21 January at 6pm 720 miles out 1308 Miles to go. I had a pretty uneventful watch this morning, other than the boat surfing down the biggest wave I have seen yet. It was bigger than the 6m wave we had in NZ. Everyone else was asleep and I was literally hanging on to the …
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Day 5: 545 nautical miles out, 1484 miles to go. Not sure if you all know that a nautical mile is longer than a land mile. 1 nautical mile is equal to 1.1 normal mile or 1.8 kilometers. We currently are traveling at around 11 kilometers an hour, or 5.8 sea miles or knots, per …
Day 4: 395 miles out, 1605 to go. Conditions have deteriorated somewhat. The swell is up to 2.5m, the wind has been up to 22 knots which creates waves on top of the swell and makes for uncomfortable conditions. But – so far NO seasickness how good is that!I didn’t sleep again, so after my …
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Day 3 January 18th: 284 miles so far out of around 2,000. The wind and swell have picked up. Stokey (our weather router) predicted 17 to 23 knot winds, and it was late coming but it did arrive and we are getting the odd big wave which picks us up and turns us around. Our …
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This blog was sent through our Satellite phone so was text only. Photos have been added after and will not format properly, apologies for this. Cape Verde Islands are 800 miles southwest from the Canary Islands, and separated from the West African Coast by 325 miles. It is made up of 14 islands, all mountainous, …
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January 11th: Didn’t sleep so good last night. Heidi made her infamous fish burgers in the morning they are so good. She uses the same method for the beef burgers and they are the best. We had to email the recipe to Starlet as they wanted to make them. Today we had lots of …
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January 8th: We cooked bacon and eggs for breakfast as it will most likely be easy breakfasts on the passage as it will be rough. Heidi and I went for a walk to buy fresh bread and discovered they had markets on today. It was mainly handbags, jewellery, clothes etc. and not really fresh food. …
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January 4th: we departed Santa Cruz at 7:00am for Port Mogan on the bottom of Gran Canaria Island. We departed first and Starlet followed us out. Mark had a close call as the gear shift broke in the fly bridge as he was in forward to come out of the berth. He had to …
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