Sailing News
All the latest news from the world of sailing and stories from experienced sailors.
Even the novelty of riding the back of a Southern Ocean low wears out after a while, it’s amazing what you get used to, we’ve been below, hatch closed, for the past two days pretty much eating and sleeping and riding this mad highway averaging around 12 knots but with surfs well above 20… Read more
Giant waves crashing over the boat after mad surfs
The low that two days ago gave us a kicking upwind has moved to the SE and now we are running in the strong following winds behind the cold front. All looks ideal on paper and i’m sure it must look exciting to see us on the tracker dashing at twice the speed compared to… Read more
Marco and Hugo survive the storm without damage
Storm is over, back to normality. After a couple of nasty and uncomfortable sailing days we just hoisted the small spinnaker and are finally heading east at decent speeds. The computer has recalculated the expected date of arrival in wellington and instead of some crazy date six months in the future we… Read more
Financial Crisis Heading South
Getting away from the worst of the stormy low A few hours ago we tacked south follwing Phesheya’s example to distance ourselves from the worst of the winds of the low pressure north west of us. By the time we tacked the wind was already blowing a full force 7 gusting 8 yet according to… Read more
Wet, cold, unpleasant bashing
So, the front came through, the wind went around from Northerly to Southerly in a very short space, within an hour we were reaching in 30-35 knots of wind in a very very confused sea state, absolutely horrible, boat thrown left to right, surfing, then bashing into a wave, then knocked sideways, waves of frozen… Read more
Happy days
The cold front is about to reach us, behind us i can see broken clouds and some blue sky here and there, it rained earlier and the wind has kept on backing. However as we are sailing relatively fast in the same direction as the front it is taking forever for it to overtake… Read more
Get a Class 40 for Christmas, one careful owner! Join the Global Ocean Race
Financial Crisis, sail number 41, registered name “Mowgli” is for sale by owner. Currently engaged in the Global Ocean Race the boat is viewable at any of the remaining stopovers, Wellington, Punta del Este, Charleston or Europe at the end of the race with an opportunity for the new owner for a test sail… Read more
The albatrosses are getting bigger – is that good or bad?
We’ve now been at sea for 8 days, many of which are just a blur. In the last few we’ve been reaching in fairly stable winds and it gets a bit monotonous. I’m in no way complaining as it looks like we’re going to get our backs kicked in a few days by a… Read more
Deep ocean match racing continues
The latest news from Marco down in the Southern Ocean – It’s another pleasant sail today in the Southern Ocean, reaching west in warm Northerly winds. We are sailing with Phesheya Racing in sight just behind our stern now, we chatted on VHF a few times exchanging jokes and banter, which is really nice, sharing… Read more
Mid Ocean rendez-vous
After six days of racing i have a sense of deja vu, the three new boats are at the front and here futher back we are nearly in visual contact with Phesheya Racing which is about 7 miles to our port, we had a brief radio chat and as we are converging we should… Read more
