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By Doina Cornell on 30.01.2020
La Feria Náutica de Düsseldorf atrajo este año la cifra récord de 250.000 visitantes y nos proporcionó un entorno ideal para dar a conocer el proyecto EL.CA.NO. a una audiencia más amplia. Se llevaron …
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By Doina Cornell on 11.04.2019
For the last 10 years the French boat-building group Le Grande Large has held each spring a seminar in Paris aimed at sailors preparing to leave on a world voyage. Many of those present …
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By Doina Cornell on 11.03.2019
Vous rêvez de partir naviguer autour du monde mais certaines de vos interrogations n’ont pas encore trouvé de réponses ? Le séminaire Grande Croisière est l’évènement que vous attendez pour découvrir le voyage au long …
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By Doina Cornell on 07.03.2019
We are very sad to report that our colleague Sylvie Branton has passed away in Grenada yesterday.
Sylvie designed the Cornell Sailing website and the previous Cornell Sailing Events websites, and has been managing them …
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By Doina Cornell on 22.02.2019
Haiyou and Kama in Antarctica
Chris de Veyrac, the owner of Haiyou, sent us this report:
Haiyou and Kama caught up in Port Lockroy in the Antarctic Peninsula in January this year. It was the second time …
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By Doina Cornell on 16.08.2018
Jimmy Cornell returns to Lanzarote for a new cruising seminar series, taking place in Marina Lanzarote from 12 to 14 November.
Jimmy Cornell will launch the 2018 Lanzarote seminar series with a convivial book-signing session …
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By Doina Cornell on 28.08.2016
On the eve of the departure of the Barbados 50 yachts, the Marina Parque dos Nações invited all the visiting sailors in the marina to a farewell party to celebrate their departure.
Barbados 50 …
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By Doina Cornell on 25.11.2015
The Islands Odyssey yachts made their departure from the Cape Verdes on the morning of Tuesday 24 November, setting their course west for the Caribbean island of Barbados some 2020 nautical miles away.
Although most …
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By Doina Cornell on 27.10.2015
The Blue Planet Odyssey fleet are now cruising through the Indonesian archipelago on the latest stage of their round the world trip.
After months spent in the Pacific Ocean, a few weeks in …
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By Doina Cornell on 27.10.2015
After some time in Australia, the Blue Planet Odyssey sailors are now making their way through the Indonesian archipelago, which with some 13,677 islands is the largest island group in the world. Sadly, Anne and …
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By Doina Cornell on 26.10.2015
The inaugural Islands Odyssey set sail from Marina Lanzarote on Saturday 24 October on a 30 mile hop across to Corralejo on the northern end of Fuerteventura.
On the night before departure, the skippers enjoyed …
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By Doina Cornell on 22.10.2015
Most of the yachts taking part in the inaugural Islands Odyssey have arrived in Marina Lanzarote and are enjoying a few days getting to know each other before the start on 24 October.
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By Doina Cornell on 22.09.2015
With Joyful the last boat to arrive in Australia this week, the Blue Planet Odyssey yachts have completed their transit of the Pacific Ocean. In the 9 months since the boats …
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By Doina Cornell on 02.09.2015
A stroke of convenient timing meant that the Blue Planet Odyssey cruise through Vanuatu was able to include a visit to Ambrym, and a chance to experience the 3 day Back to My Roots …
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By Doina Cornell on 30.08.2015
Vanuatu is a perfect cruising ground, with day sailing along the coast of the larger islands, or a short hop from one island to the next, making it easy to explore.
Vanuatu sunset.
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By Doina Cornell on 29.08.2015
The Blue Planet Odyssey fleet of yachts, having spread out to cruise at their own pace through the islands of the South Pacific, finally came together again in a small bay on the island of …
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By Doina Cornell on 10.08.2015
A few photos from Espirito Santo, the largest island in Vanuatu.
Doina Cornell meets Luc Callebaut for the first time after working together for 15 years on Noonsite and now Blue Planet Odyssey.
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By Doina Cornell on 08.08.2015
Landfall: Island of Aoba (Vanuatu) very different from Tuvalu.
I expect to many people the phrase ‘tropical sailing’ conjures up lolling on the foredeck catching a tan, as balmy trade winds push you across …
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By Doina Cornell on 30.07.2015
All good things come to an end, and sailors know the next port is always just over the horizon, beckoning you on.
I came to Tuvalu with little idea of what to expect, and …
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By Doina Cornell on 29.07.2015
Three years since we launched the Blue Planet Odyssey, and more personally, thirty seven years since I was last here: the path across the ocean to Tuvalu has been a long one for …
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By Doina Cornell on 23.07.2015
We left Apia early in the morning of Thursday July 16th to the sound of drum beats echoing across the bay as a long canoe with some fifty men at the oars practised for a …
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By Doina Cornell on 21.07.2015
Three small coral atolls some 400 miles north west of Samoa, Tokelau is a territory of New Zealand and rarely visited by yachts.
Blue Planet Odyssey route
The low lying coral atolls make …
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By Doina Cornell on 15.07.2015
Last summer when I took my daughter Nera up to the Arctic to sail with her grandfather Jimmy, I promised my son Dan that I would take him to the Pacific the following year.
‘Somewhere …
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By Doina Cornell on 06.06.2015
The next leg of the Blue Planet Odyssey is now underway as the boats leave Bora Bora after a prolonged cruise through French Polynesia and head off the beaten track to the Northern Cook Islands.
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By Doina Cornell on 24.05.2015
Not to be outdone by the Marquesas stopover, an exciting program of events was organised for the Blue Planet Odyssey sailors in Tahiti.
As part of the Blue Planet Odyssey’s ongoing environmental program, sailors …
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