S/V Morning Light

We arrived at Kavaratti Island perfectly after sunrise, and while we were still motoring around the island we were contacted by Port Control on the VHF. We explained we were only making a stop for the sake of buying diesel. They told us we could pick up an outside morning and would come […]

Kavaratti Island is where we are going to try our luck in buying diesel (and maybe water and some groceries) if they allow us without having to check in. It is one of the Cannanore Islands, though I have also seen this called the Laccadive Islands.
It appears that there is a high pressure system […]

Not much has changed here, we are burning fuel without making a lot of progress. Replaced the large genoa for the yankee, now with the flatter yankee and the stay sail we can motor sail closer to the wind.
Have been on shift for three hours and my hands hurt from pulling on lines, just […]

Winds are still light and on the nose. There was a nasty squall yesterday morning, I woke up Jeff to help me get the sails down. About two miles to starboard there was a waterspout (the sea version of a tornado) touching down, it was there for about 10 minutes.
There is a high […]

This afternoon we cleared the south tip of India, Cape Comorin. We are still beating into light winds, often with the help of the engine. It feels like slow progress, but we slow and steady will get us there too. North west winds are all over the west part of the North […]