Trans-Atlantic Day 26: landfall!
We have just 7 miles to go for arrival in Ponta Delgada! That will completely a 2,400 nm passage –…
Trans-Atlantic Day 24: Sea Birds
I’ve had problems with the app I’m using (Jet Pack) to edit my WordPress website and lost two long posts…
Trans-Atlantic Day 22: Spectacular Sunset and Roast
We have been making excellent time on a broad reach with 15 – 20 knot winds from the North-West, gusting…
Trans-Atlantic Day 21: Fresh Baked Bread
In follow up to yesterday’s fresh water pump problems I ended up having to make two more journeys into the…
Trans-Atlantic Day 20: Fresh Water Pump Problems
Last night at 3:30 am local time (UTC-3) a cargo ship passing two and a half miles behind Nakee’s starboard…
Trans-Atlantic Day 19: Goose-Winging
After several days of heavy weather sailing – in which we had to move our high wind speed alarm up…
Trans-Atlantic Day 15 – Furling Line Failure
Yesterday at 6:30 am local time (UTC-4) the wind went from 5-8 kts back to the mid 20 kts and…
Trans-Atlantic – Day 12
We have been making much slower progress towards Ponta Delgada on São Miguel island in the Azores than we had…
Trans-Atlantic – Day 8
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.…
Calm after Force 9 Gale
We turned in around 21:30 in light South Easterly winds of 10-15 kts on a direct course for Ponta Delgada…