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ANEMONE<\/em>
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DREAMCATCHER<\/em>
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KRABAT<\/em>
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LADY JANE<\/em>
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MOJITO<\/em>
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MR GREY<\/em>
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RUBICON<\/em>
\n Johan & Lisa Persson <\/a><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/pages\/IO-P-2017-Tamoure-thb.jpg\")
TAMOUR\u00c9<\/em>
\n Martin Kramp & Caroline Bodet <\/a><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/pages\/IO-P-2017-Voyageur-thb.jpg\")
VOYAGEUR<\/em>
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Lars & Marie Westin Anemone<\/span><\/h2>\n
<\/p>\nWe are a married couple for 36 years with four grownup children and five grandchildren. Marie works as a midwife and Lars as a senior lecturer in nursing. Our interest in sailing started about ten years ago. Anemone<\/span> is our third boat.<\/p>\n
We started our sailing adventures on the big Swedish lake V\u00e4nern. We have had many nice summer memories of landing in small nature harbors. The last two years we have been around the Swedish coasts with some trips to Denmark and Norway. During this period the idea of going out for longer sailing trips was formulated in our minds. Now we are happy to realize this dream of going away for a one year trip.<\/p>\n
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Henning & Pernille Laursen Dreamcatcher<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nWe are a family of 4 who have decided to travel the world for 3 years. Our plans are pretty loose\u2026 we will go where the wind blows and the sun is shining.<\/p>\n
Our boat was born with the name Dream Catcher<\/span>, and when buying the boat last year we decided to keep the name as it reflects our journey… catching dreams.<\/p>\n
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William Tee & Moira Shaw Krabat<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nWhile holidaying in Minorca, we would enjoy the sun set with a glass in hand overlooking the picturesque fishing harbour and small marina near to where we were staying. We were fascinated with the ease and sometimes slight mishaps of mooring up as boats returned after a day\u2019s sail.<\/p>\n
Bill suddenly turned to me and asked if I would like to learn to sail? It all looked very romantic and quite appealing but I gave it little thought after that. Holiday over and now back to the everyday madness of work and domestic life with 6 teenage children.<\/p>\n
One evening Bill arrived home announcing with great excitement that he had found an adult learning course for us to enrol onto. I looked at him completely blank. \u201cYou know<\/em>\u201d he said \u201cwe talked about it on holiday<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n
Suddenly the penny dropped and I realised with horror he was wanting us ‘both’ to enrol onto a sailing course.
\n \u201cNo Bill, it was just holiday talk\u201d <\/em>I said.
\n \u201cBut it wasn\u2019t for me, I was serious<\/em>!\u201d he exclaimed.<\/p>\nI certainly couldn’t have imagined when we started learning to sail in 2006 and later when we purchased our first (and only) boat “Krabat<\/span>\u201d in 2007, that we would be joining the Islands Odyssey<\/em> rally.\u00a0 We are really looking forward to making new friends, hearing other people’s sailing stories and learning from everyone’s wealth of experience.<\/p>\n
“Krabat<\/em>” is a fictional character from a children’s folklore ‘The Satanic Mill’ written by Otfried Preu\u00dfler. Set in the early 17th century, the story follows the life of Krabat, a 14-year old beggar boy who begins an apprenticeship as a miller\u2019s man.<\/p>\n
He realises that he and the other millers, who were once ‘journeymen’ can never leave the mill as the master holds Black Magic powers. Krabat learns that for the master to retain his powers he must sacrifice one journeyman every New Year’s Eve.<\/p>\n
Krabat secretly trains to increase his own magic powers so he can fight the master. In breaking the spell Krabat became known as the protector of travellers.<\/p>\n
We loved the story and couldn\u2019t think of a better name!<\/p>\n
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Allen & Maria Wadsworth Lady Jane<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nI blame Red Letter Days<\/p>\n
