Tag: sailing

Week 6.

Week 6.

Oh hello northern hemisphere again! Hello squalls, showers, north easterly winds and clouds! Bye bye stunsails!

Europa’s bridge at night

After a great equator crossing ceremony, we have been able to welcome quite a few new shellbacks on Europa. A swimcall sounded very necessary to rinse off some of the pollywogs crimes… but mainly the last bits of slob in the remaining hair… 😉

The grateful moment of enjoying the view of the ship you are sailing on… while she is sailing!

The last days of last week were pretty busy with maintenance but luckily we had the chance to launch one of the zodiacs and take turns on the ocean to view the vessel sailing away. This was as usual an awesome experience as it is not very often that one can see the vessel he is sailing on from a different perspective!

Bark Europa

A lot of maintenance is happening. I have been assigned the task to revarnish the board names of the vessel that are normally screwed on the stern of the vessel… quite some sanding, preping and layers of varnish to apply before they will be hung up again in Horta.

Bark Europa

Did you know the writting was made of real gold? I hope I will not mess it up! 😉 …

Week 4.

Week 4.

Ascension Island.

Short log update, not many opportunities to connect to wifi around here and a lot to do ashore in the very little free time.

Such a great sailing again, caught a few delicious fish and stunsails all the way. Almost no motoring which was great.

Ascension Island on the horizon, sailing with stunsails on Europa

The weather is very warm around 30 degrees celcius but I love it.

I enjoy very much being with captain Klaas in the watch again and back in ascension is always great.

Bonus with seeing green turtles laying eggs even though it is the end of season… easy week.

Turtle laying eggs on long beach, Ascension Island

Little challenges.

The next leg is 4 weeks to Horta! Fingers crossed! ⚓️ ♥️

Week 3.

Week 3.

Saint Helena- Jamestown.

At anchor in front of Jamestown, Saint-Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean

Already my 4th or 5th time here but It is still as enjoyable.

A rough Island from the outside…

Again I climbed those 699 steep- very steep- stairs of Jacobs ladder. The record is 5 minutes something. Trust me … NOT my record haha but taking my time with picture brakes, around 10 minutes later i am up… with shaky legs! 😉 💪🏻

Jacob’s ladder

The view is incredible on Jamestown. A cute little town with quite some history.

Jamestown, main street

For a French person, Saint Helena is quite a place to be as Napoleon spent here his last years…. The island seems rough from the outside but very green inside with lots of tropical trees and flowers. I love this place! It gives wings! 😉

and of course… I had to stop by and check out on out on our two caf polos from years 2016-17 and 17-18! Still there… but a bit dusty… haha! Such good memories! 🙂

Our class afloat gifts to our « safe place » where we would spend hours on internet and having dinner and drinks

And of course…. I am a sophie, I cannot help it…postcards are a must as I miss you!

My Posted at Sea addiction

Tomorrow we heave up anchor and set sail to Ascension Island ! I will be in Captain Klaas’s watch… like in the old days! He is one of the best captain’s I ever had and I enjoy his presence a lot!

Once again I cannot wait! ⚓️ ♥️