David Wynne Davies, crew Atlantic crossing 8 October Half way point to Ireland reached yesterday. Progress had been impeded by headwinds but with the wind now backed to the South and on the beam we were making 7kts. In order to catch up…
Ben Edwards UTC 21.00 7 Oct We’re moving along quickly now. We’ve been caught up by the front end of a front which is giving us plenty of wind from a favourable direction. We’re doing about seven knots. At this…
Rob Hudson, crew, Atlantic Crossing 7 October 19.30 UTC I’m afraid my blogs are becoming rather sleep fixated – this is no exception. Yesterday was a long, slow slog into a headwind hoping for the forecast southerly to kick in…
Ben Edwards, crew 7th Oct Hello. So the big news today was the refleks. We had tried and tried again to light it and it kept going out until no diesel came out. Mike then went upon an endeavour to…
Position: 57,28.2N 030,26.4W 6 October UTC 18.00 mid north Atlantic Baro 998 rising, wind East 15KT, sea moderate, around 2m. current west (against us) Air temp 9.7c, water temp 9.2c. We plod south east. Chug Chug Chug….As we have an almost perfect headwind…
Andrew Coulthurst, 1st Mate for the Atlantic crossing 6th October (from Mid North Atlantic Ocean) A New Vocabulary… With two former members of the armed services aboard there has inevitably been some military banter knocking around. Most of it is…
Ben Edwards, North Atlantic 5 October 18.30 So things are getting a little more comfortable. There’s a patch of low wind skirting the edge of the storm that we tried to get into and, astonishingly, succeeded. The stronger winds and waves…
Position, 58.10.1N 35,37.2W wind 25 kt, gusting 35 kt, sea moderate to rough, blue sky and birds. temp 17.7c, water 8.1c, SOG 8.5 kt, CSE 113T, DTW (Bantry Bay) 952 nm BARO 974 rising. 5 Oct 11.30 UTC We have…
Rob Hudson, crew Atlantic crossing UTC 15.00 4th October We are finally on our way back to Bristol! “We left the weather station early yesterday morning in grey, wet, miserable conditions – a stark contrast to the glorious weather of…
Ben Edwards, crew, whole expedition, 14yrs old 4th Oct UTC 15.00 North Atlantic So the night hath passed and we’re still alive. To me it feels like it was a bit of a close run thing. We left the weather station…
