Position: 1900 LT at anchor, Falmouth
Date:Wednesday September 2, 2009

Storm

Finally we are among each other. ‘We’ is the group of people that are joining the first leg of this world voyage from Falmouth toward Tenerife. Within an hour from now we’ll heave our anchor home and will point the clipper bow into a wild English Channel.
After a quiet night a southern wind started to blow and after having increased to wind force eight this wind kept us captured in the bay of Falmouth. At this moment the meanwhile decreased wind veers to the west and in spite of the foreseen nine Beaufort we will use the moment to come to open sea.
Our barograph is drawing something that looks more like a hart cardiogram than atmospheric pressure and all prognoses promise a rough trip the coming days.
The five years that Darwin had for his circumnavigation is not given to us so we will have to go…


Richard Slootweg
Captain Clipper Stad Amsterdam