19 March, 2016 - Sailing to Antarctica

The Peninsula’s tip

By Saraht 19 March, 2016 19 March, 2016 Antarctica, Journey blogs, seeing the landscape

It is 0620 here. We put our clocks forward an hour last night so, while we are anchored just meters off the Antarctic Peninsula at 56 degrees 52″ west, we are now on South Georgia time. The sun is rising over the hills to our east (which I think are … Continue reading

Day 12: Beautiful sailing in the Bransfield Strait

By Saraht 19 March, 2016 22 March, 2016 Antarctica, Journey blogs, sailing

It turned out that waiting at Deception Island was a good move. At 0400 Europa weighed anchor and we left to cross the Bransfield Strait. The crew had told us it could be rough, even calling it a mini-Drake, so everyone was a little bit apprehensive. Instead Antarctica rewarded us … Continue reading

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I am now reliving the journey with added photos. I am posting regularly with pictures of the trip, and continuing my #AntarcticAlphabet. You can follow the experience on JOURNEY BLOGS. Sign up below for immediate updates.
This is the story of my voyage from Chile to South Africa via Antarctica on the 56m square-rigger Europa. Welcome aboard.

The map below shows the area Europa visited at the outer end of the Antarctic Peninsula. On 14 March we finished our crossing of Drake's Passage four days after landing on Cape Horn. We visited several places in the South Shetland Islands before heading east towards the Peninsula itself. (This chart will be updated when the latest journey blogs are about the next stage.)
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Europa has a find-me button on her site, here. The Cape to Cape voyage 2016 went from Punta Arenas in southern Chile, through the Beagle Channel and south east to the Antarctic Peninsula. From there we turned northeast to South Georgia. Then we sailed two long legs to Cape Town, stopping at Tristan de Cunha on the way..
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