Articles tagged with 'swell'

Preparations have been made over the past several months in Sotogrande, Spain and now we will soon be off on our long passage to Las Palmas, Gran Canaries. It will take us about 4-5 days to do the 720 nm depending on winds and weather of course. A few weeks in the Canaries doing additional preparations to be ready to start the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) in late November as part...

Finally, we were able to depart Ile de Re and this time decided to see if we could make it all the way to Santander, Spain. The storm broke one of the rubber pieces on the anchor snubber line and bent the hook attached to the anchor chain pretty badly too. As we rounded the northern corner of Ile de Re and started out in the Bay of Biscay again we encountered some Atlantic rollers...