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A Day in the Life….Sailing Across the Atlantic
"My day begins at 23:55 when the alarm wakes me for the midnight start of my watch. From 20:00 to 08:00, we split the night-watch into to 2 hour shifts amongst 3 of us. After a brief handover about any changes in wind direction, sails and speed I settle down at the...
Waiting for Wind
Week 1: Las Palmas-Martinique. Rough seas with wind up to 30 knots, big gentle blue waves in sunshine, day long torrential rain, outside a mass of wet, dense greyness, hard to make out where sea ends and sky begins. We've had it all and slowly had enough. The...
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28.11.2014 - 16:10 "Here everything is ok after we hit a peak of 70.2 kn of wind last night. It was impressive and also a bit scary in the middle of night. Right now we have a bit of sunshine are listening to Pink Floyd and are watching 7-8 m waves. There will be two...