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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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FW: 24 July – Diplomacy in Vigo

By Richard. Posted on July 28th, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Spain.

42:13.9N 8:44.55W Monday was an odd day in Galicia. Tuesday is a provincial holiday to celebrate the life of St James of Compostela, so...

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23 July – Island paradise and Vigo Delight

By Richard. Posted on July 26th, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Spain.

42:12.14N 008:54.25W Well, the Seafood festival in Raxo didn’t start until Friday, but we trawled through Tripadvisor and were well look...

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20 July – Bent Metal and the Ria Pontevedra

By Richard. Posted on July 22nd, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Spain.

42:23.9N 008:45W Wednesday dawned wet and windy. I wondered how we might get out of our half sized berth into a narrow channel between ...

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18 July – at Illa de Arousa and Pedras Negras

By Richard. Posted on July 22nd, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Spain.

42:27.46N 008:55.1W By early afternoon, the fog had lifted sufficiently that we could resume our planned move across the Ria to the isla...

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17 July in the Ria de Arousa

By Richard. Posted on July 17th, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Spain.

42:36.32N 008:51.9W So, with further repairs to the outboard in mind, we left San Francisco bay on Thursday lunchtime and made a fast pa...

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13 July – Finisterre to San Francisco Bay is just 20 miles…

By Richard. Posted on July 16th, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Spain.

42:45.52N 009:03.99W … well it is in these parts, anyway! San Francisco is a small village at the western entrance of the Ria de Muros....

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11 July – a short stop at the end of the world

By Richard. Posted on July 11th, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Spain.

42:45.525N 009:03.97W The plan for Sunday in Camarinas was to hire bikes and make our way along the coastal paths to the English Cemetery...

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8 July at Ria de Camarinas

By Richard. Posted on July 8th, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Spain.

43:08.1N 009:10.5W We spent Thursday at anchor in Corme, doing some essential admin, changing a filter on the watermaker and ‘just relax...

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5 July – Old Ferrol and the Percebes Capital of the World

By Richard. Posted on July 5th, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Spain.

43:15.8N 8:57.6W The Spanish Armada sailed from Old Ferrol and got a drubbing from Sir Francis Drake (a previous commander of the Devonp...

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29 June – 2 Jul: Backroads and beaches

By Richard. Posted on July 4th, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Spain.

43:25.54N 8:14.2W Cambados is a slightly unusual fishing port, in that the centre of town is a few hundred yards inland. There are prob...

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28 June on the Camino de Santiago

By Richard. Posted on July 1st, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Spain.

Wednesday 28 June started well. After quite a bumpy night in the marina (every fishing boat enters port at full speed and execute...

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27 June at La Coruna

By Richard. Posted on July 1st, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Spain.

43:22N 008:23.7W Tuesday 27th we made our way across the bay from Ares to the historic port city of La Coruna. We followed the massive c...

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