Forum: RIBs & ribbing
09 August 2004, 18:31
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Replies: 92
Views: 16,686
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Forum: Bear Grylls' Trans Atlantic Arctic Expedition
15 August 2003, 21:32
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Replies: 87
Views: 37,992
Making history
I’ve bitten my lip about Mr “Bull” Grylls for too long. Whether or not Alan, Jan, Steve and Vic were successful or not in 1997 is not open to different peoples’ interpretations as to what is assisted...
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Forum: The Soltron Atlantic Challenge - Clive Tully's journal
14 August 2003, 18:09
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Replies: 11
Views: 15,648
17 - End of an era
Tuesday 11th August
Saturday 9th August will remain with me for the rest of my days. You can’t imagine what a fantastic thrill it is to be escorted into harbour by so many boats, horns blaring,...
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Forum: The Soltron Atlantic Challenge - Clive Tully's journal
08 August 2003, 07:54
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Replies: 9
Views: 11,376
16 - The fastest RIB around the world
Friday 8th August
Saturday 9th August is going to be a special day in Portsmouth. The last round the world sailor to return to a hero's welcome was Alec Rose, in July 1968, after his epic 354 day...
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Forum: The Soltron Atlantic Challenge - Clive Tully's journal
05 August 2003, 19:23
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Replies: 1
Views: 4,833
14 - Time to think
Tuesday 5th August
When I sent Sunday's update, minutes after stopping the clock as we arrived off Cape Wrath, I said I'd reveal more about our feelings in yesterday's journal, which didn't happen...
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Forum: The Soltron Atlantic Challenge - Clive Tully's journal
04 August 2003, 07:41
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Replies: 1
Views: 4,936
Statistics
Here are the figures for each leg:
St John's, Newfoundland - Nanortalik, Greenland
Distance: 810 nautical miles
Time: 43 hours 10 minutes
Average speed: 18.76 knots
Nanortalik, Greenland -...
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Forum: The Soltron Atlantic Challenge - Clive Tully's journal
04 August 2003, 07:25
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Replies: 15
Views: 7,634
13 - Done it!
After an eventful week, we're there. Jolly Sailor has passed her timing point off Cape Wrath, and is now en route for Bangor, Northern Ireland.
The run south-east from Iceland was in heavy...
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Forum: The Soltron Atlantic Challenge - Clive Tully's journal
03 August 2003, 08:43
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Replies: 3
Views: 4,762
12 - The last leg
Saturday 2nd August
The last 24 hours have been extremely bumpy and painful, to the point where we're suffering from both the battering and the consequent lack of sleep. So it's with some relief...
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Forum: The Soltron Atlantic Challenge - Clive Tully's journal
01 August 2003, 15:46
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Replies: 3
Views: 5,631
11 - Mid-Atlantic pain
Friday 1st August
The last few hours have been painful beyond belief. From yesterday's following sea, the wind turned so we were heading into it. Not so much massive waves as big holes in between,...
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Forum: The Soltron Atlantic Challenge - Clive Tully's journal
31 July 2003, 14:01
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Replies: 3
Views: 4,828
10 - And they're off again
Thursday 31st July
After the possibility that we may not have got away from Nanortalik till Saturday, the deep depression is moving on, and has given us the break we need to head off for Iceland....
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Forum: The Soltron Atlantic Challenge - Clive Tully's journal
31 July 2003, 08:53
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Replies: 0
Views: 5,140
09 - Place of bears
Wednesday 30th July
It was tough work getting to Cape Farewell yesterday, and even tougher trying to round it in order to head out across the Denmark Strait towards Iceland. The waves were large,...
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Forum: The Soltron Atlantic Challenge - Clive Tully's journal
28 July 2003, 21:27
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Replies: 3
Views: 4,664
07 - Good progress
Monday 28th July
The first 250 miles have been fairly hard overall. They're not big seas, but there's enough of a chop to make it decidedly uncomfortable when the boat comes off the top of a wave...
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Forum: The Soltron Atlantic Challenge - Clive Tully's journal
27 July 2003, 22:17
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Replies: 9
Views: 5,112
06 - And they're off!
It's a strange return to the last time we crossed the North Atlantic, when we left a sunny New York two years ago, heading for St John's, the Azores and Lizard Point. This time there's no sunshine,...
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Forum: The Soltron Atlantic Challenge - Clive Tully's journal
24 July 2003, 11:38
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Replies: 0
Views: 4,749
05 - She is finished
After a hectic six days the Jolly Sailor is finally finished, including all the sponsors’ logos. Every little part of her has been thoroughly examined, and another sea trial today went very well....
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Forum: The Soltron Atlantic Challenge - Clive Tully's journal
23 July 2003, 21:31
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Replies: 2
Views: 4,659
04 - Pinpoint navigation
Now that the boat is all up and running we thought we had best take her out for a decent sea trial to check out the new Raymarine navigation package. As we all know, GPS - the Global Positioning...
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Forum: The Soltron Atlantic Challenge - Clive Tully's journal
23 July 2003, 07:38
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Replies: 2
Views: 4,620
03 - A hard day down at the yacht club
The day started very early with a four o’clock telephone interview with the BBC. Typically Alan found it difficult to go back to sleep, so he and Egbert hot-footed it down to the Royal Newfoundland...
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Forum: The Soltron Atlantic Challenge - Clive Tully's journal
15 July 2003, 09:01
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Replies: 1
Views: 4,942
02 - Anniversaries
15th July is a date that is never going to be easy for me to forget.
It was the day in 1999 that I set off in the boat - then called Spirit of Portsmouth - with Alan, Steve and Jan on the very...
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Forum: The Soltron Atlantic Challenge - Clive Tully's journal
02 July 2003, 18:13
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Replies: 4
Views: 5,365
01 - Looking Forward
It's hard to think that a year ago, Alan, Steve and I had just about completed one of the most traumatic passages of our round the world trip. It was five and a half days of hell - brilliant sunshine...
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