{"id":16426,"date":"2014-12-02T23:24:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T23:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/2014\/12\/day-16-atlantic-odyssey-2\/"},"modified":"2014-12-02T23:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T23:42:00","slug":"day-16-atlantic-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/2014\/12\/day-16-atlantic-odyssey\/","title":{"rendered":"16\u00e8me jour de l&#8217;Atlantic Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Gazel Rebel<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/AO1-crossing-20-141202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"French\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Flag-French.gif\" alt=\"French\" width=\"20\" \/> <em><strong>\u00a1Cuba no! <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00c7a y est le choix est fait aujourd&#8217;hui \u00e0 12 h 10 GMT Gazel Rebel a empann\u00e9 pour prendre sa route quasi d<em>\u00e9<\/em>finitive vers la Martinique ! Fi donc de Cuba de ses nuits suaves et rythm\u00e9es baign\u00e9es dans le souvenir du Che sous l&#8217;\u00e9gide de Fidel quasi momifi\u00e9 mais coiff\u00e9 par la soeur du voisin de Damien : Jos\u00e9 Mateo (autenthique). <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>C&#8217;est donc un dernier bord de 1000 miles qui nous attend avec des vents pas tr\u00e8s forts. Pour f\u00eater cette position cl\u00e9 \u00e0 double-titre nous d\u00e9gusterons le confit de canard, accompagn\u00e9 de pommes de terre saut\u00e9es, offert par Alice et Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rik de D\u00e9hook\u00e9 (qui est bien devant nous mais o\u00f9 exactement plus au sud ? A priori nous serions les plus au nord de la flottille). <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>De la pluie est pr\u00e9vue pour demain, chouette m\u00eame sans gouttes les nuages nous abriteront du soleil (oups pardon si vous \u00eates dans la grisaille).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gazelrebel.blogspot.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\">gazelrebel.blogspot.fr<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Papy Jovial<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/AO1-PapyJovial-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"French\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Flag-French.gif\" alt=\"French\" width=\"20\" \/>\u00a0<em>La calmouille<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Cette fois ci on est bien dedans avec encore 877\u00a0milles\u00a0\u00e0 couvrir. Le vent\u00a0apparent ne d\u00e9passe plus dix noeuds et la vitesse du bateau est plus proche\u00a0de 4 que de 5 noeuds. A moins que Eole ne fasse un petit miracle, nous\u00a0risquons de n&#8217;arriver que le 10, jour de l&#8217;arriv\u00e9e de Laurence et Marianne.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cela va \u00eatre juste et nous risquons \u00e9galement de ne pas \u00eatre pr\u00eats\u00a0\u00e0\u00a0repartir le 12 pour Puerto Rico comme pr<em>\u00e9<\/em>vu. Les voiles battent bruyamment\u00a0et le bateau roule car la mer ne s&#8217;est pas encore aplatie. C&#8217;est dans ces\u00a0conditions que la patience devient plus que jamais une vertu cardinale. Il\u00a0commence aussi\u00a0\u00e0 faire chaud et on est rapidement en transpiration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Vivement mardi prochain. Nous avons encore environ 50 heures de moteur dans\u00a0<\/em><em>le r\u00e9servoir et nous comptons bien en profiter au maximum.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/papyjovial.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">papyjovial.blogspot.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Om<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/AO1-Om-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So,we are zig-zagging the ocean looking for a decent angle for the\u00a0 spinnaker. We keep the windvane system at 155-160 degrees and keep\u00a0gybing as needed. We are grateful for the sunny weather anyhow, the\u00a0galley today has produced spinach pie of first quality, tomato salad,\u00a0 fresh goat cheese, cold wine.<\/p>\n<p>I do remember the days in Arrecife with the families of the <em>Atlantic\u00a0Odyssey<\/em> with great <em>saudade<\/em>, in Italian we say <em>nostalgia<\/em>. I wish they all\u00a0could come to New Zealand and have another lunch together!<\/p>\n<p>And I want to adopt\u00a0 Jimmy Cornell, a true romantic, one of us. Me and Christian are thinking\u00a0to take him to the Bay of Islands! Without the Odyssey the second part\u00a0of our journey would not have been the same. Thanks Jimmy and team.<\/p>\n<p>Much love<br \/> Antonio<\/p>\n<h2>Sea Dragon<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/AO1-SeaDragon-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Art and our daily consumption<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Discussions on board have also centered on making visual the problems we are facing with plastics. This was further emphasized in the evening presentation by Maria, our other on-board artist. Maria shared with us pictures of her many dramatic sculptures and installations that capture the impact of humans on the environment. She has no shortage of creative raw materials and easily collects several bags of plastic daily from a small patch of beach.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/panexplore.com\/exxpedition-art-and-consumption\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/panexplore.com\/news\/ships-blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.panexplore.com\/news\/ships-blog\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Kristine<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/AO1-Kristine-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Double rainbow all the way.