We are nearing Rapa Nui. It is the most eastern part of the Polynesian triangle, and one of the more isolated islands in the Pacific. Its closest neighbor lies 931km to the east, Isla Salas y Gómez, and...
Heavy weather, rain, and calms amongst passing showers A night of heavy weather sailing. A good northerly 25kn blow, but one after the other squalls and showers brought stronger gusts...
The weather has not calmed down yet and we have almost gotten used to being wet. When I look out of the window, watching the rain pour down, I am happy to be inside. Though , when pulling lines and feeling the wind in...
After a few days of calm seas, sunny weather, holiday vibes, sunburns, and very slow progress we were finally met by a strong wind. We were going too slow for manta trawling, and too slow to make...
Crossing paths with a Low Pressure System. Already from yesterday afternoon, we had to shake off the laziness and calm of a flat windless sea and start sailing on the increasing...
The days of the forecasted calms have passed. The subtropical High is being pushed in the area where we find ourselves by a low pressure coming from the west. Isobars look squeezed in the meteorological prediction software,...
A few days ago, I can’t seem to recall which day specifically as I am only now making some time to write about it, but earlier in the trip we stopped the ship! I didn’t know it was possible to do such a thing with...
Time is a strange thing on board; days can fly by or pass very slowly. The hour before lunch is the longest hour of the day, where we wait with excitement, wondering what delicious things Shani and Cato will serve us today....
Pacific colonization and geology. A day of light airs, shifting breeze, and the now quite usual battles with countless passing squalls. Polynesians colonised the Pacific Islands from a starting...
It is late at night, or you may consider it the early hours of the new day. The Europa lays parked in a windless area between rain clouds. Before the wind died, the crew tried to catch every puff of it, bracing back...