Hi all, The two days after departure the winds were light and the waves low. Perfect for all on board to get familiarized with everything there is to learn in the first days. Sometimes I even woke up...
The weather is good, the seas calm and the winds light. Europa gently sails with all her canvas set but for the Gaff Topsail. The mountainous coasts of New Zealand are still visible in the horizon, ahead the vast expanse of...
‘Good morning! We have sort of arrived in New Zealand, it’s a pancakes and fruit kind of morning, are you awake?’ When Dante came in to wake our cabin up, he set the tone for the day. ...
In the twilight hours, with the stunsails set, cruising through tropical waters at a leisurely 5 knots, the South Pacific seems t o o good to be true. This morning, the first whale. It’s...
4 years ago we, as Rapa Nui islanders, used to have a direct flight from Rapa Nui to the island of Tahiti that took us in just 5 and a half hours to the southwest corner of the Polynesian triangle where we had a close and open...
It will be difficult for me to explain everything I felt and thought when we first laid our eyes on Pitcairn Island. To sketch the setting, I need to give some background information on the days prior. James Walters, son...
Hello all, POS: 21* 32.0 S 135* 58.7 W SOG: 5.2 COG: 352 DTG: 724 NM to Marquesas...
Hello all, POS: 22* 57.4 S 135* 30.5 W SOG: 4.6 COG: 305 DTG: 820 NM to Marquesas...
Yesterday morning we dropped anchor in Bounty Bay, the bay closest to Adamstown on Pitcairn. The weather was probably the best you can wish for. Sun, hardly wind, low swell into the little port. The...
Hello all, POS: 28* 00.9 S 121* 38.6 W SOG: 6.0 COG: 270 DTG: 487 NM to Pitcairn This morning...