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23/11/2022

Amandla Kulu - D3_ No where quickly backwards forwards

Captain’s Log. Star Date 23 Nov. Day 2. Third day on the water.2354 GMT.2354 Local.21º 17 N021º 56 W ///supportive.stream.curtailinghttps://w3w.co/supportive.stream.curtailing  Been an interesting few hours.  Lots of boat stuff keeping us all busy. Breeze showing mid-teens for the first time since departure. Looking good for kite flying tomorrow.  Ever onwards PIp A. read more...


23/11/2022

Xenial - Day 17 - Would you rather?

Would you rather sail across the Atlantic without jib or without the autopilot? Last night we passed another Swedish boat, and when we called them up on VHF to say hello, they told us their autopilot had broken and they were going to have to manually steer all the way. Keep in mind that we have over 1'200 nautical miles still ahead of us. We gave them all our best, it certainly won't be an easy feat, and we thanked once more that our autopilot is working.At 7am this morning, just as I was getting my lifejacket on to head on deck for my shift with the captain, I heard him say "s*** the jib!". Now you must know that the captain never swears, so I knew something was wrong. I rushed on deck and helped him furl in the jib. It had ripped. It had been flapping a bit during the night, and we. read more...


23/11/2022

Kali - Kali is back!

Good morning Atlantic!We had a very smooth second start. Spinnaker is flying nicely and the chef is in a good mood. Still sailing south until the butter melts. Tomorrow its shower time with the bucket. Fair winds. TEAM KALI. read more...


23/11/2022

Avventura - Log Day 04: Delfini al tramonto

Today's picture of the day was meant to show how wedeal with food, how Marco C. browses through our fresh vegetables and fruit inorder to find out what needs to be eaten. It could have also shown the niceguacamole that he and Ale prepared for our aperitivo (Avventura is kind of agourmet-boat).   But then, just before sunset, when the sky wasalready painted in a nice orange, the dolphins came. Tantissimi!!! They playedwith the boat's and the ocean's waves and even did acrobatic jumps while wesailed towards the setting sun.   Hence, the vita-a-bordo-picture needs to wait. (Wehad a great Pesto Genovese afterwards, a real Ligurian style one).   Posizione (22:59.85N 22:07.15W) alle 23:09 UTC del23 novembre 2022 - arrivati al tropico!. read more...


Avventura - Log Day 04: Delfini al tramonto
Avventura - Log Day 04: Delfini al tramonto
23/11/2022

Falcon - wildlife at last

Amazing photo by James, of an as yet unidentified sea bird. First real touch of wildlife other than the occasional flying fish. Stunning camera work to capture this. The crew on Falcon have many unknown talents. image1. read more...


Falcon - wildlife at last
Falcon - wildlife at last
23/11/2022

Sunbeat VI - Day 4 - heading south

Wind still force 4 - 5 from the north east. Little Blue spinnaker up all day. Heading south rather than the direct route to Saint Lucia in order to avoid light winds forecast for next week. Have seen flying fish. But, despite trolling 2 lines today, have still caught no fish. The nearest we have got to fish is Nigel’s (tinned) sardines on toast.Will have a big fruit salad this evening in order to use some of the fruit that is ripening all at the same time.. read more...


23/11/2022

Circe - Circe: Guess what’s for dinner?

Circe crew trolls all day and nabs 2 mahi mahi just in time for dinner! image1. read more...


Circe - Circe: Guess what’s for dinner?
Circe - Circe: Guess what’s for dinner?
23/11/2022

Navasana - Day 3: Shanti saves dinner again!

Water maker kind of works again! The boys finally had their long overdue shower and everything smelled fresh as daisies again. For dinner we defrosted another one of Shanti’s (Chet’s dad) amazing curries, thanks Shanti! Without you we would be poor starving sailors. There was quite some action happening on my night watch when a sailboat was tailgated by a massive cargo ship and the sailboat called the captain of the cargo ship asking if they could change course (never heard that happen before). The captain of the cargo ship obliged and then managed to nearly ram our boat. Fun times ;) We all came out alive and are currently enjoying one of Dan’s special cocktails. Cheers!Jessy. read more...


23/11/2022

Oceano - Log Day 4 - Gender Trouble

-Hey, girl I don’t know where to find sugar!-Hey girl, I think the space needs cleaning already.-Hey, boy when do you think of asking me to help with gybing?-Hey, boy when will you consult me about navigation? Women who sail all around the world probably know where I’m going with these, though I hope I am speaking for the minority of us now. But still, in 21st century sailing experiences, years after maiden voyage of „Maiden” - we may have theoretical partnership in the rallies, the regattas, the watches, boat chores, cooking and cleaning, provisioning but still - when it comes to certain issues in #boatlife our male colleagues and friends have preferences and learned behaviours.Of course, everyone will deny, but through the years I have witnessed a lot of assumptions about my role. read more...


