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 […]
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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
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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
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Nambiia to St. Helena……Day 6 May 30th, written the morning of May 31st, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere…for about 5 more hours!!!) Time: GMT! Miss Piggy\’s new light air trick: Yesterday started off with light winds which finally picked up to 14 knots. This allowed us to sail again, but not more than about a 6.2 knot
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Nambia to St. Helena….Day 5 May 29th, written morning of May 30th, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere, but not for long!) +1GMT Just as I sent yesterdays blog, the wind shifted back to the south and came up at 12 knots. We set the full main and reacher and had a lovely day sail. Just before dark,
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Namibia to St. Helena….Day 4 May 28th, written the morning of the 29th, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere – but not for long!) +1GMT Yesterday morning found us having had a slow night\’s passage and the winds were fading and shifting to the east southeast. This meant gybing and sailing slow or just sailing slow toward Antarctica..!
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Namibia to St. Helena….Day 3 May 27th, morning of the 28th, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) +1 GMT Yesterday, we planned on gybing north, but the heading was taking to Angola!..NOT where we want to go. So we experimented with the big geneker (reacher) on the pole and tacked downwind a bit to play the shifts. We\’ve
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Namibia to St. Helena…Day 2 May 26th, written the morning of the 27th, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) +1 GMT Yesterday morning, the winds went light; too light to sail. We tried in vain to use the spinnaker for a few hours, but we just weren\’t getting anywhere. If we go less than 5 knots for very
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Day one to St. Helena and bye bye Luderitz….. May 24th-25th, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) +1 on GMT We wanted to get checked out of Namibia early in the day as it takes lots of time to organize and do last minute \”boatie\” chores before departure. We also had plans to have dinner out at Barrels
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Day Three to Luderitz….. Cold and Wet May 21st, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) After we gybed the main yesterday, we were pretty much right on course and had stronger than predicted winds (yet again!). Initially, it wasn\’t blowing too hard so we put up the spinnaker again. Shortly thereafter of course, the winds piped up into
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