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I had a long conversation with weather guru Simon Keeling, and decided there was no safe window for a passage home. After a few days of chan...
One small benefit of the horrible weather is that Guy was also unable to set off on his delivery trip from Stellendam. So yesterday, after e...
Internet access has been erratic over the past week so our exciting progress has not been updated as we might wish. From Middelburg we hea...
First sight of the damaged rudder as Kalessin comes out of the water ouch! Visible bend Repairs under way at Breskens Yac...
Very quickly from my iPhone on a connection from a pizza restaurant in the middle of Middelburg... We are back in the water with the rudde...
Sunday has not been a good day so far. We wanted to stay an extra night and were asked to move to another berth just on the other side of th...
We successfully made it to Breskens on Friday morning, after a fast crossing mostly under sail. The promised occasional force 6 never materi...
Well, it's time for the summer holidays and some serious indecision about where and when to sail. I have wangled a five-week gap between...
It has been another water-focused year, but less time on Kalessin in 2009 and more on other people's boats. Sam (pictured mid-A...
Moonstruck reached St Lucia shortly after midnight local time on Thursday 10 December, with an elapsed crossing time of 17d 14h 49m 32s. The...
Here's Sam's last email from out in the Atlantic, dated Tuesday 8 December: Had an urgent invitation to a party on the foredeck in...
From Sam: We have been having some problems with connections for email transmission so you may have had a bit of a gap. Anyway, progress i...
We received two emails from Sam at 2120 today. Obviously they go into an SSB stasis somewhere: Just sea (one bird) no fish (although we do...
This update from Sam arrived at 1.37am today, but I think may have been stuck in the ether for a while. As of noon today they had about 1000...
Latest update from Sam: The big lead boats (Wallys etc) are about 850 miles off the finish and all pretty close. A record crossing is poss...
Latest update from Sam in mid-Atlantic: Running wing on wing with the Genoa poled out, big swells rolling like a good 'un. Can't ...
As of yesterday Moonstruck had covered 1100 miles and had 1600 to go. They are suffering a bit of wear and tear - blew their spinnaker out a...
Sam just called to say Moonstruck is about to leave the pontoon. He says it's mayhem, bow-thruster city, even through there is a stagge...
At noon tomorrow Moonstruck will head across the start line off Gran Canaria and out into the Atlantic, on her way to St Lucia, with 219 ot...
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