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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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11 June – from Charleston to the Chesapeake

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

36:55.4N 076:11.3W Thursday 7 June was another beautiful sunny day in South Carolina. Paul Watkins came over in the morning and I did m...

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7 June – Exploring Charleston, South Carolina

By Richard. Posted on June 15th, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

32:46.55N 079:57.2W [First off, an apology. The boat computer has ‘upgraded’ itself and now my Adobe Photoshop doesn’t work. So for th...

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31 May – Georgia on my mind?

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

31:09.4N 081:30W The weather forecast for the weekend in St Augustine was rather mixed: fine on Saturday, but the tail end of tropical S...

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26 May – Heading North along Florida’s Atlantic coast

By Richard. Posted on June 7th, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

29:53.6N 081:18.6W We sailed from Key West at sunset, appropriately enough for the self-styled ‘home of the sunset’. It’s a great place...

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20 May – Of Mustangs and cats in the Florida Keys

By Richard. Posted on June 3rd, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

24:33.9N 81:48.2W On Saturday 19th, we embarked on our first US road trip. You have to do these things properly, so we hired a bright r...

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18 May – discovering the Conch Republic and the Dry Tortugas

By Richard. Posted on June 3rd, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

24:33.9N 81:48.1W It’s just 90 miles to Key West and the passage should have been pretty straightforward. Indeed it was, until daylight...

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13 May – images of rural Cuba

By Richard. Posted on May 30th, 2018 in Cuba, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

23:05.3N 082:30.1W On Sunday, our last day in Cuba, we returned to Marina Hemingway via an UNESCO biosphere reserve called Las Terrazas....

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12 May – Heading west in Cuba

By Richard. Posted on May 30th, 2018 in Cuba, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

23:05.3N 082:30.1W The journey from Havana to Viñales took about two and a half hours along a reasonably well maintained, almost empty du...

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10 May – Havana Main Course

By Richard. Posted on May 30th, 2018 in Cuba, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

23:05.3N 082:30.1W On Thursday, we enlisted Rafia as a guide and returned to the city centre to ‘do the sights’. The weather was threate...

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9 May – Havana Aperitif

By Richard. Posted on May 30th, 2018 in Cuba, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

23:05.3N 082:30.1W The morning after our arrival at Marina Hemingway, a car picked us up and whisked us off to breakfast with the Pakista...

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8 May – This Cruising Life… a Cuban Adventure Part 2

By Richard. Posted on May 20th, 2018 in Cuba, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

23:05.34N 082:30W Returning to the boat from Raphael Freyre, we met our new neighbour Frederik and his crew Francoise. A Swedish hortic...

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3 May – an introduction to Cuba

By Richard. Posted on May 17th, 2018 in Cuba, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

21:04.3N 075:57.3W So we sailed for Cuba at sunset on 1 May. That night, the wind rose from the north east, gradually veered into the e...

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