by Rich Wilson | Dec 19, 2016 | Q&A, Q&A - RichWilson, Q&A-RW-wk7
Dear Jay, I will celebrate Christmas by having a few treats with my Turkey Tetrazzini freeze-dried dinner, and then call friends and family back home. I won’t do a lot of celebrating because in fact, if I do, it will remind me that I am alone and very far away,...
by Rich Wilson | Dec 19, 2016 | Ship's Logs
Before the night, it was grey, grey, grey all day as we were in between then depressions. Then, as in the lyrics of Camelot – ‘for one brief shining moment’ – we had sunshine and the temperature shot up to 18 centigrade. I jumped at the chance to have a...
by Rich Wilson | Dec 18, 2016 | Ship's Logs
Last night we had a high speed power sail, still it seemed tacked onto the tail end of the previous storm. 25-30 knots of wind, 2 reefs in the mainsail, plus solent (J2), and with 25 knots of wind, we might surge to 22/23/24/25 knots of boat speed, simply thundering...
by Rich Wilson | Dec 17, 2016 | Ship's Logs
Last night I watched the barograph, tenth of millibar by tenth of millibar rise, but incredibly slowly because essentially we were going at the same speed as the storm, and couldn’t slow down and let it go away. But finally, after many hours, I fell asleep for a...
by Rich Wilson | Dec 16, 2016 | Ship's Logs
The past 24 hours has been in the cold front of the depression. Winds have finally come down from the average of 45 knots for a 16 hour period, and our thundering sprints of boat speed from 10-12 knots into the mid-20s, ricocheting off waves. The sea increased to...
