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PredictWind’s forecasts for the last 400 miles or so to Gibraltar were accurate so far. They are for high seas and strong Northerly winds with most models showing roll warn. Before we turned in last night, we put two reefs in the Genoa and two reefs in the main. We are using the cutter rig…
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We have been making very slow progress since setting sail from Ponta Delgada for the Azores, due to very light winds from the South West. Nakee has been averaging 2-3 knots speed over ground. It has also been overcast most of the time with completely grey skies with cool temperatures, so very little solar yield…
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After a 9 day break in Ponta Delgada on São Miguel Island in the Azores, Nakee set off today at 11:00 UTC for the ~1,000 nautical mile passage to Gibraltar. We said goodbye to John Ashworth who disembarked there and welcomed Drew Knutton aboard for this next leg. Most of the time in the marina…
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We have just 7 miles to go for arrival in Ponta Delgada! That will completely a 2,400 nm passage – about halfway to Greece! The local weather is definitely it Caribbean and feels more like an Irish summer, lol. We are going to hoist our Q flag, inflate fenders, prep dock lines, call the marina…
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I’ve had problems with the app I’m using (Jet Pack) to edit my WordPress website and lost two long posts I’d written, one of them describing work on the foredeck in heavy conditions. I’ll just drop in some pictures below with titles but without commentary, as I don’t know how long I’ll have Internet. Nakee…
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We have been making excellent time on a broad reach with 15 – 20 knot winds from the North-West, gusting to 25 when squalls blow through. We are averaging between 6-8 kts, sometimes 9 kts, SOG, which is almost all VMG as we are able to steer a COG equal to Ponta Delgada’s BTW, now…
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In follow up to yesterday’s fresh water pump problems I ended up having to make two more journeys into the engine room last night, as the water pump again stopped working. On the last, and seventh trip into the engine room I was so fed up that I decided to dig a new relay out…
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Last night at 3:30 am local time (UTC-3) a cargo ship passing two and a half miles behind Nakee’s starboard quarter had me awake and monitoring the situation from the comfort of my aft cabin bunk. This is possible as I’ve installed a bracket on the ceiling above my bunk into which I can securely…
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After several days of heavy weather sailing – in which we had to move our high wind speed alarm up to 40 kts to stop it going off all the time at 35kts – the rain and clouds have finally moved away! We were quite exhausted from the hard going and really enjoyed finally having…
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Yesterday at 6:30 am local time (UTC-4) the wind went from 5-8 kts back to the mid 20 kts and we were again managing positive VMG despite still being on a Northerly course slamming into heavy seas. In the afternoon I was reading in the aft cabin when I was startled by a loud bang…
Bluewater sailing, diving and culinary adventures!
Bluewater sailing, diving and culinary adventures!