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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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12 Feb – Goodby Grenadines, Hello Rodney (Bay)

By Richard. Posted on February 17th, 2018 in Caribbean – Windward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

14:04N 060:57W Port Elizabeth, Admiralty Bay, Bequia, The Grenadines. A good spot. It really is a short sail from Mustique to Port Eliz...

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4 Feb – Music in Mustique

By Richard. Posted on February 10th, 2018 in Caribbean – Windward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

12:52.6N 061:11.3W It’s a short sail from Canouan to Mustique, but upwind and across the prevailing currents and Atlantic swell, so you ...

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2 Feb – Canouan, the haves and have nots

By Richard. Posted on February 6th, 2018 in Caribbean – Windward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

12:42.45N 061:19.7W So, with the outboard motor fully serviceable, my back easing gently and enough tuna in the fridge to start a small ...

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31 January – Union Island Blues

By Richard. Posted on February 5th, 2018 in Caribbean – Windward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

12:35.7N 061:25W Chatham Bay is on the west side of Union Island and famously inaccessible by land. In recent years, a road has been bu...

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25 Jan – Return to Carriacou

By Richard. Posted on January 31st, 2018 in Caribbean – Windward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

12:36.2N 061:27W Julie’s return was like a second Christmas – in more ways than one! Alongside the Red Cross delivery of tea and chocol...

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19 Jan – ‘Just liming’ in Grenada

By Richard. Posted on January 21st, 2018 in Caribbean – Windward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

12:00.4N 061:44.1W With the departure of the Young People, we were in theory ready to head north. We returned to Port Louis Marina and ...

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6 January – Exploring Grenada

By Richard. Posted on January 17th, 2018 in Caribbean – Windward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

12:00N 61:45.9W We cured the New Year hangovers with a roadtrip to the north east coast of Grenada and the Belmont Estate. Before Hurri...

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1 January 2018 – a Grenadian New Year

By Richard. Posted on January 15th, 2018 in Caribbean – Windward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

12:02N 061:45W Eventually, after 11 days away from Port Louis Marina, we started to run low on fresh water. The watermaker has been act...

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28 Dec 2017 – Do turtles vote for Christmas in the Grenadines?

By Richard. Posted on January 7th, 2018 in Caribbean – Windward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

12:38N 061:21.2W Carriacou is pretty much the northern limit of Grenada, so we devoted a morning to the nice people at Immigration and Cu...

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21 December: Grenadan Spice – Part 1

By Richard. Posted on December 27th, 2017 in Caribbean – Windward Islands, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

12:29.4N 061:29.6W The Carenage, St Georges Harbour, Grenada The marina at St Georges is quintessentially Caribbean- American. In a bea...

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10 December – A Transatlantic Two-handed Escapade

By Richard. Posted on December 19th, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Ocean passages.

12:00N 061:44.5W Speeding west… After some last-minute admin stuff on Saturday 25 November, we sailed from the anchorage at Mindelo, Cap...

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Passage to Grenada – 8 December 1900UTC position

By Richard. Posted on December 8th, 2017 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, Ocean passages.

12:00N 59:05W With just under 160 miles to run to the south coast of Grenada this ought to be our last night at sea for a while! We had...

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