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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…
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We have been making much slower progress towards Ponta Delgada on São Miguel island in the Azores than we had hoped. The cause has been unfavorable, stormy weather with rough seas, driving rain and numerous squalls with some massive lightning storms. The wind has, and continues to be from the North East or East, we…
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Our position: 24* 49.938’N, 58*34.049’W, AWS 25 kts, SOG 3 kts, COG: 95 deg, BTW, 57 deg, DTW 1,844 nm. We have now been at sea for the first full week of what is looking to be a three week passage from the BVIs to the Azores. The sea state continues to be rough for…
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We turned in around 21:30 in light South Easterly winds of 10-15 kts on a direct course for Ponta Delgada on São Miguel in the Azores. The high wind speed alarms started going off at 22:45 and we spent all night getting up every 15 – 60 minutes or so as the wind and seas…
Bluewater sailing, diving and culinary adventures!
Bluewater sailing, diving and culinary adventures!