Atlantic Crossing
In this category we share all our blog posts from the Atlantic crossing we did with our sailboat. We sailed across the Atlantic Ocean towards the Caribbean December 18th. We started the crossing from Cape Verde and it took us 18 days until we reached Young Island Cut in St Vincent and the Grenadines. The Atlantic crossing back to Europe took longer, 26 days. We started from Sint Maarten April 30th and first sailed on a northerly course, and then turned east and made landfall in the Azores. Here is all links to the blog posts in this category about the Atlantic crossing we did with our sailboat:
Atlantic crossing - Cape Verde to Caribbean |
Atlantic crossing - Caribbean to Azores |
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Atlantic Crossing West -> East – Part Three
Part One and Two of the Atlantic Crossing West to East towards the Azores can be found under this two links: Part One and Part Two. Day 17 – may 16, 2021 Distance last 24 hrs: 54 nm Total Distance: 1708 nm Engine hours last 24 hrs: 3,6 hours Approx heading: 110 Breakfast: Oatmeal with applesauce Lunch: Knorr-pasta Dinner: Carbonara Sunrise/Sunset (UTC): 7:49/21:52 Water temperature (Celsius): 20 After drifting through a night with heavy showers and no wind (our autopilot drive unit had given up and we didn’t want to handsteer in the rain all night) we set sail as soon as the sun rose. The wind had picked up and…
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Atlantic Crossing West to East – Part Two
Part One of the Atlantic Crossing West to East towards the Azores can be found under this LINK. Day 8 – may 7, 2021 Distance last 24 hrs: 64 nm Total Distance: 799 nm Engine hours last 24 hrs: 2,7 hours Approx heading: 045 Breakfast: Youghurt with musli Lunch: Poke Bowl Dinner: Carbonara leftovers Sunrise/Sunset (UTC): 9:10/22:41 Water temperature (Celsius): 23 After drifting the entire night because the engine made strange vibrations, we started the day with testing the engine. The vibrations were gone and the engine was running smoothly again. It was probably something stuck in the propeller that had gotten loose during the night. We didn’t run the engine very…
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Atlantic Crossing West-> East – Part One
Our time in the Caribbean had come to an end and it was time for us to start the Atlantic Crossing, west to east, back to Europe. Day 1 – April 30, 2021 Distance last 24 hrs: 0nm Total Distance: 0nm Engine hours last 24 hrs: 0 hours Approx heading: 000 Breakfast: – Lunch: Spagetti Bolognese (pre-prepared) Dinner: Pasta with creamy chicken sauce (pre-prepared) Sunrise/Sunset (UTC): 9:41/22:34 Water temperature (Celsius): 27 We left Simpson Bay at the 10:30 bridge opening together with Sanuti. We first sailed west around Sint Maarten and passed Anguilla on the west side. It was a chill, sunny day and we focused on getting into the rhythm of the…
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A visit to St Barths and final preparations
April 23-30, 2021 One day in Sint Maarten we decided to take the ferry to the previous Swedish colony St Barths. Now it belongs to France, but it was Swedish for a time during 17th and 18th century. We took the ferry in the morning and since we had been in Sint Maarten for 4 days of more we didn’t have to do any testing or quarantine. We arrived to fancy Gustavia and took a walk around. A lot of famous, rich people have houses in the island and the town is filled with fancy stores. After a nice day in St Barths we took the ferry back to Sint…
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Atlantic Crossing – Part 2
This is the second part of our sail across the Atlantic Ocean first part can be found HERE. Day 11 – December 28, 2020 Distance latest 24hr: 118 nm Total distance: 1181 nm Breakfast: Freshly baked carrot bread with fried egg Lunch: Curry stew with Mahi-Mahi and rice. Dinner: Pasta with pesto and halloumi Sunrise: 09.19 UTC During the night we got a bit more wind so we made good speed. Around 2pm UTC we reached halfway which we intended to celebrate with some cheap sparkling wine we bought in Mindelo. The wine was disgusting and we ended up sharing a Coca-Cola instead. During the afternoon we read for a…
