by Allen | Nov 3, 2017 | Updates
What do you do with a drunken sailor? What do you do with a drunken sailor? What do you do with a drunken sailor late in the evening? You go to find him in the local supermarket where he is buying groceries and toothbrushes for the local kids who sleep out in the...
by Allen | Nov 2, 2017 | Updates
After 850 nautical miles and six days at sea, we are now tied up at Mindelo Marina. This was a great introduction to ocean sailing. The wind wasn’t too strong, the sea state no more than moderate, and the wave height stayed at less than two metres all the way....
by Allen | Nov 1, 2017 | Updates
For the first two days, we trolled a rubbery squid on a line behind the boat in an attempt to catch a pelagic monster but landed nothing. And after deploying the water generator on day three, the short line we are left with has probably killed off any chance of tuna....
by Allen | Oct 31, 2017 | Updates
The 30th October 2017 is a date to celebrate, for the crew of Lady Jane. It’s the day Maria stopped being seasick. The cure isn’t anything to do with drugs, hypnosis, sickness bands, or anything that you plonk on your head to simulate a horizon. It is simply the...
by Allen | Oct 30, 2017 | Updates
The photograph below shows Maria performing the three-times-a-day solar panel tilting ritual to extract the maximum amount of power from the sun at any given time of day. On their own, the panels produce an average of 15 amps of power per hour. This is augmented by...
by Allen | Oct 29, 2017 | Updates
When I told family and friends that we were going to live on our boat and sail across the Atlantic, they said things like “wow, you’re going to have an amazing time” , “you’ll be living the dream”, I thought, yes but living on a 42ft yacht boat and sailing isn’t all G...
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