by oceangybe | Oct 19, 2008 | Position Reports
After a day and night of big squalls, heavy rain and shifting winds, the sun this morning rose to a much calmer and settled looking scene. Fishing lines went out and a small mahi mahi was promptly caught, filleted and put in the fridge for dinner. Yesterday, the...
by oceangybe | Oct 18, 2008 | Position Reports
Last night brought us some lighter winds for a few hours, enough time for Bryson to turn the Mahi Mahi into some tasty breaded steaks for dinner. Yum. Unfortunately the reprieve didn’t last long. Ryan’s shift at midnight brought some dark clouds, rain and...
by oceangybe | Oct 16, 2008 | Position Reports
We left the incredibly blue waters of the south Cocos atoll at 1pm yesterday and headed into rough and windy seas. During our time in Cocos the wind blew relentlessly between 15 and 25 knots, always out of the SE. With a highest point of ~5m about sea level, there...
by oceangybe | Oct 10, 2008 | Position Reports
At 3pm yesterday afternoon, slightly less that a week after leaving Bali, S/V Khulula pulled into the Cocos Keeling lagoon! Very reminiscent of the Tuamotu atolls in French Polynesia, this island paradise is in the absolute teeth of the trade winds, and being very low...
by oceangybe | Oct 9, 2008 | Position Reports
For the first time since returning from Canada, the fishing line is out! The reasons for this delay are all very complex, but all stem from one root cause: grocery shopping when hungry! So it was that on October 1st, Hugh Brys and I were striding the isles of the HUGE...
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...
