by Rich Wilson | Dec 1, 2016 | Ship's Logs
A difficult night. The wind picked up, and the speeds picked up, and it is nerve-wracking. I don’t like it. We switched from the fractional gennaker to the solent to the staysail, all with 2 reefs in the mainsail, and I would have put in a 3rd if I’d had...
by Rich Wilson | Nov 30, 2016 | Essays-RichWilson
At sea, we see great swaths of ocean, and thereby of the planet. Sometimes on a long ocean voyage, we may be close to land, but more often we are hundreds of miles off any land. In either circumstance, I like to think about the people, the places, the cultures – just...
by Rich Wilson | Nov 30, 2016 | Ship's Logs
Through the night we had steady speeds, but not so high as the others. In a confused weather system, some will find wind, and some find less wind. I tried to force some extra sleep, as without the wind, there is little you can do to improve the speed. In the back of...
by Rich Wilson | Nov 29, 2016 | Ship's Logs
Through the night we had a diversity of conditions, culminating with the 90 degree wind shift when we reached the center ridge of the high pressure system, identified by the barograph. Oddly, it was almost 90 miles earlier than the weather forecasts indicated. I was...
by Rich Wilson | Nov 28, 2016 | Ship's Logs
A beautiful afternoon with blue sea and blue sky. Sailed with genoa from midnight on. Flew school flags for photos. Spoke the tanker Apollonia, from Persian Gulf for Brazil. First saw on AIS, see photo. Have gone through several routing scenarios as the next 24 hours...
