Sheer Tenacity, a Shearwater 39 designed by Dudley Dix,on her home marina dock,here in Hout Bay,South Africa.Rod and Mary are now part of a quite small group of persons who not only built their own boat but crossed and ocean on it too,well done to them both!CKD Boats provided materials and advice while they put their boat together.
This was the trade wind route that Rod and Mary took,its the logical South Atlantic trip around the south atlantic high weather system,starting in Cape Town,they then went to St Helena Island,saw in christmas day there and headed off to Ascension Island,the next stop was to be Salvador in Brasil but considering the race fleet that will flood the facilities,they chose to dive south,past Rio de Janerio and find the peace of Ilha Grande,an island largely untouched in the last thirty years and more due to it being a part of a very large nature conservation area.Try this link to their blog pages on the Hout Bay Yacht Clubs own site.
http://hbyc.co.za/2007/
An extract from their daily passage blog,this was yesterdays,January 23rd 2009
After exactly 15 days since we left Ascension, Sheer Tenacity is at anchor =
in Ponthina Bay (Peters Place, Pedro's ), Baia De Ilha Grande.I started =
writing a long blog in the early hours of this morning, to which I wanted =
to add our anchorage details. Forgot to save it in the work file and lost =
it all! Too great a need for a beer to start it all over again, but I will, =
because the last 300miles were challenging ,and memorable!
We did 2029nm on this last leg, which took 15 days exactly. In total we =
sailed 4925 miles to cross the Atlantic, OUR WAY, (which is a very long =
route), which took 33days of sailing time. Time now to relax, drink beer, =
and sleep!
Thanks to everyone for the support and assistance.=20
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