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Defyr - Whose on board?



Hii-o-hoi!! We left Nassau around sevenish (pm) on friday. First it was motoring, but the next morning it started to blow. We have had an awesome weather ever since. Sunshine and good winds! It seems it's going to be like this for two more days.

On board we have Ville, Nina and Ossi besides me and Jaakko. Ville is the boatboy numero uno in Defyr. He has sailed with us from Portugal to Las Palmas, crossed the Atlantic in ARC and he's going to sail all the way to France with Defyr. Ville knows how to helm the boat, but is also always ready for example tobe thoisted on the mast to fix something or do the manouvers in the bow.

Nina has been sailing with Defyr many times in Finland. Last july we moved Defyr from Lagos to Madeira and Las Palmas with her on board. We had a pretty rough weather in the beginning, wind blowing 30-34 knt and gusts 38 knots. Nina was both able to sail and cook, even with the waves being highest I had ever seen before that. So when she asked if she could sail with us accross the Atlantic back to Europe, the answer was definite yes!

Ossi is a friend of Ville's, whom we had never met before he jumped on board in Nassau. It is always a bit scary, when someone asks can they bring a guitar with them. But luckily it was proven after the crew-dinner in Nassau, that he can actually play and sing! Ossi has been sailing with his family on holidays and then with 420-boats. And as we have seen in the two days so far, he really knows how to handle the boat!

We will meet rest of the ARC Europe fleet in Bermuda pretty soon. Hope we will have some good time together in St Georges!

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