We had a an unexpectedly sporty sailing day yesterday. The weather forecast predicted NE wind, so we thought it was a good opportunity to sail SE down to Tahanea. We woke up at 5 with a NE squall, so we quickly went out through the pass into a glowing sunrise, trying to use the favourable wind. Of course the wind turned E as soon as… Continue reading »
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2019
23
Nov
2019
19
Nov
Crappy weather
Ever since we’ve arrived in the Tuamotus a persistent convergence zone has been sitting across the area. Actually it’s not just one, but rather a cluster of them… This means the wind shifts around unpredictably–the weatherforecasts are overwhelmed, contradict each other and get it completely wrong. Yesterday the American GFS model predicted strong southerlies, while the European model insisted on light northerlies. What to do… Continue reading »
2019
18
Nov
Article on SSB Radios in All-at-Sea Magazine
This article is about the good old SSB radio, radio nets, and also the PolyMagNet! Birgit Hackl: SSB Radios, All At Sea Caribbean, November 2019, p. 44–48. Free download from allatsea.net.
2019
10
Nov
Between holidays and projects
After the stressful, busy time in Tahiti we were sooo looking forward to getting away from it all–no more appointments, quests for parts along dusty roads, traffic jams, pollution, AC-frozen shops, sneezing people etc. We were really looking foward to holidays in the Tuamotus, but of course we’ve already had 2 days of mast projects (a dogdy tri-coloured lantern and a broken mounting of the… Continue reading »
2019
08
Nov
Toau
We arrived in Toau after a very slow, short sail using our gennaker for the first time in ages. Of course it got tangled up and twisted and took a long time to figure out again The pass is tricky as it’s very shallow and open to the east (prevailing winds), but our timing was good. Just after arriving we snorkeled between the passes, a… Continue reading »
2019
04
Nov
Arrived in Fakarava
We’ve just arrived in Fakarava with northerly winds, anchored next to the pass in the N and will hop over to the neighbouring atoll Toau tomorrow morning when the wind switches to the east (it’s a tricky pass and in the morning we’ll have wind and current in the same direction). The sail up here was quite boisterous with many squalls and a little front… Continue reading »
2019
04
Nov
Fish!
Its a bit squally, but today we’ve had a fast sailing day and caught a fish! 90 nm to go.
2019
03
Nov
Setting out yet again
When I say ‘we bought a new fridge’ landlubbers think we got a new box and put it into its place. On a boat things work differently: we had to get out the old tubes and evaporator, drill new holes into the stainless fridge compartment, install the compressor, evaporator and install the tubes. After that we bent some plexiglass and screwed it in to keep… Continue reading »