Tag: Places
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Ascension for sailing cruisers
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 engines… The Georgetown port harbour is a decent achorage. To the NE of the pier…
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Murphys law and Turtles
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 Air Force base which is jointly operated by the UK and the US. It used…
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Rudder repair progress report, Friday
Ups and downs, I would say. This is not a fast paced place, so we decided to start working on the repairs fully ourselves. But just as we got the work going we were told by the police that we were generating too much dust and polluting the sea so we had to stop. (Actually…
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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 plenty to look at. Plenty of whales in particular. These are Pilot Whales. They seem…
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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 Cruz. You see the top just to the right of the setting sun in the…
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Biscay tries to get the last word, almost succeeds.
Weather forecasts. Love them or hate them. We sat in A Coruña for 3 days waiting for a low to pass, and then all forecasts from the three different institutes that I use showed a nice 30 hour window for reaching down Portugal. We knew we would have upwind coming around Finisterre, but that should…
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A Coruña
So we crossed the infamous bay… Pretty nice sailing at times, especially the first 20 hrs. The we had a little too little wind and had to motor for 9 hrs. The occasional rain shower too. But the end was sunny and nice. A Coruña is a favourite place. The RCNC Marina Real is located…
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Preparing for the fish
Lucas and I decided to get busy fixing the fishing rods, now that we are getting to waters where fishing starts to become fruitful. I hadn’t used them since my last long journey 11 years ago, so they needed a bit of care and grease, plus new lines, to get in shape. Now we are…
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Very British day in (almost) Britain
Well Guernsey is sort of half British, anyway. Not really part of the UK but its citizens are still British. Today, however, the weather is very British. Grey, damp and drizzly. The forecast for tomorrow is sunny, much nicer sailing weather so we’ll spend another night here and wait for the good times… Trivia tidbit:…