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Was the beautiful weather forecast right? Of course not. Duty called 5am to save the sail when the winds got crazy. The following day the winds have been very unstable and we all lack our beauty sleep, but at least nothing is broken!<\/p>\n<p>Funny thing is my brother jokingly asked me if I was ready to wake up four hours after the watch\u00a0change to work. Turned out I was.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a rainy day at sea, and we&#8217;ve been surrounded by the most intense rainbows all day. Quite a sight. Still not a day without clouds in the sky out here (is this normal?).<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, nothing happened today. At all.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re now sailing with a tougher sail and I hope to get some real sleep tonight. We even sacrificed some leftovers to Neptune and Poseidon, so it&#8217;s got to get better. Pancake day is postponed, but we&#8217;re still hanging in.<\/p>\n<p>As a protest we didn&#8217;t download a new weather forecast, so tomorrow will be &#8220;surprise day&#8221;!<br \/> Excited.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodbyeland.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.goodbyeland.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Sephina<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/AO1-Sephina-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just after midnight and the plotter just ticked over 1000M to go to Martinique. Approximately 2000M in the last two weeks so ETA should be around a week or so, give or take. Air temp is around 30 degrees and the water temp is 27.5 but the trade winds are keeping us from getting too hot. All very relaxed on board <em>Sephina<\/em>. Well there&#8217;s not much other way to be travelling 6000km at an average speed of 12km\/h<\/p>\n<p>A nice morning&#8217;s sail and we ate fresh bread for lunch with dips and cheese and tomato and salmon. Yum. Afternoon squalls had the wind variable and between 6 and 15 k so the sails were up and down a bit and a bit of motoring. We finished Aviads birthday cake \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Jen napping, Olga reading <em>&#8216;at any cost &#8211; life and death at sea&#8217;<\/em> and Aviad almost finished his 1500-1800 watch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sephinacat.blogspot.com.es\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/sephinacat.blogspot.com.es\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Seven Seas Adventure<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16067\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Seven-Seas-Adventure-640x480-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"Seven Seas Adventure (640x480)\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Seven-Seas-Adventure-640x480-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Seven-Seas-Adventure-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Seven-Seas-Adventure-640x480-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Seven-Seas-Adventure-640x480-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Seven-Seas-Adventure-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hmmm\u2026it smells fishy here<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We continued with the good weather and peaceful sailing and generally made good progress last days. We hoisted all sails we could for a while, then we switched to sailing just with our headsail as this allows us to sail at a better angle even if this means sacrificing some speed. All in all, we just passed the point where we have less than 1000 nautical miles to go (probably about 7 days to destination).<\/p>\n<p>At night, winds drop, and sailing is slow, with sails flapping with a loud bang when they get filled again by the wind. Almost depressing \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>And so were the three fish we missed during the last two days. I told you about the like-scissors-cut, lucky lure, in my last post. I gave it another chance and another fish took a bite but I lost it trying to get it on board. And again\u2026and again\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I changed the lure to one which was labeled as \u201ctuna waster\u201d. Some combination of burgundy feathers and red plastic \u201ctentacles\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>One hour later, I got a strike (as it\u2019s said in fishing terms) and after not too much fight I had on board a nice, 70-80 cm wahoo fish (I believe slightly below 2 kg). I never had one, neither fishing or in a restaurant, so I was looking forward to it. We gutted, gilled and chopped the fish and Alina wanted to cook it in the oven with vegetables and serve it with polenta.<\/p>\n<p>I reluctantly said yes, as she was dreaming of cooking the fish this way for some time already. And maybe because yesterday was the national day of Romania and a polenta would have been appropriate :).