Hingeing the Two Hemispheres
February 27, 2019
Day 146
Noon Position: 46 43s 140 30W
Course(t)/Speed(kts): ExN 7
Wind(t/tws): SWxS 25
Sea(t/ft): W 7
Sky: Towering cumulus and squalls
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February 27, 2019
Day 146
Noon Position: 46 43s 140 30W
Course(t)/Speed(kts): ExN 7
Wind(t/tws): SWxS 25
Sea(t/ft): W 7
Sky: Towering cumulus and squalls
10ths Cloud Cover...
I’ve often heard wireless headsets referred to as marriage savers but before cruising full time I didn’t realize the accuracy of the nickname. Now after several years of regular use, I wouldn’t want to cruise without them.
When I left off in the last post, the team and I on Isbjorn were preparing for the start of the RORC 600 offshore race in the Eastern Caribbean.
February 26, 2019
Day 145
Noon Position: 46 38S 144 02W
Course(t)/Speed(kts): ExS 4
Wind(t/tws): SWxW 11
Sea(t/ft): SW 4
Sky: Clear, the Squalls
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Notes for Sail Training 2019
Hello Members – we are looking forward to another Sail Training week this year which is taking place from 4th-11th August.
The application process is about to open!
Oh the irony. I titled my last blog ‘Turn the Wind On,’ and frankly should have known better. As I write on the morning of January 31 it’s blowing dogs off chains from the NNE and ISBJORN is careening off wave tops, surfing her way west at 11 knots in the big ones.
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When I was a young boy, my grandparents lived in Pines Lake, N.J., a few miles from our house. My grandfather loved being out on the water, and in the summer he would take me sailing on the lake.
February 25, 2019
Day 144
Noon Position: 46 36S 147 00W
Course(t)/Speed(kts): E 5
Wind(t/tws): WNW 18
Sea(t/ft): NW 12
Sky: Stratus, Rain
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FULL WONKA! Surprise surprise…that little extra Sailing SV Delos something we teased in the 80 NORTH coffee table book is revealed today! Since we can’t ship 250 books around the world to sign them all...
Note: The title – and gist – of this post will come back to haunt me in the next installment…
May 2, 7:30pm Along with building the @UK Sailmakers group, Butch is well known as a competitor on the race course and race organizer. His sailing career spans 60 years in which he has competed in everything from 12-foot dinghies… Continue Reading Racing Seminar...
February 24, 2019
Day 143
Noon Position: 46 05S 150 50W
Course(t)/Speed(kts): ExS 7
Wind(t/tws): NW 24 – 28 (steady 30 within two hours)
Sea(t/ft): NW 6
Sky: Alto and cirro cumulus.
#257. Alvah Simon is best known for his extraordinary voyage to the Arctic that he documented in ‘North to the Night,’ a highly philosophical, almost spiritual book about his over-wintering in the Canadian Arctic, alone, on his steel sloop, the ROGER HENRY, frozen in the ice.