Sailing Vessel Precipice

Today was a day spent getting to the next town. We have one more stop to make before we head out to the open ocean and make some time towar...

Today we left Qaqortoq with heavy hearts. We met a family with kids and ended up spending two evenings with them, delaying our departure fo...

The main site www.svprecipice.com has been updated with pictures galore. We are safely in Qaqortoq, getting ready to depart for Narsauq ...

Last night we got a visit from three whales. We think they were fin whales. We could hear them through the hull before we saw them. I tri...

Today we are sitting still going exactly nowhere. The sea is glass and the sails hang limp. It is hard to believe we are in the same ocean...

We have been beating to weather (heading into the wind) for two days now. This is the worst sailing direction for the crew. You lean way ov...

It took us ten days to get here, and it looks like we will be out here for at least another ten days. This voyage has been characterized by...

The wind has died down again to a slight breath of wind. The sea is calm. We have all our sails up. We are blazing along at a whopping 2 ...

Our life on passage is dominated by several big things that you are probably sick of hearing about now: 1. Wind: Do we have wind? What dir...

We have just enough wind to keep a steady heading. This makes us happy. We have gotten a schedule down now and are mostly acclimated to li...

There is a negative saying among sailors that there is either too much wind, too little wind or it is from the wrong direction. We have had...

Our sails have hung limp for three days. This means that school has started up again. Jannelle is back to learning about Central American ...

So our day of no wind with cold rain, drizzle and fog turned into a night of no wind, cold rain, drizzle and heavy fog. This morning the su...

We had great wind all day yesterday and all night last night. We couldn't use the wind last night because we parked the boat due to low...

We had great wind all day yesterday and all night last night. We couldn't use the wind last night because we parked the boat due to low...

Today is just about the complete opposite of yesterday. The air temp is 8 deg. (48F), the water temp is 5 deg. (42f). Fortunately our heate...

The wind never picked up until about 9:30PM tonight. We spent the day in t-shirts and soaked in the sun. It was about 75 degrees with no w...

We spent last night becalmed, in the fog. We have turned North towards Greenland after spending 24 hours motoring. We were able to sail, b...

Precipice has left the building. We sailed out of Old Perlican today at 1:30 PM. We are presently motoring due to absolutely no wind, whic...

Precipice is on the move again. After spending nine months tied up in the same place the process of leaving was just as, if not more, painf...