Tag: From the Ocean
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Back in the North Atlantic
The journey through the Caribbean was rather unsteady. The wind was rather low and changed its direction often unpredictably. At least we couldn’t trust the forecast. Thus the race resembled a weather lottery. Nevertheless, the fleet stayed relatively speaking close together. Only after passing through the gab between Cuba and Haiti the fleet started to…
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Panama Canal
After about 48 hours in Panama City we had to leave again. The alarm was set for two o’clock in the morning as we had to be on the boat before three. Shortly after we left and headed out of the marina and around the island where we had to wait for the pilot. In…
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On the way to Panama
In the past week we have made good progress towards Panama. Thanks to the two refuelling stops in Mexico and Costa Rica respectively where we got more than 1600 L in total we can now even make good speed along our route if the winds are not great. Both stops have been short as to…
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Heat of hell
Due to the very slow progress across the fleet already the first mandatory gate was announced to be the finish line. While some boats had already crossed it, we were still some 500 nautical miles away when this was announced. Every day it looked less likely for us to reach the transit window in Panama.…
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It is hot
We left the US-coast behind and are now off the Mexican coast. That coast extends roughly 1800 nautical miles before we get to the other states of Central America. There are currently still about 2000 nautical miles left to our next destination Panama. A week ago we were still moving at rather consistent speed and…
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Along the US West Coast
In the last week we fought our way down the west coast of the United States of America. First we past Oregon before going down along the coast of California, past San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Meanwhile we have gone past all of them and are now sailing along the Mexican coast. The…
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Seattle Stopover
With some delay but just in time for prizegiving we arrived to Seattle. And that despite the broken rudder not in last place. In addition, everyone was unharmed with only a few minor injuries. But after 31 days at sea we were all very tired and felt relieved that we had finally arrived. The stopover…
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On and on we go
We are sitting in a secondary low pressure system for a couple of days now, which has developed between two high pressure systems. It is that low which is responsible for the winds which are blowing from roughly the direction we want to go: east. Thus our progress is slow. We are beating against the…
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Pacific Spa
The last few days have been intense. Regarding the race we have been doing great. The distance to the boats ahead has been reduced, while we could increase our lead over the boat behind us. Overall we are very pleased with our performance. This has been possible due to strong northerly winds. This allowed us…
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Happy Easter again
After we broke our rudder we were underway with wind coming from the wrong side for some time. With the good rudder on the windward side we had to make sure the boat stayed more or less level as to not lift the rudder out of the water. Correspondingly the sail plan has to be…
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