Flat calm conditions helped us during dusk to keep on our way South into the Erebus and Terror Gulf. Bands of brash and sea ice made for slowing down and even stopping our engines and drift during the darkest...
Leaving Deception Island straight after our evening landing at Whalers Bay, Europa face the 120nm open waters of the Bransfield Strait. For a few hours, the forecasted E-ly winds for the next day, seem to...
Dawn offered a short glimpse of the rising sun over the horizon, to quickly disappear behind the clouds that will cover the sky during today’s journey, leaving behind a rainy day. After the strong blows...
The day welcome us once more with an overcast and rainy sky, and as usually happens on the area that we are sailing, occasional squalls keep rolling over our path. Those brief but heavy showers come together...
“There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory”. Sir Francis Drake With her full complement of 57 people,...
Last night we spent at anchor – the first one since we left Ushuaia. But in the early morning, drifting ice carried by the strong current that characterises the Antarctic Sound waters started to surround...
Approaching the South Shetland Islands and catching sight of land after the last few days enduring the open waters of the Drake Passage, seem to cheer up everybody, despite the overcast and rainy day. Soon...
A good sailing night under reduced sail was followed by decreasing winds in the morning that made for setting more canvas. After breakfast Top Gallants are unfurled and clued down and Aap is replaced by the...
Leaving the South American coasts behind, wind increased and seas grew, making for the ship to start pitching and rolling. S by W winds up to 30kn and a change of course, now starting to sail on a more Easterly...
Some of us already had early flights from home and spent time having a look at Ushuaia, place that interestingly claims to be the “Southernmost City in the World”. Others just got here today. The...