands, where he could be downwind in a dozen or so hours, fixing the mistake of setting out. Of course, the sail was already lost, but that was a loss of about 5,000 euros. However, the captain came up with a great idea to sail upwind on the engine. So he sailed for two days at a speed of two knots until it turned out that he was running out of fuel, because according to the hours sailed, he must have burned about 600 liters of it. Then he had another great idea: he reported to Icelandic SAR, like to a gas station, with a request to bring him fuel. SAR from Vestmannaeyjar is a volunteer unit, the captain of the boat, Þorbjörn Víglundsson is my age, the rest of the crew are young guys. When I talked to him about this operation yesterday, his first and most important question was whether we know why the skipper of Nashachaty II sail