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Harry Heijst

End of our Rolex Fastnet Race 2023.

Albert Thissen was so kind as to give us a lift in Sophie’s car to Winsome in marina Chantereyne/Cherbourg. We left at around 9am with 1.700 rpm on the engine which gave us a speed of 6 knots.  It took us until 10pm to reach Cowes. We have had 8 hours sun and 5 hours […]

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Post by | July 27, 2023 | 2 Comments | Comments RSS

Saturday 22-25 July Winsome’s delivery to Cherbourg and our stay in Le Cotentin.

Our stay in Cherbourg did us very good. We stayed at Sophie’s farm in Morsalines which is at 30 minutes from Cherbourg. We started with a good sleep and we went back to Winsome to let everything dry. It was hard to decide what to do with food bought, based upon a calculation 8 (crew) […]

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Post by | July 26, 2023 | Comments Off on Saturday 22-25 July Winsome’s delivery to Cherbourg and our stay in Le Cotentin. | Comments RSS

Start and first day on the water

We continued to prepare the boat and ourselves for the race. In the meantime RORC announced that the race, scheduled for Saturday, would not be postponed irrespective of the wind predictions.  We started at 13:30 UTC with 23 knots of wind after having hoisted G-4 with one reef in the main sail. We had to […]

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Post by | July 22, 2023 | 1 Comment | Comments RSS

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