Purple Mist - Pictures from the JOG Cherbourg Race

Pictures from the JOG Cherbourg Race

Purple Mist

Skipper: Kate Cope

Sat 27 Apr 2019 16:11

Blog Entries

2023

Nov 2023

Sun 5 Nov 20:41
- Position Report Only

Apr 2023

Mon 10 Apr 11:33
- Antigua : I see no ships …yet
Sun 2 Apr 10:43
- BVI Regatta

Mar 2023

Wed 22 Mar 02:06
- Gremlins Banished
Sun 19 Mar 23:39
- More BVI and some hairy marinas
Fri 17 Mar 12:04
- Jost Van Dyke 2
Thu 16 Mar 00:59
- The Soggy Dollar Bar
Sat 11 Mar 20:45
- Cruising in the BVIs
Sun 5 Mar 11:49
- Day 3 Heineken Regatta Round the Island
Sat 4 Mar 11:48
- St Maarten Regatta

Feb 2023

Sat 25 Feb 20:34
- Day 5 and the Finish of C600
Fri 24 Feb 11:12
- Day 4: islands in the Sun
Thu 23 Feb 00:23
- Day 3: That was a real smoking volcano
Wed 22 Feb 13:09
- C600 Day 2
Tue 21 Feb 01:58
- It’s Race day again C600
Sun 19 Feb 12:03
- Antigua: Pre-race preparations
Tue 14 Feb 20:32
- Death in Paradise: Guadeloupe
Mon 13 Feb 22:31
- We are sailing: Bequia to Antigua
Sun 12 Feb 20:22
- Last day in Bequia
Sat 11 Feb 20:33
- Stormbound in Bequia
Fri 10 Feb 15:51
- Tobago Cays to Bequia
Wed 8 Feb 00:08
- Sparrows Beach Bar and Tobago Cays
Mon 6 Feb 18:33
- Union Island / Carriacou
Sun 5 Feb 20:58
- Cruising Mode to Phare Bleu
- Day 21+ Port Louis
Sat 4 Feb 22:32
- Day 20.5 The finish and arrival

Jan 2023

Sun 29 Jan 21:50
- Fwd: Day 20: Land Ahoy
- Day 19: The race that just keeps giving
Thu 26 Jan 20:21
- Day 18: More Sun More Sea
Wed 25 Jan 15:44
- Day 18:You shall have a fishy…
Tue 24 Jan 15:35
- Day 17:Things that go bump in the night
Mon 23 Jan 11:46
- Day 15.5: Are we sure we wanted more wind?
Sun 22 Jan 20:37
- Day 15: We’ve got wind …and in a good way
Sat 21 Jan 17:17
- Day 14: what a night dot dot dot
Fri 20 Jan 14:29
- Day 13: Thunderbolts and Lightening..very very frightening
Thu 19 Jan 17:02
- Day 12: We need to drink more water
- Day 11: Let’s go fly a kite
Wed 18 Jan 13:19
- Day 10.1: Feeling hot hot hot
Tue 17 Jan 22:52
- Day 10: Somewhere over the rainbow
Mon 16 Jan 21:05
- Day Nine: Patience is a Virtue
Sun 15 Jan 21:06
- Day 8: Riding Wild Horses
Sat 14 Jan 20:35
- Day 7: More drama this time with the mainsail
Fri 13 Jan 14:23
- Day 5.1: The real Day 5 blog
Thu 12 Jan 10:10
- Day 4:
- Day 4:
Wed 11 Jan 18:36
- Day 3: Purple Mist throws us the biggest challenge ever
- Day 2.5: Starry Starry night
Tue 10 Jan 22:58
- Day 2: There’s a hole in my wind and my spinna ker
Mon 9 Jan 22:08
- Day 1 - Champagne Sailing
- Day 0 Pictures
- Day 0 - We are racing
Sun 8 Jan 00:12
- Day T minus 1….Yikes it’s tomorrow
Sat 7 Jan 00:09
- Day minus 2: Calmness has descended
Fri 6 Jan 00:34
- Day T minus 3 It’s all about efficient stowage
Wed 4 Jan 23:16
- T minus 4: Starting to feel a bit like a rock star …..with lots more jobs completed
Tue 3 Jan 23:41
- Day minus 5: Relaunch of Purple Mist
Mon 2 Jan 22:05
- Day Minus 6: Arrival in Lanzarote

