Purple Mist - Day 4 part 2

Day 4 part 2

Purple Mist

Skipper: Kate Cope

Sun 5 Dec 2021 15:40

34:57.589N 007:22.786W

This is just a quick post to see if the Sat Comms are working on my phone

For your enjoyment here is the lovely sunrise this morning

Sailing is easy we are at 15kts of breeze, sunny and cloudy and the only hazard are a few tankers

Blog Entries

2024

Jul 2024

Thu 18 Jul 22:34
- Day 4: Becalmed in Biscay
- Day 3 Drheam Cup More Upwind
Sun 14 Jul 20:25
- Drheam Cup T-2
- It’s the Final Countdown

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