by Rich Wilson | Dec 14, 2016 | Ship's Logs
After the big 2 hour sail change effort last evening, I zipped myself into the 20° F / -6.6° C sleeping bag, and had several hour long sleeps through the night. I got up to look around a few times, but only did minor trimming of the sails. We continue east, toward the...
by Rich Wilson | Dec 13, 2016 | Ship's Logs
We are pushing very hard to get east across the top of the Kerguelen Shelf before the big depression gets here in 36 hours. Our plan is to then head southeast to get to where the strong winds will be at least less as the center of the depression passes over us. The...
by Rich Wilson | Dec 12, 2016 | Ship's Logs
Yesterday I was happy to make a nice repair on the hydrogenerator leg pull down rope. But it was a bit scary. The hydrogenerator is like a reverse outboard that you put in the water and it generates electricity for the batteries. I couldn’t reach the leg from...
by Rich Wilson | Dec 12, 2016 | Q&A, Q&A - RichWilson, Q&A-RW-wk6
Dear Sarah, Romina, and Iker: No, we do not drink water from the sea, since it contains too much salt for our bodies. There is a famous stanza from the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner that goes: “Water, water everywhere, and all the boards did shrink,...
by Rich Wilson | Dec 11, 2016 | Ship's Logs
Last night I went for a nap on a cloudless 2/3 moon night with a starry sky. 30 minutes later I was awakened by the boat laboring, with another mini front with 35-40 knots of wind in it. I was able to just get the fractional gennaker rolled up with seconds to spare...
