Team logbooks from Walvis Bay to St. Helena
Logbook Entry, 18th of April 2009
Our current course is 310(HDG), -3(c), 302(COG), speed 9,01, the sails are out, wind is 5 south and the temp 18c, closest coast is Namibia
We had pancakes and bacon for breakfast, I personally thought that the bacon was not so good but I think every one enjoyed the pancakes. Colors was at 8 as usual, no big announcements. After colors we went to our cleaning stations ,Bryan and I went aloft to the royal sail. It was cool being way on top, we untied the gaskets on both sides
of sail. I felt so free being aloft, the fear of falling was not a factor for me. And the day went on as usual, I was sea-sick most of the time. I tried to keep myself occupied as to not throw up, and it worked!!.I think that Marx was in that state of being the most sea-sick of us all. Felix and I was at the helm for our navigation watch, it felt great steering the ship on the right course to St. Helena even though it was just for 30mins. We had a meeting in the mess room to discuss and go over our budget that we got. Apart from that the day was just as any other day out at sea sailing.
Shane Barnes
Logbook Entry, 19th of April 2009
Today was our second full day out at sea on our way to St. Helena.
Our course today is HDG: 290, COG: 294, C: +4 (20:00), our speed is 8,3 knots, the wind speed is 6 from the SSE and the temperature is 20 C.
Today was like any other day at sea, nice weather, intensely blue water and equally blue sky. Unfortunately, some us have been hit by seasickness again. Poor Marx got terribly seasick again but I'm sure he'll be good again by tomorrow. Since Namibia we've all had a chance to take the helm. Everyone seems to enjoy it although its not that easy.
The highlight of today must be the dolphins. Although we've seen dolphins before today was special because they put on a show for us. Everyone got very excited, especially when the one dolphin leaped high into the air...
Gustav Allmann
Logbook Entry, 20th of April 2009
Current Position: 19°01’ S
4°38’ E
Temperature: 22° C
Miles sailed in last 24 hours: 180 NM
Wind speed: force 4
Wind direction: South Easterly
Today at colors we found out that we have travelled almost half the way to St Helena. A journey that was scheduled to take 6 days we have covered in three. We may reach St Helena in three days time!
Today Gustav and I went up in the Bosun’s chair. The bosun’s chair is a device which looks like a swing which can be raised or lowered with the use of pulleys. It is used when you need to paint the side of the boat or, like in the case of Gustav and I, to get pulled up into the rigging. Gustav and I were painting tar on the stays (metal ropes which hold up the masts) and then putting baggy winkles over the tar so that the sails wouldn’t get tar on them. It was very scary to be so high up and what made it even scarier was the fact that the wind makes you swing around so you find yourself holding on for dear life.
We had our first proper sail training lesson today with the bosun, John. He took us around the ship and told us what each of the lines was called and what they were for. There are about 150 working lines on the boat so this was very overwhelming but at least now we have a better idea of what everything on the ship does. At this point it still seems unlikely that we will EVER learn all the lines but according to the Canadians we will learn them all in no time. Hmmm, we’ll just have to wait and see.
We found out some exciting news this evening. If we continue at the speed we've been travelling then we may be able to fit in some extra stops at Ascension Island and Fernando. We were all very excited to hear this and are holding thumbs that the winds will hold up.
Helen Worthington-Smith
Logbook Entry, 21st of April 2009
Our day today started off with a round of boys fitness. While the guys got to sweat by doing jumping jacks, running on the spot sit-ups, push-ups etc., the girls got to sleep for an extra half an hour. Tomorrow the roles will be switched. After fitness the boys and gir
ls (which were up by now) filled the mess (dining room) to have breakfast which consisted of pancakes, sausage and melon. Right after, we had colors (our daily assembly) at which one of the students announced our position for today, which is a latitude of 18 degrees 36.65` South and a longitude of 002 degrees 55.80` east. Our current wind speed is 7.8 knots and our nearest coast is, since today, finally St. Helena. After the captains announcement last night about the possibility of making a surprise stop in ascensions and Fernando due to our fast and steady wind speed, we are all hoping to be able to stop at these islands which are said to be very nice. With our current wind speed, there seems to be a very good possibility of this happening.
Not much has happened today, except for our daily routine and a few tiny highlights to brighten our day, like seeing flying fishes and Bryan going aloft in a rope construction where he puts his feet in. He thought he was so cool, sitting up there until the lunch bell rang and he panicked he would not get any food. So after colors, we all went to our cleaning stations and did a half an hour boat clean, including our rooms which we got to clean at the end of the half an hour because they had to be ready for our daily room checks. A little later in the morning we had an hour of class followed by day watch or navigation watch for some and free time for others. The people on galley duty had to be in the kitchen at 12 to prepare for lunch, everyone else was called to lunch by the bell at 12:30. Today’s lunch consisted of Tomato soup, bread and potatoe salad and we got crepes for dessert which were made by Ms. Fouchers French class. After lunch most of us had about an hour to relax before some had to go to sociology class and some to their watch. In sociology class, we discussed the movie Sarafina which was actually part of the cultural exchange in South Africa but we did not have the opportunity to watch it until a few days before docking in Namibia. After that, we had another 2 hours of class which were followed by dinner.
