Aug 2022 – Lilly Bolero

Homeward bound

We’ve been watching weather forecasts for over a week now, seeing the current patterns of the high and low pressure systems. The ‘normal’ picture at the moment should be a big high pressure system centred over the Azores, appropriately named ‘The Azores high’ with winds circulating around the centre in a clockwise direction. The middleContinue reading “Homeward bound”

Passage Diary – Cartagena, Colombia to Horta, The Azores 3,300 miles

7th May to 14th June 2022 By Nick We were due to leave Cartagena today. We have been here too long. An outbreak of Covid on the boat and unfortunate timing waiting for a good weather window has meant we have again been anchored off the city for more than a month for the secondContinue reading “Passage Diary – Cartagena, Colombia to Horta, The Azores 3,300 miles”