September 2013

Update by Ed:
"We have already been on our way for three days, we visited Kangaroo Island and the ship is fully booked. This is part of the adventure, new people, new...

Update by Ed:
"What a magnificent world, sailing on the ocean with no land in sight. We have passed Cape Leewin about 8 days ago and are now on a direct course to ...

Update by first mate Maarten:
“As expected the wind pushed us in the right direction for quite some time so we made some great headway over the past few days. And, ...

Update by Steve:
"On the Southern Ocean, south of Esperance in Western Australia, making steady progress on our way to Adelaide. Conditions have been very benign for ...

Update by Maarten Teuben:
“This voyage with the ‘Oosterschelde’ is a nostalgic one for me. About 42 years ago I left Southampton with the ‘Southern Cross’ and sailed ...

Update by first mate Maarten:
“After an easy start with little wind, we reached Cape Leeuwin and the wind came. Of course we set all the sails and we could turn off ...

Update by Arno:
"Departure from Fremantle: finally, after hours of waiting, because of ‘busy’ harbour proceedings (we saw 1 containership departing), we left at 1PM ...

How much we can long to be on land when we are at sea, after a while on land we can't wait to get back to sea again. The last few days we were busy with small repairs on ...