Sunday 8 December 2013
Day 14 and the crew kindly chose not to wake Skippy and let him catch up on sleep – he’s looking a lot better for it and full of mischief again. The wind forecast for the day was for anything from NE to SE, and added to that the sea state has become confused from…
Sunday 8 December 2013
Day 13 dawned with the parasailor having done another night of sterling work. What’s been good about the parasailor is it has allowed us to steer very deep and hence keep to our rhumb line as the winds swing to the east and are right behind us. In light winds it keeps us going whereas…
Friday 6 December 2013
Day 12 and Adina is getting into a rhythm of life at sea. People appear at various stages of the morning and by afternoon everyone is up. A lot of reading books now – heck even Skip is reading a book. Tom’s reading Tom Sharpe’s Wilt Alternative, Susie has Ben Ainslie, Neil is reading The…
Friday 6 December 2013
Day 11 dawned with the same light winds that continue to taunt us. The motorers ahead have now got good winds. We’ve just got to stick it out and hope our fortune changes sometime. We got our downwind spinnaker up – to be specific our parasailor. For those who have not seen one, a quick…
Wednesday 4 December 2013
Day 10 on Adina and we were finally south of the Verdes. The wind so frustratingly comes and goes and to be honest has made a mockery of our routing strategy. That’s sailing and weather forecasts for you, we got it wrong and eat humble pie but we’ll fight on. 4am the wind got up,…
Tuesday 3 December 2013
To start with the serious stuff. A few have been asking about our strategy so a quick old reminder. Looking at grib files, weather routing suggested heading south from the start to avoid light winds and head winds to the west. A few days in, two weather routing experts suggested staying east of 20W and…
Monday 2 December 2013
Day 7 and the forecast had changed punishing souls like us who have chosen to chase wind going south. The promised winds were now forecast to be light. But joy of joy – the new forecast was wrong and the previously promised winds blew! So we stuck with our track south as going between the…