North Atlantic, 2016 2016
The first sail was a hurricane
First time ever sailing: a delivery from Lunenburg to Antigua for the Caribbean 600 that ran into a bomb cyclone. Four days of storm, nine more to port.
Field log · filed by Randall Marshall
- Year
- 2016
- Waters
- North Atlantic, 2016
- Filed by
- Randall Marshall
The account
February 2016. Our founder's first time ever on a sailboat: delivering the Whitbread 60 Challenger from Lunenburg to Antigua with skipper Chris Stanmore-Major, for the Caribbean 600. Another delivery hand, Matt Pike, left before the trip. He stayed.
Three days out the forecast became a bomb cyclone: wind over 75 knots, gusts past 90, four days of storm, then nine more days of ocean to port.
Thirteen days after leaving, Challenger reached Antigua. There's a photo from the minute they landed: a Corona on deck. Five minutes later he was back at work on the boat.
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