Photos

Here are a few photos of my 2015-16 round-the-world sailing adventure.

December 2015 – western Australia to Sydney
November 2015 – Cape Town to western Australia
October 2015 – Rio to Cape Town
September 2015 London to Rio

 

December 2015 (top)

The clouds forming over Table Mountain
Look closely at the nature below the water at our dock. Great colors and sea life.
Sunset at Cape Town
Different groups everywhere and all good and entertaining
Time to celebrate, the work for the day is DONE and after this we go to the crew house!
Yep, me again now in one of the caves cleaning out any water (yes there are some leaks on the boat) bacteria and mold
A moment to just enjoy the nature around us.
A real meal! Really getting to stock up on seafood!
Either it was really good or I was really hungry. What do you think?
Interesting and enjoyable to listen to
If you look carefully you can see the type of mallets they use
Note, no upper bars like our marimbas.
What a treat!
Nick with all the floor boards out of boat being cleaned he just has to get the inside done.
Annie trying to figure where to start!
A bit different than hoisting a J22
Matt and Tony getting the suntan lotion on prior to work.
Elaine and Regina hard at work??
It really is me!
Drilling holes in the leather chafe for the spreaders.
Definitely some work to be done.
Boat moving to position.
Big equipment to hoist the boat.
Celebrating our arrival with a bottle of champagne and then wine, beer and of course just diet coke for me.
Han and crew getting Yankee 1 ready for start.
Tony, Elaine, John, Eelco and Mike saying goodbye or looking forward to start
A final look as we head to Copacabana Beach area for start.
One of the beautiful moments that I love!
Notice that the waves look a bit rocky.
f course I was not the only one fixing things. Diane and Clem were on bow when life calmed doing some fixes.
And of course make more doughnuts for Diane. Nick always giving moral support! Thanks Nick!
Just Rocking and rolling!
What is with all the white foam?
More
Just a few views of what was going on outside.
Tony during the What If, Then….. Happy Hour game.
Javi as always with a bright smile.
Once again repairing with a doughnut to connect the two blocks that the mainsheet runs through. And my hair is coming back!
This is what it is about. Enjoying nature sunset and all.
Discovering a new dawn in all it’s beauty.
Squid that wanted to join us but didn’t quite make it.
I love just watching the water, the way the light hits it, and all moments like this one.
Lunch on deck
With the appropriate additions
Good discussions and then fun time with Tony
Time to put on the pants of power and hope that nothing goes wrong
Do I really have to grind the kite in??
Nine trimming, Nigel relaxing, Java driving and Clem ready on the grinder
Watching the water!
Clipper crew waiting for us to land. Beautiful harbor right next to giant mall.
Cape Town with Tabletop Mountain in view

 

November 2015 (top)

One last look before start of leg 2!
Leaving the event village
Chris, John’s wife and Emilie waving us off as we slip lines.
Greeting ICharCoal upon their arrival. Lots of tears and hugs.
We made it to RIO!
Preparations are in full swing for the 2016 Olympics
Dinner at the house! Emily, Nigel, Mike, Tony, Alex and Javier
Lunch at the marina
Celebrating Skipper Diane’s birthday and yes it was a Brazilian Steakhouse!
And he is out looking for food!
I just hope that the restroom situation improves!
Bunk Buddy for Leg 1, Chris Geary. Have missed him!
Me trying to get reef knot undone so I could add anti-chafe on the line.
Up close and personal!
Christ the Redeemer from a distance
From another distant view with the fog rolling in
So, where do you write all the information on the rig check when you don”t have paper?
Yes the picture is blurry, but the flag was moving too fast to catch a pose.
And of course ….Drumline was there!
Happy on the bus
One view that shows a part of Rio.
An entirely different view. Seriously, no matter which hill you looked behind there was more of RIO!
Robert and Han with a model of one of the boats he was Captain
Han, Robert and David and the awesome lunch that Robert prepared for us!!

