Morgane of Sark - we crossed the finish line!!

Whoop Whoop!We made it! Crossed the finish line at 16:53 local time.Yeah!!! Xxx crew Morgane of Sark. read more...

Morgane of Sark - yeah! land!!

The mountains of Grenada just popped up! “Land in zicht!” Yeah!!!! The last miles of our crossing are here. Still 34 miles to go. Doing around 6-6,5 knots with a wind speed of 14-16 knots. We guess another 5 hours, hopefully we can manage to get in by the last light of the day! Last night and this morning we had a lot of squals again, with pouring rain showers. But, who cares. We are almost there!Feeling euphoric and looking forward to arrive! Xxx crew Morgane of Sark. read more...

Morgane of Sark - our last full night at the ocean

Hi there, we just enrolled in our final nightly watche schedule! We hope to be in Grenada tomorrow night around this hour. We are getting excited to arrive and are ready for some “land life “ again.But, a lot to tell about the life on the Morgane of Sark on the ocean since our last log yesterday afternoon. Herco caught a tuna fish yesterday evening right before dusk. He hadn’t been fishing because of the waves, but yesterday afternoon it eased a bit, so he gave it one more try. Witha fat tuna fish as a result, guess around 3 kilos. Tasted delicious! Tomorrow the other half!We continued the pup quiz with guys of Sandy Cay late afternoon. They were still within 10 miles. We lost the battle…. So, drinks are on us in Grenada. It was a lot of fun, playing the pup quiz on the VHF like this, in. read more...

Morgane of Sark - early update after much nightly activity

An early update today, as there has been quite some activity since yesterday evening.It was a squally night!! They popped up at the radar all the time. Sometimes suddenly seem to develop right next to us. One hit us right on our butt with more than 40 knots of wind and a tremendous amount of water pouring down from the sky. Herco even had to put on his Musto heavy weather sail jacket. While even at night it is still around 27 degrees..But, we were prepared and with only a reefed main we experienced no problems. The good thing about the squals is that the disappear as quick as they arrive. It lasted around 10 or 15 minutes. The rest of the night was genua in, genua (half) out, as the squals flew by. Fortunately, we weren’t hit that hard anymore, just a few tails passed by with a few. read more...

Morgane of Sark - pup quiz Wednesday

Hi there, going into our 13 th night. Today flew by. Last night a couple of squals came close, but didn’t hit us. So, it was a good night.This afternoon we did a pup quiz on the VHF with the guys from Sandy Cay. They are about 6 miles ahead of us, so we can communicate on the VHF. We had a lot of chips and nachos and they also had popcorn and fresh made hummus. Like a little party.The pup quiz was a lot of fun. Both boats prepared 10 questions and the losers have to pay for the Pina Colada’s in Grenada. The score was 3-4, when a squal came to chase us. Wequickly closed all the windows and rolled in our genua and changed course a bit. Fortunately, the squal just passed by. But than, the squal was moving towards Sandy Cay. It was already going towards “dinner time, and it looked a bit. read more...