by Rich Wilson | Jan 6, 2017 | Ship's Logs
We got through the night OK, close reaching across the waves and into them a little bit, with staysail and 2 reefs in the mainsail. Mostly 25 knots of wind, and 30 plus across the deck. The motion was tolerable except for the occasional huge crash , but the noise was...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 5, 2017 | Ship's Logs
Our plan to stay east in front of the next depression was a good one, and we mostly have done that , but have been caught by the front of the depression as it moves Southeast. Plus, given that there is a merging of highs forecast into one big High in the center of the...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 5, 2017 | Ship's Logs
This has been the nicest day of sailing that we’ve had in one might say months, which is probably just about true. We’ve had a lot of sunshine, we’ve had some clouds along the way and about 15 knots of wind. And had a strange motion to the boat today, which is a...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 3, 2017 | Ship's Logs
Today we are trying to get to the east enough to be spared the next depression, or at least the worst of the next depression. But we have light winds and are in the southern part of a small pressure system. Although the boat specifications call for the downwind...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 2, 2017 | Ship's Logs
We are still standing. A very bad night. The violence that the sea can heap on a boat is not describable. Think Joseph Conrad’s ‘Typhoon’. It was bad when the front was approaching, we were heading east, going across the seas, with a north wind, and...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 1, 2017 | Ship's Logs
We are in the gale. We have 35-40 knots of wind now and it looks as though this will last for another 18 hours. Then we get to the center of the storm, and then the same, about 24 hours of storm from the south. Depressions rotate clockwise here in the Southern...
