Spanish digression
The sun beats down unrepentantly, only this time I’m not flapping listlessly in the doldrums but ripping across the dry landscape of...
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The week after
It's been only a week since Conrad stepped back on land. A week on a cloud, trying to understand all the miles traveled, all that has...
Conrad finishes his Vendée Globe in 110 days 1 hour 58 minutes
After being dismasted late on the evening of Friday 10th February, when he was in tenth place and some 250 miles west of Lisbon,...
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Update, day 109: Ancient Greece
But I desire and I long every day to go home and to look upon the day of my return.... for already I have suffered and labored at so many...
Update, day 108: dodging ships!
You would think that with the boom repaired, sails sorted, and food rationed out I could just kick back and relax on Foresight Natural...
Update, day 107: survival food!
As I said in a previous post, I am down to eating some "cup of soup" instant soup packets that I had left over from the southern legs and...
Update, day 106: Keeping up the fight!
I might not be going very fast but I'm certainly keeping busy here on Foresight Natural Energy. Indeed, never have I worked so hard to go...
Update, day 104: the writer is back!
This dismasting and jury rig experience has been so intensely emotional and such a challenge for my resolve I barely know where to start...
Update, day 103: jury rig
After dismasting on February 10th, Foresight Natural Energy is finally underway to les Sables d'Olonne. The kiwi skipper had to be very...
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