The end of this long sail is approaching. It was a long sail in terms of time needed. The no and low winds at beginning are now replaced with 3 – 5 Bft winds. Today even the waves are down and we can use reef 1 in the main. Yesterday, the waves where to high…

… one may be lucky! Yesterday, shortly before 1800, I decided to tack and run W “W” in this case means to run as much N in the NW quadrant as possible. I knew, I have to use my east offset miles and I will be forced to tack again towards E to gain additionally…

I had a noon nap to get enough sleep. Tobi had a late morning additional sleep because we had early morning action. He takes another one right now and I later. This works very well between us. Tobi just had the idea to prepare some “sour fish” for an early afternoon snack. The “fish sour”…

Since we started sailing this morning at 0720, we progre very well in NE direction. TWS is around 3 – 4 Bft, the wind waves only about max 1.5 m, and a low, not catchy swell, let’s MaRe’s run smoothly and fast. I’ll keep sailing with a 45 deg AWA until a westerly course is…

Yesterday, I really was pisses off with Chinese obstacles, stretching in line over 20 NM; adding a safety margin to the eastern end, where we need to go around, it has a length of 30 NM . There were with AIS equipped 4 obstacles in linear arrangement. The AIS send a only 8 digit MMSI…

S 06° 10.129 E 170° 50.617 Yesterday evening, after the squall shower, a squall dance started. The wind turned gradually from E to NE and around midnight even to N. The turning to N was a good timing because Tobi needed to get up anyhow to start his watch. So we tacked. During Tobi’s watch…

S 06° 10.187 E 170° 48.591 Yesterday I was lucky. The monkey with the tin tool arranged a squall ahead of us with nice volume of rain. So I could take a rain shower. It feels good, when the raindrops hit the skin and cooling it, and massaging it. I felt refreshed thereafter. I could…

S 06° 40.033 E 170° 38.470 This morning, while we drifted backwards because of no wind, I saw it again. If I recall it right, I saw it last time two and a half year ago. That time in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The little creature has moved to the Western Pacific Ocean. I’m sure…

S 06° 51.780 E 170° 32.845 I feel there is need to update and re-publish this glossary again. The lasted posting in this “Glossary” series is always an updated version of the previous “Glossary of terms”. I’m using in my narrations a lot of abbreviations and special terms, which are understood by sailors. As I…

S 06° 55.567 E 170° 30.348 It started all with nice sailing, the continuation of the sailing during the day. Around 1800 we reduced the main to reef 2 to be prepared MaRe for the night. At around 2200 we got the first squall with a peak TWS of 20 KN. 50 min later we…