23/11/2022

Navasana - Day 2:water or no water

Tense times with the water maker today. After an initial good run, we noticed that the water maker kept cutting out. This caused us to pause our lavish boat showers while everyone had use use the one salt water toilet…. The tension was high and the odour was thick, so much so, that Jessy mistakenly drank some experimental bilge water 🙈After lots of experimentation we seem to have found a solution on day 3….so we have the good times rolling again…for now…Dan. read more...


23/11/2022

Mairmade - Day#4

Another gorgeous day of sailing! We finally got comfortably enough South to start heading back West again; that feels good 👍At 1pm today we recorded a 24 hour distance of 191nm for a total distance so far of 554nm.We were fully expecting to see fellow rally boats on day 1 and the last day, and not much in between, however this has been far from the case!Earlier today we were one a group of 8 boats all with about a 10 mile radius...Didn't expect to be fighting for elbow room after sailing over 500nm!We also ran our watermaker today for the first time this passage, and am happy to report: no surprises.As is often the case, the watermaker is accompanied by the washing machine, but this was another first for us: Laundry on passage!🧺Sent from Iridium Mail &. read more...


Mairmade - Day#4
Mairmade - Day#4
23/11/2022

Navasana - Day 1: Spicy burritos and Gale force winds

We always pick good weather windows to ensure we have a easy start to a long passage but with the ARC we had to leave with a forecast of 23-28 knots, 30 knots gusts and bad swell. We were very conservative with 3 reefs and the main which was lucky because we got 30-40 knots in the acceleration zone with a top wind speed of 42 knots and top boat speed of 17 knots surfing down a wave. Waves were huge as well, knocking the boat quite badly at times, with our trusty autopilot complaining that the rudder was hard over. We crossed the acceleration zone and ended up in a wind hole at 2am with less than 10 knots which took a while to sail out off. Anyway glad that is done! now we are in Blue skies in 20-25 knots with 2-3m seas. Much more comfortable.. we likes :-) oh, we also had spicy burritos. read more...


23/11/2022

Jayana - EN ROUTE Newsletter - Vol. 2

  EN ROUTE Newsletter2nd editionNovember 23, 2022 Welcome to the second edition of the EN ROUTE newsletter, where great sea men congregate when there's no land in sight! I volunteered to act as a email controller, so the poor souls without SSB can also have a social life. Please send me your stories as this will gets more interesting only with your involvement!  -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=WHERE ARE THE KIDS (AND A FEW FRIENDS)?-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= #    Name                DTF      Var5   Catasis              2152      ?8   Alchemy              2175     . read more...


Endeavour III - Endeavour III - Imara at the helm
Endeavour III - Endeavour III - Imara at the helm
23/11/2022

Endeavour III - Endeavour III - Day 3

Day 3, murder at sea! Another glorious day, and a more restful night had by all it seems. Everyone being in good spirits this morning!We have been having some great south easterly winds pushing us in the right direction. To those following us on the tracker thinking, ‘but you are going to far south!?’, I say, check out the weather forecast, we want to keep these lovely winds. Alas starlink has ceased to work! No more internet, and no more YB tracking info! Today we covered 187 miles, and trust we are doing well keeping up with the fleet. The morning was spent trying out different sail plans, and eventually settling on a full code O, giving us an average 8.2kns throughout the day. Just before dinner we changed to a poledout gib, and full main, to goose wing for the night. Dinner was. read more...


23/11/2022

Mairmade - Day#3

Highlight of the day: Cooking!Harry kicked us off with Greek style omelette on toast for breakfast, and Claudia rounded it out with beef tacos for dinner; guacamole and hot sauce included! Both delicious and much appreciated by all.Even though the weather has been excellent today, the rolling of the Atlantic ocean makes work in the galley a challenge, so props to Claudia and Harry 🙌Full sun and 15-20 knot winds from 60-90 degrees made for a great day of sailing Southwest. We covered 177nm in the past 24 hours for a 2 day total of 363nm; we are quite happy with our progress.Oh, and another highlight for today: Nothing broke! 🤣In to night watches now... L8R. HSent from Iridium Mail & Web.. read more...


