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… I’m happy to 😃 have reached my home port ⛵ Les Sables d’Olonne! During the entry I got the confirmation that my decision was right to stop the project: the propulsion system collapsed completely 😫. Stay tuned for detailed …
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… as I have to tack ⛵ it will be probably almost the double. So, I expect to be back tomorrow in the early morning hours or with the next high tide in the afternoon, depending on whether and how …
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… without being hit by a large ship 🛳⛴🚢 in the English Channel is a good feeling 😉. Joking aside, it’s always a great experience to sail ⛵️ safely between the numerous large ships 🚢⛴🛳 thanks to AIS.
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⛵️ course Les Sables d’Olonne. I am quite ambivalent, on the one hand frustrated 😞😝 about having abandoned the project once again, but on the other hand looking forward 😊 to seeing my family and friends again this weekend, now …
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… whether the air 🌬💨on the west coast of Ireland 🇮🇪 is really so clean. The on-board laboratory 🔬 will give us the answer as soon as DURAG GROUP Grimm has evaluated 📝 the data from my chain measurements.
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Finally, today I sailed ⛵some nice nautical miles again. And thanks to the bright sunshine 🌞 from a cloudless sky, the energy balance 🔌 also looks better again. The northern tip of Ireland 🗺🇮🇪 is abeam.
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… and therefore time to take care of the board’s plant 🌱😉. Unfortunately, she was not allowed to visit the Arctic, but at least she can claim to have done an interesting and instructive North Atlantic round.
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So, I put immediately the additional mobile solar system up, it passes its test between the Faroe Islands and Scotland and delivers extremely efficiently urgently needed energy 🔌.
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… was to log on to the mobile phone network 📱 of the Faroe Islands… But unfortunately, I can enjoy this convenience today to make a longer phone call 📞
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Due to electrical problems 🔌, skipper Norbert Sedlacek Koch has to abandon the record attempt and will return to Les Sables d’Olonne when on-board and weather conditions will permit it. Despite hours of effort, he has not been able to …