We are almost one week into our journey. It feels like we left Ushuaia quite a while ago but we are still only at the very beginning. The Falkland Islands are behind us now. After an initial slow start and...
After our slow start on the first two days, with winds topping out at just 2 Bft, we finally started moving for real on the early morning of the 29th. The morning also brought clear skies, so that was a...
Extraordinary situations demands extraordinary measures and sacrifices. We are leaving. We are sailing back to the Netherlands. Europa embarks on what will be its most unique journey. From Ushuaia, we will cross the...
Bark Europa is a special purpose vessel or to be more specific, a sail training ship. Voyage crew is involved in day to day operations and thus there are things they have to be aware of. A man overboard...
From midnight, Europa makes her way from Half Moon Island towards the famous Deception Island. Windless conditions made for motoring all the way and, as scheduled, about 07:30h we drifted for a while to have...
Leaving Duse Bay after sunset we spent the night slowly making our way around the Tabarin Peninsula to reach Brown Bluff in the morning. On the way, Europa encountered some giant patches of sea ice and...
>> Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it. N.Scott Momaday << Anything, including the unprecedented situation that has been put on in our path, where...
We realised about the pandemic global situation during our crossing the Drake Passage. The virus was expanding rapidly and the borders were beginning to close but we were in a microcosm oblivious to everything in which the...
After setting some canvas during the night and motorsailing our way out of the South Shetlands, early morning found us entering the Boyd Strait turning off our engines and enjoying the SW-ly winds of about 20kn....
Crossing the 85nm of the Bransfield Strait from Base Esperanza to Greenwich Island, where we plan today’s activity morning, proved to be a calm crossing. At the beginning we had 25kn of SSE-ly winds,...