<\/p>\n<p>As the fish was small, I cast the line out again with the \u201ctuna waster\u201d. Another half an hour or so, another bite. I went to pick up the rod and I could hardly hold it. A monster! And this started the toughest fight I had with a fish until now. I don\u2019t know how long it lasted, maybe 20-30 minutes, maybe more, but I know that I was exhausted and my arms were hurting like hell. A couple of times I\u2019ve put the rod in the holder and the fish managed to almost snatch it. A few more episodes of reeling-in the fishing line and we see the monster: a quite large dorado (or Mahi-Mahi) but definitely much smaller than I thought judging by the fight. I would have preferred a tuna as this was the 4th dorado we hooked since we left Gibraltar.<\/p>\n<p>After a bit of action and we managed to get it on board. It was about 1 m long and I weighed it, just to be surprised that it was only 11kg. I am wondering, if I fought so much for a 10 kg fish, how do those people manage to catch a 50 or 100 kg tuna or marlin?<br \/> Gutting, cleaning, filleting were tedious jobs and at the end my back hurt terribly. My new, clean, clothing \u2013 as I had the other day my mid-Atlantic shower \u2013 are all stained and smelly. I took an aspirin for my back pain and rested for a while while Alina cooked the \u201cfish on a vegetable bed served with polenta\u201d. Which was delicious, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>Paul doesn\u2019t want to eat any more meat and fish as he realized that one has to kill the fish or animal in order to eat it. So part of the fishing procedure is to distract Paul\u2019s attention from the on-boarding of the fish and what follows.<\/p>\n<p>This would be the fishy stuff of the last days and as we have enough fish for a week or more, we stopped fishing. Keep your fingers crossed for the winds to be good, for us to arrive well and in time in Martinique.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sevenseasadventure.net\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.sevenseasadventure.net\/blog\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Anne<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/AO1-start-11-anne-2-st.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"German\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/flag-german.gif\" alt=\"German\" width=\"20\" \/> Sushi auf der ANNE <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Heute nur ganz kurz, ich sitze unter Deck und will nur kurz ein paar Zeilen \u00fcber die kurzweiligen 24h schreiben.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nach einer spannenden Nacht \u2013 wir hatten uns entschieden, unser Parasail mal stehen zu lassen \u2013 ging es heute geruhsamer zu.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kaum war die Dunkelheit mit Mondeslicht angebrochen, da frischte auch schon der Wind auf. Bis 20 kn und wir mitten drin mit unserem neuen Lieblingssegel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Als der Regen und die B\u00f6en einsetzten, war schnell klar, dass bei derartigem Wind ein solches Segel auch Nachteile hat \u2013 es ist einfach gro\u00df :). Als uns dann um 4 Uhr auch noch eine Regenb\u00f6e Wind mit 80 Grad vorlicherem Einfall bescherte, war klar, das ist zu viel f\u00fcr die Aventszeit, runter mit dem Segel\u2026 . Sch\u00f6ner Spa\u00df, bei Rauschefahrt und Dunkelheit auf dem Vordeck rumzuturnen\u2026 . Ende gut alles gut, der Rest der Nacht verlief schaukelig und ruhig.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Heute ging es dann in die Vollen. Erneut haben wir sehr angenehemen Wind \u2013 12-20 kn von achtern und fahren, wie klar unser neues Lieblingssegel \u2013 zumindest bist zur D\u00e4mmerung, also noch ca. 30 min.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Die Kinder hatten mit Nette das Vergn\u00fcgen und durften Vanille Kipferl backen, ich habe sie dann gegessen \ud83d\ude09 wir sind ein super Team auf der ANNE ;-)) finde ich.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dann gabs zum highlight noch zwei Bisse, jeweils Golddorade, eine um die 30cm, die andere eher 90cm \u2013 lecker. Schnell die Messer gesch\u00e4rft und dann gabs von Neele und Nette das Beste Sushi was wir je auf der ANNE hatten.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anne-ahoi.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.anne-ahoi.de<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Hapa Na Sasa<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/AO1-HapaNasa-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"German\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/flag-german.gif\" alt=\"German\" width=\"20\" \/> <strong>Tweets:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Nach einer seglerisch anstreng Nach, Boot sehr unruhig wg zu wenig Wind bei zu viel kab Welle. Jetzt unter Genacker u eben 12:00 einen<\/em><br \/><em> &#8230;70cm Mahi Mahi, schonender schneller kill, gleich filettiert, am Ruecken haette man durch den Rest Zeitung lesen koennen, Werner, du waerst<\/em><br \/><em> &#8230;stolz auf mich und zum Mittag gibt es lecker ? \ud83d\ude42 Fisch, soooo g&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/@OFF45392364\" target=\"_blank\">twitter.com\/@OFF45392364<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"morelinks\">You can see the position of the boats <a href=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/sail-the-odyssey\/atlantic-odyssey\/2014-15\/track-the-boats\/\">on the tracking map<\/a>. The weather forecast is <a href=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/sail-the-odyssey\/atlantic-odyssey\/2014-15\/weather-forecast\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gazel Rebel <\/p>\n<p> \u00a1Cuba no! <\/p>\n<p>\u00c7a y est le choix est fait aujourd&#8217;hui \u00e0 12 h 10 GMT Gazel Rebel a empann\u00e9 pour prendre sa route quasi d\u00e9finitive vers la Martinique ! 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