Blue Water sailing
30-12 01:05 board time Today was a true Blue Water sailing day. When I came on watch just before noon,...
Rounding of Cape Horn and changing weather
29-12 01:50 board time Rounding of Cape Horn and changing weather This morning at 04:28 board time (08:28 UTC) we...
From blowing half a gale to dead in the water
28-12 01:55 board time From blowing half a gale to dead in the water for 10 hours Another low pressure...
Becalmed before the Horn
27-12 00:20 board time If you would have been zapped on board this afternoon and would not have known where...
Riding the waves
Logboekje: 15-12 01:17 board time We were getting somewhat tired of the waves rocking us side to side, us working...
Here’s a little log entry from our watches today. krista.
We’ve passed 40 degrees South! All the shorts are gone and the oilskins are on. The sea has turned from...
Riding the wave of coming winds
13-12 01:15 board time Today was, again, a super day sailing! The waves have gradually increased to about 2,5 meters...
Days like these
This also meant that we had already done over 200 miles of our 3000 and we are now officially doing everything in our power to make this an official Cape Horn rounding, sailing 3000 miles uninterrupted and crossing the 50'South on both the pacific and South Atlantic side.
Nearly a swim stop, nearly
It looked promising, a breeze picked up that we had not seen on the weather forecast and as we turned of the engine, we set the mainsail and nr 1 jib, doing about 6 knots under sail! What a relieve. Silence for a few hours and as the waves had calmed down, it was really pleasant on deck. I even took out a big Cuban sun hat, as there were hardly any clouds.
Time for watch hand over
The next 150 miles south have to be made before that high is there, otherwise we will also lose the wind to the north of a low pressure area passing us to the south..
