GUIDOS SAILING CHANNEL
further Videos of Guidos Sailing Channel selection
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SV SantaPaz – Lucas Tauil de Freitag Brazil
WORLDCRUISING IN PICTURES and WITH KIDS continue here
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SV Tamata – Kate MacBain + Matt Lansdown US
WindPilot from Kate MacBain on Vimeo.
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Cayman Island – kiss the stingray
ALONE WITH THE STINGRAY – REALLY !
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Circumnavigation part 4
HOME AGAIN … AND THEN WHAT ?
The last few miles pass in a flash and then it’s a headlong plunge into a joyous, welcoming throng of loved-ones, friends and family. Even ancient distant relations never normally to be seen anywhere near the sea make an exception and put in an appearance. There follow scattered moments of bliss, a few tears, much waving, popping of corks and draining of bottles and a fair smattering of “We must catch up properly soon”. continue here
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SV Monsterpiu – Adriana Diaz – Jayme Santos Souza BR
MAROC – ESCAPE FROM PARADISE
This was my fourth time in Magrebh. We enter in Morroco at MARINA SMIR. After one week we decide to visit El-Jebha an ancient fishing port 47 miles east of Smir. when we clear out ask for an authorization to visit the port. The official call by mobile his colegues at Jebha and said “you can go” As soon we enter the breakwater someone was crying loud go away, go away ! Astonished with that situation go alongside a fishing boat and talk with another guy not so nervous like the other and he said to anchor at Cala Cangrejo, 100 meters from the main port. At night around 11:00pm we wake up with a lot of lights and noise from a gunboat. two officers come abord and look everything, including passports, boats documents etc…. At the end said we must leave next morning. Cant explain that we have a permission bla,bla,bla. Not a good memorie to keep from this beatiful country
— Peter this what happens
all the best
Adriana/Jayme
Jayme Vital
SV Monsterpiu
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SV Tamata – Matt Lansdown US
Before we installed our self-steering wind vane, the flashiest things on the boat were our brightly colored-coded reefing lines. Now we not only have a contemporary German kinetic sculpture attached to our transom but also a third form of steering – that’s in addition to hand steering and autopilot – and it’s quickly become our favorite. Our Windpilot Pacific Plus self-steering system has so far more than proven its value. CONTINUE
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SV Passage – Bud Bliemeister US
CIRCUMNAVIGATION NEARLY COMPLETED
Peter,
I need to order some parts for my trusty old Windpilot Pacific. We left Hawaii ten years ago on our Peterson 44 and have only one leg remaining (Tahiti to Hawaii) to complete our circumnavigation. The unit has performed without a problem except for u/v damage to some exposed plastic parts which finally failed last season.
Louis Bliemeister, Waialua, HI, US continue
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Circumnavigation part 3
In our dreams
Waterproofs, I would suggest, do not to feature much in most dreams of sailing around the world: fair winds, following seas and capable, entertaining (as you will) and steadfast company are much more the order of the day. Reality likes to paint a rather different picture, however, taking events – and with them relationships – in directions we never intended. Sometimes this just counts as part of the fun, but sometimes people find themselves having to reach an accommodation with their life rather than actively living it, at which point the bluewater dream becomes a solo exploit (or the boat stays at home). CONTINUE
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SV Tamata – Matt Lansdown US
NEW YORK to PANAMA
Hi Peter, now we have put around 1700nm on the vane, we left from rhode island in early november and are now in Bocas del toro, panama. we have solidly tested the windpilot in a wide variety of conditions and we are extremely happy with it, we have used in conditions ranging from close hauled to dead run and it has worked well particularly in heavier conditions. Continue reading
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SV Athos – Marie+Raoul Boisrame FRA
Hi Peter,
We thank you for your help throught the “Gros Dave” the Pacific windpilot.
Our travel Le Grau du Roi to Martigues, by road it’s near 50 km!!! For Athos it was 1660 days & 13000 Nm!!
Grau du Roi / Spane / Ceuta / Canaria islands / Cabo Verde / Senegal (Casamance) / Cabo Verde / Brasil / French Guyana / Surinam / Grenade / Caraïbean Island / Barbuda / Acores / Gibraltar strait / Minorque / Martigues
Please, found here below some links of our third man on board, the most important, the only crew member without request of food and rum!!!
Thank you to you Peter and all members of your team.
Raoul & Marie-Ange from SV ATHOS
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SV High Flight – Wolfgang Jauss GER
CATAMARAN Bloadblue 435 on her way from CABO VERDE to TRINIDAD
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SV Civetta II – Vlado Porvaznik SLO
WOLRD TOUR – PANAMA – POLYNESIA – SOUTH AFRICA
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Social evolution amongst yachtsmen
SOCIAL INTERACTIONS and SOCIABILITY
The ground rules for successful social interaction are impressed on us repeatedly from our very earliest days: be polite, no hitting or pinching, be helpful, be kind and share share share… All amenable social interaction unfolds on the basis of conventions that we generally accept and – more or less willingly – accede to and whose cornerstones are respect and empathy towards our fellow humans. continue
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