03 Dec Le Maire Strait
Leo Boersen reports:
"In yesterday's logbook Kaatje told about the speech by captain Arian when we were rounding the cape. The last part of his speech was a bit tricky...
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03 Dec We did it!
Report by Kaatje:
"Monday December 2 starts as a very normal Monday a/b 'Oosterschelde'. A new week has started, the fourth. The watches coming of and going up meet ...
03 Dec Cape Horn passed
Last night at 22:50 ship's time (GMT-5) we had Cape Horn at 1.1 NM and a bearing of 000 degrees on our portside. Westerly winds force 8+ Bft. Some showers. Visibility ...
02 Dec Yellow Brick
If you follow the ship's progress via the Yellow Brick tracker, you will have noticed that no updates have become available for some days now. We are working on it, and ...
01 Dec Cleaning and pancakes
Woody reports:
"It is Saturday again, that means cleaning day. Everybody cleans a bit of the ship, so everything stays shipshape, also the cabins. After days of gray...
29 Nov The sea gives…the sea takes
Report by Arie:
"The sea gives...
29 Nov Update by Werner
"Leisurely the waves come rolling from behind, each of them quite able to fill an Olympic rowing course with water in just one second or a surfer’s eye with tears of joy. ...
28 Nov Update by Martin
"Ashore, I believe, you have already had the pleasure of getting to know quite a few persons and phenomena here on board. Indeed there are quite a few strange ones around ...
27 Nov Some 1000 miles from Cape Horn
Update written by Leonard: "Already two days in a row we are storming forward tossed like a bottle in the sea. Dirty weather but who cares? There is always something going...
