Nova Scotia - Crew Blog

And We’re Off Again

24 April 2008

Day 1 of Race 9 finds Nova Scotia faffing around with our sail configuration just in time to go across the start line like true professionals - hopefully nobody noticed.

Well what a stopover, we’ve all had a ball. The yacht club has been truly hospitable and managed…

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Yeehaas to California

16 April 2008

Day 11 of Race 8 finds Nova Scotia with only some 150 nautical miles to the finish in a glorious and well-earned first-place position.

To motivate and encourage…

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Nova Scotia Dreamin’

15 April 2008

All the meals are brown and the sky is grey.
We went for a sail on a winter’s day.
I’d be safe and warm if I…

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Switch into drive

14 April 2008

Getting to the top of the leaderboard is one thing. Staying there is another matter entirely.

As we jumped from third to first the weather was balmy, the…

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Inclement

13 April 2008

Now don’t get us wrong, we’re not complaining about the weather at all. Far from it: it’s allowing us to go quickly towards our destination and - at the moment…

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Northern strategy

12 April 2008

We have had another full day of down wind sailing in warm sunshine - such a welcome change from the dampness of the last few days.

Hull &…

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Smiles on weather-beaten faces

11 April 2008

Today brought smiles to the weather-beaten faces of the Nova Scotians, as it has been our first downwind day of the race from Hawaii. It’s great to see the spinnaker…

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California or Bust

10 April 2008

Day 5 of Race 8, Honolulu to Santa Cruz, finds Nova Scotia some 1,400 nm from the California coast in 5th place, sailing along at a respectable 9 to 10…

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We love downwind racing

09 April 2008

It’s one of the reasons we signed up for Clipper - it’s advertised as being with the prevailing winds and currents. Unfortunately that naughty Sir Robin Knox-Johnston was telling us…

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Anyone for tea?

07 April 2008

Now out into our third day of sailing, we have been lucky to enjoy blue skies and glorious star filled nights once again. We have had some great wind and…

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Sailing again and loving it!

06 April 2008

Hawaii was fantastic and a much longer stay than we had originally
anticipated.  We were moored at the Magic Island Fuel Depot where we were given an amazing…

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A Long Race

22 March 2008

With the upwind section and motoring coming into Hawaii, Race 7 has just about beaten Race 2 (to Salvador) and Race 3 (to Durban) to the title of Longest Race.…

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Looking forward to Honalulu

17 March 2008

Day 22 of what was Race 7 finds Nova Scotia only some 490 nm from the finish in Hawaii. We are sailing on a course of 135 degrees with a…

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Land Ahoy!

16 March 2008

An hour ago I popped up on deck to check how my bread was “staling” in the sun (we’re making bread and butter pudding for dessert except we don’t have…

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Racing onwards

15 March 2008

The race might officially be over but we’re still sailing Nova Scotia as fast as possible towards Oahu. Not that I’m wishing our time away on the water, I love…

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A rather suprising affair

14 March 2008

Being woken to news that another mast has failed, on Durban 2010 and Beyond, and that as a consequence the race has been suspended as of 0600 this morning made…

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The wind seekers

13 March 2008

Some of sailing’s best and worst moments are closely tied with the amount of wind whistling through your sails.

If there is quite a bit of wind and…

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Top Tips for Sea Birds

12 March 2008

One thing the old timers look forward to is the new reading material that the ‘newbies’ bring onto the boat, so whilst spending some idle mother watch time we came…

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Spinnaker blues

11 March 2008

Day 17 of Race 7 finds Nova Scotia some 1,450 nm from the finish-150 miles to the International Date Line, and then a further 1,300 miles to Hawaii. We have…

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Home Truths

10 March 2008

Your mothers of the day were going to do a blog entitled “How To Tell If There’s A Moose In Your Galley” (answer: hoofprints in the porridge), but plaintive missives…

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