Journeyman 60

Building and sailing the Journeyman 60

2006 – 2014

  • A late afternoon in May about 20 people that had been part of the project in one way or the other over the years gathered to share some memories and bid farewell to the yacht, before it passed on to…

  • Adventure sailing is wonderful, but sometimes hard to combine with other aspects of life. So now that I find myself in a situation where I do not have the possibility to give the boat the time that it needs, I…

  • Why are there no updates to the blog? What’s up with the boat? Well ;-) …. I married. Got a baby son. So I have plenty of other things on my mind. But the boat is still there and available…

  • Well folks, it’s time for a little break. Almost 10 000 NM in the last six months. We have safely arrived in Tenerife, and the Journeyman will get a bit of a rest while I tend to other matters. This…

  • OK, so we’re off the coast of Mauretania. It’s early June. And I’m doing my shifts dressed in thick fleece under full foul weather gear, with gloves and a hat on. We have a very chilly feeling 17°C!!! Is it…

  •   As tradition will have it, every one in the crew passed strenuous tests in order to qualify for entry into the Kingdom of Neptune. This time, due to the level of sweat and saltwater everyone is covered with, the…

  • Thanks to our local crew guy Angelo we got really good help fast. The guys are hard at work, tests were done and the problem identified as a clogged pump inlet in the distributor pump. So now we are on…

  • So we started our crossing towards Cape Verde. But the squally weather, with its frequent calms that require motoring, we soon realized that we had an engine problem. With each squall the engine lost more power, and this time it…

  • Update: The crew for this journey has now been filled. Europe here we come !! ______________________________________________________________________ We are planning a crossing from Salvador, Brazil to Santa Cruz, Tenerife, with a stop-over in the Cape Verde islands. These two legs will…

  • As we move further north we are slowly moving into the “too hot for comfort” zone. On Abrolhos I found this little guy, who obviously needs a pair of slippers to walk on the sundrenched rocks.

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