2022

Oct 2022

Thu 13 Oct 13:41
- It’s a wrap
Wed 12 Oct 22:14
- Last day on Purple Mist
Tue 11 Oct 23:35
- Day 27: More boat jobs
Mon 10 Oct 22:02
- Day 26: Boat jobs in the sunshine in Lanzarote
Sun 9 Oct 19:07
- Day 24: More Squid Less Mainsail
- Day 23: Here’s looking at you blue eyes
Thu 6 Oct 21:17
- Day 21: Long Leg to Lanzarote
Wed 5 Oct 20:46
- Day 20: Lounging in Lagos
Tue 4 Oct 21:21
- Day 19: Anchored in Baleeira
Mon 3 Oct 21:13
- Day 18: Sliding along to Sines
Sun 2 Oct 19:50
- Day 16/17: Chilling In Cascais

Sep 2022

Fri 30 Sep 19:47
- Day 15: Celebration it’s Cascais
Thu 29 Sep 22:02
- Day 14: Peniche
Wed 28 Sep 21:41
- Day 13: Ashore in Figueira
- Day 12: Life is a beach in Portugal
Mon 26 Sep 22:07
- Day 11: Spain to Portugal
Sun 25 Sep 21:00
- Baiona
Sat 24 Sep 21:07
- More Spanish Rias: Muxia to Muros
Fri 23 Sep 22:02
- Muxia
Thu 22 Sep 21:34
- Day 7: A Coruna and so far no Orcas
Wed 21 Sep 21:19
- Day 6: Orcas and High Wind delay passage onwards
Tue 20 Sep 10:07
- Day 5: Hola! Arrival in Spain
Mon 19 Sep 01:24
- Night 3: Starry starry night
Sun 18 Sep 11:29
- Day 3: Across Biscay we go
- Night 2 : Problems problems or xxxxing Electronics
Sat 17 Sep 23:11
- Day 2: Call for Grandma Clanger the Sat Comms are down
- Lanzarote Day 1 : Here comes the sun

Jul 2022

Wed 20 Jul 10:10
- Race Report: Jog Alderney

Jun 2022

Mon 27 Jun 10:09
- Race Report Morgan Cup
Wed 8 Jun 10:09
- Race Report Myth of Malham

Apr 2022

Mon 18 Apr 21:26
- Race Eastbourne to Cowes
- Race Report JOG Eastbourne

2021

Dec 2021

Wed 8 Dec 12:03
Mon 6 Dec 12:30
- Day 5: Clean Boat Clean Hair
- Day 5- I don’t like Jamaica I love it
Sun 5 Dec 15:40
- Day 4 part 2
- Day 4 Atlantic Challenges
Sat 4 Dec 21:20
- Rock rock til you stop
- Day 3: sun sun sun here it comes
Fri 3 Dec 16:49
- Day 2 Spanish Coast
- Starry starry night
Wed 1 Dec 19:14
- Waiting for a star to fall

Nov 2021

Tue 30 Nov 04:05
- Wooy I’m going to Ibiza

Apr 2021

Wed 7 Apr 21:31
- Race Report: JOG Lonely Tower RORC Spring Series 1

2020

Oct 2020

Mon 12 Oct 20:01
- RORC Autumn Series Race 3

Sep 2020

Sat 26 Sep 20:11
- RORC Autumn Series Race 2 Report
Tue 8 Sep 19:18
- RORC 2H Autumn Series - Race 1

Aug 2020

Sun 2 Aug 18:15
- RORC Race the Wight

Jul 2020

Sat 25 Jul 08:26
- Race Report: JOG Great Escape.