Today’s sea was a little rough, the sky cloudy and dark and the sun set relatively early but all together it was a good and relaxing day.
Chrissy Braun
Logbook Entry, 22nd of April 2009
The information for today is:
COG: 252
HDG: 249
Sails set: JoCTlTuTgRMsM
Weather Conditions: SEbs 5
Seas: 3
VIS: 5
Pres: 1018
Temp: 22
I am sitting in the mess room and the boat is 300 sea miles away from St. Helena.
We had all woken up a little bit earlier for Dayana's birthday. The SA team had planned to wet her with buckets of water for her birthday. So at colors we got our water and she was soon soaked wet. It was very enjoyable for us for different reasons.
It was a hot sunny day, but day 5 means that most of team SA had a very busy day.
We started our day with classes, which most of us had to go straight to, after that we went either to day watch or navigation watch.
There was nothing on the horizon the whole day because we are in the middle of nowhere.
On day watch myself and Asekho have started re caulking the deck and servicing some of the blocks of the boat.
We also had sail training with John again who went through the sails and their names. He also showed us a new way to tie our shoe laces. The team also raised the fore stay sail for practice.
Everyone is ready for St. Helena. We have been out at sea for 6 days and we are all missing land. We should arrive by the 24th.
Marx Mohr
Logbook Entry, 23rd of April 2009
latitude 17.0748m
longitude 2041.47m
speed 6.9
We have travelled 163 miles in the last 24hours
our nearest coast is 189miles away and that coast is st Helena
wind speed 4seby e
sea condition 3
point of sail is broad reach
weather out look is sunny and cloudy
We started our day with boys fitness. While busy with the fitness we were called to give a hand to the people on watch with setting sails which did not take long. We continued with our fitness and then we went to balance things by eating breakfast. We did not do much as we just had our daily routine. When we were on day watch, Marx was busy vanishing the blocks while Helen was caulking with Axel (bosuns mait). After that we got sail training with John and he showed us how to anchor. After the training we had a short meeting as team South Africa to talk about what have we done so far and what do we think about the trip and food. And many were not happy about the food because its not good even worse when you feel sea sick. Afterwards others went to their watch and I went to rest for 2hours. At 6pm I had class in anthropology and listened to a presentation about the history of St Helena and then went to dinner. The food was not that good but as the Canadians says its better than what they had during their long voyage to Cape Town. Tomorrow we will be arriving at St Helena and people can not wait to reach there so that they can go to a nearest restaurant.
Asekho Mdaka
Logbook Entry, 18th of April 2009
Our current course is 310(HDG), -3(c), 302(COG), speed 9,01, the sails are out, wind is 5 south and the temp 18c, closest coast is Namibia
We had pancakes and bacon for breakfast, I personally thought that the bacon was not so good but I think every one enjoyed the pancakes. Colors was at 8 as usual, no big announcements. After colors we went to our cleaning stations ,Bryan and I went aloft to the royal sail. It was cool being way on top, we untied the gaskets on both sides
of sail. I felt so free being aloft, the fear of falling was not a factor for me. And the day went on as usual, I was sea-sick most of the time. I tried to keep myself occupied as to not throw up, and it worked!!.I think that Marx was in that state of being the most sea-sick of us all. Felix and I was at the helm for our navigation watch, it felt great steering the ship on the right course to St. Helena even though it was just for 30mins. We had a meeting in the mess room to discuss and go over our budget that we got. Apart from that the day was just as any other day out at sea sailing.Shane Barnes
Logbook Entry, 19th of April 2009
Today was our second full day out at sea on our way to St. Helena.
Our course today is HDG: 290, COG: 294, C: +4 (20:00), our speed is 8,3 knots, the wind speed is 6 from the SSE and the temperature is 20 C.
Today was like any other day at sea, nice weather, intensely blue water and equally blue sky. Unfortunately, some us have been hit by seasickness again. Poor Marx got terribly seasick again but I'm sure he'll be good again by tomorrow. Since Namibia we've all had a chance to take the helm. Everyone seems to enjoy it although its not that easy.
The highlight of today must be the dolphins. Although we've seen dolphins before today was special because they put on a show for us. Everyone got very excited, especially when the one dolphin leaped high into the air...
Gustav Allmann
Logbook Entry, 20th of April 2009
Current Position: 19°01’ S
4°38’ E
Temperature: 22° C
Miles sailed in last 24 hours: 180 NM
Wind speed: force 4
Wind direction: South Easterly
Today at colors we found out that we have travelled almost half the way to St Helena. A journey that was scheduled to take 6 days we have covered in three. We may reach St Helena in three days time!
Today Gustav and I went up in the Bosun’s chair. The bosun’s chair is a device which looks like a swing which can be raised or lowered with the use of pulleys. It is used when you need to paint the side of the boat or, like in the case of Gustav and I, to get pulled up into the rigging. Gustav and I were painting tar on the stays (metal ropes which hold up the masts) and then putting baggy winkles over the tar so that the sails wouldn’t get tar on them. It was very scary to be so high up and what made it even scarier was the fact that the wind makes you swing around so you find yourself holding on for dear life.
