Of Boobies and a Water Paddle
Day 160/38
Noon Position: 04 45S 153 44W
Course/Speed: NNE6+
Wind: ESE20
Bar: 1011, falling
Sea: E8
Sky: Cumulus to 20%
Cabin Temperature: 87
Water Temperature...
Day 160/38
Noon Position: 04 45S 153 44W
Course/Speed: NNE6+
Wind: ESE20
Bar: 1011, falling
Sea: E8
Sky: Cumulus to 20%
Cabin Temperature: 87
Water Temperature...
Totem cruises the Sea of Cortez; in about three weeks, we hauls at the Cabrales shipyard in Puerto Peñasco, a small harbor surrounded by the Sonora desert. Typically, boats can go a few years between haulouts.
On May 23rd Garmin shut down the old way of distributing ActiveCaptain (AC) data and turned on the new ActiveCaptain Community (ACC) servers. All the mobile apps, charting programs and MFDs programmed to work with AC stopped updating ...
Day 159/37
Noon Position: 06 58S 154 05W
Course/Speed: N5-6
Wind: E15-18 (20 – 25 all afternoon)
Bar: 1011, falling
Sea: E5
Sky: Cumulus to 20%
Cabin Temperature...
Trust me, this was way sketchier than it looks in the video! That breakwater isn’t far off Isbjorn’s bow…
“In the high latitudes, you’ll have a long stretch with no wind, and you kind of feel comfortable with it.
The NYC is running Adult Sail Training courses for all levels (newcomers, rusty sailors, improvers...) starting on Monday 11th June or Wednesday 13th.
Day 158/36
Noon Position: 09 15S 154 10W
Course/Speed: NNE6+
Wind: ESE20
Bar: 1010, falling
Sea: E6-8
Sky: Cumulus to 50%
Cabin Temperature: 88
Water Temperature...
Menu weekend 01/06/2018
Starters,
Yakitori chicken skewers, sesame seed and Asian salad.
Potted Crayfish tails, ciabatta toast roast onions.
Mains,
Beef burger...
#234. Maik Brotzmann has been a friend of the podcast now for a few years, having joined Mia & I in Annapolis two years back to attend one of our Celestial workshops. He grew up in East Germany and lived through the fall of the Berlin wall...
Isbjorn in Henningsvær, our first Lofoten village.
Isbjorn is at sea. Long passage today in rainy, blustery conditions from Reine towards Lødingen at the head of the Vestfjord and the northern end of the Lofoten islands.
Wet and wild and record setting |
This Volvo Ocean Race is turning out to be one of the best and most badass in history and much of the basassness was captured in Leg 9...
Day 157/35
Noon Position: 11 22S 155 07W
Course/Speed: NNE6
Wind: E13-17
Bar: 1010, falling
Sea: E6
Sky: Cumulus 20%
Cabin Temperature: 86
Water Temperature...
I am a long time fan of ActiveCaptain boating info. In fact, I’m pretty sure that my January 2007 Camden Public Landing review above was one the very first, as I was simultaneously writing about AC’s inception here (and at Power & Motoryacht).
Nicolai Sehested runs a second sheet to the masthead Zero - Leg 8 from Itajai to Newport, Day 6 on board AkzoNobel. 28 April, 2018.
Day 156/34
Noon Position: 13 38S 155 38W
Course/Speed: N6
Wind: E12
Bar: 1012, falling
Sea: E5
Sky: Overcast (finally squalls moving off)
Cabin Temperature...