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Risque Business - Lunch Rudely Interupted
Risque Business - Lunch Rudely Interupted
Risque Business - Lunch Rudely Interupted
Risque Business - Lunch Rudely Interupted
Risque Business - Lunch Rudely Interupted
Risque Business - Lunch Rudely Interupted
Cloud Jumper - Tropical sunrise
Cloud Jumper - Tropical sunrise
Cloud Jumper - All the boys
Cloud Jumper - All the boys
Cloud Jumper - Evening Cloud Jumper
Cloud Jumper - Evening Cloud Jumper
Cloud Jumper - Jowan helming Neil Hacksawing
Cloud Jumper - Jowan helming Neil Hacksawing
Cloud Jumper - Neil, Jowan and Pete
Cloud Jumper - Neil, Jowan and Pete
Cloud Jumper - Sail repair
Cloud Jumper - Sail repair
Cloud Jumper - Deck work
Cloud Jumper - Deck work
Cloud Jumper - Blue Water
Cloud Jumper - Blue Water
Cloud Jumper - Fishy
Cloud Jumper - Fishy
Cloud Jumper - Mathias
Cloud Jumper - Mathias
Cloud Jumper - Mathias deck wash
Cloud Jumper - Mathias deck wash
Cloud Jumper - Cabin doors
Cloud Jumper - Cabin doors
Cloud Jumper - Off watch
Cloud Jumper - Off watch
26/11/2023

Escapado - Life onboard Escapado from our 19 year old Birthday Girl

Having just gybed and set on our new course south west, our next watch team fuelled up with bacon, eggs, and plenty of suncream to prepare for the day ahead. Jan’s seemingly never ending bank of knowledge amazed me once again as he patiently explained mobius strips - “why did the chicken cross the möbius strip? to get to the same side” - said our skipper Germaine. The day continued at its typical breezy yet still fairly leisurely pace that I have come to get used to. Filling the day with odd jobs around the boat such as tightening the steering in the transom with Germaine (which doubles very nicely for an afternoon snack and natter) or doing stock checks (all is good… for now!). The culinary expertise on Escapdo continued to impress with veg biriyani for dinner combined with another mind. read more...


26/11/2023

T-Rex - 2023 11 26 - A flying congregation of egrets

Our egret stayed around long enough to get named Greta. She spent most of the evening and early night watches on the foredeck, away from the crowd. At 2:09 according to the log, two more egrets flew by and roused her enough to go see what all the fuss was about, but she circled back about ten minutes later. At least, we assume it was the same egret, not one of the others having heard of our excellent hospitality deciding to get a little rest. Greta stayed on the aft deck next to the stowed fishing pole for the rest of the night, hoping to see some action (so were we all, Greta, so were we all), but did enjoy some fresh water poured across the deck in the morning for her benefit. She lasted through setting a pole for wing and wing, though she declined to stay on deck for that, and circled. read more...


T-Rex - 2023 11 26 - A flying congregation of egrets
T-Rex - 2023 11 26 - A flying congregation of egrets
26/11/2023

Cloud Jumper - Cloud Jumper skipping along..

Day 8 and we have not killed each other yet! in fact we make a pretty damn good team! We have had to head a bit more South to avoid an area of high pressure, amazing there are sometimes still 3 or 4 boats around us on Cloud Jumpers AIS system but we very rarely sight another boat so it is pretty exciting when we do even if it is just a dot on the horizon. I caught a fish the other evening, a decent size Dorado  which only just fitted in the fridge. Jowan did an expert job of filleting it and in the evening he cooked it up and it fed us really well with enough left for tonight too. I am having a break from fishing for a while it was a bit stressful wrestling with a big fish thrashing around in the cockpit. The other morning while I was on watch 6am -9am we think we bumped into a. read more...


26/11/2023

Saltair - Fun driving today!

Really nice conditions today! Everyone is enjoying making the boat go fast!. read more...


Saltair - Fun driving today!
Saltair - Fun driving today!
26/11/2023

Risque Business - We’re HALFWAY????????

14:29.9N 42:41.14W1405 GMT Sunday 26th November ‘23These last couple of days have remained challenging with light winds ranging from 5kts up to gusts of 15kts and varying in direction from NE to SE. 2 nights ago we blew out our ancient spinnaker in only 8/9kts of wind. It did us well carrying us 400NM or so, but as our only true downwind sail, it was a blow to lose it. We’ve been experimenting with different sail combos to try to keep our VMG as high as poss and have settled on the reaching Gennaker which is holding well, well downwind of what it’s designed to do. So we’re now back up to 6+ kts heading directly to Grenada with a 12 to 15kt easterly wind. Our freezer is full of tuna and Wahoo, so apart from a nice 5kg Wahoo that Nick and Ed are salting and drying (& now hanging from. read more...


Risque Business - We’re HALFWAY????????
Risque Business - We’re HALFWAY????????
Risque Business - We’re HALFWAY????????
Risque Business - We’re HALFWAY????????
Risque Business - We’re HALFWAY????????
Risque Business - We’re HALFWAY????????
Risque Business - We’re HALFWAY????????
Risque Business - We’re HALFWAY????????
26/11/2023

Cats Pajamas - Day 9

Nothing to tell so a great day in reality, cards conversation, food and endless sea. Boat is perfect so happy days. Time to step up the fishing me thinks. Three sleeps before the lady of the sea has her birthday so cake prep underway.Oh and yes we passed half way last night :-). read more...


26/11/2023

Penny Oyster - Noon sights and another fish!

