day 6
Last day of sailing today as we rounded the most westerly point of Cuba late last night. It's back to coaching at the helm as many of the crew experience upwind conditions for the first time. With a totally flat sea and warm airflow, the conditions are idyllic. We are currently waiting for the wind to back to the north to facilitate a tack that will put us directly on track to Hemingway Marina. The moon has lit the way throughout the night, and the sun will be reappearing very soon as we commence our final day of the voyage.
- Emily
- Emily
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Hat overboard!
On June 4, we reviewed our passage plan before our departure from the marina in Hjellested.
Departure from Bergen!
The crew on the women’s sail training on Isbjorn is settling into a great routine for managing the boat and life onboard.
The sun sets on another journey
The hardest part of sailing across French Polynesia wasn't the night watches, the heat, or the open ocean — it was the prospect of being trapped on a small boat with a group of strangers. First-timer Natalie boards as a self-described land crab and discovers that the sea has a way of reshaping both your sea legs and your assumptions. What follows is dolphins, sharks, the Milky Way in full technicolour, and a crew that somehow made the whole thing better than she ever imagined.