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By Jimmy Cornell on 04.04.2014 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Aventura IV left the fitting-out shed at the Garcia-Yachting boatyard in Cherbourg on Thursday, had her mast installed and will be launched early next week. …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 04.03.2014 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
With most of AVENTURA’s furniture in place and the interior arrangement close to its final look, the time had come for Gwenda to give her verdict …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 16.02.2014 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
A frozen Neva with the famous Aurora cruiser of the 1917 Revolution moored on its bank.
Vladimir Ivankiv has been described as the sailors’ best friend in St Petersburg. A title this generous man …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 22.12.2013 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Visit with crew Nick Carter to Allures Yachting boatyard in Cherbourg. Installation of various utility systems and cable runs well advanced.
Jimmy Cornell with Nick Carter
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By Jimmy Cornell on 01.12.2013 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
The Southeast Asia Pilot, by Andy Dowden and Bill O’Leary – 4th edition – Published by Image Asia (www.image-asia.com)
Born as the Andaman Sea Pilot a quarter of a century ago, the fourth edition, …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 29.11.2013 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
The metal work on my boat will be finished today and the hull will be transported from the Garcia boatyard to Allures Yachting, in Cherbourg, for finishing.
The work is therefore on schedule for a …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 09.10.2013 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Tuvalu, South Pacific: “This used to be our planting field. Now it is regularly flooded by the tide.” Scenes from Tuvalu, South Pacific
Much has been written about this phenomenon and few sailors would …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 08.10.2013 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
This article was published on Cruising World’s website (April 10, 2013)
Try and set a realistic figure for the cost of voyaging before you leave home. Though that estimate isn’t easy to …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 06.09.2013 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
By tradition, a ship is born when its keel is laid and, in the case, of Aventura IV this took place earlier this week at the Garcia boatyard in Condé-sur-Noireau, a small village in Central Normandy. This unusual location for a boatyard, some 30 miles from the sea, is due to a decision taken by the two Garcia brothers some 40 years ago …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 02.08.2013 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
A long time has passed since my last report on the progress of my new boat and I apologize for the long wait. The reason for the delay is that I felt that there was little to be added to what I had already said before all the design features had been decided and finalized. That stage has now been reached and work on the boat has started. …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 14.05.2013 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
The first report on the plans for my new boat has generated much interest, and I had several questions. I’ll deal with the most frequently asked ones first. Why aluminium? The first Aventura was a strong well built GRP boat which survived a three hour grounding on a reef on the Caicos Bank …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 04.05.2013 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
For much of my sailing life I have been trying to find out if there was such a thing as an ideal cruising boat. With this in mind, I conducted several surveys among …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 05.03.2013 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
As part of my own preparations to sail through that historic passage, I have attended three highly informative lectures delivered by sailors who had transited the Northwest Passage recently. Two had sailed from east to …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 13.02.2013 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
London 13 February 2013
The decision for the Blue Planet Odyssey to sail through the Northwest Passage has generated a debate over the justification for a small fleet of cruising boats navigating through this …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 10.01.2013
Gibraltar, 10 January 2013
Gibraltar waterfront
On January 2, 1991, the first round the world rally set sail from Gibraltar, the local government having given its full support to a global event that had never …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 22.11.2012 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Jimmy Cornell has been conducting surveys of the global movements of cruising yachts since 1984. In this 6-part article, first published in the November 2011 issue of Cruising World, he reports …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 21.11.2012 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Jimmy Cornell discusses the results of his survey on the features that make a good world cruising boat, drawing on the experience of 57 contributors to his new book World Voyage …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 14.02.2012 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Jimmy Cornell is sailing from St Martin to the Strictly Sail Miami Boat Show aboard Kitty Cat, an Outremer 49 catamaran. Here is his last report.
If you missed them, you will find his earlier …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 13.02.2012 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Jimmy Cornell is sailing from St Martin to the Strictly Sail Miami Boat Show aboard Kitty Cat, an Outremer 49 catamaran. Here is the 4th of several reports that he is sending along the way.
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By Jimmy Cornell on 12.02.2012 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Jimmy Cornell is sailing from St Martin to the Strictly Sail Miami Boat Show aboard Kitty Cat, an Outremer 49 catamaran. Here is the third of several reports that he is sending along the way. …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 11.02.2012 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Jimmy Cornell is sailing from St Martin to the Strictly Sail Miami Boat Show aboard Kitty Cat, an Outremer 49 catamaran. Here is the second of several reports that he is sending along the way. …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 10.02.2012 Diese Seite ist auf Deutsch nicht verfügbar.
Jimmy and Ivan Cornell aboard Kitty Cat, a two-year-old Outremer 49
Jimmy Cornell reports his trip from St Martin to Miami via Iridium satellite phone.
Happy coincidences have been the story of my life, …
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