All hands-- Last week, when I posted the riveting account of the scariest night aboard Kosmos, I didn't know the blog was two months behind real time. I've now heard from Eric and Christi Grab aboard their Nordhavn 43. Here's the update: >We are crossing the Atlantic now. Here is our position >http://saildocs.com/map?ll=25.70333,-18.80333&z=1. The blog is >behind real-time by 2 months at the moment. But it is loaded with >stories, so it will keep updating while we are crossing (see About >the Blog page on the site for more details). > >http://kosmos.liveflux.net/blog/ > >We left from Las Palmas, Canary Islands two days ago and we are on >the way to Guadeloupe. It is a 2750nm passage. We expect it to take >19 days and burn about 1000 gallons of fuel. We have a crew member, >Colin, who is the soon to be owner of Nordhavn 40-65. All is well so >far. > >We plan to complete our circumnavigation by returning to San Diego >in May 2009, then will go back to "real" life. The Grabs started their circumnavigation in April 2007. --Georgs -- Georgs Kolesnikovs Your host at Trawlers & Trawlering, formerly Trawler World, since 1997 Site see: <http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com>

I hope they kept the ports closed! ----- Original Message ----- From: Georgs Kolesnikovs<mailto:georgs@trawlersandtrawlering.com> To: Passagemaking Under Power List<mailto:passagemaking-under-power@lists.samurai.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 9:43 AM Subject: [PUP] Kosmos heads across the Atlantic All hands-- Last week, when I posted the riveting account of the scariest night aboard Kosmos, I didn't know the blog was two months behind real time. I've now heard from Eric and Christi Grab aboard their Nordhavn 43. Here's the update: >We are crossing the Atlantic now. Here is our position >http://saildocs.com/map?ll=25.70333,-18.80333&z=1. The blog is >behind real-time by 2 months at the moment. But it is loaded with >stories, so it will keep updating while we are crossing (see About >the Blog page on the site for more details). > >http://kosmos.liveflux.net/blog/ > >We left from Las Palmas, Canary Islands two days ago and we are on >the way to Guadeloupe. It is a 2750nm passage. We expect it to take >19 days and burn about 1000 gallons of fuel. We have a crew member, >Colin, who is the soon to be owner of Nordhavn 40-65. All is well so >far. > >We plan to complete our circumnavigation by returning to San Diego >in May 2009, then will go back to "real" life. The Grabs started their circumnavigation in April 2007. --Georgs -- Georgs Kolesnikovs Your host at Trawlers & Trawlering, formerly Trawler World, since 1997 Site see: <http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com<http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com/>> _______________________________________________ http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/passagemaking-under-power<http:// lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/passagemaking-under-power> To unsubscribe send email to passagemaking-under-power-request@lists.samurai.com<mailto:passagemaking-un der-power-request@lists.samurai.com> with the word UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. Passagemaking Under Power and PUP are trademarks of Water World Productions, formerly known as Trawler World Productions.