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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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14 April 2019 – on passage to the Azores

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

19:09.5N 61:37W Sailed from Jolly Harbour later afternoon into a fresh Easterly. We cleared the north west corner of Barbuda before midn...

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13 April 2019 – Return to Antigua and off to the Azores

By Richard. Posted on April 13th, 2019 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

17:04.2N 61:53.1W I returned to Antigua and Escapade on 27 March, a month to the day since returning to England. Our time at home went q...

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12 March 2019 – Jolly Harbour and back to Blighty

By Richard. Posted on March 17th, 2019 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

On 22 February, we moved a few miles east to anchor between Rabbit and Red Head islands. There are some mooring buoys to the north, off ...

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20 Feb 2019 … and chasing chicks in Barbuda

By Richard. Posted on February 22nd, 2019 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

17:39N 61:51.4W The following morning we raided the Jolly Harbour supermarket in the hope of finding a few non-essentials and eventually ...

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18 Feb 2019 – playing boats in Antigua

By Richard. Posted on February 22nd, 2019 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

17:04.4N 61:53.75W On Thursday 7th, we set off north to Antigua. Half a mile out to sea, as Julie filled in the log, she realised that ...

5 Feb 2019 – exploring Guadeloupe

By Richard. Posted on February 22nd, 2019 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

16:18.5N 61:47.9W On Monday 4 February, the Askaris joined us to venture ashore early and find a hire car to explore the island – or at ...

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3 February 2019 – climbing masts and drinking with hummingbirds

By Richard. Posted on February 22nd, 2019 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

16:18.5N 61:47.9W On 29 January, having failed to outwit the phone or internet, we tracked down the Wickhams Cay Riggers (who are Selden...

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28 Jan 2019 – Exploring St Croix and an unplanned return to the BVIs

By Richard. Posted on January 31st, 2019 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

18:21.4N 064:34.8W We picked up the generator part on Tuesday morning at St Croix Marine, a small marina facility on the eastern shore o...

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22 Jan – St John and on…

By Richard. Posted on January 31st, 2019 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

17:45.12N 064:41.75W We spent the night across the Sir Francis Drake Channel at Peter Island and on Thursday sailed west and south to Cr...

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18 Jan 2019 – Diving, flying, grinding and filling in the BVIs

By Richard. Posted on January 31st, 2019 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

18:23.86N 064:38.2W On this occasion (11 January) snorkelling at Jost van Dyke proved to be a non-starter due to a strong swell coming d...

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9 Jan – revisiting Anegada and the Baths

By Richard. Posted on January 10th, 2019 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

18:27.15N 64:42.8W Saturday was Anna and Matt’s last day so we rose early and sailed down to The Baths, on the north side of Virgin Gord...

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4 Jan 2019 – New Year and beyond in the BVIs

By Richard. Posted on January 10th, 2019 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

18:30.45N 64:21.44W Great Harbour, Jost van Dyke The boys turned up as planned on Saturday night and Sunday morning, so by lunchtime on ...

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