Our sailing adventures started many years ago with a small gift from Maria to Allen of a sailing experience in the Solent. The fulfilment of a long-held ambition to step aboard a sailing yacht.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was a beautiful evening of sunshine and light winds, good company, fine food, followed by a glass of celebratory wine back at the marina just to round things off.<\/p>\n
And Allen was hooked.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So much so that he told Maria he wanted to buy a boat and sail off into the sunset – or at least into the Solent. A passing phase, Maria thought, after the previous enthusiasm for motor cycles and camping holidays. She is still waiting for the phase to pass 15 years later.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sailing has stuck and that small gift has changed both our lives in a big way.<\/p>\n
After several sailing holidays in the Mediterranean and many years of boat ownership, Maria’s ambitions and enthusiasm for sailing has more than caught up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We are both lovers of travel and the sea, and have always tried to squeeze in visits to as many new places as possible during our working lives. A spell working in Singapore added greater impetus to our drive to see places less well travelled… and gave us a taste of life in the tropics.<\/p>\n
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And now after long careers in IT (Allen) and Finance (Maria) we are planning to explore as much of our planet as we can – at least the warm bits – starting by crossing the Atlantic with the Islands Odyssey<\/em> in our much-loved Moody 425.<\/p>\nAlthough we don’t know the origin of Lady Jane<\/span> ‘s name (she has always been called that) we quite like it – and given that Jane is Maria’s middle name, we couldn’t possibly consider changing it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We chose to cross the Atlantic with the Islands Odyssey<\/em> because of a combination of factors: the social side of the rally, its non-competitive nature, value for money, and its size. And of course the extensive knowledge and experience of the Cornell clan!<\/p>\n
We intend to keep a blog<\/strong> of our travels on our website:\u00a0untilthebuttermelts.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n
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Gerrit & Pascale Bauer Mojito<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nWe are Gerrit (*1959) and Pascale (*1964), we come from a little village at the north coast of Germany and we have two adult children.<\/p>\n
We love the ocean, the nature, new challenges and to meet likeminded people. That\u2019s the reason why we are happy to sail the Islands Odyssey<\/em>. We are glad to have a year full of experiences, sailing and to get to know new places like the Canaries, the Caribbean, the Azores, Cape Verde Islands, Bermudas and Portugal.<\/p>\n
Our catamaran \u201cMojito<\/span>\u201c is a Privilege 445, built in the year 2007.<\/p>\n
The reason for the name \u201cMojito<\/em>\u201c was a travel to Cuba a few years ago, where we chartered a catamaran. We were excited to live on a catamaran, to get a new attitude to life. And of course, the taste of the cocktail Mojito. At that time we decided, if we\u2019ll find \u201cour\u201c catamaran, we are going to name it \u201cMojito\u201c!<\/p>\n
The origin of the word comes from the African term \u201cmojo\u201c, which came with the african slaves to America. Mojo describes a small bag filled with herbs and items, which was worn under the clothes as a talisman. The term \u201cMojito\u201c is a minimization of \u201cmojo\u201c and means \u201clittle magic\u201c.<\/p>\n
For us, our catamaran \u201cMojito\u201c is a \u201clittle magic\u201c every day.<\/p>\n
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Jan & Sabine S\u00f8rensen Mr Grey<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nWe met each other in Hamburg Germany in 2009 and we quickly realized that we share the same dream \u2013 sailing around the world.<\/p>\n
Sabine is a Swabian landlubber and except for the Bodensee she has not had much to do with the water. Her uncle who is Captain and Pilot sometimes brought Sabine along with him on the ships he commanded. She wanted to sail \u2013 become a ships cook and sail around the world on a sailboat.<\/p>\n
Jan is Danish and he started sailing when he was about 5 years old in an Optimist. Since he can remember, he has had the dream of sailing around the world \u2013 Danish waters are nice but small he thinks.<\/p>\n
We have three kids, Jan a daughter (24) and Sabine a daughter (19) and a son (22). Our kids are already standing on their own feet which enables us to follow our dream.<\/p>\n
