Ride of the boobies
05°32.4S 084°18.5W // speed 8.5 // course 014° My superstitious mind may have thought I would jinx our amazing passage.
05°32.4S 084°18.5W // speed 8.5 // course 014° My superstitious mind may have thought I would jinx our amazing passage.
08°35.4S 084°10.5W course 355° speed 8 knots Another Sunday at sea! And this time, the weather was warm enough for.
11’23.1S 083’35.5W // course 355′ // speed 7,6kn The one thing I have not talked about enough in these logbooks,.
Bread is in the oven, cucumber has been pickled, coffee and tea were ready for the new watch — so.
17’36.8S 082’16.9W speed 7,6kn course 356′ Sailing these latitudes close to the equator, we know our rigging — and especially.
We have been sailing with a beautiful southeasterly for days now, mostly under grey skies — the outer edges of.
A day with all sorts of weather. We have had sunshine, we have had rain. We have had no wind,.
The night is dark. One can hardly see a hand in front of your face – let alone the person.
We have left Juan Fernandez nearly 250 miles behind us already. Averaging speeds of 7.5 knots and comfortably surfing down.
On the 18th, late at night, we made it to the Juan Fernández Islands, now also known as Robinson Crusoe.