We had our first proper sail training lesson today with the bosun, John. He took us around the ship and told us what each of the lines was called and what they were for. There are about 150 working lines on the boat so this was very overwhelming but at least now we have a better idea of what everything on the ship does. At this point it still seems unlikely that we will EVER learn all the lines but according to the Canadians we will learn them all in no time. Hmmm, we’ll just have to wait and see.
We found out some exciting news this evening. If we continue at the speed we've been travelling then we may be able to fit in some extra stops at Ascension Island and Fernando. We were all very excited to hear this and are holding thumbs that the winds will hold up.
Helen Worthington-Smith
Logbook Entry, 21st of April 2009
Our day today started off with a round of boys fitness. While the guys got to sweat by doing jumping jacks, running on the spot sit-ups, push-ups etc., the girls got to sleep for an extra half an hour. Tomorrow the roles will be switched. After fitness the boys and gir
ls (which were up by now) filled the mess (dining room) to have breakfast which consisted of pancakes, sausage and melon. Right after, we had colors (our daily assembly) at which one of the students announced our position for today, which is a latitude of 18 degrees 36.65` South and a longitude of 002 degrees 55.80` east. Our current wind speed is 7.8 knots and our nearest coast is, since today, finally St. Helena. After the captains announcement last night about the possibility of making a surprise stop in ascensions and Fernando due to our fast and steady wind speed, we are all hoping to be able to stop at these islands which are said to be very nice. With our current wind speed, there seems to be a very good possibility of this happening.Not much has happened today, except for our daily routine and a few tiny highlights to brighten our day, like seeing flying fishes and Bryan going aloft in a rope construction where he puts his feet in. He thought he was so cool, sitting up there until the lunch bell rang and he panicked he would not get any food. So after colors, we all went to our cleaning stations and did a half an hour boat clean, including our rooms which we got to clean at the end of the half an hour because they had to be ready for our daily room checks. A little later in the morning we had an hour of class followed by day watch or navigation watch for some and free time for others. The people on galley duty had to be in the kitchen at 12 to prepare for lunch, everyone else was called to lunch by the bell at 12:30. Today’s lunch consisted of Tomato soup, bread and potatoe salad and we got crepes for dessert which were made by Ms. Fouchers French class. After lunch most of us had about an hour to relax before some had to go to sociology class and some to their watch. In sociology class, we discussed the movie Sarafina which was actually part of the cultural exchange in South Africa but we did not have the opportunity to watch it until a few days before docking in Namibia. After that, we had another 2 hours of class which were followed by dinner.
Today’s sea was a little rough, the sky cloudy and dark and the sun set relatively early but all together it was a good and relaxing day.
Chrissy Braun
Logbook Entry, 22nd of April 2009
The information for today is:
COG: 252
HDG: 249
Sails set: JoCTlTuTgRMsM
Weather Conditions: SEbs 5
Seas: 3
VIS: 5
Pres: 1018
Temp: 22
I am sitting in the mess room and the boat is 300 sea miles away from St. Helena.
We had all woken up a little bit earlier for Dayana's birthday. The SA team had planned to wet her with buckets of water for her birthday. So at colors we got our water and she was soon soaked wet. It was very enjoyable for us for different reasons.
It was a hot sunny day, but day 5 means that most of team SA had a very busy day.
We started our day with classes, which most of us had to go straight to, after that we went either to day watch or navigation watch.
There was nothing on the horizon the whole day because we are in the middle of nowhere.
On day watch myself and Asekho have started re caulking the deck and servicing some of the blocks of the boat.
We also had sail training with John again who went through the sails and their names. He also showed us a new way to tie our shoe laces. The team also raised the fore stay sail for practice.
Everyone is ready for St. Helena. We have been out at sea for 6 days and we are all missing land. We should arrive by the 24th.
Marx Mohr
Logbook Entry, 23rd of April 2009
latitude 17.0748m
longitude 2041.47m
speed 6.9
We have travelled 163 miles in the last 24hours
our nearest coast is 189miles away and that coast is st Helena
wind speed 4seby e
sea condition 3
point of sail is broad reach
weather out look is sunny and cloudy
We started our day with boys fitness. While busy with the fitness we were called to give a hand to the people on watch with setting sails which did not take long. We continued with our fitness and then we went to balance things by eating breakfast. We did not do much as we just had our daily routine. When we were on day watch, Marx was busy vanishing the blocks while Helen was caulking with Axel (bosuns mait). After that we got sail training with John and he showed us how to anchor. After the training we had a short meeting as team South Africa to talk about what have we done so far and what do we think about the trip and food. And many were not happy about the food because its not good even worse when you feel sea sick. Afterwards others went to their watch and I went to rest for 2hours. At 6pm I had class in anthropology and listened to a presentation about the history of St Helena and then went to dinner. The food was not that good but as the Canadians says its better than what they had during their long voyage to Cape Town. Tomorrow we will be arriving at St Helena and people can not wait to reach there so that they can go to a nearest restaurant.
Asekho Mdaka
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