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Pos: here Loc: Monte Angela behind Miramar Acc: tent Dist: 55 km Start: 7:45 End: 17:30 Perfect paddling day! Well, besides only 5 hrs of sleep each two last nights… Yesterday was so busy I was barely able at night to write my update, and tonight I had to do a nap before eating and […]

Pos: same as yesterday… Loc: Mar del Plata Acc: Alberto’s house Dist: 0 km Busy office day…e-mailing, pictures editing, didn’t get to sort out my video files yet…Prefectura visit, a very importatnt visit to a local ice cream store…food shopping, food packing, and more computer work until late night. Business as usual…a day on the water […]

Pos: here Loc: Mar del Plata Acc: Alberto’s house Dist: 25 km Start: 7:45 End: 14:30 Fighted hard against the wind again…first “only” 15 kn headwinds, then breezing up to 20 kn, and gusting first more, until it was a constant 25 kn…and the sea was white again. At least some change in the coastline […]

Pos: here Loc: Mar Chiquita Acc: tent Dist: 26 km Start: 7:45 End: 14:45 Ok, after I sent the update yesterday, I *really* had to look after my tent – as the wind had changed to almost south and my original dune shelter was nothing then… I decided to move the tent deeper into the […]

Pos: here Loc: somewhere on the beach Acc: tent Dist: 15 km Start: 7:15 End: 11:30 Launched amazingly dry through the shore dumper, but then my fin of the rudder was so hard stuck even my as usual attached launching rope couldn’t pull it out while I was sitting in the cockpit…means I had to […]

Pos: here Loc: Faro Querandi Acc: tent Dist: 35 km Start: 7:45 End: 16:00 One of those tough going days…the blisters on my hands are as painful as they can be (about 7, and one very big open one…) I urgently need my planned rest day in Mar del Plata to make some healing progress. […]

Pos: here Loc: just after Valeria del Mar Acc: tent Dist: 50km Start: 7:30 End: 17:45 Great sunny day, lovely following winds, dead calm sea in the morning,slightly roughening up a little during the day. Surf is low, but still mostly wet to launch… 🙂 So all as easy and nice as it can be […]

Pos: here Loc: near Mar de Ajo Acc: tent Dist: 55 km Start: 7:30 End: 17:45 The first “real” sea paddling day! What a relief. Not only that my hands tonight feel much better after a day soaked in saltwater and not sweet mud water, my soul felt free on the “real” ocean rather than […]

Pos: here Loc: Punta Rasa/ Cabo San Antonio Acc: tent Dist: 30 km Start: 00:00 End: 6:30 I had a bit of a hard time staying awake paddling once the calm water shifted to some lightly bumpier stuff due to some currents. It was like a baby getting rocked to sleep…but I’m used to keeping myself awake in […]

Pos: here Loc: Samborombon Bay Acc: paddling on the water Dist: 35 km Start: 16:45 End: 00:00 I woke as usually at 6 am to find a bush, just to crash back into my warm sleeping bag…I decided to give it a rest day. A full night resting and paddling on the water the previous […]