 

October 2015 (top)

We made it though at 2 in am
A small whale called something that starts with a B.
Swim at end of motoring as we wait for the 60 hours to end.
Javi at the helm wondering what had he signed up for. Check the water behind him.
Mark trying to learn about weather
Reading, talking and playing games
2 people at the mast working together to get the halyard up.
Getting our trim instructions
Crew shower time! They even brought out the fire hose! Pretty desperate.
Sweet sounds!
Relaxing uder some shade made by our horse blanket that covers the main in port.
And then there are just some beautiful moments like being with everyone and seeing a rainbow. Life is GOOD
Setting up tweaker
Elaine and Doug relaxing and playing on the kite (pretending to hold it down)
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Just a cool picture.
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and Linda’s first cake attempt.
Just another beautiful moment to share
Me at the helm with Deb as communicator. One of the few times I have been able to just sail the sails and not go totally by compass.
25 miles from the finish!!!!!! What us with this 0 knots??**!! and we are floating backwards?
Taking Yankee down while Stay Sail remains up. They are pulling it down behind the Stay sail.
Reminds me of the wonders of nature and all that we have.
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Linda whipping work as usual
Crawling way back to cockpit
Ryan enjoying the shower.
Han and Javi preparing dinner.
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Tony pulling main down at end of race (yes, 1am in the morning)
Javi and Han on Mother Watch fixing dinner. At lest Han is!
small whale that starts with a B
they would just come and play by the boat
Fun. Since he is on the low side must be trying to fix something.
Yes you do get your hands dirty and you get to clean a lot… the bilges (yuk), the heads (toilets, YUK), the dishes when on Mother Watch, etc.
Transfer of water maker inside the bucket. Glad that we had been able to practice this during training.
Hal showing off his prize cake!
Javi and Han fixing dinner… at least Han is working on it
Diane took some time to teach a little about use of sextant
Look friends, me pretending to be Christopher Columbus and sighting the horizon and finding the latitude.
not 3 feet from my bunk and when they worked on it the door was OPEN!!!
Starboard watch (I was on Port)
Nigel always finding something to clean
Craig with one of the baby squid. Since Craig is a police inspector I believe he was asking him to leave the boat.
Happy hour and lunch
Han down in the sail locker working!
Our first sunset after the start of 1
He surfaced then rolled over a few times and in essence waved goodbye! So long til Capetown!
If you have not ever had Marmite, please try it.
From North
Yep I had to trim also. We would do anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour at a time. I usually used my knee to help hold it.
Jenko and DjJ hard at work with Craig at the helm
Debs trimming the kite with DJ and Jenko grinding and Craig on the helm.
I told you, it is really BIG!

 

September 2015 (top)

Looking pretty good! Practice makes perfect!
I told you, it is really BIG!
As you can see it was a bit crowded in the raft up. The cool thing is that all teams wished and cheered the others on as they left the docks!
The finished product with the turn around the corner.
very interesting trying to make this small enough to wool.
w yes, teamwork helps. We actually do have 2 to 3 people. Two to roll it up tightly and one to tie.
Bartlett, where are you when we need you??
Nigel and Deb with sewing machine in the hallway (quite narrow if you see Nigel’s feet propped.
Sir Robin wishing our Skipper Diane and us a safe and good journey.
At South End Pier with Sir Robin Knox wishing each boat skipper well as he sends the boats to the start line.
Check out bottom right hand corner for longtitude and latitude. Tells exactly where we are. all the red mess on the screen is all the boats and where they are. this is the screen we look at and figure what’s happening when we have Nav duty! Just missed the all 0s by 2 seconds!
The Shard!
Good thing the little rib is there to help push the boats around!
Ready and waiting!!!
Mike and Chris looking like pros ready to go!
check the masts out!
All the things that I am learning!
Dana and me
Check out the other masts!
Meet my Aggie Friend DRAKE! Class of 14! and like a true Aggie, he proposed to hhis girlfriend prior to leaving on this trip and plans for wedding are…. next fall on hopefully an open weekend for football!
crew mates Judith, Regina, Nigel
hmmmm?
For now, see how close they are, the little rib in the back nosing it around and in general a close picture.
had a little help from my friends! working on reefing lines! THANKS!
Linda taping all split pins in the shrouds inner part to avoid catching on sail damage
Do we have anything in the states that can beat that date??
Not sure why but I was fascinated by this rainbow!
FUN
Having fun with my famous upper body training. (Hint: never tell anyone what off the wall thing that you might be doing.)
Outside of Starbucks after close with Hal and Doug!
6am in the morning at Starbucks.
Ryan, Jamieson (NBC reporter doing the story on us), Skipper Diane, Chris, Elaine and a few more not seen!
Crew mate Doug and Anais made my work disappear!
Learning a bit of splicing for end of Halyards (lines that hoist up the sails).
Pretty interesting boat. Oars and all.