Distance covered in the last 24 hours:135NM, 527NM to our destination. Progress in the past day has been a little slow. The winds remain light, and often in the wrong direction. We had one attempt at sailing, but found ourselves making almost no headway as we beat against an easterly wind, so quickly reverted to …
Distance covered in the past 24 hours 145 NM, distance to Cabo Sao Vincent 674 NM. Wow! We have had an exciting and varied time in the past day. Most exciting (and scary) was an encounter yesterday afternoon with a pod of Orca whales. About six Orca emerged from the sea, coming within just a …
Distance covered in the past 24 hours 143 NM, distance to landfall at Cabo San Vincent 796 NM. Our first day back at sea has been pretty uneventful. We set off in dense fog that took until midday to lift, and the winds have been light with calm seas. This has been entirely as predicted …
Atlantic crossing leg two: Horta, Faial, Azores to Gibraltar. Distance to Gibraltar 1140 Nautical Miles. We are off! After two short days in Horta, where we have changed sails, serviced the engine, replaced the faulty water pump, topped up with fuel and water, re-provisioned, and generally cleaned and tidied, we finally set sail at 7am …
Land Ahoy! We have arrived at Faial in the Azores after exactly 19 days at sea covering a distance of 2788 nautical miles! It is a fantastic feeling, a great relief and a wonderful sense of achievement. Arriving in Horta, we have docked on the fuel pontoon and gone through the immigration formalities. We’ve topped …
Distance covered in the past 24 hours 147 NM, distance to Horta, Azores 146 NM. The wind has picked up a little and for the past day we have been sailing nicely on a downwind passage direct to Horta. We are all getting excited that the arrival is imminent and we are crossing our fingers …
Distance covered in the past 24 hours 137 NM, distance to Horta, Azores 285 NM. We are sailing along at a steady pace. After the strong winds of the first half of the trip, our speed now seems painfully slow, but we are still averaging around five and a half knots. Cate, who is doing …
Distance coverd in past 24 hours 137 NM, distance to Horta, Azores 415 NM. Yesterday was a slow day motoring gently in light winds and calm seas. By night time the wind dropped to just five or six knots and, with an adverse tide, we were making headway at less than five knots. Fortunately from …
Distance covered in the past 24 hours 137 NM, distance to Horta, Azores 546 NM. The Azores are tantalisingly close but the wind keeps dropping and the boat slows down. It’s a bit frustrating and is forcing us to use the engine more and more. We have plenty of fuel and spare jerry cans on …
Distance travelled in the past 24 hours 136 NM, distance to Horta, Azores 688 NM. Conditions on our passage have now settled down with the wind a steady force 4 from the south west. Annoyingly, at times the wind strength drops below this and we have been forced to use the engine a little more …