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Topic: Supplies & Storage
By Peter on February 5, 2005, at 1803 UTC
Topic(s): Supplies & Storage 1803hrs 05 Feb 2005 UTC 48’24”S 161’50”W Map Ref 47 2328nm
Hello to everyone – its almost midnight local time. The boat’s doing 1-2 kts in a lumpy sea and the self steering has trouble in these conditions so we have to get out and hand steer, find a little … Continue reading
By Alex and Peter on February 19, 2005, at 2215 UTC
Topic(s): Navigation, Supplies & Storage, Tea making & drinking What a dreadful night, punctuated by a series of little tragedies all related to the loss of precious liquids. The front duly arrived, as usual at dinner time and, again as usual, the gribWeather files.
Graphics in Binary file: GRIB files associate a specific weather datum (eg wind velocity or atmospheric pressure) with a geographic position. Because the resulting file is a collection of these points they are extremely small and so ideal over slow links such as sailmail. had the wind direction pretty much spot on but once again as usual, underestimated the strength by 100% so instead of 20 gusting 25, we get 40 going on 50. Two sail changes during the night as it increased, each requiring one of us to surface from warm bunk and dreams of Ingrid (was that her name, Kees?) and go through the Mr Bean routine and get wet and cold as well. … Continue reading
By Alex and Peter on February 24, 2005, at 2145 UTC
Topic(s): Birds, Sailchange, Sleeping, Supplies & Storage 2145hrs 24 Feb 2005 UTC 50’52”S 112’31”W Map Ref 79
Pete: Reflections, part 3. We were inDunedin, the xrays showed no broken ribs but alex would need a week to recover. this proved to be a blessing as it gave us time to evaluate the storage problems we had on … Continue reading
By Alex on March 5, 2005, at 0105 UTC
Topic(s): Bread making, Clouds, Food, Supplies & Storage Sitrep: 0105hrs 05 Mar 2005 UTC 54’49”S 090’11”W Map Ref 99
I don’t know whether you will ever read this as it seems there may be a problem with the sailmailSailmail is the system that Berrimilla uses for email communication. It is a non-profit association of yacht owners operating a … Continue reading
By Alex on March 9, 2005, at 2115 UTC
Topic(s): Bare poling, Coopers, Supplies & Storage Clench time Malcolm. Pretty much as predicted by the gribWeather files.
Graphics in Binary file: GRIB files associate a specific weather datum (eg wind velocity or atmospheric pressure) with a geographic position. Because the resulting file is a collection of these points they are extremely small and so ideal over slow links such as sailmail. modified by the Berrimilla fudge factor – we’re now in constant W 50 going on 60 gusting 70 and I saw a 75. Howl becoming a scream. BIG waves – at least mast height, some breaking. Bare polingExplanation here directly downwind at about 5 knots and apparently reasonably comfortable. All gone very dark as rain squall dumps horizontal rain and an extra gust for good measure. We had two storm jibs twin poledAn explanation from Malcolm: It is quite normal for a yacht to 'pole out' its jib (the foresail) on the opposite side of the boat to the mainsail when running downwind - this is called goosewinging'. A spinnaker pole is attached to the mast at one end and the back corner (clew) of the jib at the other. That holds the jib at the right angle so that it catches the wind. On Berri they've found that they can often get good performance and a comfortable ride by taking the mainsail right down and setting a second jib poled out on the opposite side to the first. in a lull that we thought was a change but clearly wasn’t. Lasted about half an hour. … Continue reading
1315hrs 10 Mar 2005 UTC 55’49”S 072’30”W Map Ref 113
Daylight, sailing again, 7.5 knots directly towards the Horn. fingers, toes, ears, eyelashes and bootferals all firmly crossed. Pete has a long update, so I’ll jump – see yez. Nearest bit ofChile now about 60 miles away. Woo0ohooo.
