Anne & Stefano Sailing Capsula

Greenland felt like a place between things.

Passage Qaqortoq → Cartwright Distance 576 nm (190 nm under engine) Duration 5 days and 7 h (44 h of engine) Wind B0 B2 B4 B6 B8 B10 Calm Storm Comfort 🌫️ 🥱 🐋 🐦 🌅 🙂 44 hours motoring.

This morning I woke up rested, and buoyant.

Passage Hafnafjördur → Timmiarmut Distance 635 nm (6 nm under engine) Duration 5 day and 20hrs (6 h of engine) Wind B0 B2 B4 B6 B8 B10 Calm Storm Comfort 🌊 😬 💨 😖 ☀️ 😮 The first two and a half days were every bit as tough as the forecast had predicted.

Twelve days after our first attempt, another weather window has finally opened.

Passage Hafnafjörður → Hafnafjörður Distance 375 nm (10 nm under engine) Duration 74 h (2 h of engine) Wind B0 B2 B4 B6 B8 B10 Calm Storm Comfort ☁️ 💨 😊 😩 😤 ☀️ 😞 Four days at sea and we're back.

Tomorrow night might be the night.

We had missed them in Shetland and Norway, they kept eluding Capsula on the water, and here they were just there, at touching distance, seemingly unbothered by all these humans taking pictures of them. as if nothing happens Just as we were about to questi…

When I decided to take a career break to "just" go sailing, many, myself first, wondered how long it would take before I got bored and started craving the excitement of drug discovery.

Passage Vestmanna (Faroe islands) → Seydisfjordur (Iceland) Distance 300 nm (25 nm under engine) Duration 62 h (6 h of engine) Wind B0 B2 B4 B6 B8 B10 Calm Storm Comfort ☀️ 🥶 I open an eye.