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Atlantic Crossing

• Cleaning the speedometer which we unfortunately left in place in
the water during our two months of absence.
• Securing all shackles

• The ARC security inspection, which would require us to buy a few
additional flares, self-reflective tape, and a small drogue for the
horseshoe buoy.

We also made our selection from the large series of conferences offered
by the ARC:

- Checking and maintenance of standing and running riggings,
- Management of emergency situations,
- Communications at sea,
- Sailing downwind,
- Supply for the crossing,
- Understanding Atlantic sky,
- Using the sextant,
- Weather conditions during the crossing,
- Health and accidents,
- Final slipper’s briefing.
And then, we now had to supply the fresh
products: vegetables, fruits, meat, sausages,
cheese, …. as well as the nets, both outside
and inside, to store all this.
And to finish, each day until departure we
attended the daily sundowner at 6 p.m., the
few longer evenings meetings (crew’s dinner,
where we share the Lubilu III crew - from Man-
chester - table, and final dinner buffet) plus
organised evenings meals on the boats of our Rigging Check
new friends, in particular a group of sailors
from the island of Groix preparing to deliver the catamaran Corossol to
Martinique.

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