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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
DWD Blog Tuesday 11th October 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 West coast Ireland. Originally we hoped to make…