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 2, 2008 | Position Reports
We have taken the plunge and are 23 hours into our epic mission across the Indian Ocean. By 15 December this year, s/v Khulula will transit just under 5000 ocean miles, with brief stops at various islands along the way: Cocos Keeling, Rodriguez, Reunion and...
by oceangybe | Aug 13, 2008 | Position Reports
BALI !!!!! We are currently anchored just off Bali Marina in Benoa Harbour, after an interesting night sail from Lombok. We left Eka’s Bay at 10pm to allow enough time so that we arrived in Bali a couple hours after sunrise. Or so we thought…After making...
by oceangybe | Aug 7, 2008 | Position Reports
SV Khulula and her crew did the math yesterday and we realized that we need to get moving asap if we plan on being in Bali with enough time to get ready to head back to Canada. Today we pulled up the anchor from Baru Bay and are headed directly for Eka’s Bay on...
