Song of the Whale - Queen’s Ransom’s Transatlantic crossing in support of whales
Queen’s Ransom III is a Najad 520 from Gosport, UK, crossing the Atlantic in 2009
arrival:
port:
departure:
Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Islas Canarias, Espagna
29/11/2009
05/12/2009
Mindelo, São Vicente, Arquipélago de Cabo Verde
06/12/2009
20/12/2009
Bridgetown, Barbados
21/12/2009
22/12/2009
St. George's, Grenada
crew:
Ulric Almqvist (S), Peter Hjelt (GB), Hans Piest (NL)
these webpages are modified versions of the corresponding pages of Queen's Ransom III's original BLOG
found at:
www.queens-ransom.com
- Peter - Ulric - Hans -
Go to: Atlantic Crossing overlayed on Google Maps!
Don't be shy ... surf on !!
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Upcoming:
19/05/2010
QRIII's Caribbean Crossing
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29/11/2009
Casted off ...
30/11/2009
Settling in ...
01/12/2009
Flying fish
02/12/2009
Making our own water!
03/12/2009
In the tropics
04/12/2009
No squalls after all
05/12/2009
It was going a bit too smoothly ...
06/12/2009
Second attempt
07/12/2009
Normality resumed ...
08/12/2009
Grashopper stowaway
09/12/2009
If the electronics fail ...
09/12/2009
Choosing our time and being a flying fish in my next life
10/12/2009
The bird and the grasshopper
11/12/2009
Half way!
12/12/2009
Not enough champagne?
13/12/2009
Thoughts
13/12/2009
Saint Lucia and a normal day at sea
14/12/2009
Tropical night
15/12/2009
Not as smooth as before ...
16/12/2009
Stable condition once again
16/12/2009
Surfing squalls: a dummies' course
18/12/2009
Too hot to handle
18/12/2009
Planet Ocean
19/12/2009
The end is near
19/12/2009
Sighted Barbados!
21/12/2009
Almost a helicopter in the rigging
22/12/2009
Post mortem of an Atlantic crossing
23/12/2009
Quinn's Life Burial & Goodbye Hans!
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