Even with around 13 on, the round-sail did not perform as praised by the inventor and seller. Not enough speed and not enough course stability. Thus, we used again the genoa to run west. Finally we tested the 20 m2 jibsail in a butterfly configuration. It brought an increase in speed. Thus, we want to…

A sunny morning, with 22 degC. Since yesterday night we reached the trade wind zone. The last weather report for 6 weather models of this morning confirmed our assumption. But a weather model is sometimes not correct; only when 6 models show the same, the chance that the weather forecast is correct, is pretty high.…

During the night the wind increased a bit. For safety reasons we reduced the sails a bit long before we reached the limit. MaRe sails now through the night with 5 – 6 kn heading steadily W. From the last weather report we learned that we the can sail already now a W course. Keep…

With big expectations we started our first trial of the round-sail. To start with the conclusion of the first trial: the wind was with with 9 – 10 kn not strong enough to pull MaRe with more than 2.5 kn forwards. According to the specs of the sail it can be used between 10 –…

Rasmus, the good of the seas, finally accepted the B’s offering and brought us nice wind around 13 kn with a stable NE direction. MaRe runs around 5 kn on a course of around 200. This is now a bit too much S. Therefore, once all crew members are out of their beds we will…

Since the last comment the biggest change on board is the date. Year, month, and day numbers changed, but the wind remains the same. Around 10 kn only. It even changed more to N, forcing us to head currently more to S. Still we are lucky because we could avoid to get trapped in the…

For most of the day we had a nice sailing wind. Not as fast as in the morning but still ok. A bunch of activities of things were done. But there was also time to relax. Just when G got his next delicious dinner on the table, the wind started changing directions and force. It…

After a bigger part of the night running with only the genoa for safety reasons going speeds of around 3 knots, we hoisted the main with reef 1…. …. and MaRe runs around 8 kn at 60 deg AWA and around 14 kn TWS. A NW swell of more than 100 m length and a…

Running with engines and the genoa to provide a like bit more pull. But the AWS (apparent wind speed) is below 10 kn. The effect is there but not enough to only sail. It’s a nice wind for a gennaker, but for security reasons, we don’t fly the gennaker at night. Hope for better wind…

In the afternoon, a group of dolphins came from starboard towards MaRe and played for a quarter of an hour around MaRe’s bows. These animals are fascinating. About one and half an hour ago we put the gennaker down. Not even for that sail we had enough wind. Running with the engines we go more…