Category: Faroes
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Lovely Faeroes, but best approached on neeps!
Torshavn, Faeroe Islands. Overcast F2 Easterly. Well it wasn’t quite the milk run that we were hoping for. We managed to pick up on the east wind and we used it to make east of north so that when the wind backed to a northerly we could still sail on a starboard tack. However I…
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N60,50.48 x W005,09.32. Wind NNE F3-4. Sunny!
N60,50.48 x W005,09.32. Wind NNE F3-4. Sunny! The wind built up to force 5 yesterday with a lumpy sea. We ended up with two reefs and a reefed yankee still making 6 knots. We have been banking a lot of east as the wind is forecast to change to a northerly but fingers crossed it…
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Underway 09.15 GMT Friday 17th June
N59 x W005. Abeam the Rock of Rona. Easterley F4 We left Ullapool at 1400 Thursday 16th June and beat into a light wind and a foul tide. We knew it wasn’t the perfect time to leave tide wise but were eager to get underway. The wind died soon after and we motored past the…