Journeyman 60

Building and sailing the Journeyman 60

2006 – 2014

  •   Now that we are back in the warm airs outside the coast of Brazil, a torrent of rain can be handled using different techniques…

  •   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…

  •   For a change we have had fair weather today. Which makes the sunset view from our current anchorage pretty much unbeatable, I would say.

  •   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.

  • 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 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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!

  • 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…

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