Pura vida...Evita's voyage to the Seven Seas

The second part of our voyage, which at some point will get us all the way around the world. The first part was a mad dash across two oceans to Australia. This time we are taking it a little more slowly....

Vessel Name: Evita
Vessel Make/Model: Moody 44
Hailing Port: Gosport
Crew: Ian, Paula, Raul(13), Oskar(11) and Eva(9)
About:
Captain Ian, First Mate Head Chef and General Dogsbody Paula look forward to spending long periods of time in close confinement with some beautiful well behaved children. [...]
05 August 2016 | Muros
24 July 2016 | Ponta Delgada, Azores
12 July 2016 | Horta, Azores
11 July 2016 | Horta, Azores
07 July 2016 | Mid Atlantic Ocean
02 July 2016 | Mid Atlantic Ocean
26 June 2016 | Mindelo, Cabo Verde
17 June 2016 | Mindelo, Sao Vicente, Cabo Verde
13 June 2016 | Mid Atlantic Ocean
09 June 2016 | Mid Atlantic Ocean
07 June 2016 | Mid Atlantic Ocean
04 June 2016 | Mid Atlantic Ocean
31 May 2016 | Mid Atlantic Ocean (precisely!)
26 May 2016 | Cabedelo, Brazil
24 May 2016 | Cabedelo, Brazil
04 May 2016 | Santarém
29 April 2016 | Santarém
26 April 2016 | Manaus
26 April 2016 | Manaus
16 April 2016 | Cabedelo
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05 August 2016 | Muros

And then there were two

The final passage of our trip was to take us from Sao Miguel to Muros in Spain. Paula had long said that she would fly to Spain - the circumnavigation was done after all and this gave her some more time to spend with her family. Oskar and Eva joined the ranks of deserters, so the crew was down to the [...]

24 July 2016 | Ponta Delgada, Azores

Portuguese Jewels

The Azores are made up of nine islands divided into three groups. Horta, on Faial, was our first port of call and is in the central group. Horta has for years been a welcome stop for yachts making the crossing from the Caribbean back to Europe, and being well out of the tropics the passage to get there [...]

12 July 2016 | Horta, Azores

A Circumnavigation

Some 40 miles north of Santo Antao in the Cape Verde Islands, on the first night of our passage to Horta, we crossed the track in the sea that we had laid down back in December 2010 and completed our circumnavigation.

11 July 2016 | Horta, Azores

Arrived in Horta

We set off for the Azores back in May, and we finally got here on Saturday. The second half of the passage was much calmer than the first - we spent almost three days motoring in flat calm conditions as we passed through the Azores High. The wind came back for a while, and we had quite a fast sail [...]

07 July 2016 | Mid Atlantic Ocean

All balmy now

What a difference a few days make. We are now into our third day of motoring, becalmed in the Azores high pressure system. When we started out from Mindelo this was sitting up NW of the islands, but as we have moved north, it has come down to meet us, forming a windless barrier between us and the Azores. [...]

02 July 2016 | Mid Atlantic Ocean

Why we go westabout

Most of our sailing, and in particular the longer passages, have been downwind. This is the nature of a westabout circumnavigation which follows the trade winds around the equator. Our extended stay in Brazil meant that we were unable to continue on our planned route which would have taken us downwind [...]

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