This is Jim Christie the skipper and owner of Carmen 1. What you can't see is his right hand is on the tiller. He is on his watch and he's steering the boat and watching that compass. Jim turned 80 on the trip. His dream was to take his boat home to Scotland. He built his boat in Canada in Etobicoke area.
Just some little boat bites, I miss judged the string on the bimini and ran my arm down it as I was sitting down. Owwwww!
Tony on his watch at the helm.
Sunset!
Sunset with the windvane in the shadows. Unfortunately the windvane didn't work...that's why were self-steered on the passage.
My turn at the helm. 2 hours on and 2 hours off with two crew on the watch together. One to steer and one to watch for freighters. Man it was hard waking up every 2 hours through the night. My worst times were the one around 4:00 and 7:00 am.
This is our GPS readout. It is telling us we have 502 nautical miles to Horta, with about 100 nms a day that's about 5 days. We're going 4.7 knots right then. The compass reading is around 138 degrees, its 20:02 and we have 12.5 volts in the batteries. We had some difficulty holding a charge in the batteries until Jim got the problem fixed in Ireland. The wind generator didn't seem to give any power to the batteries either. That will require a call to Kiss to find out about the wiring.
That upside down broom is our flag pole. Jim was improvising.
Water and sky and clouds, water...sky...clouds...water...water....water.
Great cloud formations and more water.
Jim forward on the boat trimming the sails.
Me on a sunny day. We only had about 4 sunny days on the boat in the two months.
I'm in the cockpit looking down into the boat. Anth is lighting the stove to cook some supper. We all took turns cooking. I did a lot of it but Jim and Anth often cooked too. The pressure cooker is on the floor behind Anth. We made lentil soup, pork and beans, boiled potatoes, potatoe soup and cooked beans in the pressure cooker.
Tony and Jim talking in the cockpit.
Just some little boat bites, I miss judged the string on the bimini and ran my arm down it as I was sitting down. Owwwww!
Tony on his watch at the helm.
Sunset!
Sunset with the windvane in the shadows. Unfortunately the windvane didn't work...that's why were self-steered on the passage.
My turn at the helm. 2 hours on and 2 hours off with two crew on the watch together. One to steer and one to watch for freighters. Man it was hard waking up every 2 hours through the night. My worst times were the one around 4:00 and 7:00 am.
This is our GPS readout. It is telling us we have 502 nautical miles to Horta, with about 100 nms a day that's about 5 days. We're going 4.7 knots right then. The compass reading is around 138 degrees, its 20:02 and we have 12.5 volts in the batteries. We had some difficulty holding a charge in the batteries until Jim got the problem fixed in Ireland. The wind generator didn't seem to give any power to the batteries either. That will require a call to Kiss to find out about the wiring.
That upside down broom is our flag pole. Jim was improvising.
Water and sky and clouds, water...sky...clouds...water...water....water.
Great cloud formations and more water.
Jim forward on the boat trimming the sails.
Me on a sunny day. We only had about 4 sunny days on the boat in the two months.
I'm in the cockpit looking down into the boat. Anth is lighting the stove to cook some supper. We all took turns cooking. I did a lot of it but Jim and Anth often cooked too. The pressure cooker is on the floor behind Anth. We made lentil soup, pork and beans, boiled potatoes, potatoe soup and cooked beans in the pressure cooker.
Tony and Jim talking in the cockpit.
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