23/11/2022

Xenial - Day 16 - A (stereo)typical day at sea

We had a good day yesterday, and at midday we received confirmation that in the past 24h we had covered 184nm. Not bad!The day felt like a stereotype of most of our days onboard. Bobo came on deck at 8am to relieve the last nightshift, and made himself a nice cup of Earl Grey, with milk obviously. Ulrik cut his daily grapefruit and is bravely making his way through a large pot of boat made yogurt. He then started messing around with the plotter to create all kind of views with radar overlays, wind and rudder angles and so on. Gustaf enjoyed a breakfast of cornflakes, with a side of two slices of bread with butter and the famous orange jam (more of a main than a side of you ask me).The sun was out (but with the occasional cloud to give us some welcome shadow) and the sea was as calm as it. read more...


23/11/2022

Bluewater Mooney - BLUEWATER MOONEY 22.11.2022

Wir liegen trotz einiger Platzverluste über alles sehr gut - werden wir aber vermutlich nicht halten können wenn alle die Passate erreichen - dann ist Wettertaktik weniger gefragt!Aktueller Stand:22. all Boats11. Cruising all1. Class C (das Boot mit dem Krönchen). read more...


Bluewater Mooney - Bluewater Mooney 23.11.2022
Bluewater Mooney - Bluewater Mooney 23.11.2022
23/11/2022

Mairmade - Day#2

Today was a much more 'normal' day with winds 15-20, and no saltwater on the decks!We can feel that we're might be able to set into a routine, but we're not quite there yet!At the 24 hour mark we had sailed 186nm.We're hoping for 350nm at 48 hours...We flew the Code-0 for a while today (after having to wrestle it to the deck during last night's "events") which was good, but also tried out a crazy idea of flying it without a mainsail, and pole-ing it out using the boom.There's a lot of lines involved; we ended up abandoning the idea 🤔. Code-0 is back on the deck for the night, along with reefs in main and jib... For safety.In other news: lest we forget it's a boat, and there's always something broken on a boat, today's system failure was plumbing... Fortunately it was gray water, not. read more...


23/11/2022

Mairmade - Day#1

From the cockpit:. It's 3am here, and finally getting a chance to check in; been a little intense 🤪We were expecting stronger winds as we rounded the island and intentionally stayed offshore to minimize the gusts.The promised "moderate to strong" trade winds delivered... (If sustained wind up to 39 knots, and gusts close to 50 knots counts as "moderate to strong" 😱)The boat and crew have handled it well, although the green bucket has been officially christened for the trip 😂. We sailed well with just our headsail, and recorded a maximum boat speed of 18 knots surfing down waves 🌊Still more fun to be had beforethe end of day#1: We lost our instruments and autopilot around 10.15pm; in the dark of night in 35+ knots of wind!!!Harry did a fantastic job manually helming the boat using the. read more...


23/11/2022

Amokura - Log Day 5 - Fast fixes and flying fans

As I start to write, the cockpit floor is piled high with boxes, fuel cans, drums of cleaning product and various other boat paraphernalia. With the Skipper safely snoozing, Vicky is in the stern locker trying to locate the source of the leak. Goodness only knows how all that stuff fitted into that size locker, it must be like the Tardis! Popping her head out of the foetid depths she announces her diagnosis, water ingress is through the life raft storage space on the transom. With the huge following seas, the sugar scoop is constantly awash, and it is not a watertight seal to this compartment. It's a relief to know the source,  and a temporary fix of duct tape is deployed around the outside of the door. We can easily cut this if, god forbid, we do need to get to the liferaft. We had. read more...


23/11/2022

Jadamama - Day 3 blog Jadamama

Crew settling into the daily routines with all together for lunch and dinner, testament to Maryrose's culinary skills.Engineer Paul maintains standards by fixing ice maker !We continuetrucking downwind, gybing occasionally as required and one inadvertent gybe late Tue evening !Picked up Ocrano, Ossiana, Ambra, First Lady on AIS.Champagne conditions continuing Wednesday setting the small genneker shortly after dawn which has given us + 2knts Marc no. 4. read more...


Jadamama - Day 3 blog Jadamama
Jadamama - Day 3 blog Jadamama
23/11/2022

Skyelark 2 - At sea

Breaking radio silenceWhat a whirlwind... it has been a fantastic 4 days...Sunday – Race startWhilst the crew weremaking last minute preparations Alison and Yvonne were out on the ARC committee boat – a naval frigate – enjoying food, drink and the company of men in uniform.We headed out to the start line enjoying the atmosphere acoss the marina and a fabulous fanfare from the quay side. We made a good start in grey cloudy conditions – we headed south towards Cape Verdewith 35-43kts of wind. It was rough at times but just what we needed.Monday – D1We continued south, running about 100-130miles off the coast of Africa in the same weather.We enjoyed much conversationabout the weather ahead and our route strategy, Dan + Christian-R make a great team and are constantly debating our route plan. read more...


