Day 76 Noon Position: 47 09S 15 40W Course/Speed: E5 Wind: SW25 Sail: Storm Jib Bar: 1012 Sea: W and SW, steep to 15 Sky: Clear Cabin Temp: 55 Water Temp: 49 Miles last 24-hours: 165 Miles since departure: 10,014 Our “little low” (my words, now eaten for breakfast and lunch) came on to, Read More
Noon Position: 47 09S 19 28W Course/Speed: E6 Wind: WNW 20 – 25 Sail: Working jib, one reef Bar: 1010 Sea: SW10 Sky: Overcast Cabin Temp: 54 Water Temp: 49 Miles last 24-hours: 152 Miles since departure: 9849 Wind went southwest 35 to 45 in the late evening. Absolute dark. Without deck lights, not, Read More
Day 74 Noon Position: 48 21S 22 13W Course/Speed: e5 Wind: NW 20 – 30 Sail: Storm Jib Bar: 974 Sea: N and NW to 12 Sky: Overcast with rain Cabin Temp: 56 Water Temp: 45 Miles last 24-hours: 158 Miles since departure: 9697 On day 74, Randall and Mo are 1800 miles east, Read More
Day 73 Noon Position: 48 03S 26 04W Course/Speed: SE 6 Wind: NE 20 Sail: Two tucks in the working jib, two reefs in the main Bar: 985 Sea: NE5 Sky: FOG and rain Cabin Temp: 58 (how I do not now; I’m freezing) Water Temp: 45 Miles last 24-hours: 137 Miles since departure:, Read More
Day: 72 Noon Position: 48 25S 28 45W Course/Speed: ENE 7 Wind: NW 20 Sail: Working jib full, wind port quarter Bar: 1005 Sea: NW 4 Sky: FOG, fog, and drizzle Cabin Temp: 56 Water Temp: 42 Miles last 24-hours: 161 Miles since departure: 9402 The theme of these last days is fog, a, Read More
Day 71 Noon Position: 48 31S 32 31W Course/Speed: E7 Wind: NW to 20 Sail: Big Genoa, out full, wind on port quarter Bar: 1010 Sea: NW6 Sky: FOG!!! And drizzle, all day Cabin Temp: 56 Water Temp: 45 Miles last 24-hours: 162 Miles since departure: 9241 How far is it back to Cape, Read More
Day 70 Noon Position: 48 01S 36 23W Course/Speed: ESE7 Wind: WNW25 Sail: Working jib, one tuck Bar: 1011 Sea: W7 Sky: Overcast, Fog Cabin Temp: 62 Water Temp: 50 Miles last 24-hours: 146 Miles since departure: 9079 After a fantastic three-day flight, the poled-out twins came down around midnight. Wind had faded with, Read More
Day 69 Noon Position: 48 05S 39 44W Course/Speed: ENE 6-7 Wind: W 17 Sail: Twins poled Bar: 1014 Sea: W to 10 Sky: Clear, bright sun Cabin Temp: 58 Water Temp: 51 Miles last 24-hours: 179. Best single day for miles yet, I believe. Miles since departure: 8993 I am a stranger in, Read More
Day 68 Noon Position: 48 40S 43 54W Course/Speed: SE 7+ Wind: WNW 25 Sail: Twins poled out, heavily reefed Bar: 1002 Sea: W8 Sky: Rain Cabin Temp: 61 Water Temp: 51 Miles last 24-hours: 164 Miles since departure: 8754 We’ve been sailing with the twins poled out for three and a half days., Read More
Day 67 Noon Position: 48 42S 47 48W Course/Speed: ESE 5 Wind: WNW 10 Sail: Both headsails poled out Bar: 1006 Sea: Flat Sky: Overcast, squalls to windward Cabin Temp: 65 (because I’m baking bread) Water Temp: 49 Miles last 24-hours: 89 Miles since departure: 8590 I put myself on short sleep last night, Read More
Team Figure 8 Made a bit of an error and missed this post. Instead of depriving you we decided you should get to read it too. Noon Position: 51.53S 56.36W Course/Speed: NE3 Wind: W7 Sail: Big genoa out full Bar: 1006 Sea: W3 Sky: Clear Cabin Temp: 56 Water Temp: 47 Miles last 24-hours:, Read More
Day 66 Noon Position: 49 27S 49 11W Course/Speed: NNE3 Wind: S7 Sail: Both headsails poled out full, flopping around Bar: 1002, steady Sea: Small rollers from the N and SW Sky: Clear Cabin Temp: 60 Water Temp: 48 Miles last 24-hours: 92 Miles since departure: 8501 Some birds are more curious than others., Read More
Day 65 Noon Position: 49 47S 50 44W Course/Speed: NE5 Wind: NW13 Sail: Big Genoa out full Bar: 1003 Sea: W6 Sky: Clear Cabin Temp: 60 Water Temp: 46 Miles last 24-hours: 161 Miles since departure: 8409 I call them Blue Blobs, the windless regions one has to contend with in sailing from here, Read More
Day 62 (days at sea, not counting days in Ushuaia) Noon POS: 53 23S 59 46W, under the Falklands Course and Speed: NE7 Wind: W25 BAR: 996 Sea: W6 Sky: Clear Temp: cabin, 56; Water, 47 A blog for Jan 11 and 12… At the office of the Prefectura (Coast Guard), the captain waggled, Read More
Day 61 Noon Position: 55 58S 62 52W (roughly 200 miles E of Ushuaia) Course Speed: NE 8+ Wind: WNW 20 – 25 Bar: 992 Sea: W4 Sky: Overcast Temp: 53, cabin; 43 water Mo and Randall have made their escape from Ushuaia, Argentina, and are now thoroughly at sea. In the late morning,, Read More
Dec 28, 2017 Caleta Olla, “cook pot cove,” is a bowl-shaped basin with a black cliff on one side and a grassy mole on the other connected by a curved, tree-lined beach. Above the cliff, a condor soars, his primaries spread wide into the gray sky like fingers feeling for the updraft. Across the, Read More
Dec 26. 2am. Anchor down, Caleta Olla, after 20 hours at the tiller. — 0500. Underway for Bahia Cook. 50 miles east, a full day. 110 miles to Caleta Olla. The sea running is still a Southern Ocean sea, but somehow it’s more manageable than I expect, the tiller, now called derisively by the, Read More
Quick update virtual voyagers. A short Christmas Eve chat with Jo where she shared all the family stories from the holiday. He managed to organize with Lucy (Jo’s sister) to get her a personal card and poem for the holidays. He might be far away but he does a great job in still doing, Read More
Hey Virtual Voyagers – we managed to get a report from Captain Reeves. Team Figure 8 is working on getting the equipment together and Joanna’s going to wrap everything in her undies and hand carry it down to Ushuaia. Dec 23 Noon Pos: 55 50S 74 35w On Drogue Winds 40+ gusting 50 Day, Read More
Hi Figure 8 Voyage Followers! This is Team Figure 8 speaking. Well the list of broken things got to a point today where a different approach was needed – specifically poor Monte broke this time. The good news is Randall isn’t broken (frustrated but not broken) and the boat is as solid as a, Read More
Dec 17 9pm Waves have broken fully onto the boat many times over the last two days–I stopped counting at five at Mo’s insistence. An hour ago I heard that now familiar deep whooshing and braced, but instead a wham to the hull and water over the top (kathwap–sploosh!), we were hit as by, Read More