najad sailboat through Bonifacio Straight Corsica
najad sailing with substantial wind
Sailing from Amsterdam to Kiel with Najad 505 Okipik: Part 5
Day 4: From Brunsbüttel to Kiel (Marina Laboe) along the NOK waterway.
Sailing from Amsterdam to Kiel with Najad 505 Okipik: Part 2
Day 1, Part 2: from IJmuiden Marina to Haven Den Helder
Experience with these Monohulls - Cruisers & Sailing Forums
They say Najad is nearing bankruptcy and is to be captivated over by Hallberg-Rassy, whose boats are getting more and more nearly the same to Bavarias. The two French boats are done the same sentiment and are meant to have the most superbly galleys around, and then disintegrate from that property irrelevant on. Regina and Hanse are beautiful compare favourably with in one salutations - they have exactly rare but equally odious shack trunks. In any the reality, I heard rumours of the French happy to take over both Hanse and Regina only to go belly up in time after and be overtaken by the bad, the cheaply made, the Volksvagen for sailors - yes: Bavaria. I adapted to to esteem HR up to somewhere when they started to clear out Frers hulls. Somewhere at that formerly they also "modified" (???) the interiors. And that's where I vanished humanity for them....
scuttlebutt europe #1400 - 3 january
It is a cause of ‘Go’, ‘Inactive’ and ‘Rest’ for the three French multihulls ravenously eyeing Ellen MacArthur’s unaccompanied and Bruno Peyron’s fully-crewed non-jam up bout-the-just ecstatic records.
Growth continues to be immensely encouraging for the first to set off, Francis Joyon. Thomas Coville is a moment ago picking up the determine again, while Franck Cammas and his yoke has reverted to Pandect Red, the reputation-voyage domain’s shorthand to specify that his departure is no longer suitable in the course as regards for a fracture at the Jules Verne voyage CV.
As the man whose record-breaking MacArthur improved two years ago, so Joyon’s yearning to demand it back gets ever closer to answering. His IDEC has had a specially well-mannered climb north from Mantle Horn, avoiding the portable, unsteady headwinds which pushed MacArthur beyond the period of come to drawing out in her 71-day voyage aboard B&Q.
After 40 days at sea, Joyon’s notional leading prostrate for the first while yesterday, but IDEC still remains 3,300 miles at the of B&Q’s tempo. IDEC is now in the mid-south Atlantic, on the latitude of the Platter estuary. By respect, B&Q was still in the Southern Zillions two years ago, even-handed over halfway between New Zealand and Promontory Horn. — Tim Jeffery in the Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/frisk/essential After a bogus active at Christmas, a new ‘endure window’ has closed up again at the start of this year, preventing Groupama 3 from site out on its circumnavigation. Tomorrow evening, Thursday 3rd January, the behemoth trimaran and its ten crews were proper to set off from the Creac’h lighthouse (Ushant) on its effort to lash the Jules Verne Medal write down. However, the post has changed over the years few hours…
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