EH01 - Blog 3

Morning all from EH01, life on the high seas is treating us fairly well at the moment, we have good wind, a slight sea, and are making a steady 9 knots, more or less pointing at our destination. We crossed the half way mark yesterday so to celebrate we had a small tot of rum each, as well as some cold cola, both of which went down a treat. Now it's a case of looking at the numbers fall off the distance to go counter, pretty soon we'll be at 1000NM to go, and after that the miles just seem to disappear.We had some marginal excitement over the last few days. When reefing the other day a batten in the mainsail started to shake itself out, so it was a case of very gingerly dropping the main until it was low enough for me to  climb up and take it out, thankfully we didn't lose it!. read more...

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EH01 - blog

 Hi all from EH01! The last few days have seen us flying along at a pretty  steady 9 knots over the ground. The weather has left much to be desired  though as there has been squall after squall coming through pushing the wind  up to 40 knots at times! This coupled with the moonrise getting later and later has made for some pretty interesting, and wet early evening rides! More fish have been caught and the dining has been fine, a whole assortment of meals have been prepared with our Dorade including sushi, baked fillet, grilled fillet, and fish soup. All have gone down an absolute treat! The wind has veered into the South East and we are now on a nice beam reach point of sail. The forecast is looking much the same for the next few days, however there is looking. read more...

EH01 - Blog1

Good morning all from EH01. So as the sun rises on day 4 of our trip across the Atlantic life on the ocean waves is good and we are cruising along at a very comfortable speed of around 9 knots after a night with the number 3 headsail poled out, and 1 reef in the mainsail. The wind has been on average around 20-25 kmots for most of our trip, apart from the first day and a bit where we saw wind speeds of up to 36 knots! It made for some exciting surfing action and gave us cause to grin ear to ear as we ploughed our way westwards.Yesterday the fishing line went out for the first time and within minutes we had reeled in a nice big Dorade, and very nice he was too! We had some sushi, as well as baked fillets, and finally a fish soup which did us nicely for dinner.Once we had reeled him in the. read more...

EH01 - LOG DAY 16 - Almost there!

Its still day 16 until 1200 ish so we should in theory finish in day 16.  It was a clost run thing as to wether we finished this crossing under sail and racing or under power retired. Last night things came to a head around  2000hs after a day of bobbing around in the sweltering sun, sails crashing side to side and absolutely zero wind when all but 1 of the crew wanted to turn on the engine and head for St Lucia. Jamie called for a postponement until midnight on that decision and it turned out to be a very good call. My watch re set sails (yes all were down due to flogging) and made the atempt to get her moving in 2 kts of wind. Over the next few hours we made some progress and around midnight were set the masthead kite and started to chew into the remaining 55 miles. Its. read more...