Month: May 2017
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America’s Cup Attack and Alegra 6
We opened a new passage in the Arctic avoiding all icebergs, but in Bermuda we got nearly hit by the Japanese America’s Cup boat: On the crossing to the Azores we got seriously hit by a whale, just some days before Alegra’s birthday. Algera has a lot of energy, like the North…
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Flores Azores
Note: Please listen to the NBR report. Here & Now is carried by 425 stations, so each time this runs the TOPtoTOP story is probably reaching 750,000 to 1,000,000+ million people. At sunrise today the 21st of Many we made landfall at Flores in the Azores, just in time before some strong…
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Good news!
1. Elliot survived his Ocean Crossing Baptism, thanks to some hours of calm conditions between two frontal systems: “The baptism marking my first ocean crossing started late afternoon with the sound of an air horn in my sleeping ear. The culprit was Alegra, or regarded to as “Dolphin” while on…
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Bermuda to Azores: Bad luck!
Last days we had crossed seas and swells. The wind speed and direction was changing a lot because of the thunderstorms. In the afternoon we were ready to put another reef into the main sail. Unfortunately the top glider got damaged in a big blow. The only way to bring…