The Quay At Black Sod
Rob, Crew Blog, 13 October 2016 Well, we should have expected it. What a welcome! Jarlath and his team were at the quay at Black Sod at 2100 as we scraped in with 0.3m under the lifted keel. The rest…
13 October Westport arrival
13 October. Amazing welcome in Westport, Ireland. We left Blacksod in gorgeous morning light. Bound for our official arrival into Ireland at Westport (we couldn't make it there, too late). A rib came out with RTE news cameraman on boat and escorted...
12 October Blacksod
12th October. Arrival 20.00 UTC into Blacksod Bay, Ireland. After a long and challenging North Atlantic crossing, exhausted and in complete darkness with no navigation lights and a bowman with a torch to keep lookout of lobster pots. Greeted by Northabout's...
Starting to tidy up the boat, as I expect Jarlath would like to see her, and as I need to be in the skipper’s good books, I volunteered for the heads
Rob Hudson, crew, Atlantic Crossing 12 October The sun is shining and the sea has calmed a bit, but the wind is still – as it has been for some days now – dead on the nose. We are motoring hard…
A beautiful sunrise unfolding off the bow. Finally some colour in what has been a monochrome world for the past ten days. It would nice to report of sunrise over Ireland, but I can’t quite do that yet, the Atlantic still has us in her clutch…
Andrew Coulthurst, crew Atlantic crossing morning of 12th October A beautiful sunrise unfolding off the bow. Finally some colour in what has been a monochrome world for the past ten days. It would nice to report of sunrise over Ireland, but…
The funny thing is that when finally my colleague bought this boat Eagles Quest II and I’m captain it, we do this passage we see no ice anymore. So just 4 years of waiting; no more ice
Guest blog from Shaun Weng from Bejing. The first Chinese solo world circumnavigator Shaun and his crew on board the boat Eagles Quest II popped out the east end of the NW passage around the same time as we did,…
I am on my best grovelling behaviour trying to keep on Captain Bligh’s good side by carrying out acts of obsequiousness
Rob Hudson, crew Atlantic crossing 11th October The newly ruled logbook is being kept beautifully entered – well, better than it was before. I am on my best grovelling behaviour trying to keep on Captain Bligh’s good side by carrying out acts…
I’m looking forward to showing my grandchildren the photos of icebergs and glaciers when I get back. It’ll get you thinking about why icecaps are receding and making voyages like Northabout’s possible.
Rob Hudson, crew Atlantic Crossing, 9th October A couple of days ago Frances sent us a summary of comments that you have put on our blog entries on the website. It didn’t tell us who had made which comment, but…
Getting to Ireland… “everything’s gone a bit to pot”
Ben Edwards, crew, whole expedition 10th October Everything’s gone to pot a bit. Because of a really horrible wind we’re now head north, to Galway. How slowly we’re going and that we’re actually getting further away from Bristol is getting…
So near, yet so far… looking forward to landfall in Ireland
David Wynne Davies 11 October, still in the Atlantic, but almost at Ireland So near, yet so far. For the last 48 hours we have been battling against headwinds in excess of Force 8 trying to make landfall on the…