After drifting all night, the morning became better. At around 0700 I smelled the wind coming back again. And it came back pretty fast. As agreed I woke up Dennis and we set the gennaker in a very short time. We got used to work together with the sail. No questions, no explanations are needed…

…stole is the wind again! Since last night, 2245 all sails are down and MaRe is drifting. As an additional punishment, the monkey poured also some rain us. Not long but I needed to move from the cockpit inside and sit at the navigation desk. Now the sun is out again and his light colored…

Still can’t believe it but MaRe was attacked today from air!!! An unbelievable heavy conventional load was dropped on MaRe. A rather big bird dropped a full load on MaRe’s STB stern

It’s still an hour until the sun rises at the horizon. I’m sitting in the cockpit, enjoying a cup of coffee and some cookies. Tjasa had mercy with me, the only cookie-monster on board of MaRe and bought 10 packs of Ginger Snaps in the very, very, very last moment. The last nightd, the air…

The possibility to follow our sail is very good. However, it also had drawbacks in it’s technology. There can be delays or even failures, which leads to no new narrations and/or no position data. Position data have a long way. The Iridium GO on board of MaRe sends every hour automatically position data via an…

Yesterday evening we were frustrated with the little progress we made. We searched for alternative routes to get more wind. Then we downloaded the wind forecast after removing the “Use motor when STW is less than 1 KN” completely. Result was a completely different weather routing. However it showed us the same time that we…

It still was dark when the tanker “Hovden Spirit” from the Bahamas showed up in the AIS layer of radar and chart. She was about 18 NM east of MaRe. The intercept data showed a CPA of only 0.8 NM in front of MaRe’s bow. This was too close. I carefully watched it and called…

Yesterday, at about 2300 the monkey with the tin tool switched off the wind of again. With the genoa rolled in to handkerchief, the small jib with a tighten up sheet and the boom secured, we drifted again. But at 0200, Tjasa woke me up because the wind reached stable 4 – 5 KN. We…

Shortly after uploading the previous narration, we gut busy. There was first of all the wind carefully awakening. We set the gennaker and had for few hours a good sailing. Not fast because wind was not that strong. We made good way. Then we cleaned the cockpit, which got dirty from splinters from the barnacles…

It’s 0651 local time at MaRe and no wind at all. Since last night roughly since 2200 we have no wind at all. The current is moving us with 1 – 2 KN towards west. Another moving thing is the wind direction indicator needle. It turn frequently in full circles. During yesterday we did plenty…