Adventures of Arctic Smoke

Not a very evocative photograph but that's Santa Maria just visible below the cloud and our first site of the Azores, the primary goa...

... at 1330.  Direct straight line distance was 468 nautical miles which gives an average speed of 4.9k. We actually sailed a longer d...

Vincent got a 1st!!!!

Santa Maria sighted at 0805. 15 miles to go as at 0928. A great passage. We managed to keep the wind all the way except for odd patches here...

We cast off our moorings around 1400 having previously put two reefs in the main because we could see it was blowing pretty hard from t...

We have provisioned and shopped and watered and are just finishing lunch and then we'll be off. Winds are currently N-NW.We'll head ...

So we should be leaving tomorrow. The weather looks ok.