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…
Sunday 1 December 2013
Day 7 and we had the winds we’ve been seeking to get us south. It also came with a very lumpy sea state. But we were doing good speeds of 6-8kts so were happy. Given the sea state “Scrub the Crew day Episode II” didn’t happen. Well Susie bucked the trend and showered only to…
Saturday 30 November 2013
Day 7 has dawned on Adina and we are sailing in the winds to the east of our route that we have been chasing. 17-20 knots we’re ticking along nicely. That said the sea state is somewhat akin to a washing machine and sleep was one thing a little lacking last night. We found the…
Friday 29 November 2013
Day 5 dawned with sadly no wind and us motoring. Which we don’t really want to do – we are here to sail an Ocean! Each day the skippers get together for a chat on the radio around 1pm. It is now clear there are a lot of boats that motored from day 1 and…
Thursday 28 November 2013
Day 4 onboard Adina and yet again we were beset by light winds and indeed sailed upwind which is not normal for this time of year. We’ve been trying to sail gybing or tacking which explains why we’re back of our fleet as most boats have motored and are now having to go into the…