Azores to Plymouth | 14 days of beating into NE winds | 2000 nm | Saga47swan Sailing ⛵️

Being on a schedule can be dangerous, especially for sailors as you may set sails, when the weather and sea state is not safe. We had a deadline to reach Plymouth, Britain’s ocean city, within the next two weeks. Looking at the weather the conditions were F3-5 with slight to moderate seas, no issue for our Swan 47 and it’s adventurous crew . The problem! The wind was going to be NE or E for the next 10-12 days .. which meant close reaching all the way to UK . We didn’t have time to wait for another weather window, so off we went. We spend the next two week close reaching into easterly and NE winds, reefing and shaking reef as needed . We went so far north that we were only 50 nm from the fastnet rock and Ireland with its lovely pubs - it was hard to tack away from that ! In the early morning of day 14, we spotted the iconic lighthouse on Bishop Rock , the crew was cheered up by the landfall at Isles of Scilly . The passage took 14.5 days , 2037 nm sailed and we did about 18 tacks - the longest on one tack was 5 days ! #sailinguk #atlanticocean #swan47 #adventure #passage #adventuresailing #offshoresailing #atlantic #azores #competentcrew