As always, it becomes time to sail. All Picton Castle hands had had a lovely visit at St Helena. It’s a spot that I have grown to like more with each visit. After making the rounds saying fond goodbyes, clearing out with passports stamped, final emailings done, time to up anchor and head back to …
Date: 23 April 2024Sailing from: St. HelenaBound towards: Grenada, West IndiesNoon position: 09°34.1’S 012°18.6′ WCourse: NW 1/2 W compassSpeed: 5.4 knotsWind force and direction: Force 5 ESESeas/swell: 3m SEBarometer: 1016 SteadySky: 3/8 CuWater temperature: 82°F, 26CDistance made good in 24 hours: 131 nmPassage log: 661 nmVoyage log: 23,909 nmDistance to next port: 3,211nmRemarks: Donald has …
Date: 19 April 2024 Sailing from: St. Helena Bound towards: Grenada Noon position: 14°31.6’S 007°39.1′ W Course: NxW Speed: 3.0 Knots Wind force and direction: Force 2 E Seas/swell: 1m ExS Barometer: 1017 Steady Sky: 3/8 Cu Water temperature: 78.6°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 72 nm Passage log: 142 nm Voyage log: 23,460 …
Picton Castle at anchor off Jamestown, St. Helena Island, 15 degrees south of the equator: We got the hook down at a good spot off Jamestown, St. Helena. It was deep, 15 fathoms or 90 feet, about 1/2 mile SW of the boat landing past the large mooring field. Moored are mostly small local working …
Date: 18 April 2024 Sailing from: St. Helena Bound towards: Grenada Noon position: 15°12.3’S 006°40.6′ E Course: NNW Speed: 3.5 knots Wind force and direction: Force 3 E Seas/swell: 1m E Barometer: 1017 Steady Sky: 5/8 Ci, Cu Water temperature: 77.7°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 70.3nm Passage log: 70.3nm Voyage log: 23,388nm Distance …
Date: 18 April 2024 Sailing from: St. Helena Bound towards: Grenada Noon position: 15°12.3’S 006°40.6′ E Course: NNW Speed: 3.5 knots Wind force and direction: Force 3 E Seas/swell: 1m E Barometer: 1017 Steady Sky: 5/8 Ci, Cu Water temperature: 77.7°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 70.3nm Passage log: 70.3nm Voyage log: 23,388nm Distance …
The high volcanic island of St. Helena is located at 15-55 South / 055-43 West, pretty far from anywhere else. – Distance to Cape Town: 1700 miles – Distance to Lunenburg directly: 4,815 miles – 47 square miles – 2,700 feet to the highest summit – The only anchorage is a deep, open roadstead affair …
In the dark of night at 0100, the forward lookout came aft and reported a bright light fine on the port bow. It had to be St. Helena. But St. Helena was still 50 miles away and there are no such mariners’ beacons on the charts, no lighthouses with that range. Perhaps this single fixed …
Picton Castle is in flying fish seas AND we have crossed the Prime Meridian into the western hemisphere here in the South Atlantic Ocean in the best tradewind sailing there is. O’course, this idea of separate “hemispheres” of this big ocean covered blue ball we live on (and sail around) is a fiction our ancestors …
Date: 11 April 2024 Sailing from: Luderitz, Namibia Bound towards: St. Helena Noon position: 16°48.8’S 003°42.9′ E Course: NNW Speed: 4.5 knots Wind force and direction: Force 4 ExS Seas/swell: 2m ESE Barometer: 1018 Steady Sky: 5/8 Cu, St Water temperature: 76.2°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 110nm Passage log: 1,299nm Voyage log: 23,172nm …
