The last 24 hours have been incredibly frustrating, the whole day we negotiated the passage of many rain clouds which played havoc with the wind, on average we had a lot less than predicted by the forecast and after each downpour we hoped things would stabilise but...
Just as i write a big rain cloud on the horizon has brought a sudden windshift, this is the first we encounter since leaving the unstable airs around the equator and unfortunately it probably signals the end of the stable band of the trade winds... We have 1350...
The last few days have been, as predicted, a drag race towards the north-east corner of Brasil, all tactical decision had been played out earlier around the tricky corner near Rio de Janeiro where the wind tends to be always on the nose and there is a nasty counter...
The struggle to reach the stable trade winds seems to have lasted an eternity, the fleet progress has been very slow compared to the schedule we had imagined when leaving Punta del Este and only Cessna at the front has been keeping steady averages since reaching these...
The last two days have been far from easy, as we approached the continental shelf off Cabo Frio near Rio de Janeiro we were met by the nasty Brazilian south-flowing current. The deep current is pushed to the surface and strengthens to a strong flow where the bottom of...
We've been at sea nearly 6 days, half the world is on holiday for a long Easter weekend, for us it's been more wind and waves as we sail north east hoping to soon reach the trade winds. Ahead of us the bottom corner of Brasil with Rio de Janeiro and a tangle of...
We've been at sea for two days, i wrote an earlier update which somehow was never sent so here is a summary of our start of the fourth leg of the Global Ocean Race, Punta del Este Uruguay to Charleston US. The start in Punta was relatively quiet although I was a bit...
We are in Punta del Este! Celebrations Celebrations Celebrations! We made it! We are in Punta del Este Uruguay, 35 days at sea! We have sailed through gale force winds, we reached across the depths of the Southern Ocean with albatrosses to guard our progress, we...