Update by Claire: "Although much of the landscape of this black volcanic island is forbidding, there were beautiful surprises everywhere, perhaps the most being the people we met, beginning with a couple of concerned A...
We denken vandaag rond 19:00 te vertrekken. Aankomst bij Horta, op het Azoren-eiland Fayal, verwachten we rond 13 april.
...Update by Maarten:
"Sailing across empty seas as we have been doing for more than three weeks now, we can see our progression by little crosses on the chart as we regularly fix our position. Our Admiralty charts c...
Update door Maarten:
"We kennen allemaal de lengte- en breedtegraden waarmee plaatsbepaling op land en ter zee geschiedt. De breedtegraden gaan van 90 noorderbreedte op de Noordpool via 0 op de evenaar naar 90 zui...
Update door Daan:
“Nu heb ik mijn verjaardag in mijn loopbaan als varensgezel en visserman meer aan boord moeten doorbrengen, maar nu is het een verjaardag met een andere dimensie. Normaal ging je verjaardag gewoo...
Update by Wim:
"At last we are full and well in the trade winds. All is well. We hardly touch the sails. We sleep, eat and stand on watch (two times four hours). And in between we relax, scan the horizon, the clou...
Update by Rob:
“In 1990 I was travelling in the United States. I ended up in a little town by the name of Estes Park, gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park. In the local youth hostel we sat on the porch of the m...
In his guide Patrick Moore fulminates against all sorts of modernisms such as splitting up and/or re-arranging perfectly good star signs. Anyone that has tried to make sense of some of the names of star signs knows tha...
Update by Maarten:
"On the bridge we have Patrick Moore’s star guide, which is useful, as stargazing is a good way to pass the night in between duty on the helm and the management of sails. Patrick Moore was the s...
