Seagulls
Ok, so ordinarily I don’t get excited about seagulls. I call them Pooping Pests. Rats with wings. And less friendly terms. But just after dawn today I was very happy to see them, because seagulls...
Tag: Sailing
Here comes the sun
Vingilótë’s seven rooftop solar panels I must say, the sun is truly an awesome thing. Not only does it light and warm the whole world, through the artifice of Victron’s amazing solar panels it...
After the sunset
Crescent moon, low on the horizon. One bright star above it, or maybe a planet. It could be reddish, maybe it’s Mars. Wish I had a star chart. So many stars in the sky! Unimaginable. There’s no...
Merry Christmas!
I would never have thought I’d be celebrating Christmas in the tropics, a thousand miles from land. And yet here we are. Santa managed to find us - he must have great GPS and filled stockings with...
Cooking
I was cooking dinner, a couple hundred miles south of Ascension Island, as we went clipping across the sea at 8-10 kts One of the really nice things about catamarans, at least this style, is the...
St. Helena Festival of Lights
A dancing light dragon. Because why not? I never posted this when we were in StH, so posting it now. Shortly before Christmas St Helena hosts the Festival of Lights, the big holiday celebration....
Under way!
With full water tanks, charged batteries, and a strong following breeze, we set out for the Americas!
Jacob’s Ladder
Jacob’s ladder from the top. Dunbar climbed Jacob’s ladder today. 699 steps, 11 minutes 55 seconds up, 6 minutes 3 seconds down. 180.78 meters vertical, 284 meters distance, better than 40%...
Extended visit to St Helena
So our little visit to the lovely island of St. Helena has extended rather longer than hoped. We had a bit of mechanical issues on the way here: two days out from Cape Town the pin securing the...
Island isolation
St. Helena is the closest I’ve ever come to living in a scarcity economy. Where things ‘s like a bottle of honey cannot be bought. It’s not that it’s expensive, itnot that you can’t get...