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Our first night on seawatches. It was to take overnight and most of today to reach New Island, our planned visit to West Falklands. But the good winds from an easterly direction brought us fast to our destination. That meant a...

After the heavy start of the trip and the sailing, the weather and sea conditions now look much better. The sustained forceful winds from the beginning of our trip and all along the day didn’t look very promising for a...

A windy day, a typical journey of variable weather so common at the island. Now sunny then hail, rain follows and by embarkation time in the afternoon its sunny again. Europa is moored alongside the central jetty at Port...

Cape Horn is now behind us. Our next goal is to sail northwards to 50ºS along the Atlantic coasts. From close-hauled last night to a downwind course this morning, beam reach in the late afternoon, braced sharper during...

12-15 knots of NW wind, now and then a puff up to 18. The seas have abated too. It is nighttime, and we sail at about 6 knots, now less than 200 nm from the Horn. Behind us are a handful of days in rough seas and forceful...