Over the last couple of days, we have been using our sextant to establish our position. It has given us real admiration for those who partake in the Golden Globe Race and manage to circumnavigate using only this method. After some practice, we've managed to do an accurate noon sight, which was only 2 miles from our GPS position. We plan to continue practising using our sextant and begin to master celestial navigation. We've also been very successful with our fishing, and Tuna Tom managed to catch us another perfectly sized dorado! We ate this one for lunch and used up the last of our fresh lettuce in a delcious wrap! We all rated it 10/10, nothing quite beat freshly caught fish!. read more...


Loreley - Life is good.
Loreley - Life is good.
26/11/2023

Blue Pearl - Log, a fairly peaceful night.

Having had a few eventfully nights recently we were glad nothing happened last night. With enough wind for the yankee and main this made for a fairly low maintenance night, just with the occasional course change in response to the wind. We are very happy as for the first time on this leg we are able to sail in the exact direction we want to go in and with no frequent sail alterations we have more time to relax and do other things. Over dinner yesterday we watched as the distance to the waypoint we had placed off Grenada dropped under 1000 miles, the finish feels a lot closer now and the miles seem to be flying by. A short log today as much to our relief not much has happened to write about!. read more...


26/11/2023

Sofa So Good - Blog words and pics

Please find words below and pics attached 👍😀The first weekWe departed the wonderful Las Palmas a week ago with mixed emotions, excited about the journey but sad that we were leaving such a great place and new friends.The first couple of days were unfortunately taken over by the skipper having a very upset stomach that left him incapacitated for around 24 hours, luckily the crew rose to the challenge and kept Sofa on track.The first week has really been dominated by the very changeable weather but we have now got trade winds which hopefully will now scoot us over to Saint Lucia.We’ve seen a fair amount of wildlife although not as much as we were really expecting and the first flying fish was found on deck when we went for a gybe on Saturday morning - yuk. A Mahi Mahi was caught and duly. read more...


Sofa So Good - Blog words and pics
Sofa So Good - Blog words and pics
Sofa So Good - Blog words and pics
Sofa So Good - Blog words and pics
Sofa So Good - Blog words and pics
Sofa So Good - Blog words and pics
26/11/2023

JaZoFi - day 7

Today we did have an event – The Hound came out, it was joy all round as we were very happy to see her flying again! Smiles all round as we congratulated ourselves for being such capable sailmakers! Then the truth became apparent after half an hour, she split along the repair and we gathered it back in for professional work in St Lucia.So the mighty JaZoFi is back to its trades rig with twin headsails and heading downwind.Chef continues to feed us well as reward for the hard work. However, after a week, the luxury of fresh fruit and salad is becoming a rarity so the joy of avocado and tomato salad was cherished.. read more...


26/11/2023

Sturdeee - We are the first connected Transat flotilla

We are the first “connected Transat flotilla”Sun Nov 26 2023 ThisARC+ fleet we are participating in, is the first time EVER that anflotilla crosses the Atlantic, while a large number of the participants,is live chatting via the internet. This year in Jan 2023 (or was it late dec 2022?) was the first timesome sailors experimented with Starlink in a transat and reported it wasworking (though starlink had not released the service yet officially)… On the boats I crossed with in 2021 and 2022 we had already fullinternet but lower bandwidth with us (we tested the very firstprototypes of the Skylink and new Iridium Go Exec at that time, with theIridium technical team.) But…. back then, even though fully connected, we were alone on theocean: hardly any other sailor had internet connectivity. read more...


Uno - Day 7: Gennaker morning chaos!
Uno - Day 7: Gennaker morning chaos!
Uno - Day 7: Gennaker morning chaos!
Uno - Day 7: Gennaker morning chaos!
Uno - Day 7: Gennaker morning chaos!
Uno - Day 7: Gennaker morning chaos!
26/11/2023

Penny Oyster - Adrift in the Atlantic

Day four was a slow one. The wind had dropped to less than 5knts, which we had expected. We had tried to fly our spinnaker, but being an 18ton boat and not enough wind to hold the kite, we made slow progress south. At around lunchtime, the wind had died completely, and our boat speed was 0.5 of a knot! We decided it was a day for an important job, a shower!! As the boat was adrift, we used the world's biggest bath to wash. With a safety line over the side, we jumped in to crystal clear blue water at a temperature of 24.8°. It was the most beautiful and liberating feeling, although it was a little eerie when looking down into the big blue abyss!Fortunately, soon after our shower, the wind filled back in, and we were able to start sailing again. We are still headed south to hopefully pick. read more...


Loreley - Small repair in the sail while sailing …
Loreley - Small repair in the sail while sailing …
Loreley - Small repair in the sail while sailing …
Loreley - Small repair in the sail while sailing …
26/11/2023

Solaris - Photos

Yesterday did offer great Sailing on Solaris in a nice breeze the hole day and then 2 great things topped it up, we crossed the 2000 miles left Mark and got a 7 kg Tuna on the Hook.. read more...


Solaris - Photos
Solaris - Photos
Solaris - Photos
Solaris - Photos
Solaris - Photos
Solaris - Photos
26/11/2023

Wolkenschlößchen - Day 7 - Still going south

We are trying to avoid more calm winds and thus decided to go well south. It is frustrating a bit too be sailing all day and only make marginal distance towards Saint Lucia. But crossing the Atlantic is a marathon and we're hopeful that this is the right decision. We are having a good time though. We are grateful to have so much family on board and laugh a lot!Our vegetables are still surviving, although the mangos and avocados are soon going bad. We will try to eat all until then. The bananas are also all ripe, so we used some of them to make some chocolate chip ice cream today. Very yummy, especially since it became super hot the last days.Sailingwise, the day has been uneventful. We almost did not change anything on our oxley all day, just a bit trim here and there. We are now sailing. read more...


Wolkenschlößchen - Day 7 - Still going south
Wolkenschlößchen - Day 7 - Still going south
Wolkenschlößchen - Day 7 - Still going south
Wolkenschlößchen - Day 7 - Still going south

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