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Drake Passage

The Drake is behind us

Sailing
Banco Burdwood, South Atlantic Ocean Lat 54 ° 26.41'S; Long 057 ° 42.21'W I perceive it, the Drake is behind us, we are back in the Atlantic after 15 months and 10.269 miles spent circumnavigating South America, pushing us down to the Antarctic Polar...
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Crew moral management

Sailing
The forecasts downloaded last night confirmed a good weather window to face the Drake, so this morning at 06:30h we set sail. Rounded Harmony Point on Nelson Island and gained the open sea we set course to 004° enjoying a broad reach 5 knots which...
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The Drake behind and the Antarctica in front of us

Sailing
Whalers Bay, Deception, South Shetland Island Anchored in position: Lat 62 ° 58.77'S; Long 060 ° 33.76'W At 18:30h today (10 of February 2016) we we anchored in Whaler Bay at Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands after 4 days, 4 hours and...
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Good the second attempt

Sailing
Position Lat 57°48.10’S; Long 066°38.90'W Course: 161°; Wind 25 kn N; Speed: 10 kn In the end we succeeded. At 06:00 we were ready to take our "train" to the south. But more than a "direct" in reality it was a "local" and instead of the 25 real knots...
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Surrendered to the drake

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Puerto Toro, Chile We arrived in Puerto Toro on February 5th at 1:15 am, after having surrendered to the Drake with whom we fought for over 48 hours with winds against us and always above 35 knots with gusts of 55 kn. Unfortunately we were too slow...
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