by oceangybe | Nov 20, 2008 | Position Reports
Nice work, Nature! This morning, Khulula is in the midst of a Discovery Channel feature entitled “Dolphins at sea”. For the past three hours we have been escorted by a pod of about 40 dolphins! They are everywhere, jumping and surfacing, diving under the...
by oceangybe | Nov 19, 2008 | Position Reports
Last night was filled with the sound of the engine coming on and getting turned off as soon as there was enough wind to sail again. We are trying to get some distance done after some mediocre 24 hour distance runs over the past three days, we don’t want to just...
by oceangybe | Nov 18, 2008 | Position Reports
Brrr! Who turned on the cold? We’re now experiencing South winds, which have pretty much blown straight across the frozen ice fields of Antarctica, up the iceberg strew Southern Ocean and onto any exposed piece of skin of the hearty crew of Khulula. Conditions...
by oceangybe | Nov 17, 2008 | Position Reports
The dream run to the southern tip of Madagascar has SLAMMED (read: Beating) into a belt of westerly winds rotating around a low pressure system below us. As the system passes the wind is slowly backing (direction slowly shifting counter clockwise) but with rain...
by oceangybe | Nov 16, 2008 | Position Reports
Remember yesterday morning when we said that there was this cold front and small low pressure below us? There was something about changing clouds patterns and what not? Yeah, well, all through the day the wind build and slowly shifted to the north. By sunset we were...
