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The Voyage: St Helena to Grenada
How about this: 3,747 miles in 29 days. That’s an average of 129 miles a day, or 5.4kts. That’s what you get sailing from St Helena to Grenada. It would have been faster if I’d gone inside the island of Fernando de Noronha off the corner of Brazil, but I had the twin headsails up, […]

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The new "Good Health” video
After seven years and racking up 21,000 views, it is time to retire the oldmansailing “Good Health” video. I have just spent two days in the South Atlantic recording the new one, and doing a good deal of swearing every time I fluffed my lines and had to start again – including an absolute paroxysm […]

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The Voyage – St Helena
For those who have been following my track on Polarsteps, an explanation might be helpful. Yes, I did disappear deep into the South Atlantic for no obvious reason – and then, without any explanation, turned sharp left. And now, after a voyage of two months, two days, and 4,341 miles from the Canaries, I am […]

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Something to be proud of
It seems surreal, but I have just crossed the equator from the North Atlantic to the South Atlantic. I seem to be in one of those deserted parts of the ocean, so far from the shipping lanes that the last time the AIS spotted anyone else was a tanker four days ago at a range […]

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Going nowhere
After a frustrating day in the Doldrums, it was amusing to take a close look at the Polarsteps track. You can do this by clicking on “2025” at https://www.polarsteps.com/JohnPassmore/15574045-2025 and then enlarging the map and going back up the track until you find yesterday’s tangle. Because that’s what it looks like – 28 miles of […]

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