Friday, June 29, 2012

Day 4

28/06/12
12.00 L
17 42.95 S, 159 12.5 E
COG 300 T
Log 2183 NM
SOG  7 kt
Motorsailing
 
the last 24 hours..
12.00 I do entry log
13.00 end of my 3 hours watch
13.15 Lunch: Bacchi tuna steak rare, with a green salad followed by a fresh fruit plate topped with whipped cream
14.00 Shower followed by a Nap
16.30 up and about and eat a couple of kiwi to help my transit
17.00 Movie time! "l ordre et la morale", movie about the "evenement " in ouvea, New Caledonia
18.00 It starts raining, and the wind dies, we starts the engine and i get soaked dropping the main sail
18.30 back to Movie time,
19.00 Nap time
19.45 I get soaked again hoisting the main sail
20.00 my first watch of the night starts
20.15 dinner break: Pasta with pork sausages and tomato sauce...
22.00 end of my watch, no moon no stars, just rain
22.05 Nap time
23.45 Some noise wakes me up, squalls with gusts up to 30 kt, i get soaked putting 2 reefs in the main sail, then back to bed
01.45 I get soaked shaking one reef in the main sail
02.00 my second watch of the night starts, under the rain
04.20 I wake up Suzanne for her watch, and i go to bed
05.30 the wind dies, they starts the engine and I go back to bed
07.30 no more rain, the wind picks up, we shake one reef then another one, then i go back to bed
09.45 we starts the engine and drop the main sail
10.00 I start my watch and start the fishing competition with francesco
11.45 I am cutting his hair then a mahi-mahi breaks snaps his fishing line
12.30 A sword fish break my line..no fish for today
 
another day in paradise!
 
 
 

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Day 3

28/06/12, 12.00 L ( GMT + 10)
19 32.52 S
161 18.35 E
COG 310 T
SOG 8 kt
wind E 20 kt
swell S , 1m
overcast
 
Still no fish! tried british music..Italian..now spanish
 

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Day 2

27 june 2012
12.00 L , 01.00 GMT
21 45.5 S, 163 32.22 E
COG 303 T
SOG 8.6 kt
LOG 1820 NM
Waves 1-2 m, S, confused
Wind 20-25 kt, ESE
overcast
 
Not a good day for fishing, but we are having a prawn salad for lunch!
200 NM in 24 hours...not bad and almost in the right direction..

Day 1

26 june 2012
08.16 GMT
22 35.0739'S, 165 24.01'E
COG 253.7 T
SOG 8.4 kt
wind : 20  
Log  1680 (at departure 1621)
We left Port Moselle at 11.30 AM L and exited the lagoon at 12.30 PM L
I fished till sunset but did not catch any fish..
Tomorrow is another day!
 

Sailing from New Caledonia to Australia, 2,500 NM,

We left NC on Sultano, 4 of us, Captain Francesco, me the first mate, Super Susy, and cara Silvia



brg ( bearing to the waypoint: where we want to go) 303 degrees
rng( range( distance 2,500 NM but it maxes out at 1,000)
cog ( course over ground: our track over ground : where we going) 322 degrees : 19 degrees off our desired heading
sog( speed over ground) 8.1kt going fast...

Setting the fishing gear , ready for a competition with Francesco


Getting some big weather...

After a rough night, found a Flying fish on deck


Sunset....

No fish.....again..
Sunset....again
Bad to the bone

We got the spinnaker up!
Genoa only, and doing 7 kt!!!!!

Big sea..

Arriving in Thursday Island, Australia
My two fishing got messed up, and took me a great deal of patience to fix!

 
Got a wahoo!

Dinner!

Our watches
Silvia is fileting it

Monday, June 11, 2012

photo not in order

The skipper ( me!)is confident of his navigation plan through the reefs! But stays on the look out.






The skipper ( me!)is confident of his navigation plan through the reefs! But stays on the look out.



Silvia getting some fresh AIR after prepping lunch..

Arriving at the Bay d’ire…

Anchored at ilot Casey, where they filmed some parts of “le grand bleu”( No Sandie, not abyss)

Iles DES Pins ( colonnaires)


A sunset

But a famous Jungle! Where they filmed Jurassic Park!??

But she laught at me, and broke my heart!

By the way, the cheapest hotel in “Town”

Another sunset! Baie de Gadji

Another sunset!!!! Bais de Kuto, the finest sand in the whole universe! Yes!

Nan, it’s a sunrise

Baie de Kanumera,
Smile!

Thank you Doudoune! You saved me from Jurassic Park! I think I love you!An Hollywood love story is born.

Not so windy good time to fix the UV cover of the genoa

Socialist?

Including :Louise Michel, Derochefort…

Ruins of the jails

Better than the goulag in Siberia…

Pointing to the treasure, actually not , to the jail!

Ile d’Ouen, a little stop before going back to “civilization”

Dolphins welcoming us back to “le caillou”

Fumer tue!

Non! C’est la cuisiniere ( Sarda!) qui vous tue avec ses super pates au crabs de paletuvier( meme meilleur que les crabs Breton!!)

But what’s for dinner? J’ai faim!
Cigales????
Like a lobster, but better!
Under the sea, everybody is happy

Watch for the crabs!

A Jungle treck