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Friday, March 16: Piriapolis, Uruguay
Online entry 03/19/2012 - 10:06
The Fleur Australe has reached the little port at Piriapolis, Uruguay, a small coastal town a few kilometers from Punta Del Este and 60 km from Montevideo. It has been hauled out for a good rest after our long expedition through the southern seas.
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Monday, February 27 : Antarctica Final Take.
Online entry 02/28/2012 - 17:56
Our voyage from New Zealand to Pierre I Island, Antarctica, and Cape Horn lasted two months. That is a long time to sail through hostile waters in total autonomy, and we prepared for it meticulously. The Fleur Australe was designed and built for this type of journey. We owe our success to every aspect of the design, construction, and preparation of our boat.
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Sunday, February 26 : Ushuaia
Online entry 02/27/2012 - 09:51
Ushuaia is a city of 70,000 nestled at the foot of a snow-covered mountain range. Its various elevations afford magnificent views of Beagle Canal. This is the southernmost port in the world of any significant size. Cruise ships bound for Antarctica anchor here. Some big fishing boats are moored alongside the big wharf at the commercial port, along with a container ship that has come to fill its coffers at this booming city
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Saturday, February 25 : Puerto Williams
Online entry 02/26/2012 - 17:29
Yesterday, 22:00: The Puerto Williams yacht club is a former German military supply ship dating from 1925, now transformed into a very pleasant bar – and a legendary one, since Puerto Williams is an obligatory stop for Cape Horn sailors returning to Chilean waters. There is a very cozy atmosphere here around the fire. We enjoy conversing with the few sailors gathered in this little port at the ends of the Earth.
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Friday, February 24 : Cape Horn
Online entry 02/24/2012 - 18:55
3:00 in the morning: Philou has been tinkering in the engine room for a good hour now. A few bolts on the propeller shaft seem to have come loose. 6:00 in the morning: Cape Horn, grey, black as the sky, black as the sea, with galloping white horses. Furious seas, terrifying cape. It’s wild, wonderful, epic! Here it is, right before us, exactly as we imagined it!
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Wednesday, February 22 : At Sea
Online entry 02/24/2012 - 09:06
60°42’ South / 63°35 West. Yesterday, 19:00: After a fiery sunset, we enter perilous Morton Strait between Snow and Livingston islands, a narrow channel strewn with rocks that we sail through as night falls. Before us, the night sky is lit by Orion and Sirius, constellations forgotten for some time.
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Thursday, February 23 : Soon, CAPE HORN
Online entry 02/23/2012 - 19:19
September 1578 : After sailing through the Magellan Strait from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the Golden Hind, Francis Drake was caught in a storm and driven far to the south. His nephew, Francis Fletcher, described it as being blown off course toward the extremes of the Earth… “with no main or island to be seen to the southwards, but that the Atlantic Ocean and the South Sea meet in a most large and free scope.
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