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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…
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After light winds and calm seas on Sunday and Monday, a line of squalls came through around sunset on Monday, bringing with them rain, 20-25 it winds and a confused, lumpy sea state. Before the squalls arrived we reefed the Genoa and main and then later in the evening furled away the Genoa and switched…
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After some modifications to the type and placement of AC circuit breakers in Nakee’s electrical system, the Victron inverter / charger is no longer tripping the RCD, so the Genset’s 230v AC output is again available to the boat’s systems – thanks to Jarred from Cay Electronics at Nanny Cay Marina. Even better, he used…
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I know it has been a while since my last blog post, sorry for that. I’ve been busy with a series of guests visiting me for some sailing in the BVI. First up were three friends from the HSBC sailing club in England who flew out for 10 days. We managed to complete a circumnavigation…
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Last Friday night three friends from the HSBC sailing Club flew into Tortola from England for 10 days of sailing fun in the BVI with me aboard Nakee. We spent the first night on anchor in Trellis Bay near the airport, took a taxi to Road Town to get provisions on Saturday morning and that…
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Over the last week or so, I’ve been working my way East along the north side of Tortola. After having cleared in and an overnight on Jost Van Dyke Island, I sailed over to spend the next night at Cane Garden Bay on Tortola. All of the good anchoring spots there (sandy bottom) were taken…
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Had a cracking upwind sail North East from Christmas Cove on Great St James Island in the US VI up to Great Harbour on Jost Van Dyke Island, British Virgin Island. Harbour is filled with many mooring balls, all occupied by mostly “condomarans”, most of which are charter boats. There are boats constantly coming and…
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Today I said goodbye to Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas and motored East into the wind about 8 miles, over to Christmas Cove on Great St James Island. It is much quieter here without the street traffic of Charlotte Amalie, but inter island ferries pass close by creating strong waves that set monohulls rolling and my…
Bluewater sailing, diving and culinary adventures!
Bluewater sailing, diving and culinary adventures!