The drone of the engine greeted my watch with little wind and that from behind and AWOL trailing in our wake. The wind was due to veer to the NW and this duly happened at about 0600. The wind now just behind our beam meant that we began to accelerate the wind rather than diminish... Continue Reading →
Squids in
With the wind dropping and moving round to the west, it was not the best situation for sailing but we had to stick with it as our aggregate diesel stocks were still marginal with nearly 900 miles to Horta. So we sailed and periodically when the faster AWOL threatened to overhaul us, we jogged the... Continue Reading →
Freedom of the blog
What a great day under sail, beam/broad reaching in F4/5 all day long with the sun out. Our days run of 151 miles was suppressed by the wind moderating through the night and we are now only doing 5 ā 6 knots, what a calamity! The decision taken with Cliff on AWOL to track north... Continue Reading →
Blogs like buses
After the big winds and seas we motored in very light conditions with a large but diminishing swell left over from the gale. I invested in a long term weather forecast and discussed the situation with my crew and AWOL. The dilemma is that, with their shortage of fuel, they need to āchase the windā... Continue Reading →
Brrrrr
Ollie writes:- Iām writing this at 2:17am. It should be the penultimate hour of my watch. But Iām actually only seventeen minutes into it. Thatās because, Iām ashamed to say, I oversleptā¦massively. I ran out of my cabin to find Barry, staring contemplatively into the starry horizon. āBarry Iām so sorry, I mustāve slept through... Continue Reading →