by Rich Wilson | Jan 15, 2017 | Q&A - RichWilson, Q&A-RW-wk11
Dear Zidane: That’s a very difficult question to answer! I’ve had the pleasure to visit about a dozen countries, and they are all very interesting, and I’d like to go back to all of them, and to ones that I have not visited. I like meeting new people...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 14, 2017 | Ship's Logs
Every 6 hours I get a new GRIB file for the weather forecasts. Every 6 hours it seems that the essence stays the same, but the wind strengths at Cape Horn increase. I plot out various scenarios, trying to keep moving, but with an idea to stay near the north of the...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 13, 2017 | Ship's Logs
What an eventful 24 hours. We were in the bulls-eye of the strong winds for the depression. Solent to staysail to storm jib, and 1 reef to 2 reefs to 3 reefs in the mainsail. A big sea built, and it was, as usual, cold and gray. We had 35 knots of wind, and although...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 13, 2017 | Essays-RichWilson
At sea on a clear starry night, one likely feels exceptionally small when confronted by the enormity of the universe laid out in front of one’s eyes. It is impossible to describe the relative sizes, except to say that we are tiny. Similarly, in a storm at sea,...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 12, 2017 | Ship's Logs
Wednesday, January 11th: The depression that is forecast approaches. As we are 4th in the group, we will likely get it the worst, since it will slide to the East Northeast, and with the confinement of the Antarctic Exclusion Zone, which goes East Southeast, there is...
