St. Helena to Ascension Island…..Day 4 June 13th, written the morning of the 14th, 2013 (Western Hemisphere) Time: GMT Right after I posted the morning blog yesterday, the winds dropped to 10-12 knots and I was sure we wouldn\’t make the Anchorage today. About three hours later, we put up the spinnaker on port tack …
St. Helena to Ascension Island…..Day 3 June 12th, written the morning of June 13th, 2013 (Western Hemisphere) Time: GMT Yesterday started out a bit blustery, but we were able to use the full main and genoa for several hours before the winds came up over 22 knots and decided to put in the first reef. …
St. Helena to Ascension Island…..Day 2 June 11th, written the morning of June 12th, 2013 (Western Hemisphere) Time: GMT Yesterday started off a bit slow and during the day we were a bit slow despite all the \”laundry\” (all the sails) up. Late in the afternoon when we were on radio schedule with Peri Peri …
St. Helena to Ascension lsland……Day 1 June 10th, written the morning of the 11th, 2013 (Western Hemisphere) Time: GMT It\’s always nice to have a few regrets leaving a place. That means, you enjoyed it and would consider coming back or at least recommending it to others. St. Helena fit nicely into both categories. We …
Sights of St. Helena….. June 3rd – 9th, 2013 (Western Hemisphere) Time: GMT To see the Photo Gallery associated with this post – CLICK HERE On our last day, we had the biggest flying fish I\’d ever seen. Friends Dave and Kathie of \”Sunflower\” were reporting lots of them, but this was the only one we …
Arrival at St. Helena Island…..Day 8.5 June 2nd, written aboard on the morning of June 3rd, 2013….(Western Hemisphere) +0 GMT/UTC 1380 miles, 8 days 8 hours – averaged 163 nm/day. Yesterday started as a blustery sail with the somewhat diminishing winds from the night before\’s 30 & 40 knot gusts. I was a bit concerned …
Namibia to St. Helena……Day 8 June 1st, written the morning of June 2nd, 2013 (Western Hemisphere) Time: On GMT/UTC What a different sail we\’ve had the last 24 hours. It started fairly light wind-ish again yesterday and steadily picked up during the day. We had one reef and the genoa out to weather on the …
Namibia to St. Helena…..Day 7 May 31st, written the morning of June 1st, 2013 (WESTERN HEMISPHERE) Time: GMT/UTC Good morning everyone! It\’s blowy outside. Yesterday, the winds were again light and we flew our full main, big reacher to starboard and genoa to port on the spinnaker pole. The winds were supposed to be coming …