What are they? They are a metrological optical phenomenon that occur opposite the sunin the sky. They are essentially parallel, but look like they converge on the anti-solar point due to the single point perspective....
We have secretly been hoping for a chance to visit Saint Helena, but good winds cannot be ordered and nothing can be guaranteed. A few days ago, however, the news finally arrived; thanks to favorable winds over the past week,...
We have the great luxury of having two scientists aboard. Abigail and Marretje both use the “manta-trawl” to collect specimens from the surface of the ocean. While Abi is mainly concerned with the amount of...
Noon Position, 11 UTC: 22°25S 002°02'E SOG 7 knots COG: 345° LS The sky is overcast and the wind is between 15 and 20 knots from the SE. We changed the timezone to UTC +1 to get a bit closer to...
Last spring, we received a new Manta trawl! After a few days of preparing and fine-tuning the system after every trawl, she finally soared next to Europa as she should. Mostly thanks to Bosun Nat and the deckhands helping me...
Two days after leaving Cape Town we came upon the real south eastern trade winds and ever since we have been making extremely good progress. With twenty to twenty-five knots of backstay winds we even touched thirteen knots of...
Noon Position, 10 UTC: 25°05S 003°E SOG 10 knots COGF: 345° LS We are making a fine speed, zigzagging in front of the trade winds to St Helena. Yesterday we clocked 202 NM from noon to noon,...
We are on our way! I am struggling to find the words for how that felt for us, or for the crew waving the ship goodbye. When I arrived, Europa was buzzing with activity. After a long period of maintenance...
Position: 29°57'S 011°52'E COG: 333° SOG: 7 kn At the start of the day, the wind was steadily going down. Then, at the time i went on watch again, it had died completely. This did, however, ...
Today the expected calm turned out to be a very short one and before we knew we were making good progress again. Meanwhile captain Hans grabbed the opportunity offered by the flat seas to have the spanker gaff boom...