Fernando de Noronha
Tuna for dinner, darl?
Leaving FdN behind The crossing from Fernando de Noronha (FdN) to Salvador, on Brazil’s east coast, took almost exactly five days. We departed on [...]
The archipelago of Fernando de Noronha
A bit of history The official story, based of Amerigo Verspucci's account at least, is that the first tourists to visit Fernando de Noronha [...]
Land ahoy!
From Pollywogs to Shellbacks Having cleared the doldrums and once again hoisted our sails, we began preparing for another significant event on Yuma, namely [...]
Becalmed in the doldrums
In the afternoon and evening of day 7 of our Atlantic crossing, the wind slowly dropped from a comfortable 12kn to 10kn, then to [...]
All alone on the Atlantic Ocean?
Anybody out there? Once away from land, the ocean is a remarkably empty and vast space. We had left Cabo Verde pretty much by [...]
Starting our first ocean crossing
Our last night in Cabo Verde On Sunday 11 January, having completed our departure formalities with the marina and the authorities, we were ready [...]