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Gertha4

Simon Ridley

Thu 26 May 2011 17:58

50:35.46N 02:27.05W

We are on our way to Falmouth holed up with force 8 on nose in Weymouth.

Some prat undid the jubilee clips on the sink in the winter, so we filled up with water.

The same idiot took off the giro compass and put it back upside down, the autopilot was very confused.

Blog Entries

2018

Jun 2018

Tue 5 Jun 08:57
- biscay day 2
Mon 4 Jun 10:31
- biscay
Sat 2 Jun 06:27
- Plymouth

2017

Jul 2017

Thu 13 Jul 11:26
- Lagos
Mon 10 Jul 05:47
- nana gibralter

2015

Jul 2015

Mon 20 Jul 05:09
- Tallinn
Wed 15 Jul 05:54
- gotska
Mon 13 Jul 09:14
- Visby
Sun 5 Jul 06:59
- rostock

Jun 2015

Mon 29 Jun 09:11
- north german bite

2014

Jun 2014

Sun 15 Jun 17:19
- falmouth
Wed 11 Jun 15:15
- Surprise Visit
Tue 10 Jun 08:04
- Grey Skies
Mon 9 Jun 13:54
- Slow News Day
Sun 8 Jun 19:02
- The Desolate Turtle and Other Stories from the End of the Rainbow
Sat 7 Jun 10:36
- back at sea
Tue 3 Jun 11:54
- Gone Posh

May 2014

Tue 27 May 14:56
- Floating Engines, Knots and Eating Butter
Mon 26 May 19:17
- This Particular Day
Sun 25 May 09:47
- Shift Change
Sat 24 May 15:45
- Salty Cogs
Fri 23 May 18:46
- Orange Turtles
- Simon's Lay Day and the Search for Cheeki Rafiki
Wed 21 May 20:55
- cheeki rafiki search
- Spam and Tights (Spamdex Tights)?
Tue 20 May 21:15
Mon 19 May 07:00
- surfing usa
Sat 17 May 19:47
- We're All Flotsam
Fri 16 May 20:06
- Skipper Becoming Dog
Thu 15 May 17:47
- only one bird
Wed 14 May 11:26
- Goodbye Bermuda
Fri 9 May 17:03
- scones
Thu 8 May 17:04
- bouncy
Wed 7 May 16:47
- Fishy Night!
Mon 5 May 14:50
- a sunny day
Sun 4 May 14:17
- sun up bimini up asym up
Fri 2 May 02:15
- Tortola

Apr 2014

Tue 29 Apr 17:42
- Carib
Thu 24 Apr 22:41
- Antigua

2013

Dec 2013

Thu 5 Dec 14:30
- The Final Countdown
Mon 2 Dec 19:03
- Creeping towards a Rum Punch

Nov 2013

Sat 30 Nov 12:53
- gertha kissed a whale
Fri 29 Nov 07:40
- little wind
Tue 26 Nov 15:26
- (no subject)
Sat 23 Nov 21:17
- warm
Fri 22 Nov 10:16
- porely comms
Thu 21 Nov 14:02
- its warm here
Sat 16 Nov 15:58
- (no subject)
Thu 14 Nov 14:15
- fresh bread, broken cooker latch and wrap on duo
Wed 13 Nov 14:46
- no aliens
Tue 12 Nov 17:33
- sunnny
Mon 11 Nov 09:06
- sun and wind
Fri 8 Nov 09:39
- 4 crew on board
Wed 6 Nov 12:25
- Las Palmas

Sep 2013

Fri 20 Sep 01:53
- bride groom
Thu 19 Sep 03:15
- full mooon
Tue 17 Sep 19:27
- fair saling
- no wind and a few ships
Mon 16 Sep 02:18
- lots of ships
Sat 14 Sep 20:42
- Gertha heads south
Wed 4 Sep 07:20

2012

Jul 2012

Tue 3 Jul 10:22
- Almerimar

Jun 2012

Sat 30 Jun 18:07
- Gibralter
Wed 27 Jun 14:05
- Lagos
Sat 23 Jun 14:43
- Oeiras
Sun 17 Jun 08:57
- no wind
Sat 16 Jun 17:21
- Bayona
Tue 12 Jun 10:54
- Approaching Spain
Mon 11 Jun 11:55
- Mid Biscay
Fri 8 Jun 11:50
- Cameret
Sun 3 Jun 08:49
- Post Start!
Sat 2 Jun 15:18
- Pre start

