by oceangybe | Oct 7, 2008 | Position Reports
Tomorrow we make landfall ! Hopefully… Travelling by sailboat one has the time to notice the smaller things. For instance, how every evening we have slightly more light for longer than the evening before and in the morning the darkness lasts longer. The fellow...
by oceangybe | Oct 6, 2008 | Position Reports
Ol’ Neptune decided to smile on us over night, giving us a bit of a reprieve by calming the wind and seas to a much more manageable state. It is amazing what a few less knots of wind will do for the ocean and thus Khulula general motion and comfort. Did we get...
by oceangybe | Oct 5, 2008 | Position Reports
This morning Khulula is rocking along in very confused seas under a leaden grey sky. The dawn has just broken, revealing large rainstorms all around us, tracking westwards in the trade winds. Between the clouds the sunrise is managing to jab brilliant shafts of...
by oceangybe | Oct 4, 2008 | Position Reports
We are flying along, clocking the miles down on our race to Cocos Keeling. Overnight the wind came up and we were forced to triple reef the main sail and use less of the jib to keep us going. There was one small section of the cockpit that remained dry despite...
by oceangybe | Oct 3, 2008 | Blog
1/3 of all airline passengers catch a sickness on their flight. Last week Hugh fell victim to the odds, arriving back to Khulula with a nasty cold. Despite a fairly strict quarantine regime by both Ryan and Bryson, on Monday of this week Bryson began to feel the...
