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By Doina Cornell on 20.11.2024
Following Jimmy Cornell’s successful webinar on Voyage planning in a changing world, this presentation has been posted on Youtube for you to view at your convenience.
Jimmy Cornell’s Voyage planning in a changing world focuses on …
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By Doina Cornell on 23.11.2022
This year’s prize was awarded to Jimmy Cornell in recognition of his long-standing contribution to sailing and navigation by his books, rallies and own voyages over the last five decades. The awards ceremony …
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By Doina Cornell on 13.10.2022
This review was published in Flying Fish 2022/1, The Journal of the Ocean Cruising Club.
When we set off on our own voyages Jimmy Cornell’s most successful book, World Cruising …
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By Doina Cornell on 13.10.2022
This review was published in Flying Fish 2022/1, The Journal of the Ocean Cruising Club.
There are plenty of ways to plan a successful voyage, especially with the incredible amount of information available …
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By Doina Cornell on 29.09.2022
Jimmy Cornell’s memoir Sail the World With Me, as well as new editions of World Cruising Routes and World Cruising Destinations, have all been published in …
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By Doina Cornell on 11.08.2022
Jimmy Cornell writes about the new German language edition of World Cruising Routes.
Ich freue mich sehr Ihnen mitteilen zu können, dass eine neue, vollständig aktualisierte deutsche Ausgabe meines Bestsellers Segelrouten der …
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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 Doina Cornell on 11.04.2019
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 …
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By Doina Cornell on 11.03.2019
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 …
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By Doina Cornell on 07.03.2019
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 …
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By Doina Cornell on 22.02.2019
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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By Doina Cornell on 16.08.2018
Jimmy Cornell returns to Lanzarote for a new cruising seminar series, taking place in Marina Lanzarote from 12 to 14 November.
Jimmy Cornell will launch the 2018 Lanzarote seminar series with a convivial book-signing session …
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By Doina Cornell on 28.08.2016
On the eve of the departure of the Barbados 50 yachts, the Marina Parque dos Nações invited all the visiting sailors in the marina to a farewell party to celebrate their departure.
Barbados 50 …
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By Doina Cornell on 25.11.2015
The Islands Odyssey yachts made their departure from the Cape Verdes on the morning of Tuesday 24 November, setting their course west for the Caribbean island of Barbados some 2020 nautical miles away.
Although most …
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By Doina Cornell on 27.10.2015
The Blue Planet Odyssey fleet are now cruising through the Indonesian archipelago on the latest stage of their round the world trip.
After months spent in the Pacific Ocean, a few weeks in …
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By Doina Cornell on 27.10.2015
After some time in Australia, the Blue Planet Odyssey sailors are now making their way through the Indonesian archipelago, which with some 13,677 islands is the largest island group in the world. Sadly, Anne and …
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By Doina Cornell on 26.10.2015
The inaugural Islands Odyssey set sail from Marina Lanzarote on Saturday 24 October on a 30 mile hop across to Corralejo on the northern end of Fuerteventura.
On the night before departure, the skippers enjoyed …
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By Doina Cornell on 22.10.2015
Most of the yachts taking part in the inaugural Islands Odyssey have arrived in Marina Lanzarote and are enjoying a few days getting to know each other before the start on 24 October.
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By Doina Cornell on 22.09.2015
With Joyful the last boat to arrive in Australia this week, the Blue Planet Odyssey yachts have completed their transit of the Pacific Ocean. In the 9 months since the boats …
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By Doina Cornell on 02.09.2015
A stroke of convenient timing meant that the Blue Planet Odyssey cruise through Vanuatu was able to include a visit to Ambrym, and a chance to experience the 3 day Back to My Roots …
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By Doina Cornell on 30.08.2015
Vanuatu is a perfect cruising ground, with day sailing along the coast of the larger islands, or a short hop from one island to the next, making it easy to explore.
Vanuatu sunset.
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By Doina Cornell on 29.08.2015
The Blue Planet Odyssey fleet of yachts, having spread out to cruise at their own pace through the islands of the South Pacific, finally came together again in a small bay on the island of …
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By Doina Cornell on 10.08.2015
A few photos from Espirito Santo, the largest island in Vanuatu.
Doina Cornell meets Luc Callebaut for the first time after working together for 15 years on Noonsite and now Blue Planet Odyssey.
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By Doina Cornell on 08.08.2015
Landfall: Island of Aoba (Vanuatu) very different from Tuvalu.
I expect to many people the phrase ‘tropical sailing’ conjures up lolling on the foredeck catching a tan, as balmy trade winds push you across …
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By Doina Cornell on 30.07.2015
All good things come to an end, and sailors know the next port is always just over the horizon, beckoning you on.
I came to Tuvalu with little idea of what to expect, and …
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