May 2012

Wed 23 May 10:15
- saturday is start day

2011

Jun 2011

Thu 30 Jun 11:29
- falmouth
Tue 28 Jun 18:01
- AZAB return Day 7
Mon 27 Jun 19:10
- AZAB return Day 6
Sun 26 Jun 19:07
- AZAB return Day 5
Sat 25 Jun 17:35
- AZAB return Day 4
Fri 24 Jun 19:16
- AZAB return Day 3
Thu 23 Jun 12:34
- AZAB return Day 2
Wed 22 Jun 13:34
- AZAB return Day 1
Tue 21 Jun 11:02
- depart
Sat 18 Jun 13:01
- an update on performance so far
Thu 16 Jun 21:26
- AZAB Day ?
Mon 13 Jun 10:47
- AZAB Day 9
Sun 12 Jun 12:44
- AZAB Day 8
Sat 11 Jun 16:52
- dancing the two step
Fri 10 Jun 11:40
- AZAB Day 6
Thu 9 Jun 13:46
- AZAB Day 5
Wed 8 Jun 14:21
- AZAB Day 4
Tue 7 Jun 09:58
- AZAB Day 3
Mon 6 Jun 09:18
- AZAB day 2
Sun 5 Jun 12:12
- AZAB Day 1
Fri 3 Jun 16:51
- Pre departure

May 2011

Tue 31 May 17:56
- Falmouth
Thu 26 May 17:58
- weymouth
Sat 21 May 12:26
- Chichester pre flight for AZAB

2010

Aug 2010

Thu 5 Aug 17:42
- nykoping

Jun 2010

Mon 28 Jun 17:10
- gotland runt
Sat 26 Jun 13:46
- Midsummer
- Nykoping
Fri 18 Jun 19:09
- The canal begins
Wed 16 Jun 08:36
Wed 9 Jun 13:13
- Are we nearly there yet?
Tue 8 Jun 10:46
- time space contiuum

2009

Jul 2009

Wed 29 Jul 20:30
- Oban
Mon 20 Jul 19:38
- dunstafnage castle
Thu 16 Jul 16:25
- Talisker
Mon 13 Jul 08:15
- Tobermoray
Sat 11 Jul 07:41
- 56:25N 05:29W

Jun 2009

Sat 6 Jun 14:54
- oban
Wed 3 Jun 19:16
- Gerta makes TV
Tue 2 Jun 10:48
- Loch Locky

May 2009

Sun 31 May 08:07
- caladonian canal
Sun 24 May 11:56
- 57:29.73N 04:14.14W

Apr 2009

Wed 8 Apr 14:30
- Gerthas on the road again

Mar 2009

Mon 23 Mar 22:31
- Flushing

2008

Nov 2008

Mon 10 Nov 21:22
- Winter 2008

Jul 2008

Wed 16 Jul 18:04
- Home
Mon 14 Jul 19:28
- 50:47.47N 00:19.52E
Sun 13 Jul 18:45
- Victory for Gertha
Tue 8 Jul 21:36
- Dartmouth
Mon 7 Jul 11:37
- a few figures
Sat 5 Jul 17:56
- phew
Fri 4 Jul 21:13
- wet and windy
Thu 3 Jul 20:37
- Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Wed 2 Jul 21:08
- Office is reopen
Tue 1 Jul 22:26
- 46.07.98n 16.42.63w

Jun 2008

Mon 30 Jun 20:07
- 44:55.91N 20:08.73W
- weather
Sun 29 Jun 18:07
- Surrounded
Sat 28 Jun 18:48
- Supertramping our way across the ocean !!
Fri 27 Jun 19:15
- breaking news
Thu 26 Jun 19:38
- 39:08.15N 28:00.74W
Tue 24 Jun 13:38
- ships log star date 24062008
Mon 23 Jun 18:59
- horta
Sun 22 Jun 20:17
- Getting there
Sat 21 Jun 20:58
- Questionable Mentally horizontal ?
Fri 20 Jun 19:57
- 37;11.23N 36;39.02W
Thu 19 Jun 20:28
- 35:48.55N 39:26.56W
Wed 18 Jun 20:54
- Karma Chameleon
Tue 17 Jun 21:17
- A state of suspicion
Mon 16 Jun 21:47
- 33:25.69N 48:12.61W
Sun 15 Jun 21:40
- suicide fish
Sat 14 Jun 21:26
- 2am wake up
Fri 13 Jun 21:23
- Hook a Duck
- Fw: light wind
Thu 12 Jun 13:53
- comms
Wed 11 Jun 21:20
- 28:38.23N 57:58.11W
Tue 10 Jun 21:52
- Mince Mince and not a recipe in sight!!!
Mon 9 Jun 22:02
- Up down, on off shake it all about
Sun 8 Jun 21:29
- 24:32.46N 61:27.25W
Sat 7 Jun 23:25
- got wind?
Fri 6 Jun 22:23
- 6th June 2008
Thu 5 Jun 22:50
- 18:44.4N 64:27.4W
Tue 3 Jun 23:14
- In the shit
- 18:27.20N 64:26.90W
Mon 2 Jun 13:14
- 18:30.0N 64.22.0W
Sun 1 Jun 22:27
- anything i can dream up!

