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12 June 2015
Nothing to report. I have to force me to write some news as it happens so nothing I have not much to tell… Bulk, here are the highlights of the last 3 days: 9 June Rainy day. Everything is wet in the boat and as we are more and more to the North, it’s cold. […]
8 June 2015
Less ahead behind. This morning, I still had the gummed eyes when I pulled out the head outside to greet Serge who was on watch in the cockpit. It’s seeing bundled up in her wax and I realize that we are going to North… Morning are increasingly chilly and the air is much cooler. I […]
7 June 2015
Now a week we are at sea. We will pass the psychological course of the 1000 nautical miles traveled, or 45% of the distance between St-Martin from the Azores. If all goes well, we’ll get in 8 days, on 15 and 16 June. There is a festival in Flores on 17 and another at Faial […]
5 June 2015
Happiness after crap. Finally, things come to place to offer me a little time to give you news. In aviation, we often repeat pilots how to prioritize tasks in the cockpit: aviate, navigate, communicate. First, it ensures that fly, then it arranges to go in the right direction and finally, when the flight parameters are […]
2 June 2015
A swordfish on the menu Our second day at sea was still passed to the close hauled or knitting to find wind. The engine for 13 h was used to avoid the speed goes below the 5.0 nodes. Comfort on board is still fair and we have another two days to endure this uncomfortable pace. […]
1 June 2015
Now off the coast Here is our first live news from the Atlantic. Yesterday, as expected, we left the marina to refuel diesel and win the bridge that allows boats to pass St. Marteen Lagoon to the sea. We had adjustments to make on the large sail to avoid glitches on the road, so we […]
6 April 2015
For our second day excursion to Utualdo, I wanted to visit the observatory Areciebo. This is the largest radio telescope of the earth and my interest in it comes from the SETI@Home project or Search for Extra-terrestial intelligence which I attended in the 1990s. At the time, they listened to the stars and asking people […]
2 April 2015
For several weeks we promise you to spend more time writing on our blog. We had several good reasons to spend time doing something other than being in front of our computer, but now that the routine begins to be properly installed and that our computer is (almost) functional, we must put ourselves in the […]
27 February 2015
My first great ocean crossing solo took place in the Atlantic, to Georgetown in the Bahamas to Puerto Rico. A distance bird 660 miles but with winds at my disposal, I had to do the close (go against the wind), which has extended my journey of 140 miles. I lifted the anchor the following morning […]
20 November 2014
«Goodbye!» I said to a friend before leaving the marina. «Bye, when to you come back?» «In two weeks. The time needed to prepare our house for the departure, make our luggages and bring the family back to Fort Lauderdale.» I realized at the time I said these words that we only have 15 days […]