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All right, I'll check SailMail,

come up, talk to you and Stan.

I'll be up in a bit.

[Branning] I'm putting my life on hold

for a year to do this.

Some people at the Merchant Marine

Academy are not too happy about that.

I'm very, very, very lucky to be here.

[man] Ready to jibe!

Jibing!

OK, main's out, main's out!

- [man 2] Oh, no.

- [man 3] It's not in yet.

[man 2] Start pullin' big.

Big and hard.

- [man] Ease back.

- Hold.

[man 2] Uh, we might have to go

back on this one, boys.

Let's go back. Jibing back.

Sheet it in really hard

to bring the nose down.

[Brant-Zawadzki] Jeremy is a badass.

The most knowledgeable sailor

I've ever sailed with.

I'm Troll. Back when I was a little kid,

when I used to get salt in my hair...

I used to have long hair but it wouldn't

go down. It used to just go straight up.

OK, stand by.

[Wilmot] I was born into sailing.

My dad and my uncle were both

two-time Olympians.

My brother won three

world championships.

Stacking the boat.

So I have a lot of shoes to fill.

Bring it on, guys.

When I get on a boat, I sort of...

I'm a bit of a control freak.

- Set that kite in.

- [Brant-Zawadzki] Kit Will. Kit is rad.

He's really mellow, which I think

some people see as shy.

And I really hope that people will see

how valuable an asset he is to the team.

[Honey] Kit's invisible. You know,

he may be the first guy on the crew

that I would ask

to go on the ocean race,

'cause he has all the characteristics

- of a rock-solid offshore sailor.

- Trim.

[Will] I was about ten, telling

my parents I really loved sailing.

It's how I related to the world, really,

feeling like you're connected

to the wind through the sails.

There's something about

that connection that's amazing.

It's a ratchet.

That is the key to every winch.

[Will] We're gonna be out there

for maybe ten days, on our own,

If something breaks, we have to fix it.

And chances are something will break.

So remember, you've gotta go

around the Pacific high.

In the center of the Pacific

high there's no wind at all.

If you go into the high,

you're gonna stop.

[Honey] It was an interesting group.

They had dinghy experience,

they're plenty smart.

That's correct.

That's your secondary fuel filter.

Right on. You got it.

But, in fact, none of this crew had,

you know, crossed an ocean.

- [man] Whoo!

- [man 2] Nice!

[man] You get right, run your sail.

[Honey] Steve has enormous potential

as a sailor,

and the least amount of experience.

[Manson] I don't think

I'm the least experienced.

Person who has been sailing

least is Graham, two years,

and I think I'm next in line

with three years.

Do you know what it's like

to go in the water with your clothes on?

Well, that's what's gonna happen today.

You're gonna wear your shoes

and you're gonna wear what you have on.

So you're gonna swim down

to that end, come back here,

and you're gonna tread water

for five minutes.

[Manson] I had a hard time doing

the swim test back in California.

I was very nervous.

- [man] Keep coming.

- [man 2] Almost there.

[man] You're almost there.

- [breathing heavily]

- [man] You're almost there.

Help him, help him.

OK, guys. Out of the pool.

Nice job, everybody.

[applause]

[Manson] It is really emotional for me.

My mother passed recently.

She passed in February this year.

[Kirby] You're gonna go home

to Baltimore.

You're gonna learn how to swim

'cause when you get to Hawaii,

you better be ready...

Holy...

- [laughter]

- Oh, my God! Oh, my God.

- Are you serious?

- [Kirby] I'm serious. Very serious.

Oh, my God. Oh...

[Manson] First thing I thought of

was my mother.

I don't know. I just know

she's proud of me, man.

Ah...

[Manson] You only get

certain opportunities in life,

and if you don't hop on 'em,

they'll go like that.

I live with my sister,

and my nieces and nephews.

I don't even grasp the whole concept of,

you know, like,

sailing through the ocean,

and I'm quite sure that

they probably don't either.

I think they do have, somewhat,

a fear for me, you know.

Could be a chance that, you

know, I might not make it back.

So what we're gonna do is, we're gonna

sail upwind, we're gonna set a kite.

We're gonna have six people on deck. The

rest are gonna be down in your bunks,

and we're gonna simulate

a man overboard with a kite up.

Steve's gonna jump over the side.

He very nicely volunteered.

[laughing]

[man] January 21st.

I think the best way to overcome fear

is to face it head-on.

[Haines] Anytime, Steve.

Go, buddy.

- [man] Help!

- [Tulloch] Man overboard!

[Tulloch] Pointing, pointing.

Got him. Got him.

Pull him along, right?

I got him.

- [Haines] Don't look back.

- [Tulloch] Still have him?

[Manson] You hit the water,

it takes five seconds to come up.

Then you see the boat,

and it's like a half a mile away.

[Haines]

OK, kite down.

[Wilmot] In good breeze,

every second counts,

especially when you're hauling ass

doing 18 knots with the kite up.

[Haines]

Wait. What are you doing?

[Wilmot] It's not like you can

pull the hand brake

and spin the boat on a dime.

[overlapping chatter]

[man] OK, gotcha.

[Tulloch] Hold on, hold on.

You need...

[Haines] Come on, guys. Main in.

- [Haines] He's out of sight.

- I got ya. He's right here.

Come on. Turn!

Here it comes!

[Tulloch] All right, two big guys,

we're gonna pick him up.

Off our bow.

- Throw him a line!

- Gotta be long.

[overlapping chatter]

[cheering, whooping]

- [Brant-Zawadzki] Welcome back, man.

- [Haines] Good job!

- Yeah!

- [overlapping chatter]

- [laugh]

- [Fielding] All I remember

is feeling a sense of

accomplishment as a group

that we got Steve back on that boat,

and that he had conquered

a big hurdle in his life.

In a real race,

at night, in bad weather,

that training exercise

will always be in the back of my head.

[Will] I thought we got back there

pretty quickly.

Definitely, like,

you realize how quickly

you get away from somebody

with a chute up.

So, you were pointin' at the ring,

right? But she still couldn't see me?

I mean, I could see a little bit

of fleck on the top of a wave.

But you went out of sight,

- I wanna say a minute. Not even.

- Wow.

[Brant-Zawadzki] We're a team of 15.

Every single person deserves to race.

We can't all go. Only 11.

[man] We as a team will be picking

the four who stay behind.

As the youngest team member, this has

been extremely nerve-racking for me.

Bring me back in, Chris.

Guys, I'd like to practice

some jibes, if we got the time.

- [Kane] Let's pre-check.

- [Fielding] We're gonna go real slow.

All right, clear to jibe.

Jibing.

[Honey] Jibes are the turns that you

have to do in order to get downwind,

because the boat can't sail

directly downwind.

So instead you sail

40 degrees one way,

turn, or you jibe, and then you sail 40

degrees off the wind the other way.

Tacks are similar.

Tacks are the turns that you have to do

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