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Uphill Into the Atlantic Again

By Claire on Mon 28 Sep
Leaving the Essequibo

Leaving the Essequibo

Approaching the Maroni

Approaching the Maroni

Well we’ve done it!  We’ve sailed 467nm from Guyana to French Guiana (254 nm in a straight-line) and are now anchored in the Maroni River off the village of Yalimopo in the Awali Yalimopo region.   The Atlantic Ocean was, at times, like being in a washing machine, at others it was just all-over bumpy …. but for the rest of the time it was plain sailing- albeit upwind again!  In saying plain sailing, we were once again hard on the wind battling against the equatorial current (~2 kts) in order to make headway south with the wind mainly from the south east.  Fortunately we did have a mid-afternoon lift each day which we made the most of, but we were still tacking every 2-3 hours trying to outwit Mother Nature!   Fat chance … but we are fit and well and very, very happy to be here amongst the Amerindian community.

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