Inspired Insanity
| Vessel Name: | Inspired Insanity |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Southern Cross 28 |
| Hailing Port: | St Thomas, USVI |
| Crew: | Solo Sailor Donna Lange |
| About: | Just completed a solo circumnavigation with 2 stops in the world... From Bristol RI to Bay of Islands NZ, to Ushuaia ARgentina, to Tortolla, British Virgin Islands, crossing my outbound track just north of the equator near 5N, 29.5W. |
| Extra: | Love to Sing, write songs and stories, speak for groups. President of NFP being formed For the LOve of Oceans", an ocean and humanitarian advocacy org. along with Sequoia Sun, owner and restorer of Schooner Dolphin to be used for relief work along side www.OceansWatch.org |
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31 December 1969 | Warren RI
Inspired Insanity is finally afloat
Last wednesday was momentous for Inspired Insanity and I as the efforts of many came to fruition. We were splashed around 3pm into the water off Bristol Marina, in Bristol RI. After a seacock check, all was good. We were escorted to a nearby mooring. II is now without an inboard engine. Jesse Paiva [...]
Inspired Insanity is finally afloat
31 December 1969 | Warren RI
Capt Donna Lange/ Winds W 7kn, partly sunny
Last wednesday was momentous for Inspired Insanity and I as the efforts of many came to fruition. We were splashed around 3pm into the water off Bristol Marina, in Bristol RI. After a seacock check, all was good. We were escorted to a nearby mooring. II is now without an inboard engine. Jesse Paiva made a bracket for II"s stern and Billy Mack donated an older British SEagull for my use for now to aid to navigating up the RI rivers. My new home is a mooring in the Warren River... All blessings were with us this day. The winds were right on the stern as we headed out of Bristol Harbor and as we turned the corner up the Naragansett bay they came around to the STBD quarter. II is just a beautiful sailing boat. It was sunny and just glorious to be sailing again on her. Over the last year since completing my circumnavigation, I hve been busy with developing "For the Love of Oceans" and returning the favor of the sponsorship for my trip by skippering for good friend Stu Kahn on his Hylas 51, Sherry Lee. But finally, with the repairs donated by Bristol Marine and helps of so many in Bristol and Warren, we are back on the water.
As I turned the corner into the Warren River, miraculously the winds turned with me....AS with any estuary type environment, the winds tend to follow the waterways, but this was extraordinary. A westerly.. An hour of bliss, getting the steering vane holding the helm until we got farther into the river. Man, do I miss my little ship. I have had the privilege to make 2 crossings this spring, one on Sherry Lee from Florida to Poughkeepsie NY up the Hudson river. Then on board SV_Calypso, a little harbor 44, owned by good friend Bob PHilburn. They were both good trips, Hattaras doing her thing this time of year. Lots of heavy squalls and lightening storms,. but safe and sound both were successful sails. But to be at the helm of my boat is special. We have lived an eternity of time together and life experiences sailing around the world. She is the cocoon that has brought me to a new life, great happiness and growth. I look forward to many sails to come.
OceansWatch NZ has been a companion of friendship, the whole team doing a fantastic work in the Pacific Islands. We are looking to establish OceansWatch USA to help to raise awareness of the conditions in the Pacific Islands and to help raise funds to further the projects there as well as to get more and more of the yachting community participating as the travel the world.
"For the Love of Oceans" is an org that joins the passions of Sequoia Sun who is restoring a shipf or the same purposes as OceansWatch, and the skills and passions I have to speak, sing and bring awareness and Caring in Action (advocacy) to the yachting and marine community of the US both for projects home and abroad. So do keep in touch.
Fairest of Winds and Love,
Only Gratitude
Capt Donna Lange.
As I turned the corner into the Warren River, miraculously the winds turned with me....AS with any estuary type environment, the winds tend to follow the waterways, but this was extraordinary. A westerly.. An hour of bliss, getting the steering vane holding the helm until we got farther into the river. Man, do I miss my little ship. I have had the privilege to make 2 crossings this spring, one on Sherry Lee from Florida to Poughkeepsie NY up the Hudson river. Then on board SV_Calypso, a little harbor 44, owned by good friend Bob PHilburn. They were both good trips, Hattaras doing her thing this time of year. Lots of heavy squalls and lightening storms,. but safe and sound both were successful sails. But to be at the helm of my boat is special. We have lived an eternity of time together and life experiences sailing around the world. She is the cocoon that has brought me to a new life, great happiness and growth. I look forward to many sails to come.
OceansWatch NZ has been a companion of friendship, the whole team doing a fantastic work in the Pacific Islands. We are looking to establish OceansWatch USA to help to raise awareness of the conditions in the Pacific Islands and to help raise funds to further the projects there as well as to get more and more of the yachting community participating as the travel the world.
"For the Love of Oceans" is an org that joins the passions of Sequoia Sun who is restoring a shipf or the same purposes as OceansWatch, and the skills and passions I have to speak, sing and bring awareness and Caring in Action (advocacy) to the yachting and marine community of the US both for projects home and abroad. So do keep in touch.
Fairest of Winds and Love,
Only Gratitude
Capt Donna Lange.
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