By Cornell Sailing on 06.10.2013
Jimmy Cornell’s new Aventura, currently in construction at the Garcia Yachting boatyard in Normandy, France, attracted much interest the Grand Pavois boat show that was held in La Rochelle recently. Here are the latest images produced by Olivier Racoupeau’s design office: …
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By Cornell Sailing on 23.09.2013
Excellent report in Yachting World magazine written by the editor David Glenn: Exploration 45: Jimmy’s dream cruiser (PDF) (Yachting World – October 2013) …
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By Cornell Sailing on 20.09.2013
We have a lot of new photos of Aventura IV, taken at the Garcia Yachting boatyard in Normandy …
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By Cornell Sailing on 09.09.2013
Jimmy Cornell believes that ocean cruising rallies can help protect the marine environment:
Read the article (PDF): Jimmy’s profile: The doyen of ocean rallies explains his new projects Yachting Monthly …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 06.09.2013
By tradition, a ship is born when its keel is laid and, in the case, of Aventura IV this took place earlier this week at the Garcia boatyard in Condé-sur-Noireau, a small village in Central Normandy. This unusual location for a boatyard, some 30 miles from the sea, is due to a decision taken by the two Garcia brothers some 40 years ago …
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By Cornell Sailing on 15.08.2013
Can we rely on the weather data anymore?
Read Jimmy Cornell’s opinion and comments, on Attainable Adventure Cruising’s website: Our Changing Oceans
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By Jimmy Cornell on 02.08.2013
A long time has passed since my last report on the progress of my new boat and I apologize for the long wait. The reason for the delay is that I felt that there was little to be added to what I had already said before all the design features had been decided and finalized. That stage has now been reached and work on the boat has started. …
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By Cornell Sailing on 30.07.2013
In preparation for a transit of the Northwest Passage, as part of the Blue Planet Odyssey, in the summer of 2014, the French boatbuilder Garcia Yachting started building my new boat last week. “Building this yacht for Jimmy Cornell is like a dream come true,” says Stephan Constance, chairman of Grand Large Yachting. “It’s like …
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By Cornell Sailing on 16.07.2013
Rick Lumpkin is at the wheel, Pablo Aguilera in the middle and Shaun Dolk on the starboard side of the boat.
On Sunday last, Blue Planet Odyssey participant Pablo Aguilera took Dr. Rick Lumpkin, …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 14.05.2013
The first report on the plans for my new boat has generated much interest, and I had several questions. I’ll deal with the most frequently asked ones first. Why aluminium? The first Aventura was a strong well built GRP boat which survived a three hour grounding on a reef on the Caicos Bank …
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By Cornell Sailing on 05.05.2013
Jimmy Cornell – Jose Calero, Puerto Calero Marinas – Luis Ibarra, President of Las Palmas Port Authority – Manuel Fajardo, Mayor of Arrecife – Pedro San Gines, Cabildo de Lanzarote – Claudio Doreste, Real …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 04.05.2013
For much of my sailing life I have been trying to find out if there was such a thing as an ideal cruising boat. With this in mind, I conducted several surveys among …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 05.03.2013
As part of my own preparations to sail through that historic passage, I have attended three highly informative lectures delivered by sailors who had transited the Northwest Passage recently. Two had sailed from east to …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 13.02.2013
London 13 February 2013
The decision for the Blue Planet Odyssey to sail through the Northwest Passage has generated a debate over the justification for a small fleet of cruising boats navigating through this …
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By Cornell Sailing on 18.01.2013
London, 18 January 2013
The Blue Planet Odyssey European team with some prospective participants.
There was a full house for the London launch of the Blue Planet Odyssey held on Thursday 17 January at the …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 10.01.2013
Gibraltar, 10 January 2013
Gibraltar waterfront
On January 2, 1991, the first round the world rally set sail from Gibraltar, the local government having given its full support to a global event that had never …
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By Cornell Sailing on 28.12.2012
Participants in all Jimmy’s previous round the world events ended up as a large family with strong bonds being forged while being part of a joint adventure. ‘I feel that the same will happen in this Odyssey,’ says Jimmy, ‘and I want to be the first to be regarded as part of that family. …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 22.11.2012
Jimmy Cornell has been conducting surveys of the global movements of cruising yachts since 1984. In this 6-part article, first published in the November 2011 issue of Cruising World, he reports …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 21.11.2012
Jimmy Cornell discusses the results of his survey on the features that make a good world cruising boat, drawing on the experience of 57 contributors to his new book World Voyage …
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By Cornell Sailing on 16.08.2012
Doina Cornell was interviewed recently by Cheryl Stonehouse of the Daily Express (UK).
If you missed the print version, you can read this excellent interview online here: The Ocean Was My Childhood Home …
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By Cornell Sailing on 28.05.2012
Jimmy Cornell answers Cruising World’s questions about his Cornell’s Ocean Atlas: Pilot Charts for All Oceans of the World. This article first appeared on the CruisingWorld website on January 10, …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 14.02.2012
Jimmy Cornell is sailing from St Martin to the Strictly Sail Miami Boat Show aboard Kitty Cat, an Outremer 49 catamaran. Here is his last report.
If you missed them, you will find his earlier …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 13.02.2012
Jimmy Cornell is sailing from St Martin to the Strictly Sail Miami Boat Show aboard Kitty Cat, an Outremer 49 catamaran. Here is the 4th of several reports that he is sending along the way.
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By Jimmy Cornell on 12.02.2012
Jimmy Cornell is sailing from St Martin to the Strictly Sail Miami Boat Show aboard Kitty Cat, an Outremer 49 catamaran. Here is the third of several reports that he is sending along the way. …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 11.02.2012
Jimmy Cornell is sailing from St Martin to the Strictly Sail Miami Boat Show aboard Kitty Cat, an Outremer 49 catamaran. Here is the second of several reports that he is sending along the way. …
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