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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…
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Atlantic Crossing – Part 1
The time had come for us to start our Atlantic crossing with our small sailboat and prior to departure we had to sort our some paperwork. As it is a pretty unusual year with the virus we had to contact authorities in the Caribbean before we left Cape Verde to make sure we were allowed to enter. We had decided to sail to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The reason was because there is a lot of islands there to explore and a place we can stay in for a while and hope that movements between the islands becomes easier. We checked latest information on noonsite.com and got okay that…
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Canary islands to Cape Verde crossing
We started our Canary Islands to Cape Verde crossing in the beginning of December and the crossing took us 8 days. The highlight of the crossing was having a Marlin following us! Crazy experience. Read more below and/or watch the video of our crossing. Here is a video from our Canary Islands to Cape Verde crossing, where you can see more of the Marlin following us. We speak Swedish in our videos, but all our videos have English subtitles you can activate. Day 1 – December 4, 2020 We left our anchorage outside Puerto de Mogan after we’ve eaten breakfast to start our Canary islands to Cape Verde crossing.…
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Our sail from Lagos to Canary Islands
Day 1 – November 9, 2020 After a week of some boatwork and exploring in Lagos it was time to start our sail to the Canary Islands. We left Lagos around lunchtime and started our way south, and on our way out we actually saw orcas again! We saw a lot of dolphins as well and a jumping tuna, but no luck with fishing that day, even though we tried all day. It was a very calm day so we motored a bit at first, and after a while we set sail. It was not much wind, but we sailed until early morning when we gave up and started the…
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Sailing over Bay of Biscay in October
October 14-18, 2020 Finally the day had arrived and on October 14th we started sailing over the bay of Biscay. Normally all books say that you should sail over Biscay as early as possible, as the further into autumn you go the likelihood of bad weather increases. As we departed late from Sweden (late August) we knew that finding a weather window for Biscay might be hard, but we hoped that we would make it across anyway. Today with the good and detailed weather forecast finding good weather info is easy, but still it might be unreliable. The weather system is complex and no forecast can be fully relied upon.…
