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North Atlantic 2017 – 2019

This blog was first published by the clever chaps at Mailasail as we travelled clockwise from Gosport to Cape Verde, Grenada, Cuba, Nova Scotia and home with stops in between.

The original version had a number of entries posted from the high seas via our Iridium Pilot satellite. These were deliberately short, devoid of colourful pictures and designed primarily to reassure our family and friends that we hadn’t foundered overnight.

The edited version is republished here with better quality photographs and one or two teeny typo corrections. And we’ve removed most of those mid-ocean position reports because they don’t add much to your reading pleasure five years on! You may find the remaining articles useful in deciding whether or not to visit the same places yourselves. We’d be delighted to hear of your experiences – has it changed since we blundered through?

If you’d like to read the glorious original, you still can at Escapade of Rame (mailasail.com)

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25 November – Basecamp Mindelo

By Richard. Posted on November 25th, 2017 in Cape Verde, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

16:53N 25:00W Later in the morning of 17 November, after a few hours of kip, we went into the marina at Mindelo. It is a modern, well o...

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17 Nov – South to Cape Verde

By Richard. Posted on November 20th, 2017 in Cape Verde, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

16:53N 25W We left La Gomera on Saturday morning. Our destination was Porto Grande and the capital city Mindelo on the island of Sao Vic...

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Passage to Cape Verde 16 November at 1800UTC

By Richard. Posted on November 16th, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Ocean passages.

17:32.4N 24:25W With a gentle breeze blowing from the north east all day, we have made steady if uneventful progress towards Mindelo und...

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Passage to Cape Verde 15 November at 1800UTC

By Richard. Posted on November 15th, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Ocean passages.

19:22N 23:00W After some shifty overnight winds, the breeze settled firmly into the Easterly sector by dawn, allowing a full day under s...

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Passage to Cape Verde 14 November at 1800 UTC

By Richard. Posted on November 14th, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Ocean passages.

21:37.5N 021:18.9W We have covered 170 miles in the last 24 hours, mainly due to strong winds today – reefed sails rather than spinnaker...

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Correction to 12 Nov position

By Richard. Posted on November 13th, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Ocean passages.

Astute observers will no doubt be rolling in the aisles as I clearly had a spot of typing dyslexia with the longitude of yesterdays posit...

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Passage to Cape Verde 13 November at 1800UTC

By Richard. Posted on November 13th, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Ocean passages.

23:46N 019:45W After light winds overnight the breeze filled in this morning and we enjoyed a good spinnaker reach throughout daylight h...

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10 Nov – Further Canary Island excursions V2

By Richard. Posted on November 10th, 2017 in Canary Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

28:05.32N 017:06.48W We celebrated the skipper’s birthday by hiring a car and escaping from Santa Cruz for the day. Not that it’s a rub...

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5 Nov – A Look at Lanzarote

By Richard. Posted on November 5th, 2017 in Canary Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

28:27.95N 016:14.7W Isla La Graciosa is unlike anywhere either of us have been before: a mix of the Sahara, the Moon and the set of ‘The...

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31 Oct 2017 – Atlantic Islands

By Richard. Posted on October 31st, 2017 in Canary Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Ocean passages.

29:13N 13:31.7W We spent half of Tuesday trying to return the hire car. The Manager had gone to Casablanca for the day and I was not ha...

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24 Oct 2017 – Moroccan Coastal Caravanserais

By Richard. Posted on October 29th, 2017 in Morocco, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

34: 01.7N 006:49.3W Moroccan roadside life: a rare Massey Ferguson and typical Stone Age dwelling. Satellite dishes indicate humans as w...

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22 Oct – Marrakech madness

By Richard. Posted on October 29th, 2017 in Morocco, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

34: 01.7N 006:49.3W Having explored the immediate vicinity of the boat, on Saturday we hired a car for our African Rally. I paid 1200 di...

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