Visit to Grytviken in the morning. Ship Cruise at Nordenskjöld Glacier in the afternoon. We wake up to a light snowy day and just a breeze blowing over Cumberland Bay East. EUROPA has spent a good night anchored at...
An afternoon visit to the second-largest King penguin rookery on the island, Salisbury Plain. Reaching South Georgia is worth it. It is like travelling to the fabled land of Prester John, the mythical kingdom in the...
Last day at sea. Arrival to South Georgia, dropping anchor during the night at Right Whale Bay. A week ago, we set sail from Falkland Islands and ventured into the open ocean on a week's journey to South Georgia. Today,...
Motoring towards South Georgia in light Easterly winds. If yesterday we sailed where the supposed Aurora Islands were thought to be, today the non-mythical but real Shag Rocks lay 40nm south of our current track to South...
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,...
It is midnight, the beginning of the new day. It is overcast, drizzling, and dark outside; the wind is changing and easing. Crew walk the decks preparing all for manoeuvring. Lee gear is slacked, Hady-billies or small...
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...
Northeasterlies increasing a bit in the afternoon. Wearing ship and steering again on a course to South Georgia. A few last hours of steering on variable courses in decreasing and shifting winds brought us to the morning...
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...
A good strong easterly brought us fast all the way to New Island. A shift to westerlies and north-northwesterlies brought us to start our way to South Georgia after yesterday’s great afternoon landing. A night...