In March 2024, I joined my friend Mehdi and nine English and Aussie strangers to sail up the Atlantic Ocean from 35° South to 50° North. It was the last leg of an incredible round-the-world race that marked the 50th anniversary of the first edition of the Whitbread the
@oceangloberace . We finished this leg first in our category with more than three days lead in real time 😍
1/ Meet “Outlaw”, our Baltic 55, from the top of her 20 meters mast. She has a lot more experience than us. She already did the Whitbread in 1985! She is for sale
@spirit.of.adelaide 😉
2-3/ We got off to a great start in rough seas and strong winds. To remind us to be careful, a crew member from Pen Duick VI fell into the water while we were sailing side by side. We saw him passing by, distraught, in his fluorescent life jacket, tossed about by white horses waves. Fortunately, he was quickly rescued by
@marie_tabarly_off and her crew.
4/ What followed was 43 days of non-stop racing to take us from Uruguay to Cowes in the UK. Sailing without GPS and modern communication tools but stars and radio. Here
@indiarose.ocean uses a sextant to measure the angle between the sun and the horizon in order to figure out our position on a paper map.
5/ Rinze and Mehdi analyzing our position and the weather conditions to find the best way to arrive before the others :)
6/
@math_lstn in the starting blocks, sailing on l’
@team_lesprit_dequipe (for her third round-the-world race)!
7/ Mehdi probably telling craps ♥️
8/ Campbell, our dear skipper, doyen of the race is pro-active on the boat as you can see here « grinding » to set the sheet of a sail.
9/ Speaking of sails, we had nine of them and no furler. This means hoist and lower a lot. They can weight up to 100kg, especially when they are soaked. Here Glenn is sweating to bring up one of the heaviest ones, the big genoa. This sail was very useful in light upwind conditions. A mix of love and hate.
10/
@indiarose.ocean and Mehdi lower a spinnaker in the galley. It’s a safe way to handle this giant sail, about 200 m²!
#cinestill250d #olympusmjuii #kodak #oceangloberace
