Posts Tagged ‘Berrimilla’

Sailing highlights for 2009

Friday, January 15th, 2010

The other day I wrote about the overall winner of the Sydney-Hobart yacht race, Two True. It was also one of the sailing highpoints published in last week’s newsletter.

The other highlights for me were:

Three round-the-world yacht races:

  • Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09
  • Vendee Globe 2008-09
  • Clipper Round the World 09-10

Two short-handed/solo ocean voyages:

  • Berrimilla’s return to Sydney from Falmouth, UK
  • Jessica Watson’s solo, unassisted circumnavigation attempt on Ella’s Pink Lady

And, finally, the launch of our new product, Nautical Knowledge.

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A voyage worth talking about

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Tonight we’re going to RANSA, our yacht club, for a talk by Alex Whitworth, skipper of Berrimilla, a Brolga 33 that is currently wintering on the hard in Falmouth.

What’s so special about Alex and Berrimilla?

This time last year they were making final preparations before sailing from Sydney to Falmouth via the North West Passage! What started as an invitation to observe the total solar eclipse on 1 August 2008 on Devon Island, became quite an adventure as you can see from the blog of the voyage.

The invitation* was from Pascal Lee who runs NASA’s Haughton-Mars Project there.

* When on the Berrimilla website, scroll down to see Pascal’s hand-drawn map.