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Aniara II - May 15



15 May

You can feel the tension in the air among all the sailors here in the marina. Tomorrow at 13.00 we will start the sailing towards the Azores. Everyone have now finalized their preparations and provisioning for the trip which will last for two to three weeks. Onboard Aniara we are ready, we have bought our food, drinks, fruits and vegetables. Our diesel tank is filled and we carry almost 100 liter extra. Since we have no freezer onboard we have bought fresh food for the first week, where we will get delicious meals of all kinds, prepared in style and with passion. If we catch no fish we will have to live on noodles and soups for the second part of our journey. We kept one of our scooters which we have used to transport all our food to Aniara. We have spent approx. 1.000 USD for us three persons onboard. We did not get any additional crew member but we are confident that George will be a +100% crew making the life comfortable for the two old guys. The distance between Bermuda and the Azores is 1.800 NM straight, but we will probably take a northern route of approx. 2.000 NM. The result for the first leg was not so good for Aniara, we came in as boat # 16 out of 20 after the correction of motoring was done. We plan to climb a little bit higher on this leg. As usual you can follow us on our own website during the coming two weeks, but do not expect any photos. We will mail our home-based administrator, Erik, who will get the website updated. You can also follow our position progress by logging in to ARC´s website http://www.worldcruising.com/arceurope/ and look us up in the fleet finder. You can be sure that we will think a lot about you all during our crossing and we hope that you now and then give us a thought. Cross all the fingers you have that we will get a safe trip. We love you all.




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