Here you can read the latest diaries on the Sea Stallion's voyage to Roskilde.

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To Denmark in pouring rain

We have arrived in Glyngøre. All the way through the Limfjord we have been met by enthusiastic people – Oddersund…

Extract from logbook 2–3 August

20.00, log 953, wind west, 8 metres/sec. We take in a reef because of thunder showers. Consider another reef, but…

Photo: Werner Karrasch

Heavy sea and flexibility

“It’s like sailing a rubber dinghy that hasn’t been pumped full of air”, was how someone once put it, after sailing…

Extract from logbook, 1–2 August

08.27, log 755, wind south-east, 4 metres/sec. We cast off in Den Helder and row out of the harbour in a steady…

The North Sea at last!

We have been sailing for more than 24 hours, at first in relatively high sea with a following wind of 16–17…

The tide in Wicklow, Photo: Werner Karrasch

The Sea Stallion leaves tidal waters

The tides follow the Moon’s rotation around the earth. The gravitational pull of the Moon (and of the Sun) and the…

Friends for life

We have been away for four and half weeks. Not really very long, but for many of us life on board the Sea Stallion…

Extract from logbook, 31 July 2008

Den Helder harbour

9.00 Breakfast 9.45 Skipper’s briefing

We will stay in harbour in Den Helder today. We…