Hi Everyone, Welcome to day 25 of our voyage. Well our good run with the wind finally ran out this morning when it backed to the SSE and went light and variable which meant we had to utilize the ‘iron headsails’ (main engines) and sadly...
Hi Everyone, Welcome to day 24 of our voyage. Following some lighter conditions overnight the wind freshened again from the SSW at 0600 this morning which kept the morning watch busy putting the ship under a full press of sail so that we could take full...
Hi Everyone Welcome to day 23 of our voyage. We have continued to enjoy some good sailing over the past 24hrs and are continuing to make good speed to Cape Town. Our guest Sail Master for today was Kim who managed to fill the day with...
Hi Everyone, Welcome to day 19 of our voyage. As forecast the wind freshened from the NW to 20-25kts early this morning and since then we have been enjoying sailing under nearly a full press of sail (haven’t set the Gaff Topsail as the wind...
Hi Everyone, Welcome to day 21 of our voyage. As forecast the wind freshened again today so we are again sailing nicely at 6-7kts under a slightly modified sail plan but really enjoying these conditions. As you all know today was Remembrance Day so the commemorate...
Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 51 of our voyage. Well it was another leisurely start to the day with the Sail Master deciding to run a Saturday Sea routine on a Sunday which still gave everyone the chance to have a sleep in and the morning...
Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 21 of our voyage. Firstly let me apologize if our ‘Yellow Brick Tracker’ has been dropping in and out on our website and you can’t accurately see where we are (no we haven’t done a runner to the Caribbean). At the...
Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 9 of our voyage. Overnight in pleasant sailing conditions we continued our passage south and as forecast the wind did veer to the north west during the early hours of this morning which enabled us to wear ship and shape a...
Hi everyone,Welcome to day 49 of our voyage. This will be our last night day underway at sea as we should anchor just off St Helens at the Isle of Wight sometime during the early hours of tomorrow morning. The rough conditions remained with us...
Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 8 of our voyage. Well overnight we successfully transited through the Straits of Gibraltar and have now entered the Alboran Sea.While all this has been going on we have continued to maintain an average speed of 7kts, so currently all is...
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