k, they just took down the record of sailing across the globe, without any stop, to 45 days… but, meh… from the perspective of doing “circumnavigation” of the world, they made a pretty strange path… I would have done something like the arrows I marked down, passing by Suez and Panama channels. Yes, this would have been delaying the enterprise, but seriously… crossing Cape Horn and Cape of Good Hope, come on… that was a challenge for the 17th century with wood boats, not for the carbon fiber monster used these days. Anyhow, if u look at the map, 90% of the fun was some long fast rides in the middle of the ocean: the dots on the colored paths are day markers, as u can see a long distance between dots, means they were going fast like hell

ref: “Un’imbarcazione francese ha effettuato il periplo in 45 giorni“, Corriere della Sera
ref: “le Maxi Trimaran Banque Populaire V s’empare du Trophée Jules Verne“, Banque Populaire

anyhow… KUDOs to these guys

p.s. they were doing 30 knots of speed… amazing

k, u need to click on the listing’s icon to see it…

…I’d be back next week (Monday 23rd)

parto sabato, una di queste 2 tratte, vediamo

– Ydra
(wind forecast) +Port of Poros +Perdika

– Kea
(wind forecast) +Anavyssos

on google maps: Athens (wind forecast)

Calette verso Kea: 1, 2

Con un Oceanis 400, by SailGreeceYacts.com

Boa “virtuale” nel Golfo di Saronico …speriamo non ci siano veramente raffiche da 22 nodi domenica o ci sara’ da ridere (e io che mi preoccupavo che non ci fosse vento…)

k, I’m writing while on the tram, I got a new nerdy toy… a mifi

let’s see how it will work on top of the mast… middle of August in Greece
(it should catch a good gsm signal over there and broadcast the wifi network on the boat… hopefully… )

p.s. I’m looking to make a mashed network at work with this thingy instead… CradlePoint CBA750 … nagios probes over GSM connections.

Impressive…

It is a sw by Navionics

grazie Simo!!! Gaaaaa… che figata!!!

(notare il passaggio del timoniere al minuto 3:00)

ero sul Garda il weekend scorso… ma non c’era nulla del genere

il mio miglio acquisto di questa stagione… a 36.90 euro :Tribord
Shortjohn CK500 … e’ dotato di rinforzi sotto alle ginocchia e sotto al sedere… e in caso di caldo torrido lo si puo’ tenere aperto a mezza vita… e’ fa-vo-lo-so!!!

dovrei fare i complimenti al responsabile sezione sport nautici del Decathlon di Brescia che me l’ha consigliato…

what do you miss of Italy? just this…

I booked a sailing cruise in Ireland… without thinking of the unknowledge of the english sailing terms.. fuck!

sailing, rigging, rudder, mast, yard, sail, rope, spar, boom, gaff, fore and aft, keel, … and many others…