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17 May 2016

Mel Tries to Appease the Sea Gods With Her Brilliant Prose

by Mel | posted in: Atlantic Crossing I, Highlights, To the Azores | 1

Mel has decided that Calamity is an Atlantic Sea Goddess. She is apparently quite flighty, visiting us on her whim. After causing an explosion yesterday, she has decided to lay off of us for a while. At the moment, she … Read More

16 May 2016

And the Spinnaker Is Down!

by Mel | posted in: Atlantic Crossing I, Highlights, Sailing, To the Azores | 1

Mel has another Sea Story to tell. Initially, this blog post was not going to have anything interesting in it. Things had been going well with the Parasailor up. Mel was in fact straining to be clever by composing her … Read More

15 May 2016

Spinnaker Is Up

by Mel | posted in: Atlantic Crossing I, Highlights, Sailing, To the Azores | 0

Which is why this post is short. We have some big waves coming from 150 degrees that confuse the autopilot, so it requires some surveillance. Nothing broken at the moment. Made 185 nm in last 24 hrs. Stupid Raymarine has … Read More

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