2019

Sep 2019

Sun 29 Sep 19:30
- Don’t stand so close to me.. Race report final JOG Inshore
Mon 23 Sep 19:50
- Position Report only
- Don’t stop me now..we are off to Weymouth

Aug 2019

Sun 11 Aug 19:34
- Position Report only
Thu 8 Aug 04:30
- Fastnet 2019 complete
Wed 7 Aug 06:57
- Morning has broken
- What a difference a day makes, 24little hours
Tue 6 Aug 04:36
- Rock rock til you drop, rock rock never stop.
Mon 5 Aug 04:38
- It’s a new day, it’s a new day
Sun 4 Aug 09:44
- Sparking Dolphins
- Round the Bill on a favourable tide
Sat 3 Aug 13:59
- Serious Boat Totty
Fri 2 Aug 18:25
- Here I go again ....

Jul 2019

Tue 30 Jul 21:22
- Position Report only
- Early one morning just as the sun was rising ...Jog Weymouth
Tue 23 Jul 17:50

Jun 2019

Sat 29 Jun 08:20
- Thank you for the Music
Fri 28 Jun 10:10
- Let’s get this party started
- Speed. Where did it go ?
Thu 27 Jun 17:27
- The Vang goes Bang
- Wet wet wet
- Ground control to Major Tom
Wed 26 Jun 10:01
- Life at an angle
Tue 25 Jun 15:21
- The calm before the storm
- Climb every mountain
Mon 24 Jun 18:55
- Food glorious food
- Red sky in the morning
- The stars they’re coming out tonight they ’re lighting up the sky tonight
Sun 23 Jun 15:57
- Riding along on the crest of a wave
- The boys are back in town
Sat 22 Jun 22:12
- ..and Venus was her name ...maybe
- Sun sun sun...here it comes
- Oh what a beautiful morning
Fri 21 Jun 23:33
- Fade to Grey
- 50 shades more grey
Thu 20 Jun 22:12
- 50 shades of grey
- Everybody is surfing, surfing USA
- Squid for breakfast?
- 99 Red balloons (or 1 red fender)
Wed 19 Jun 14:45
- Go West, life is peaceful there
- Oh what a beautiful morning
- By the light of the Silvery Moon
Tue 18 Jun 15:02
- And we are off
Mon 17 Jun 13:10
- Azores
Thu 13 Jun 12:25
- Boat Damage
Tue 11 Jun 08:37
- We made it to Ponta Delgardo!
Sun 9 Jun 17:34
- It’s slow but it’s sunny
- Land Ahoy!
- Have we caught up anyone yet?
Sat 8 Jun 20:50
- Purple Mist still rolling along
- A Rollercoaster 24hrs
Fri 7 Jun 11:38
- Champagne Sailing
Thu 6 Jun 22:50
- It’s Ok to be inside the boat too
- Surfing through the waves...it’s wet
- Well this is more like it
Wed 5 Jun 16:55
- What a difference a day makes
- Wednesday it’s all about avoiding the storm
Tue 4 Jun 10:11
- Tuesday 2am
Mon 3 Jun 07:44
- Sunday Evening
Sun 2 Jun 12:15
- Sunday 2nd June - at sea

May 2019

Fri 31 May 16:49
- Pictures from the last day
- Last day of Preparations
Thu 30 May 06:47
- Inspection Day
Wed 29 May 08:21
- First Bgan Blog
- Arrival in Falmouth
Mon 27 May 19:32
- Fowey
Sun 26 May 19:58
Sat 25 May 17:29
Mon 20 May 07:05
- Race Report Yarmouth to Cowes
Sat 18 May 20:47
- Race to Yarmouth with Jog
Mon 13 May 13:58
- Azab Yellow Brick tracker link
Sun 12 May 11:29
- Cruising in Chichester harbour with RBYC
Sun 5 May 13:01
- Cervantes Race, an adventure with assymetrics
Fri 3 May 16:13
- New Electronics

Apr 2019

Sun 28 Apr 12:27
- Oysters in the River Hamble ?
Sat 27 Apr 17:32