All posts about: Passage making


Jimmy Cornell's Voyage Planning Now Available On Youtube

Following Jimmy Cornell’s successful webinar on Voyage planning in a changing world, this presentation has been posted on Youtube for you to view at your convenience.

Jimmy Cornell’s Voyage planning in a changing world focuses on …

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Islands Odyssey Yachts Begin Their Atlantic Crossing

The Islands Odyssey yachts said farewell to the Canary Islands on Saturday 14 November, their final stopover being El Hierro, the smallest and most westernmost of the Canaries.

Islands Odyssey fleet in …

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Elusive Trade Winds: BPO Galapagos-Marquesas

As the boats finish their second week at sea on their passage of nearly 3000 nautical miles, here is a selection from their blogs of their experiences so far after leaving the Galapagos on March …

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Friday excitement

This is the first Friday on Aventura’s first long passage in 2015. All morning I was wondering what was going to break because on many occasions whenever something broke on the boat, it was almost …

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Galapagos round up: Memories are made of this

On Tuesday 10 March the Blue Planet Odyssey fleet sailed west, leaving the Galapagos Islands behind after a memorable two week stay, first stopping at Baquerizo Moreno on San Cristobal and then Pursuit Puerto Ayora …

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Into the Doldrums: BPO Passage Notes to the Galapagos

As our Blue Planet Odyssey and Pacific Odyssey participants spend the next few days with the barely onerous task of deciding which of the island and wildlife tours …

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Pacific Inspires Poetry

As our sailors are en route to the Galapagos, it appears the Pacific is casting a spell, as evidenced by this poetic inspiration that has landed in our Inbox…

The Pacific Beckons

by Bob Shanks, …

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Bahama Drama

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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A Good Old-Fashioned Spinnaker Wrap

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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Delivering a Strictly Sailing Cat to Miami

Jimmy and Ivan Cornell aboard Kitty Cat, a two-year-old Outremer 49

Jimmy Cornell reports his trip from St Martin to Miami via Iridium satellite phone.

Happy coincidences have been the story of my life, …

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