RTW solo

[oldbilbo]

Matt Rutherford is soon to complete his singlehanded circumnavigation of the Americas having left from Annapolis on the east coast, via the North West Passage, Cape Horn and back, all in a 36 year old 27 foot Albin Vega. He has been at sea nonstop since June 2011 and hopes to arrive in Annapolis in April. His blog is very humble making,

www.solotheamericas.org​

 

[Blue5]

Thanks, I enjoy reading these blogs.

As an aside Jeanne Socrates on Nereida is also sailing again, another interesting blog.

http://www.svnereida.com/

 

[Scarboroughsloop]

Quite a feat - but it ain't RTW (Unless you're American.....)

 

[[70521]]

Quite a feat - but it ain't RTW (Unless you're American.....)

+1

 

[Hamma]

Quite a feat - but it ain't RTW (Unless you're American.....)

He means Round The World Series!

 

[Babylon]

Quite a feat - but it ain't RTW (Unless you're American.....)

Technically its a RTA - but that doesn't diminish his achievement.

From his blog:

I’ve lost my Bernard Moitessier mindset – thinking of sailing endlessly in an oceanic utopia. It’s been replaced by a much more realistic idea that I need to get back to land before this whole boat falls apart. I’m riding close to the edge and it wouldn’t take much for me to go over. I think structurally the boat is fine. I hope. Although I was on a port tack for so many miles that my bulkheads had shifted and settled to that load. Now that I?m on a starboard tack my bulkhead are slowly readjusting and periodically make a terrible noise. Sometimes the cracking sound is so loud that I would swear that my bulkhead had just cracked in half. The sound that wood can make when it’s in agony is incredible. So ya, I need to get my butt up to the bay before my whole world falls apart.

 

[Boomshanka]

He means Round The World Series!

More like Round the Island Good on him though, quite a feat.