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| Vessel Name: | Inspired Insanity |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Southern Cross 28 |
| Hailing Port: | Virgin Islands |
| Extra: | First American Woman to Solo Sail Nonstop Around the World |
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10 July 2016 | Bristol RI
Journeying On
The summer has barely begun in Rhode Island and the mornings already seem to be cool, almost a scent of autumn air… How is that possible? There is so much to do. Each day seems to begin and end with a sense of having been floating on air, my feet barely touching the ground. “What is it like now, [...]
15 June 2016 | 35 00'N:75 05'W, Another wild few days ahead... deja vu.
Passing Diamond Shoals off Cape Hatteras!!!
There was no warning�... the day touting varying winds from the SE to SW, the sails trimmed in and let back out over and over to keep us moving as fast as we could, the engine called upon when we weren�'t moving fast enough. I was making breakfast when Bob went up on deck responding to a sound�... next [...]
13 June 2016 | 30 00'N:79 35'W, in the Gulf Stream off Jacksonville Fl
Offshore once more: SV Calyspo is heading north!
It seems endless, the need to keep pressing, keep moving, from one point to another, the whole world of details needing to be dealt with upon returning after so long offshore, after having completely detached from the world system. Yet, there is a dream state that wants to believe I would not reattach�... [...]
01 June 2016 | 41 24'N:71 25'W, Just arriving in Lake Worth... leaving again tomorrow in my car back to RI
the MISSING BLOGS: are coming
Hang in there... I am enroute to Florida to get my car... a busy week. I am getting the 'missing blogs' going. I just realized that I didn't write any blog the days I was knocked down...though Bob did an incredible job of keeping you updated and with the details...He was totally accurate and you all [...]
29 May 2016 | 41 24'N:71 25'W, Bristol RI: Herreshoff Museum Dock
Magnificent Welcome Home
PHOTO: after knockdowns at Cape Horn and heading for Panama WATCH FOR NEW BLOGS : FROM FEB.14- MAR 28�... HANDWRITTEN UNDERWAY AFTER MY COMPUTER BROKE, TO BE TRANSCRIBED AND POSTED OVER THE NEXT SIX WEEKS�... STAY TUNED!!!
Barometer falling, a new storm on the morn-
I have no idea what the night will bring as the winds are not as they have been forecasted. The night is to bring diminished winds that may even come to a calm, but it seems unlikely...though, you never know...the wind can come and go into listlessness in the time it takes for a cloud to pass. If the winds do die...it is going to be a wild rolly night as the seastates are still a 15 foot under swell with seas to 8' or so.
Tomorrow begins a two day storm, that I have been planning for, moving farther north to avoid the center of the storm. The forecasts have been decreasing in the expected winds, but regardless, I am in for another blow from the NNW backing to NW that will shift to W and then to SW...this pattern is now becoming a bit of a rhythm for us that is allowing us to make very good progress. The level of the highs has been well north of 40*S. This storm is followed by, yet another of lesser intensity...so we have a good steady stream of westerly winds, a lot of wind, but sailable winds, for the next six days and beyond.
We made it past 60*E last night, putting us one more time zone ahead. This was a fast zone having made it in less than a week.
We were in a high today, with the barometer at 1017 and temps that were a bit milder, hallelujah. I enjoyed being able to type and just be around inside and outside more comfortably. I did a series of exercises as my body is beginning to complain about the sitting and being down below.
Bob is safe and sound back in Florida after a grueling few weeks. He too is getting back into a rhythm with work and being home.
Keepin On Sailin On a Dream...I am ever desiring more presence in my experience. More peace in my emotions. More capacity to live in positivity. Time... all we have until we begin to experience eternity.
Fairest of Winds and the Love of the Ocean Only Gratitude Donna
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