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OceanPlanet News - After Around Alone
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| Much is made of the "Roaring 40's" in the Southern Ocean, which must be transited while racing around the world... |
| I imagine that everyone has been as busy with past and upcoming holiday schedules as I have, so I've slowed down a bit on these updates...or maybe I'm still full of turkey... |
| Hi folks, a reminder about the Saturday evening show at the Newport Yacht Club... |
| Ah, professional yachting. Perhaps you picture a warm sunny day, strolling down the dock to the boat while dressed in your newest sailing attire.....Here's what it looks like for me... |
| While the world's top Open 60's pound their way towards Brazil, here I sit at the computer ordering parts and planning our work strategy on our own boat... |
| Yep, it's true. Due to semi-popular demand, I finally have my first CD available of my guitar music!... |
| Ocean Planet (US 05) finally came out of the water yesterday for some well-earned maintenance and preparation for next years Vendee Globe... |
| Ten years ago in the fall of 1993, I was hard at work almost every night at Svendsens Boat Works on my 1930 30sq meter "Rumbleseat"... |
| While Ocean Planet sits comfortably (albiet lonely) at her mooring in Portland Maine, I am on the west coast organizing our team and working on fundraising... |
| So sorry to be slow on the updates, but trust me, I haven't been lazy! I've done some fun talk/slide shows about the Ocean Planet Around Alone adventure, but have been especially busy laying the groundwork for my entry in Vendee Globe... |
| DON'T FORGET: Tomorrow night, June 26th at 6pm in Stockton at the Stockton Sailing Club, (www.stocktonsc.org/)... |
| If you are planning to attend my slideshow and talk at the Corinthian YC this Thursday, you might want to make reservations... it's filling up fast... |
| So much to absorb these days. Italian sailor Simone Bianchetti is gone. For all of us who knew him from the Around Alone, it is strange and sad to see someone who seemed so nearly indestructible pass away... |
| Yesterday afternoon I received the tragic news that Simone Bianchetti, fellow competitor in the Around Alone, has suddenly died.... |
| There have been a couple of hopeful twists of fate in the search for Tim Kent's Open 50, Everest Horizontal... |
| If you haven't already heard, fellow Around Alone competitor Tim Kent and his crew were rescued only about a day ago by a cruise liner after the boat's bulb keel broke away while they were racing doublehanded in the return leg of the Bermuda 1-2 race.... |
| After finishing the solo around the world (Around Alone) aboard Ocean Planet, I was asked to sail in the Coastal Cup race (San Francisco to Catalina Island) with key supporter and friend Stephen Hodges aboard his Express 27 "Dianne"... |
| In my last update, I said that Ocean Planet would be at the Wooden boat show in Rockland, Maine on June 18-20..... That would be a problem since the show is JULY 18-20... |
| In spite of not needing to get ready for another leg of the Around Alone, I've been having some action packed days, keeping many cogs in motion... |
| To all of the supporters of Ocean Planet in the Around Alone... |
| It's been a whirlwind of activity here in Newport, celebrating the finish of the Around Alone 2002/2003. It seems I've had less sleep and am more tired now than while I was racing... |
| I've been ashore for a week now, and I am still absorbing the fact that I have circumnavigated around the world... |
| In yesterday's note on our Bluegrass Party, I forgot to put the time down, which is 7-11 p.m. at Christie's in Newport, Rhode Island on Wednesday, May 14th. It will be great to see you all there! |
| I almost can't beleive it, but Ocean Planet has finished the Around Alone... |
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