We arrived in Madeira!

Living Water has arrived in Madeira!After a slow passage from Spain, the crew are finally in warmer weather and an area of fairer winds! After stopping for a night at anchor off Porto Santo to delay their arrival in Madeira till daylight, Living Water has just arrived in the marina, ready for the crew to…

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Bound for Madeira

After a few days rest and recuperation in Bayona and a turkey dinner, Living Water has just cast off again bound for Madeira, 600 miles to the SSW. There is no wind today, but they are expecting some to arrive when they get level with Lisbon. Spirits are high on board, and when I spoke…

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The Bay of Biscay ticked off.

This newsletter is what Rose Yareki experienced on this leg of the journey. We left Brest with force 6 winds heading towards Madeira. We had a deep reef in both main sail and foresail. The swell was about 3-4 meters high with winds on our beam. I really enjoyed helming in this weather it was…

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Well, that was fun!

We sailed of hoping to get to Madera from Falmouth. Plans don’t always work out. As we were sailing out of the bay we decided, as usual, to put out the genoi. As we were letting her out the furling line on the roller furler snapped! Causing the genoa to come all the way out…

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