Laura’s Circumnavigation 2009 – 2011

12th December 2010

Where’s the wind gone?!

The wind almost subsided completely and I cannot really ask for more wind from Santa Claus, and it will be a little while until Christmas… Well, […]
13th December 2010

750nm to go

The wind decreased again last night, but fortunately, there is a slight breeze now. Still about 750 nautical miles [1389 kilometres; 863 land miles] to go, […]
14th December 2010

Safety at sea

Definitely a great day again today with some clouds in the sky (so it was not too hot) and from time to time some rain fell […]
15th December 2010

Lovely sailing!

Guppy is still moving along nicely at about 4,5 knots and I think that I will be within land reach in five days – pretty odd […]
16th December 2010

Back to bobbing around

Yesterday night the wind has left me. (I did not do anything wrong to the wind, did I?). Now I am bobbing up and down in […]
17th December 2010

Broken windvane rudder

Tonight the wind vane steering system suddenly did not work anymore, the vane was set full in one direction but the boat did not follow its […]
18th December 2010

40nm to go!

Only 40 nautical miles [74 kilometres; 46 land miles] to go, and then, with 2200 nautical miles [4074 kilometres, 2532 land miles] behind me, I can […]
22nd December 2010

Arrival into St.Maarten

Sorry, sorry, sorry for having you wait for so very long. Especially for holding back on the news that I am again in Sint Maarten!!! I […]
23rd December 2010

Hobbie cat sailing

Well, here I am again. I already added some photos I took during the trip. I will try to place them with the correct Blog. Uploading […]