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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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1 May – Heading west from Puerto Rico

By Richard. Posted on May 12th, 2018 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

20:57.5N 073:41W Extracts from the Ships Log… Saturday 28 April Weighed anchor and got under way around eight o’clock, threading our way...

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27 April – the passing of time, old friends and the coast of Puerto Rico

By Richard. Posted on April 28th, 2018 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

17:58N 067:02.4W Firstly, some sad news. Our friend David Williams, the Kiwi firefighter who owned a lovely Dufour ‘Te Rere’ and who we...

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22 April – exploring Old San Juan

By Richard. Posted on April 23rd, 2018 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

18:17.3N 065:38W The Friday morning drive to San Juan, on the north coast of Puerto Rico, was uneventful and uninspiring. Much of the s...

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19 April – the last Virgins

By Richard. Posted on April 23rd, 2018 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

18:19.13N 065:13.7W On Monday 16 April we moved a few hundred yards along the coast of St John into Cinnamon Bay, where there were a cou...

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15 April – a taste of America in the US Virgin Islands

By Richard. Posted on April 23rd, 2018 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

18:19N 064:57.6W We shot out of the west end of Tortola with a fresh breeze behind us and some heavy rain showers to cheer up the chaps ...

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10 April – Movin’ on from BVIs

By Richard. Posted on April 14th, 2018 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

18:19.3N 064:37.2W On Sunday 8 April we re-entered Sir Francis Drake Channel, heading south towards Norman Island, where our friends And...

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7 April – Glorious Anegada

By Richard. Posted on April 14th, 2018 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

18:43.6N 064:24.3W We had a fine sail up to Anegada, with the wind just forward of the beam and a gentle swell. Escapade seemed to reli...

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5 April – Coopers and Baths in Sir Francis Drake’s Channel

By Richard. Posted on April 14th, 2018 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

18:25.9N 064:26.7W We sailed on Thursday afternoon for Cooper Island, renowned for its snorkelling and a rather nice looking beach bar wh...

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3 April – Easter in the BVIs

By Richard. Posted on April 14th, 2018 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

18:22.4N 064:31.8W Fully victualled, we set off on Easter Day for Salt Island, just a few miles across from Road Town. We spent the res...

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1 April – scenes of destruction and reconstruction in the BVIs

By Richard. Posted on April 14th, 2018 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

18:24.9N 064:36.8W Around Gorda Sound at the end of March, it was a mixed bag: on the south shore, two 500 tonne support vessels were ha...

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28 March – an introduction to the British Virgin Islands

By Richard. Posted on April 14th, 2018 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

18:30.5N 064:23.2W 25 March, was designated a ‘maintenance day’ at anchor in Road Bay, Anguilla and we spent a reasonable amount of it i...

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25 March – (Doubly Dutch) Sint Maarten and gently British Anguilla

By Richard. Posted on March 28th, 2018 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

18:12N 063:05.6W The main mission of our trip to the Dutch side of St Martin was to find a refill for our cooking gas bottle. The shop, ...

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