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Welcome back to Sailing NV, where we’ve made landfall in Tanna Island, home to the active Volcano Mount Yasur! Today we take you with us as we get uncomfortably close to this explosive natural wonder
It was a 2 hour bumpy drive to the volcano along a dirt track, so we got to see quite a bit of the island on the way. We were heading up there for nightfall, so that the show from the volcano would be more dramatic
Vanuatu has a special tradition involving Banyan trees, known as land diving, where men jump from a wooden tower with the vines from this tree tied around their ankles. We can’t wait to share a very special episode about this coming up soon!
Reeling from this powerful encounter with nature, it was time to hoist our sails and move on. It was a pretty gloomy grey day but we had plenty of wind.
We were headed north to the island of Efate and the capital of Vanuatu Port Vila, 150nm away. We’d left in the early morning as we’d imagined the trip to take around 24hours… however we were making such good speeds, our ETA turned out to be vastly different.
In the end this 150 passage took us 15hours, reached a new top speed of over 16knots surfing down waves and were greeted by the sparkling lights of this city after sunset.
Stay tuned for the next video as after this fast sail we woke up to some unwanted noises coming from our rudder, plus we import our dog Solo, show you around the Capital and do full inspection and service to our Liferaft, ready for the real offshore 3000nm passage coming up!
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Caio! We are Timo and Jo, an Italian and English couple with countless ocean miles under our belts. We're refitting an ex Vendée Globe Open 60 race boat originally designed & built & raced by famous Hungarian sailor Nándor Fa. He competed in her in the 1992 Vendée Globe (round the world single handed race known as “the Everest of the seas”), finishing 5th, becoming the first non-frenchman to finish.
We've recently finished a big refit in Fiji giving this old gladiator a new lease on life, transforming her from an ex race boat to a performance family cruiser, which we need to make both dog and baby proof! We launched in Sept 2022 and finally set sail from Fiji in April. With limited time&money we have plenty of challenges ahead to turn our dreams into reality&get back on the water!
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1 окт 2024
