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.
13-12 01:15 board time Today was, again, a super day sailing! The waves have gradually increased to about 2,5 meters.
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.
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.
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..
8-12 02:50 board time We were sailing so beautifully. The wind was turning as we expected, we were going south.
We have left Easter Island behind us and are bound for Cape Horn. We left on a perfectly sunny, pacific.
Tuesday 24-9-2019 55’29N 168’08W COG 160 SOG 8.5 kn Wind West 20kn Fork tailed Storm Petrels, Sooty Petrels, Short tailed.
When signing up for the NWP trip of Tecla, I decided to conduct some beach observations using the OSPAR beach litter classification scheme as guideline. I did not follow their strict instruction to square off a 100m or 1 km section
We first have to watch the Northern Light show in peace, watch the full moon set for another hour or so and try and spot the whales we keep hearing around us. Some even as close as 50 meters from the ship. We can not make out what sort they are, we hear their spout and then see a glimpse of their back if we are looking in the right direction.. but can not tell whether something is a dorsal vin or small wave.. it is just too dark for that..
This island of about 100 km2, roughly 10 by 10 km, is the only one along an otherwise relatively straight coastline between the Mackenzie delta to the east and well into Alaska to the west.
