Ships updates/ blogs

The afternoon’s watch is cloudy and a welcome relief from the hot sun of the last few days. The crew spent an exciting day ashore on Fernando de Noronha yesterday, dispersing to various activities including hiring buggies, motorbikes, diving, snorkelling, swimming, eating and drinking. There was some disappointment amongst the experienced divers as the “try […]

Birds are very important to our journey. We had many birdless days, long days of beautiful rolling seas but no sign of animal life apart from the odd group of flying fish. But then, suddenly, a blackbird appeared at night, flapping around. Not just a black bird but seemingly a land bird, looking like a […]

Day 23. The 3,000nm mark was passed at 3am this morning. Today was the eggciting day. There were big eggspectations from all the crew. Oh yes – the puns are back and in full flow! The brief was to take an uncooked egg and to enclose it in a protective, non-plastic device (in case an […]

Here’s the last blog from our cadet, Matt, on board Tenacious. My last trip at sea before my final exams is on Tenacious, sailing from the Falkland Islands to South Africa, via South Georgia. We initially spent some time in the Falklands whilst carrying out some maintenance on the ship. We were alongside on the outskirts of […]

The crew on Tenacious have been writing a weekly newspaper – as tradition on many of our longer voyages. Click here to download the PDF version.

Forward Starboard watch reporting in (we’re way more fun btw). Day 19 of the mission. We’re under full sail, speeding along on a 20 knot tail wind, making an average of 7 knots toward our next mission ‘milestone’, Ascension Island. The weather is hotting up, air temp near 30degrees, water temp over 26degrees… it’s a […]