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 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…
Extract from logbook, 29–30 July.
07.45, log 633, wind south-west, 6 metres/sec. We cast off and row out of Lowestoft harbour, expectant and…
Off at last
Early this morning, nothing but happy faces could be seen on the quay at Lowestoft. The wait was over and after 11…
What are we waiting for?
We are now lying in Lowestoft for the 11th day, waiting for a good fair wind for crossing the North Sea. Today we…
Extract from logbook, 28 July 2008.
Lowestoft harbour
9.00 Breakfast
9.45 Skipper’s briefing
The weather forecast is holding and we sail from here…