AND SHE'S OFF !!!

Finally and after much planning and impatience is the S/Y Sana finally on the way to new challenges and experiences. Today at half past eleven, she left her home port on Dronningen, that she will not see again for over a year. It's going to be an eventful trip. We that will sail with Sana the next year, wish you all a safe journey and for my part, I'm looking forward to seeing you in England in 10 days.

In the picture you can see from left: Jan, Kjartan, Dag, Asle and Christian.

Ship o'hoi

More preparations

In light winds and some rain, Christian and myself, and Ole Morten, tested our new gennaker together with Pål Berntsen from With Marine. It worked exactly as we had thought and with the light wind that was yesterday, it acted almost like a spinnaker. We could sail it in the range of 180 to 90 degrees without being collapsed and gib. Of course in the situation of an regatta we will most likely not sail it with the wind at 180 degrees. Anyway it makes the sail very flexible and we look forward to test it further south.

Yesterday also Knut Johan came onboard with vacuum packed bags of flour that we should have in order to have fresh bread on board. We can only hope customs officers do not respond to all the white powder we have :)

Tomorrow is the departure day and the final preparations are soon finnished. Lars will later today put on board part of the fishing gear we are going to have with us from his shop www.fiskeriet.no It is worth a visit for the fishing enthusiasts.

We will also collect the trysail which has been to re-sewing at Gran Seil so that things start to fall into place.

Ship o'hoi

Only 2 days left + new crew outfit

Now it's only two days until the first leg of S/Y Sana starts. Saturday June 11th a crew of 4 will race her to England were they have to be June 19th so there is not much time spare. Crew first leg will be: Asle, Christian, Kjartan and Jan.

The editor (me) will meet Sana in the south coast of England June 22nd for start of the Biscaya leg. It's going to be a great jouerny. July 1st the family of Christian and Kim will join for a nearly 3 weeks of vacation with Sana along the coast of Portugal.

I hope you guys will have a great race and I expect you will look cool in your new crew outfit.

See you guys in less then 2 weeks for some another great sailing.

Klargjøring 5. april

Da har vi fjernet presenningen selv om isen ikke er godt i havnene ennå men det gjør den nok snart. Vi skiftet bl.a. også vannfilter. Utrolig hvor mye dritt det var i det og hvor svart det var med tanke på at man hittil kun har fylt vann i Norden. Men det problemet slipper vi heretter nå som watermaker er montert. Den vil produsere 100L i timen som forhåpentligvis vil dekke våre og reders behov med tanke på at han kun skal ha med 2 underbukser på turen og er avhengig av å få kjørt en vaskemaskin i døgnet :)

Flybilletter

I dag er en ny fase i Sanas ferd mot de Karibiske øyer ferdig- returbilletten fra St. Lucia ble bestillt av mannskapet. Så for å benytte de, må vi faktisk komme oss over dammen og da kan vi jo like godt seile :)

I morgen forsvinner presseningen og watermaker, aircondition og cutterstag er snart ferdig montert. Dette blir veldig bra!!!

Det er i dag 68 dager til avreise :)

Babord halse middag hos Christian :)

Fin start men vi savner deg Knut

28.01.2011

Planlegging går for fullt. Feste til kutterstag er montert. Hardvær fokk, genaker og kutterstag er i bestilling. Watermaker monteres neste uke. Bimini og aircondition monteres om noen uker. Det gjennstår å finne en optimal løsning for kommunikasjon.
Veldig bra planleggingsmøte forrige mandag da Frode Lund fortalte om sine erfaringer fra tilsvarende tur i fjor!