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Towards A Coruna

Posted on 1 Aug, 2019 by sykerpa

To day we are leaving the Very beautiful Azores and heading for A Coruna, a trip of ca 850 nM. The forecast is for rather low wind so probably a lot of motoring, guess it will take a week. We … Continue reading →

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Faial

Posted on 25 Jul, 2019 by sykerpa

Faial is small but a very beautiful island, total population on the island is around 15000. Historically the life on not only Faial, but on the whole Azores have been very harsh. The main activity has been farming, fishing and … Continue reading →

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Arrived Horta

Posted on 20 Jun, 2019 by sykerpa

Tuesday, we arrive in Horta after 13 days and 1861 NM at sea. 1374 Nm by sail and 487 by engine. At the beginning we had wind well forward of the beam occasionally exceeding 20 knots and sometimes close to … Continue reading →

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the gale that dissaperad

Posted on 16 Jun, 2019 by sykerpa

The wind disappeared so we had to motor during the night, no excitement what so ever, a few squalls one with a massive amount of rain flushing all salts of Kerpa, but the salt will soon be back again. I … Continue reading →

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Not to bad

Posted on 15 Jun, 2019 by sykerpa

The night was rather calm, we sailed with main and mizzen only. At daylight the wind picked up to +/-25kn quite joyful sailing, speed good, direction so, so, wind direction not very stable so we had to jibe a few … Continue reading →

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