With the weather improving we left Suðuroy in the morning of October 17th to head across to the Shetland Islands. The passage was about 170 miles and the hope was to head across at the same time as a small band of anti-cyclonic wind so that we could avoid using the engine. We knew that this would probably mean some early motor-sailing until the breeze kicked in and...
Off again …. After breakfast we headed south and we left in style. Despite being moored close to an Icelandic trawler in front of us, the skipper held on a spring, hoisted the mizzen, staysail and main (with the peak scandalised) and forced the staysail aback to push the bow off. With the spring released, the boat moved majestically off under full sail. The main was...
Moving on …. As we need to keep doing …. Today was a fairly short move down to Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroes and for me, a second visit as we had already had a morning there on the Smyril ferry. The weather sort of played ball with a bit of a sail, but half motor-sailing and half sailing. Still, it was only a 20mile leg and so didn’t take long – by lunchtime we...