Log

Motoring at night our way to South Georgia. Attention lookouts, tired as you can be after a whole couple of days on a sea watch schedule…, keep a good eye out there at sea: Not far from where we find ourselves today,...

Good Close-hauled sailing on 20 to over 25kn of veering winds to a Northeasterly. It has been blowing about 20kn from the Northeast for the last hours, but in the morning, some stronger gusts make for dousing and furling...

Downwind she rolls and rolls this morning. Light westerlies make for Europa to sail downwind. The breeze is light but the seas are high. Water climbs over port bulwarks, washes the deck and splashes over starboard side, and...

Our first night on seawatches. It was to take overnight and most of today to reach New Island, our planned visit to West Falklands. But the good winds from an easterly direction brought us fast to our destination. That meant a...

After the heavy start of the trip and the sailing, the weather and sea conditions now look much better. The sustained forceful winds from the beginning of our trip and all along the day didn’t look very promising for a...