by Rich Wilson | Jan 28, 2017 | Ship's Logs
It was promised in the brochure! And finally we had it! A sparkling night sky, no clouds for the first half, no moon either, so the stars were just leaping out at you. And the Milky Way looked like it had been painted with a giant white paint brush! Amazing… I...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 27, 2017 | Ship's Logs
Finally, the promised wind to get across the eastern part of this depression has arrived. The torrential downpours, and regular downpours, have been replaced by bright blue sky and blue seas. When the wind did not occur as forecast yesterday evening, I tried to make a...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 26, 2017 | Essays-RichWilson
The Vendée Globe is a singlehanded sailing race, yet each solo skipper could not succeed without a skilled and dedicated team on land. This team has prepared the boat, and while the skipper is at sea, are on call 24/7 to advise the skipper by satellite phone on...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 26, 2017 | Ship's Logs
We’re about 900 miles east northeast of Buenos Aires, so we’re making slow progress north. We are trapped in a big depression, yet again. We keep finding the 35 knot, upwind parts of the South Atlantic. We bailed out last night into the center of it, just to get less...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 25, 2017 | Ship's Logs
We’re making some progress north, or, we’re trying to. We just got clobbered through the night, with 30 knots of wind, upwind, into the big building seas, and crashing and crashing and crashing. This morning, we’re at the edge of a big low pressure system. We had gale...
