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SY Melika |
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The Voyage of Melika |
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Track of Melika |
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On
these pages you can follow the voyage of Melika so far. Each
page contains photographs, history and anecdotes for each of the
places we've visited.
The voyage statistics below give you some idea of the variety
of conditions we have encountered and how far we have traveled.
Sailing in a small yacht across vast oceans is a slow
affair. When you consider we travel at fast walking pace
(about 5 miles/hr), 5,000 miles of sailing has taken over 1,000
hrs. You learn to take things as they come! |
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Use the Voyage menu on the left to follow the
different legs of our cruise |
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Voyage Statistics |
| Latest Position |
Trinidad |
| Total Distance |
5347 miles |
| Longest Passage |
2,800 miles 22 days |
| Fastest Speed |
9 knots |
| Max. Wind Speed |
58.9 knots |
| Highest Sustained Wind |
Force 8 / 38 knots |
| Longest Calm |
24 hours |
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What's the Latest? |
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We've been back
in Trinidad for almost a year now working on Melika getting her
ready for another season of tropical sailing. Living on a boat
out of the water isn't particularly fun, but it's a necessary evil
when budgets are small and rooms for rent aren't affordable.
Katie has taken well to living on a boat and now climbs up the six
feet of near vertical companionway steps with ease. She loves
all things boats, including a trip in the dinghy, and has so far
ignored the temptation to launch herself, sans lifejacket, over the
side. |
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We
should be floating once more by mid-December, after the worse of the
hurricane season has passed. It would have been two and a half
years since Melika saw water over her keel, but she's never looked
better, so the long haul has been worth it.
Plan is to sail the Caribbean island chain this season and then
after spring 2005 decide where to go to spend the hurricane
season. Nothing planned so far, which is the way it should be. |
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