We’re back at sea! The last two days everybody except a skeleton crew was allowed to go ashore and explore the island. Saint Helena is rather a small place with about one thousand incredibly friendly people. Apart from...
To whom it may concern; On the morning of this day, we heaved up our anchor and set sail for Montevideo, with 17350 liter GO on boad. We started heaving at 0930 and the anchor was home at 0945, after which ...
I am sitting on the poop deck, watching Saint Helena shrink on the horizon. We all enjoyed our stay at the island, and I could have laid at anchor for a few days more, watching fish swim by. But being on land is hectic, and...
LS To day is the day that St Helena came in sight. To celebrate this we had some communal sail handling in the form box-hauling...... We also had lunch on deck and failed to catch a fish. After all this, ...
It is only when you start digging in the bunkies for the flag of Saint Helena when you start to realize how incredibly many countries Europa visits on her ocean wandering journeys. We were asked to make an...
At sea there is always work. Sailing, cooking, maintenance, navigation and steering. But also there is time for leisure. Especially when you carry half an Irish band with you. Captain Hans plays a mean violin and is good at...
Noon position 11.00 UTC: 18°35'S 004° 17'W Speed: 6 to 8 knots, COG 328° We are closing in on St Helena. As the crow flies, or rather the soft plumage petrel, there is still 175, or so, NM to be...
Noon Position, 11 UTC: 20°21S 000°23'E SOG 7 knots , about..... COG: 274° LS It is beginning to look a tradewinds... We even saw the sun again, and, those puffy clouds that are so...
Next to talking about endangered giant tortoises, the crew has been busy. I know the engineers have been diligently working in the dungeons, but the specifics of their projects remain a bit of a mystery. I know they made...
What are they? They are a metrological optical phenomenon that occur opposite the sunin the sky. They are essentially parallel, but look like they converge on the anti-solar point due to the single point perspective....