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Book Review: STORM PASSAGE: Alone Around Cape Horn, by Webb Chiles
This was my first modern sailing narrative and I could not have picked a better one! Webb Chiles, now a 5 time circumnavigator and the first one to circle the world in an open boat in the late 70s – early 80s, describes in a vivid and sometimes humorous manner his first attempt at rounding…
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Book Review: A Voyage For Madmen by Peter Nichols
This is by far one of my favourite sailing books. At some point I read about the craziest sailing competition that was organised in 1968, The Sunday Times Golden Globe race, the first non-stop, single-handed, round-the-world yacht race. Peter Nichols’ is a fabulous account of this event written from the perspective of all the 9…
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Never trust great deals when purchasing antifouling paint!!!
Last May I was over-thrilled when my friend Constantin Lascu, who was taking care of Mem Pas Peur, called me with some very good news – that he found a great deal for antifouling and primer. I was already keen to give Mem Pas Peur a good scraping and adorn her with new layers of paint at…
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As the old saying goes, “All good things come to an end…” – Part 1
Such were my 2015 sailing season and my brief but rich experience of owning an excellent boat, Mem Pas Peur. But first things first. For lots and various reasons I haven’t been able to write a new piece in over a year. The last time I wrote something I was excited about starting a new…
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That time of the year – Mem Pas Peur’s cosmetic treatment
After a quick chat with Constantin at the beginning of the week, I decided it was the right time to lift Mem Pas Peur out of the water and properly adorn her for the new sailing season. I already knew that the underwater hull was completely covered with shells, algae and myriad other small sea…
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Black Sea Sailing Ep .2 – better later than never 🙂
In a previous post (Gorgeous September Sailing 🙂) I promised to share the short movie that Robert filmed with his drone during our wonderful sailing episode back in September. As it happens most of the times, it took me an awfully loooong time to get the footage from Robert, select a few shots and combine…
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First sail of the season 🙂
For the past two months and a half I’ve been monitoring the weather forecasts daily. Sometimes even a few times per day… every time with a deep sense of anticipation for a major change that would drive the night temperatures above freezing. After being disappointed for a 100 times, last week finally the luck shone…
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Reminiscing about the “good old days”… and dreaming of the next!
In a previous post (About Odyssea) I presented briefly my first skipper training trip that I undertook with 3 goods friends last year. While editing my first sailing movie clip (check here :)) I came across some footage that I recorded with my iPhone and iPad during this trip. With my newly acquired iMovie skills, I…
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Black Sea Sailing – Ep. 1
Since the sun has obstinantly refused to shine for the best part of the last month, I started to look for it in the pictures and short clips that I shot with my iPhone while sailing over the summer. Longing for the next sailing season and counting the bleak days that are still ahead, I…
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Gorgeous September sailing 🙂
Last Thursday we were blessed with a wonderful early autumn day with gentle, almost non-existent waves, and light winds. It was not a great day for racing, but such a spectacular day for cruising and basking in the sun. And for filming Mem Pas Peur and its crew from the sky, thanks to Robert’s great…
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