Our boat is a Hanse 505<\/em> called Mr. Grey<\/span> \u2013 named so by the previous owner. The name gives us a lot of attention whereever we go and now as we have both gotten used to the name, we don\u2019t want to change it.<\/p>\n
We are really looking forward to meeting other likeminded people with Cornell Sailing<\/em> and to share theirs and our experiences.<\/p>\n
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Johan & Lisa Persson Rubicon<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nMy wife and I are in our early fifties and are retired or on sabbatical, we will see. Lisa has worked in advertising and I have worked in logistics.\u00a0 We have 2 children, Matilda (22 years)\u00a0and Marcus (20). Both are now studying at university and we saw a window of opportunity! We hope that they will visit us frequently.<\/p>\n
We got the idea to longterm cruise about ten years ago and have been planning and dreaming\u00a0ever since. Lisa usually makes jokes that I am quite theoretical so I think I have read just about everything one can, including most of Jimmy Cornell’s books. Lisa and I also met Jimmy last year in Hen\u00e5n in Sweden at a seminar\u00a0and that is where we decided to try and join one of the Cornell rallies<\/em>.<\/p>\n
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Our boat, Rubicon<\/span>, is a Mal\u00f6 39 from 1999 that we have owned since 2010.<\/p>\nThe boat’s name comes from the story in the ancient Roman empire. In northern Italy there was a river called “Rubicon<\/em>“. When Julius\u00a0Ceasar returned from one of his great conquests he camped with his army at the banks of Rubicon.<\/p>\n
He knew that he was not allowed to cross Rubicon<\/em> with his army unless asked to do so by the emperor. Defying this was considered an attempted Coup d’Etat. He waited for three days and was expecting a heros welcome and a victory parade in Rome. No word came from the emperor.<\/p>\n
Furious,\u00a0Caesar then decided to cross the river with his army anyway and challenge the emperor. Before he crossed he uttered the famous words: “Alea Iacta Est<\/em>” meaning the dice have been cast and the game can commence.<\/p>\n
The result was civil war and Ceasar eventually became emperor of Rome. Ever since then crossing Rubicon<\/em> has meant that there is no return and one can’t back down and we found that an appropriate name for our boat.<\/p>\n
We are looking forward to this adventure and\u00a0expect to meet\u00a0lots of interesting people from different backgrounds. We have spent the last 2 years equipping the boat and we think (hope)\u00a0we are ready!<\/p>\n
We have a blog<\/strong> if anybody is interested: syrubicon.wordpress.com<\/a>.
\n <\/em>It is in Swedish but Google translate can solve that. Hope to see you soon!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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Martin Kramp & Caroline Bodet Tamour\u00e9<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nWe are a German-French family of 5 and normally live close to Brest in France. Nils our youngest will celebrate his 6th birthday after the Atlantic crossing, Luna and Zo\u00e9 are 9 year old twins.<\/p>\n
We, Caroline and Martin, met in Martinique many years ago on a boat, and we always dreamed about family ocean sailing. In 2006, before we had our children, we sailed from Hamburg to Mexico on a sistership of Jimmy Cornell\u2019s \u201cAventura III<\/em>\u201d. Martin\u2019s first Atlantic crossing even goes back to the late 90s, already with a Cornell-organized rally.<\/p>\n
Now working as coordinator for ocean observing systems and in need of contributions from volunteer sailors, Martin contacted Jimmy Cornell in 2013 when the new Odyssey<\/em> series was launched, and together they set up a partnership <\/a>with UNESCO\u2019s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission<\/em>; we are more than happy to become now ourselves active members of the Odyssey<\/em> family.<\/p>\n
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Our boat is a 2005 built Fountaine Pajot Lavezzi 40 catamaran in a 4 cabin version, which we believe is an excellent solution with 3 children on board.<\/p>\nIts name was from the beginning Tamour\u00e9<\/span>, a traditional dance in Polynesia. We liked the name so decided not to change it, in particular given that Tamour\u00e9<\/em> already successfully sailed on our route three times in the past, with former owners.<\/p>\n
We plan to be back in Brest early July 2018.<\/p>\n
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4 years ago we bought our sixth boat,