Building and sailing the Journeyman 60
2006 – 2014
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As I wrote about earlier we had the newly installed wind generator fall down after only an hour at sea, despite the installation being done according to instructions with the manufacturers mounting kit. I must say that Marlec took care…
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Admitting defeat.
I have previously written about my attempts to create a very energy efficient fridge and freezer. The idea was to integrate the hull as a heat exchanger in the compressor/evaporator circuit. I had some initial discussions with a cooling technician…
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All in one day…
We crossed over the short hop from Tenerife to La Gomera. It was quite an interesting day. To the south of Tenerife there was no wind at all, which would have been boring save from the fact that there was…
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First Blue Water Crossing: Lagos – Tenerife
The top of Tenerife is over 3 700 meter high. We saw it sticking up over the clouds from very far away, and it provided a very nice sunset as we did the final stretch into the port of Santa…
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…tell me how you doin’
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Jesper’s Sailboat Law
I have just created it. It goes: “Nothing ever works out-of-the-box. Things must first break and be repaired before they break.” This time it was the new wind generator. I bought the manufacturers mounting kit and mounted it according…
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Rain is bad for the sea?
We been in Lagos, Portugal now for over a week and the water in the marina has been about the same all the time. But today when we woke up the water was red. We have gotten quite a lot…
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New Twitter feed launched
When Journeyman is at sea it is a bit more work to update the website. But we do have the hourly position update thanks to the Oceansearch environmental samples being sent every hour. But having just the position and climate…
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When it’s cloudy it’s usually windy…
The Journeyman is supposed to be powered only by the wind and the sun. (Except it has an engine of course, but we’re talking about when we are sailing her!) However my original ambitions that all electrical power was to…
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