Yacht Wishing For The Moon

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Vessel Name: Whimbrel
Vessel Make/Model: Discovery Bluewater 50 catamaran
Hailing Port: Guernsey
Home Page: www.sailsunsea.com
27 January 2021
02 May 2020 | Isola D'Elba, Italy
06 April 2019
26 January 2019 | Carlisle Bay
07 January 2019 | Jolly Harbour
11 December 2018 | Jolly Harbour
08 December 2018 | Jolly Harbour
07 December 2018 | Anchored Freemans Bay English Harbour
06 December 2018 | Anchored off OJ's Crab Hill Bay
05 December 2018 | Jolly Harbour Antigua
04 December 2018 | 88.8 NM East of Antigua
03 December 2018 | 260 NM East of Antigua
02 December 2018 | 423 NM East of Antigua
01 December 2018 | 580 NM East of Antigua
30 November 2018 | 893 NM East of Antigua
29 November 2018 | 740 NM East of Antigua
28 November 2018 | 1070 NM East of Antigua
27 November 2018 | 1232 NM East of Antigua
26 November 2018 | 1376 NM East of Antigua
Recent Blog Posts
27 January 2021

Summer 2021 plans

Wishing For The Moon is now back in shape with a new engine, new watermaker, and better plumbing. Now in Isola D'Elba Italy.

02 May 2020 | Isola D'Elba, Italy

Wishing For The Moon

Now on shore on the island of Elba for last couple of years, and works going on October 2019 up to March 23 with engine replacement, plumbing, hull works etc, but locked out due to the virus thing here in Italy, and new engine blocked in the UK still.

06 April 2019

The Futur Plan for Whimbrel

We are free for charters around Antigua between 20th April and 5th May, which is the period of Antigua Race Week 27th April to 3rd May.

06 April 2019

Cruising around Antigua

We start out from Jolly Harbour half way up the West coast.

26 January 2019 | Carlisle Bay

Guadaloupe Circuit

After checking out in English Harbour following a nights stay, and watching an Atlantic crossing rowing boat with 5 men on board arrive around midnight, we sail down to Deshais bay.

07 January 2019 | Jolly Harbour

Christmas Cruise

Cathleen aboard 14th Dec, and guests arrive 22nd. We sail south out of Jolly Hr, anchor off a beach for the night, then visit Cades Reef for snorkelling and spend the next night anchored off Carlisle Bay, near English Harbour.

Our brief calm is over

15 May 2014 | Mid Atlantic
Len
In the early ours of the morning the wind started to increase from the North-east and we began reducing sail under showery leaden skies. By 0530 we were down to the 4th reef in the mainsail and the little staysail. The seas are now up to over 2 meters and we are flying along close hauled again well heeled over and shaken about. At noon we put up the No2 Yankee in bright sunshine which keeps the speed on in the occasional times the wind force drops from force 6 to force 5, and which has a decidedly cool northern feel to it. But the skies are now bright, we are going fast roughly in the right direction and seasickness is at bay. We put the clocks foreward an hour to GMT+3 which is another signpost past by.

Not much life out here, except 3 brown backed gulls with white undersides swooping amongst the peaks and troughs of the waves, and a curious tiny insect like a water boatman became trapped in a corner of the cockpit. Bright blue heart shaped body with spindly legs and fanlike antenna. I never realised insects lived so far out on the ocean.

Forecast is for more of the same until tomorrow evening, when the wind should start backing round and give us a broad reach for a change. 2635 more miles to Cadiz! Hopefully should be there by the 4th June.
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Whimbrel's Photos - Main
Images from our 2013 crossing from Gran Canaria to Bequia via Cape Verde Islands
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Created 21 December 2013