Category: Europe (Other than UK)
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Thembi Update
Making slow progress with light head winds, but definitely back on solid food!Saw a kittiwake which must be a good sign.Pos. 60.43N x 14.56W Sent at at 05:44 GMT 5th August 2011
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Underway Again
Position N64,09.877 x W022,11.66. Wind light westerly. Sumara set off today at 1400 from Reykjavik heading for the Westmann Islands. Ray and Gudrun are onboard. The forecasts seem to be all over the place so we will just have to see what happens. It was pretty hectic in town, just before we left we were…
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Stop Press: News from Thembi
I’ve just received news from the Good Ship Thembi Hi Alasdair, We got 15 miles from Heimeiy before gale and big seas stopped us. Hove to 6hrs, but heavy breaking seas made landfall unwise. Heading S. Currently 61.21N X 19.24W When are you due in Oban? Hope all good with you. Rotten shark had last…
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Farm Houses and Summer Houses
Once we had decided that the weather was too strong for sailing to Grindavik Gudrun lost no time in implementing Plan B. Equipped with a roughty tuffty four wheel drive thanks to her kind brother, she arrived on Sumara at 09:00 sharp asking if I was ready to go. I inquired if I needed to…
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A Meal with Charlotte’s Friends
Thembi’s Charlotte had lived in Reykjavik for a while as an Artist in Residence. We had a tasty meal out with her friend, a silversmith, and her boyfriend. Gosh the food was tasty, can’t for the life of me remember what I was eating.
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Sailing Plans. It’s ABC and its ABCBA
I think that is an army expression and apparently it means: It’s All Been Changed and it’s All Been Changed Back Again. Well for Sumara at least. On Sunday I checked the Grib files and the Icelandic Met Office were forecasting 20m/s (Gale force 8) and I felt the conditions would be too strong for…
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I’ve Learnt Something Not Many People Know
Earlier in the trip I tried to take a picture of all the crew looking miserable. Everyone looked very sad indeed, apart from Dan. You see Dan is always happy. His catch phrase, no matter what absolute chaos is happening around him, seems to be, “It’ll be fine”. Well, I have discovered probably the only…
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I think we may have a Plan?
Sarah has caught her flight back to England and Gudrun has now arrived in Iceland. Charlotte flies out on Sunday. Ray arrives on the evening of 3rd August. It’s quite complicated! The weather doesn’t look brilliant but there does seem to be a small window of opportunity on Sunday to get around the Reykjanes headland…
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Louise Bourgeois
Tim and I went to the Island National Gallery on Thursday. There was an exhibition by Louise Bourgeois and some of her pieces felt strangely familiar. There were disturbing nightmarish shapes. Many were ghastly un-namely things of no colour and some were puce. Frightening bulging shapes bursting out. Then I remembered Tim’s splendid duff that…