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sailmatch
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2008-07-01 | 2008-07-01 14:23:43
Hi, I am a single handed female sailor sailing my own boat - a 26ft catamaran and am on route from England to hopefully get to Australia - I am currently in Spain - on my boat and am wondering on the eventual best route to get me and my boat safely to Australia.
I believe that the Red Sea would be a mite dangerous for me - friends of mine were machine gunned travelling via the Red Sea even though they were travelling in a convey of a few vessels.
The Panama Canal - have the rules changed about the minimum speed requirements? My boat has a 9.9 hp outboard and cannot go faster than 5 knots - I am also worried about taking on strange boat handlers!
Africa - trouble and strife all along the coast or am I wrong?
Can anyone help with advice? Male or Female!
Are there any other single handed female sailors out there? I would love to hear from you especially if you are cruising like me.
Sassy
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125Guy
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2008-04-13 | 2008-07-01 16:41:21
Hi Sassy,
That’s a long way you are sailing single-handed! I would suggest that you go to one of the specialized forums for world cruising, for example www.cruiserlog.com. There you will find other sailors with experience of a trip like yours.
It would be very interesting to here more of your sailing. Do you have a blog or a webpage anywhere? If not, it would be great if you could write about your experiences here.
God luck with your trip! I think there is quite a few of the readers here that dream of doing something like this.
Regards,
Guy
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sailmatch
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2008-07-01 | 2008-07-02 10:37:10
Thanks for your reply Guy, I haven't got a blog up and running yet but I will get one done soon - so much has happened since I started out - it is a very interesting life! It took me 5 days to cross the Bay of Biscay in October 2007 with a little outboard engine and NO WIND!! Yes,October and not a scrap of wind! I had to drift for a couple of days and I had jelly fish swimming faster than me! A couple of whales kept me company for the days when I was drifting I think they thought my boat was a stranded whale! I caught an a giant octopus yesterday in my lobster pot I did not have a clue on what to do with it but as I want to live as much off the sea as I can I had a go and had fried octopus and garlic and onions for supper!
I will start my blog soon and post the address here for anyone interested.
In the meantime I would really like to hear from anyone who would like to do what I am doing or are doing it!
Sassy
P.S. I trained a fish to follow my hull cleaning brush - see the picture!
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Wanton
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2009-05-06 | 2009-05-06 10:54:21
Hi Sassy,
E'm Ed and I sail a Careel 22 in Victoria Australia. Mine is a trailer sailer and we trailer our boat Wanton all around the country. Below is a picture taken last October at the Whitsundays in Northern Queensland.
Now for the help you want. I suggest that you join the Trailer Sailer Forum in Australia. If you put in your request on the site you can be sure that someone will know someone that has done what you plan to do. I guess at the moment there is a lot of Naval presence in the middle east and at the horn of Africa. Perhaps a contact with the Spanish, French or British navy may be able to give you some advice although I doubt if they would want to recommend it. However if you let them know your plans they may keep an eye out for you.
the forum link is:
http://www.trailersailerplace.com.au
Regards
Ed
Wanton C22/110
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