Pete: Hello … Continue reading
By Alex on April 13, 2005, at 2330 UTC
Topic(s): Supplies & Storage 2330hrs 13 Apr 2005 UTC Map Ref 165
Today has been, like the Curate’s egg, good in parts. Started in high good humour as the wind swung round to the south east and seemed to be settling in – we thought we had managed to hook into the SE TradesBands … Continue reading
By Alex on April 20, 2005, at 1100 UTC
Topic(s): Supplies & Storage 1100hrs 20 Apr 2005 UTC Map Ref 176
It’s bite the bullet time out here for these little black ducks. We’re in the bottom of the tradesBands of NW and SW winds either side of the equator that blow with more or less constant speed and direction all year., but … Continue reading
By Alex on May 8, 2005, at 1030 UTC
Topic(s): Phosphorescence, Supplies & Storage 1030hrs 08 May 2005 UTC Map Ref 207
We are almost exactly half way between Africa and South America, about 1200 miles NE of the mouth of the Amazon. Too far for any noticeable change in the colour of the water. Going just west of North which is as … Continue reading
By Alex on May 30, 2005, at 0615 UTC
Topic(s): Ghosts, Jellyfish, Supplies & Storage 0615hrs 30 May 2005 UTC Map Ref 260
i think i may have been in this bit of ocean before – i recognised a bit of it this morning – and i’m sure my father, who spent most of his life at sea, would have crossed this stretch many times. … Continue reading
By Alex on August 31, 2005, at 0845 UTC
Topic(s): Food, Navigation, Supplies & Storage 0845hrs 31 Aug 2005 UTC 31’59”N 018’22”W Ref 323
DB: 24hr:127, total 1290/1320 sched = -30 so we’re getting back into it. In deep mourning for friendly little phone and the big chunk of my life’s database that went with it. Bereft, I am. And stupid. It will be sitting … Continue reading
Response to BelmoreSydney School corresponding with Berri SouthSydney School corresponding with Berri: Hiya to you all in 5/6K! This is Alex, but Pete will do his bit later. Thanks for your thoughts, John, Adelia, Merna and Daniel – we are really pleased to know that you are interested in what we are doing – perhaps we could encourage you all to work hard in class so that you can one day follow your own dreams too. Maybe that’s too boring a message! … Continue reading
We had our normal Breakfast Short ConsultationA regular engagement with alcohol. One might say this whole epic is a Consultation with a bit of a sail round it. See also Conservation Mode; Linear and Parallel Methods of Consultation today, bulk billed, of course, with the medico from Dublin and then we decided that the crossing should be appropriately celebrated with a southern hemisphere based medicinal potion so – half and half Dr Bundy and ASDA orange squash was the go. NoiceAlexism for quite a lot of things which taste good or are going especially well. Very NoiceAlexism for quite a lot of things which taste good or are going especially well – thanks Dave and RANSARoyal Australian Navy Sailing Association; a sailing club located in Sydney, Australia.. This could become habit forming. … Continue reading
By Alex on September 28, 2005, at 0530 UTC
Topic(s): Ellen MacArthur, Supplies & Storage 0530hrs 28 Sep 2005 UTC 17’20”S 026’48”W Ref 390
The night started dark and overcast – gloomy and drizzly and very empty. We haven’t seen any sign of other humans since Pete saw a distant ship near the CapeVerdes nearly 2000 miles behind us – and I stood out in … Continue reading
By Alex on September 28, 2005, at 0930 UTC
Topic(s): Supplies & Storage 0930hrs 28 Sep 2005 UTC 17’36”S 026’50”W Ref 391
DB: 113, 9002 (gps 116) day 39/71.
If we have the plan worked out correctly, this is the equivalent point to our departure fromPort Stanley. It took us 71 days to get toFalmouth. We’re in a soft spot, #2, full main, … Continue reading
By Alex on October 17, 2005, at 1515 UTC
Topic(s): Dressing, Life aboard, Liferaft, Sleeping, Supplies & Storage 1515hrs 17 Oct 2005 UTC 40’08”S 004’55”E Ref 449
Wriggle, shimmy and glide – people ask us how we live in our little bus shelterExplanation here.
I sleep in the port (left) bunk – in which it is physically impossible to sleep straight or comfortable because the chain plate (big … Continue reading
By Alex on October 28, 2005, at 0837 UTC
Topic(s): Albatrosses, Bread making, Supplies & Storage DB: dmgDistance Made Good; More here
103 – seems about right, given the adverse current and the overnight park. 69 days out, so in 2 days we will equal the Falklands – Falmouth leg in days, followed the next day by a Berrimilla record voyage. We have already sailed about 1000 miles further. … Continue reading
By Alex on October 29, 2005, at 1530 UTC
Topic(s): Supplies & Storage 1530hrs 29 Oct 2005 UTC 37’57”S 024’55”E Ref 499
Today’s little tragedy – we went to a lot of trouble to preserve our cans of ale by covering them in wd40 and insulating them from the s/s ice boxes – and almost succeeded. I was doing a final count today … Continue reading
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