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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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20 Oct: ‘Down the Kasbah’

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

34: 01.7N 006:49.3W Looking across from the marina to the Medina and Kasbah at Rabat Friday 20 October was ‘Rabat Day’ for the Escapaders...

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18 Oct – Into Africa

By Richard. Posted on October 24th, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

34: 01.7N 006:49.3W Monday 16 October was a busy day. We arose at daybreak for the drive back to Gibraltar from Olvera. No traffic to ...

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16 Oct – More Moorish Meandering

By Richard. Posted on October 20th, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Spain.

36:08.1 N 005:21.3W The spare parts arrived in Gibraltar on Friday afternoon, moments after the chaps in Customs had gone home for the we...

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13 Oct – More time at Gibraltar

By Richard. Posted on October 16th, 2017 in Gibraltar, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

36:08.1 N 005:21.3W One of the nicer elements of getting older, is that your list of ‘old friends’ gets longer. So it was a real pleasur...

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9 Oct – more tales from Gibraltar

By Richard. Posted on October 9th, 2017 in Gibraltar, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

36:08.1 N 005:21.3W The girls had climbed the ‘Med Steps’ on Saturday whilst I wrestled with the engine cooling pipe, so on Sunday we...

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30 Sept – Gibraltar work package

By Richard. Posted on October 6th, 2017 in Gibraltar, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

36:08.1 N 005:21.3W Classic Levanter wind: warm moist air from the Mediterranean hits immovable Brit, rises fast and goes grey… We re...

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22 Sept – the glorious city of Seville

By Richard. Posted on October 2nd, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Spain.

36:08.93N 005:21.2W On Wednesday we climbed out of bed at the Parador in Arcos de la Frontera to visit a Convent for breakfast. The Sis...

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20 Sept – Los Pueblos Blancos

By Richard. Posted on October 2nd, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Spain.

36:08.93N 005:21.2W Our first visitors in Gibraltar were our good friends Bob and Sylvia Sanguinetti. Bob (a Gibraltarian by birth) has...

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19 Sept – The Pillars of Hercules

By Richard. Posted on September 26th, 2017 in Gibraltar, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

36:08.93N 005:21.23W ‘Call the Hands’ was actually in the dark on Sunday morning as we faced quite a long passage from Puerto de Santa M...

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16 Sept 2017 – Bulls and Bodegas

By Richard. Posted on September 19th, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Spain.

36:35.4N 006:13.7W In the hope of obtaining the cooling water pipe for the engine as soon as it arrived from Lisbon, we shifted out of ...

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12 Sept – A week in the Algarve

By Richard. Posted on September 12th, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Portugal.

37:06.6N 008:31.4W We stayed at anchor at Alvor until the Spring tides meant that low tide was a bit too low for us. We moved a few m...

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3 Sept – Caves, dolphins and lead lines

By Richard. Posted on September 4th, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Portugal.

37:07.5N 08:37.2W Lagos Marina Lagos is a perfectly serviceable marina, with a good supermarket a stone’s throw from the berth, a...

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