DISCIPLINARY ACTION ON BOARD 1800, Sat 8 Oct, 2016. I would like to formally report an act of wilful damage has been discovered on board NORTHABOUT. As skipper it is my solemn duty to investigate and deal with the matter…
David Wynne Davies, crew Atlantic crossing, 9th October Still 350nm to reach SW Ireland calling in perhaps at Dingle rather than Bantry Bay on Wednesday. Apparently it has better fuelling facilities. Andrew and Rob both know the town and say that it was…
When the person who was the real-life inspiration for Lara Croft (ground crew), has been dropping increasingly unsubtle hints that it’s time to join the party and write a crew blog, you should probably start listening. So here it (finally)…
Ben Edwards, crew whole expedition 8 October UTC 21.00 We have a challenge. As of Tuesday we have headwinds predicted that will stop us going anywhere. If we want to return home any time in the immediate future we have…
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…
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…
