Variable winds from yesterday are finished and from after midnight all the way to the afternoon we motor on calm conditions and long gentle swell. After taking away all canvas at around 01:00h AM and furl the sails on ...
After last windy evening and night the new day welcomes us with overcast skies and flat calm conditions. During breakfast the pilot and local authorities were already on board to clear us out of Argentina before starting our...
As we drop anchor 03:30 the sea watches change into anchor watches. When the sun slowly rises, we notice we are surrounded by green – a green that hits us as very intense after our weeks at sea and on the white...
We are back in the Beagle Channel! I can't believe there are only two more nights. Life at sea is quite nice and relaxing actually. It's a rotation of watch duty, sleep, food, movies/lectures by the crew, and hanging out...
Back in our sea watches, we are all awake and asleep at different times. From midnight to noon we have sailed 80 miles – partly on engine, but mostly under sail. We are heading to the North West, soon reaching the...
This morning we heave anchor to motor just around the corner. Our destination is Dorian Bay, a cove on the northwestern side of of Wiencke Island, just 0.8 km from Damoy Point, the Northern entrance of Port Lokroy. The...
As we wake up, a thin layer of ice has formed in the bay. The sea reflects the mountains like a foggy mirror. Port Lockroy is very well sheltered – so well sheltered in fact that Charcot did not consider it a good spot...
The early 20th century whalers named the place where we wake up today. They named it for it´s beauty, for the steep mountains and dynamic glaciers, often reflected by mirror like waters. On many days it is very calm in...
For the first time since days there is a little bit of wind! While we enter Neumayer Channel, we start taking up sails. The Channel is about 26 km long and generally about 2.4 km wide, and separates Anvers Island from Wiencke...
We are sailing into the Nelson strait – the strait between Robert Island and Nelson Island. On both sides we see large, snow covered glaciers, some of them ending in bright blue fronts coming down to the ocean. We sail...