23/11/2022

Lomvi - Day 6 - Blowing in the wind

Dear citizen of the internet, We are currently drinking coffee, eating oreo cookies with double cream and enjoying a slow sail towards the west. It is 5000 meter deep here. We don't have any scientists on board, but if water had a lower density, for example like air. We would be flying at the altitude of your everyday skydive run. Today we have gone treasure hunting, and found a gift left by pirates here over the night. That's at least the most plausible explanation according to 3 year old Hjalmar. The grown ups know better, as Line is the pirate, and we have bought ourselves some time of kindergarten service. 3 of 4 adults haven't slept great this night, as the boat is rocking like a Norwegian heavy metal concert. Lucky for us no-one had to go to work today either. We are right on. read more...


23/11/2022

Skye Blue - Skye Blue under the stars

WednesdayWe gybed this morning! We are still rolling along at around 7 knots with headsail only. The seas are a bit calmer but still unsettled in the force 5 wind.There is no moon yet but we are being treated to the brilliance of the sky at night with the early and bright appearance of Jupiter followed by Venus, Mars and millions of stars. Orion rolled out of bed in the East early this morning and stood guard protecting us from giant waves and dangerous sea creatures through the rest of the night. The crew are all well and getting used to the rolling motion and eating much more fruit than normal! We are making good headway and are only 2350 miles from St Lucia, we are keeping South to avoid the light winds developing in the North and West and may put the main up tomorrow (we will let you. read more...


23/11/2022

Falcon - Crossing Day 5

Distance run in last 24 hours = 171 nautical miles.Miles to Grenada =1327.Yesterday aboard Falcon was mostly a day spent ‘going with the flow’.We continue wing-on-wing happily plodding more or less along our rhum line - a tactic that seems to be working as we watch the racer boys and girls criss-crossing north-to-south and south-to-north all around us!I think in competitive terms, we’d be classed as the ‘steady Eddie the Eagle’ of the fleet… softly softly, catchy monkey is our game play and our latest position report, placing us in 45th position, seems to justify our somewhat lackadaisical approach to unnecessary expenditure of time, effort, and calories to gybe the pole..Although wind strength and wave height have remained relatively constant, the weather has become noticeably more. read more...


23/11/2022

Falcon - Crew Shot

James the amazing blog writer and photographer… aka The Winch Monkey… :-)image1. read more...


Falcon - Crew Shot
Falcon - Crew Shot
23/11/2022

Falcon - crew shot

Skipper Ade and the amazing Admiral Bevimage1. read more...


Falcon - crew shot
Falcon - crew shot
23/11/2022

Betelgeuse - BETELGEUSE Tuesday 22/11/22 DAY 3 – Mahi Mahi !!

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Betelgeuse - BETELGEUSE Tuesday 22/11/22 DAY 3 – Mahi Mahi !!
Betelgeuse - BETELGEUSE Tuesday 22/11/22 DAY 3 – Mahi Mahi !!
23/11/2022

Oceano - Log Day 3 - Cooking

Cooking on board is an adventure. I fell in love with all things culinary when I was delegated to prepare a meal for the entire crew for the first time. It was also my very first time on sea and my very first Atlantic crossing ( not in ARC though, just following the rally’s tail). Before, for years, I have always dismissed cooking as an activity too banal and boring to learn. But then, suddenly, cooking was all about creating festive dishes out of limited ingredients while moving through a storm in a significantly tilted kitchen. You had to use your wits, your recipes had to be based on intuition and calculations of crew’s stomach capacities and their cravings of the moment and the weather forecast. It required gymnastic and sometimes even yoga skills, especially when you decided it is a. read more...


