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Showing posts with label Fort Lauderdale trip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fort Lauderdale trip. Show all posts
Saturday, 29 September 2012

Epilogue

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-->   We arrived at Fort Lauderdale after motor-sailing through the night. The extra diesel that we got from the passing ship help...
Monday, 17 September 2012

3rd Leg Day 11: Pumpkin Fritters And A Storm

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Yesterday we bent to our cleaning tasks. The boat now looks like a new boat again. Even the mooring lines are clean. We were able to mo...

3rd Leg Day 10: The Big Cleanup, Last Puri And A RAS Exercise

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RAS is an acronym for Replenishment At Sea. We did that today. We hailed a passing ship by the name of Carib Trader on the VHF radio a...

3rd Leg Day 9: Final Risotto And Planning For Handover

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The contents of our freezer on board are now really on the last legs. About one third of a head of cabbage, the last scraps of the last...
Sunday, 16 September 2012

3rd Leg Day 8: Decommissioning And A Magical Sail

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Last night ended with a burst of excitement. The wind came up towards sunset and we raised the mainsail in anger for the first time on the...

3rd Leg Day 7: Persisting Doldrums And Puri

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Puri Puri is the collective name for bread fried in oil. You can make bread in several ways. With or without leavening. Then bake it in...

3rd Leg Day 6: A Flare Over An Oily Sea and Sticky Spicy Fish

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The day again dawned sweltering hot. A portetn of things to come. The breeze that sprung up yesterday petered out to nothing during the ni...

3rd Leg Day 5: Waiting For The Wind And Other Decisions

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How far can you motor on 100 liters of diesel? How much food is left over? How far still to go? How much counter current can we expect? Wh...

3rd Leg Day 4: Another Loaf And A Visit from The Birds

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We were all a bit weary from yesterday's dismal daily run this morning. The day dawned with some promise of wind, a small network of lit...