Journeyman 60

Building and sailing the Journeyman 60

2006 – 2014

  • Actually I am having a problem with this. Being Swedish and used to efficiency. Here everything takes 100 years by my standards. Over a week ago we got an OK from the Bahia Marina management that we could do the…

  • Now about half of the interior is completely dismounted and the boat is a complete mess. It took longer than I thought to do due to the massive heat. I simply had to go out and cool down pretty often.…

  • If I sweat any more now I will have to start running the bilge pump! It is over 30°C in the shade, and more inside the boat. I am struggling with dismounting the aft toilet. Here ALL joints are double…

  • I have started to tear down the interior to clear the way for welding reinforcements to the ballast tanks. The forward starboard toilet is now done. So far I only had to saw one wall panel apart. There were some…

  • We spent the first 5 days in Salvador in “Bahia Marina”, which is not a very good place for cruising sailors. It is full of snobbish motor yachts owned by rich Brazilians who have loads of workers constantly cleaning them.…

  • This is what popped up over the horizon this morning. After a total of 21 days at sea and 7 days at the godforsaken piece of rock that is Ascension Island it is almost close to mind-blowing to enter the…

  • It has been a nice stay, even if we couldn’t get our repairs done. But plans are made to be changed, anyhow. I’m actually pretty excited about going to Brazil, I think it will be fun! We are going to Salvador…

  • I thought I should do a little writeup of my experiences of what Ascension is like for cruising sailors. There’s not too much of that available on the net. Hopefully people should be able to find this post via search…

  • After a crossing that took much too long we are now on Ascension Island. Remind me never to fail to take ocean currents into account again ;-) This place has less than 1000 inhabitants, and life centers around the big…

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