Author: Jesper
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High Tech versus Minimalist
Now that we are back in the warm airs outside the coast of Brazil, a torrent of rain can be handled using different techniques…
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Albatross!
Apparently there is not much food for the albatrosses out here. I have never experienced a bird trying to eat our fishing lure before. This guy was hungry, and got hooked. Fortunately he was pretty calm about it, and I was able to pull him in and grab him by the beak and unhook…
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Unbeatable anchorage view
For a change we have had fair weather today. Which makes the sunset view from our current anchorage pretty much unbeatable, I would say.
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Too much ice in Garibaldi…
Todays excursion was meant to go to the glacier in Seno Garibaldi. But the ice was too dense, and we were forced to give it up.
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Making our mark
Since a lot of other yachts that passed through here left their mark in the bar, of course we couldn’t be any worse. Thanks to Olof we had a spare Swedish flag that we could sign and put up in the bar!
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Punishment for slow bowlines…
The Journeyman is a rough environment. Crew members who cannot tie bowlines fast enough gets left behind on the buoy. Joke joke. The guy jumped on the buoy to tie on a line, and didn’t notice that the boat moved away while he was busy tying it. This rather amusing event shows the importance of…
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Feeding the locals
We’re waiting for some favourable winds before heading up the Beagle Channel. In the meanwhile a local predator bird got very well fed from off our boat hook…
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Cape Horn.
Fourteen years ago I first started to think about this place. I have to say that actually going around Cape Horn was much less dramatic than the many events on the voyage down here. Partly this is due to all the modern aids to navigation. We have engines and radios and weather forecasts that makes…
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Ping Pong wait for Cape Horn
While we are waiting for refuelling in Puerto Williams, some crew members have decided to turn the deck-house into the smallest table tennis court in history. Total floor space is 2.2 x 0.7 meters. It works surprisingly well!
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Puerto Williams – Possibly the coolest marina in the world.
Sure, it’s the southern-most marina. And it’s about 95 NM from Cape Horn. But it’s not only about the geographical location. The marina was created by taking an old Chilean navy supply vessel, the “Micalvi”, and grounding it in the mouth of the small river that flows out to the west of the naval base.…