Tuesday, 3 September 2019

How I did the Translemanique 2019

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Amazing Learning experience, I have learned and improved my sailing skills more in those 24 hours than in the last year of ...
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Friday, 30 August 2019

Ready to start and live tracking

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The live tracking should be active tomorrow saturday from 09:30 http://www.suiviregate.ch/

Sailing Solo to SNG

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2 days before the start

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Tuesday, 27 August 2019

MammaMia has his name, finally

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Since we had MammaMia in the club, I was quite surprised to discover nobody took the effort to write the name of the boat on the boat. So, n...
Monday, 26 August 2019

Safety first, jackline installed

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Port and Starboard jackline installed, using a the single line loop described in the previous post, plus  an additional fixed longe at the ...
Saturday, 24 August 2019

Racing stripes and racing sails

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Saturday, one week before the regatta, I went to BA5 and I check the a full set of sail, Su Main 16, Su Genoa 17, Su Solet 19, Su BigSpi 19...
Thursday, 22 August 2019

Gelcoat again while the boat is in Founex

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While the boat is Founex, I went back yesterday to re-do the gelcoat on the Stern, damaged by the engine support, and on the bow, ...
Wednesday, 21 August 2019

Mamma Mia at the SdS Founex

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A picture of Mamma Mia during the SdS Founex, skipper M. Chevallier,  as seen from my Nikon.... Here it has the standard sails.
Monday, 19 August 2019

A bit of Italy on board: new spinnaker sheets from Gottifredi Maffioli

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As they were damaged and of different diameters, I decided at least to replace the spinnaker sheets, so I went to SUI4616 that suggested me ...

Windex is broken, climbing on top of the crane!

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Unfortunately the Windex at the top of the mast is not working, but,  it is not possible on the surprise to climb on top of the mast us...
Thursday, 15 August 2019

Winning YCC internal regatta and route planning

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Let's start with a good news, yesterday Mamma Mia won the YCC internal regatta, despite we had 1 protest and we pay our penality, and th...
Monday, 12 August 2019

Bilge cleaning drying, pilot calibration, gelcoat fix... and amphibious car in Versoix!

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On Saturday: A lot of work performed, I made a short video of some of the steps, thank a lot to my crew Pawel, Giulia K, Ylenia, Magda to he...
Friday, 9 August 2019

Regatta in a parking, to explore the Velocitek

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My first regatta in a Parking with the Velocitek ProStart :-) 

Sailing to La Nautique, autopilot, de-humidifier, cartographie and more!

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Good outing yesterday during Thursday Practice, where I got the chance again to take Mamma Mia and sail with YCC crew to La Nautique Geneve,...
Wednesday, 7 August 2019

Drilling Mamma Mia deck... to install ST1000 Tiller Pilot!

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Above a frame from The video with the full work done to install the St1000 Plus on Mamma Mia, in the most scaring moment of my sailing l...
Thursday, 1 August 2019

Fare Carena! Hull Cleaning

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Thanks to the crew today that helped and accepted to use a practice day with very little wind, to assist me during the hull cleaning oper...
Monday, 29 July 2019

Jacklines for safety

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Safety is my first priority, and as I will be alone doing night sailing, I think it is a must to prepare the boat with a jackline, to preve...
Sunday, 28 July 2019

ST1000 measurements

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A first video about the autpilot installation .
Friday, 26 July 2019

2018 track analysis

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Thanks to google earth, I managed to plot the track of the previous edition 2018 of the Translemanique. Unfortunately wind data are missi...

First challenge ST-1000 - Most expensive connector ever!

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Thanks to Andrin and Dirk, I discover we have an ST1000 autopilot at YCC, and I do not have to buy a new one.  According to notice of race ...
Thursday, 25 July 2019

Mamma Mia, something about the boat

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 Mamma Mia is a Surprise class sailboat bought brand new by the Yachting Club CERN in 2009. Boat preparation: I will work hard to prep...
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I will sail the Translemanique 2019 - Thank you YCC !

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 A first post to share my happyness! YCC committee has approved my candidature to be Translemanique 2019 en Solitaire.  I will have the p...