A mugs game? A blog about tea, by Vassili There is nothing like a good mug of tea on board. But offering the other crew members some tea is not entirely straightforward. We are sailing close-hauled so everything is at an angle. Worse still the waves and swell are big and so the boat lurches… Continue Reading
Day 40 April 27 After many days at sea, we made landfall in the Cape Verde islands at Mindelo, the second largest town in the archipelago. We called here to get some more diesel, some more vegetables and to walk on terra firma for a short while. The islands are brown, very barren and dusty.… Continue Reading
Day 32 April 19 We reached the doldrums yesterday. The wind dropped to one knot and the sea became calm. The wind had been dropping steadily all day and we had turned on the engine earlier in the day. Without an engine we would have been stuck in that part of the ocean for several… Continue Reading
Day 25 April 12 The sun shone today, it was another of those blue-sky days. First thing, just after 7am Niall went up the mast to work on replacing the broken main halyard. I took a photo of him at the top of the mast and another photo of the whole mast. It is very… Continue Reading
Day 19 April 06 We have said goodbye to Mat, our engineer for the first leg of the trip. He has left the sweltering heat of Brazil for the snows of the French Alps. There are four new members of the team on board now, Claire, Edd, Anni and Tais. Most of the maintenance jobs… Continue Reading