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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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28 Dec 2018 – Christmas in the British Virgin Islands

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

18:20.85N 64:34.5W At Nanny Cay By the time Anna turned up on Friday 21st, Escapade was ready for Christmas: we offloaded some spare g...

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21 Dec – Exploring the Virgin Islands, a sandbank and an Anniversary!

By Richard. Posted on December 22nd, 2018 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

18:28.23N 64:32.1W Christmas is nearly upon us and we have spent the last week or so in and around the British and US Virgin Islands, do...

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8 Dec – Back to the British Virgin Islands

By Richard. Posted on December 9th, 2018 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Ocean passages.

18:27.7N 64:31.6W The 1385-mile passage from Beaufort in North Carolina to the British Virgin Islands took nine days and was the second-...

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22 Nov 2018 – Passage to BVIs: 1800(local) update

By Richard. Posted on November 22nd, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Ocean passages.

24:10N 64:20W Happy Thanksgiving everyone – but especially to our American and US-based readers! We’ve had an ‘epic’ summer cruising th...

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15 Nov 2018 – Pushing south and watching the weather

By Richard. Posted on November 16th, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

34:43.4N 76:40W Heading south on 7 November, we found some wind about halfway between Reedville and Hampton Roads and with the help of ...

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7 Nov 2018 – Of Naval stuff and a return to Reedville

By Richard. Posted on November 8th, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

37:50.5N 76:16.4W Gavin’s tour of the US Naval Academy at Annapolis on Tuesday 30 October was a highlight of our time here in the US. T...

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29 Oct 2018 – Cape May to Annapolis

By Richard. Posted on November 8th, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

38:58.4N 76:28.4W In the end, the threat of the Friday night storm won over the prospect of a pleasant passage up the Delaware. Very hig...

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25 Oct 2018 – Port Washington to Cape May

By Richard. Posted on November 8th, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

38:55.1N 74:55.8W New York City viewed from the east, through the Throgs Neck Bridge All good things come to an end and we departed Port...

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23 Oct 2018 – Of Maintenance, Cautionary Tales and a Cultural Miscellany in the Big Apple

By Richard. Posted on October 23rd, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

40:49.75N 073:42.4W Later on Tuesday 16th, Julie and I went into New York for lunch with an old friend of mine from University and the N...

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15 Oct 2018 – the Connecticut shoreline

By Richard. Posted on October 23rd, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

41:21N 072:23W 10 October saw us crossing Long Island Sound and heading for Stonington in Connecticut. You have to get the tides right ...

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10 Oct 2018 – Long Island to Hell’s Kitchen and back

By Richard. Posted on October 23rd, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

41:07.2N 072:17.6W Residents of Three Mile Harbor Whilst we were keen to have a look at The Hamptons – a famous collection of neighbourho...

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3 October 2018 – Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard and a return to Newport

By Richard. Posted on October 14th, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

41:00.8N 72: 11.2W We left Plymouth in glorious sunshine, flat calm seas and hardly a breath of wind – ideal whale watching conditions b...

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