by Allen | Nov 24, 2017 | Updates
The Atlantic is as flat as a millpond. And with little to do other than eat, read, and listen to music – I am trying fishing. My efforts usually yield nothing more than a light workout, as the line always weighs the same after pulling it in as it did when it...
by Allen | Nov 23, 2017 | Updates
A feisty depression near Portugal is hampering progress down here. Rather than enjoying trade wind sailing with the wind behind us, we are currently motoring into five knots of wind ahead of us. Some of our fellow rally participants appear to be heading for Brazil to...
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...
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