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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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24 March – St Martin – split personality?

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

18:04.2N 063:05.6W We could have stayed longer at Montserrat to do some walking, but we had seen the ‘main attraction’ (the volcano) and...

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20 March – discovering Montserrat

By Richard. Posted on March 24th, 2018 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

16:48.1N 062:12.5W We walked across to Nelson’s Dockyard to complete Customs and Immigration formalities out of Antigua. First thing in...

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18 March – Further Escapades in Antigua

By Richard. Posted on March 19th, 2018 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

17:04.6N 061:40.3W The expensive corner of Falmouth Harbour, viewed from the top of the mast There are three or four ‘marinas’ in Falmou...

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13 March – Colour, cricket and chillin’ in Antigua

By Richard. Posted on March 19th, 2018 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

17:00.8N 061:46.4W Despite the unusual disturbances, we decided to stay in Freeman Bay overnight. Nelson’s Dockyard in English Harbour ...

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8 March – Marie Galante, Guadeloupe and English Harbour

By Richard. Posted on March 16th, 2018 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

17:00.2N 061:45.6W The anchorage at Marie Galante By Saturday morning the wind had gone around to the south west and dropped. We set of...

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3 March – Les Iles des Saintes

By Richard. Posted on March 16th, 2018 in Caribbean – Leeward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

15:51N 061:37.3W In terms of sightseeing, there was not a great deal more that we could have done in Dominica, apart from tour disaster ...

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28 Feb – Dominica: Bonto’s story

By Richard. Posted on March 8th, 2018 in Caribbean – Windward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

15:34.6N 061:27.6W On Wednesday 28 February we were up early and met Bonto at 0700 to cruise up the Indian River in his boat. It’s a Na...

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27 Feb – First impressions of Dominica

By Richard. Posted on March 8th, 2018 in Caribbean – Windward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

15:34.6N 061:27.6W Shortly after we were secured off the beach at Portsmouth, Dominica a boat boy named Bonto showed up. ‘Welcome to ou...

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27 Feb – Windward to Leeward

By Richard. Posted on March 8th, 2018 in Caribbean – Windward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

14:44.1N 061:10.7W The passage up the west coast of Martinique to St Pierre from Anse d’Arlet was splendid: for the first time for sever...

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26 Feb – Breaking out of Marin

By Richard. Posted on March 2nd, 2018 in Caribbean – Windward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

14:29.3N 061:04.9W Whilst we waited for Jacques to do his wizardry and the nice chaps at North Sails to make a more professional repair o...

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22 Feb – Marinading in Martinique

By Richard. Posted on March 2nd, 2018 in Caribbean – Windward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

14:27.9N 060:52.3W The sail up to Martinique was pretty straightforward, close hauled on starboard tack with a couple of reefs all the w...

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16 Feb – St Lucia

By Richard. Posted on February 25th, 2018 in Caribbean – Windward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

14:04.45N 060: 57W St Lucia turned out to be a good place to wait for watermaker parts. Although our first attempt to go by road to the...

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