When was the last time you truly felt alive? For me it was yesterday. While standing on the deck and watching the waves this overwhelming feeling of being alive swelled through me. It was the same feeling I had once before,...
Well, now we are in the thick of it. Over the night the wind has increased to 40 knots True. In the morning we took down the T'Gallants down, and now we are here doing up to 14 knots in up to 50 knots...
Continuing with our Halloween celebrations, we disrobed back into sailing-appropriate gear, and a queue started forming in the deckhouse. The formality of the atmosphere reminded me of awaiting passport stamps at immigration...
I currently sulk in the corner of the deckhouse, avoiding all fellow sailors and refusing to assist in any small tasks they require. But the atmosphere onboard has been nothing but friendly banter and...
Space for creation And as I am writing this, I am sitting in the atmospheric library, watching a magical moment be born. Hans and James are playing music, Abi and me just finished some work. Abi played violin when she...
One of the engineers we have on board, Niels, is a professional firefighter and emergency response electrician. The first benefit we received from this was an interesting lecture on disaster response, how operations are...
We have baptised Saturday as a fun day and this Saturday Curling was on the schedule. In this game four teams battle for victory, under the watchful eyes of Captain Hans and deckhand Sara. Hans was a...
I regularly write about the beauty of the sunsets, the good company, and the nice whales, but of course, there is more to a long journey than the beautiful things. There are bad days too. Days we run into ourselves, days we...
All of us on board currently love games. The pinrail race was followed up by a pass-the-pig tournament. The game goes as follows: you throw two tiny rubber pigs and get points based on how they land. This whole affair was as...
Noon position 2023-10-21 12.00 UTC: 17°14'S 017° 44'W Speed: 7.0 knots, COG 250° Yesterday, in an attempt not to get too much behind on schedule, we started the engines. With the help of these,...