Bluewater Mooney - BLUEWATER MOONEY 21.11.2022
Bluewater Mooney - BLUEWATER MOONEY 21.11.2022
23/11/2022

Bluewater Mooney - BLUEWATER MOONEY 22.11.2022

Es ist Mittwoch, 23.11.. 02:30 Uhr UTC morgens.Kleiner Excurs für unsere nicht segelnden Freunde: Alle offiziellen Zeitangaben auf See - wie auch in der Luftfahrt - erfolgen in UTC, so zum Beispiel die täglichen Reports der ARC. Daher bleibt unsere Borduhr bis Saint Lucia bei UTC (United Coordination Time, MEZ - 1 Stunde). Also ist es jetzt in Deutschland 03:30 Uhr.Parallel haben wir auf den Handysautomatische Anzeige der Zeitzone eingestellt, also die aktuelle Ortszeit, die von den Mobiltelefonenüber GPS berechnet und angezeigt wird. Mobilfunkempfang ist dafür nicht erforderlich - sehr praktisch!Der gestrige Tag ist nicht ganz so verlaufen wie geplant. Der Wind hat zwar abgenommen, er war jedoch mit wechselnden18 kn bis 23 knund einer immer noch recht starken Kreuzsee zu viel für das. read more...


23/11/2022

Helia2 - Day 4+

At 4 in the morning our Code D reacher split from top to bottom.After a bit of a fire drill to get the pieces of the sail down, we coasted wing on wing with the Genoa until daylight.With first light we raised our asymmetrical spinnaker andI snapped this shot of a rainbow under the sail…image1. read more...


Helia2 - Day 4+
Helia2 - Day 4+
23/11/2022

Lissy III - thank you

Before I forget: a big thank you to my ARC crew! They waited and waited with a lot of passion, did all shopping and made it possible that we could start. Gracias.. read more...


23/11/2022

Lissy III - 1st day 22.11.222

The cruise from Camaret s/M to Las Palmas was not really top. The weather conditions were bad (but not so bad as for the SY Mola).1 Ocean Signal MOB AIS had a failure and the SAR France and Spain were helpful to solve the problem.Twice the great sail broke and we could sail also under engine toward Las Palmas. 1 crew was not comfortable with the whole situation and charged me that I am notcapable as skipper.. he missed daily briefings. Next time should i start like: 06:00am - breakfast, weather always same? Distance to cruise? Course same as every day?For me you can not discuss with people they go agressive... So it was very emotionell when we arrived LPA!Despite all the adversities: a ship a crew and I thank everyone for that too.We could do the safety check with Wilhelm Greiff, did the. read more...


Lissy III - 1st day 22.11.222
Lissy III - 1st day 22.11.222
22/11/2022

Amandla Kulu - D2_ From Zero to Hero

Captain’s Log. Star Date 22 Nov. Day 2. Third day on the water.2121 GMT.2121 Local.23º 40 N019º 49 WWhat3Words///commandeered.represents.scuttleshttps://w3w.co/commandeered.represents.scuttles Up and trucking.  What a difference a day makes  In the last 36 hours, We’ve had our first ‘ALL HANDS ON DECK’ shout. Needed to drag the headsail down after one end of the self-tacking head sail failed.  The crew are simply awesome.  Sail came down (it was emotional) and we hoisted the Storm Stay as a measure to get some drive and balance from the front.  A relatively restful night followed. At first light we gybed and set to work to solve how to fly the headsail. It took most of the morning. The solution being fantastic and allowing us to. read more...


22/11/2022

Jo - Tag 2 - wir segeln uns ein

Die ersten 24 Stunden auf See liegen hinter uns. Mit ihnen auch die erste Nacht(wache). Nach der Aufregung der vergangenen Tage und um erst mal wieder zur Ruhe zu kommen, haben Peter und ich entschieden, die Nacht noch unter Maschine (bzw. Maschinen, ein Katamaran hat ja zwei) statt Segel durchzufahren, ganz nach unserem Motto "save, save, fun!". Und für einen Teil der Crew war es zudem die erste Nachtfahrt überhaupt. Neue Begriffe, Navigationsinstrumente, Dinge auf die man plötzlich achten muss (von der Nachtfahrt erzählen wir bald noch ausführlicher), das alles bei Neumond und somit stockdunkler Nacht, dem Geschaukel der Wellen, auftauchenden Lichtern und Leuchtraketen (die von einem militärischen Sperrgebiet kamen, das wir dann natürlich großräumig umfahren haben)... eine ordentliche. read more...


Jo - Tag 2 - wir segeln uns ein
Jo - Tag 2 - wir segeln uns ein
22/11/2022

Avventura - Log Day 03: Gennaker

On the third day, it is finally time for our heavy gennaker. Great sailing in beautiful wind, we all enjoyed our time at the helm.3 hours after sunset, the wind got stronger, so we switched back to the genoa and sail with 7-8kts through the night. We all are having a great time with the beautiful stars - no moon and no lights from cities, we probably have never seen so many stars before.(23:39.85N 19:07.41W). read more...