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By Cornell Sailing on 15.01.2015
The boats Blue Wind and Lovesail arrived yesterday in Le Marin, so now the Blue Planet Odyssey and Pacific Odyssey fleet are now all assembled in Martinique and preparing to begin the grand adventure …
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By Cornell Sailing on 15.01.2015
The first Blue Planet Odyssey yachts arrive in Montego Bay, Jamaica today, after a relatively fast passage from Key West on 10th January.
Chapter Two
CHAPTER TWO leaving Key West
14th January Passing …
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By Cornell Sailing on 12.01.2015
In a fresh northeasterly wind the Blue Planet Odyssey yachts left Stock Island Village Marina at 12 noon on Saturday 10th January.
Boats leaving Key West
Leading the fleet out of the marina was …
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By Cornell Sailing on 10.01.2015
Photo: Jan Irons – Cruising World
A fleet of yachts will leave Key West in Florida and Martinique on 10 January 2015, as part of the Blue Planet Odyssey round the world …
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By Cornell Sailing on 09.01.2015
Preparations are underway to leave at noon on Saturday.
Last night a detailed skippers briefing was held with information on sailing to the next destinations: Montego Bay, Jamaica, San Blas Islands and Shelter Bay Marina, …
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By Cornell Sailing on 09.01.2015
Nice announcement of Blue Planet Odyssey on Cruising World website (Don’t miss the slideshow!)
By Cornell Sailing on 09.01.2015
The fleet of Blue Planet Odyssey and Pacific Odyssey yachts are getting ready to leave on the greatest adventure of their lives on 10th January 2015. The first leg of the Odyssey will …
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Round Hill Elementary School, in Loudoun County, VA (USA) is partnering with Jeff and Anne Posner of the Blue Planet Odyssey, Sail the Odyssey adventure. Students and staff will follow the Posners …
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By Doina Cornell on 02.12.2014
As part of the Sail the Odyssey science program, during our 2014 summer voyage to Greenland and the Canadian High Arctic with the Blue Planet Odyssey, we tried to photograph …
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By Cornell Sailing on 01.12.2014
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By S/V No Regrets on 24.11.2014
Tim Liveright on No Regrets is one of the Blue Planet Odyssey Ambassadors who has set up links with his local schools in Pennsylvania so they can follow the Blue Planet Odyssey around the …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 03.11.2014
During this summer I completed a 8500-miles voyage in the North Atlantic that took me from London, UK, to Annapolis, USA, via Greenland and Arctic Canada. Throughout this voyage I used exclusively C-map …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 26.10.2014
When I first transited the Panama Canal in 1977 it was still under US administration, cruising boats were a negligible minority, a fraction of the roughly 1,000 yachts that nowadays transit the canal every year. By 1991, when we arrived with the first round the world rally, …
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By Cornell Sailing on 21.10.2014
Crowds flocked to Marina Lanzarote for the grand opening on Saturday October 18, where local and regional public officials led by Paulino Rivero, President of the Canarian Government lauded Mr. Jose Calero’s most impressive …
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By Cornell Sailing on 20.10.2014
Photo: Russ Dillingham/ Sun Journal
Blue Planet Odyssey participant Zeke Holland (S/V No Regrets) talked to Lewiston middle school students (Maine, USA) Friday morning about his upcoming 2½-year journey around the world.
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By S/V Ransom on 03.10.2014
Ransom is being worked on BIG TIME, but she is in Newport and we are four hours away.
Tim & Ceci King: Jimmy’s book says we should stop there.
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By S/V Strangetrader on 01.10.2014
At present we are in Gibraltar and just had our hydrovane fitted, an amazing bit of kit that is not easy to fit but sounds as if it will be very efficient. We have also spent the last few weeks sorting the boat out and …
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By Cornell Sailing on 29.09.2014
In preparation for his forthcoming circumnavigation with the Blue Planet Odyssey round the world rally, Jimmy Cornell completed this summer a grueling test of his new 45 foot Aventura, …
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By Cornell Sailing on 29.09.2014
(photo: Emily Penn aboard Drina)
Michael Thurston, the owner of the Australian yacht Drina, sent us a message from Nome, Alaska, to inform us that he and his crew had reached the Pacific Ocean …
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By Doina Cornell on 20.09.2014
As world leaders gather for the United Nations climate summit on Tuesday 23 September, around the globe ordinary individuals will be making their voice heard this Sunday for a Global Day of Climate …
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By Doina Cornell on 15.09.2014
The island of Bora Bora, French Polynesia
Three-times President of French Polynesia, Gaston Tong Sang, and current mayor of Bora Bora, has written a strong letter of support for the Blue Planet Odyssey, …
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By Cornell Sailing on 14.09.2014
We just received an unconfirmed report that Drina arrived in Tuktoyaktuk on Saturday, and are continuing from here to Alaska.
By Jimmy Cornell on 14.09.2014
We made landfall Saturday morning at 0900 local time as we passed Race Point at the entrance into Cape Cod Bay. Since leaving St John’s less than one week ago we had covered …
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By Cornell Sailing on 03.09.2014
Michael Thurston reports:
We arrived Gjoa on Monday morning to find it was a long weekend for Labor Day Holiday so everything was closed. We did however manage to clear in to Canada and …
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By Cornell Sailing on 31.08.2014
An update on progress and some thoughts from Michael Thurston on Drina.
Michael Thurston and Jimmy Cornell aboard Drina
After being beset in ice at Port Leopold due to a wind contrary to the …
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