With the winds picking up and the ship heeling and rolling pretty wildly, already yesterday afternoon Europa started reducing canvas. First Top Gallants were stowed away, and under hard conditions in the morning, the crew dips...
It didn’t take long for the forecasted strong Southerly winds to start blowing already during the night, shifting to Southeasterly in the early morning. With the blows up and down from 25 to 35kn, it's time to pull down...
Wanderers at dawn, Wanderers at sunset. Abating conditions made for just a few of those albatrosses to show up today, but nevertheless just in time to first greet and then say goodbye to the day. The large flocks of Prions...
20th of March, the end of the Austral Summer. At about 13:30h Europa sails past the latitude where the sun appears to leave the Southern Hemisphere and cross the celestial equator, heading northward as seen from Earth. It...
Highs and Lows Weather Systems. Bending and turning isobars bringing warm surface air. Atmospheric compression area with their associated strong winds between the back of the High pressure that we were riding and a...
For two days now, the Europa rides the wild seas. 25, 30, 35, wind meter climbs often over 40kn pointing at winds and gusts squeezed between the back of a High-pressure System and a menacing Depression that follows....
Roar. So the 40’s roar. Untamed seas and howling winds to the full moon. During the night the forecasted ocean uproar burst upon the Europa in fury that just gets accentuated at sunrise. Heeling heavily to Starboard...
With an almost full moon shining amongst the clouds and Scorpio showing now and then high over our heads, braced square and sailing practically downwind under all the squares plus the jibs, Europa keeps a good course...
15th March 2020 Sailing under fair winds on a northerly course With the wind backing rapidly to become more westerly at a good 20kn, Europa happily changes course and starts heading in a north direction. Still braced Close...
South Georgia behind, 1450 nautical miles of open ocean ahead. It rained last evening while unfurling and starting the sail setting. It didn’t take long after dinnertime to become busy on deck. 30kn of westerly wind...