Yacht Cerulean Atlantic Adventure

Vessel Name: Cerulean of Penryn
Vessel Make/Model: Seastream43
Hailing Port: Gosport
Crew: Richard & Alison Rowley
About:
Richard has been sailing for over 40 years and has done over 12000nm of coastal sailing mainly from out of Portsmouth Harbour (UK) including many cross channel passages to the Channel Islands, and north coast of France and along the UK South coast, as well as yacht charters in Greece and Croatia. [...]
Extra: We have both taken a year off work to sail the Atlantic in our 43' (13m) sailing yacht Cerulean of Penryn which we purchased in 2015. We are signed up for the ARC+ 2018 rally from Las Palmas Gran Canaria to St Lucia via the Cape Verde Islands
Home Page: www.yachtcerulean.com
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17 June 2019
14 June 2019 | 47:45N 009:10W
13 June 2019 | 46:38N 010:47W
13 June 2019 | 46:34N 010:51W
11 June 2019 | 44:05N 014:40W
10 June 2019 | 42:51N 018:48W
08 June 2019 | 40:56N 021:26W
07 June 2019 | 38:15N 024:41W
25 May 2019 | Horta, Faial, Azores
21 May 2019 | 38:25N 029:20W
19 May 2019 | 38:31N 034:16W
18 May 2019 | 38:31N 037:37W
17 May 2019 | 38:10N 040:49W
17 May 2019 | 37:55N 042:01W
15 May 2019 | 37:49N 042:58W
15 May 2019 | 36:26N 046:39W
15 May 2019 | 37:10N 044:57W
14 May 2019 | 35:39N 048:42W
14 May 2019 | 35:03N 050:29W
Recent Blog Posts
12 July 2019 | Gosport

A ship is safe in harbour...but that's not what they are for

The Cerulean Big Atlantic Adventure is now over. We are moored back at our home port of Gosport in the UK, and our adventure is rapidly turning into just a memory.

17 June 2019

Bishops Rock

Passage from the Azores to the Scilly Isles

14 June 2019 | 47:45N 009:10W

Ponta Delgado-Bishops Rock 07

Log:958 DTW 166; BTW 039deg 47deg 45'N 009deg 10'W COG: 060 SOG:4.6 Wind SW f3; baro 1016 Status: Sailing; dead run; Port tack; poled out genoa to Starboard

13 June 2019 | 46:38N 010:47W

Ponta Delgado-St Mary's 6

Log:863 DTW 259; BTW 040deg 46deg 38'N 010deg 47'W COG: 040 SOG:6.0 Wind NW f3; baro 1017 Status: motor sailing; main/genoa/staysail

13 June 2019 | 46:34N 010:51W

Ponta Delgado-St Mary's 05

Log:859 DTW 264; BTW 040deg 46deg 34'N 010deg 51'W COG: 040 SOG:6.0 Wind NW f3; baro 1017 Status: motor sailing; main/genoa/staysail

11 June 2019 | 44:05N 014:40W

Ponta Delgado-St mary's 04

Log:6908 DTW 511; BTW 044deg 44deg 05'N 015deg 40'W COG: 075 SOG:5.3 Wind NNE f4; baro 1029 Satus: Sailing 1 reefs main /100% staysail / 100% Genoa

Bermuda-Horta 12

15 May 2019 | 37:49N 042:58W
Richard Rowley
Trip:1148 Distance to Waypoint 677; Bearing to Waypoint 081deg 37deg 49'N 042deg 58'W COG: 075 SOG:6.7 Wind SSW f4-5

Boat time 10:00 (UT-3)

Our daily bread

Bread, it is one of our staples on the boat as it is at home. A sandwich at lunch time, fried bread with bacon and egg for breakfast or just a cheeky snack of a peanut butter and marmite sandwich at midnight to keep me going through the night whilst on watch.

baking bread and sailing are synonymous, as it has been for hundreds of years. Baking bread is part of offshore sailing, if you want bread you must bake it yourself as it does not keep for very long. With just the two of us on board we do not get through that much. We stocked up on a couple of loafs before we left Bermuda 10 days ago and just consigned the last loaf to the deep as it had not fared well...we trust that Poseidon will not be offended by our offering.

Thus it was time to bake our own again as we do from time to time. On this occasion I consulted the Goddess Delia for the perfect loaf, she told me to mix the salt in with the flour and place it in the oven on a low heat for 10 minutes, then add 3fl oz of hand hot water to mix the yeast and stir once to the left and leave to stand for 15 minutes, after I had stood for 15 minutes I cam back to the yeast, and behold it had frothed; place the warmed flour and salt mix into a mixing bowl, make a well and added the yeast mixture and stir and add more hand hot water to the dough until it is stiff and mix with your hands...as described to me in the text...place into to a loaf tin and bake for 30 minutes at 200c...I followed her every word as any eager disciple does.

The reading of her text in the first book of the Complete Cookery Course pages 42 to 43 and following the word of the almighty Delia has provided us with fine and tasty loaf

This is the word of Delia, the one who must be obeyed

Tomorrow fairy cakes...

Other than that we are making excellent progress SSW f4 making 6-7 kts with the wind on the beam...all sails flying...

Richard and Alison yacht Cerulean of Penryn

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Cerulean of Penryn's Photos - Main
Photos of rigging failure; Lower Aft stays; Bermuda to Horta; 22/05/2019
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Created 25 May 2019
Passage along the south coast from Gosport to Plymouth
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Created 1 November 2018
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Created 27 October 2018