KREW2
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Very impressive, that was achieved in about 68 hours.
Watched the launching of a Wayfarer today.
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Very impressive, that was achieved in about 68 hours.
dancrane
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I'm reluctant to sound pessimistic, but would anybody like to guesstimate how much longer the passage would have taken if there'd been a gusty F4 from the west, all the way?
Kermit
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Anyone have any info on them? They've made a sudden alteration i their course and are now showing as being in Fishguard.
Reading their blog the first leg went well.
Reading their blog the first leg went well.
DJE
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Hopefully this is just a prudent diversion due to weather forecast.
KREW2
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I think that will be the case.
I have just read their blog, and it has a recount of the first three days sailing. I assume they will update soon and tell us why they have pulled in.
I still can't find out if the have a support vehicle following them.
johnalison
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There's a lot to be said for dinghy cruising. You can usually put the boat ashore where a keel boat can't go and there are plenty of corners to be cut. I have always admired Uffa Fox sailing an Int14 Avenger across the channel in the '30s, and a couple of local lads sailed a WOD from Essex to the IOW some years ago. One of them has done rather well in the navy.
Temujin
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The guys called into Fishguard due to weather forecast where they received a warm welcome and breakfast from FSC, set off again at 5am this morning and doing well. They have a reasonable support crew assisting from the sensible location of land.
KREW2
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I've just bumped this back up.
Those who have not been following it may like to, they are doing great.
They have rounded Cape Wrath, and flying along.
Those who have not been following it may like to, they are doing great.
They have rounded Cape Wrath, and flying along.
Temujin
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Yep, and the firing range stood by to let them pass as well. Great progress so far - they did manage to spend one night in a hotel a few mights back and I think that may have made feting back on board the next morning a little harder!
Seajet
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My hat is well and truly off to them...
Kermit
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Well they've turned the corner and are heading south at last.
I'm really quite envious of them.
I'm really quite envious of them.
dancrane
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At last? Surely they're making dazzling progress?
I'm preparing a nice pesto sauce with which to consume my earlier words. I thought these guys would scarcely be north of Ireland by now.
One has to admire their evident planning and practice, and the testing of all their on-board systems...a breakage might have put them ashore during days of favourable winds.
I'm abroad with intermittent internet so I haven't read the Hafren blog in any detail, but Jeez, I'll be glad if my own dinghy-cruising exploits are a tenth as successful as theirs.
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sighmoon
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I saw them off the Aberdeenshire coast at the weekend:
Bad photo I know - they were a long way offshore and scarcely visible with the naked eye.
Bad photo I know - they were a long way offshore and scarcely visible with the naked eye.
dom
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...great attitude, great sailing and what fantastic stamina ...they must have filled their buoyancy bags with Red Bull!!
sighmoon
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Yes, what exactly are they drinking? Do they have a desalinator?