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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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29 Sept 2018 – Large whale and small rock

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

41:57.7N 70:39.9W Gurnet Point: the Massachusetts equivalent of Rame Head (after which our boat is named…) Plymouth Massachusetts turns ...

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27 Sept 2018 – Boston

By Richard. Posted on October 6th, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

42:21.6N 71:02W We motored to Boston on Sunday morning in a flat calm sea. There are some islands off the harbor entrance run by the Na...

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23 Sept 2018 – a spot of witchcraft, ashore and afloat

By Richard. Posted on October 4th, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

42:31.3N 70:51.9W Salem is best known for the witchcraft trials of the 1690s, but that was not our main reason for visiting. When we we...

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20 Sep 2018 – Visiting Portsmouth New Hampshire and Gloucester Massachusetts

By Richard. Posted on October 1st, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

42:31.24N 070:51.9W This particular Portsmouth (there are three in the US that I have visited, plus the one in Dominica and our own Speci...

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16 Sept – Isles of Maine Part 5 – island living and fog heading to Pompey!

By Richard. Posted on September 21st, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

43:04.4N 070:42.7W All good things must come to an end and whilst we could have loitered at Mount Desert to explore more of the Acadia N...

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11 Sep – Isles of Maine Part 4 – climbing the Desert

By Richard. Posted on September 13th, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

44:21.66N 068:19.64W On Saturday 8th, we did some serious trail walking. After an altercation with a grumpy, fat bus driver who said he...

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9 Sep – Isles of Maine Part 3 – Mount Desert Island

By Richard. Posted on September 13th, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

44:21.65N 068:19.6W Des Res on Mount Desert Island On Thursday we slid further east to Mount Desert Island and picked up a buoy off the s...

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6 Sep – Isles of Maine, Part 2: Swan’s Island

By Richard. Posted on September 13th, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

44:21.65N 068:19.65W At anchor, Mackerel Cove, Swan’s Island Escapade left Pulpit Harbour on Tuesday 4 September and headed clockwise ar...

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4 Sept – Isles of Maine Part 1

By Richard. Posted on September 9th, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

44:09.22N 068: 53.1W We left Rockland on 31 August and spent the night back at anchor in Camden. It’s only a short sail and on the way ...

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How on earth did we get here?

By Richard. Posted on September 6th, 2018 in Equipment, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

Editor’s Note: This is a technical article about the boat and our preparations for our North Atlantic trip, which others (armchair ...

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30 Aug – West to Maine, old friends and some technical stuff

By Richard. Posted on September 2nd, 2018 in Canada, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

44:05.8N 69:05.9W On our return to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, it was time to turn our attention to some defect rectification. The cooker is...

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15 Aug – exploring Nova Scotia

By Richard. Posted on August 30th, 2018 in Canada, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

43:50.25N 066:07.5W Early evening in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia Early one December morning in 1917, two ships collided in the Halifax...

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