Tag: Sailing
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A comforting fish
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 wasn’t because of clogged filters. So we have had to go to shore to seek…
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Cape Horn.
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 the modern aids to navigation. We have engines and radios and weather forecasts that makes…
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Tierra del Fuego passage
The Falklands – Tierra del Fuego passage is supposed to be really difficult. And yes, we did have problems on the first attempt. But as always, with difficult passages you try to prepare better, and the weather forecasts down here have been surprisingly accurate during the 5 weeks that I have been monitoring them, so…
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New attempt!
OK, having waited for a big low pressure that passed south of the islands we are now ready to leave again. Hoping to arrive Puerto Williams in Chile on wednesday/thursday. Until then, check the twitter feed!
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Uruguay to Falkland Islands
The leg started with a most annoying thing: We discovered our cooker did’nt work. It has not been used for a long time, and now it was dead. Well the oven worked, but not the stove. So the first dinner was cooked in the oven, and the next day I took it apart. Actually, it…
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Re-supplying…
OK, the sails are back on, the fridge is full again, all tanks are refilled. …and that nice little stir in the stomach, which means that another trip into unknown waters is about to begin, is in place. Tonight we bid good bye to Piriapolis with a nice Asado in our favorite resto. It’s been…
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Voyage tracks available on Google Maps / Earth
To plot our tracks in Google Maps, just klick this link. In Google Earth, open this URL: https://journeyman.se/hd/journeyman.kmz The tracks has some gaps and small errors, and the last week of sailing is not there because I forgot to take it off the nav-station computer. But it’s fun to watch anyway!
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Smooth sailing on the Brazilian coast
We’ve had really light winds lately. This is sometimes challenging, especially when coming from behind. The swell makes the sails flog when the wind is so light that there is little pressure on them. And this flogging under no load causes a lot of wear and tear on the sails. To avoid it you have…
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Finally sailing again!
After a long pause for big repair works, we are finally back at sea. The new crew has made the decision to not sail so aggressively to start with, so now we are heading south along the Brazilian coast for Rio de Janeiro. Tonight we stopped outside Morro de Sao Paulo, a popular tourist hangout…
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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…