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By Jimmy Cornell on 20.12.2020
“Marinheiros da Esperança”
ISBN 978-989-8159-97-7
London, 20 December 2020
Aventura Zero is having a rest on the Outremer pontoon La Grande Motte, while I have returned to London to get my Covid vaccination and …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 19.12.2020
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By Jimmy Cornell on 12.12.2020
Journal 8
La Grande Motte
12 December 2020
Our first Mediterranean dawn
The Straits of Gibraltar marked the halfway point of our winter passage from the Canaries to Southern France. The winds continued to …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 12.12.2020
If you are looking to discover a sugar baby in Pa then you have come to the right place. Wherever you live in the point out of Pennsylvania, there are sure to be a …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 08.12.2020
Strait of Gibraltar
5 December 2020
The decision to turn around was quickly implemented and within hours we were on our way north with a favourable SW wind whisking us along. As I turned …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 02.12.2020
My decision to abandon the Elcano Challenge has taken by surprise many of those who have been following my voyage, and I want to apologise to all of you for the disappointment this may …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 30.11.2020
On the passage from Sevilla to Tenerife we had a technical problem which we were hoping to solve on arrival. Unfortunately it turned out to be much more serious than we had expected and rather …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 28.11.2020
Aventura Zero
Journal 5
28 November 2020
Landfall! As we sighted the massive bulk of Tenerife from 37 miles distance we realised that our slow eight-day passage from Seville was getting close to its …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 19.11.2020
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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By Jimmy Cornell on 10.11.2020
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 …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 06.11.2020
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 …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 03.11.2020
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 …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 26.10.2020
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.
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By Cornell Sailing on 24.10.2020
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 …
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By Doina Cornell on 24.10.2020
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 …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 04.10.2020
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 …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 07.09.2020
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 …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 30.08.2020
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 …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 25.08.2020
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 …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 09.06.2020
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 …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 20.04.2020
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 …
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By Cornell Sailing on 08.04.2020
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 …
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By Cornell Sailing on 03.04.2020
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 …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 18.02.2020
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 …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 30.01.2020
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 …
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