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Aruba
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Aruba

We sailed the 75 nautical miles from CuraƧao without any problems. We had a tailwind all night and "old man sailing", a typical Christer's expression šŸ˜‰ meaning slow-sailing with only the genoa/foresail up. In our case with the purpose not to arrive too early in the next morning. Once we wriggled into the shallow industrial port where immigration and customs have their offices, we were abl ...

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CuraƧao
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CuraƧao

The island is part of the Netherlands Antilles and one of the three ABC islands with Bonaire to the east and Aruba to the west. Together with the buddy boat Kwilena from Viking Explorer, it took us three days to sail to CuraƧao from Grenada. We were able to use our downwind sail the entire distance but, as on the Atlantic crossing, we had problems with chafing on the halyard. As we approache ...

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