Monday was a beautiful day, very different from the others. After some rainshowers, we took the opportunity to clean the boat thoroughlyinside. Vacuum cleaner, then wet cloth with a cleaning product. It's nice tofeel and smell a clean and fresh boat. The youngsters wanted to have the experience to swim with 5.000 meter depthunder them. Today was the best opportunity.…
Saturday morning, we wake up to a completely different sky, it was completely covered with clouds. We continued to have a good wind, still coming from 170 around 20 knots. We are still moving at good speed, above 9 knots. The big news of the day is that at 8am, a few minutes after having sent my last news, we…
We had a beautiful day on the ocean yesterday. Blue sky, sun and good wind. Since we have crossed the equator, the temperature has risen significantly. It's true it is summer in the northern hemisphere but I was not expecting such a marked change. We had a steady wind the whole day, almost from the South at 170°, blowing between…
The morning of Thursday August 18 was beautiful. Yhe wind was still blowing at 18/20 knots from 140, we were still going at 10 knots regularly. It was a bright sunny day with a pleasantly warm temperature. Around 10 am the wind diminished a bit to 15/16 knots, I unfurled the genoa completely. After lunch, the wind turned to 150°…
We have thus left Fernando de Noronha at 3:30pm on Wednesday 17th of August. We did some last minute errants and anchored in a bay nearby, we could check that the autopilot was working perfectly. I put the outboard engine on its support on the aft pulpit, deflated the Zodiac and stowed it in the lazaret in the back of…
It's Sunday evening here. As I am writing these lines, the atmosphere is calm on board, I am comfortably sitting in the swivel chair at my deskin my cabin and Beethoven's fifth piano concerto, "Emperor" is playing on the boat sound system. I can't help but feel in total harmony with myboat. Especially because sailing conditions have become ideal. The…
Just after leaving Salvador, we saw some whales playing near the coast. We sailed up to them and it was achance to take some wonderful pictures with the sky turning bright orange behind the city. Andrea took theone on my recent Instagram post. The day went well with a few rain squalls. The routine is the same. On the ocean…
Dear family, dear friends, it is time to give you some news from the deck of ASANA. The repairs to the damages that occured in the Drake Passage took almost four months. A new solid rod mainstay came from Denmark and Reckmann profiles from Germany. These profiles fit over the stay and are used to hold the headsails, the luff…
It seems adventures do not happen only at sea, they happen on land too. We arrived at Mar Del Plata on Wednesday 23rd at 8:15 pm. We called the Yacht Club Argentino marina and a young boy helped us tie up to the buoy just outside the marina as there is not enough depth for myboat inside. After a drink…
This is our fifth day at sea and what a difference with the past three days! Today was the wind was light at 10 knots, the sea was flat with a residual swell of the wind from the days before. And it was sunny, now was time for sunglasses and suncream, Bermuda and polos. At 7 am, Dirk and Bernard…