It is high time to give you some news about our stay here. We thus arrived Sunday morning in the peninsula and went directly to Charlotte Bay, a bay known for whale watching. We arrived in the bay at 9 am. The scenery was truly magnificent. First of all the sky was entirely blue and there was no wind at…
La nuit de jeudi à vendredi était relativement calme. Le matin j'ai reçu un mail de Philippe avec le dernier routing. Le vent devrait diminuer dans la journée a 15 noeuds, de l'Ouest pour refuser petit à petit vers le Sud le lendemain donc directement dans le nez tout en diminuant encore. A 8h ce matin du vendredi, le ciel…
We arrived in front of cape Horn around 9;30am. The wind was moderate from the Northwest 20 to 25 knots. We sailed closer to take some pictures, but after 15 minutes some rain squalls arrived, so we bore away and set a course directly for the Antarctic peninsula. Once we were well in the Drake, the wind rose to 33…
Shortly after waking up on Wednesday morning, Philippe called me and said "you have to leave earlier, at 15h45 UTC if you want to avoid a high-pressure system with no wind two days into the Drake." Luis and Cristian went to the Prefectura to do the paperwork to leave, Tatiana and I went to the Carrefour to do our fresh…
I have had one of the strangest navigation of my lifetime. We left Caleta Horno on Tuesday, December 14 to do the 600 nautical miles crossing to the Island of the States, at the Southern tip of South America. The marine weather forecast showed no storms various wind conditions. I never expected that we would be motoring so much in…
Quelques heures aprés avoir quitté la Caleta Horno, le vent tombait complètement. Nous avons donc continué au moteur et ce pendant 19h! C''est assez incroyable de se retrouver sans vent dans les "quarantièmes ruggissants!" On a décidé de passer devant Puerto Deseado pour capter du résau wifi afin de télécharcher la méteo et éventuellement d'attendre jusqu'à ce qu'il y ait…