Position 30.89,-15.46 at 10:43 BST. Northerly force 5 with a 3 meter swell. We have a rule about making ground coffee when the boat is moving around a lot. We have kept to it so far this trip but with double normal supervision managed a pot for breakfast. I still keep to my GI diet […]

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Left Funchal, Madeira at 12:00. ETA Lanzarote is Saturday evening 25th October. We are heading for the north end at present. Position at 18:24 (BST) Thursday is 32.27,-16.40 some 10 miles south of the off lying Ilhas Desertas. Wind has done most things since we left which is about the height of Madeira and the […]

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No sun today yet. Can see rain on the radar. It is 26’C below, 23’C on deck. Feels like the start of the adventure with lots of things very different to the UK sailing. Sea is an inky blue and very clear. No wildlife, No fishing boats. (Well nearly none, did see a 2 mile […]

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Outside all countries 200 mile zone of territorial waters, but will soon be within 200 miles of Madeira. Current position 35.723,-13.524 with N force 3. We haven’t seen any fishing boats which is excellent but there is a surprising amount of cargo vessels. The AIS gives you their destination and I don’t think we have […]

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Got the engine on to charge the batteries so a chance to send an e-mail. Expect to have done about 144 miles in the first 24 hours at 14:00 Wed 15th (37.31,-11.80) and now NNW of the Gorringe ridge so making straight for Porto Santo which is 336 miles away. We had a large group […]

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We have started our first ocean passage together. Cascais (just west of Lisbon) to Porto Santo, Madeira. Just the one waypoint to avoid the Gorringe Bank at 36.527,-11.566 (you can enter this format of lat and long straight into google maps “-” equals west). Porto Santo is at 33.063,-16.317. Windpilot is steering us silently at […]

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Post from Giselle have a techical hitch at present Here is what you would have got last Friday: David…. Sailing in Sunshine off the west coast of Ireland with the huge pink spinnaker up. Rebecca insisted I put it up. Would I have put it up without this insistence? Just had a good look at […]

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So I’ve set up a system to allow Mary and David to use Giselle’s SailMail email account from anywhere in the world to post to RoamingTheOceans.com… …this means we should get updates from them in the middle of their ocean passages 8^) I’m looking forward to it — are you? Andrew

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