Extract from logbook, 6 July 2008
From Wicklow heading for Portsmouth
8.30 Breakfast by the ship9.00 Skipper’s briefing:
The wind has turned…
Raining cats and dogs!
At the risk of repeating both myself and Louise and everybody who said anything about last year’s voyage, I must…
Extract from logbook, 2 July 2008
Wednesday 2/7-2008, 15.30
8.00 Breakfast by the ship.8.45 Skipper’s briefing:
The wind is still southerly, 8–9…
Extracts from logbook, 5 July 2008
Saturday 5/7-2008, 15.30
8.00 Breakfast by the ship.8.45 Skipper’s briefing:
We are staying in Wicklow harbour…
People are talking in Wicklow
There is traffic in Wicklow today. Cars are constantly coming and going and there are really a lot of people who…
Why does the Sea Stallion sail with ballast?
We believe the original Sea Stallion’s sail had an area of about 112 square meters. The size and form of the sail…
Extract from the logbook 4 July 2008
04/07 - 2008 10.30Friday 4/7-2008, 10.30
8.00 Breakfast by the ship
8.45 Skipper’s briefing
A low pressure area…
Extract from the logbook 3 July 2008
Thursday 3/7-2008, 18.40
11.09 log 13, no wind, pouring rain. We row out of the harbour at high tide to join the…
A new stage
We finally got under way and in what seems to be typical “Sea Stallion weather” – pouring rain. From the window,…
Weighing and the reconquest of Ireland
It’s the big weighing day. All members of the crew have been ordered on to the bathroom scales with all their…