May 2008

Sat 31 May 22:45
- 17:39.9N 62:45.3W
Fri 30 May 23:22
- 17:04.55N 61:53.55W
Thu 29 May 23:04
- first sail
- mystery bus on tour
Mon 5 May 22:54
- hot falmouth
Thu 1 May 22:34
- jolly Harbour

Apr 2008

Tue 29 Apr 22:43
- race 3
Mon 28 Apr 23:13
- Race 2
Sun 27 Apr 21:05
- Ist race
Fri 25 Apr 13:57
- Antigua race week

Feb 2008

Sat 2 Feb 22:21
- Antigua

Jan 2008

Mon 28 Jan 23:28
- St Barts.
Sat 26 Jan 00:19
- Norman island
Wed 23 Jan 00:52
- americans
Sat 19 Jan 01:02
- virgin gorda
Wed 16 Jan 05:19
- Antigua
Sat 12 Jan 02:15
- isles des saintes
Wed 9 Jan 22:51
- johnny & kierra part 11
Mon 7 Jan 12:33
- dominica
Thu 3 Jan 00:33
- martin i que
Tue 1 Jan 14:13

2007

Dec 2007

Tue 25 Dec 22:18
- bequia
- crimbo
Sat 22 Dec 14:11
- victory
Sat 15 Dec 04:00
- 14:04.518N 60:56.947W
Tue 11 Dec 18:14
- 15:1.7N 57:09.38W
Mon 10 Dec 19:08
- a small chrisis
Sun 9 Dec 19:16
- Sun again
Sat 8 Dec 21:43
- miden
- 17:55.19N 48:28.28W
Tue 4 Dec 11:52
- Half way on Day 10 - ARC 2007
Mon 3 Dec 11:41
- ARC 2007 Day 8 update
- 21:12N 34:27W

Nov 2007

Fri 30 Nov 11:30
- Wot no fish ?
Wed 28 Nov 19:48
- Greetings from somewhere in the Atlantic ocean
Tue 27 Nov 11:45
- No fish
Mon 26 Nov 12:44
- Lumpy sea
Sat 24 Nov 17:43
- Gertha's bottom and Andrea the fish
- 21 hours to go
Wed 21 Nov 18:45
- English no good
Tue 20 Nov 17:12
- Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Sun 18 Nov 19:55
- Gran Can

Sep 2007

Thu 6 Sep 19:09
- Lanzerote
Tue 4 Sep 15:01
- Day 3 along the morocon coast
Mon 3 Sep 14:23
- Its hot out here.
Sun 2 Sep 12:52
- Day 2 portugal - canaries
- Next Leg portugal to Canaries

Aug 2007

Sun 26 Aug 15:17
- lagos

Jun 2007

Fri 29 Jun 21:49
- Final update from Rally Portugal
Sun 24 Jun 19:18
- Nearly there
Fri 22 Jun 16:13
- A 1st
Tue 19 Jun 09:52
- 39:21.09N 09:22.63W
Sun 17 Jun 11:17
- weather
Wed 13 Jun 17:16
- 41:22.29N 08:45.889W
Mon 11 Jun 12:10
- 42:07.37N 08:50.79W
Thu 7 Jun 12:19
- 42:24.94N 09:10.11W
Tue 5 Jun 19:19
- 46:10.60N 08:17.22W
- 47:00.32N 08:11.09W
Mon 4 Jun 11:27
- 48:55.05N 05:55.68W
Fri 1 Jun 11:17
- Photo

May 2007

Thu 31 May 21:19
- N 50 21.88 W04 09.98
Fri 25 May 21:39
- Start

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