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By Doina Cornell on 30.08.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
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 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
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 Jimmy Cornell on 27.08.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
After almost two months in the High Arctic, arriving in Nuuk felt almost like coming home. As on Aventura’s two previous visits, we were welcomed warmly on arrival by the harbormaster Johannes Lindemans.
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By Jimmy Cornell on 23.08.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Map
Aventura crossed the Arctic Circle at dawn today. In the view of those who only consider a successful transit of the Northwest Passage by having crossed this symbolic gateway both on the way …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 19.08.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Fort Ross anchorage
After the excitement of having reached the Eastern Arctic, we were rewarded by a quiet night at anchor. But the euphoria was soon dampened by the prospect of the 1200 miles …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 17.08.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Sunset 16 August
In the last two days I have received many messages of congratulations for Aventura and her crew’s successful voyage. I want to thank all of you who have written, as well …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 15.08.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Aventura route 2015
Exactly one year ago, on 15 August 2014, I was forced to take the painful decision to abandon my attempt to complete a transit of the Northwest Passage, and turn around. …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 14.08.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Aventura at Gjoa Haven
Gjoa Haven is the place no sailor attempting to transit the Northwest Passage will miss as it is here that Roald Amundsen spent the first two winters of his successful …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 10.08.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Midnight sunset over Cambridge Bay
Due to the strategic location of this transportation hub in the Central Arctic, Cambridge Bay has been described as the make or break point for anyone attempting a transit …
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By Doina Cornell on 10.08.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
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 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
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 Jimmy Cornell on 05.08.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Aventura’s route in the Northwest Passage
Having passed through the Western Arctic and its ice fields much earlier in the season than we had hoped or expected, and with the ice situation still unfavourable …
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By Doina Cornell on 30.07.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
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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By Cornell Sailing on 30.07.2015
Auf Grund von technischen und logistischen Überlegungen wurden wir gezwungen, den Start der Atlantic Odyssey II von Santa Cruz de la Palma, nach Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Der Starttermin, der 9. Januar, bleibt …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 29.07.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
There is still ice about but we can sail again
In the two weeks since we had left Dutch Harbor, we passed through the Bering Strait, crossed the Arctic Circle, turned east at Point …
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By Doina Cornell on 29.07.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Three years since we launched the Blue Planet Odyssey, and more personally, thirty seven years since I was last here: the path across the ocean to Tuvalu has been a long one for …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 25.07.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Early on Thursday morning we passed Point Barrow at the northwestern extremity of Alaska. In the month since we left Seattle we have logged 3,000 miles and have now reached an important landmark on …
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By Doina Cornell on 23.07.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
We left Apia early in the morning of Thursday July 16th to the sound of drum beats echoing across the bay as a long canoe with some fifty men at the oars practised for a …
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By Doina Cornell on 21.07.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Three small coral atolls some 400 miles north west of Samoa, Tokelau is a territory of New Zealand and rarely visited by yachts.
Blue Planet Odyssey route
The low lying coral atolls make …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 20.07.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Grey misty day in the Bering Strait
In the span of six hours we have passed two significant landmarks: the Bering Strait and the Arctic Circle.
For a long time I regarded the Bering …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 17.07.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Alaska landfall
Favourable winds continued on our passage from Victoria in British Columbia to Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands. On day 11 of the 1700 mile passage, as we made landfall at Sedanka …
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By Doina Cornell on 15.07.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Last summer when I took my daughter Nera up to the Arctic to sail with her grandfather Jimmy, I promised my son Dan that I would take him to the Pacific the following year.
‘Somewhere …
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By Cornell Sailing on 07.07.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Glimpses of the island of Hiva Oa in the Marquesas during the passage of the Blue Planet Odyssey rally in April 2015.
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By S/V Chapter Two on 07.07.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Janet Hayes on Chapter Two is part of the Blue Planet Odyssey small team of volunteer sailors trained to conduct eye tests on behalf of the HIT Institute in Germany, as part of …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 06.07.2015 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Aventura’s Parasailor spinnaker emblazoned with the logos of our partners in this adventure: UNESCO, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the World Meteorological Organisation
I always say that what I like best about sailing and …
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