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...
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...
Partially cloudy skies let the sun pass through windows and portholes. But the illusion of warm sunny weather disappears as soon as we step on deck and feel the strong winds that we are having while anchored right next to the...
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...
25 to 30kn pushing us against the jetty, welcoming us to the new sunny and windy day. The day of our departure from Port Stanley and the start of a voyage that will bring us to visit Falklands for a handful of days, South...
A windy day, a typical journey of variable weather so common at the island. Now sunny then hail, rain follows and by embarkation time in the afternoon its sunny again. Europa is moored alongside the central jetty at Port...
Port Stanley (Falkland Islands). Back from a transoceanic voyage sailing from New Zealand to Falklands along the South Pacific, including the routing of Cape Horn, there ’ s not much time to get the ship...
Cape Horn is now behind us. Our next goal is to sail northwards to 50ºS along the Atlantic coasts. From close-hauled last night to a downwind course this morning, beam reach in the late afternoon, braced sharper during...