La Base Brown
Brown Base in Paradise Bay Joy Sailors!! What day have we spent today… La Base Brown Paradise Bay, one of the most beautiful places on the planet. Today it was radiant full of icebergs and whales, with a calm that the sea looked like a mirror. We could not visit the Almirante Brown base, but […]
Paradise Bay
Paradise Bay, an incredible day. King George Island It’s been a few days since I write to you, around here everything and everyone is good, some better and others much better … Finally we arrived in pure Antarctica, the truth is that King George does not represent the Antarctica that we all have in mind, […]
The rhythm of Antarctic navigation
The rhythm of Antarctic navigation What a wonderful messy and emotional day we had yesterday… Some crew members who set sail for their lives and others who arrive from them, all with emotions on the surface, friendships that are created… Keep in mind that this expedition will never be forgotten, this is not just another […]
Deception Island
We sail towards Deception Island We have had to change plans, so are the expeditions, the weather rules, I received an email from the airline DAP “The only one that operates in Antarctica”. We had the flight from King George Island to Punta Arenas for the 16th and they have advanced it one day, so […]
Argentine Base Almirante Brown
Heading to the Argentine Base Almirante Brown Joy Sailors! We are on Wednesday, January 11, 2023. The spirit of the crew It snows around here, everything is calm. Yesterday we sailed to Paradise Bay, we spent the day anchored, sheltered from a not very strong storm but with winds of up to 35 knots. The […]
Whales in Antarctica
Today we watch whales in Antarctica! Joy Sailors!!Today was simply a wonderful day of more than 20 hours of light. We are anchored in Port LockRoy. We sailed in one go here, passing through the Melchior and the Gerlache channel. We enjoyed a once-in-a-lifetime show, we were standing among whales, more than 20! divided into […]
Ecology and travel to Antarctica
Ecology and trips to Antarctica living on a sailboat Again and there are already 5 that we arrived in Antarctica It really is like arriving on another planet, the effort, the distance, the illusion of all the crew makes it create a kind of magic and intrigue. The navigation is a bit hard, we had […]
Sailing around the world
Sailing around the world, my big dream! We are 180 miles from the Melchior archipelago, a group of islands located between the Palmer archipelago and the island of Brabant that has a small Argentine base that this year was covered by snow. Then we will sail to Cuverville where there is one of the most […]
100 miles from Cape Horn
We sailed 50 to 100 miles from Cape Horn Joy Sailors!!Greetings from about 100 miles southwest of Cape Horn. This will be the 8th time I pass Cape Horn and this is perhaps the most official and suffered along with the second in my dear Copernicus. Not all the fish is sold yet… It is […]
Meteorology in the Drake Passage
Meteorology in Drake’s Passage back from Antarctica Joy Sailors!! We sail towards the eye of low pressure jumping with joy and devotion… How the landscape changed, going from having incredible visibility with a clean environment to navigating through thick mists with waves of considerable size… The boat behaves well and we are already marinated, in […]
