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A nice photo of your wife
Do other readers have photos of their wife they'd like their friends to see on…
Bullimore’s mission impossible?
Why I think Tony's going to leave Hobart to sail home
Adele reaches Rio!
After eight and a half days at sea Adele arrived in Rio late last night…
What was in that picture?
Yes, it's a rudder - from a long-forgotten revolution in British sailing
A sting in the tail
We've had a gale overnight, water in the cockpit and we're down to a staysail…
Lessons from Adele
If he did this all again, what would Jan-Eric Osterlund change aboard Adele? I talked…
Let me introduce you
I've been remiss in not introducing readers of this blog to exactly who is on…
We’ve broken out the shorts
After a starlit and unfortunately windless night, Saturday dawns with a glassy calm and temperatures…
Waste matters
There are 18 bodies on Adele and 11 loos. Where does 'it' all end up?
What about MOB?
Going overboard doesn't bear thinking about but there's a rigorous procedure to follow aboard Adele…
Halfway to Rio
Out of the Roaring Forties into the Thirsty Thirties and a mass of electronic information…
An interesting angle of dangle
After nearly three days on port tack I feel I need one leg shorter than…
Photos from Adele
Some photos to prove that life (and work) for Dept Editor does go on aboard…
Strange things happen at sea
Remember Buncefield - the fuel depot that went up in a massive explosion near London?…
What’s that in this picture?
Mystery object is 'fascinating', but I can't work it out. Can you help?
14kt and Adele’s trucking
We're 300 miles up the track on the way to Rio, it's getting (slightly) warmer…
Snow in mid summer
We've just dropped the pick in 55m in a nasty snowstorm in Godthul, a deep…
Bound for Brazil
We're six hours out of South Georgia on our way to Brazil, but suddenly we…
Wildlife bonanza
The weather on South Georgia just eases up enough to allow two runs ashore to…