Aventura Zero
Journal 4
19 November 2020
Sailing down the Guadalquivir
We are off! Two weeks after our arrival in Seville our planned voyage along the route of the first circumnavigation has started and …
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In the few days since our arrival in Seville I have been able to look back on Aventura Zero’s maiden voyage and the overall conclusion is that it has been a very useful and …
Aventura Zero journal 2 – 5 November
The timing of our departure from Ceuta had to be very precise so as to catch the favourable west-setting current through the Straits of …
Aventura Zero journal 24 October – 2 November After two months of preparations, on Saturday 24 October Aventura Zero left La Grande Motte, seat of the Outremer boatyard, bound for Seville and …
My collaboration with Brookes & Gatehouse has a long history and goes back 34 years to the start of the first ARC (Atlantic Rally for Cruisers) in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1986. …
Aventura Zero left La Grand Motte this morning bound for Seville. Jimmy Cornell is finally on his way – looking pretty happy! You can follow Aventura Zero’s progress live on the Aventura Zero …
Last week I travelled down to France with my mother Gwenda and brother Ivan to say goodbye to my father Jimmy before he set off on his voyage around the world. I was intrigued to …
We couldn’t have picked a more miserable day to go out for our first sail on Aventura Zero. As we left the marina, low grey skies hung over the bay of La Grande Motte …
My new Aventura has been moved into a marina and while work continues on board she is now starting to look like a finished boat. The long wait came to an end this afternoon …
Sea, Sun and Taraipo by John Jameson Publihed by Grosvenor House Publishing ISBN 978-1-83975-124-0 This is the moving tale of John Jameson’s nine-year-long world voyage in a Polynesian-type catamaran; an odyssey true to the original …
Despite the disturbances caused by the Covid crisis, the Outremer boatyard managed to maintain its production schedule and launched the latest Aventura with only a slight delay. Towed by a large truck, Aventura Zero …
Work on Aventura EL.CA.NO. is progressing well, as can be seen from these photographs taken on Friday 5 June. The Outremer boatyard is now working at full capacity and it has been …
In spite of the restrictions imposed in France to deal with the current pandemic the Outremer boatyard in La Grande Motte, in the south of France, has managed to function at 70% capacity throughout …
We’ve now put online all of the corrections that have been made in the reprint of the fully revised 8th edition of World Cruising Routes published in the summer of 2019. These also include …
Due to the impact of Coronavirus across Europe, Amazon is not currently accepting new inventory of books. You can still continue to buy our books, but if stocks run low there may be a delay …
Old Seville Quarter of a century after the successful voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World, Seville was on its way to becoming the busiest port in the world as ships started arriving …
This year’s Düsseldorf boat show attracted a record number of 250,000 visitors and provided an ideal opportunity to bring the EL.CA.NO. project to a larger audience. Presentations in German and English were held on …
The largest and most diverse boat show in the world, held at Düsseldorf in Germany every January, opened its doors last Saturday. Once again we had a prime location on the Garcia Yachting stand, but …
The start of a new year – and a new decade – is a logical time to launch a new project. Having celebrated the 500thanniversaries of the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1992 and Vasco …
To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the first round the world voyage, Jimmy Cornell is preparing to sail the historic route of the first circumnavigation achieved by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastian Elcano. In fact, …
Europe’s and possibly the world’s largest in-water boat show opened yesterday in this historic port on the French Atlantic coast. Once again, this annual boat fest is showing off the unparalleled range of France’s thriving …
For the last 10 years the French boat-building group Le Grande Large has held each spring a seminar in Paris aimed at sailors preparing to leave on a world voyage. Many of those present …
Vous rêvez de partir naviguer autour du monde mais certaines de vos interrogations n’ont pas encore trouvé de réponses ? Le séminaire Grande Croisière est l’évènement que vous attendez pour découvrir le voyage au long …
We are very sad to report that our colleague Sylvie Branton has passed away in Grenada yesterday. Sylvie designed the Cornell Sailing website and the previous Cornell Sailing Events websites, and has been managing them …
Haiyou and Kama in Antarctica Chris de Veyrac, the owner of Haiyou, sent us this report: Haiyou and Kama caught up in Port Lockroy in the Antarctic Peninsula in January this year. It was the second time …
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