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....
Noon Position, 11 UTC: 22°25S 002°02'E SOG 7 knots COG: 345° LS The sky is overcast and the wind is between 15 and 20 knots from the SE. We changed the timezone to UTC +1 to get a bit closer to...
Last spring, we received a new Manta trawl! After a few days of preparing and fine-tuning the system after every trawl, she finally soared next to Europa as she should. Mostly thanks to Bosun Nat and the deckhands helping me...
Two days after leaving Cape Town we came upon the real south eastern trade winds and ever since we have been making extremely good progress. With twenty to twenty-five knots of backstay winds we even touched thirteen knots of...
Position: 29°57'S 011°52'E COG: 333° SOG: 7 kn At the start of the day, the wind was steadily going down. Then, at the time i went on watch again, it had died completely. This did, however, ...
Today the expected calm turned out to be a very short one and before we knew we were making good progress again. Meanwhile captain Hans grabbed the opportunity offered by the flat seas to have the spanker gaff boom...
Position: 31°14'S 012°27'E COG: 295° SOG: 3.6kn Three days at sea, and i already have to ask how long it was since we left port. In that time we moved 359' in roughly the right direction, and...
We find ourselves some one hundred and fifty miles northwest of Cape Town, sailing at seven knots in the right direction. The sky is cloudless, a friendly sea. Life is good. The last few days we have said goodbye to al lot...
Position: 3 Miles West of Robben Island COG: 320° SOG: 6kn LS, To whom it may concern and what dies meer zij The moment has finally arrived: Due to the heroic efforts of many of the people to whom this...