| Dr. Stein Hoff began his row across the Atlantic on Sunday morning May 15th, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen.
Here’s his facebook link to track his voyage.
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On a free ride to the Grand Banks.
Day 31, Tuesday 14th June.
13 must be a lucky number, June 13th was certainly a lucky day! Still, last night as I stopped rowing I routinely prepared the boat for the possible worst.
The evening sky was a spectacular show of clouds, some black and trailing curtains of rain, others split and toplit with dots of blue and shafts of radiating sunrays. Beautiful and foreboding. But the wind was not much stronger, 15-20 k from WSW. Inside and preparing supper suddenly I see that my speed has increased.
I am very happy if I get 1 – 1,5 k push by wind and waves in the right direction normally, but now I kept seeing 3 and 4 k! This has continued all night and we have finally raced past the 550 mile half-way to the Grand Bank’s WP (waypoint).
Only a small amount of spray during the night, less than 3 liters in the cockpit. Slept quite well under my still damp quilt. This morning the clouds are again very dark and the wind a little stronger, but the breakers are not too vicious.
I know the boat self-steers best with more weight in the stern, so I hesitate to go outside and row and possibly upset the balance.
The SA is ready to bevput out at first scary hit-and-big-splash. And no tripping line, makes it much quicker to put out (although slower to get back in). Yesterday I also added sealer around the compass and cockpit GPS where water has entered under pressure. Rolling and jerking along while cleaning with thinner and applying 3M 5200 Fast Cure, the finish is not great, but it is functional! |
