News 9
Preparing to leave to South Africa
I am 2 days on 'Geronimo' now, it will take us a few more days before we are ready to leave to Cape Town. Captain is Benjamin, with me as the watchleader and my buddy Brian and Pieter, and English boy, as crew. Pitty Katrien doesn't come with us. The trip is going to take a while.. over 5500 nautical miles! No stopovers. Silently I hope we have a stopover half way in Brazil though, that would be awsome.
I am still licking my wounds from the ARC crossing. Finally everything is (...)
I am still licking my wounds from the ARC crossing. Finally everything is (...)
ARC Arrival in St. Lucia
We arrived in Rodney Bay - St. Lucia yesterday night.
We had our couple of Rhum Punches at the bar, smelling like animals, drooling over women. Arrived at the hotel, crashed into our beds, black. After eating triple breakfast I headed to the travel agent to check for Flights to Tenerife, where Benjamin is waiting for me on 'Geronimo'. I Found me a flight to London with British Airways tonight and I just got a taxi arranged to bring me to the airport. Got a rendez-vous in Londen (...)
We had our couple of Rhum Punches at the bar, smelling like animals, drooling over women. Arrived at the hotel, crashed into our beds, black. After eating triple breakfast I headed to the travel agent to check for Flights to Tenerife, where Benjamin is waiting for me on 'Geronimo'. I Found me a flight to London with British Airways tonight and I just got a taxi arranged to bring me to the airport. Got a rendez-vous in Londen (...)
Tradewinds all the way to the Caribbean
Yes, the tradewinds finally start to kick in, we even have our A2 up!
Yesterday I was on watch with Frank reaching under the A1 and the wind went over the VMG so we decided to throw in a gybe. Double handed style, nice one! For the first time after 10 days at sea we where sailing on starboard tack. Everybody disorientated, our little heeled world of cooking, eating, sleeping, working and sailing haha.
We are happy again. Joop made pancakes yesterday night when (...)
Yesterday I was on watch with Frank reaching under the A1 and the wind went over the VMG so we decided to throw in a gybe. Double handed style, nice one! For the first time after 10 days at sea we where sailing on starboard tack. Everybody disorientated, our little heeled world of cooking, eating, sleeping, working and sailing haha.
We are happy again. Joop made pancakes yesterday night when (...)
After Tropical Storm Delta
The big Low pressure system we have been heading for the last days escalated into a Tropical Storm, the stage before a hurricane, named 'Delta'. Our damn weather routing software sended us to the South section of it, not seeing any harm forecasting windspeeds of max 30 knots on a shy reach.
Last night we hit something else..
Earlier we put our reef in the 3DL main and had the G4 up. The wind got more furious, and by the time we realized it was more than what the (...)
Last night we hit something else..
Earlier we put our reef in the 3DL main and had the G4 up. The wind got more furious, and by the time we realized it was more than what the (...)
Day 3 ARC on Formidable 3
We had very light winds so far, everything on a beat or a shy reach, but at least we have wind. From what we can see on the gribfiles and the position reports, most of the boats went South where there is only 0 to 5 knots of wind, poor cruisers..
The ARC notice of race obliged us to leave Gran Canaria to starboard, meaning we had to pass the South of the island, pitty because there was a good breeze on the North. After Gran Canaria, MaxSea send us North, passing El Hierro. We (...)
The ARC notice of race obliged us to leave Gran Canaria to starboard, meaning we had to pass the South of the island, pitty because there was a good breeze on the North. After Gran Canaria, MaxSea send us North, passing El Hierro. We (...)
