Sunrise - ARC2021 - Week #1 at the SUNRISE

Hi all,

after being on the Atlantic Ocean for already a week now,
we'd like to give you some brief insights into what has happened so far.
Our crew is led by our skipper Dirk plus his crew, consisting of Tina,
Dietmar, Alain, Christoph, Markus, Henning and Stefan.
In preparation of our adventure sailing the ARC2021,
we held two video-conferences to get to know each other
and to already align on several details for our journey.
After arriving on Gran Canaria on wednesday before the start,
our common focus was 100% on proper and comprehensive preparations.

The start on sunday was emotionally quite thrilling:
All those beautiful boats, people with huge smiles on their faces everywhere,
the omnipresent sound of ships' horns - yet we still lacked a bit of proper winds...
However, this didn't reduce our excitement at all!
Everybody aboard the SUNRISE was literally letting the sun rise on an emotional level.
This enjoyment rose even more when we caught a Mahi-Mahi and had fresh steaks of it later that day.
Some small throwbacks also tested us: Ripped-off ropes and even losing our genoa foresail yesterday.
At some 5-6 Bft winds and around 3m wave heigts we had to get to the top of the mast
and replace the genoa by the standard foresail which however is noticeably smaller.
But we're rolling with the punches and even made 170nm yesterday despite that predicament.
In fact, so far we only used our Diesel-powered Volvo-engine for about 237nm.
As of today 1pm we completed 914nm out of an approximate total of around 2800nm!

Looking forward to giving you further updates,
the SUNRISE-crew


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