Author: Jesper
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Navigation screwup, but at least we crossed the equator.
For a whole day now I have been angry at myself for screwing the navigation towards Ascension. I completely failed to take the equatorial current into account. It is marked on my pilot charts as setting at 1.5 knots, but it was twice of that. So now it has carried us waaay too far…
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Aid to navigation
Well, when the waters are wide you don’t need that much detail on your charts, I suppose…
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Rudder repair completed.
It took longer than I would have wanted. So it’s only borderline possible to reach Ascension Island before Christmas. We will see… But it’s done. I was surprised that the one single can of aluminum hull compatible anti-fouling that was available on the whole island was the same color as the old one! On the…
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Rudder repair progress report: Monday.
The weekend was a bit of a roller coaster ride emotinally. The first thing that happened saturday morning was we went over to the shipyard to continue work. Only the rudder was not there anymore. All that was left was some water damaged foam that we had removed the day before! Now when things like…
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Rudder repair progress report, Friday
Ups and downs, I would say. This is not a fast paced place, so we decided to start working on the repairs fully ourselves. But just as we got the work going we were told by the police that we were generating too much dust and polluting the sea so we had to stop. (Actually…
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Rudder repairs in progress
We are now in Mindelo on Saao Vincente. So far we managed to get the rudder dismounted. The operation was more smooth then I had expected, given that we had a bit of trouble putting it in place. It was a little surprising that the rudder floats! As you can see, whatever it…
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UFO hit us with a bang. Not good.
Two days ago in the middle of the night we had a bang against the hull that was stronger than the usual waves-against-the-transom bangs. Nothing else noticeable happened, so it was dismissed. Today as we anchored in Praia and went for a swim the effects of the bang was very clear. We had obviously…
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Finally a Mahi-mahi !
I never did catch one before, actually. Now we will see if this is really the best fish there is! Caught just South-east Ilha de Maio.
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You know you’re in the tropics…
When you steer all night barefoot. And these guys show up in the morning.
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Pimping the lifejackets
So now we are heading out into the big blue ocean. Where Search-And-Rescue boats are not to be had. So we need to be our own SAR vessel. The biggest challenge in a Man Over Board situation at sea is usually to find the victim. Modern technology has came up with a few helpers…