Venus

Last evening, I came on deck to see the sun and Venus setting. The sky was clear and blue and Venus was amazingly sharp and bright. I had had a Skype talk last week with Murray Lister, Expert, and he said that when aboard New Zealand Pacific, heading east across the...

Podcasts: Week 11

January 19: Sunshine and Seaweed January 17: Straits Lemaire January 16: Approaching the Diego Ramirez Islands January 15: A Multitude of Sail Changes January 14: Hard Miles Ahead January 13: Autopilot Issues

Stars & Moon

It was a long approach to Cape Horn, and then a long passage around Diego Ramirez Island and the continental shelf, and then a long gybe Northeast up the leeward edge of the shelf and then to arrive at the entrance to Straits Lemaire. Once through there, and suddenly...

Land HO!

“Rich Wilson aboard Great American IV. And behind me, is the southern ocean and Cape Horn, that we passed, about 29 miles off, this morning, going past Diego Ramirez Island. Now we’re heading north. Typically a question is always how do you get past Staten...

The Route Around Cape Horn

I’m going to you a show a little bit of a primer about why we’ve chosen our route here, out around the Continental Shelf off Tierra del Fuego: https://youtu.be/TBaSAsb_o-wVideo can’t be loaded: Route at Cape Horn (https://youtu.be/TBaSAsb_o-w)  ...